In the void, a tall figure that had long been asleep slowly awoke. It shook its head and opened its eyes.
As its eyes, filled with sacred radiance, opened, light instantly illuminated the previously empty void around it.
[Hmm... finally awake...]
Arceus silently took stock of itself. Its basic strength had more or less recovered; at least, traveling between and peering into the Six Worlds on its own would be no problem now.
It checked how long it had slept and found that it had not been asleep for very long. By World Six's reckoning, it had only slept for a few years.
To it, that span was no more than the flick of a finger, something it would barely even notice, but to most Pokémon and humans, it was already a very, very long time.
[Come to think of it... I wonder how Cheng Tian is doing... after all this time, that goofy fellow should have grown into a mature man by now, right?]
At that thought, Arceus could not resist curiously bringing up a panel connected to World Six, wanting to see what Cheng Tian's life was like now.
World Six, Bingzhou, outside the delivery room of a maternity hospital. Su Mulin, now an old man, and Cheng Tian, who was approaching middle age, were pacing anxiously back and forth.
"I'm here, I'm here!" Bai Yun, who had fully matured into a grown man, came rushing from the other end of the corridor, a little girl fast asleep on his back.
Cheng Tian stood up at the sight. "What are you doing here? And why did you bring Xiaomo? Why come sticking your nose in here instead of keeping Lin Lin company?"
"Come on! Your second child's about to be born!" Bai Yun said anxiously. "I got