Da Hai stood thinking for a time after his rebirth. The dizzying headache had not left him immediately, forcing him to sort out his memories.

What confounded him was just how he'd returned. He understood the full exchange between his two clones. He understood the logic, but the result should still have been an impossibility.

"Am I really Da Hai? Or a third clone? How is it possible for something completely erased on a fundamental level to return?"

It was deeply troubling for the innate god as he became unsure of his own existence. Instinctively, he knew he was the true body and the owner of his Dao. But as he contemplated further, more confusion would arise.

As he stood in the middle of the Chaos Sea, his spectators were hesitant to approach him. The dominating aura may be gone, but they feared his cultivation all the same.

Da Hai caressed his own warm hand with a complicated feeling. He was happy to be alive again, yet the existential crisis of it all was too daunting for a fresh mind.

"Hongjun…" he murmured. There was hate in his voice. In the end it all stemmed back to Hongjun's ambition catching everyone in the crossfire.

"And you little traitor." Da Hai turned his mind towards Haotian in an attempt to distract himself from his internal crisis. "All these years you picked now? And all this time you've done what exactly?"

"My…my lord venerable?"

"At ease Gui Daiyu. I am myself," Da Hai responds to her enquirery. The girl had always been braver than most. Naturally she was the first to approach.

"May I ask…what has happened?"

Da Bai raised an eyebrow. "You participated. My mind was restored from the data of my Dao. Along with this new true body my, 'self,' was placed into."

He touched his chest where he felt the foundation of the Heavenly Sword of Gathering Clouds. The blade portion had long dissolved into every essence of his being.

Then a feeling overcame him, causing him to frown. With a thud, he hit his own chest.

Gui Daiyu flinched at the suddenness of all and her dragons approached to bring her back. Da Hai beat himself again, trying to push something back up his oesophagus.

"Stop screaming," he snarled, his teeth elongating into fangs. Then he spat out a misty cloud that transformed into Shuten Doji.

Da Hai's forked tongue morphed back into his mouth. "You succeeded, I should thank you Shuten Doji."

"I assumed he was assimilated. Or partially transformed into you," Gui Daiyu admitted.

"Truthfully my resurrection raises its own can of worms."

"I do not understand that expression."

"A lot of questions. But we don't have some for that. Tell me, where is Zulong?"

Gui Daiyu suddenly felt incredibly awkward. She couldn't meet Da Hai's eye knowing the last time she spoke to her husband.

Da Hai was expecting an answer. To her silence, he grew deeply concerned. A disparity feeling welled up at the possibility of Zulong's passing.

Despite his existential crisis, Da Hai would always remember one thing. His absolute love for his disciples, Zulong above them all. He scanned all the dragons, old and young.

"Where?" He demanded, tuning out the oni convulsing violently from being spat out.

"He's alive…" Gui Daiyu said. "I just don't know where he is."

"Give him his life bound jade slip. I know you dragons used them to keep track members."

The sea emperors reluctantly motioned her finger towards her palace. His retrieved a small object that raced at massively faster then light speeds into her grip. It was entirely dim.

"If my husband perished, slips like this would shatter," she quickly said. Her own sadness maybe something she overcame with time, but she had no way of knowing how volatile Da Hai would become.

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"No signal." Of Da Hai felt some despair before, now he felt despair in true. The fear of having dragged Zulong to death in the final moments of his life would've shattered him.

"My husband went in search of a path to the Dao realm. Just as you all Limitless Supreme Chaos Immortals did in the past. He swore to never return until he's achieved Dao," she said.

Da Hai did not openly rage, nor weep, nor howl in frustration. Instead, he closed his eyes, sighing deeply. "Oh Zulong."

"My sword…my sword." Shuten Doji finally became too loud to ignore. Despite a few dragons trying to tend to him, he thrashed around the Chaos Sea grasping at something that was no longer there.

Da Hai turned his head and saw the pitiful sight. Shuten had lost everything pursuing his life's sole mission. Whether he knew it or not, his purpose as a clone spawned from him was to restore him.

It would've been easier if Da Hai devoured him entirely. But he was not without empathy. Yet in spitting him back out, Shuten Doji became separated from his sole companion as well as form of origin. In this regard, he was mentally weaker than Haotian.

"Cease." A saddened Da Hai had no patience for this however. He shut down the oni's movements with a thought, then brought him over.

"I empathize," he started. "The lost of a constant can be tough."

The oni returned his pitying look with one that transitioned into frustration from reverence. "I restored you with my own two hands. Why am I rewarded like this?"

In his mind, he'd already lost his home. He'd lost the people under his protection. He'd now lost a piece of himself as well.

"Consume me. I am without purpose nor place. Why did you disengage me again?" He cried out.

Da Hai hesitated. "No, I…there's been enough deaths today."

"Explore the Chaos Sea. Your freedom is your reward. There's no point in absorbing you," Da Hai said rather harshly. "Thank you for all you've done."

"You are discarding me?" Shuten Doji chucked to himself. No matter how well meaning Da Hai was being, he couldn't handle it.

"We can give you a home your excellency," an important dragon personnel offered. After all, Shuten Doji had earned great respect among their kind.

'It's for the best,' Da Hai decided. In truth, even he lacked his trusted sword. It had already become his bone and flesh.

"And what of us? What happened to our home?"

"My lady please don't be rash. He's an unknown."

The heads of the amatsukami threw their caution to the wind and asked. It was only then that Da Hai payed attention to them.

At the end of the day, they were just another poor civilization caught in the mechanism of a bigger entity. He harboured no real feelings for them other then pity.

"Your Chaos World is gone," he said flatly. "No complaining will bring it back. From its inception, it was my limbs."

"My ancestors built the isle," Amaterasu said between gritted teeth. "Creation, culture, people. You didn't even exist."

"The audacity!" A dragon snapped."You were spared Kami. Be grateful."

"Be silent. They have right to be angry," Da Hai said glaring at the young dragon.

The dragon appeared indignant. Gui Daiyu had to send her own glare for him to back down. "Obey him," she reminded him through mental messaging.

"But…"

"Talent or not, I will terminate you," she added.

"Losing home is tough. But hardship is a stepping stone for growth. In a way, your ancestors initiated the process that led to my resurrection," Da Hai said. He reached out and pulled together clumps of chaotic qi.

In his very hand, he formed the beginnings of a big bang.

"Here, a new heaven and earth will be born when you find a suitable location. That is acceptable no?"

Amaterasu gasped, but under the scrutinising gaze of the dragons, and pressure from her own tired brethren, she took in the nascent Chaos World.

Yet compared to what she lived and loved, it was astronomically lesser. How could an ordinary Chaos World, even one made by a Chaos Immortal be comparable to the transformed body of a Limitless Supreme Chaos Immortal?

"Now that that's sorted." Da Hai departed with Gui Daiyu and her dragons. His back was a bitter sight. Susanoo even had his hand on his sheathed sword.

"Venerable one, what are we to do now?" A random dragon asked. Even his people felt lost.

Returning to their palace was quick and easy. But after the excitement, there was only melancholy.

Their entire civilization's purpose, which they had lost hope on. Well now it was completely fulfilled. At the same time, the only place they called home for many yuanhui was gone too.

Da Hai paused, unsure of what to say. Even he had been distracting himself from his own issues.

Da Hai pursed his lips. "I…could you leave me a moment? I need to think."

"In the meantime, we should pick a direction and go," Gui Daiyu said. "Few living beings in the Chaos Sea is a threat to us. But we did cause a commotion. Better to leave for now."

"Yes your majesty."

Given new purpose, these dragons fired up the palace. They exited this portion of the Chaos Sea swiftly, leaving no trace as to their existence.

And in the depths of the Chaos Sea, a Dao realm omnipotent being turned his head away from the Grand Dao with a raised eyebrow.

…

"Sister, should we not move on? Or initiate the Big Bang?" Tsukuyomi asked the regal woman.

All of the remaining amatsukami, yokai, and surviving humans, looked to Amaterasu for leadership. Even if she was depressed, there was an expectation placed on her shoulders.

Yet instead of doing anything beneficial, Amaterasu tightened her grip on the nascent Chaos World with contempt's

"He wants us to live in this after destroying our home?" She said in contempt.

Even if it was a better constructed Chaos World than naturally occurring ones, it was still trash compared to their home world. It may live longer then most, but given time it'll decay and die like all other Chaos Worldds. The knowledge that the place she called home was someone else's body did not matter one bit.

In its fragile state, even she could destroy the Chaos World in her grip. Nothing about it would even be authentic to her people. She had lived in an eternal world, not one destined to age and decay in several cosmic years.

"And we were simply ticks living on a starving dog." She tossed it over to Tsukoyomi who was disturbed as he'd never seen his sister like this. "Shuten Doji huh? What bullshit."

For this group, hope became a foreign concept. The oni that started it all, Shuten Doji would only be remembered as a demon.

With his sister despondent, and his brother being unfit, Tsukoyomi took total command. He immediately tossed the Chaos World out to expand into a true universe.

Several hundred years passed, an entire quarter of a cosmic year going by their new time measurement. Tusukoyomi as the supreme god felt an immense presence approach their location.

It was not one of the dragons, nor Da Hai. But similar, it was something with a monstrously vast cultivation.

Amaterasu was already within the Chaos Sea on guard. Veterans of the apocalypse soon joined her with the same solemness.

There, they witnessed a fiery bird flap from a great distance. A similar feeling to Amaterasu, a celestial body both warm and deadly. Its shining rays was unlike any sun they've seen however.

The bird crawled, flying faster with each beat of its cosmic wings. Chaos Worlds passed by, each time being bathed in so much light that their vitality improved by leagues.

The closer it got, the more kindness infected them. The authenticity of it was unverified, yet most of the Kami had lost their will to fight.

"What are you?" Amaterasu snarled.

The bird, a three legged crow came to a stop. Even from a distance away, its immense size was enough to envelop them all on its shadow. It's kind gaze and soothing presence encased them in a nirvana like world.

Pulling its wings close, and its three legs closer, the bird with the features of a crow transformed. Endless bliss followed its fiery blaze, its animalistic features giving way to a sun. From sun to man, the entity finally assumed a humanoid form that sat crossed legged in a meditative way.

"Namo Amitabha," they heard him say.

"This one is named Vairocana Buddha," the entity said. "This one has heard of your plight and was dispatched to provide aid."

The Buddha opened its eyes, releasing two swirling masses that appeared to be complete cosmoses in and of themselves. In fact, this Buddha's mere existence made him feel like the centre of all things.

"On behalf of the Jade Emperor, I would like to present an accord."

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