Chapter 82: Past- 82
Due to the fact that Zhou Fan was walking at the pace of a normal person, it took him a few minutes to reach the gate of the palace. Despite the fact that everyone had the strength of a core formation cultivator, everything was built close together like a human city.
When Zhou Fan arrived at the gate, two guards dressed in armor came forward to stop him.
"Speak, what is the purpose of your visit?" The guard asked with a commanding tone.
"I have come to see the ruler of this city." Zhou Fan answered neutrally.
"And who are you to see our mayor?" The guard asked.
At his question, Zhou Fan thought for a moment. He didn't exactly have a status in the Zhou World.
"Nevermind." Zhou Fan said as he turned away and walked off. The guards stood there, stunned for a moment, before they shook their heads and returned to their posts.
Zhou Fan continued to walk off until the guards couldn't see him any more. As soon as he couldn't feel their looks, Zhou Fan teleported into the palace, right beside the mayor of the city.
The mayor, sensing his presence, immediately jumped from his chair and threw an attack of fire at Zhou Fan. In response, Zhou Fan waved his hand and froze the surrounding space, dispersing the mayor's attack and causing him to be unable to move an inch.
"Don't panic. I have a few questions, then I'll leave." Zhou Fan said.
He then released the restrictions off of the mayor. The mayor stood still and looked at Zhou Fan warily. Although he didn't dare make another move, he was still worried.
"Are you from the beast lands?" The mayor asked.
"What are the beast lands?" Zhou Fan asked. This was his first time hearing of such a place. Putting two and two together, it was likely that there were the beast lands and the celestial lands.
The mayor was dumbfounded when he heard his answer. There wasn't a single person over the age of three that hadn't heard of the beast lands.
"If you're not from the beast lands, who are you?" The mayor asked.
"I'm from neither." Zhou Fan responded.
The mayor, who appeared to be calming down, suddenly opened his eyes wide.
"Are you from the supreme lands?!" He asked in fright.
Once again, Zhou Fan had no idea what he was talking about.
"Look." Zhou Fan said, putting the pressure of a void traversing cultivator on him, along with some killing intent, "Tell me everything that has ever happened in this world, from the beginning."
The mayor who was previously panicking, was now laying on the floor, unable to move from Zhou Fans pressure.
"Yes! Yes! I'll tell you everything!" He said hurriedly. The pressure Zhou Fan put on him was enough to make him stop thinking of where he was from and why he didn't know anything.
Zhou Fan released the pressure and the mayor was finally able to stand again.
"It's a long story, would you like something to drink?" He asked.
"No." Zhou Fan answered, gesturing for him to start.
"Well... in the beginning, there were two celestials. They didn't know how or why they were born, but they didn't care. In the gardens of beginning, they started a family. They started with four children: Anna, Luke, Mark, and John. Of the four, Anna was by far the most talented... Legend says that Anna went out on an adventure..... In the center of the world, she met one of the first supreme beasts and the first battle broke out... Both retreated with heavy injuries. From then on, they were sworn enemies..... After a hundred years, the celestial population reached 1000, and the world was divided into two, the supreme lands of the supreme beasts, and the celestial lands of the celestials...During the third great war, a newcomer came, neither celestial nor supreme beast, he was known as the monkey king... Although his strength was slightly below Anna And the supreme Dragon king, he managed to forge a place for the beasts of the world..... After five thousand years passed, the supreme beasts rarely showed themselves in the world anymore, instead deciding to take a fifth of the world and no longer fight for more, starting the long lasting rivalry between the beast lands and the celestial lands. Uhh, I think that's it." The mayor finished.
Zhou Fan snapped out of his trance and let out a huge yawn. If he knew the story would take two days, he would have accepted the drink. Although he was sleepy at the end, he understood everything.
Essentially, the dragon Zhou Fan first saw became the leader of all supreme beasts, and he and Anna fought many battles, along with the rest of their kind. The place he was in was at the very edge of the celestial lands. A place that every race wanted to occupy due to the existence of the floating palace.
In the end, the land became the celestials with the agreement that the beasts and supreme beasts could send challengers once every fifty years.
Throughout the time of Zhou Fan's seclusion, only five hundred thousand celestias were born. It seems that their reproduction rate was still lower than humans, but not detrimental to their growth.
As for the current peak strength, Anna was rumored to have the strength of level four void traversing, along with the Dragon king. The monkey king is said to be at the 3rd level of void traversing.
As expected, progress was slow. They still did better than Zhou Fan who only broke through once in ten thousand years.
At this point in time, the supreme lands have ceased conflict with both the celestial lands and the beast lands. It was likely that the dragon king was trying to break through before Anna and then dominate the world. Therefore, Anna had also gone into seclusion in order to break through.
The only ruler left was the monkey king, who usually kept to himself. He almost never involved himself in a battle despite the fact that the beast lands and the celestial lands were sworn enemies.
Chapter 83: Central City - 83
Zhou Fan was satisfied with the information that he received from the mayor of the city. Some more interesting things were that once beasts broke into the 7th level of soul formation, they could temporarily take the form of a human.
As for supreme beasts, it was impossible even for the Dragon King.
That was why the mayor mistook him for a member of the beast lands when he first came in.
He also learned about the overall strength and numbers of the 3 lands. In the celestial lands, there were 500,000 people. Of those 500,000, 20 have managed to break into soul formation. Anna was the only celestial that had broken into void traversing, although there was someone at the 10th level of soul formation.
For the beast lands, there were billions of members across the world. Despite that, only fifteen had broken into the soul formation realm. The monkey king was the sole cultivator at the void traversing level.
In the supreme lands, there were five hundred supreme beasts. Of that 500, 50 had broken into soul formation, while the rest were either recently born or at the 10th level of nascent soul. The dragon king was the sole void traversing cultivator.
It was truly a miracle that Anna was there. With her talent and strength that was just above that of the dragon king, she was able to hold off all of the soul formation experts alone.
Her special talent that put her above the rest was her space affinity. With it, even the dragon king could barely tie with her.
With everything he had learned from the mayor, Zhou Fan left the palace in a good mood.
Instead of staying at the floating palace city, Zhou Fan left towards the biggest city in the celestial lands where most of the soul formation cultivators and Anna herself resided.
It was called the 'Central City'. It was a bit of a basic name, but it was well fitting. Zhou Fan flew at a relatively slow speed towards the city. Relatively slow being the speed of a space shattering cultivator without teleporting or shattering space.
He made it to the city in 5 minutes and plopped down at the front gates. Since he was still wearing his celestial male disguise, he was able to get in without trouble.
When he walked through the gates, a completely new scene entered his eyes. Unlike the previous city which was fairly small and similar to a human city on earth, Central City was completely different. There were floating buildings all around with a large amount of space in between them and the roads were paved with a material similar to black adamantium. It wasn't technologically advanced, but magically advanced.
People were flying to different destinations and most of them were at core formation minimum.
In the distance, Zhou Fan could see a couple of spiraling towers that seemed to pierce into the sky. They were circular like the Lang Yang city library in the past, but much much bigger. Each of the towers were taller than the main building at Huang Long academy.
Overall, it was an incredible and mystical sight. It was truly a world of cultivators. Instead of heading directly to the main building, which was clearly the central tower that was bigger and grander than any other, Zhou Fan chose to look around the city first.
His first stop was a building similar to the colosseum he had seen in the demon cave. As expected, it was one. In the center of the ring, there were two core formation cultivators battling. One wielded the power of fire while the other wielded the power of earth.
A formation around the arena stopped their attacks from hitting the crowd or even stirring the air outside of it. It seemed the battle was about to come to an end as the fire wielder was panting and out of breath, seemingly on the verge of collapse.
The earth cultivator jumped in the air to avoid the fire cultivator's fire arrow and summoned a piercing lance from the ground below. The fire cultivator had nowhere to run as the lance was about to collide with his body. All of a sudden, a formation around his body activated and blocked the attack, signaling the end of the battle.
The earth cultivator walked over and helped the fire cultivator up from the ground, holding him up as he limped to the exit. The crowd was cheering as they had the entire battle. Some were happy while some seemed sad.
It was likely that bets had been made. As soon as the two battlers exited the arena, a holographic screen popped up in the sky. It showed their names and added a win to the earth cultivators record and a loss to the fire cultivators.
Zhou Fan was intrigued at the interesting use of Qi, but quickly figured out the secret. It was just a manipulation of light. He had already done that long ago with his invisibility spell. The only difference was the way light was manipulated.
Zhou Fan took a seat in the crows and watched the next few battles. They consisted of a pair of core formation cultivators with light and dark affinities, a pair of foundation establishment cultivators that clearly wanted to kill each other, and another pair of core formation cultivators with water affinities.
Just as Zhou Fan was about to leave, the screen showed that the next battle would be between two nascent soul cultivators. Zhou Fan didn't know how often cultivators of that level fought, but by the crowd reaction he guessed it wasn't very common.
Since he had nowhere to be, Zhou Fan sat down to watch one last battle.
The gates on each arena opened as two old men hopped onto the platform in the middle. They were both at the 4th level of nascent soul, but one had an affinity with metal and the other had an affinity with poison.
By now, even without looking into the person or at the screen, Zhou Fan was able to recognize their affinities by the color of their robe.
For example, it was dark green for poison and gray for metal.
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