Chapter 102: Familiar Things - 102
The first thing Zhou Fan saw after walking in was a bakery. It was extremely similar to a human bakery back on earth. Even the food was nearly the same.
Seeing the bakery made Zhou Fan think about earth. With the resources he gave them, the strongest and most talented humans should be around the 5th level of soul formation.
Their progress was much slower without the direct help of Zhou Fan. Thankfully, they still had the information about the further realms. Therefore, their cultivation speeds wouldn't stagnate for a long time.
Zhou Fan didn't enter the bakery despite its familiarity. Instead, he continued to walk around the town and explore. Although the town was very similar to one on earth, there were many differences.
Even so, Zhou Fan still liked the place. Zhou Fan saw weapon shops and pill shops around the town. There were also furniture shops and restaurants.
Zhou Fan even decided to stop and eat at one. It was a buffet style restaurant and Zhou Fan had to pay with an unfamiliar currency. Unlike the celestials coins, the beasts coins had the picture of the monkey king. Even so, they were made out of the same material.
The food was quite good, but nothing special. After eating, Zhou Fan looked around the rest of the town. There was nothing else interesting about the place.
Therefore, Zhou Fan flew into the air and left towards the celestials' central city. Zhou Fan made it quick and instantly appeared above the city.
One look was all he needed to tell that the city had changed tremendously. In fact, it wasn't even comparable. There were now palaces filling the sky and many more towers than before.
If towers still represented soul formation cultivators, then there were now 50 in the celestial lands.
Although it was grand and incredible, Zhou Fan didn't really like the design. He preferred everything on the ground much more than almost everything in the sky.
However, it wasn't his city.
After looking at it, Zhou Fan scanned the entire area. He sensed 40 soul formation cultivators, 2000 nascent soul cultivators, and many more cultivators of a lower level.
In total, there were a million people in central city. However, what was most surprising was the void traversing cultivator in the city. Amazingly, it wasn't anna.
In the last ten thousand years, another void traversing cultivator must have been born. Zhou Fan looked at him through many walls and buildings and instantly recognized him.
He was the man who was at the 10th level of soul formation during the death battle. He was now at the first level of void traversing and even on the edge of breaking into the second level.
That explained why there were two new towers almost as big as annas. After making the connection, Zhou Fan assumed that there was another void traversing celestial cultivator.
However, neither the other void traversing cultivator nor Anna was in the city. In order to find out why, Zhou Fan enhanced his ears and listened in on every conversation in the central city.
After only 5 minutes, he heard someone speaking about a conference between the leaders of the four lands.
Apparently, there were now four lands that existed within the Zhou World.
The beast lands, the supreme beasts lands, the celestial lands, and now, the dinosaur lands!
The headquarters of the dinosaur lands was the place that Zhou Fan explored for a year and the leader was the titanosaur that Zhou Fan saw.
In the years past, the dinosaurs had learned cultivation and rose through the ranks of the beast lands very fast.
When the titanosaur broke into void traversing, he took his race out of the beast lands and formed his own lands.
Although his strength was the weakest of the void traversing cultivator rulers at void traversing 3, he could still hold his own.
After hearing about the meeting, Zhou Fan made his way towards it. He looked forward to seeing both the progress of Anna, the dragon king, and the titanosaur, as well as seeing the monkey king for the first time.
The conference was at the point where the four lands met, and Zhou Fan arrived very soon. On the top of a huge mountain that reached through the clouds was a white, circular building with pillars.
Zhou Fan saw a couple of different races walking into the building. All the dinosaurs had turned into their humanoid forms, giving a spectacle of colors and shapes.
Zhou Fan unnoticeably teleported onto one of the stairs and made his way into the building. He disguised himself in a cloak that prevented anyone from seeing his face or body.
Even so, nobody looked at him weirdly. There were plenty of other weirdly dressed people.
When he got inside the main hall, Zhou Fan saw 5000 seats, and not a single person below the nascent soul realm had entered the building.
Like a colosseum, there were many seats that surrounded a flat area in the middle. In the middle of the flat area was a table with four seats.
In each of those seats sat someone extremely important to the Zhou World. The biggest and most notable was the titanosaurus in humanoid form.
Despite changing forms, he was still fifteen feet tall and many feet wide. Rocks covered his body like a golem.
Beside him sat a humanoid monkey with a staff and a golden headband. He was undoubtedly the monkey king and his name was sun wukong.
He was at the fifth level of void traversing after so much time had passed.
Next to the monkey king was a familiar face, this time in a humanoid form. The dragon king sat down with red scales covering most of his body. His eyes were fiery red with a hint of demon-like redness. He was at the 6th level of void traversing now.
Finally, Anna sat next to him with white hair and purple eyes. She looked as if she hadn't aged a day, but her cultivation was at the 6th level of void traversing.
Zhou Fan sat among the crowd and waited for the meeting to start.
Chapter 103: Meeting - 103
Once every single seat in the hall was filled, Anna raised her hand in the air. In an instant, everyone shut up.
"Today we have gathered together to take part in the 15th centennial council of races. We will first make sure that nothing too unruly has been done in the Zhou World before we get to more important matters. Any representatives who have something to speak of on that matter may stand now." She said.
The representatives she spoke of were not the rulers of each of the lands, but the ones directly under them. For example, the representatives of the beast lands would be the leaders of each race. The representatives of the dinosaurs would consist of the leader of each species. The representatives of the Supreme beast lands would be a few of the more powerful beasts. The representatives of the celestial lands would be the tower leaders or big city mayors.
One thing that stayed consistent was that every representative was at the soul formation level minimum with no exception. As for how many Soul formation cultivators there were, that differed for every race.
For example, although the celestial race now had 50 soul formation cultivators, they only brought 10.
The rest also had more soul formation cultivators that they didn't bring.
Another thing to note about the meeting was the two people sitting behind Anna and the dragon king. They too had a cultivation of void traversing and sat behind the leaders of their race.
As for the representatives, they sat on the first layer of seats.
Hearing her words, a few people from each race stood up. They each reported different things, but they each had the gist of, "Someone did something very bad and we cant catch him. We request assistance" or "We need help finding out who did these bad things, we request assistance."
It only took a couple minutes for everyone to report and a couple minutes for the leaders of the races to declare actions.
After that, Anna once again hushed the crowd and spoke.
"Next, we need to speak of the monkey king's recent infringement upon the dinosaur's territory. Do you have an explanation Sun Wukong?" Anna asked.
"The rabbit race has decided to expand their farm and needs more area. We will compensate the dinosaur race with 1000 gold coins for the land we took." The monkey king said with his gruff, yet arrogant voice.
"One thousand gold coins is not nearly enough to cover the losses of the territory you took! Not to mention the fact that it is simply an insult to our race!" The titanosaur said in anger. His voice echoed throughout the entire hall, sending chills through many people's spines.
"Then why don't you do something about it." The monkey king retorted.
Hearing him, the titanosaur stood up from his chair in a rage when immense pressures descended upon them.
"Enough!" Both Anna and the dragon king said at the same time. Both of their auras worked to suppress the two parties.
The titanosaur fell back into his chair while the monkey king stopped with his arrogant look.
"Remember." Anna started. "We all have one common enemy. Death" She said.
"Sun Wukong, we all know that you didn't need to take the dinosaurs' land in order to expand a farm. You merely did it because you wanted to flaunt your minuscule power. You have plenty of unoccupied room to expand behind your empire. If you take such actions against the dinosaurs again, we will personally intervene." Anna said domineeringly.
Everything she said was true. The four lands didn't even take up half of the world. There was still plenty of land for anyone and everyone to use or claim.
The monkey king didn't retort and simply nodded at her words.
"Speaking of death, it has been then thousand years since his last attacks. He could come any minute and attempt to wipe us out. The next time he arrives, we must band together and kill him permanently." Anna siad.
It was at this time that the dragon king chimed in.
"We've already talked about this. Can we even kill him? He is literally death."
"No, he is not death, but the grim reaper. He said it himself. In fact, even if he was death itself we could kill him. There are no absolutes in the world." Anna said to the dragon king.
The rest of the rulers nodded their heads in agreement at her words. The grim reaper had been a hot topic for the last ten thousand years and not a single sentient being, no matter how weak, had not heard his name.
Stories of him had been told to children for many years as if he was some sort of monster under their beds. Parents would say that if they misbehaved, the grim reaper would come get them.
After Anna spoke about the grim reaper, the meeting moved on to many different topics. The most interesting thing being a proposal from the dragon king himself to allow the younger generations to spar every one hundred years.
It would incite the younger people to cultivate faster while also foreshadowing the future of the races. The battle would only be for those younger than a hundred years, which was treated as fairly young by any cultivators.
After a fair amount of time was spent adjusting rules and even just talking about whether it was a good idea or not, the idea was agreed upon and set to start at the next assembly in a hundred years.
Each land would bring 5 young talents to compete in the competition and the winner and runner up would both get prizes.
After a few more hours, the meeting was almost over. Just as Anna was about to declare the meeting over, her eyes shot wide open.
Turning to the crowd, she looked at one person in particular. That person was the cloaked Zhou fan, who had just transformed under his cloak.
A scythe appeared in the hands of the man she was staring at and Death could be felt running over everyone in the meeting.
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