Chapter 223: Learning The Hard Way - 223
"Welcome to the first galactic assembly." Heaven said as he stood up. "First off, I would like to inform everyone that there is a no fighting rule in place. If anyone wants to experience the consequences of breaking that rule, please do it now rather than later."
After a moment of silence from both groups, heaven continued. "Good. As there are only two sections of the galaxy with life in them, you all are the only ones who will be attending this assembly."
While he spoke, everyone started to look around and take in the room. Only Tian Ren and Bi Chong gave their full attention to heaven.
"Before we introduce ourselves, I will ask you all to relocate to the next room. There, we will continue." Heaven said as he waved his hand and a section of the invisible wall on the right disappeared, replaced by an arched doorway leading to a much bigger room.
As the archway appeared, Heaven started to walk down the steps and into the new room. Soon after, the man in gray followed.
Once those two entered the room, Tian Rens group entered, then Bi Chongs group entered.
The room was much bigger than the last. There was nothing but a floor, a circular stone table, and chairs. There were no walls or ceilings in the room, revealing the endless space outside. Despite there being no walls, it was clear that an invisible array blocked the space from entering and kept the room filled with air.
Heaven and the man in gray sat side by side on one section of the circular table, while Tian Ren's group eventually settled in the seat nearer to heavens side and Bi Chong's group sat nearer to the man in gray.
Bi Chong and Tian Ren ended up sitting next to each other on the opposite side of the table from heaven and the man in gray. There were a perfect number of seats around the table.
"Now, my name is Heaven. Some of you have heard of me, and some of you have not." Heaven said, dropping a bomb on the people from the heaven world and confusing everyone from the beast world except Bi Chong, who remembered the name from his battle with Tian Ren.
Despite gaining a bit of fear as he sat across from someone much more powerful than him that he could be considered minor enemies with, Bi Chong did not change his face or posture, continuing to sit with respect.
"As for the man beside me, he is Zhou Fan, my father." Heaven stated, dropping a bomb on everyone from the heaven world, including Tian Ren, whose mouth was literally on the floor.
"The purpose of this meeting is simple. To promote peace and increase prosperity." Heaven said. "I do not expect absolute peace from you two", he said while looking at Bi Chong and Tian Ren, "But I am giving you the chance to at least be more diplomatic about your approach and possibly not involve your people."
"We will not really need to use this room right now, but it will be more useful in the future." Heaven said as he stood up.
"Now, if you don't mind, I would ask that Tian Ren and Bi Chong pick two of your people that you trust the most and come to the next room with me. As for the rest of you, my father will take you to a different room and give you all some pointers." Heaven said as he began to walk to another room on the right.
As he did so, Bi Chong and Tian Ren signaled to two of their people before entering the room on the right that had appeared.
Left alone with the man in gray, the leftovers seemed somewhat uncomfortable. Suddenly, Zhou Fan stood up.
"There's no need to feel too stressed or worried. I was dragged here by Heaven. I don't really want to be here regardless." Zhou Fan said as he stretched his arms.
"There are only twenty of you, follow me into the room behind us." He said as he turned around and walked into the arch that had appeared.
As the twenty people got up and walked to the arch, they were able to tell that, unlike the last arch, this one used spatial Qi. It appeared that the one Tian Ren and Bi Chong entered was the same.
As the group entered, they saw a huge and completely white room with black lines that made squares.
"As heaven had said, this assembly is to promote both peace and prosperity. He is dealing with peace, while I am dealing with prosperity. Those guys should take a while, so I'll guide you all in fighting techniques and cultivation." Zhou Fan said.
Only now did the group of people feel an emotion other than nervousness. They were excited to learn something from an extremely powerful existence.
"Everyone get in a cultivation position." Zhou Fan said. "I will walk around while you cultivate and adjust your imperfections."
Although he was dragged to the assembly by heaven, he didn't feel upset as he would be able to put his increased knowledge of cultivation to good use.
"If you guys can listen properly, some of you at the tenth level of the void traversing realm may just be able to break through to the space shattering realm when you get back on your planets." Zhou Fan stated, increasing the excitement they felt.
"OWW!" One of the members in the group suddenly said.
Hearing him, everyone slightly opened their eyes in order to see what was happening. At some point, a yardstick had appeared in Zhou Fan's hand and he had smacked the man on the arm.
"A little to the left... Whack. Now a little to the right... Whack. Are you stupid or something?"
Cries of pain echoed out of the room for the next 5 hours.
Meanwhile, Tian Ren and Bi Chong were looking at a map of the final world laid across the table. They were in a candle lit room with walls of bookshelves filled with books and rolled up papers.
Chapter 224: You Have Suffered - 224
"In order to best promote peace on the final world, we will now decide what area will be claimed by both of your groups." Heaven said. "Each of you will pick 10% of the planet near your arrays and establish initial bases there. From that point, everything is in your hands and I will not interfere."
After listening to his words, both Tian Ren and Bi Chong nodded. Neither of them could find a reason as to why peace wasn't an option. Although they fought, they didn't exactly have an irreconcilable grudge with each other.
At least for now, under the suggestion of Heaven, both people decided that a temporary peace treaty was the best possibility. That way, they would be able to at least live on the final world without worrying about battles for now.
The arrays on the planet were on opposite sides, so the picking of an area didn't cause any sort of strife whatsoever.
Tian Ren settled on a mountain range with normal but big mountains, while Bi Chong settled on a huge valley area. The area contained ravines and other subterranean things.
Next, a peace treaty was drafted. The process ended up taking multiple days, but an agreeable peace treaty was written and signed under the watch of heaven.
There were many small bits, but the main idea was that the heavenborns, as well as Tian Ren, would not fight, battle, or harm any member of the beast race and other races of the beast world unless first provoked.
The same went for the beast world.
The treaty, while not omnipotent, ensured that no large-scale organized battles would happen between the two groups.
There were always rule breakers that may attack heavenborns or beasts without being provoked, which was the reason the first part of the treaty was added, but they would be hunted down by both residents of the heaven world and residents of the beast world.
The rest of the treaty made sure there were no loopholes or forgotten additions to the treaty.
In the end Tian Ren and Bi Chong shook hands before walking out of the room with heaven and the two people they had picked to come with them.
As they entered the room with the round table, they were confused to see the seats empty.
"Where did they go?" Tian Ren asked.
He wasn't worried since he was sure that heaven wouldn't harm the people of the heaven world, but he was confused.
"Oh yes. I forgot to mention that my father has been giving them pointers. You all should probably join in." Heaven said as he walked around the table and led the group to the entrance of the training room.
As they got closer, Tian Ren heard the sound of fighting and felt even more confused.
As they entered, they were astounded to see everyone they had brought with them was laying on the ground from exhaustion and slight pain.
"All right. Five minute break. Next time, you get six more people. No, make it seven." Zhou Fan said as he looked at heaven.
Heaven, who had been initially calm and collected, even arrogant and aloof, suddenly felt fear envelop him.
"Are... Are you sure? I'm pretty busy." Heaven stammered out as he backed away slowly.
"Don't make me chase you. Get in and face fate." Zhou Fan said with a kind smile on his face before he sat down and began to meditate.
"Well. It's over." Heaven said dejectedly as he started stretching.
Despite his words, he was actually quite excited to fight Zhou Fan. Although losing was the only possibility, it would undoubtedly be an interesting experience.
During the next five minutes, heaven gathered all of the participants of the battle and planned a strategy with him.
Eventually, Zhou Fan hopped up and created a barrier around the walls so that they weren't destroyed in the upcoming battle.
"Whenever you're ready." He said as he looked at the group in front of him.
Heaven stepped forward and moved his Qi. Everyone in the group suddenly felt their power increase by at least 3 times.
Luckily, they were informed of it before and weren't too surprised.
Next, Tian Ren led the people from the heaven world and circled around to the other side of Zhou Fan, while Bi Chong did the same on another side.
Then, the battle began.
Heaven fully displayed his power at the 1st level of the inner world realm. Lightning Qi, Life Qi, and Death Qi covered his entire body as he quickly powered up.
As soon as he was ready, he moved towards Zhou Fan in an instant. He arrived, fist pulled back and ready to punch, in front of Zhou Fan before anyone could even react.
Suddenly, Zhou Fan ducked and the swung fist missed him. He was moving so fast that heavens body couldn't react as a finger touched his forehead and he went flying backwards into Zhou Fans barrier.
Although still stunned, the two groups moved in as soon as they saw heaven move. They used varying Qi's to attack Zhou Fan, and they made sure to not hold back a bit.
Chuckling a little, Zhou Fan decided to have some fun.
Tian Ren's fist was the first to reach him, with Bi Chongs not far behind.
Zhou Fan grabbed Tian Ren's elbow and swung him around like a weapon and hit him against Bi Chong, sending them both flying.
After those two were dealt with, a beast that used demonic Qi was about to claw him, Zhou Fan covered his hand with Buddhist Qi and hit the beast in the chest, sending him flying.
The same process repeated itself many times as Zhou Fan used opposing Qi against others. After 10 seconds, everybody was out of commission.
"Five minutes." Zhou Fan said before he once again meditated.
"This is nonsense." Tian Ren said as he flipped himself over.
"How do you think we feel? We've been doing this for 5 hours straight." One of the people that had followed Zhou Fan into the room retorted.
"Apologies. You have suffered."
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