Chapter 265: Banquet - 265
Zhou Fan, Heaven, and the 24 people from the Zhou Galaxy watched as Tian Ren exited the white door.
He quickly walked up to the stage before bowing to Zhou Fan and Heaven
"Tian Ren greets the two sirs." He said.
Heaven nodded at him while Zhou Fan waved his hand and spoke.
"Sit anywhere you want." Zhou Fan said.
Tian Ren nodded and, for the first time, took a good look around the room. When his gaze fell onto the tables occupied by those of the Zhou Galaxy, his expression turned into one of shock and confusion.
Although he was shocked, he decided to wait in silence out of respect for Zhou Fan and Heaven.
The next person to exit the door was Bi Chong. He too bowed to Heaven and Zhou Fan before sitting at the same table as Tian Ren.
They exchanged glances of shock among each other. Next, a few different beasts and supreme beasts came out of the white door. There were many enemies and friends, but everyone shut up and sat down without argument.
As expected, everyone was in humanoid form. After the last person came out, the white door disappeared.
"Hello everyone." Zhou Fan began to speak. "Welcome to the youth galactic assembly, although I guess it should be called the youth galaxies assembly." Zhou Fan said with a chuckle.
He was the only one who laughed.
"My name is Zhou Fan, and this is Heaven. To those from the Zhou galaxy, my name may seem unfamiliar, but if you really think about it, I'm sure you can make a connection." Zhou Fan said, much to the confusion of the people from the Zhou Galaxy.
After a moment, a couple of them widened their eyes, followed by a few more, until everyone seemed to have understood something.
Naturally, Zhou Fan had never really shown himself, causing his name to be lost in time, but it only took a moment for people to connect the "Zhou" Galaxy with the name "Zhou" Fan.
They had always wondered why it had been named that. Now, the age-old mystery was solved.
"To those from the Heaven galaxy, I am familiar. We met at the last assembly." Zhou Fan said.
Everyone from the heaven galaxy who had attended last time let out a slight shudder before paying attention again.
"You two groups are from different galaxies, far far away from each other. Before the youth competition begins, I wanted to give you all the opportunity to get to know each other." Zhou Fan said.
The people from the two galaxies looked at each other curiously.
"Anyway, the youths themselves, as well as their escorts, will arrive once the real competition begins. In the meantime, help yourselves." Zhou Fan said as he waved his hand.
From his spatial ring, thousands of foods and drinks spread out across the room, a large buffet appearing in place of some empty tables.
Zhou Fan and Heaven went behind a curtain on the stage, disappearing from others' eyes.
Despite the food appearing, silence prevailed in the room as the groups from different galaxies awkwardly looked at each other.
The situation was at a stalemate for around five minutes until Tian Ren slowly got up from his seat and made his way towards the direction of the two tables of lesser dao creation realm cultivators.
Despite the demonic faction and the righteous/neutral faction usually being at odds, they sat one table away from each other.
Tian Ren stopped in front of the two tables and bowed.
"My name is Tian Ren. It is nice to meet you seniors." He said, introducing himself.
Once he finished speaking, Fairy Hong Yun got up and held out her hand. "My name is Hong Yun, but I am called Fairy Hong Yun, nice to meet you." She said with a smile.
Tian Ren shook her hand.
As Tian ren made the first move, others followed. Soon, voices were heard all throughout the room.
Most of the conversation was around the lesser dao creation realm cultivators tables. Nearly everyone had gathered around them.
"How did you break through to the next realm?" Tian Ren asked, causing the others to stop speaking.
"That is quite the story." Fairy Hong Yun responded. "I was born 15 million years ago, and spent a majority of my lifespan at the tenth level of the space shattering realm. Many around me were the same. One day, however, everyone seemed to be able to break through."
"There are a couple requirements. I'll tell you about them. First, you must comprehend some of the mortal dao. The mortal Dao is all around us in the Zhou Galaxy, but we don't know about yours. Second, you must comprehend at least 1% of an immortal element. The more you comprehend, the stronger you are. Naturally, most of us spent many years waiting and comprehended more than one. The last requirement is simply accumulation, like all the realms before" Fairy Hong Yun summed up. "Of course, comprehending bits of the legendary cosmic dao would help, but only a few of us have. Actually, there are only 5 of us."
Fairy Hong Yun turned around and pointed out some people.
"Him, her, Demon Yu an, me of course, and Jack, the strongest among us all." She said.
Hearing her mention the strongest, everyone looked at Jack who had remained silent.
"Sir, what is your story?" One of the beasts in humanoid form asked.
Jack looked over for the first time and briefly spoke. "Lived for hundreds of millions of years. Watched the rise and fall of countless civilizations, including my own. I am essentially the oldest being in the galaxy, save for a few people who may not even be alive anymore."
After speaking, Jack slowly got up and walked to the buffet.
Silence filled the area that Jack left. Not even those from the Zhou Galaxy knew much about him.
As Jack was grabbing a cup and filling it with the tea at the buffet, a man walked up to him.
"Long time no see Jack." Zhou Fan said.
Jack looked over and scrunched his eyebrows. "I don't recall knowing you. Should I?" Jack asked.
"We never really met in person. I am just the person that created the trident you hold." Zhou Fan said.
Chapter 266: Zhou Galaxy - 266
Hearing Zhou Fan claim to have created the trident, Jack's eyes widened. He had been using his trident since his birth. It had outlasted both him and the entire mermaid race.
He had experienced many hard times, but his trident had always been there. It was Jack's most treasured possession. If he were to lose it, he would feel more grief than when he found out the mermaid race had been eradicated.
As Jack stared at him dumbfounded, Zhou Fan inwardly chuckled.
"Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about the mermaid race. As the person who gave them intelligence, it upsets me as well." Zhou Fan said with a smile, casually dropping another bomb on Jack's mind.
As of now, Jack was barely registering anything going on outside of his brain. He was connecting many dots that never seemed to make sense. In just an instant, he created many theories about just who Zhou Fan was.
"Are you the creator of the Zhou Galaxy?' He asked.
His eyes were still wide with shock even while asking the question.
"In one way, yes. In another, no. I didn't create the galaxy itself, but I created just about everything in it." Zhou Fan answered.
He had stopped caring about existing secretly a long time ago. In the past, it was more instinctual. He just felt better that way.
Now, however, he had truly grown up. As the strongest person in the universe, why would he need to hide himself or anything about him.
"Fun fact. I am also the one known as god by humans." Zhou Fan said as Jack was lost in his thoughts.
Just that single sentence caused Jack to think of many things once again.
He had become quite knowledgeable about just about everything there was to know. For example, he knew that the legends of an existence called god dated back to when humans were the only race in the universe, a fact that was discovered when the celestials and the humans met and talked about their history.
"Oh yeah. Do humans still believe in god? It has been a long time." Zhou Fan asked Jack.
Jack nodded in response. "They do." He added.
Eventually Jack broke himself out of his stunned state and gave Zhou Fan a bow.
"Thank you." He said simply.
While the sentence was short and basic, it contained the emotions of hundreds of millions of years behind it. Jack was truly grateful to Zhou Fan.
"Don't worry about it. If you really want to repay me, just answer some of my questions." Zhou Fan said.
"Of course." Jack responded.
"How is Anna?" Zhou Fan asked.
"Dead." Jack responded. "A few hundreds of millions of years ago, she and the grim reaper fought their final battle. Anna had been long fed up with him wreaking havoc across the Zhou solar system. You may not know, but at one point, the grim reaper established his own domain, giving birth to billions of skeletons and waging a war against the entire solar system."
"In the final battle, three planets were completely wiped out of life. Eventually, only Anna and the grim reaper remained. Perhaps it was in a moment of rage, but Anna burnt up all of her life force in exchange for a single attack. With it, an iceberg spanning multiple lightyears entrapped him and her. It gave off Ice and Death Qi so dense that nobody dared to go near it until quite recently." Jack explained.
"The attack using up her lifeforce was no joke. Only when Fairy Hong Yun broke into the lesser dao creation realm was the iceberg explored and their remains found. She melted the iceberg and gave them both a true resting place." Jack finished.
Zhou Fan nodded. It was a fitting end for one of the first celestials. Naturally, Fairy Hong Yun had given Anna a proper resting place. Anna was essentially her ancestor.
"In case you are interested, more such places were formed almost every time a tenth level space shattering cultivator died. Since nearly every single one died in battle, many self-destructed, taking down others with them and creating what is known as a forbidden area." Jack added.
Zhou Fan appreciated the information as he had no idea. There had not been many tenth level space shattering cultivators, and those who reached that realm had not self-destructed.
"What about the beasts?" Zhou Fan asked.
"Who?" Jack asked in confusion.
"Oh right. Xiaolong, Xuanwu, Bainu, and Zhuque?" Zhou Fan asked.
"You mean the legendary four divine beasts. I'm not sure. They disappeared long ago. They could be dead or in hidden seclusion." Jack responded.
"Regardless, the human race has survived this long because of the four divine beasts friendship with the humans." Jack added.
Jack's words had Zhou Fan confused.
"What do you mean? Is the human race in trouble?" Zhou Fan asked.
Although Jack had no part in it, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty hearing Zhou Fans question.
"Very much trouble. For a long long time, they had been suppressed to just a section of earth. Luckily, it had expanded enough for their area to be considered ok." Jack said.
For the first time since their conversation, Zhou Fan frowned.
"Luckily, a great talent was born among them. In the future, they should soar to the sky." Jack hurriedly added.
Hearing Jack, Zhou Fan remembered that he had given the human race's providence away and returned to his old expression.
"It's ok. I'm not upset. If anything, I would be mad at myself." Zhou Fan said. "Enough talk. Why don't we go and join the party?" Zhou Fan said as he walked away with a chicken leg in hand.
Jack followed with a nod.
If everything went right, then Zhou Fan would be able to see the new talent of the human race soon.
As Zhou Fan walked to the table, it got quieter. Luckily, Zhou Fan was very friendly and soon sat down with the group.
After a moment, he started getting asked questions.
Fairy Hong Yun was the first to speak. "What realm are you in, Sir Zhou Fan?"
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