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?"