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.