"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.