For the first time in more than 100,000 years, Zhou Fan stood up. After taking a couple of deep breaths and stretching, he teleported outside of the sun.
As he took his first look at the solar system in more than a hundred thousand years, Zhou Fan couldn't help but be slightly disappointed. From his single look, he could tell that no extreme progress had been made by the habitants of the Zhou Solar system.
At the very least, there were no new structures like the grand hall that were visible within the solar system. Still, Zhou Fan couldn't say whether or not there had been zero progress until he expanded his divine sense around the entire solar system, which he promptly did.
Instantly, Zhou Fan caught sight of all the rulers and Jack, along with a couple thousand others, all gathered within the grand hall.
After the explosion had torn apart much of the sun and the space around it, including the grand hall, before it receded and everything went back to normal, every void traversing cultivator within the Zhou Solar system ran to the grand hall as fast as possible.
Since Zhou Fan had spent a while recovering, most of them had been able to reach it before his divine sense expanded. The only ones that didn't were those at the first and second level of the void traversing realm, although they were still rushing.
Inside the grand hall, everyone was looking at the figure on the throne. Even after a hundred thousand years, Anna was still sitting on it. Now, she had reached the 3rd level of the space shattering realm.
As for the dragon king and the other original four rulers, the dragon king had reached the second level of the space shattering realm, while the titanosaur and the monkey king were stuck at the tenth level of void traversing.
Surprisingly, Jack was only watching from the sides, in one of the hundred viewing boxes. A cloak covered his body as if he didn't want anyone knowing of his existence.
After so much time, Jack had led the mermaid race to become the fifth land of the Zhou world. Despite that, everyone was under the impression that he was at the same level as the monkey king and the titanosaur.
It seemed that after a hundred thousand years, Jack had become somewhat of a hidden master. He only revealed enough of his strength to deter others from looking down upon him or his race.
What the others in the room, besides Anna who kept quiet after sensing his strength, didn't know was that Jack had reached the 2nd level of space shattering. Based on his talent, he was even stronger than the dragon king!
For the first time since the creation of the Zhou world, the second place position had been switched! What was even crazier was that not a single person besides Anna seemed to even notice the change in hierarchy.
As for why Anna kept quiet, she simply didn't want to offend Jack. From what she had seen, his talent was at the very least equal to hers. In fact, there was a good chance his talent was higher.
Therefore, it would be foolish to antagonize him by revealing his secrets.
As for killing jack before he overtook her in strength, such a thought never crossed the righteous annas mind.
After a moment of waiting, Anna spoke.
"People of the Zhou World, you may be under the impression that I know something you all do not. Unfortunately, I must admit that I am as clueless as you all are as to what happened." She said. "If it was just an explosion, we could attribute it to a reaction from the sun, but what followed is unexplainable."
Around her, every single person was silent.
"Therefore, I can only assume that this was some mystical event. Perhaps it was some sort of reaction from the galaxy, or even the universe itself. Regardless, there is no point in trying to figure it out. Let's just be grateful we are alive." She said before standing up and teleporting to her room within the grand hall.
After the grim reaper battle long ago, she and the other rulers had managed to recreate teleportation, along with other techniques like the soul escaping technique and the soul trapping technique.
After Anna left the main area of the grand hall, the room was filled with voices. Despite Anna saying that there was no point in talking about it, they couldn't help themselves.
Still, some disappeared after Anna did. Among them was Jack, the titanosaur, the monkey king, and the dragon king, who had attended with his son.
The son the dragon king had brought with him wasn't his first child. In fact, the child had hundreds of older brothers and sisters. The problem was that none of them had enough talent.
Even breaking into the space shattering realm within ten million years would be a miracle for any of them. Luckily, the dragon king had finally gotten a good heir just a hundred years ago.
His talent was one rank higher than his fathers at immortal king 6. Although he would never surpass Anna or Jack, he would surpass his father and likely become a better king, while the dragon king could just hang back and spend his years relaxing.
The dragon king's son, Ao Tu, was also a dragon like his father, but slightly different. While his father could be called a demonic dragon, Ao tu was a pure fire dragon.
As of now, he was at the void traversing realm. It would take him a while, but it was inevitable that he would reach the space shattering realm.
Besides the changes in the important people of the Zhou solar system, there were also changes at the lower levels, along with changes in the lands.
Within the Zhou Solar system, there were now 10,000 void traversing realm cultivators. 9,000 were within the first three levels, 800 were at the fourth to sixth levels, 195 were at the seventh through ninth levels, and five were at the tenth.
As for space shattering cultivators, Jack was the only new addition.