Slowly, people began arriving before the Purple Cloud Palace. Gazing at this palace of the Great Dao, none could contain their excitement.
The gates of the Purple Cloud Palace stood open, as though welcoming them as guests.
One after another, they entered the moment they arrived, wasting no time. An audience with the Dao Ancestor came first.
Inside, they found Bibi Dong and two others already seated on Meditation Cushions.
Everyone looked on with envy. Those Meditation Cushions were clearly no ordinary objects.
"Take a seat wherever you like."
Bibi Dong spoke without turning her head.
Everyone obediently conjured a cushion with their Magical Power and sat down, guessing that not all the guests had arrived yet.
People kept entering the Purple Cloud Palace. Before long, three thousand had taken their seats, not counting Bibi Dong and her two companions.
Boom!
The palace gates slammed shut, and Meng Hongjun appeared before them all.
Meng Hongjun looked over the faces below. There were Lords of Douluo Star's great sects and empires, as well as the Shrek Seven Devils of the original story—seven prodigies now belonging to different factions.
There were also beings from other star systems in the Douluo Universe and cultivators from another universe.
These people, drawn from every corner of two universes, would carry word of this grand gathering of the Great Dao across both.
Even before Meng Hongjun appeared, the fated guests below had been studying one another.
After all, every last person who had entered this place today was bound for an extraordinary future.
"All three thousand fated guests have arrived. Let the discourse on the Great Dao begin." Meng Hongjun's voice was quiet, yet it sank straight into every heart.
"Heaven and Earth form a universe; the Human Body forms a universe..." Without further preamble, Meng