Cosmic Extreme Chaos Tablet

Led by the black-robed envoy, Lu Ming and the others entered a corridor filled with an enigmatic aura. Huge, mysterious paintings hung along the walls on both sides.

The black-robed envoy turned back and said, "Fifty-two imprinted paintings hang on the corridor walls. Each painting corresponds to a Chaos Tablet. Although the paintings cannot convey the aura contained within the Chaos Tablets, they can still let you barely sense a little of it."

"Each person may choose only one Chaos Tablet to observe and comprehend. So, look through these fifty-two paintings... then decide which Chaos Tablet you will choose."

Lu Ming swept his gaze across them.

Every painting here was a standard ten meters long and ten meters wide, with a name written beside it.

"You have only half an hour." After giving the instruction, the black-robed envoy left and stood at the outermost end of the corridor.

With time running short, everyone began examining the paintings and making their choices.

Lu Ming casually chose the painting nearest to him. It was an image of yellow falling leaves, countless leaves seemingly capable of forming one military formation after another. "This Mother Ancestor Chaos Tablet is quite profound, but it doesn't suit me."

"Next." Lu Ming walked over to another large painting.

The image depicted a savage holding a gigantic axe that reached toward the heavens. As the burly savage swung the huge axe, it seemed capable of splitting heaven and earth apart, making even the space of the universe tremble and shatter beneath it!

The artistic conception and power emanating from this painting were incomparably condensed and majestic. A single painting alone could stir his mind.

The Chaos Tablet corresponding to this painting was called the "Giant Axe Chaos Tablet."

With limited time, Lu Ming did not dwell on it and immediately moved on to the other paintings.

Silence filled the corridor.

All one thousand geniuses stared hungrily at the paintings. The paintings conveyed only a trace of the aura of their corresponding Chaos Tablets, yet they had already utterly captivated them.

Their choice of Chaos Tablet was tied to the path they would take in the future.

If not for the reminders from their intelligent optical computers, half an hour might have passed while they were engrossed in a single painting, leaving them no time to choose at all.

"Alright, half an hour is up. Tell me which Chaos Tablet you chose, and I'll record it." The black-robed envoy walked in and called out to the geniuses before him.

He walked continuously from the outermost part of the corridor inward, asking each genius for their choice.

"I choose the 'Yanshan Chaos Tablet.'"

"I choose the 'Nine Universes Chaos Tablet.'"

Lu Ming watched calmly, his gaze passing over the fifty-two paintings. Several of them felt quite suitable for him. It could be said that whichever one he chose, his cultivation efficiency would not be low.

They were treasures the Human Race used to guide geniuses. All fifty-two Chaos Tablets were great paths leading to the pinnacle.

Their inclusiveness was beyond doubt.

Still, after considering personal compatibility, Lu Ming made the choice most suitable for him at present.

The black-robed envoy quickly finished recording the choices of the many geniuses ahead of him and arrived beside Lu Ming.

"Which one do you choose?" the black-robed envoy asked.

"I choose the 'Cosmic Extreme Chaos Tablet,'" Lu Ming said seriously.

The black-robed envoy nodded. The screen on his arm instantly recorded it, and then he turned to ask another person nearby.

"Of all the Chaos Tablets, the ones most suitable for me are the Thunderclap Chaos Tablet and this Cosmic Extreme Chaos Tablet." However, the former began with the Lightning Origin Law, and its corresponding Tongtian Bridge had only twenty-four levels. The Cosmic Extreme Chaos Tablet, on the other hand, began with the Time Origin Law and had a full twenty-seven levels. Naturally, he had to choose the stronger one.

After reaching the end of the corridor and finishing the records, the black-robed envoy finally turned around and said, "I have recorded all your choices and sent them out. Now follow me."

Lu Ming and the others followed him out of the corridor and continued deeper inside.

Before long, they arrived at a vast training ground within the City Lord's Mansion. It was dozens of kilometers long and wide, and all one thousand people gathered there.

Standing at the front, the black-robed envoy said, "Of the fifty-two Chaos Tablet comprehension chambers, fifteen are occupied, while the other thirty-seven are empty."

"Now, I will call out the names of these thirty-seven Chaos Tablets. Those who selected them, go directly to the entrance on the far left ahead. You will be assigned to your respective chambers."

"'Yanshan Chaos Tablet,' 'Heart Trace Chaos Tablet,' 'Dragon Walk Chaos Tablet'... 'Cosmic Extreme Chaos Tablet'!"

The black-robed envoy pointed into the distance, toward the entrance on the left side at the end of the training ground. "Go over now."

The Chaos Tablet Lu Ming had chosen happened to be unoccupied, so he followed the others inside.

In the end, the black-robed envoy led everyone into a corridor about sixty meters wide and one hundred and fifty meters tall. On both sides stood towering bronze doors. Each enormous bronze door was about one hundred and sixty meters wide and one hundred and fifty meters tall, and every door bore ancient writing.

'Cosmic Extreme.' 'Dragon Walk.' 'Giant Axe.' 'Wind Shadow.' 'Nine Universes.'

These names clearly corresponded to the names of the Chaos Tablets. Before each enormous bronze door stood a kindly-looking three-eyed elder. Their appearances were identical, even their postures the same.

The black-robed envoy bowed respectfully. "Lord Kandri!"

"Mm." The three-eyed elder smiled at the more than eight hundred geniuses before him. "A new batch of little ones from the Virtual Universe Company?"

"Yes."

The black-robed attendant's attitude was incomparably respectful, no longer carrying the casualness he had shown toward these young geniuses. Turning around, he introduced, "This is Lord Kandri, guardian of the Chaos Tablet cultivation chambers. The figures before these bronze doors are all Lord Kandri's avatars. Lord Kandri has guarded the Chaos Tablets for a million eras!"

"Lord Kandri!"

The many geniuses bowed respectfully. He had guarded the Chaos Tablets for a million eras—that was ten billion years. Who knew how long this powerful expert had lived?

Kandri nodded slightly. "Go in."

With a wave of his hand, the thirty-seven bronze doors rumbled open, their massive panels revealing an enigmatic aura.

Filled with nervous anticipation, everyone immediately entered.

The cultivation chamber was enormous, with Chaos Qi swirling throughout it.

Filled with anticipation, Lu Ming walked deeper into the chamber. There, amid the swirling Chaos Qi, stood an enormous stone tablet.

It was one hundred meters tall and nearly one hundred meters wide, with ten images carved upon it. At the edge of the Chaos Tablet were words in the Universal Language—"Cosmic Extreme."

Every image was identical to the painting of the "Cosmic Extreme Chaos Tablet" he had seen on the corridor wall earlier, yet it gave off an entirely different feeling.

The first image was an ethereal lotus. Upon closer inspection, one could see that the lotus had nine petals!

The second image was an even more dreamlike double-layered lotus. The inner and upper layers still had nine petals, while the outer and lower layers consisted of a full twenty-seven petals.

The third image was a solidified three-layered lotus. Its inner and middle layers differed little from those in the second image, except that the outermost, lowest section had gained a third layer composed of seventy-two petals.

The fourth image was a Star Chart: one planet surrounded by four satellites.

The fifth image was a Star System Map: one star orbited by fifteen planets, each with more or fewer satellites.

The sixth image was a river of stars, with innumerable densely packed planets forming a vast stellar river.

The seventh image depicted a strange ouroboros beast devouring its own tail.

The eighth image depicted two strange ouroboros beasts entwined together.

The ninth image depicted countless strange ouroboros beasts tangled together so densely that they could not be counted at all.

From the first image to the sixth, Lu Ming could sense that they faintly expounded a supreme Origin path. The final three, however, seemed like mere paintings. With Lu Ming's current strength, he could not sense any mystery from them at all.

"At present, I can understand only the first and second images."

The first image could be called the 'Nine-Leaf Diagram.' Its nine lotus petals represented the nine most basic Time Law profound mysteries, while the structure of the lotus itself was the most perfect manifestation of those nine profound mysteries combined.

Lu Ming's mind and consciousness instantly became completely immersed within it. In his awareness, the nine lotus petals immediately evolved into endless wondrous artistic conceptions.

He was entirely absorbed in comprehension, utterly unaware of time passing.

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

Rumble...

The enormous bronze door opened with a crash.

"Everyone, come out!" A voice entered directly, flooding into his mind.

"Everyone, come out!"

"Everyone, come out!"

"Everyone, come out!"

"Everyone, come out!"

The voice echoed endlessly through their minds, growing louder and louder until everyone awoke at once.