After settling on the menu, Xue Xi closed up the restaurant she had just finished tidying and headed for the old castle where the Chaos Stele stood. Before opening for business, she planned to use up her allotted study sessions, then try the Heavenly Bridge to draw in some Chaos City residents. It wasn't as if she could walk out of the safe zone with a megaphone on opening day and go around drumming up customers, right?
Inside the City Lord Mansion, a deep corridor ran through the enormous old castle. Along it were a number of secret chambers, where the Human Race's treasures—the fifty-two Chaos Steles—were kept!
Each chamber was sealed by a Bronze Giant Gate, with the name of the Chaos Stele inside engraved on it in the Universal Language. An old man stood guard in front of every gate. Strangely, all fifty-two old men looked exactly alike, each with a kindly expression.
She first found the secret chamber containing the Lanya Chaos Stele, which embodied the Law of Water. She respectfully addressed the three-eyed old man at the gate. "Lord Kandeli, I'm here to study the Lanya Chaos Stele."
The third eye in the old man's brow lit up. "Oh, you're the little one who chose two Chaos Steles at once? Someone up above did give me the word. Your study sessions can count for both Chaos Steles at the same time, but you'll need to pass two Heavenly Bridges to earn them. All right, the Lanya Chaos Stele is unoccupied right now. Go on in. I'll wake you in seven days."
The Bronze Giant Gate rumbled open. Xue Xi nodded and stepped inside.
The chamber was spacious, with chaotic airflow drifting through it. A massive stone stele, a hundred meters tall and a hundred meters wide,