"I've sent out all your selections. Now, follow me to observe the Chaos Tablets."
The Black-robed Envoy turned and addressed everyone.
Feng Hui and the other 999 young geniuses followed the Black-robed Envoy, leaving the corridor and continuing deeper inside.
Before long, they arrived at an empty training ground in the City Lord's Mansion. It stretched dozens of kilometers in every direction, and there was no one else there.
The empty training ground.
The thousand geniuses gathered together, with the Black-robed Envoy standing in front of them.
"Of the 52 Chaos Tablet cultivation chambers, ten are occupied, while the other 42 are empty." The Black-robed Envoy looked at the group before him. "Now, I'll announce the names of those 42 Chaos Tablets..."
"Yanshan Chaos Tablet, Giant Axe Chaos Tablet, Dragon Walk Chaos Tablet..."
"Those who chose one of these 42 Chaos Tablets, go straight to the entrance at the far left. You'll be assigned to the corresponding chamber."
The Black-robed Envoy pointed into the distance. At the far end of the training ground, on the left, stood an entrance nearly thirty meters tall.
"The rest of you, wait here for now. Someone is currently comprehending the Chaos Tablets you chose. It's absolutely forbidden to open a chamber and disturb someone while they're comprehending."
"So... you'll have to wait until they're finished before you can go in. At most, you'll have to wait seven days."
"Those who chose one of those 42 Chaos Tablets can head over now."
At once, at least eight hundred of the thousand young people, including Feng Hui, transformed into a stream of light and departed.
As the hardest Chaos Tablet, the Cosmic Chaos Stele had the fewest people choosing it. Its cultivation chamber was naturally often empty, so there was almost never a need to wait in line.
As they walked toward the entrance, only one word came to mind: huge!
The City Lord's Mansion was vast and boundless. Each of the buildings within it occupied an area at least a thousand li across.
Feng Hui and the other eight hundred or so advanced through a corridor about 60 meters wide and 120 meters high.
On either side of the corridor stood row after row of towering bronze-colored doors. Each Bronze Giant Gate was about 160 meters wide and 120 meters high, with ancient characters inscribed upon it.
"Mother Ancestor," "Giant Axe," "Dragon Walk," "Nine Universe"...
And in front of every Bronze Giant Gate stood a kindly-looking old man with a vertical eye between his brows.
What was worth noting was that!
Every old man standing before a Bronze Giant Gate looked exactly the same.
The group of three-eyed old men smiled at them. "The Virtual Universe Company's newest batch of little fellows?"
"Yes," all the geniuses answered respectfully.
The three-eyed old man nodded. "I'm the guardian of the Chaos Tablet cultivation chambers. You can call me 'Lord Kandri.' Standing before the doors to these 52 Chaos Tablet cultivation chambers... are 52 of my clones."
"Wow!"
The young people stared at the seemingly ordinary, kindly-looking three-eyed old man in shock. The same person's clones were guarding all 52 cultivation chambers. As one of the three treasures of Chaos City, the importance of the 52 Chaos Tablets went without saying. How powerful did someone have to be to create 52 clones to guard them?
"All right, there are 52 doors here, each one the entrance to a Chaos Tablet chamber. Go to the door corresponding to the Chaos Tablet you chose."
"Rumble~~~" The Bronze Giant Gates began to slowly open. Inside, the cultivation chambers were shrouded in swirling streams of chaos, making it impossible to see clearly.
"Go on in," Kandri said. "When the doors open in seven days, come out immediately. Understood?"
"Understood."
The geniuses hurriedly nodded.
"Mm." Kandri nodded. "Go in."
The cultivation chamber was enormous, filled with swirling streams of chaos.
Feng Hui peered carefully inside and made out the vague outline of an enormous stone tablet surrounded by the chaotic currents.
Only when he drew close to the Chaos Tablet could he see it clearly.
It was a Chaos Tablet a hundred meters tall and nearly a hundred meters wide. Ten images were carved upon it, and along its edge were characters in the Universal Language: "Universe."
The first image depicted a flowing river. Its waters drifted gently, ripples spreading across the surface, seemingly illustrating the passage of time and the fluctuations of space.
The second image showed a vast, boundless ocean, deep and magnificent, mysterious and unfathomable.
The third image depicted an enormous black hole. The space-time warped around it seemed like a mirror of reality, reflecting a profound and mysterious scene from the universe.
The ninth image showed a sea of mist. Countless tiny specks of light could be faintly seen within it, too numerous to count.
The final image, the tenth, showed a brilliant flash of light. It contained infinite possibilities, seeming to mark the end of time and space and reveal the universe's ultimate mysteries.
Feng Hui could vaguely understand some of the earlier images, sensing that they were faintly explaining the origin laws of time and space. But the last few images were simply too abstract. He couldn't see any of their mysteries at all.
He withdrew his gaze.
As he looked at the first image on the tablet, the "River Diagram," Feng Hui became completely absorbed in it. He couldn't feel the passage of time at all.
The Cosmic Chaos Stele truly deserved to be a Supreme Treasure of the Human Race. The aura it contained could subtly guide others toward comprehension and improvement without them even realizing it.
"Rumble!"
The Bronze Giant Gate swung open with a roar. Seven days of comprehension had passed in the blink of an eye.
"Come out!" "Come out!" "Come out!"...
A voice rang out, pouring straight into Feng Hui's mind and echoing relentlessly inside it. It grew louder and louder, until it became unbearable.
Feng Hui hurriedly rushed outside. Only when he crossed the threshold did the voice, which had been echoing in his mind, vanish in an instant.
"Wait a moment," the guardian, Kandri, said with a smile.
"This is your first time entering a cultivation chamber, so let me remind you... First, find a residence to serve as your Cultivation Residence for the next 30 years. Then enter the Virtual Universe and apply to enter the 'Heavenly Bridge.'"
Feng Hui understood. The chance to comprehend a Chaos Tablet was precious. He could only earn another seven-day session after passing a level of the Heavenly Bridge.
After finishing his comprehension, Feng Hui casually chose a residence and began meditating, digesting what he had gained from comprehending the Cosmic Chaos Stele.
A Chaos Tablet mainly served as a guide. Now that he had just finished comprehending it, Feng Hui had many new ideas and flashes of insight about the Law of Space and the Time Law.
The most important thing now was to quickly absorb and digest these ideas and insights, turning them into genuine comprehension of the laws.
Soon, more than ten days passed.
Feng Hui sat cross-legged on the rooftop of his residence. At times he closed his eyes in quiet thought; at others, he gazed up at the laws governing the universe as they continually shattered and reassembled in the sky.
"Whew."
After sitting for a long time, Feng Hui let out a deep breath and rose to his feet, full of confidence.
"As expected of the Human Race's Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Tablet!"
Now that he had finished comprehending the Cosmic Chaos Stele and digesting what he had learned, he had made great progress in both the Time Law and the Law of Space.
Perfect. Time to try the Heavenly Bridge!
A short while later, Feng Hui returned, battered and in a sorry state.
He hadn't even passed the first level!
What an impressive performance—five attempts, zero wins.
Still, it was no wonder the Venerable had said their batch was mediocre. All one thousand geniuses had tried the Heavenly Bridge, yet not a single one had passed the first level.
Even Guge, the first-ranked genius in the Genius War, hadn't managed it.
Once he had calmed down, Feng Hui understood that this was normal.
Luo Feng's batch had been so outstanding, with so many Peerless Geniuses. Yet when they first arrived in Chaos City, aside from Bolan, the freakish genius who appeared only once in ten million years, wasn't Rong Jun the only one who passed the first level?
Even Wuka and Jalaixi, who were considered strong enough to have won first place in the Genius War in previous years, hadn't managed to pass the first level of the Heavenly Bridge right away.
Their batch was so ordinary. The top-ranked Guge was probably only on the level of Prince of Manka Star Wuka, so it was normal that he couldn't pass.
As for Feng Hui, three years ago he'd only been at the level of the Doomsday Secret Realm. Although he could now easily defeat the Guge of three years ago, he was probably about even with the Guge of today. After all, his foundation had been too weak, and three years was far too short a time.
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