The City Lord’s Residence was vast and boundless, with countless buildings inside, each occupying an area extending for hundreds of kilometres.
The black robed envoy led Luo Feng and the other twelve people through a corridor about sixty metres wide and 120 metres high. Along both sides of the corridor stood a series of enormous bronze doors. Each bronze door was about 160 metres long and 120 metres high, and each bore ancient characters.
‘Ancestor God’, ‘Giant Axe’, ‘Dragon Walk’…
Moreover, an elderly man with a benevolent appearance stood in front of every bronze door.
Strangely enough, every one of these elderly men looked exactly the same.
“There are a total of 52 doors here, corresponding to the entrances of the 52 Chaos Stele cultivation chambers,” the black robed envoy said with a smile. “The door to the Nine Universe Chaos Stele cultivation chamber is just ahead. Mm, we’ve arrived.”
Luo Feng looked at the bronze door in front of him.
The ancient bronze door, which had existed for hundreds of millions of years, bore two characters in the universal language, ‘Nine Universe’. The ancient door, which reached a height of 120 metres, made people instinctively look up.
Beside the bronze door stood an elderly man with a vertical third eye between his brows. He looked exactly the same as the elderly men standing before all the other doors.
“Lord Kandeli.”
The black robed envoy bowed respectfully.
“Mm.”
The three eyed elderly man smiled as he looked at Luo Feng and the others.
“A new batch of little fellows from Virtual Universe Company?”
“Yes.”
The black robed envoy was extremely respectful. He then turned to Luo Feng and the others.
“This is Lord Kandeli, the guardian of the Chaos Stele cultivation chambers. The 52 people standing before the 52 Chaos Stele cultivation chamber doors are all incarnations of Lord Kandeli. Lord Kandeli has guarded these 52 chambers for more than a million eras. He is a highly respected powerful being in Chaos City.”
Whoosh!
The group of young people looked at the seemingly ordinary, benevolent three eyed elderly man in shock.
The same person had created 52 incarnations to guard the 52 cultivation chambers.
As one of the Three Treasures of Chaos City, the importance of the 52 Chaos Steles was obvious. For one person to create 52 incarnations to guard them, just how powerful was this person?
And he had guarded them for more than a million eras…
The master of the Yun Mo Planet, Hu Yan Bo, had only lived for more than six thousand eras.
“Lord Kandeli.”
Luo Feng and the other twelve people all respectfully saluted.
“Hehe, you really are young. Seeing you is like seeing the hope of humanity.”
Kandeli smiled and nodded.
“Wait here for a moment. The group currently comprehending the stele will be coming out soon.”
“Yes.”
Luo Feng and the other eleven obediently waited.
“What a monster. Chaos City truly deserves to be known as the sacred land of cultivation for humanity in the universe. Powerful beings are everywhere, and hidden monsters are everywhere. We just happened to encounter an old monster who has guarded the cultivation chambers for more than a million eras.”
Babata exclaimed in shock.
“Your teacher was stronger than you and lived longer than you, yet he didn’t encounter as many powerful beings as you have. Different circles lead to different people.”
The master of the Yun Mo Planet had, after all, been a lone wanderer. Even encountering a Universe Country Lord was extremely rare.
Although Luo Feng was weak, he had entered the core level of Virtual Universe Company, giving him opportunities to come into contact with some of the most supreme and incredible existences among humanity in the universe.
“Lord Kandeli, Lord Kandeli!”
A shout suddenly rang out.
Whoosh!
A young ape man wearing a golden headband and battle boots, with a fierce aura radiating from his entire body, instantly appeared in front of the bronze door. He immediately bowed respectfully to Kandeli.
Then he glanced at Luo Feng and the others and could not help grinning.
“Lord Kandeli, it seems I arrived at just the right time. I can enter and comprehend the stele together with them. If I had been even a little slower, I would have had to wait another seven days.”
“Oh, you broke through?”
Kandeli looked at the ape man with a smile.
“Yes. I successfully passed the sixth level assessment, so I gained another seven days of comprehension time.”
The ape man hurriedly replied.
Kandeli closed his eyes for several seconds. He then opened them and nodded.
“Mm, you have indeed gained another seven days of comprehension time.”
“Another seven days?”
Luo Feng secretly wondered.
“When you enter Chaos City for the first time, you can obtain seven days of comprehension time. Judging from this, it seems that after meeting certain conditions and passing certain assessments, you can obtain additional opportunities to comprehend the Chaos Stele.”
Luo Feng and the others did not yet understand how to obtain another opportunity to comprehend a Chaos Stele, but they believed they would soon find out.
After all, they would be staying in Chaos City for thirty years.
They waited quietly.
After roughly five or six minutes…
“Rumble~~~”
The entire bronze door slowly began to open. Inside, chaotic currents swirled around the cultivation chamber, making it impossible to see clearly.
“Everyone, come out!”
Kandeli looked inside and shouted in a deep voice.
His voice echoed continuously within the cultivation chamber.
Soon, figures rapidly flew out through the chaotic currents. Quite a few were clutching their heads. Among them was a tall and powerfully built young man with six eyes on his forehead. He unwillingly looked back once more, but could only choose to leave.
“You thirteen can enter now.”
Kandeli looked at the group in front of him.
“Seven days from now, when the door opens, you must come out immediately. Understood?”
“Understood.”
The group nodded.
“Mm.”
Kandeli nodded.
“Go in.”
The group immediately entered, each carrying a sense of nervous anticipation.
The cultivation chamber was enormous, with chaotic currents swirling throughout it.
Luo Feng carefully looked inside and faintly saw a gigantic stone stele surrounded by chaotic currents.
“Is that the Nine Universe Chaos Stele?”
Luo Feng was filled with anticipation and nervousness.
The other eleven young people were the same.
Only the ape man was extremely familiar with the place. He immediately rushed deep into the cultivation chamber and began comprehending the stele.
Only after approaching the Chaos Stele could they see it clearly.
It was a Chaos Stele about 100 metres high and nearly 100 metres wide. Nine pictures were engraved upon it. Along the edge of the Chaos Stele were universal language characters reading ‘Nine Universe’.
Each picture was exactly the same as the Nine Universe Chaos Stele picture they had previously seen on the corridor wall, but the feeling was clearly different.
The nine pictures on the Nine Universe Chaos Stele were already familiar to Luo Feng because he had seen the drawings before.
The first picture depicted several scattered raindrops. Upon carefully counting them, there were a total of nine raindrops.
The second picture depicted a continuous drizzle. Upon careful counting, there were a total of 36 raindrops.
The third picture depicted a torrential downpour. Countless raindrops were densely packed together. Upon careful counting, there were as many as 108 raindrops.
The fourth picture depicted a star and its four surrounding planets.
The fifth picture depicted a stellar system. One star was surrounded by twelve planets, with each planet having varying numbers of satellites.
The sixth picture depicted a galaxy, an immense river of stars composed of countless densely packed planets.
When Luo Feng had previously studied the picture, he had even asked Babata to carefully count the planets, but it had been impossible to determine the exact number. In some places, there seemed to be countless planets, yet they could not be seen clearly at all.
The seventh picture seemed to depict some kind of strange monster.
The eighth picture depicted two equally bizarre monsters.
The ninth picture depicted countless strange monsters. It was impossible to count how many there were.
If Luo Feng could vaguely understand the first to sixth pictures, feeling that the first six pictures of the Nine Universe Chaos Stele were faintly explaining the supreme Origin Laws, then the seventh to ninth pictures were simply far too abstract.
Luo Feng felt that they were nothing more than strange monster drawings. Where were the Origin Laws hidden within them?
They were simply too abstract.
However!
The 52 Chaos Steles were supreme treasures of the entire human race in the universe. If one could fully comprehend any one of them, becoming a Universe Country Lord would be an easy matter.
Since countless powerful beings had unanimously recognised their value, the seventh to ninth pictures naturally contained truly incredible mysteries.
It was simply because Luo Feng’s strength was too weak that he could not even sense the slightest hint of them subconsciously.
……
Luo Feng had seen the drawings before, including the Nine Universe Chaos Stele.
But now that he was facing the genuine Chaos Stele…
Especially when he looked at the first picture, the ‘Raindrop Picture’, his entire spiritual consciousness instantly became completely immersed within it.
Those nine raindrops evolved into infinite artistic conception within Luo Feng’s consciousness.
One had to know that Luo Feng had three bodies.
Because all three bodies possessed consciousness vessels, the consciousness vessel of the Earthling body was the soul within his sea of consciousness.
The consciousness vessel of the Golden Horned Beast was the soul within its Origin Core.
The consciousness vessel of the Mosha Clan incarnation was its life crystal core.
Because the three bodies were ultimately one and their consciousnesses were interconnected, when Luo Feng saw the picture, the other two bodies within his internal world were effectively seeing it as well.
“Roar~~”
In the eyes of the Golden Horned Beast, those nine raindrops seemed to transform into sharp hooves and claws. They appeared to be tails sweeping through the air, and also seemed like golden horns shooting forward.
The Mosha Clan incarnation, ‘Black Clothed Luo Feng’, held a shield and battle blade. The life core within his body rotated slightly and completely resonated with the Origin of Space.
In his perception, those nine raindrops had completely transformed into blade techniques, each attack containing the laws of the Origin of Space.
As a favoured child of space, the Mosha Clan incarnation instinctively began performing his blade techniques.
As for Luo Feng’s Earthling true body in front of the Nine Universe Chaos Stele, when he looked at those nine raindrops…
He faintly saw nine different artistic conceptions.
They seemed to transform into nine golden swords that constantly combined with one another, launching wave after wave of fierce offensive attacks.
……
What one was skilled in determined what one saw.
Yet all paths ultimately led to the same destination.
As one of the supreme treasures of the human race in the universe, the Nine Universe Chaos Stele truly contained endless mysteries.
The laws and aura contained within it could subtly guide others towards comprehension and improvement.
Because it was so precious and many people came to comprehend it, there was a restriction.
Upon first entering Chaos City, one could obtain one opportunity to comprehend a Chaos Stele.
After that, one had to rely on one’s own comprehension ability.
Resources were limited.
Only truly powerful geniuses could obtain a second, third, or even more opportunities to comprehend a Chaos Stele.
Each opportunity lasted only seven days.
……
Inside the cultivation chamber, Luo Feng and the other thirteen people were completely immersed in their comprehension. They could not sense the passage of time at all.
“Rumble~~~”
The enormous bronze door suddenly opened.
The thirteen people remained completely immersed in their comprehension and did not wake up.
“Everyone, come out!”
A voice entered the chamber and directly poured into everyone’s minds.
“Everyone, come out!”
“Everyone, come out!”
“Everyone, come out!”
“Everyone, come out!”
The voice continuously echoed within their minds, growing louder and louder.
This caused everyone to awaken instantly.
The thunderous voice constantly reverberating through his mind made Luo Feng instinctively clutch his head.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The thirteen people hurriedly rushed outside.
The instant they crossed the threshold, the voice that had been constantly echoing in their minds suddenly disappeared, leaving them feeling immensely relieved.
“Is it over?”
The instant Luo Feng stepped across the threshold, he unwillingly turned back and looked into the cultivation chamber.
However, chaotic currents swirled throughout the cultivation chamber, making it impossible to see the Chaos Stele clearly.
At that moment, Luo Feng finally understood why the previous group had been so reluctant to leave.