Upon hearing this, the bald envoy looked up and carefully scrutinized Qing Yu, confirming, "Are you sure you choose the Universe chaos tablet?"
"I am sure," Qing Yu's reply was even more resolute.
The bald envoy's heart stirred slightly, but he said no more, simply recording Qing Yu's choice.
Soon, the bald envoy finished recording the choices of all 1000 geniuses. He put away his recorder and looked at the crowd, "I have submitted all your choices. Now, follow me."
The group left the Dream Corridor and was led to an extremely vast rectangular training ground, ten kilometers long and wide.
The bald envoy stood at the front and announced loudly, "Currently, out of the '52 chaos tablet Comprehension Chambers', ten are occupied by people comprehending, while the other forty-two chambers are vacant."
He scanned the crowd with his gaze. "I will now read out the names of these forty-two vacant chaos tablets…"
"Heart Mark chaos tablet."
"Universe chaos tablet."
"Dragon Walk chaos tablet."
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"Those who chose these forty-two chaos tablets, proceed directly to the leftmost entrance ahead. You will be arranged into the corresponding chambers for comprehension. You may go now!"
As his voice fell, eight or nine hundred people in the crowd immediately responded and walked towards a large arched entrance on the far left of the training ground. Qing Yu was also among this flow of people, his steps steady.
Passing through the arched entrance, an incredibly wide and towering corridor appeared before them. On both sides of the corridor were massive bronze doors!
Each door was over a hundred meters high and more than a hundred meters wide! The bronze doors had no intricate patterns, only the name of the chaos tablet deeply engraved in ancient script!
"Heart Mark," "Yan Shan," "Lan Mu"… and the one Qing Yu's gaze locked onto—"Universe"!
In front of each massive bronze door, an old man in a gray robe with a benevolent face stood silently. These dozens of old men looked exactly alike!
"Hmm?" As Qing Yu and hundreds of others surged into the corridor, the old man near the entrance turned to look. A vertical third eye grew in the center of his brow!
The old man smiled and spoke, his voice gentle and clear, reaching everyone's ears, "Are you the new batch of little ones from the Virtual Universe Corporation?"
The hundreds of geniuses were awed by the old man's unfathomable aura, momentarily stunned.
Qing Yu took a step forward, bowing slightly, "Yes, Senior. We are the top 1000 from this genius battle, here to comprehend the chaos tablet."
"Hehe, so young. Seeing you all is like seeing the future of humanity." All the identical old men displayed gentle smiles.
"You may call me Lord Kan Deli. I am the guardian of the 52 chaos tablets."
"Lord Kan Deli!" Hundreds of geniuses quickly bowed respectfully, shouting in unison. Faced with such an existence beyond comprehension, no one dared to show the slightest disrespect.
"Mm." Kan Deli nodded slightly, appearing very benevolent.
"Let me introduce you. These massive bronze doors you see before you are the entrances to the chaos tablet cultivation chambers."
He paused, his gaze sweeping over the crowd.
"Please wait here for a moment. The group of people currently comprehending inside will be coming out soon."
"Yes." Everyone quieted down as instructed, and only a few minutes passed.
"Rumble~~~~"
The massive bronze door inscribed with the words "Universe," along with the other forty-one doors, simultaneously rumbled and slowly opened!
"Everyone, come out!" Kan Deli's gentle voice sounded, clearly entering each opening chamber.
Soon, figures emerged from within the massive bronze doors, one after another, bearing complex expressions of either ecstasy, contemplation, exhaustion, or wistful loss.
When the last person walked out, Kan Deli looked at Qing Yu and the hundreds of others, his gaze gentle but with an undeniable admonition.
"You may go in. Remember, you only have seven days! After seven days, no matter how much you comprehend, no matter what state you are in, once the chamber door opens, you must come out immediately! Do you understand?"
"Understood!" Qing Yu and the others responded in unison.
"Go!" Kan Deli smiled and nodded.
Only Qing Yu had chosen the Universe chaos tablet this time. He took steady steps and entered the massive bronze door inscribed with the words "Universe."
The cultivation chamber was enormous. As soon as Qing Yu entered, he saw a huge stone tablet shrouded in chaotic energy, with the words 'Universe' carved on its edge.
Qing Yu walked closer, sat down, and carefully observed the massive stone tablet. Ten diagrams were arranged on it.
The first diagram: a perfectly still water surface, smooth as a mirror, deep and boundless, without a single ripple.
The second diagram: depicted a pure droplet of water falling into a lake, creating perfect, clear, and infinitely expanding ripples.
The third diagram: the calm water surface was completely broken, with countless droplets falling like a downpour, stirring up countless splashes.
The fourth diagram: a candle flame burning quietly in the darkness.
The fifth diagram: an incredibly vast and violently rotating vortex of flames, showing the twisting, stretching, and compression of the flames…
The sixth diagram: the scene of countless stars simultaneously erupting with solar flares.
The seventh diagram: began to become abstract, consisting of countless straight, parallel lines forming an infinitely extending basic grating.
The eighth diagram: countless lines twisted, intertwined, and entangled, forming an incredibly complex three-dimensional line net.
The ninth diagram: the lines further twisted and curled, forming an almost incomprehensible, chaotic ball of lines.
The tenth diagram: as if everything returned to the origin, the image showed a perfectly round circle, deep black filling the entire ring, and at the core of the ring, a white light point emitting eternal light.
The ten diagrams became more profound one after another. Qing Yu could vaguely sense something in the first six diagrams, but from the seventh diagram onwards, he felt as if he had returned to the time before he awakened his memories and talents, completely at a loss.
Qing Yu took a deep breath, suppressed the turmoil in his heart, and decisively refocused his gaze on the first diagram—the "Still Water Diagram."
Although he had successfully cultivated the first twelve secret techniques of Myriad Tribulations, Myriad Tribulations did not directly point to the essence of the laws like Luo Feng's Flowing Blood. These twelve secret techniques merely helped cultivators better comprehend the laws.
Even if he thoroughly understood all eighteen secret techniques of the first level, it did not mean he fully comprehended the spatial-temporal profoundness contained within the Still Water Diagram.
"The chaos tablet is the root, Myriad Tribulations is just the branches and leaves," Qing Yu's mind was clear.
He cast aside distracting thoughts, his mental will completely immersed in that "absolutely still water surface."
Only when his mind truly merged with it did Qing Yu realize that this "stillness" was merely an illusion!
His consciousness seemed to sink into a boundless lake. The lake surface was smooth as a mirror, serene and profound, yet beneath the calm surface, undercurrents surged!
For a moment, countless spatial-temporal imageries naturally emerged in Qing Yu's mind.