Chapter 1194: You don't want to be a maggot in a stinking gutter, do you?

"Can I have them all?"

Inside the City Lord's residence, Fang Yu spoke to the black-robed envoy.

"You want them all? Then choose one Chaos Monument first. I know you've already cleared eight levels on the Sky-Reaching Bridge. For every additional level you clear, the time you can spend comprehending the Chaos Monument will be extended."

The black-robed envoy seemed not to have expected Fang Yu to say such a thing. After a moment's thought, he laughed and said.

If the person before him had been an ordinary genius, he would surely have told him not to overreach. But from the news transmitted through the Sky-Reaching Bridge, this peerless genius named Fang Yu had cleared the eighth level of the Sky-Reaching Bridge within a single day. So perhaps he really could comprehend the other Chaos Monuments.

"Alright, then I'll choose the Nine Universes Chaos Monument first."

Fang Yu said.

"Come, your luck is good. Right now there is no one else comprehending within the Nine Universes Chaos Monument."

The black-robed envoy led Fang Yu forward through a corridor roughly 60 meters wide and 120 meters tall. On either side of the corridor stood towering bronze-colored gates, each bronze giant door about 160 meters long and 120 meters high, every bronze gate bearing ancient, austere inscriptions.

Mother Ancestor, Giant Axe, Dragon Stride, and so on…

And before each of these bronze gates stood a kindly-faced old man. These old men all looked identical—clearly they were clones of a single elder.

"There are fifty-two gates here in total, each the entrance to one of the fifty-two Chaos Monument cultivation chambers. Just ahead is the cultivation chamber door for the 'Nine Universes Chaos Monument.' If you truly can comprehend this Chaos Monument to an extremely profound level, you may go comprehend the others."

The black-robed envoy said with a smile.

Fang Yu looked at the ancient bronze gate, which had existed for over a hundred million years, and saw two universal cosmic characters upon it: Nine Universes. Before this bronze gate stood yet another clone of the elder, and at the brow of this elder was a vertical eye.

"Lord Candri."

The black-robed envoy bowed and said.

"Mm."

The three-eyed elder smiled as he looked at Fang Yu before him. "A little fellow specially recruited by the Virtual Universe Company?"

"Yes, his name is Fang Yu, a peerless genius who has comprehended both the Law of Space and the Law of Time. He has already cleared eight levels on the Sky-Reaching Bridge."

The black-robed envoy spoke with utmost reverence, then turned to look at Fang Yu. "This is Lord Candri, the guardian of the Chaos Monument cultivation chambers. The figures before all fifty-two Chaos Monument cultivation chambers are Lord Candri's clones. He has guarded these fifty-two chambers for over a million eons, and is a respected powerhouse within our Chaos City."

"A million eons!"

Fang Yu's gaze fell upon the seemingly ordinary three-eyed elder before him. Although one eon in this world was only 10,081 years, to have guarded these chambers for over a million eons meant this person had existed for 10,081,000,000 years—over ten billion years. Placed within the Eternal Life Realm, that was longer than many Void Immortals or True Immortals had existed. Even the Three Saints of the Yuhua Sect were nowhere near as long-lived as this one.

Of course, living long did not necessarily mean greater strength than those who had lived shorter lives. Take Exalted Linglong, for instance—she had only lived four thousand years, yet she was already at the peak of True Immortal, and could ascend to Heavenly Immortal at any moment, capable of thrashing True Immortals who had lived far longer.

"So you're Fang Yu? I've heard your name. Seeing a little fellow like you, I seem to glimpse the hope of the human race. Go in, little fellow—don't disappoint us."

Candri smiled and nodded, his gaze sizing up Fang Yu, exceedingly affable.

"Yes."

Boom—boom—boom~~~

The entire bronze gate began to slowly open. Within the cultivation chamber, Chaos Qi swirled. Fang Yu stepped straight in, arriving within the Nine Universes cultivation chamber.