Unlike the previous teleportations, this one felt particularly unusual.
The earlier teleportations had all seemed to be completed in an instant, but this one felt extraordinarily long.
It was as if they were standing aboard a train traveling at the speed of light, hurtling through time at a velocity unimaginable to ordinary people.
Everywhere they looked was a blur of fleeting light and shadow.
Ancient Stars flared and vanished around them at an unbelievable speed, while countless worlds merged into a shimmering ribbon of Light and Shadow beneath that extreme velocity.
East Sea Dust, Worldly Changes.
Lonely Night, Burning Day.
In the end, when everything around them had completely faded away, Bai Zhi found that they had arrived somewhere quite peculiar.
—It was a desolate street shrouded in thick mist.
As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but a vast expanse of white. The fourteen of them stood by the roadside, while the orange lights cast by a nearby streetlamp provided a temporary shelter.
It was as if the entire world contained only them and that streetlamp.
"The Preliminary Selection is over, so this is the elimination round?"
Turning his head to look around, Hei Ye Piao Luo seemed somewhat surprised.
"Let's wait for the system notification."
Bai Zhi looked up at the sky, which was likewise heavily obscured by White Mist, his expression thoughtful.
With a Preliminary Selection, there would naturally be a main competition as well. The only question was what kind of format that main competition would take.
If the Preliminary Selection had been meant to teach Players how to properly use and spend Experience Points, then what purpose would this main competition serve?
Just as Bai Zhi was pondering this, a System Prompt appeared before all of them.
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[The Preliminary Selection phase