Balak Kingdom, Lima Plain.
"Buzz—!!"
A sudden, violent pain lanced through his head. Lin Ziyi, hunched over like a shrimp, abruptly opened his eyes!
A fierce gust swept over him, fine grains of sand scraping across his face and bringing sharp pain with them!
"Where am I...?"
Lin Ziyi sat up and stared blankly at the vast plain around him. A tender green blade of grass beside his hand looked especially glaring.
Hadn't he been grinding away at the new Douluo mobile game? Why had everything suddenly gone black before he ended up in a place like this?
Lin Ziyi rose to his feet and looked across the boundless surroundings, noticing a pass in the distance as majestic as the Great Wall!
Unlike the Great Wall's weathered earthen-yellow walls, the outer walls of this pass were silvery white.
The fortress at its center resembled a medieval castle, its pointed towers carrying a distinctly Gothic flair!
Looking at this architecture he had never seen in reality, Lin Ziyi's face was filled with confusion.
Just as he wondered whether he was dreaming in broad daylight, a light, pleasant young woman's voice suddenly sounded in his mind:
Ding—The Myriad Worlds Auction System has been activated!! Beginning host binding... Binding successful!! Congratulations, Host, you have received a beginner's gift pack!
Hearing that strange female voice in his head, Lin Ziyi immediately frowned!
What the hell!
Could it be that, like the protagonists in those novels... he had somehow transmigrated to another world?
Why did this have to happen?!
He had only wanted to be a college student who started classes at eight and finished at eight. He had only wanted to get close to pretty senior and junior girls...
He didn't want to come to this unfamiliar world, adapt to an unfamiliar environment, and get beaten up by unfamiliar people...
Lin Ziyi sighed dejectedly, yet quickly accepted reality.
"System, can I return to my original world?"
Yes. However, the Host in the original world has already died from overwork. Only by becoming a god of this world will you have a chance to return to your original world.
"So that's how it is..." Lin Ziyi stroked his incomparably handsome chin. "Then what world is this?"
The system paused before suddenly answering in a resounding voice:
Douluo Continent!!
Lin Ziyi's eyes instantly lit up!
He had always been quite fond of Douluo Continent. Otherwise, he wouldn't have played the Douluo mobile game until he dropped dead!
Since it was a world he liked, making an effort to adapt wasn't impossible...
"System, open the beginner's gift pack!" Lin Ziyi ordered coldly.
Ding—The beginner's gift pack has been opened!! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a Misty Auction House! You have obtained a god-tier martial soul—the Myriad Heavens Auction Hammer!! Misty Auction House—Current level: 1. Current number of people who may participate in auctions: 10. Completing one full auction will raise it by one level. Myriad Heavens Auction Hammer: God-tier martial soul. Its level will increase by one after each completed auction. Current level: 0.
After hearing the system's introduction, Lin Ziyi scratched his pectoral muscles, a thoughtful expression appearing on his face.
His system was called the "Myriad Worlds Auction System." Did that mean all kinds of things from every world could be auctioned off?
The "Misty Auction House" was clearly the auction venue given to him by the system. What it was actually like still needed further exploration.
As for the god-tier martial soul, the Myriad Heavens Auction Hammer... Lin Ziyi hadn't expected his martial soul to be a hammer used for auctions.
Just what qualified this thing to be defined as "god-tier"?
While Lin Ziyi was still pondering, the drawbridge of the distant pass suddenly descended with a creak.
A cavalry unit of no fewer than twenty people, dressed in light armor, charged fiercely in his direction!
Feeling the earth tremble, Lin Ziyi couldn't help but panic!
Before he had even figured out where exactly he was on Douluo Continent, he had encountered such a hostile army!
This was definitely not a good thing!
Seeing the light cavalry draw ever closer and the ground shake more violently, Lin Ziyi hurriedly shouted in his heart:
"System, get me into the Misty Auction House, now!"
The moment the thought arose, endless black mist, dark as ink, suddenly seeped from the surface of Lin Ziyi's skin and completely swallowed him in an instant!
The black mist suddenly contracted until it vanished! Lin Ziyi's figure disappeared from the empty plain as well...
When the cavalrymen reached the spot where Lin Ziyi had just been standing, they all stopped in bewilderment.
The middle-aged general at their head, whose muscles were as sturdy as armor, stared at the empty ground with his thick brows deeply furrowed.
Where had that huge living person gone? How had he suddenly disappeared?!
If he wasn't mistaken, the other party was definitely a noble soul master, and his rank certainly wasn't low!
Could he be... a spy sent by Spirit Hall?!
With that thought, the middle-aged general immediately returned to the pass with a solemn expression.
Lin Ziyi only felt his vision blur. His sight swayed from side to side, his body bobbed up and down, and his consciousness seemed to sink into chaos, drifting in a hazy void!
Only after the strange black mist around him dispersed did his body finally stabilize and his mind regain clarity.
Looking around, Lin Ziyi discovered that he was standing within a special space shrouded in black mist.
Not far away in every direction was a vast darkness that even the naked eye could not penetrate. Like dense storm clouds, it constantly expanded and contracted, giving off an eerie aura!
The only visible area was a radius of nearly twenty meters centered on him.
Beneath his feet was a circular platform ten meters in diameter, raised one meter above the surrounding ground.
Its surface was carved with complex, mysterious patterns resembling crop circles.
Ten red wooden chairs had been placed around the venue, each seat engraved with a black number from one to ten.
These simple props formed a small auction stage!
Lin Ziyi did not mind the venue's simplicity. After all, the venue could be continuously upgraded as auctions were completed.
What interested him now was the mysterious black mist surrounding him!
He clearly remembered similar black mist surging from his skin earlier and wrapping around his entire body!
By the time he came back to his senses, he had already arrived here...
Lin Ziyi jumped down from the raised platform and walked straight to the edge of the mist.
The constantly churning black mist resembled a wall of black clouds, bringing Lin Ziyi an obvious sense of oppression.
Just as he reached out to touch it, a blurry human face suddenly bulged from within the black mist!
Lin Ziyi was so frightened that he hurriedly stumbled back two steps, his face pale as he collapsed onto the ground!
Watching the face gradually recede into the black mist, Lin Ziyi could clearly hear his heart pounding wildly in his chest!
What terrifying thing was hidden within this black mist?
Wasn't he supposed to be the master of this Misty Auction House? Why did this mist seem to reject him?
Was it because he was too weak, and therefore unqualified to touch secrets of a higher level?
Thinking that might be the reason, a trace of anger surged in Lin Ziyi's heart. He immediately returned to the circular auction stage.
"System, prepare the first auction for me!"
The system immediately responded in a sweet, pleasant voice:
Preparing the auction—Preparation complete! Suitable bidders are being matched according to this auction item!
At the mention of the auction item, Lin Ziyi took the opportunity to ask while the system matched candidates, "System, what exactly is being auctioned?"
Auction items come from the myriad worlds and are generated at random! Suitable bidders have now been successfully matched! The bidders are entering the Misty Auction House—Entry successful! The first auction is about to begin!!
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