The Masked Man had long known that Yu Jing would definitely arrive on time.
Even if something went wrong, the Masked Man could pause time and bring Yu Jing back at the appointed hour... After all, in the Masked Man's game, Yu Jing was the designated Protagonist Actor. He absolutely could not be absent.
"Sorry! I ran into a little trouble on the way."
The fusion with Fang He had caused Yu Jing's soul to drift, resulting in an error in his time calculations.
By the time the fusion ended, the clothes on his body were already in tatters. With no time to change, he immediately hurried toward the castle.
"Looks like our fellow student Yu Jing is quite the character. What an interesting young man."
The Masked Man was merely joking with Yu Jing. Some of the more relaxed disciples also laughed aloud.
"No, no! I miscalculated the time."
Yu Jing hurriedly took out a spare set of clothes from his points card. He really had not expected the fusion state to cause such a drastic change in his physique.
The Masked Man glanced at the children's watch on his wrist. "Time's up! Prepare to enter our mysterious grand lottery... First, any fellow students with fewer than 100 points, please leave!"
Without any warning, 37 of the 91 disciples present vanished in an instant.
As elites of the Second Stage of Transcendence, most of them were already in the Mid-stage Ghost Control realm and could fuse with their own ghosts.
They had actually vanished directly through an incomprehensible ability... Whether their bodies had died and their souls perished, or whether they had left the secret realm, no one could provide an answer.
"To my surprise, 54 people managed to break through the 100-point threshold. The quality of this batch