The voice paused for ten breaths. No one dared answer. Then it spoke again. "Very good. No one has withdrawn. It seems everyone who came this time is an outstanding talent. I look forward to seeing how you perform in the days ahead. All right, we'll now distribute Golden Core badges and storage bracelets. From now on, all notices and orders will be issued directly through the badges. All right, I'll leave you with four words: obedience and unity."
With that, the voice vanished.
Immediately afterward, countless storage bracelets and gray badges drifted down from the sky.
A storage bracelet landed exactly three feet above Xu Yi's head. He reached up and plucked it from the air.
He looked around. Nearly everyone else had received both a storage bracelet and a badge. Only a handful, like him, had already possessed a badge.
After waiting idly for about half an incense stick, the badge finally glowed. He sent his thoughts into it, and words appeared at once.
As expected, they were all rules and regulations.
The more Xu Yi read, the tighter his brows knitted.
He felt that, rather than being here as an apprentice, he had come to serve a prison sentence.
The message made things perfectly clear: for the time being, everyone's movements would be restricted to this enormous basin.
The basin was surrounded by a dense array of restrictions, there to protect everyone's safety.
For nearly seven days, all the students were required to follow the supervisors' instructions and begin building the Southern Academy of the Golden Core Academy.
It was worth noting that the message explained the three thousand students gathered here came from the seventeen southern countries.
Xu Yi had been in this world for a long time, yet he still had no clear idea of