[Option Two: Enter a higher-dimensional world. All talents, cultivation, and soul accumulations from the old world will be fused and reorganized during dimensional ascension. Bonded individuals will meet again in another form in the future.]
Su Li read it once, then read it a second time.
His gaze settled on the words "meet again in another form."
"What does 'another form' mean?"
The panel offered no further explanation.
The gray mist was so still it felt as though cotton had been stuffed into the entire space.
Su Li stood where he was, his transparent feet planted on the void beneath him. He looked back and forth between the two options three times.
Stay in the original world. Return beneath the Old Locust Tree in Wading Village. Saina, Elena, and Elonore would all be there. Every entry would remain, every accumulation would remain.
But he had already walked every road there.
And the final line of Option Two stated it plainly: bonded individuals would meet again.
Su Li raised a hand.
His transparent fingertip tapped the words "Option Two."
The panel scattered into golden particles like flowing sand, then gathered again into a straight passage of white light. It extended from beneath his feet into the depths of the gray mist, its end nowhere in sight.
Su Li took his first step.
The white light was soft and warm beneath his feet, like stepping on a freshly sun-dried quilt.
Second step. Third step.
The gray mist retreated to either side, and the farther he walked, the brighter it became.
When he reached the tenth step, a sound came from the far end of the passage.
It was not a human voice. Not a beast's roar. It belonged to no creature he had ever heard in the old world.
Its