The selection begins

"What if it's too weak?" Yue Shen couldn't help asking curiously.

"If it's too weak, it doesn't matter whether it agrees." The thin old man shrugged. "It'll be dragged straight over."

"Then... that's pretty pitiful."

The thin old man looked over at the other side and found that his old companion was still rambling on.

"Hmm..." After pondering for a moment, the thin old man said, "Oh, right, you only have fifteen minutes to choose. Make the most of it. Also, rather than choosing one you like, I'd recommend choosing one whose aura is closer to yours."

"Senior, could you think it over carefully? Is there anything else you've forgotten to mention?" Yue Shen asked, suddenly feeling rather unsettled.

"No." The thin old man sounded quite certain. "Now we just wait for them to start."

"Why do we have to wait for them to start first?" Yue Shen looked puzzled.

"Otherwise, that old fellow will say I'm just going through the motions again," the thin old man answered casually.

"Senior, there's something I'd like to ask you."

Since he had nothing else to do while waiting, Yue Shen took the initiative to strike up a conversation with the old man.

"Go ahead."

"Of the people who come here to draw prizes... to obtain a random magical beast as a mount, roughly how many have gotten a mount they wanted?"

Yue Shen had thought for quite a while before finding a way to express his meaning that people in this world could understand.

He was very curious about the drop rate here. Since Long Haochen could pull the God of Heavenly Retribution here, couldn't he pull, pull...

Yue Shen shook his head. He had better not casually set up any strange expectations for himself.

"Draw prizes?" The old man considered it for a moment, then said, "I like that expression."

"This place only exists to give those of you who can't find a mount a chance, so naturally, very few people obtain the mount they want." Before Yue Shen could ask, the old man explained, "That's why I think describing it as drawing prizes is quite fitting."

The old man glanced toward the other side and saw that they had already begun activating the teleportation array.

"Get ready. We're starting too," the old man said casually, though he already held the golden token in his right hand.

Before Yue Shen could react, he saw that the old man's right hand seemed to have become a limb formed entirely from light element.

Radiant Body was the signature ability of a Seventh Tier Temple Knight. It allowed them to briefly transform their bodies into light element, becoming part of it.

While in the Radiant Body state, they could instantly double the output speed of their sacred light spiritual power. The drawback was that Radiant Body could only last a very short time and would leave them weakened for a long while afterward.

Even a Seventh Tier Temple Knight with at least ten thousand spiritual power could only enter this state briefly.

However, anyone entrusted with drawing mount companions for Yue Shen and the others at the teleportation array on the Knight Sacred Mountain was naturally no one to underestimate.

Before long, the seemingly thin old man's entire body had turned a translucent, brilliant gold, becoming a figure condensed from light element.

This was the complete version of Radiant Body. Achieving this required, at the very least, a paladin at the peak of the Eighth Tier.

Yue Shen did not linger on the sight. Instead, he began concentrating on sensing the changes in the teleportation array.

At some point, the golden token in the old man's hand had risen into the air.

"Go!"

The old man lightly tapped with his index finger, and the vast light spiritual power within him poured into the golden token like a flood through an opened dam.

The next moment, the ancient elven script on the surrounding ground began glowing golden yellow, lighting up in sequence outward from Yue Shen.

"The selection is about to begin," the old man's voice sounded beside Yue Shen's ear. "Try to choose one with an aura close to yours. Of course, don't get your hopes too high. Plenty of people leave here empty-handed."

After nodding slightly to the old man in thanks, Yue Shen readied himself for the selection to begin.

Seeing that Yue Shen was ready, the old man activated the teleportation array.

Humm-

The ancient elven array beneath Yue Shen's feet seemed to ignite in an instant, erupting with an even denser aura of sacred light element.

At the same time, a power capable of warping space and time and spanning the universe began gathering within the teleportation array. A circular golden vortex opened before Yue Shen, and each speck of starlight within it was a world shrunk down to miniature size.

The selection had begun.

The countless points of starlight in the vortex dazzled Yue Shen. In the blink of an eye, he had already passed over tens of thousands of worlds.

Although he only had fifteen minutes to choose, Yue Shen was in no hurry. He was searching for a space with a powerful aura. Only a place like that could nurture powerful creatures.

By now, Yue Shen's consciousness had entered the vortex, and clusters of nebulae flew past his eyes.

After comparing them for a while, Yue Shen had roughly worked out a pattern. The larger a universe's nebula, the stronger the aura it emitted.

Soon, the largest nebula he had seen so far entered his field of view.

Without hesitation, Yue Shen selected that nebula.

When Yue Shen's consciousness entered it, he witnessed a scene that left him utterly awestruck.

If every point of light here represented a magical beast, then what he was looking at now were several points of light as large as buildings, surrounded by tiny glimmers.

Yue Shen knew he had made the right choice. He had found a world whose level of power was beyond his comprehension.

But he did not dare communicate with those building-sized points of light! If he overestimated himself and tried to contact them, his consciousness would surely be devoured.

Fortunately, the remaining points of light were already more than Yue Shen could take in or choose from. Besides, he did not have much time left to make his selection.

"Hurry," the old man's voice sounded beside Yue Shen's ear. "Maintaining contact with this plane is draining me too much. The connection will break soon."

Hearing the old man's words, Yue Shen immediately grew anxious and sped up his screening of the points of light.

Emptiness, bloodlust, fanaticism, death... Yue Shen ruled out all manner of auras as he sifted through them.

Yue Shen felt somewhat fortunate. Luckily, he had put all the free attribute points rewarded for his earlier advances to the Fourth Tier and Fifth Tier into mental power. Otherwise, he certainly would not have been able to screen them this quickly.

Yue Shen kept filtering through them. None of these points of light were what he wanted.

"Decide quickly!" The old man's voice reached his ears again. "The connection seems to have attracted the attention of a powerful being in that plane. We have to cut it off before we're discovered."

Found it! Without the slightest hesitation, Yue Shen sent the mark of an Equal Contract toward the other party.

Within Yue Shen's consciousness, this was a point of brilliant blue light, entirely different from the other points that shone with golden light.