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The apprentices huddled in groups of three or four, squatting against the walls. Li Yuan sat hunched over his bowl in a corner, his shoulders aching from fatigue as he ate the steamed buns. A bitter feeling welled up within him.,Here's the translation, keeping the HTML tags as you requested:,He didn't think that any kind of initiation ceremony could cause him to travel through time, but besides this, he couldn't really think of any other possibilities.。