Zodiac Temple, Was Shrek the Target?

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm couldn't help shuddering. "Where did you come from? You dare fight me for territory?"

Huo Yuhao was even more shaken.

Leaving aside the senior who had just saved him, what was going on with this worm and the gray ball of light that had appeared in his mind?

Electrolux ignored the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. He too was secretly surprised: the waters of this plane he had come to seemed deep.

He spoke to Huo Yuhao.

"Little fellow, my name is Electrolux. I'm staying in your Sea of Consciousness for the time being."

"Judging by the traces left on you, it seems you just met an extraordinary person too."

"My name is Huo Yuhao!"

After they talked,

Huo Yuhao also understood that, as he was now, he had no ability to resist either the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm or Electrolux.

Yet what concerned him most wasn't the two of them, but the letter the horse-headed senior had left him.

He opened the envelope in his hand and found that it contained a letter of recommendation to Shrek Academy.

He had long heard of Shrek Academy's great reputation. If he studied there, he might have a chance to avenge his mother one day.

At that thought, a flicker of joy passed through his heart.

Besides, that senior might be a teacher or elder at Shrek Academy.

But no matter what, he, Huo Yuhao, would repay the life-saving kindness with a gushing spring.

Only after examining the letter did he have time to learn about his Soul Ring and Soul Skills.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm couldn't help grumbling.

"I'm a one-of-a-kind Wisdom Soul Ring. I gave you a Million-Year Soul Ring as your First Soul Ring, along with four Soul Skills, and I can even give you a Second Martial Soul."

"And yet, in your eyes, I'm not even worth a letter."

"Aah! You're driving your Brother Sky Dream mad!"

When he understood that he had unexpectedly obtained four Soul Skills and a million-year First Soul Ring, and even a Second Martial Soul, his heart couldn't help pounding.

It all felt like a dream.

He hid the envelope from the man in the horse-head mask and prepared to leave.

Just then, two familiar figures appeared, accompanied by familiar voices.

"Teacher Xiao Ya, slow down. Don't be too careless. Even the outer area is very dangerous."

A steady voice rang out.

"Oh, Bei Bei, what did you call me? You have to call me Teacher Xiao Ya. There were definitely sounds of fighting here just now. Maybe there's a rare Soul Beast or something?"

With a rustle, the bushes were pushed aside, and Huo Yuhao saw Tang Ya and Bei Bei, whom he had met once before.

Tang Ya and Bei Bei were also surprised to see Huo Yuhao, the skilled grilled-fish cook.

Tang Ya looked with surprise at the Wind Baboon's corpse beside Huo Yuhao.

"Little Brother Yuhao, did you successfully hunt this Wind Baboon for your First Soul Ring?"

Bei Bei couldn't help feeling regret. With only a white Soul Ring as his First Soul Ring, Little Yuhao's future achievements would probably be limited.

Huo Yuhao scratched his head. He couldn't very well say his First Soul Ring was a Million-Year Soul Ring, could he?

That would be a little too inhuman.

He asked curiously, "Sister Tang Ya, is that the Shrek Academy emblem you're wearing?"

Hearing this, Tang Ya immediately imagined that Huo Yuhao yearned to join Shrek Academy. She said proudly,

"I'm a disciple of Shrek Academy's outer academy, and so is Bei Bei. He's even one of the outer academy's twin stars."

Hearing Xiao Ya praise him, Bei Bei couldn't help puffing out his chest, his heart brimming with delight.

As he saw it, there were plenty of little Soul Masters like Little Yuhao who admired Shrek Academy.

But Little Yuhao probably couldn't join Shrek Academy. After all, Shrek Academy didn't accept disciples with such low Soul Power.

Huo Yuhao, however, asked nothing of the sort.

His eyes lit up, and he said,

"Then may I ask, is there a teacher at Shrek Academy who wears a black robe and a horse-head mask?"

Tang Ya and Bei Bei exchanged a glance, both utterly baffled.

Since when did the academy have a teacher like that?

How come they didn't know?

As far as they remembered, the academy's most famous healing-type Soul Master should have been Elder Zhuang Yusen, who possessed the Tree of Life Martial Soul. Who on earth was this horse-head-mask teacher?

Tang Ya questioned him closely, asking, "What did the horse-head mask look like?"

Huo Yuhao described what he had seen.

Bei Bei, who had looked composed, froze.

Tang Ya sucked in a sharp breath.

"Little Yuhao, are you sure what you said is true? The horse-head mask looked like that?"

"He was dressed in a black robe. Was there a horse embroidered on it too?"

Huo Yuhao thought back.

Now that his mental and physical strength had recovered, he recalled the details and nodded.

"Yes. How did you know, Sister Tang Ya?"

Huo Yuhao had thought he had found the right people, but the next moment, Tang Ya's expression grew tense.

"Little Yuhao, tell me honestly, did you really just see that horse-headed man?"

"He didn't do anything to you, did he?"

Bei Bei's expression had also turned grave, and he went on guard. He said,

"Little Yuhao, you might not know this, but the man in the horse-head mask you just mentioned definitely isn't one of our Shrek teachers."

"He's very likely a core member of the mysterious Zodiac Temple, codenamed Wu Horse."

Huo Yuhao shook his head blankly. The Zodiac Temple?

At the Duke's Mansion, he had been cut off from news and had never heard of such a force.

Tang Ya patted her chest and gestured dramatically.

"Bei Bei's putting it mildly. Mysterious? They're extremely dangerous!"

"That whole group is practically made up of monsters."

"They say the Zodiac Temple has twelve codenames in all. Every one of them has miraculous powers, and even ordinary Titled Douluo are no match for them."

"But we only have information on a few of them."

"Still, there's no doubt they're extremely dangerous."

Tang Ya said,

"No one can figure out what that organization wants to do. They're both righteous and evil."

"Whether you're on the righteous path or an Evil Soul Master on the wicked path, you could end up getting a vicious beating from them."

"Even Shrek's Inspection Corps can't uncover their background."

"And Wu Horse is known as the Zodiac Temple's supreme healing-type Soul Master. They say that as long as a person has one breath left, he can snatch them back from the god of death."

Hearing Tang Ya's description, Huo Yuhao recalled how he had just come back to life at the brink of death.

He thought Tang Ya was half right. Senior Wu Horse did indeed have that ability.

But in response to her guarded view that Wu Horse was a bad person, he spoke up in his defense.

"But Sister Tang Ya, Senior Wu Horse just treated me!"

"The Wind Baboon badly injured me, and he was the one who healed me. I think he's a good person."

Electrolux was known as the Holy Necromancer. If he wished, he could become the god of death.

As he saw it, the claim that this Wu Horse could snatch people from the god of death's hands was no exaggeration at all.

Bei Bei shook his head with a wry smile and said,

"A good person? Little Brother Yuhao, you're too naive."

"The people of the Zodiac Temple are fickle. They act entirely on their own whims."

"They may have saved you on a whim, but you absolutely mustn't think they're good people because of that."

"To a certain extent, they're even more fearsome than Evil Soul Masters."

Huo Yuhao opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to argue back.

Just then, Electrolux's voice sounded calmly.

"Little fellow, fearing the strong is human instinct."

"But how should you judge a person's true nature? You should use your heart and your will to judge."

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm chimed in, "Exactly, exactly! I thought that power was incredibly cool too!"

Just then, Tang Ya suddenly remembered something terrifying.

"Wait, Bei Bei."

"Wu Horse showed up here. Could his target be our Shrek Academy?"

At those words, Bei Bei was stunned.

The Zodiac Temple's target was Shrek? How dare they?