All Sides Receive Word: Huo Yuhao Is at Shrek Academy!

In the Black World, within the Body Sect.

"Sect Master!"

A Body Sect elder scrambled and stumbled into the great hall, holding a file aloft.

"We found him!"

"Huo Yuhao from the Heavenly Screen is at Shrek Academy. He's a first-year student this year!"

Du Busi sprang to his feet and snatched the secret report.

"Shrek Academy?!"

"Hahahaha, excellent!"

"So those old geezers in the Sea God Pavilion still wanted to keep him hidden. Did they really think our Body Sect's informants were blind?"

"Pass down my order: all Body Sect members are to set out for Shrek Academy at once!"

"A genius like him must join our Body Sect. Anyone who dares stand in our way, slaughter them all!"

In the Black World, at Illustrious Virtue Hall.

"What?!"

Jing Hongchen stared at the secret report in his hands, his eyes nearly popping out of his head.

"Huo Yuhao is at Shrek Academy, and he's a first-year student this year?"

Kong Deming snatched the secret report and read it over with painstaking care.

The next moment, he turned to Jing Hongchen and said,

"Hongchen, prepare the Flying Soul Tools at once."

"We must reach Shrek before the other factions do."

"If we're late, Huo Yuhao will belong to someone else!"

Jing Hongchen nodded vigorously, then hesitated.

"Teacher, Shrek Academy is the number one Soul Master Academy on the Douluo Continent, after all. Those old fellows in the Sea God Pavilion aren't easy to provoke..."

"Even if they aren't, we have to provoke them!"

Kong Deming glared.

"Are we going to worry about your junior brother's safety or not?"

"Our spies have already sent word. Do you think the other factions' agents are just eating for free?"

"Once Huo Yuhao's identity is completely exposed, the imperial family will be the first to come after him!"

"Besides, do you think we're the only two parties looking for him?"

"The Body Sect, the Holy Spirit Cult, and all those demons and monsters who'll come running the moment they catch a whiff..."

"This time, I'm afraid Shrek Academy is going to get lively."

In the Black World, at the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters.

"The Holy Son... we've found the Holy Son!"

An Evil Soul Master scrambled and stumbled into the great hall, his voice brimming with wild joy.

"Huo Yuhao is at Shrek Academy! The Holy Son from the Heavenly Screen is at Shrek Academy!"

Hearing the Evil Soul Master's words, Zhongli Wu rose from his throne, a sinister smile spreading across his face.

"Shrek Academy? Hahahaha!"

"Excellent! This is truly interesting!"

"The Holy Emperor our Holy Cult has worshipped for ten thousand years and the Sea God Shrek Academy has worshipped for ten thousand years are actually the same person!"

"And now, the Holy Son the Holy Emperor chose for us is right there in Shrek Academy!"

"Fate-how wonderfully indescribable!"

"Pass down the order: all Holy Cult experts of elder rank and above will accompany me to Shrek!"

"This time, not only will we bring the Holy Son back, but we'll also ask Shrek Academy in front of the whole world!"

"Are the Holy Cult and Shrek Academy one family or not?!"

The Evil Soul Masters in the great hall immediately burst into laughter.

"That's right! Shrek Academy is the home of Evil Soul Masters too. Their ancestor Tang San is the progenitor of Evil Soul Masters!"

Three days later.

In the White World, at the Ming Dou Mountain Range.

The Star Luo Empire had assembled a full five hundred thousand troops, surrounding the entire Ming Dou Mountain Range so tightly that not even water could get through.

Military camps stretched endlessly across the rolling mountains, as far as the eye could see.

The Northwest Army Group's banners snapped in the biting wind, bearing an enormous "Dai" character and a white tiger design.

Clad in white and gold armor, White Tiger Duke Dai Hao stood atop the highest main peak of the Ming Dou Mountain Range, looking in the direction of the Sun Moon Empire.

They had received word that the Sun Moon Empire seemed ready to seize the opportunity presented by Divine Punishment and launch a major attack on the Ming Dou Mountain Range!

Three days earlier, Dai Hao had ordered every detection Soul Tool along the Ming Dou Mountain Range activated.

Every watchtower had double its usual manpower, keeping watch on every movement in the direction of the Sun Moon Empire day and night!

Yet for three whole days, the detection Soul Tools had not detected so much as a single bird.

Inside the central command tent, Dai Hao's advisers and deputy generals stood in a row.

An adviser with a deer's head and a rat's eyes stepped forward with a fawning smile and began lavishing praise on Dai Hao.

"Your Grace, all living beings are equal now. Soul Masters have lost all their Soul Power, and those powerful Soul Masters of the past have all become cripples!"

"And that is precisely what highlights your formidable abilities as a battlefield commander, Your Grace!"

"There probably aren't any Soul Masters in the world who have broken past rank ten yet."

"And without Soul Rings, Soul Masters aren't much different from ordinary people."

"The Sun Moon Empire is seeking its own death this time!"

"Our Star Luo Empire has those money-burning lumps of iron too!"

"If they dare launch a major attack, we'll make sure they come but never return!"

The deputy generals around him nodded in agreement.

"That's right, that's right! His Grace commands troops like a god. What is the Sun Moon Empire worth mentioning?"

"Under Divine Punishment, everyone has become an ordinary person. What matters is who has more men and whose blades are faster!"

"With our five hundred thousand troops holding the Ming Dou Mountain Range, we can wear the Sun Moon Empire to death, even if it comes down to a war of attrition!"

Yet White Tiger Duke Dai Hao remained silent throughout.

He didn't know why, but for the past few days, an indescribable feeling had kept welling up in his heart.

It was as if he could smell death approaching!

And just then-

"Boom!!!"

An earth-shaking explosion suddenly rang out across the entire Ming Dou Mountain Range!

The blast erupted beside their ears like a thunderbolt of ten thousand forces, and the entire earth trembled violently.

Dai Hao spun around.

Then he saw a sight he would never forget for the rest of his life.

Among the dozens of peaks on the western side of the Ming Dou Mountain Range, one several hundred zhang tall collapsed with a thunderous crash amid flames that shot into the sky.

Countless boulders tumbled down and clouds of dust soared skyward. In an instant, the entire peak had been forcibly leveled!

After the peak was blasted apart, a vast, unobstructed plain lay in its place.

At the far end of the plain, on the horizon,

The Sun Moon Empire's vast, dark army pressed forward, swallowing everything in its path and blotting out the sky and earth!

The roar of Soul Tool battle vehicles, the metallic scrape of mecha joints, and the hum of Soul Cannons charging

Interwove into a symphony of death!

In the central command tent, a deputy general scrambled and stumbled inside, his voice filled with terror.

"Report!"

"Your Grace, White Tiger Peak... White Tiger Peak has been blasted flat!"

"The Sun Moon Empire's army has appeared on the plain!"

White Tiger Duke Dai Hao cried out in shock.

"What did you say that peak was called?!"

"White Tiger Peak!"

A dazed look appeared on Dai Hao's face. His gaze passed through the dust rising into the sky and fell on the Sun Moon Empire's dark mass of troops.

Finally, it settled on the dark figure at the very front of the formation, atop a blood-red tower.

The great battle was on the verge of eruption!