Surround Shrek Academy, Hand Over Huo Yuhao!

Black World, Shrek Academy, Sea God Pavilion.

Mu En sat in the main seat and spoke softly.

"Although we've done everything we can to keep it hidden, word that Huo Yuhao is at Shrek Academy has probably leaked out."

"What?"

As soon as he said this, an uproar broke out among everyone attending the Sea God Pavilion Meeting.

Mu En fell silent for a moment, then sighed.

"Do you know how the information leaked out?"

"I'm afraid none of you would believe it if I told you."

His gaze swept slowly over their faces.

"Huo Yuhao had no money, so for the past few evenings, he's been setting up a grilled fish stall in Shrek City and selling grilled fish."

At Mu En's words, an eerie silence fell over the Sea God Pavilion.

"But there's one thing I can't understand."

Mu En's voice gradually grew cold.

"Why is it that I previously ordered Huo Yuhao to be given the highest level of treatment, yet you still haven't carried it out?"

"If he had money, why would he have gone out to sell grilled fish at a stall? The information wouldn't have leaked out, either."

Hearing this, both Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er looked embarrassed.

Yan Shaozhe spoke sheepishly.

"Teacher, this... it really was my fault!"

"As you know, everyone in the Martial Soul Department has been studying Soul Spirits these past few days."

"Every piece of information about Soul Spirits is a priceless treasure. I really couldn't spare anyone to handle this!"

Xian Lin'er hurriedly nodded in agreement.

"Yes, Elder Mu. Our Soul Tool Department has spent the past few days studying the principles behind those Soul Tools that appeared on the Heavenly Screen."

"An opportunity like this can't be missed; once it's gone, it won't come again!"

Hearing their excuses, Mu En said nothing. He didn't release even the slightest fluctuation of Soul Power, simply sitting quietly in the main seat.

Yet in the next instant, the conference table in front of Mu En, as hard as steel, silently turned into a pile of powder on the floor.

There weren't even any fragments; it had been reduced to dust out of thin air.

The four deans, Yan Shaozhe, Cai Mei'er, Xian Lin'er, and Qian Duoduo, all stood up in fright.

Elder Mu hadn't been truly angry in decades.

But they all knew that this time, Elder Mu was genuinely furious!

"You've given me so many excuses, but the fundamental reason is that you've treated this child as nothing more than a tool."

"You saw the value hidden within him, but after obtaining scraps of that value, you cast aside the person who created it."

"You could even put my orders out of your minds because you've spent far too long looking down from on high."

"After today, each of you will give me a handwritten self-criticism. If it isn't sufficiently thorough, then please leave Shrek Academy."

Mu En's voice was calm, but it seemed to harbor the fury of thunder.

"Yes!"

The four deans answered in unison, cold sweat already seeping down their backs.

Elder Xuan, who was still lying in his sickbed, blearily opened his eyes and asked in confusion.

"You mentioned grilled fish just now, didn't you?"

"Was it good?"

Mu En gave Elder Xuan an indifferent glance.

Then he turned his head toward Elder Zhuang, who was sitting in a corner.

"Elder Zhuang, do everything you can to heal Xuan Zi's injuries from now on. Don't let him keep eating for free like this."

Elder Zhuang was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.

"Understood!"

Mu En leaned back in his chair and slowly closed his eyes.

"Shrek Academy will soon face the greatest crisis in its history!"

"Pass down the order of the Sea God Pavilion Master!"

"All city-defense Soul Tools are to be preheated, all city-defense Soul Guidance Arrays activated, and all members of the Shrek Inspection Corps placed under wartime regulations!"

"This..."

Elder Xuan grumbled, somewhat displeased.

"Junior Granduncle, aren't you making a mountain out of a molehill?"

"Our Shrek Academy has endured for ten thousand years. What storms haven't we weathered?"

"Is all this really necessary for just one child...?"

But before Elder Xuan could finish speaking,

An incomparably terrifying fluctuation suddenly came from the direction of the outskirts of Shrek City.

Mu En's eyes snapped open, and he murmured to himself.

"It seems I was still one step too late!"

At that moment, the sky outside Shrek City had been divided into three colors: red, silver, and green.

Beneath the blood-red sky, resentful souls wailed across the land, and ghostly figures crowded together.

Zhongli Wu, leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, appeared in the sky outside Shrek City, standing on the Bone Dragon King, whose entire body was as black as ink.

Behind him, the vice-leader, Feng Ling, spread her purple phoenix wings.

More than a dozen Evil Soul Masters of elder and worshipper rank cackled wildly as they approached Shrek City.

"Shrek Academy? We wish to pay our respects to the Holy Emperor. Hurry up and let us in!"

Meanwhile, on the other side, in the silver moonlight,

Level 9 Soul Engineers of the Sun Moon Empire slowly descended from the clouds, each riding a different kind of Flying Soul Tool.

Silver Moon Douluo Kong Deming arrived outside Shrek Academy, standing on a silver disc like the moon.

"Everyone at Shrek Academy, I am Kong Deming, the Silver Moon Douluo. I have come today for just one person!"

"I hope you will accommodate me!"

Beneath the green sky were, naturally, the many experts of the Body Sect.

Powerful fluctuations of Soul Power surged around Du Busi as he walked through the air.

He watched the scene on the Ming Dou Mountain Range battlefield in the Heavenly Screen while observing Shrek City.

"Underlings, open your eyes wide and watch carefully!"

"When the fighting starts, if any of you harms a single hair on Holy Son Huo Yuhao's head, I'll skin him alive!"

With the three forces converging outside Shrek City at once, the city's defense troops immediately prepared to face a formidable enemy.

On the walls, the city-defense soldiers gripped their Soul Guidance Ray Guns tightly, their palms slick with cold sweat.

Today was the first time in their lives that they had seen so many experts at or above the Titled Douluo level, their numbers nearly reaching three digits.

The shrill sound of an alarm echoed throughout Shrek City.

A golden city-defense Soul Tool Shield activated, enveloping the entire city wall.

Inside the Sea God Pavilion, Elder Xuan was already staring slack-jawed at the sight of such a gathering.

"The Holy Spirit Cult? Illustrious Virtue Hall? The Body Sect?"

"How could they all come to attack Shrek at the same time?"

"Could it really be for just one child?"

At that moment, Mu En stood up, and an unimaginably vast fluctuation of Soul Power gradually awakened within his aged body.

"Your student is here."

"Lead all of Shrek's Titled Douluo to the walls and defend Shrek City!"

"Without my orders, you are not to leave the city to meet them in battle, nor are you to let them set foot inside Shrek City!"

"Yes!"

Yan Shaozhe's figure flashed, and he vanished from the Sea God Pavilion.

Mu En's gaze then fell on Xian Lin'er.

"Lin'er, go to Freshman Class One immediately and bring Huo Yuhao to the Sea God Pavilion."

"From now on, I will personally protect him!"