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[Little Noble: Yes, the Body Sect is a great choice! Across the entire continent, where could be better suited to developing a Body Martial Soul than the Body Sect?]
Acting on Mu En's instructions, Zhang Lexuan started the group push and immediately joined in.
Anywhere was fine, as long as he didn't come to Shrek right now.
If he came six years later, that would be fate and destiny. With six years to develop and make preparations, taking in a Child of Luck wouldn't necessarily be impossible.
But now? The farther away, the better!
Seeing this, Jing Hongchen didn't keep targeting Shrek either. As long as the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy wasn't the one being attacked, it made no difference to him whether it was Shrek or the Body Sect.
In fact, the Body Sect was even better!
After all, no matter how deranged God King Tang was, he couldn't possibly destroy Shrek Academy. He still had to keep the signboard hanging.
Only with a completely unfamiliar force could they see God King Tang's attitude.
So Jing Hongchen joined the push too.
[Soul Engineer: Indeed. If we're really comparing them, the Body Sect is better than Shrek Academy. The only difficulty is finding them...]
[Little Noble: I still have some connections in the Heavenly Soul Empire. Getting in touch with the Body Sect's disciples won't be a problem!]
Shen Yichen chuckled. Sister Lexuan was sparing no effort to send the trouble away...
[Cloud: Many thanks to the three of you for your help. I believe Yuhao will repay you in the future.]
By unspoken agreement, none of them named Cloud's identity or discussed in the comments how they would contact one another.
Clearly, both Huo Yun'er and Zhang Lexuan were on guard against Jing Hongchen.
Since Jing Hongchen had laid out the fact that the Sun Moon Empire stood in opposition to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, he had to accept being divided from the others and excluded.
The Anti-Tang San Alliance hadn't even started, and a good chunk of it had already fallen apart~
Oh, crap!
Shen Yichen was happy to watch the chaos grow. Huo Yun'er had already been exposed. If God King Tang learned she was taking Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect, would he descend in person as a deus ex machina?
People always said that to do well in this era of "Peerless Tang Sect," you needed an assist from Destruction God King.
But... Destruction God King wouldn't do either.
The sense of security Destruction God King provided couldn't compare to even the slightest bit of what the Golden Cudgel in his hand offered!
So... Huo Yun'er, can you still survive?
White Tiger Duke's Mansion
Huo Yun'er stroked Huo Yuhao's little head, thinking for a long, long time.
At last, she made up her mind.
For Yuhao's sake, she would leave the White Tiger Duke's Mansion!
Shen Yichen's surreptitious analysis of Huo Yun'er had been almost entirely correct. The only thing he got wrong was that she really did love the White Tiger Duke, Dai Hao!
More than once, she had imagined Brother Hao coming home and seeing her in her frail state and their child. Their lives would surely undergo an earth-shaking change...
Why else would anyone call this the Douluo Continent where the God of Love had fallen?
You could question every scheme and plot, but never question a lovestruck fool. The outrageous things they could do were simply because they'd fallen under the 'Love Gu'.
Huo Yun'er hadn't chosen to leave because she had escaped the 'Love Gu', either. She had merely tucked it away. As long as Yuhao became a god, she could be resurrected even if she died, and could even live with Brother Hao for all eternity!
[Current Affairs Review Check-In completed. Reward obtained: Soul Power Level +1]
A one-level increase in Soul Power was certainly nice, but one level of Huo Yun'er's Soul Power was a far cry from one level of Zhang Lexuan's.
"Yuhao, how about Mommy takes you away from here?"
"Really?!" Huo Yuhao's eyes flew wide open. He couldn't yet understand the twists and turns of adult affairs. All he knew was that he wasn't happy living here, so leaving had to be a good thing!
"Mm, really."
It seemed she would have to teach Yuhao right from wrong herself from now on! She absolutely couldn't let Yuhao become Tang San's dog like he did in the Diary's records!
Huo Yun'er didn't take long to get ready to leave and packed up their belongings.
Zhang Lexuan, or rather Mu En, was much more cautious.
The two of them did their best to minimize any trace of themselves and Shrek in the matter. They spent an entire day finding quite a few intermediaries, linking one to the next, before quietly passing word of Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect.
What happened next unfolded just as everyone expected. The Body Sect sent a Soul Douluo, who charged into the White Tiger Duke's Mansion under the banner of bringing family home and left with Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao, paying no one in the mansion any heed.
Both Mu En and Jing Hongchen were keeping an eye on Huo Yuhao joining the Body Sect.
By the time Huo Yuhao entered the Body Sect's territory, nothing untoward had happened.
So... what was God King Tang doing?
He was watching helplessly from the Divine Realm!
One day in heaven was one year on earth.
Even though he had been keeping his eyes on Huo Yuhao, he hadn't reacted in time when it happened.
The Body Sect, Shrek, and Huo Yun'er had all made their decisions too quickly and suddenly. Even if he had told Da Ming and Er Ming to come out, they wouldn't have made it in time to intercept Huo Yuhao on the way.
He could have had Da Ming and Er Ming charge into the Body Sect Gate and cause trouble, but... what was the point?
The Body Sect was no soft persimmon, and Huo Yuhao, who lacked love, couldn't possibly leave after entering the Body Sect's big family, which was full of love.
More importantly, Tang San didn't know whether this was the Plane Consciousness retaliating against him for manipulating luck!
All Tang San could do was simmer in silence.
Divine Realm
Tang San could barely keep the look of complete control on his face.
Ever since the heavenly secrets had fallen into chaos, he felt that everything had gone wrong!
The Tang Sect was on the verge of collapse, and Shrek had exploded too. Just as he was about to see what had happened at Shrek, the Child of Luck had run off to the Body Sect.
Compared to the Child of Luck, what had happened at Shrek wasn't so important. Shrek was a great and well-established institution, so nothing much could happen to it in the short term.
"I need to send Xiao Qi down to the lower realm quickly. And it's time for the Clear Sky Sect to make a move too..."
Tang San had never suspected that Huo Yuhao's entry into the Body Sect had been caused by human interference. As a God King, he had long since stopped letting his gaze linger on ants.
Now that things had come to this, he could only take one step at a time...
The continent was peaceful and calm.
A maid and an illegitimate son had left the White Tiger Duke's Mansion. Such a thing was like a pebble tossed into Sea God Lake; there was no need to deliberately cover it up, and no word of it got out.
The topic still on the 'trending searches' was the reconstruction of Shrek Academy.
Sometimes, no news getting out was news in itself.
After finishing a day of meditation, Shen Yichen surveyed his territory like a lion.
The days he had spent eating and living with his eldest senior sister were finally coming to an end, because... Xuan Zi had hurried back with news of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!
Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts each had their own territory, so this time, Xuan Zi had needed only three days to find one suitable for Zhang Lexuan.
Then...
Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Xian Lin'er hurriedly took Zhang Lexuan to the Star Dou Great Forest.
After wandering around the academy for half the day, he hadn't seen his teacher. Presumably, Mu En had also quietly followed behind the group as backup.
With that lineup, taking down a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would be a sure thing!
If things still went wrong, then Xuan Zi really would be an even worse harbinger of disaster than that Heavenly Fiend Lone Star of the Star Luo Empire!