Driven by the "Source of Life," numerous factions began gathering the strong experts under their command and assembling forces to head for Shrek City.
These included, but were not limited to, the Four Great Empires, the Body Sect, the Holy Spirit Cult, the Heavenly Dragon Gate, and the Proud Sword Sect. Nearly every sect that had even a little confidence in its own strength set out.
Du Busi: What? Shrek Academy's Golden Tree was actually such a treasure? Good, good, good! Since Shrek had fallen, the Body Sect would lead you all! Save the Golden Tree and return a bright, clear sky to Douluo Continent!
Zhongli Wu: The world had greatly misunderstood our Holy Spirit Cult, believing us to be evil. But were we truly evil? No, this was all filth Shrek had thrown at us! In these circumstances, our Holy Spirit Cult would step forward and bravely tell everyone that we, too, were a righteous force defending the peace of the continent!
Du, Zhong: Break the darkness with thunder!
Then the two factions each led seven or eight Titled Douluo and charged grandly toward Shrek's ruins.
Mingde Hall, representing the Sun Moon Empire, was equally unwilling to fall behind. It directly declared that only the Sun Moon Empire was the true orthodoxy of the continent, that only its Soul Tool technology could lead the progress of the age, and that the Golden Ancient Tree was destined to belong to the Sun Moon Empire. This tree was fated to be theirs!
They did not even bother putting on an act.
When Xu Tianran learned that Shrek had been blasted out of existence by Level 9 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, he nearly grinned himself silly. He had been worried sick that those stolen Level 9 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells would explode