"Lexuan, come here."
After completing her mission, Zhang Lexuan had barely entered the gates of Shrek Academy when an aged, gentle voice sounded by her ear.
"Yes, Elder Mu!" Zhang Lexuan bowed slightly. After retrieving the ashes left behind when the strange middle-aged man had self-immolated and vanished, which Han Ruoruo had kept, she headed toward the freshmen dormitory building.
Before long, Zhang Lexuan arrived beneath the dormitory building and stood before the old man.
Sunlight fell across Mu En's face. He slightly opened his eyes, and only beneath the sunlight did his dim pupils reveal a faint glimmer. Yet it could not conceal the flame of life within him, which seemed liable to go out at any moment.
"How did the investigation go?" Mu En asked gently as he looked at the graceful Zhang Lexuan before him.
"We found nothing." Zhang Lexuan gently shook her head and handed the collected ashes to Mu En. "Following numerous clues, we found someone selling books, but we didn't obtain any useful information from him."
"After we surrounded him, he said some very strange things. In the end, his entire body turned into ashes like these in the box."
"Strange things?" Mu En murmured softly. He slowly opened the box in his hand. As he looked at the ashes inside, his gaze brightened considerably, and a trace of sharpness silently flashed through his eyes.
The moment Mu En saw Zhang Lexuan, he had sensed a strange aura lingering on her. Only after opening this box did he find the source of that aura.
"Yes. He said, 'The plan to destroy Shrek was devised by that lord.' He also said that Shrek was another Spirit Hall and would eventually be destroyed. A new order would be established upon Shrek's ruins, guiding people to believe