Xu Tianran frowned. "State Preceptor, detonating the Beast Tide, using wolves to devour tigers, and taking the chance to destroy the Spirit Pagoda's outstanding young generation—this is indeed an excellent plan. But what if Shrek truly washes its hands of the matter?"
Xu Tianran's concerns were not unfounded. The reason Shrek was willing to stand like a massive nail at the forefront of the Star Dou Forest was because it bore the trust of the entire Douluo Continent. Even at the cost of their lives, they had to suppress the Beast Tide.
Back when the Body Sect had slaughtered Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts on a massive scale, it had triggered the Beast Tide in the Star Dou Forest. When the tide erupted, Dragon God Mu En had risked his life against Beast God Di Tian and signed an agreement forbidding humans from entering the Star Dou Forest to hunt Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. Only then had the Beast Tide been contained.
Now, barely a century had passed since that incident. If they triggered another Beast Tide and took advantage of Shrek's weakened defenses to attack the Spirit Pagoda, destroying the foundations of the Douluo Three Kingdoms, then Shrek Academy, upon learning of it, might be utterly disheartened and abandon its defense of Shrek City.
That scene...
Xu Tianran frowned. With the dozen or so Titled Douluo within Shrek Academy, if they allowed the Beast Tide to invade unchecked, all they would gain would be a mess—a world utterly destroyed by the surging Beast Tide.
Those Beasts might even organize themselves and fight all the way into the Sun Moon Empire. That was not something he wished to see.
Moreover, at that point, Shrek would not hate the Beast Tide. It would hate the Sun Moon Empire for triggering it. More than a