Chen Ping's gaze swept beneath the water. There, beneath the mud covering the lakebed, the Statue of Zhao Wuji lay quietly.
After spending his last Points, Chen Ping quickly obtained information about the Statue of Zhao Wuji.
Name: Statue of Zhao Wuji
Origin: A statue commissioned and built ten thousand years ago to commemorate the founding members of Shrek Academy and the first-generation Shrek Seven Devils, who defeated the Golden Generation and successively became gods. It was later pushed into the water separately.
Time Remnant: Pending inspection
Seeing this brief description, Chen Ping's spirits rose instead. He leaped into the lake, not splashing so much as a drop of water, and swam back to the Statue of Zhao Wuji like a fish.
The last time he had seen this statue of Zhao Wuji, he had still seemed to be a first-year student in Shrek Academy's Outer Courtyard. He had been forced to jump into the lake because of Ma Xiao Tao's Evil Fire Berserk.
Now that so much time had passed, he had finally reached the moment to truly unravel the mystery of the statue before him.
Reaching out to brush away the mud on the Statue of Zhao Wuji, Chen Ping directed his Spiritual Power into it.
Immediately afterward, a distorted scene of light and shadow appeared before Chen Ping, as though time had begun flowing backward at that instant.
Chen Ping knew very well that this was a Time Remnant projected by the Elf using the power of fate to reverse time across an entire small area by ten thousand years.
Soon, Chen Ping's viewpoint rose higher and higher until it emerged from the water. Before him was Shrek—no, to be precise, the cluster of buildings before Chen Ping was Spirit City.
Within Spirit City, the original sign