"Oh? Sect Master Ning, this is one of your Heaven Dou Empire's teams, isn't it?" Bibi Dong turned toward Ning Fengzhi and asked with a faint, ambiguous smile.
Shrek Academy had long since been blacklisted by the Heaven Dou Empire's other teams. Naturally, Ning Fengzhi would not step forward to vouch for them.
Ning Fengzhi said calmly, "Shrek Academy is indeed a team from the Heaven Dou Empire, but that is all. Their actions were neither ordered by the empire nor arranged by me. They acted entirely on their own."
"If they have violated Spirit Hall's laws, their punishment is entirely at Your Holiness's discretion."
Ning Fengzhi spoke at a moderate volume, but with Sword Douluo's soul power screening their conversation, no one outside could hear a word.
"Oh, then it seems I wrongly blamed you, Sect Master Ning." As she spoke, Bibi Dong turned her gaze back to the Shrek Seven Devils, especially Tang San. "You are quite right. Spirit Hall has no law explicitly requiring anyone to kneel before This Seat."
Tang San breathed a slight sigh of relief. At least Spirit Hall could not use that as grounds to make trouble for them.
But then Bibi Dong changed tack, her eyes turning much colder. "However, you dared turn a deaf ear to This Seat's authority. Then do not blame This Seat for showing you no mercy!"
"This Seat will give you five breaths to decide. Will you kneel, or oppose This Seat to the bitter end?"
Bibi Dong had made such a grand display precisely to proclaim her authority to the world.
In the original timeline, before Yu Xiaogang had utterly broken her heart, she might have let the Shrek Members off the hook. But now, Shrek Academy was the "chicken" she would kill to warn the