Beneath the blazing sun, the suddenly aged old man stood quietly in the silent world.
The scorching sunlight shone into Mu En's body, yet it brought him not the slightest warmth.
Shrek was gone.
Gone in every sense of the word.
The Douluo Alliance, led by Chen Fu, had announced only one thing to Shrek Academy:
Disband immediately. There would be no delay.
There had been no threat of force, nor any verbal intimidation—only a unilateral notice to Shrek Academy: dismiss its teachers and students, seal away its name, and never reopen.
If they refused, they would bear the consequences themselves.
"Come on. Stop thinking about that lousy school of yours. That so-called holy land of Soul Masters was nothing more than a fantasy bubble built upon geniuses."
Only as he watched Chen Fu's retreating figure gradually vanish into the distance alongside Di Tian did Long Xiaoyao, who had been standing silently in the air, finally speak.
"He made everyone's path clearer and simpler."
"And that Sea God blocked everyone's path. Do you know how dangerous that was for Shrek Academy, which believed in the Sea God?"
Before nearly all the continent's Titled Douluo, that man had introduced the full capabilities of the [Ascension] Soul Tool formation he had built within Shrek Academy. It was an extraordinary Soul Tool capable of dissolving Soul Bones and Soul Rings into one's body, allowing the flesh to become sacred.
As long as he had sufficient energy, that young man held a means of endlessly allowing people to advance further. No matter how unwilling those so-called "alliance members," each with their own agenda, might have been, they had no choice but to gather beneath him, willingly or otherwise, if they did not want to be left behind by the times.
In truth, being weak