Leaving the safe haven of Shrek Academy, where she could grow in peace, she set out on a faintly hopeful journey to save her mother!
Although the snippets of information revealed earlier through the Heavenly Screen had led people to guess that Huo Yuhao might reach this point,
when he truly set out on an unknown path for that almost imperceptible glimmer of hope, countless hearts across the continent still trembled.
Sincere feelings could always move people.
And for someone as young as Huo Yuhao to give up everything—not for himself, nor for romantic love, but for his own mother—was all the more remarkable.
On Douluo Continent, dying for love was no ancient legend, and sincere romance was not uncommon. By contrast, deep familial bonds like those between Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao were far rarer.
A mother could choose death so her child would not be coerced, and a child could give up everything to bring his mother back to life. It was heartbreaking!
Countless people lifted their heads to look at the youth on the Heavenly Screen, eager to see whether he could truly fulfill his vow.
At the same time, they hoped Huo Yuhao's efforts would be rewarded. They hoped a miracle would happen, allowing mother and son to reach a happy ending!
"Huo Yuhao is the Child of Destiny, someone Douluo Star has placed its hopes in! He has great fortune on his side. Even things like a Million Year Soul Beast sacrificing itself and a God King from a Different World possessing him could happen to him!"
"So it's possible that another miracle might happen—that Huo Yuhao finds a way to revive his mother, or even becomes a god in three years, right?"
Someone voiced this guess, full of hope and well-wishes, but no one could answer his question.
While ordinary people worried over Huo Yuhao's future, many of the continent's powerful figures focused their attention on Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao's roommate on the Heavenly Screen.
"This Wang Dong really is suspicious!"
At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Jing Hongchen stared at the Heavenly Screen and snorted. "How could someone with the Goddess of Light Butterfly Martial Soul possibly be a boy?"
Du Busi, the Body Sect Master, who was on his way to Shrek Academy, also snorted.
"Hmph. A Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul and a Goddess of Light Butterfly Martial Soul, yet they can form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with a hundred percent compatibility with the Body Martial Soul, Ling Mou?"
"I could tell something was off before. Now it looks like, just like Tang Ya, the Tang Sect master who inexplicably ran into Yuhao, this is another Hidden Hand planted by that despicable Sea God Tang San!"
Xuan Zi, who was almost back at Shrek, was also glaring and bristling with anger.
As the academy's most senior figure after Dragon God Douluo Mu En, he knew the Aura of that Trident Mark flashing across Wang Dong's brow when she lost control after reading the letter on the Heavenly Screen all too well!
"Well, well, Tang San! You treacherous scoundrel! Arranging for a Tang Ya to put a leash on Yuhao outside the Star Dou Great Forest wasn't enough, so you even went out of your way to have this little girl disguise herself as a boy and share a room with Yuhao!"
"To poach from your alma mater, you've really schemed and plotted with painstaking care! Shameless bastard! What kind of Sea God are you?! You might as well change your name to God of Conspiracy!"
With Shrek City already in sight, Xuan Zi hardened his expression and sped up the Rank 8 Flying Soul Tool he was piloting.
Today, he was going to teach that shameless Sea God a lesson!
Meanwhile, inside Shrek Academy, the Shrek High-level Officials by Sea God Lake were much calmer.
After they decided to protect Huo Yuhao, the Sea God's image had already crumbled in their eyes.
And since they were about to stand against the Sea God, Tang San's actions on the Heavenly Screen would no longer stir their emotions so easily. They would only make them more determined to join Huo Yuhao's side.
Not far from the school gates, beneath the hundred-meter-tall Seven Gods Statue, Wang Dong stared in utter shock, completely dumbfounded.
The Heavenly Screen had shown quite a few scenes of her and Huo Yuhao before, but being the close companion and roommate of a future god had only made Wang Dong feel a little honored and proud.
She had also eagerly anticipated the academy life ahead and meeting Huo Yuhao in person.
But when Wang Dong on the Heavenly Screen finished reading Huo Yuhao's letter and that Trident Mark flashed across her forehead, Wang Dong felt as if she had plunged into an icy abyss!
So the bond between her and Huo Yuhao on the Heavenly Screen—the closeness she herself had watched with longing and anticipation—had all been part of Sea God Tang San's Dog Training Plan?
And she herself was just another tool person, used to tame Huo Yuhao, just like Tang Ya?!
If that was how things were on the Heavenly Screen, what about in reality? Was her fate also in Tang San's hands, to be manipulated as he pleased, just like her counterpart on the Heavenly Screen?
"How could this happen?! How could it be like this?!"
Wang Dong clenched her fists. Her long fingers were squeezed so tightly that her knuckles turned white. Her nails even pierced her skin, and crimson blood dripped from her palm into the dust.
"Heh... Yeah. Now that I think about it, there really were so many things that didn't add up. I just never noticed any of them."
Wang Dong gave a bitter laugh and involuntarily thought back over her life.
Parents she had never seen, no memories of her early childhood, inexplicably dressing as a boy to attend school... So her life had been scripted from the very beginning.
Tears blurred her vision before she even realized it. Wang Dong lifted her head and gazed at the unyielding youth on the Heavenly Screen.
He was fighting for his mother. What, then, should she fight for?
As Wang Dong stood there blankly, wondering whether her life had any meaning, an unexpected visitor suddenly appeared in her blurred vision.
"Wasn't I looking at the Heavenly Screen? Who's flying through the air over Shrek?"
The thought had barely crossed her mind when she heard an angry roar: "Innate Evil Tang San, take a punch from this old man!"
Wang Dong jolted. Soul Power surged in her eyes, instantly evaporating the moisture, and she saw a figure with curved ox horns, as huge as a giant, streak through the sky with a tremendous Aura, like a shining meteor.
The next second, as Wang Dong stared in disbelief, a faint barrier of light suddenly lit up across the surface of the Sea God Tang San statue among the Seven Gods Statues, which had stood inside the academy for countless years.
But the protective barrier around the statue was clearly too weak. With a thunderous crash, it shattered instantly!
At the same time, the head of the Sea God Tang San statue, which had been gazing tenderly at Hyena King Douluo, exploded with a deafening blast, turning into a spray of flying stone fragments!
At that moment, Wang Dong and all the academy's students and teachers who witnessed the scene were stunned. Their minds went blank, as if a bolt of thunder had struck them out of a clear sky.
That was the Sea God Tang San statue! One of Shrek Academy's landmarks! And its head had just been smashed to pieces?!
Even if the Sea God Tang San's reputation had been ruined by the revelations on the Heavenly Screen, it was still the statue of a god!
Who would dare do such a thing?
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