Shrek Academy's gathered higher-ups stared at one another.
The several scenes that the Watcher skimmed through while speaking within the Heavenly Screen were basically very brief.
An ordinary person might have missed them without even seeing clearly in the blink of an eye, but these powerful individuals could clearly see the contents and even the details of every scene.
Yet precisely because of that, they found it somewhat difficult to believe what they had seen.
"Are these... so-called different futures actually real?" Shrek City Lord, Time Douluo Shi Xing, asked hesitantly.
"Given the power of that Watcher who created the Heavenly Screen, he has no need to deceive us. They should be real." Divine Eagle Douluo Elder Song also spoke with some hesitation.
Yan Shaozhe, the Martial Soul Department Dean of Shrek, frowned. "But according to the situation ten thousand years ago with Ancestor Tang San and the others, becoming a god could at most allow one person to ascend, right?"
"Even Xiaotao's Ancestor, that Phoenix God, couldn't bring her Lover to the Divine Realm..."
"But in several of the scenes I just saw, most of the Sea God Pavilion's members ascended together with him. There were also several students and some people I didn't recognize. How could he bring so many people to godhood? That's absurd!"
Nearby, Xian Lin'er let out a cold laugh. "Hmph, you're only saying that because the people who ascended didn't include you, aren't you? What's wrong with our Shrek children being a little more outstanding? Haven't you heard that the student can surpass the master?"
Seeing her husband get verbally attacked, Cai Mei'er hurriedly said, "I think the most urgent matter isn't arguing about this, but going to the White Tiger Duke Mansion to look for clues about this child and bringing him to the academy for training as soon as possible!"
"Well said!" Xuan Zi wiped the grease from his mouth and said coldly, "The scenes just now also included That Child ascending with the Body Sect and even those black devils from the Sun Moon Empire."
"Judging from how That Child always brought a group of people to godhood in the scenes, he must be a good child who repays kindness. We can't let those assorted outside forces ruin him!"
As he spoke, Xuan Zi took a swig of wine and said imposingly, "Only our Shrek Academy is That Child's home! If the Heavenly Screen shows different futures, then we will definitely turn them into the future we want!"
"The previous generation of gods came from Shrek, laying the foundation for the academy's glory over ten thousand years. The gods of this generation will surely also come from Shrek and continue the academy's immortality for another ten thousand years!"
"Old Man Mu, what do you think?"
Mu En was silent for a moment before saying thoughtfully, "If That Child is still in the White Tiger Duke Mansion, it will probably be too late to go there now. The Star Luo side will definitely get to him first and take him away."
"Hmph, if That Child is taken away first by the Star Luo Royal Family, I'll make them hand him over obediently!" Xuan Zi snorted coldly.
Elder Song said pensively, "Judging from the Heavenly Screen, That Child didn't live well in the White Tiger Duke Mansion. And the White Tiger Duchess is part of the Star Luo Royal Family, so the Star Luo Royal Family and That Child already have a rift between them."
"We haven't even met him yet, so analyzing all this is useless. I'll make a trip to the White Tiger Duke Mansion first. If That Child isn't there, we'll mobilize our forces to search the entire continent. We'll find him eventually!"
Xuan Zi impatiently dropped the chicken bone in his hand, shot into the sky, and quickly vanished over the horizon.
At the same time, inside the White Tiger Duke Mansion, the White Tiger Duchess watched the scenes in the Heavenly Screen with an ugly expression, viciousness and fear flickering in her eyes.
Although the name had changed from Dai Yuhao to Huo Yuhao, she recognized at a glance the child and woman in the Heavenly Screen—the child whom her younger son had ordered servants to beat.
"Where are that slut and that little bastard? Go grab them for me... No! Just kill them! Kill them immediately!"
Under the crushing pressure of fear, the White Tiger Duchess quickly thought of a solution.
If that boy truly grew up—or even if he didn't need to grow up, as long as he joined some major force—then she and her son would definitely meet a terrible end!
Even her husband, her maternal family, those royal relatives, and the Emperor would probably be more than happy to exchange her and her two sons' lives for that little bastard's "forgiveness," all for the chance to seek an opportunity to go to the Divine Realm and gain eternal life!
Therefore, the only chance of survival for her and her son was to kill that mother and son as quickly as possible, before the people from those major forces arrived!
The dead could not become gods, and no one would generally avenge a stranger who had lost all value. Only then could she stay alive. Even if her life afterward would certainly be miserable, it was still better than dying!
But the servant's reply plunged her into despair.
"Duchess, they left more than half a month ago..."
The White Tiger Duchess could no longer hear what the servant said afterward. The moment she heard the first sentence, her eyes rolled back and she fainted.
Before passing out, only two words echoed through her mind: It's over.
"Duchess! Duchess?" The trusted aide who had come to report the matter was startled. Then, seeing that the White Tiger Duchess showed no sign of waking, the aide—who was already just as terrified—stood frozen for several breaths before viciousness welled up in his heart.
After looking around and confirming that no one was there, he hurriedly picked up the White Tiger Duchess and carried her straight into the inner room.
"Damn it, judging from this situation, you're finished. The entire Duke Mansion is probably finished too. Someone like me, who bullied that mother and son, probably can't escape even if I ran now. I'm definitely going to be buried with you!"
"If that's the case, I might as well have some fun before I die! Damn it, acting high and mighty all day long—I wanted to have you long ago..."
Leaving the chaos in various places aside, the scenes in the Heavenly Screen continued.
[After the luxuriously dressed child left with a group of guards, the child who looked seven or eight years old climbed to his feet, helped up the woman who had protected him and been beaten until her body was covered in injuries, and silently returned to a room where the servants lived.
"Mom, let's leave this place. I don't want to keep living here. Sooner or later, we'll be bullied to death!" The boy's clear blue eyes shimmered with tears as he pleaded.
"I'm sorry, Yuhao. I'm useless and can't protect you..." Huo Yun'er, lying on the bed, also shed tears.
"Mom, don't say you're sorry. You haven't wronged anyone. The person who really should be apologizing is on the empire's border."
Huo Yun'er coughed twice and said weakly, "Yuhao, don't talk about your father like that. He is a great hero who supports the heavens and earth, the Guardian God of the empire. He just couldn't look after us because he was too busy. Once he returns, we'll be able to live good lives..."
"Mom, you always say he's busy and keep making excuses for him. But all these years, it's not as if he never came back. It was impossible for him not to know what was happening in the Duke Mansion, yet he never came to see you!"
"If he had said even one word, our lives wouldn't have been so difficult, and we wouldn't have been bullied every day. The truth is, to him, we're no different from weeds by the roadside. He doesn't care about us at all."
Tears shimmered in Yuhao's deep-blue eyes, and his slightly childish voice carried incomparable resolve. "Mom, I won't acknowledge him. From now on, I'll take your surname."
"From this day forward, there will never be a Dai Yuhao again!"]
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