The Duchess Faints, Dai Yuhao is No More!

The senior leaders of Shrek Academy gathered together, exchanging bewildered glances.

Within the celestial screen, the scenes that flashed by as the Observer narrated were mostly very brief.

For ordinary people, they might blink and miss them entirely, but these powerhouses could clearly see every detail within each scene.

Yet precisely because of this, they found it hard to believe what they had witnessed.

"These... so-called different futures, are they real or not?" Shrek City's lord, Time Douluo Shi Xing, spoke with some hesitation.

"Given the Observer's divine power in creating this celestial screen, there's no need for them to deceive us. It should be real." Divine Eagle Douluo Song Lao also replied with some uncertainty.

Yan Shaozhe, the dean of Shrek's Martial Soul Department, frowned. "But based on the situation of our ancestor Tang San from ten thousand years ago, becoming a god could only bring one person along to ascend, right?"

"Even Xiao Tao's ancestor, the Phoenix God, couldn't bring his beloved to the divine realm..."

"Yet in several scenes I just saw, most of the Sea God's Pavilion members ascended together, along with some students and people I don't recognize. How could he bring so many people to ascend? It's too absurd!"

Beside him, Xian Lin'er sneered. "Hmph, you're only saying that because you weren't among those who ascended, right? What's wrong with our Shrek children being exceptional? Haven't you heard that the disciple surpasses the master?"

Seeing her husband being rebutted, Cai Mei'er quickly interjected, "I think the priority isn't arguing about this, but heading to the White Tiger Duke's estate to find clues about this child and bring him to the academy for training as soon as possible!"

"Well said!" Xuan Zi wiped the grease from his mouth and said coldly, "In the scenes just now, that child even brought the Body Sect and those dark-skinned people from the Sun Moon Empire to ascend."

"Judging from how that child always brings a group of people to ascend when becoming a god, he must be a good child who remembers kindness. We can't let those chaotic outside forces corrupt him!"

With that, Xuan Zi took a gulp of wine and declared boldly, "Only Shrek Academy is that child's home! If the celestial screen shows different futures, then we will definitely turn it into what we want!"

"The previous generation of gods came from Shrek, laying the foundation for the academy's ten-thousand-year glory, and this generation's god will surely come from Shrek as well, extending the academy's legacy for another ten thousand years!"

"Elder Mu, what do you think?"

Mu En was silent for a moment, then pondered, "If that child is still at the White Tiger Duke's estate, it's probably too late to go now. Star Luo will surely take him away first."

"Hmph, if the Star Luo royal family takes him first, I'll make them hand him over obediently!" Xuan Zi snorted coldly.

Song Lao said thoughtfully, "From the celestial screen, that child didn't have a good life at the White Tiger Duke's estate, and the White Tiger Duke's wife is from the Star Luo royal family. So there's already a rift between the Star Luo royal family and this child."

"It's useless to analyze this without seeing the person yet. I'll make a trip to the White Tiger Duke's estate first. If the child isn't there, we'll mobilize our forces to search the entire continent. We'll find him eventually!"

Xuan Zi impatiently tossed aside the chicken bone in his hand, his figure shooting into the sky and quickly disappearing beyond the horizon.

Meanwhile, inside the White Tiger Duke's estate, the White Tiger Duchess stared at the scenes on the celestial screen with a grim expression, her eyes flickering with malice and fear.

Although the name had changed from Dai Yuhao to Huo Yuhao, she immediately recognized the child and woman being beaten by her youngest son's henchmen in the celestial screen.

"Where are that bitch and that little bastard? Go catch them for me... No! Kill them directly! Kill them now!"

Under the crushing weight of fear, the White Tiger Duchess quickly thought of a plan.

If that brat really grew up, or even if he didn't, as long as he joined some major force, she and her son would be doomed!

Even her husband, and even her maiden family—those royal relatives and the emperor—would likely be more than happy to use her and her two sons' lives to buy that little bastard's 'forgiveness,' just for a chance at eternal life in the divine realm!

So her and her son's only chance to survive was to kill that mother and son as fast as possible before those major forces arrived!

Dead people couldn't become gods, and basically no one would avenge a worthless stranger. Only then could she live—even if the days ahead would be hard, it was better than dying!

But the servant's reply made her despair.

"Madam, they left over half a month ago..."

The White Tiger Duchess couldn't hear what the servant said next. After the first sentence, her eyes rolled back and she fainted.

Before losing consciousness, only two words echoed in her mind: It's over.

"Madam! Madam?" The trusted servant who had come to report was startled at first, then, seeing no sign of the duchess waking up, stood frozen for a few seconds, equally terrified. Then, malice took over.

Looking around and seeing no one, he quickly scooped up the White Tiger Duchess and carried her straight into the inner room.

"Damn it, looks like you're done for, probably the whole estate is done for. A guy like me who bullied them—running now is too late, I'm definitely going to be buried with you!"

"So I might as well enjoy myself before I die! Damn it, always acting so high and mighty, I've wanted to screw you for a long time..."

Leaving aside the chaos everywhere, on the celestial screen, the scenes continued.

[After the lavishly dressed child left with a group of guards, the boy, who looked seven or eight years old, got up, helped up the woman who was bruised from shielding him, and silently returned to a servant's quarters.

"Mom, let's leave this place. I don't want to live here anymore. We'll be bullied to death sooner or later!" The boy's clear blue eyes shimmered with tears as he pleaded.

"I'm sorry, Yuhao. Mom is useless, I can't protect you..." Huo Yun'er, lying on the bed, also shed tears.

"Mom, don't say sorry. You haven't wronged anyone. The one who should really say sorry is at the empire's border."

Huo Yun'er coughed lightly and said weakly, "Yuhao, don't talk about your father that way. He's a towering hero, the empire's guardian. He's just too busy to take care of us. When he comes back, we'll have a good life..."

"Mom, you always say he's busy, always make excuses for him. But over the years, he has come back. He couldn't have been kept in the dark about what happened in the estate, yet he never came to see you!"

"If he had said even one word, our lives wouldn't be so hard, and we wouldn't be bullied every day. The truth is, to him, we're like weeds by the roadside—he doesn't care at all."

Tears glistened in Yuhao's azure eyes, and his slightly childish voice carried unwavering determination: "Mom, I won't acknowledge him. From now on, I'll take your surname."

"From this day forward, there is no more Dai Yuhao!"]