Tang Ya collapses: You, Xuan Zu Mu En, are pretending with me?!

Before he finished speaking, Xuan Zi landed with Huo Yuhao and the other two.

Seeing Bei Bei, his great-grandson, behind Xuan Zi, and then looking at Huo Yuhao, Mu En finally managed to suppress his temper.

Sigh, thankfully Shrek still has the new generation like Yuhao and Bei Bei. Once they grow up, they will be in charge of Sea God... ah, no, they will be in charge of the Ancient Life Tree Pavilion. Shrek still has hope.

"What's the rush!" Seeing hope, Mu En didn't want to talk to troublesome insects like Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe. He scolded them, then greeted Huo Yuhao and the others first.

"Yuhao, Bei Bei, Xiao Ya, did you encounter anything on your way back?" The old man Mu En showed no pressure of being the Continent's Number One Expert, Dragon God Douluo. Instead, he appeared very approachable, like a kind old man.

"Progenitor!" Bei Bei replied first, then turned his head to introduce Huo Yuhao and Tang Ya, "Yuhao, Xiao Ya, this is my Progenitor, Sea... uh, Dragon God Douluo Mu En."

Huo Yuhao looked at the old man before him, his mouth opening as if he didn't know how to address him.

Mu En chuckled, "Just call me Elder Mu."

"Hello, Elder Mu!" Huo Yuhao showed the respect for elders expected of a good child.

"Hello, Tang Ya, I am Elder Mu..." After Bei Bei finished the introduction, Tang Ya, who was stunned on the spot, subconsciously said.

Only after speaking did she suddenly tremble, her cheeks instantly flushed red. She hurriedly tried to fix it, "No, I mean, I am Elder Mu, hello Tang Ya..."

"No, hello Elder Mu... I, I am Tang Ya..."

After making mistakes twice in a row, Tang Ya's eyes lost their sparkle.

"Hahaha, it's alright, little friend, no need to be nervous. Bei Bei has told me about you." Mu En laughed heartily. Looking at the three young people before him, he felt as if a trace of new vitality had been injected into his decaying body.

"Oh..." Tang Ya responded dryly, lowering her head, not daring to look at Mu En again, and stood silently to the side. Although she tried hard to maintain a calm exterior, the sadness beneath her forced smile was evident.

With Mu En's vast experience, he naturally saw it, but he didn't point it out. He simply turned to Huo Yuhao and started a friendly chat.

He especially mentioned that he would immediately arrange for people to go to the Heaven Dou Empire to bring back his mother, Huo Yun'er, his words full of importance and care.

While Mu En was talking to Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei worriedly and quietly approached Tang Ya and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Ya, what's wrong? You look so pale."

However, this time, Tang Ya didn't immediately correct Bei Bei's address as usual. She just looked up at him with a complex gaze. In the depths of her eyes, there was confusion and disappointment, as well as a hint of imperceptible sadness.

She shook her head, her voice so low it was almost inaudible, "Nothing..."

Bei Bei didn't fully understand the deep meaning of her gaze. He thought she was just nervous about meeting an elder and wanted to comfort her, "Xiao Ya, don't worry. Progenitor is a very kind person. Old people are broad-minded and won't mind such a slip of the tongue."

"...Mm, I know." Tang Ya forced a smile, suppressing her surging emotions and returning to her usual energetic girl appearance, "I'm fine."

However, beneath the surface calm, her heart felt as if it were being repeatedly pierced by countless fine needles, causing a dense and sharp pain.

Having known Bei Bei for so long! Spending days and nights together, walking side by side... she never knew he had such a distinguished background!

Progenitor Dragon God Douluo Mu En, a Super Expert standing at the pinnacle of the entire continent! The Pillar of the Sky of Shrek Academy!

The impact of this realization instantly overturned her world!

Every moment of their past interactions began to replay uncontrollably in her mind, each scene carrying a different meaning.

Bei Bei had always known! He knew what her nightmares were that kept her awake at night! He knew what she was working so hard for!

It was to avenge the murderers of her parents and the killers of her Tang Sect relatives and friends! To reclaim the Tang Sect's place!

He had always been encouraging her, even vowing to rebuild the Tang Sect with her, flatten the thorns, and make the Tang Sect great again...

After the Heavenly Screen appeared, her state of mind changed. After seeking revenge, she just wanted to disband the Tang Sect and end everything.

But in the past years, she was consumed by hatred day and night, struggling in a muddy swamp of despair!

She couldn't sleep at night due to her low strength, and the agony of self-doubt due to slow progress, Bei Bei saw it all!

She poured all her effort into cultivating desperately, exhausting her mind to seek every possible way to become stronger. But her weak aptitude and Martial Soul were like an invisible shackle, tightly locking her hope!

It made her steps faltering from the very beginning of her path of revenge, crushing her beliefs time and again by reality.

When she struggled with all her might, trying to piece together the unattainable vision of revenge, what was Bei Bei doing?

He smiled gently, encouraged her, and said, "Let's work hard together."

Besides that? Did he help her with Soul Hunting? Did he play around with her?

He watched her teetering on the edge of the abyss alone, watched her being gradually submerged by despair, yet he only reached out his hand and offered words of comfort.

He never thought... perhaps he was never willing to use his identity, to use that power that could easily move mountains and seas, to share even a fraction of her heavy burden.

She originally thought they were kindred spirits, good friends who could fight side by side forever.

She could feel Bei Bei's somewhat direct affection, but the family grudge and blood feud weighed on her like a mountain, making her afraid to truly accept this feeling.

Now it seemed, she had been thinking too much after all.

She had taken herself too seriously, naively thinking she was special in his heart.

Thinking of this, Tang Ya subconsciously, with a complex emotion that she herself didn't fully understand, turned her gaze towards Huo Yuhao, who was happily chatting with Mu En.

Tang Ya recalled the youth in the Heavenly Screen who was willing to pay any price for his mother and risk great danger for his companions.

If it were Yuhao, perhaps... the outcome would be different?

On the side, Bei Bei, unaware of Tang Ya's extensive internal monologue, was happily watching Huo Yuhao and his Progenitor chat with a group of former Sea God Pavilion members.

Meanwhile, the conversation between Mu En and Huo Yuhao had reached the matter of arrangements after enrollment.

Qian Duoduo, standing nearby, also spoke up, telling Huo Yuhao not to worry. This time, he wouldn't encounter a Heaven-Defying Teacher like Zhou Yi after enrolling.

And told him that Zhou Yi had been dismissed, and that there would be follow-up measures to strengthen the teachers' Quality Cultivation, fearing that Huo Yuhao, having watched the Heavenly Screen, would develop negative thoughts about the academy because of a few Awesome Figures.

However, to everyone's surprise, Huo Yuhao blinked and said, "Although Teacher Zhou Yi's temper is a bit volatile."

"But the Heavenly Screen is the Heavenly Screen. I hope the school doesn't condemn someone for things that haven't happened in Reality."

"Although I don't like Teacher Zhou Yi's actions in the Heavenly Screen, I also hope the school doesn't expel her so hastily, because it's unfair!"

Huo Yuhao began to lay the groundwork for his later Sky Screen Plot. An Awesome Figure like Zhou Yi couldn't just Exit so easily.