A powerful figure suddenly barged in and slapped Teacher Wang Yan to death. The many injured Shrek students were terrified at the sight.
"Sleep!"
Facing these young people from Shrek Academy, Jiang Heng did not choose to kill them. They would still be of great use to him.
Under the mental assault, everyone but Beibei fell unconscious.
"Who are you? What do you want?"
Beibei forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart and questioned the newcomer in a deep voice.
"What you cultivate is rather interesting. Hand it over to me, and they can live."
Jiang Heng did not waste words with Beibei. As he spoke, Soul Power gathered in his hand and pointed toward Xu Sanshi beside him.
He had no psychological burden whatsoever about threatening Beibei, who had been fairly decent in the original story. He was a Soul Beast, while Beibei was human; they were natural enemies. Why should he care whether the other party was good or bad?
"Promise me you won't hurt them, and I'll give you everything."
Beibei hesitated for only an instant before making his decision.
He swiftly took out the Tang Sect inheritance from his Storage Soul Tool.
After Jiang Heng received it, he inspected it, then used his mental power to compare it with the Tang Sect secret arts Beibei cultivated. Seeing no discrepancies, he nodded in satisfaction.
This kid was fairly honest. He had not tried any tricks.
"So, you should sleep too!"
Jiang Heng used another mental assault, sending Beibei into unconsciousness as well, then swiftly left the area.
Before leaving, he planted something inside Beibei's body.
Beibei was already suffering from Evil Fire invading his body. With Jiang Heng's little gift added in, if Mu En wanted to save Beibei, he had only two options: expend his cultivation to help Beibei with all his strength, or use that Dragon Core.
Of course, he could also use Sea God's Light. The question was, could Sea God's Light purify the Evil Fire while also restoring what had been depleted?
Having gained greatly, Jiang Heng returned to his residence and waited for the battle outside the city to end.
This battle did not last long. Just as Du Busi, the Body Sect leader, believed victory was within his grasp, Di Tian made a bold appearance.
He slapped Du Busi away, seized the embryo containing the sealed Snow Empress, and directly departed using spatial abilities.
And then, there was nothing after that.
The various factions were all dumbfounded by this sudden turn of events.
They had fought desperately for so long, and even Title Douluo had fallen, yet this was the final outcome.
How could anyone accept that?
Jiang Heng did not participate further in matters concerning Di Tian and Snow Empress. According to his original plan, after watching the Soul Master Tournament, he would find an opportunity to join the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
Now that he had a new objective, matters concerning Soul Tools were naturally set aside for the time being.
Concealing himself, Jiang Heng quietly left the Star Luo Empire and headed to Shrek Academy, where he casually rented a house and settled down.
He cultivated while continuing his research into Soul Tools.
Ten days later, the Shrek group returned.
They looked utterly miserable, each and every one of them dispirited.
Especially the students who had been in the finals arena. During this period, the Evil Fire had tormented them until they wished they were dead.
Many students were even unable to suppress the restlessness in their hearts and followed Shrek's practices from ten thousand years ago, visiting pleasure houses to vent their fire.
Naturally, most Shrek students capable of participating in the Soul Master Tournament were not short on money. If they were looking, they would naturally seek out high-class pleasure houses.
As the teacher leading the group, Yan Shaozhe not only did not object, but even helped conceal it.
This was also an old tradition.
Fortunately, after all that turmoil, they had finally returned to the academy.
Yan Shaozhe told Mu En everything that had happened, though he still concealed certain matters.
For example, regarding Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire eruption, Yan Shaozhe shifted the blame onto the Sun Moon Empire.
In short, Shrek Academy was not at fault, Yan Shaozhe was not at fault, and Ma Xiaotao was not at fault.
Their unexpected loss of the championship this time was because the Sun Moon Empire had used despicable methods.
"Bring all the children to me."
After learning the full story, Mu En let out a long sigh.
With his experience, he could naturally see that Yan Shaozhe had concealed many things.
He neither blamed him nor pursued the matter further.
It was not that he did not want to, but that he could not.
After Xuan Zi disappeared while leading a team to hunt Soul Beasts, Mu En made a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest. His original intention had been to search for Xuan Zi, but the moment he mentioned Xuan Zi, Di Tian attacked.
After that exchange, his already terrible condition worsened further.
Had he not returned in time and relied on the Golden Tree, he would have fallen long ago.
Dragging along his ruined body and enduring the pain, he only wished to hold on a little longer and give Shrek's younger generation some room to grow.
The Xuan Zi he had valued was dead, and Zhang Lexuan was dead as well.
He had thought the trip to Star Luo was merely for a tournament and that no major problems would arise. Yet unexpectedly, Qian Duoduo had also been killed in that battle by Kong Mingde of the Sun Moon Empire.
For a time, Shrek Academy was on the verge of collapse.
Now, all hope could only be placed on Yan Shaozhe.
Although Song Yunzhi was considerably stronger than Yan Shaozhe, the gap between their martial souls could not be bridged.
Afterward, Mu En used Sea God's Light to help those children purify the Evil Fire in their bodies.
Already barely clinging to life, he was now on the brink of death.
"This is..."
He had thought Sea God's Light could completely resolve everything, but after examining Beibei's body, he immediately realized the severity of the problem.
During the tournament, lacking sufficient foundation, Beibei had forcibly activated the Radiant Sacred Dragon bloodline within him. Then Evil Fire invaded his body and corroded it, leaving it riddled with damage. Later, for some unknown reason, the portion of his bloodline belonging to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon had been stripped away.
Overall, this was a good thing.
With the Radiant Sacred Dragon bloodline taking the upper hand, it could be activated more effectively. But the crucial issue was that his origin had been stripped away along with it, leaving his deficit far too severe.
If this deficit was not replenished, Beibei's martial soul quality would plummet. At that point, let alone the Radiant Sacred Dragon, it would not even compare to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. It would only be a draconic martial soul with light attributes.
"After living an entire lifetime, how could one have no selfish desires of one's own?"
Looking at the sole inheritor of his bloodline before him, Mu En still chose to use his final strength to do something for him.
Originally, when Yan Shaozhe had been his only choice, Mu En had intended to leave that Dragon Core to Yan Shaozhe before his death, allowing him to take another step forward and become Shrek Academy's pillar.
But seeing Beibei in such a miserable state, Mu En ultimately chose family.
Not only did he use his final strength to draw upon the Golden Tree's power and help Beibei make up for his deficit, he also left that Dragon Core to Beibei.
"Has my life reached its end?"
Feeling his life rapidly slipping away, Mu En knew he could no longer hold on.
"Ancestors of Shrek, Mu En has let you down!"
Accompanied by a dragon's roar, Mu En's body transformed into specks of Starlight and merged into the Golden Tree.
Everything ceased to exist.
"Roar!"
The last Radiant Sacred Dragon, Dragon God Douluo Mu En, had fallen!
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