Mu En's Compensation

The newcomer.

Was none other than the master of the Sea God Pavilion, one of the three Limit Douluo of the current age.

Dragon God Douluo—Mu En!

As Mu En's voice and figure appeared, every fierce battle raging in the heavens and on the ground seemed to have been paused.

Whether they were Body Sect experts fighting with bloodshot eyes or Shrek teachers and students resisting desperately, all of them involuntarily stopped what they were doing.

With varying expressions—reverence, fear, anticipation, hatred—

They all looked toward the white dragon coiled in the sky, toward the hunched yet incomparably towering figure faintly visible within the light.

The surviving Shrek teachers and students instantly ignited with the ecstatic joy and hope of surviving a desperate situation!

"Elder Mu!"

"It's Elder Mu!"

"This nightmare can finally end!"

They believed that Mu En's arrival meant Shrek would turn defeat into victory.

However.

Mu En's next words, calm yet weighing a thousand jun, were spoken.

Like a basin of icy water, they extinguished the flames that had just risen in their hearts.

They also filled everyone, including the Body Sect's side, with unprecedented shock.

The phantom white dragon lowered its head slightly, and Mu En's aged voice rang clearly in every direction:

"Xuan Zi acted rashly and destroyed the foundation of your Body Sect's prodigy. In this matter... he was indeed in the wrong."

The moment these words were spoken, countless Shrek disciples' eyes widened. They could hardly believe their ears!

The Pavilion Master... was actually admitting fault to the enemy? Admitting that Shrek had been at fault first?!

Mu En's tone remained steady. "But today, your Body Sect has already injured countless Shrek disciples."

"The slaughter has gone too far."

"This meaningless bloodshed should also come to an end."

He paused, his voice carrying an indescribable weariness and compassion. "If we continue fighting, both sides will only suffer."

"It will cause pain to those close to us and delight our enemies. It benefits neither the situation on the continent nor the future of our two sects. Let this end here."

"Hah..." Elder Jin Peng, whose Soul Power had been greatly depleted and whose aura was already unstable, exhaled.

He forcibly straightened his back, suppressed his churning blood and energy, and spoke in a forceful tone filled with anger and accusation. "Old Mu!"

"Right and wrong will be judged by the world! Your Shrek injured others first, using despicable methods to sever our sect's future!"

"My Body Sect came today only to defend ourselves and protect our sect's dignity and sovereignty!"

But Elder Jin Peng's tone shifted at once, the sharpness in his eyes growing even fiercer.

He even carried a threatening, aggressive air as he raised his hand and pointed at Mu En in the sky. "However, Old Mu."

"For the sake of our many years of acquaintance, I can give you this face and stop here."

His voice abruptly rose, filled with a barb aimed at the heart. "But!"

"Whether your Shrek can still preserve its ten-thousand-year reputation for 'justice' is another matter entirely!"

"Your Shrek Inspectorate indiscriminately crippled a century-defining genius of my Body Sect. If that matter were to 'accidentally' spread and every sect, clan, and empire across the continent learned of it..."

Jin Peng sneered, his gaze sweeping over the corpse-strewn Shrek below. "When that time comes, how will the world view your Shrek?"

"As protectors of the continent, or as tyrants who bully others with power and strangle geniuses? Who would still dare send their own talented children to Shrek?"

"I fear that when the time comes, Shrek will not be far from becoming the enemy of the entire world!"

These words shocked and enraged the Sea God Pavilion elders, making them finally understand Jin Peng's ruthlessness—

He did not merely want to kill people. He wanted to destroy their hearts!

He did not merely want to cause real slaughter. He wanted to destroy the foundation of Shrek's reputation, the very thing it had relied upon for ten thousand years!

That was even more terrifying than directly destroying Shrek!

Even Mu En, upon hearing those words, showed an almost imperceptible moment of stillness within the light surrounding him.

He fell silent.

As a Limit Douluo, he possessed the power to turn clouds into rain with a flip of his hand.

If he truly disregarded everything, it would not have been difficult to leave these Body Sect experts behind.

But if he did so, the consequences would be unthinkable.

Just as Jin Peng had said, Shrek's ten-thousand-year reputation—fairness, protection, neutrality...

These deeply ingrained labels could not collapse before everyone's eyes, in Mu En's hands, because of a massacre in which Shrek stood in the wrong.

The entire Shrek City.

With the spies of every faction bearing witness, every word spoken by him as Shrek's Pavilion Master represented Shrek's stance and would be endlessly magnified and interpreted.

After a long while, Mu En's aged voice sounded once more.

Yet it carried an indescribable heaviness and chill. "Old Jin..."

"Must your Body Sect truly drive this matter to the end, leaving no room whatsoever for reconciliation?"

"You should also know that even a rabbit will bite when driven into a corner."

Beneath those calm words, Jin Peng's heart trembled slightly. But having come this far, he had no reason to retreat.

He smiled proudly and pointed at the devastated academy below, then at his fellow sect members brimming with Killing Intent beside him.

"Old Mu, I had a satisfying fight today, and my elders and disciples had a satisfying slaughter too!"

"Though we are still a little short of destroying Shrek's foundation."

"As for whether we will take things to the end..."

His burning gaze fixed on Mu En. "That depends on Shrek's 'attitude' from here on!"

Another suffocating silence descended.

Everyone held their breath, watching the two figures in the sky who represented the will of two great powers.

The Shrek teachers and students were filled with humiliation and unwillingness, yet they could do nothing.

The Body Sect, meanwhile, waited for the final outcome.

At last, Mu En seemed to have made some difficult decision.

He waved a hand lightly.

Three dazzling treasures, each radiating a completely different yet incomparably precious light.

Slowly flew out from the direction of the Sea God Pavilion and hovered before Elder Jin Peng.

The light faded, revealing their true forms.

On the left was a Right Leg Bone, entirely jade-white, as though carved from ten-thousand-year cold jade.

Faint pale-blue currents flowed within the bone, releasing pure and powerful water-element fluctuations.

Hundred Thousand Year Demon Soul Great White Shark Right Leg Bone.

On the right was a Head Spirit Bone in dark green, its surface covered in patterns of grass and trees.

Merely looking at it seemed to bring the life force of countless reviving plants, along with an oppressive spiritual pressure.

Hundred Thousand Year Demon Eye Demon Tree Skull.

At the center was a ginseng root barely a foot long, crystal-clear throughout like red crystal.

An immortal-grade medicinal herb, the ten-thousand-year Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng!

Three supreme treasures! Every one of them was a peerless rarity enough to drive Titled Douluo, or even Super Douluo, mad!

Two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, and one top-grade Immortal Herb capable of reviving the dead and regenerating flesh and bone!

Mu En's voice carried the pain of cutting flesh from his own body, though he still maintained outward calm:

"Two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and one ten-thousand-year Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng..."

"Let these serve as Shrek's compensation for the matter involving the Body Sect's genius. From this day onward, the grievances between us are settled. Neither side owes the other anything.

"What do you say?"

Elder Jin Peng, who had originally been brimming with aggression and intended to continue pressuring Shrek or even expand his gains.

The instant he saw the three treasures before him, his pupils sharply contracted!

He had never imagined that Mu En, in order to calm the matter and preserve Shrek's reputation, would be so... "generous"!

The combined value of these three items was likely even more astonishing than some of the treasures hidden in the deepest vaults of the Body Sect!