The road leading to Shrek Academy was growing more and more crowded. To be precise, there were plenty of people who wanted to watch the spectacle—and plenty who wanted revenge.
A lot of them had come just to watch. They might not even know what a former Crown Prince was. They only knew that the man before them was from the Sun Moon Empire.
And a member of the Sun Moon royal family, no less.
There was no denying it: in Shrek City, members of the Sun Moon royal family were infamous.
Even if Xu Yanli revealed that, unlike Xu He, his mother was from the Star Luo Empire—and was even a princess of the Star Luo Empire—
if he did reveal it, the merchants who caught wind of the news might well support him, even hoping he would take his place in the Sun Moon royal family.
After all, an emperor with blood from the Original Three Kingdoms—even if he never ascended the throne and became only a prince—could still protect their people to some extent.
Xu Yanli listened to the crowd's curses, quietly watching them from the roof of a nearby building. With the sun beating down on him, he looked over the chaos below.
He Caitou was slumped on the ground. Behind him, the blazing Sun Martial Soul still burned, while three Soul Rings slowly rose beneath it, pulsing without pause.
"The Sun Martial Soul! He's definitely from the Sun Moon Empire!"
"Of course he is! Only the purest Sun Moon bloodline could be that dark!"
"Why is Shrek Academy hiding the former Crown Prince of the Sun Moon Empire? What are they planning? Do they want to overthrow the current Sun Moon regime, and then have Shrek Academy..."
The discussion surged like a tide. Nearly every