Shrek Academy had, in name, indeed been preserved. It had not been completely wiped out.
But Huo Yuhao had trampled all of Shrek Academy's glory, faith, and pride beneath his feet like garbage, leaving it without a shred of dignity!
Huo Yuhao had even taken up the posts of the first Pavilion Master of Yuhao Pavilion and the Acting Dean of Shrek Academy.
All the Body Martial Soul students at Shrek Academy had been taken in by the Body Sect. Some of the students who had never amounted to much were "reformed" and became "governors," managing Shrek Academy on Huo Yuhao's behalf.
After all, Shrek Academy had no systematic way to train Body Martial Soul Soul Masters. It couldn't even teach the most basic skill: the Martial Soul Second Awakening. At Shrek Academy, Body Martial Soul Soul Masters had been marginalized and pushed aside every day, unable to fulfill their potential.
But under the Body Sect's tutelage, they quickly completed their Second Awakening and became the "super geniuses" they had once envied beyond measure. They could even easily thrash many of the people they had once looked up to.
This change in mindset utterly and rapidly erased their sense of belonging to Shrek!
When it learned that the Body Sect had actually taken control of Shrek Academy, the Sun Moon Empire was shocked. At the command of its new emperor, Xu Tianran, the Sun Moon Empire launched the final phase of its war to unify the continent.
One army marched on Star Luo City, preparing to destroy the Star Luo Empire; another headed straight for Shrek City, intent on preventing the Body Sect from using its control of Shrek Academy to rise again!
After a fierce battle, the Sun Moon Empire's army suffered heavy losses as it wiped out Shrek City's armed forces, along with the last group of Sea God Pavilion Elders determined to fight to the bitter end.
Just as the Sun Moon Empire's army occupied Shrek City, one terrifying mushroom cloud after another suddenly rose from within the city.
"Shrek City, Shrek Academy—you've at least served the last bit of your remaining use. How could a filthy place like this possibly be worthy of becoming the new headquarters of my Body Sect?"
On a distant mountainside, Huo Yuhao stared with a sinister expression at Shrek City, utterly reduced to ashes amid the mushroom clouds.
A pink-and-blue-haired woman was bound tightly by chains of ice. Watching Shrek City's destruction, she let out a muffled, pained cry, tears streaming down her face.
"Shrek Academy really was completely destroyed just like that, with no god-level power left behind to protect it. What exactly was your relationship with Shrek Academy? And what kind of being placed that seal on you?"
Huo Yuhao turned his gaze back to the pink-and-blue-haired girl, looking intrigued.
"Mm-mm..."
The pink-and-blue-haired girl shook her head in despair. Just moments ago, this demonic man had demanded that she reveal all her secrets. Otherwise, he would reduce Shrek City to ashes.
She had never imagined that after she shook her head, he would really sacrifice all of Shrek Academy and Shrek City!
But... she really didn't know.
"Fine. You won't talk, huh? Then I'll go to the Clear Sky Sect and find out who made a monster like you!"
Huo Yuhao gave a chilling smile. He didn't touch the woman himself. Instead, he used a remotely controlled Soul Tool robot to lift her up and take her away with him.
As the Soul Tool robot carried the woman, it unleashed Soul Guidance Electric Current and Soul Tool metal strikes without pause, tormenting her all the way. Her screams and tears fell like raindrops.
"Damn, that's too cruel. The Huo Yuhao in this world is a real monster!"
Beyond the Sky Screen, countless women watched the scene of her torment. They couldn't help clenching their thighs, their faces deathly pale.
"Ugh. She was Sea God's tool, and this is what happens when she falls into Huo Yuhao's hands."
"After the Clear Sky Sect, I'm afraid they'll be in trouble too."
"But Sea God really is heartless. He could place such a powerful protective seal on one of his tools, yet he just watched as Shrek Academy was completely destroyed. In his eyes, all his followers are probably just sacrificial flesh and blood!"
"Exactly. To think we used to regard someone like that as the greatest and holiest being on the Douluo Continent..."
The scene on the Sky Screen shifted to a dark, sealed room. In the dim secret laboratory, cold and metallic, the Soul Guidance Lamps flickered on and off.
The pink-and-blue-haired girl was now restrained at the center of a massive, complicated Soul Tool apparatus that looked like an instrument of torture. Countless fine metal needles pierced her acupoints, while intense electric currents and mental pulses relentlessly ravaged her nervous system.
"Ah—! Kill me... please, kill me..."
The girl's voice had long since grown hoarse. Her once-bright eyes, lively as butterflies, now held nothing but unfocused pupils. Under the machine's precise control, even passing out had become an impossible luxury. This torment, aimed at the very depths of her soul, was enough to drive any strong-willed Soul Master completely mad in half an hour. And she had already endured it for three days and three nights.
Beyond the Sky Screen, the Douluo Continent fell deathly silent.
"Th-this is how Huo Yuhao in this world does things? He seems far more terrifying than anyone from the previous worlds. Now this is a true ruthless overlord."
A veteran Soul Master trembled as he wiped the cold sweat from his brow. "He isn't just torturing her body. He's peeling away a Soul Master's spiritual defenses layer by layer, like stripping an onion! If he keeps this up, he'll probably cause permanent, irreversible damage to her soul..."
"That's too cruel. Truly too cruel. Even facing a beauty of that caliber, there isn't a trace of pity in his eyes..."
Some of the female Soul Masters looked even paler. The pink-and-blue-haired woman on the Sky Screen was so breathtakingly beautiful that even they couldn't help but feel for her. Yet Huo Yuhao showed not the slightest compassion, willing to utterly destroy her.
Huo Yuhao in this world was even more vicious than his teacher, Du Busi. Everyone felt a shiver rise from the depths of their souls.
Sun Moon Empire, Mingde Hall.
Jing Hongchen stared fixedly at the Soul Tool apparatus, his lips trembling. "A Soul Tool designed to torture the soul while keeping its victim conscious... The concept is rather fascinating. He's perfectly combined the Body Sect's understanding of the body with Soul Guidance Technology..."
"This is practically a tool made for 'destroying souls'! I imagine those demons from the Holy Spirit Cult would be even more interested in it..."
Huo Yuhao on the Sky Screen slowly walked up to the machine. He reached out a pale finger and gently traced the girl's swollen cheek, his voice as chilling as ice: