At that moment, countless suspicious gazes quietly fell upon the "exceptional talents" who had graduated from Shrek Academy!
"Investigate! Go investigate! Thoroughly check every single person who graduated from Shrek Academy and works in any imperial institution!"
After pacing back and forth anxiously, Xu Jiawei finally made up his mind and issued the order with a cold expression.
Scenes like this were unfolding in who knew how many places!
The scenes on the Sky Screen continued. After Huo Yuhao finished his exchange-student stint and returned to hand over the stolen goods, Shrek Academy naturally raked in a fortune and beamed with delight.
In the blink of an eye, Shrek Academy put on some event called "Sea God Fate on Sea God Lake," shocking everyone all over again!
"What the hell is this? A bride-stealing contest? Whoever wins gets to hold the girl's hand?"
"Is this a matchmaking event or Animal World?"
"This is an outrage against decency! An outrage!"
Watching the scenes on the Sky Screen, where the men with bloodshot eyes showed off their Soul Skills on Sea God Lake, everyone felt as if they were watching the Soul Beast Great Forest. The whole thing was absurd.
By those rules, didn't that mean whoever was strongest could have women on both arms?
At that moment, even Bei Bei couldn't help feeling awkward as he watched the scenes on the Sky Screen.
He knew perfectly well that this so-called "Sea God Fate" had been started by his great-grandancestor, Mu En! And back in the day, Mu En had been known as the "Silver Spear Little White Dragon." Just how many women had he taken into his arms?
When Mu En was young, they said there wasn't a girl in the inner court he hadn't "satisfied"! Only a few people in the family still remembered those romantic escapades.
What made it hardest for everyone to stomach was that Huo Yuhao's roommate, Wang Dong, had actually been a girl in disguise! The two had even confessed their feelings at Sea God Fate and become a couple!
Never mind how strange that was. Just think about it: Wang Dong'er was a girl, the princess of the Clear Sky Sect, yet she had insisted on disguising herself as a boy and sneaking into the men's dormitory. Then, by some "coincidence," she had been assigned to share a room with Huo Yuhao, and the two of them just happened to have Martial Soul Fusion.
And Mu En, a Limit Douluo, sat right outside their dormitory, watching them come and go every day. Don't tell us that man didn't know Wang Dong'er's real gender.
Only a fool would believe there wasn't some kind of conspiracy behind all this!
After getting together with Wang Dong'er, Huo Yuhao naturally doted on his girlfriend, the two of them inseparable and deeply in love. He was now thoroughly bound to Shrek Academy, too.
Watching them stroll hand in hand beside Sea God Lake, kissing and cuddling, every onlooker felt a chill creep through their heart!
How sinister Shrek was. How clever! People lost their minds when they fell in love, forgetting themselves completely!
At that moment, even Tang Ya suddenly shivered. Without drawing attention to herself, she glanced at Bei Bei beside her.
Come to think of it, had Bei Bei's approach to her really been a little too much of a coincidence?
At the thought of Bei Bei's identity, his family, and his elders, the unease and gloom in Tang Ya's heart only grew stronger!
"Xiao Ya, what's wrong?"
Noticing something was off, Bei Bei turned toward her and asked with concern.
"Haha... It's nothing."
Tang Ya's eyes trembled, and she managed a somewhat stiff smile.
She didn't know why, but the concern that would normally have warmed her heart now felt indescribably strange.
The scenes on the Sky Screen had now reached the second Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. This time, the tournament was being held in Ming Capital, the capital of the Sun Moon Empire.
This time, Huo Yuhao wasn't competing for Shrek Team. Shrek Academy had actually split into two teams at once: "Shrek Team" and "Tang Sect Team." They were both heading to Ming Capital.
In terms of strength, neither team was much weaker than the lineup from the previous tournament.
Watching Huo Yuhao and the others compete while carrying out all kinds of covert operations, the people of the Sun Moon Empire grew increasingly uneasy.
In the daytime matches, the Shrek and Tang Sect teams continued their tradition of cheating from the previous tournament, only taking it even further. They killed without restraint, until all the onlookers across the continent had grown numb.
Everyone would remember from then on: if Shrek Academy was competing, think carefully about whether you wanted to take part.
And if you did, make sure you had a trustworthy referee, and keep your own people watching like hawks.
Otherwise, before you knew it, Shrek's people might kill you by some despicable trick!
"Wait, what's he doing?"
Suddenly, people saw Huo Yuhao and his group sneaking into an underground warehouse in Ming Capital in the middle of the night, like a special-operations unit!
"What the hell!"
At the sight, those who knew the truth—Xu Tianran, the old emperor, Jing Hongchen, and the others—leapt to their feet!
That was the largest underground weapons depot in all of Ming Capital!
What the hell was Shrek Academy planning to do now?
At that moment, Xu Tianran, Jing Hongchen, and the others all swore to themselves that they would never let anyone from Shrek set foot in Ming Capital again!
They were a bunch of spies and terrorists who never stopped stirring up trouble! Everyone from Shrek Academy, whether student, teacher, or some other damn thing, was the same!
They were all thieves!
After looting everything they could carry from the warehouse, Huo Yuhao and his group made their way out. At the last moment, they decisively pressed the detonator!
"Fuck!"
At that moment, the eyes of countless people across the Sun Moon Empire—especially those living in Ming Capital and the surrounding area—turned red!
A colossal mushroom cloud rose above Ming Capital.
The sky darkened, the sun and moon vanished, and heaven and earth were torn apart!
In an instant, countless thousands of Ming Capital's residents and people who had come to watch the tournament were blown to pieces in that unimaginably horrific explosion!
"Bang!"
At that moment, even Elder Kong, who had always kept his emotions hidden, smashed the table to pieces at the sight!
"Shrek Academy!"
This could no longer be explained away as a "military operation targeting the enemy." This was a deranged, nation-destroying terrorist attack! A doomsday-level massacre that spared neither civilians nor Soul Masters!
Never in the history of Douluo Continent had there been a human catastrophe this brutal. Even when Sea God Tang San poisoned Jialing Pass and slaughtered Spirit Hall, it didn't seem this cruel!
By then, it wasn't just the Sun Moon Empire. Every force, sect, and academy across Douluo Continent felt nothing but instinctive terror at this sight of heaven and earth torn apart, the sun and moon blotted out!
"Damn, that's awesome!"
Only after a long while did the black-robed man in the Holy Spirit Cult manage to voice his admiration.