The image on the Sky Screen slowly shifted, like an old painting being unrolled.
Morning in Nuoding City, with the thin mist not yet dispersed.
Su Mo carried an old cloth bag on his back as he walked out through the academy gates.
Xiao Wu followed behind him. Neither of them looked back. In the streets and alleys, breakfast stalls had only just opened, steam rising from the bamboo steamers. Everything was no different from usual.
The narration began.
"Before the people from Spirit Hall arrived in Nuoding City, Su Mo had already left with Xiao Wu. He realized earlier than anyone else that Nuoding City was too small. There was no longer any path for him to keep rising there."
The Original-Work World outside the Sky Screen immediately erupted in discussion.
"He left? And he took Xiao Wu with him?"
"I nearly forgot, Yu Xiaogang was in Nuoding City too!"
"Spirit Hall invited the wrong person! They found the right place, but invited the wrong person!"
"Exactly! If they had successfully recruited Su Mo, the Soul Ring problem would have been solved immediately. They wouldn't have needed to wait another eleven years!"
"..."
Only then did everyone realize that both Su Mo and Yu Xiaogang had been in that tiny Nuoding Academy.
Among the fleeing Shrek group, Tang San stared at the Sky Screen, his brows drawn tightly together. "The me in that world only went to Spirit Hall with Teacher after this. Su Mo left before us, and he took Xiao Wu with him."
"Even if Xiao Wu hadn't left with Su Mo back then, she still wouldn't have gone to Spirit Hall with Tang San."
"Xiao Wu is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. If she went to Spirit Hall, she would definitely have been discovered."
Flender said.
Hearing