The competition's over, why are you still cross-dressing?

Bi Ji had lived for six hundred thousand years, yet she had never imagined that one day, she would exist as a "Soul Spirit" within a human's spiritual world.

But now, walking along this beach swept by sea breezes, with the Ice Empress and Snow Empress chatting happily beside her and Xiyao smiling as she led the way ahead...

She suddenly felt that this choice did not seem so bad after all.

Several days later.

Shrek Academy, Sea God Island.

Mu En reclined in a lounge chair as sunlight filtered through the branches and leaves of the Golden Tree outside the window, casting mottled golden shadows across his aged face.

His eyes were slightly closed, his breathing calm and even, but the fingers resting on the armrest lightly tapped away, every beat landing on a rhythm known only to himself.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao stood at his side. The two had only recently emerged from the Cultivation Room beneath the Golden Tree.

Nearly two months of deep meditation had left clear changes upon them...

Wang Dong's pink-blue short hair had grown somewhat longer, its tips barely brushing her shoulder blades. Her azure eyes had become even clearer and brighter than before, with the phantom image of the Light Goddess Butterfly faintly appearing and vanishing in their depths.

Xiao Xiao's twin ponytails remained lively, but her entire bearing had grown much steadier. The Seven-Colored Pattern of the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron had already spread from the cauldron itself to her wrists, leaving several faint marks upon her fair skin.

Just then, Mu En's tapping fingers abruptly stopped.

He opened his eyes, and a sharp glint flashed through their clouded depths.

Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao sensed it at the same time...

From the distant skies beyond Shrek Academy, two powerful auras