Half a quarter of an hour earlier, at the highest point of the Eastsea City Hall, Eastsea City Lord Ye Yin was introducing the place to the important figures Long Yeyue and Leng Yaozhu.
"This is the Soul Eye Surveillance System we recently introduced to Eastsea. It's connected to the mecha squad's internal system."
"It can track every member of the mecha squad. Sister Yue, Tower Master Leng, take a look. These dozens of red dots are rapidly heading toward the Braised Beef Shop."
City Lord Ye Yin said in puzzlement, "It's rare for the mecha brigade to operate inside the city."
"Could the Holy Spirit Cult have been spotted in the city?"
As he pondered this, the dozens of red dots on the silver screen suddenly vanished.
He said awkwardly, "The Soul Eye Surveillance System was only just installed. It's normal for there to be a few glitches."
Just then, the cold voice of the Way of Seeking Death rang out across all of Eastsea.
Long Yeyue, the old woman who liked people to call her "Sister," gave a meaningful smile. "Looks like the Soul Eye Surveillance System isn't the problem."
"Eastsea City is the problem."
"Kid Ye, don't be nervous. I'll go investigate for you."
Then she looked at Leng Yaozhu. "Tower Master Leng, would you care to come along?"
Leng Yaozhu smiled, her lovely face blooming like a peony. "After you, elder. I wouldn't dream of refusing!"
"Then let's go!"
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The two women had vanished from City Hall. How could Eastsea City Lord Ye Yin sit still?
He hurried after them.
A group of Eastsea City officials followed him as well.
But none of them were as fast as Long Yeyue and Leng Yaozhu.
Long Yeyue was the former vice chairman of Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion. She had twin Martial Souls, the Light and Dark Holy Dragons, was a Level 99 Limit Douluo over two hundred years old, and was also a Four-Word Battle Armor Master.
Leng Yaozhu was the vice tower master of the Spirit Pagoda.
Her strength was every bit as formidable as Long Yeyue's.
They were both powerful and held exalted positions.
Naturally, they were the fastest.
When they arrived at the Braised Beef Shop, they saw a shocking scene: mecha wreckage littered the ground.
"What happened here?" Leng Yaozhu exclaimed in surprise.
But all around them was silence.
When Guang Biao had brought the mecha over, he had cleared the area. Now only Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Tang Wulin remained,
along with Li Luo, who sat on the ground with his eyes tightly shut.
Long Yeyue said with a slight tremble, "At City Hall, I saw that more than forty mecha were heading here."
"Were they all taken out?"
"Who did it?"
Her gaze swept coldly over Xie Xie and the others. "Speak! Was it you? You've got some nerve!"
"Pavilion Master Long, aren't we being a little hasty?" Leng Yaozhu spoke up, her voice gentle and warm.
"They're only children. The highest Soul Power Level among them can't be more than twenty. To say they did this seems rather far-fetched."
Under normal circumstances, Long Yeyue's question was absurd. She clearly hadn't given it a moment's thought.
Anyone with eyes could see that Xie Xie and the others couldn't possibly have killed a Six-Ring Soul Emperor wearing Purple Pole Mecha.
But Long Yeyue wasn't a normal person. Her way of thinking was extraordinarily unconventional.
"Tower Master Leng, there's something you don't know. People from the Holy Spirit Cult are experts at disguises. Ten thousand years ago, our Shrek forebears suffered at their hands."
"Back then, one of our predecessors led the Shrek Inspection Corps to the Death Mountain Range to exterminate Evil Soul Masters."
"When that predecessor saw that the highest-ranked among the Evil Soul Masters was only a Five-Ring Soul King, they let that generation's Shrek Seven Monsters lead the younger seven into action."
"As a result, several of the Shrek Seven Monsters died on the spot, and the rest were gravely injured."
"That also meant that when Shrek Academy competed in the tournament that year, we could only send our young monsters, who hadn't yet fully matured."
"Fortunately, the great His Excellency Spirit Eye turned the tide, and Shrek Academy didn't lose the championship."
Long Yeyue spoke with deep emotion.
Every night, she pored over the biography of that Shrek Academy predecessor, all to avoid repeating the same tragedy.
And so, this time, Long Yeyue had accidentally hit the mark.
Tang Wulin and Xie Xie were both terrible at hiding it. Their lips had gone pale. They had killed the men and destroyed the mecha.
And this old woman had seen right through them at a glance.
She was terrifying.
Gu Yue wasn't afraid. She had entered human society to learn for the sake of the Soul Beasts' revival.
But now that she had found her wife,
Gu Yue no longer felt any sense of mission to revive the Soul Beasts.
All she wanted was a warm home with her wife and children.
At worst, I'll take the Dragon Queen and fight our way out. A murderous glint flickered across Gu Yue's face.
Long Yeyue released her aura. "Tower Master Leng, do you understand now? Look at their faces. They're the ones who did it."
Seeing how Xie Xie and the others reacted, Leng Yaozhu froze. Could Long Yeyue really have been right?
Long Yeyue looked excited. "These cultists are experts at disguises."
"Especially that one, deliberately sitting with his eyes closed. The moment we attack, he might go berserk!"
"Capture the leader first!"
Long Yeyue suddenly unleashed the might of a Limit Douluo. It crashed down like a mountain collapsing and a sea flooding. She reached out a withered hand toward Li Luo, who sat on the ground.
"How dare you!"
A grand, mighty voice exploded directly inside Long Yeyue's mind.
The Light and Dark Holy Dragons within her cowered,
welcoming their king!
In that instant, Long Yeyue suddenly felt that she was courting death.
Her legs trembled.
Even her incontinence underwear was soaked!
What kind of terrifying existence was this?
The Light and Dark Holy Dragons within her struggled, trying to tear themselves free from her body.
They wanted to submit to that great being...
"No!"
Long Yeyue frantically unleashed her Soul Power. Her overwhelming power surged like a tidal wave, pouring into her legs.
"Run!"
Long Yeyue fled in utter panic, vanishing into the horizon...
Only after she had escaped Eastsea did she dare look back.
When she sensed that the terrifying being wasn't looking at her, she finally stopped and wiped the bead-sized drops of sweat from her forehead.
She'd been scared out of her wits!
She swore she would never come to Eastsea again.
But enough about Long Yeyue.
At the Braised Beef Shop, the beautiful woman Leng Yaozhu stared at the spot where Long Yeyue had disappeared, her mouth hanging open wide enough to fit an egg.
As for what kind of egg, who knew?
Leng Yaozhu had no idea why Long Yeyue had run away.
"Could it be that Pavilion Master Long realized how absurd she sounded, felt embarrassed, and ran off?"
Suppressing her doubts, Leng Yaozhu turned to Xie Xie and the others.
"Children, don't be afraid. I believe what happened here had nothing to do with you."
She spoke gently. "Can you tell me what happened here?"
Tang Wulin's lips moved, but he didn't know what to say. Should he tell this beautiful, kind big sister that they were involved?
Xie Xie's gaze darted away.
Gu Yue looked up at the sky.
Leng Yaozhu's heart sank little by little. "Could Pavilion Master Long really have been right?"
Just as she was losing patience, a warm voice spoke up.
"You're right, senior. This had nothing to do with us."
"Hmm?" Leng Yaozhu looked toward the speaker.
It was Li Luo.
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