Angered to Laughter by Shrek

"Ah..." Elf Queen Yun Lan let out a sigh.

"It's about that granddaughter of mine."

"Yuanen Huihui." Di Tian still remembered Yun Lan's granddaughter very clearly.

Not because he had met her in person.

For nearly six years, he had remained inside his cave dwelling and rarely interacted with the outside world.

The reason Yuanen Yehui had left such a deep impression on him was because she would become one of the Shrek Seven Devils in the future.

She had also rewritten a well-known record on Douluo Continent: the record for Soul Power cultivation level before enrolling in top-tier Soul Master Academies like Shrek.

When she applied to Shrek, she was already a five-ringed Soul King.

And that was while her Elf royal bloodline had yet to fully awaken.

Her Soul Power cultivation speed was truly monstrous—so monstrous that it was almost unreasonable.

"What happened to her?"

"She... it's her personality." Yun Lan looked especially troubled. "She's a little too insecure."

"And she's very innocent—so innocent that she can seem foolish."

"But it isn't her fault."

"Her father was human, and her mother was an elf. She was born from a cross-species union."

"As a result, she was born with an innate defect."

"She was a boy during the day."

"But at night, she turned into a girl."

"That's why Huihui believed she was a monster and became extremely insecure."

"When others bullied her, she wouldn't even fight back."

"We didn't dare let her go out into the world, so we kept her in the Elf Forest and cared for her."

"But Huihui can't stay in the Elf Forest forever, and neither her parents nor I can look after her for the rest of her life."

"So..."

"I want Huihui to enter the Elf Branch Academy with you and experience the outside world."

"I hope you can look after Huihui a little."

"It's just that I'll have to trouble you when you already have so much weighing on your mind."

"Yun Lan." Di Tian gently shook his head.

"I've already told you, there's no such thing as trouble between us."

"Other than cultivating at the Elf Academy, I'll be living in the Soul Beast Forest."

"Huihui can simply follow me."

"Going back and forth with me will also make it easier for you to see her often."

"When I return to the Soul Beast Forest tonight, I'll meet Huihui."

"I have some guesses about her condition."

"Perhaps... I can cure Huihui's insecurity and her overly naive nature at the root."

As they spoke.

The soul-guided car driven by the Elf Queen arrived at the entrance of the Elf Branch Academy.

"They're here!"

"I'm going first!"

"Bullshit!"

"I should go first!"

"..."

The clamor rang in Di Tian's ears. After listening for a few moments, he finally understood.

The word "go" was not meant literally.

It meant fighting.

And Di Tian also heard the reason amid the noise.

Not everyone was as arrogant and conceited as the Crimson Lotus Witch Chen Wuzhu and the Divine Sword Youth Ye Moyong. Most people still knew their own limits.

If they did not take advantage of Di Tian's recent transformation and rebuilding, while his cultivation and strength were still weak, to defeat him...

They would never get another chance.

Defeating the great BOSS Di Tian—what an enticing achievement.

Even if Di Tian truly became invincible among gods in the future, they could still righteously say, "Di Tian was once defeated by me." It would be incredibly prestigious!

"Mm~"

After stepping out of the Soul Tool limousine, Di Tian raised a hand above his sword-like brows and looked at the dense sea of people clogging the entrance to the Elf Branch Academy.

"Those boys and girls who wanted to put a dog leash on me when we first met should be a little more reserved."

"The ones in front of me should all be trying to exploit my weakness and farm BOSS clear achievements."

He scratched between his brows with a fingertip.

"Tsk!"

"If I don't fight, these hot-blooded blockheads will probably keep blocking the entrance."

But... did he really have to fight these young kids?

That was so embarrassing.

After walking forward for a while, Di Tian decided not to fight these young kids after all.

"Snap!"

He snapped his fingers.

A holographic sky-curtain projection Soul Tool flew out, playing footage in midair of Di Tian's earlier battle against the thousand-year Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird.

"Clang—"

Bi Ji synchronously summoned her Soul Spirit—the very same thousand-year Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird.

Bi Ji stepped forward, blocking the trouble the outside world was causing Di Tian.

She had followed him in taking human form and rebuilding her cultivation in the human world precisely to help Di Tian avoid humanity's harmful influence.

"Everyone."

"Please defeat the Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird first."

"Otherwise, all the desires in your hearts will remain nothing but illusions."

At the same time.

The personnel assigned to receive Di Tian finally arrived.

The Elf Branch Academy was funded by the Federation and staffed by Shrek Academy.

Naturally, the reception personnel came from Shrek.

"Senior Beast God."

"My deepest apologies."

"An accident came up, so I was delayed for a while."

The newcomer was none other than the "Divine Sword Youth," Ye Moyong.

He had been among those who came to Elf Planet six years ago.

However.

He could no longer be called the Divine Sword Youth. Ye Moyong had already graduated from the Shrek Academy outer court and entered the inner court, becoming a young man rather than a youth.

Twenty-two years old, a nine-ringed Titled Douluo.

One of the instructors at the Elf Branch Academy.

"Senior." He explained with some distress, "The person who was supposed to receive you was Chen Wuzhu, but she seems somewhat unwilling."

"I was pulled in at the last minute to fill in for her."

"The dean is Vice Pavilion Master Wang Tianyu, but he's also tied up with something right now."

"He's arguing with Federation personnel."

"Would you prefer to first research neural bridge sensory-link technology with the Federation and pilot giant mechs, or first study thought-sharing with Shrek and the Tang Sect to develop Ecological Warship hive swarm combat?"

"He's watching that argument."

"So he didn't come personally."

Di Tian nodded indifferently.

Compared to those so-called research projects, Soul Power cultivation was more important to him.

The ascension of Soul Power was the sharp blade.

The rest were side paths he was not skilled in. Returning great power to oneself was the truly viable main path.

"Mm."

"Let's go."

Ye Moyong let out a sigh of relief. It seemed Di Tian was not as difficult to speak with as the rumors claimed.

"Alright."

"I'll show you the current state of the Elf Branch Academy."

As he walked deeper into Elf Academy, he swept his gaze around from the corners of his eyes.

The match over at the Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird's arena had already begun.

It had been beaten badly before because its opponent had been Di Tian.

But now...

On the Soul Fighting Platform, the Gold-Patterned Blue Demon Bird was exceptionally domineering. Once hailed by the God Realm as the Envoy of Time, its strength was far from ordinary.

Besides that...

Di Tian also spotted several familiar strangers.

Zheng Longjiang.

A genius Soul Master who would one day be no weaker than Ye Moyong or Chen Wuzhu. Of course, he was currently just an ordinary youth who had only recently awakened his martial soul.

His martial soul had yet to undergo its second favorable mutation.

And precisely because of that...

He had chosen to apply to the Elf Branch Academy rather than Shrek's main academy.

There was also Liu Feng.

One of the Shrek Seven Devils from the original timeline.

But Liu Feng himself was not the important one. The person beside him was.

"Summoning Money," whom Di Tian had been eagerly waiting for—the special-attack Noble Phantasm that would let him shed his shell and escape from the Douluo Demi-God Realm.

Qian Lei.

Liu Feng and Qian Lei were fellow townsmen from Tianluo Planet.

Drawn by the free cultivation resources the Federation provided at the Elf Branch Academy, the two had traveled all the way to Elf Planet. Both were representatives of civilian-born geniuses.

Liu Feng followed the perseverance route.

Qian Lei, meanwhile, belonged to the all-rounder route.

His talent was strong enough, his luck was high enough, and his ability to make money was good enough.

He had picked up the Golden Behemoth King Cub, the opportunity that would change his fate, by exploiting a loophole.

The Golden Behemoth King's furious bloodline could be suppressed even through strict control by one's wife, given that the underlying operating logic of the Douluo Continent was the Law of Love.

Even without joining the protagonist's group, he could have risen all the way to become a humanoid Golden Behemoth King.

Of course...

That would not happen now.

A summoner should follow the spatial summoning route. Why take some violent Behemoth route?

Although Di Tian had taken the Golden Behemoth King Cub, he certainly would not mistreat Qian Lei.

Perhaps one day...

This little summoner would summon a Twin Dragon Kings who was on the verge of undergoing tribulation and ascending to godhood on some alien planet.

Sparks of thought leaped through his mind.

Outwardly...

Di Tian merely glanced at "Summoning Money" once.

Some matters could not be rushed.

Being too impatient would easily expose flaws and one's true intentions.

He continued following Ye Moyong deeper into the branch academy.

The farther they went, the stranger the surroundings became.

Though the sign clearly said academy, the inside looked like a construction site still under development.

"Senior."

"Over there."

"That's the student dormitory."

Following the direction Ye Moyong pointed, Di Tian saw rows upon rows of "construction-site container dormitories" standing right before him.

Di Tian: "???"