Shrek Is No Longer What It Once Was!

Long Wushang and Nan Shuishui got along quite well and drank quite a lot. Something even seemed to have happened between them, but by noon the next day, Nan Shuishui had hurried back to Dragon City with her daughter.

As for Long Wushang, he had originally planned to return to the Sun Moon Empire. After all, there was nothing for him to do here. However, a recent report from the merchant association regarding the construction of a branch had changed his mind.

This report had actually obtained approval from Shrek City. It turned out that after Mu En's death, Shrek Academy had taken his final words as its new development goal.

They had begun vigorously supporting Soul Tools and their related upstream and downstream industries, including all kinds of suppliers and merchant associations.

Moreover, Shrek Academy had just endured the ravages of war and was undergoing reconstruction, which required a massive amount of funding. But if the academy wanted the three great empires to foot the bill, those empires were no fools. How could they keep pouring money into such a bottomless pit?

Thus, the current situation emerged. Merchant associations of all sizes, seeking the right to establish themselves in Shrek City, had rushed to buy land, construct buildings, open shops, and conduct business.

It had to be said that once such matters were involved, corruption and bribery were unavoidable. On top of that, the academy deliberately intended to squeeze money from these merchants.

Thus, in a short period of time, vast sums of money flooded into this former sacred ground of learning, and Shrek City was rapidly rebuilt in an extremely short time.

The Black Dragon Merchant Association had been the fastest-growing merchant association across the four great empires, including the Sun Moon Empire, over the past year or