Strange Disturbance in the Overworld

"Sea God's Light, the Sea God has manifested..."

After learning what had happened at Shrek Academy, Mu En immediately rushed back from the Spirit Pagoda in the Extreme North, but no matter how fast he was, he was still a step too late.

After Mu En returned, a Sea God Pavilion meeting was convened the following afternoon.

The long table was filled with Shrek's core upper echelon. A heavy silence hung in the air. Mu En sat at the head of the table, listened to the elders' reports, and only spoke after a moment of silence.

"Wang Dong was taken away by the Haotian Sect?"

Mu En froze for a moment upon hearing this, but quickly understood. This Sea God's Light might have been drawn out by the Haotian Sect.

But why?

The question lingered in Mu En's mind. The appearance of Sea God's Light could not be dismissed so easily.

"Should we ask Huo Yuhao?"

One of the elders spoke. After that power had vanished, only Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong had been inside. Wang Dong had left, so Huo Yuhao was the only one they could ask.

"No need. He's only a child. He wouldn't know much."

Mu En shook his head. Under those circumstances, it was already impressive that Huo Yuhao had regained consciousness, let alone learned anything.

"But that was Sea God's Light..."

Another elder spoke up, his voice carrying excitement he could barely suppress. His faith in the Sea God was exceedingly pure. He had believed in the Sea God's lineage since his youth, and to him, the Sea God manifesting was far more significant than any of the current events.

"I can use Sea God's Light too. Want to try it?"

Mu En glanced at him, releasing a trace of a Limit Douluo's aura. The elder instantly shut his mouth.

"Teacher, Wang Dong has left, so the reserve team is short one person. Should we choose another?"

Yan Shaozhe asked. Now that Wang Dong had returned to the Haotian Sect, the reserve team was missing someone.

"You're the dean of the Martial Soul Department. Why are you asking me?"

Mu En was speechless. Yan Shaozhe had been in the Martial Soul Department for so long, yet he still needed Mu En to handle something like this.

"Yes. Then this student will make the decision myself."

The Shrek reserve team had gathered together and was discussing last night's phenomenon.

"Wang Dong is actually from the Haotian Sect? Doesn't that mean he has twin martial souls?"

Xu Sanshi said. He had never expected Wang Dong to hide things so deeply and actually be from the Haotian Sect.

"Not necessarily. Even if he's from the Haotian Sect, his martial soul might not be the Clear Sky Hammer."

Bei Bei said. Martial souls were indeed related to bloodlines, but the connection was not absolute.

"And the chances of twin martial souls..."

At this point, Bei Bei froze and looked toward Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao. Rarely, he fell silent and immediately changed his wording.

"It's not impossible."

"That's true."

Xu Sanshi had only mentioned twin martial souls as a joke, but after seeing Bei Bei's gaze sweep over Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao, he too fell silent.

The odds of twin martial souls were very low, but they didn't seem impossible.

Two had already appeared here. A third didn't seem impossible either.

"Forget it, let's stop talking about this. We should talk less about the Haotian Sect. Do you think the dean will add a newcomer?"

Xu Sanshi knew that the Haotian Sect had remained hidden from the world for a long time. If people discovered them discussing it here, there might be trouble.

"Probably not. Wang Dong only left; he didn't withdraw."

Bei Bei shook his head. Though Wang Dong was absent, his status remained. The academy was unlikely to bring in a replacement. If Wang Dong returned later, what would the academy do then? They were only the reserve team anyway. It did not matter whether they were short a person or not.

While Bei Bei and Xu Sanshi chatted, Xiao Xiao stood nearby and listened without interrupting. Her gaze passed over Huo Yuhao, then moved away, before drifting back to him again.

Ever since that beam of light last night, she had noticed something strange. Everyone who had come out of the outer academy dormitories had a faint golden glow around them, more or less. She had learned from a senior that these were traces left by being touched by Sea God's Light.

Almost everyone had them, herself included, but...

Xiao Xiao looked at Huo Yuhao. There was nothing around him at all.

"Interesting. It seems your classmate is protected by a god."

A cool, pleasant voice sounded in Xiao Xiao's mind.

"Senior Azure Phoenix, can you tell which god is on Yuhao? The Sea God?"

Xiao Xiao asked. Senior Azure Phoenix had descended from the sky when her martial soul awakened, but had only truly awakened when Sea God's Light erupted last night.

"No. This is not the aura of the God Realm. If it were, it would be obvious. It should be a god from another domain."

Azure Phoenix herself was a beast god. Due to special circumstances, she had hidden deep within the God Realm and escaped the purge back then. She had been briefly awakened during Xiao Xiao's awakening, then descended to the lower realm and attached herself to Xiao Xiao.

"I don't know what the God Realm is like now, but another rule has appeared in this world that restricts beasts from becoming gods. You should be careful in all things."

"Then aren't you in danger, Senior?"

Xiao Xiao was somewhat worried, but Azure Phoenix was not worried about herself.

"Don't worry. The God Realm does not reject beast gods now. It was only that fellow Dragon God who went mad back then. I also have some ties with the Goddess of Life. Once I recover, I'll go have a few cups of tea with her first."

Azure Phoenix had once nested in the Tree of Life and was practically half best friends with the Goddess of Life. When the time came, she could ask the Goddess of Life about the current situation in the God Realm.

"That's good."

Xiao Xiao was relieved to hear that.

"Don't worry. Even if my divine position is that of a beast god, you are still human. After ascending to the God Realm, no one will make an issue of your inheriting a beast god's divine position."

After all, from a certain perspective, the Goddess of Life was also considered a beast god.

"Can I really become a god?"

The legends of godhood she had heard since childhood all came from ten thousand years ago. No new gods had been born in nearly ten thousand years. That path sounded too distant, too ethereal. Although Senior Azure Phoenix made it sound easy, Xiao Xiao still was not sure whether she truly had the qualifications to become a god.

"Don't worry. With your talent, you are more than qualified to be my successor. Both of your martial souls carry my aura, making them highly suitable for inheriting my divine position."

Azure Phoenix said. Xiao Xiao's two martial souls were both well suited to inherit her divine position.

There were two ways to become a god. One was to become a god on one's own, while the other was to inherit a divine position. The former was the most difficult, while the difficulty of the latter was uncertain.

If the god passing on the inheritance wished to do so, the divine position could be inherited very easily. But if that god merely wished to find a dependent, then it would be very difficult.

What Azure Phoenix wanted now was to quickly break free from her beast god divine position and shed the beast god aura around her. The world's restrictions on beast gods were too great, suppressing most of Azure Phoenix's divine power. After breaking free from the beast god divine position, she was somewhat confident she could break through to the God King realm.

"Strange power. Could it be god-level?"

Within Huo Yuhao's sea of consciousness, Xia Liang sensed the aura around Xiao Xiao. It was clearly the aura of a god, but it was very strange...

It did not seem human.

Forget it. There was no hostility. He could investigate it later.

Xia Liang did not sense any hostility, so he could investigate it slowly afterward.

Just as Xia Liang was preparing to open a new Twilight Forest for exploration, he sensed an abnormality in Minecraft's Overworld.

"This is? The Mutant Mod?"