The Federation still intended to hold one final round of negotiations with Shrek Academy's survivors over the Research Department and the aftermath of Shrek's destruction.
A makeshift shelter had gone up on a relatively level stretch of rubble.
Beyond these broken walls, filled with despair and the faintest signs of life, the outside world was in an uproar over Shrek's fall. Every faction eyed the fallen giant's legacy like wolves watching a whale carcass.
Ya Li, Wei Heng, and the few other surviving senior leaders had no time to concern themselves with any of that. The crushing burdens of survival and rebuilding left them barely able to breathe.
The moment Ya Li finally woke, she forced herself through the stabbing grief of losing her beloved and the devastation of her injuries to summon every surviving Shrek leader.
However unwilling they were to admit it, Shrek Academy, which had once stood proudly atop the Soul Master World, was now at its weakest.
An academy once crowded with powerful figures had only a dozen or so senior members left to sit here, Wei Heng included.
Some teachers at the Soul Saint and Soul Douluo levels had survived the disaster.
Compared with the original account, in which Wu Changkong was the only surviving teacher, seven more had survived this time, including Shen Yi.
Yes, Shen Yi had survived too. But neither he nor Wu Changkong felt they had much right to sit here. From one perspective, the direct cause of the conflict and calamity that had engulfed Shrek City and the Federation was Cai Yue'er, Zhuo Shi, and the others' failed operation. Their capture had given the Federation its pretext to act.
As for the remaining Titled Douluo, excluding those taken by the Research Department, there were only two, Ya Li herself included.