The instant the thought occurred to him, Long Xiaoyao dismissed it.
After what he had done, Mu En could not possibly have come out to see him off.
If Mu En had not come to see him off, he must have come for something else.
After thinking it over, Long Xiaoyao guessed that Mu En had made up his mind and had come to tell him about Xuan Zi.
Sure enough, the instant that thought occurred to him, Mu En called for him to stop.
"Long Xiaoyao, we can tell you about the grudge between Xuan Zi and the Far North."
Long Xiaoyao turned and saw that Mu En had appeared again.
"But," Mu En continued, "we need to go somewhere else."
The moment Mu En finished speaking, he vanished from the spot in the blink of an eye.
Long Xiaoyao followed close behind.
As for Ye Xishui, who had been hiding in the shadows, she concealed her presence and followed the two of them.
In the blink of an eye,
two old men and a wheelchair appeared atop an unremarkable hill.
Mu En had chosen this place because it overlooked Shrek City.
More importantly, there was no one around. What he was about to say would not be heard by a third person.
What Mu En did not know was that someone had been following them all along.
Mu En spoke slowly.
"A few months ago, Yan Shaozhe, the dean of Shrek's outer academy, personally traveled to the Extreme North for his disciple, Ma Xiaotao."
Long Xiaoyao listened in silence. He did not know why Mu En was starting there.
But as long as he could carry out Ye Xishui's instructions, he was in no hurry.
Hidden in the shadows, Ye Xishui stiffened when she heard Yan Shaozhe's name.