Mu En's Shock: There Was Actually a Light-Attribute Martial Soul Stronger Than the Radiant Sacred Dragon

Half a month later.

When the towering, majestic city appeared on the horizon, Ye Guyi felt as though a lifetime had passed.

Shrek City.

The greatest city in the world.

It was not as lavish and magnificent as the capitals of other nations.

Nor was it filled with the cold aura of soul-tool technology like Mingdu.

Yet it possessed a unique charm.

Ancient, solemn, and dignified, it was like a monument that had stood for ten thousand years, witnessing the birth and end of countless legends.

Because the greatest academy in the world, Shrek Academy, was located here, the city had naturally become a holy land in the hearts of soul masters across the continent.

Every day, countless young people carrying dreams arrived from all directions, yearning to enter that institution that symbolized glory and strength.

Once inside the city, shops lined both sides of the broad streets, while pedestrians flowed endlessly past.

Unlike the desolation and chaos of the outside world, Shrek City was prosperous and peaceful, as though it had been cut off from the rest of the world.

Students in uniforms of all colors could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys. Some hurried along, while others chatted and laughed in small groups, radiating youthful energy.

Ye Guyi curiously took in everything around her, her eyes full of wonder.

She had traveled far and wide with her mother since childhood and visited quite a few places, but this was her first time in Shrek City.

As they walked, she suddenly stopped. As if recalling something, she abruptly turned to Li Changqing and cried out, "If I remember correctly, don't you need a letter of recommendation to enter Shrek Academy?"

Without stopping, Li Changqing casually answered, "That's right. It improves enrollment efficiency and keeps untalented commoners from wasting their time taking the entrance examination. Shrek Academy has limited admission slots, but tens of thousands apply every year. Without some sort of preliminary screening, the examinations alone would take months."

Ye Guyi's face immediately fell, and her voice softened. "But I... I don't have one. Before this, I never even thought I'd come here."

She lowered her head dejectedly.

She had finally found a goal and hope. Was it all going to fall apart because of a single recommendation letter?

Li Changqing chuckled and pulled a letter from his robes, holding it out to her.

Ye Guyi accepted it. The moment she opened it, she froze.

It was an official recommendation letter from Shrek Academy. The paper was of excellent quality, stamped with a bright red official seal. Its contents followed the proper format, and it even bore the signature of an unfamiliar city lord at the bottom.

Most importantly—it was a blank recommendation letter!

The name field was completely empty.

In other words, as long as she filled in her own name, it would immediately become valid!

"Y-you... where did you get this?" Ye Guyi looked up at Li Changqing in utter surprise.

Li Changqing shrugged, his tone casual. "Not long ago, I passed through a city and happened to help its city lord wipe out a team of evil soul masters that had been terrorizing the area. He insisted on thanking me, so I asked him for a few blank recommendation letters, thinking they might come in handy someday. Turns out they really did."

Ye Guyi: "..."

Looking at Li Changqing's expression as though it were no more than a trivial matter, she did not know what to say.

Casually slaughtering a team of evil soul masters in exchange for several Shrek Academy recommendation letters...

Perhaps only he could pull off something like that.

With the recommendation letter, everything that followed was much simpler.

The two arrived outside Shrek Academy's main gate and handed their recommendation letters to the reception teacher stationed there.

After inspecting them and confirming that there were no issues, the teacher completed their enrollment procedures, assigned them dormitories, and distributed their uniforms and student handbooks.

The entire process went unbelievably smoothly, taking less than an hour from start to finish.

"So I'm... enrolled now?" Ye Guyi held her brand-new uniform, still unable to process it.

"What else?"

Li Changqing glanced at her and asked, "Did you want to fight someone to prove yourself?"

Ye Guyi considered it and felt that he had a point, so she stopped dwelling on it.

The two parted ways within the academy and headed for their assigned dormitory areas, agreeing to go out for dinner together that evening.

Shrek Academy's dormitory district was quiet and secluded, shaded by lush green trees.

Li Changqing walked along the stone path, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings as he nodded inwardly.

As expected of the continent's greatest academy. Its facilities alone were enough to crush the vast majority of factions.

He had not gone far when he spotted an old rattan chair beneath a large locust tree ahead.

An old man lay in the chair.

The old man looked incredibly aged. His white hair was sparse and thin, while the loose, wrinkled skin on his face was covered in the traces of time.

He wore a faded gray robe. His body was withered, his breathing faint, and he looked as though a gust of wind could scatter him away. He seemed not long for this world.

Li Changqing merely glanced at him before withdrawing his gaze and continuing onward.

Dragon God Douluo Mu En.

A Rank 99 Ultimate Douluo, the pillar that steadied Shrek Academy.

Yet this once-legendary powerhouse had now reached the end of his life.

Judging by how frail he was, he probably could not hold on for more than a few years.

However, just as Li Changqing was about to pass the locust tree, the old man in the rattan chair slowly opened his eyes.

Mu En had merely been taking an afternoon nap, enjoying a rare moment of leisure.

But when that young man passed by him, the Radiant Sacred Dragon martial soul within him suddenly stirred strangely.

It was a... feeling that defied explanation.

It was as though it had encountered some higher existence, causing his martial soul to instinctively feel both reverence and affinity.

Mu En narrowed his cloudy old eyes slightly, his gaze settling on the boy's back.

This child... was far from ordinary.

The soul power within him was rich and solid, his foundation stable—far beyond others his age.

More importantly, he carried an unfathomable aura.

It was not merely the aura of the Dao. There was also a sacred aura, pure and vast, as though it had descended from the Ninth Heaven.

Moreover, this sacred power was actually purer and more terrifying than the light power contained within his Radiant Sacred Dragon martial soul, which had mutated from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon!

How was that possible?

A storm raged in Mu En's heart, but none of it showed on his face.

After pondering for a moment, he came to a guess.

Could this child be a descendant of angels?

Could he possess the purest Six-Winged Angel martial soul?

If so, that would explain it.

After all, the Six-Winged Angel martial soul possessed by the legendary Angel God ten thousand years ago had been a god-tier martial soul.

The sacred light power it carried truly could have surpassed his Radiant Sacred Dragon, which had mutated from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.

With that thought, Mu En called out to the young man, "Child, wait a moment."

Li Changqing stopped and turned around, looking calmly at the old man. "Old sir, what do you need?"

Mu En slowly sat up.

Though his movements were sluggish, wisdom glimmered in his clouded eyes.

He studied Li Changqing from head to toe before asking, "Child, what is your name? What is your martial soul?"

Facing this peerless powerhouse who stood at the pinnacle of the continent, Li Changqing showed neither nervousness nor restraint. He simply answered truthfully, "My name is Li Changqing. My martial soul is the Heavenly Profound and Earthly Yellow Exquisite Pagoda. My soul power is Rank 38."

In his previous life, he had gone to Mount Longhu to burn incense for the Three Pure Ones. Then, on his way home, he had been hit by a truck. When he woke up, he discovered that he had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent, ten thousand years after Tang San's ascension.

In this era, where evil soul masters ran rampant and war could break out at any moment, life was worse than death without a good martial soul and sufficient strength.

One only had to look at those pitiful people abducted by evil soul masters and refined into soul tools or fused into martial souls to understand.

Fortunately, Heaven had treated him well.

He had obtained the Taishang inheritance.

Sometimes, he even wondered whether the Dao Ancestor had felt indebted to him and deliberately opened this back door for him.

So he began traveling the continent, following the example of the legendary ancestral Celestial Master Zhang Daoling. He started by cleansing demons, gradually accumulating experience and strength.

Once he had truly grown strong, he would carry out a thorough purge and allow the radiance of Taoist Taishang to shine once more upon this land corroded by evil and darkness.

He had done this for several years, until not long ago, when he encountered Ye Guyi and her mother, Ye Wanqing.