Ma Hongjun was lucky enough to escape into the city, where he became a four-year-old beggar. Unlike the countryside, the city's order had not collapsed. On the contrary, it was steeped in extravagance.
Even as a beggar, he could rummage through the trash bins near some lord's home and find enough spoiled food to barely fill his stomach.
As he swallowed half a moldy loaf of bread, Ma Hongjun thought of everything he had gone through during this time, and tears streamed down his face uncontrollably.
He should have grown up healthy in Grass Chicken Village, awakened his Martial Soul smoothly at the age of six, entered Flender's tutelage, become one of the Shrek Seven Monsters, and retraced the path to the pinnacle of his previous life. Having been reborn, all he needed to do was act at crucial moments and change the regrets of his former life.
But why had things turned out like this? Why had things turned out like this?
Forget awakening his Martial Soul—even surviving until the age of six was an enormous challenge.
A single speck of ash from the era, falling upon an individual, became a mountain. A Five Finger Mountain, crushing him until he could barely breathe.
After arriving in the city, Ma Hongjun also learned things that he had never learned in the countryside.
Spirit Hall's expedition against Sea God Island had ended in failure, costing them soldiers and generals. Therefore, the two great empires intended to seize this chance to destroy Spirit Hall.
At that thought, hatred surged within Ma Hongjun.
Spirit Hall, why did you have to court death? Why did you attack Sea God Island? Couldn't you have just behaved yourselves and waited for Tang San and me to rise up and destroy you? Why did you have to