Shrek Academy
Outer Court
It was currently between classes, and a steady stream of students came and went along the wide, shaded main path.
However, the surrounding crowd naturally parted down the middle, and many people cast varied gazes toward two figures slowly walking over.
The person on the left was a slovenly old man with white hair and beard, wearing ragged clothes. He had a huge purplish-red gourd hanging from his waist and grabbed a greasy roasted chicken leg in his hand, tearing into it largely without any decorum as he walked, his mouth full of oil.
Walking beside him, however, was a boy so exquisitely refined that he hardly seemed real.
The boy had short hair as white as fresh snow, and peerless, handsome facial features without the slightest flaw.
The most eye-catching feature was his eyes, as clear and deep as rubies. Even while being openly and secretly scrutinized by hundreds of gazes around him, his expression remained as calm as still water, without stirring even the slightest ripple.
This highly visually striking contrast combination attracted countless students to stop and stare, even at Shrek Academy, which was known for producing monsters.
"Who is that wretched old man? Dressed like a beggar, how did he sneak into our Shrek Academy?"
A freshman frowned, muttering in disgust.
A senior student nearby heard this, hurriedly lowered his voice, and turned to the side. "Junior! Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. That's an elder of the Sea God Pavilion!"
"El—Elder?!"
The freshman swallowed hard, immediately pushing the crowd in front of him as a shield while silently praying that the other party hadn't heard his just-offended words.
"Who is that white-haired boy the elder brought with him?" Another senior student looked over the white-haired boy, muttering to himself.
"This look, this hair color, and these pupils, he doesn't look like a local at all. Could he be from the Sun Moon Empire?"
"You don't understand this, do you? I've seen people from the Sun Moon Empire, they're all super dark. Besides, how could our Shrek Academy ever recruit people from the Sun Moon Empire?"
"Where he's from doesn't matter at all. The important thing is... he's really so handsome!" Several girls blushed and whispered not far away, their eyes shining brilliantly as they looked at the boy.
"I just don't know about his strength..." "Brought to the academy personally by the elder, he definitely..."
Right at that moment, Xuan Zi, who was gnawing on a chicken leg, suddenly stopped in his tracks, waved his greasy hand toward the front, and shouted vaguely,
"Bei Bei!"
Not far ahead, a boy with dark blue short hair and a gentle, refined temperament turned his head at the sound.
After seeing clearly who it was, his expression turned slightly solemn. He hurried over and respectfully bowed.
"Xuan Zi, why have you come to the Outer Court?"
As he spoke, Bei Bei's gaze naturally fell upon the white-haired boy beside him, a flash of surprise appearing in his eyes.
Personally brought by Xuan Zi, who usually hated bothering with matters, could it be...?
He looked at Xuan Zi wiping grease on his pants beside him, then looked at the clean white-haired boy.
Fine, let's rule out a blood relation first.
"This is..."
Xuan Zi swallowed the chicken in his mouth, took a swig of wine from his gourd, chuckled, and leaned in a bit closer mysteriously.
"Isn't this a coincidence? Come, you youngsters get to know each other. This kid is a little monster I picked up in Shrek Outer City!"
Picked up?
Before Bei Bei could even feel confused, Xuan Zi deliberately lowered his voice a bit more.
"Bei Bei, don't look at how this kid is as delicate as a girl. Based on his martial soul, his future achievements will probably be no less than your great-grandfather's."
As soon as these words were spoken, Bei Bei's heart was shaken fiercely, and his eyes widened slightly in disbelief.
Who was his great-grandfather? He was the current master of the Sea God Pavilion, the Limit Douluo standing at the pinnacle of the continent—Mu En!
Although Xuan Zi usually acted unrestrained, he would never talk nonsense about such matters.
To be able to receive such an evaluation from Xuan Zi, and even be compared to his great-grandfather, just how terrifying was the talent of this white-haired boy who looked not much younger than him?!
Suppressing the churning waves in his heart, Bei Bei quickly adjusted his expression, restrained the easygoing attitude he usually had toward ordinary new students, solemnly reached out his hand, and smiled.
"Hello, junior. I'm Bei Bei. If you have any issues in the Outer Court in the future, you can always come find me."
"Ye Chenxing."
Ye Chenxing put on a polite smile, calmly extended his hand to shake Bei Bei's. "Please take care of me from now on, Senior Bei Bei."
Neither humble nor arrogant, poised and calm.
Bei Bei secretly admired him, and the importance he placed on him grew a bit more.
"Alright, alright, you two kids, what's with the fake politeness here? You'll have plenty of time to get along in the future. I can guarantee that based on the compatibility of your martial souls, you'll definitely get along like biological brothers, just like your great-grandfather back then."
Xuan Zi took a bite of a chicken leg, waved his hand to interrupt the pleasantries between the two, and said to Ye Chenxing, "Let's go, kid. Old man, I'll take you to see Mu En first."
Bidding farewell to the two, Bei Bei looked at Ye Chenxing's retreating figure, inwardly startled.
Just like his great-grandfather?
Although Bei Bei had never seen it with his own eyes, he had heard about such a person from his great-grandfather.
Combined with the faint dragon might he had felt from the other, along with the repulsion between their attributes, it allowed him to already guess the other's martial soul...
"Dark Sacred Dragon!"
While continuing to lead Ye Chenxing deeper into the academy, Xuan Zi sighed with emotion.
"I never expected that a super true dragon martial soul like the Dark Sacred Dragon would actually appear on a commoner with zero background."
You must know that the last recorded possessor of the Dark Sacred Dragon martial soul was precisely Mu En's close friend—Long Xiaoyao, the Dragon Emperor Douluo, who was known alongside Mu En as the Black and White Twin Sacred Dragons!
And at this moment, a genius possessing the exact same martial soul as the Dragon Emperor Douluo of back then had just naturally and vividly appeared before him, so how could he not be overjoyed?
Extremely formidable martial soul talent.
An unburdened orphan's background.
As long as he joined Shrek Academy and made a few friends with clean foundations like Bei Bei.
Then served as a reserve member to participate in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament, with all sorts of academy auras of honor and teacher-student bonds piled on top.
Once he entered the inner court, joined the Shrek Inspection Corps, and then let him participate in the traditional Sea God's Fate blind date event... link after link.
Wouldn't this kid be utterly devoted and work to the death for Shrek?
In this lifetime, he was definitely securely welded to Shrek's massive ship!
The abacus in Xuan Zi's heart clicked and clacked loudly as he recalled how he had merely gone to an old tavern in the Shrek Outer City to get two taels of liquor.
To have so coincidentally encountered such a distinctive youth—this dragon might, this dark attribute—as someone who had interacted with Long Xiaoyao up close, even if he forgot the other's appearance, he would never forget the feeling that the other's martial soul aura brought him.
He was actually able to pick up a peerless genius for free just like that.
As expected, I am Shrek's lucky star.
Beside him, Ye Chenxing, who was following behind Xuan Zi, looked at Xuan Zi—who was currently displaying world-shaking wisdom—with a helpless face and silently shook his head.
Dark Sacred Dragon?
Have you ever awakened a Dark Sacred Dragon yourself? Randomly guessing things and taking things for granted.
That was merely a misjudgment he made Xuan Zi produce through methods in order to enter Shrek Academy.
The bloodline flowing within Ye Chenxing's body far surpassed a true dragon martial soul.
That was the origin of the [Fantasy Tree] that had transmigrated alongside him from another world!
And what he schemed for went far beyond simply entering Shrek Academy...
Passing through the outer court's shaded path, at the end of his field of vision, a wide, sparkling lake faintly appeared.
And in the center of that heart-of-the-lake island, an indescribable, towering giant tree stood quietly.
Even across an extremely distant distance, Ye Chenxing could clearly sense that dense life energy emitting a hazy, golden glow under the sunlight's illumination.
However, in the interior invisible to the naked eye, beneath those deep roots, a creature named the Blue Silver Emperor was entrenched, greedily absorbing the Golden Tree's life as well as that plane's core of life.
Thinking of this, the corner of Ye Chenxing's mouth hooked into a trace of a curve.
Tang San, I'm borrowing your old ancestor for a bit.
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