Return to Suotuo City! Shrek Academy Faces Disbandment!

When Suotuo City's outline appeared at the edge of his vision, Huang Yun slowed his flight.

The familiar gray-white bricks atop the city walls, the carts and crowds passing through the gates, the weathered flag hanging above the entrance—nothing had changed.

Two years was far too short a time for a city. The layout of the streets, the shop signs, the hawkers' cries were almost exactly as they had been when he left.

But he had changed.

When he left this city two years ago, he had been a twelve-year-old Four-Ring Soul Ancestor. He had just crushed Dai Mubai at the Great Soul Arena and swiped a Storage Ring from Flender, high-spirited yet still carrying the immaturity and impatience of youth.

Now, he had returned at fourteen years old, a Level-71 Soul Sage with the Divine Rank Martial Soul Thunder Kunpeng and a Hundred Thousand Year Innate Spirit Ring. He carried two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and a growable External Dragon Tail Spirit Bone, and his entire body exuded an aura so terrifying that even he found it frightening.

He had gained dozens of levels in two years, rising from Soul Ancestor to Soul Saint. There was no second person like him on the entire continent.

He landed on a secluded dirt slope outside the city, folded his wings, and walked toward the gates.

He wore no mask, only a clean set of gray cloth robes. He looked like nothing more than an ordinary young traveler.

Once he entered the city, familiar sensations washed over him.

The noodle stall at the roadside was still in its old spot, white smoke still rose from the ovens of the flatbread sellers, and the clanging hammer blows from the blacksmith shops could be heard from two streets away.

Huang Yun slowly walked