The sun slowly rose, widening that sliver of pale dawn as the sky gradually brightened.
The sunlight drove away the darkness, signaling the arrival of a new day.
Yet for the six Shrek students besides Qin Rongrong, the darkness in their hearts could not be dispelled.
Ma Hongjun had been castrated and brutally beaten.
Xiao Wu had been roasted into a grilled rabbit.
Tang San had watched Xiao Wu get hurt right before his eyes, yet he had been powerless to do anything.
Chang Gong Miao had accidentally injured Xiao Wu and feared it would create a rift in his friendship with Tang San.
Not only had Dai Mubai been beaten, but he had also been forced to kneel before a woman and crawl beneath the crotches of six grown men. After returning, he still had to put up with Qin Rongrong's attitude.
As for Oscar, he was caught between Qin Rongrong and Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others, while also having to figure out how to pursue Qin Rongrong and make her stop despising him.
Perhaps among the six of them, he was the one suffering the most.
The town was not far from the Great Star Dou Forest, less than a hundred li away.
After eating Oscar's sausages, Oscar handed each of them a Recovery Sausage and a Detoxification Sausage. Once they had recovered their stamina to its peak, they entered the Great Star Dou Forest.
This time, Zhao Wuji had Dai Mubai and Chang Gong Miao, the two White Green Tigers with the strongest Soul Power, walk at the front while he personally brought up the rear.
Under Dai Mubai's deliberate guidance, after roughly two hours, around noon, the Shrek group arrived at the spot where they had encountered the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent in the original