Shrek Academies Assemble, Spanning Four Eras

She had given her life for Tang San and borne him two children!

Then Lin Yuan's voice rang out:

"Of course Tang San had to sacrifice you to secure his hold on the Divine Realm. If he'd saved you, he would have gone down in history as an unfilial son.

"That would have made it much harder for him to control the Divine Realm.

"So he could only save his mother.

"And you, Xiao Wu, have been nothing but a tool for him to use from beginning to end.

"You were his spirit ring and Spirit Bone. You became the Asura Sword Scabbard. And you're still a tool to him now.

"You share a special connection with me, so you should know I'll never let you out.

"You know too many secrets. You can only stay here and work for me."

"Do I really have no chance of getting out?"

Xiao Wu's voice was bitter. "I just want to ask Tang San to his face why he could be so cruel."

"None at all.

"Give up!"

"Then I might as well die!"

"Could you bear to?

"You still have two children.

"You wouldn't want anything to happen to them, would you, madam?"

"You really are a monster."

Xiao Wu knew a strange, indescribable bond had formed between her and the Golden Dragon King. She had no way to break free of him.

For now, she could only accept it.

"Then can you bring my children to me?

"I can't rest easy leaving them with Tang San."

"Oh, you're sharper than I thought."

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow. "If you leave them with Tang San, he really will use them without restraint.

"But whether I help you

"depends on how sincere you are. You'll have to prove yourself."

"I will!"

"Remember, the only reason I've spared your life is to make Tang San suffer.

"He plotted against me at every turn and even cost me my life. There's no way I won't avenge that blood debt.

"Not killing every last one of you is mercy enough."

"I know."

Xiao Wu spoke softly. "I know you have a blood feud with Tang San. That's why I believe you."

Well, Xiao Wu had turned against Tang San fast. Then again, she was the Asura Sword Scabbard!

She caught on quickly.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, was that it?

But Lin Yuan knew better.

Xiao Wu was nowhere near hating Tang San yet. She probably just wanted the truth—an explanation from him.

Unfortunately, Lin Yuan had no intention of giving her one.

And now that the seed had been planted in her heart, he could nurture it to its fullest.

He would turn her into the sharpest blade he had to drive into Tang San.

With the system binding her, Xiao Wu couldn't cause him any trouble anyway.

Ironically, that binding made Xiao Wu the person he "trusted" most. Under its terms, she was classified not as a person, but as an object.

And an object was absolutely loyal.

With Xiao Wu dealt with, Lin Yuan turned his attention to the Divine Examination. Everything was ready except the final charge.

Once it was charged, he could bring the Divine Examination down upon the Douluo Continent.

The final charge wouldn't take long—two hours or so.

But the Divine Realm was about to take another brutal hit.

He would drain them dry.

He'd keep draining until he was done.

Meanwhile, Tang San had abandoned Chen Xinjie's body, which was on the verge of collapse.

His divine consciousness returned to the Divine Realm, and his soul returned to its rightful place.

But the Asura Baleful Aura within him instantly suppressed all his Sea God Divine Power. He went mad and began attacking at random.

The Kindness God King and the Evil God King had had more than enough.

They had to uphold order in the Divine Realm, keep the God Realm Center running, and resist the Temporal Turbulence—all while diverting their strength to suppress the rampaging Tang San.

Then things got even worse.

The loss of Divine Power intensified into a voracious siphon. The Golden Dragon King was at it again.

The Divine Realm teetered on the brink.

At that moment, Dai Yuhao, Tang San's most devoted lackey, couldn't sit still. Seeing the disaster his father-in-law had caused, all he wanted was to make up for it.

So Dai Yuhao offered up the very source of his Divine Power to fill the bottomless pit that was the God Realm Center. At last, the situation stabilized.

Inside the center of the Divine Examination Space, Lin Yuan was growing more enthusiastic with every bit of power he drained. Then he noticed a Demigod Position had appeared in the center out of nowhere—the position of the Emotion God.

So Dai Yuhao had sacrificed half his god position to clean up Tang San's mess. What an outstanding son-in-law!

Did Tang San and Dai Yuhao have some secret they couldn't let anyone know about?

That would explain why Tang San wouldn't let Dai Yuhao touch Tang Wutong.

Was that also why Tang San had insisted on killing Electrolux?

Did he not want any trace of another man on Dai Yuhao?

Damn. Had I stumbled onto something here?

But that wasn't what mattered most. Lin Yuan had also discovered that he could drain god positions, not just Divine Power. Once a god's source of Divine Power was gone, their god position would naturally vanish too.

He had only drained half so far. As he drew harder and the Divine Examination demanded more energy, Dai Yuhao would probably be pushed forward to bear the burden. When that happened, Lin Yuan might be able to strip away his entire god position.

After that, he could drain the other gods of theirs too. What was he waiting for?

Time to drain them!

He'd drain every last one of those bastards dry!

And when he'd drained Tang San of every god position he had, that would be satisfying!

Two hours passed. At last, the Divine Examination was fully charged.

Those few hours in the Divine Realm amounted to a full month on the Douluo Continent.

But when Lin Yuan prepared to activate the Dragon God's Ten Trials and bring the Divine Examination down upon the Douluo Continent—upon Shrek Academy and every Shrek student and teacher—he froze.

Shrek Academy had been rebuilt. After a month, that was hardly surprising.

What stunned him was that the Dragon God's Ten Trials had stalled.

He had set the Divine Examination to descend upon Shrek Academy.

But now it was stuck. On the [Divine Examination Icon Panel], countless icons had lit up alongside the original Shrek Academy—so many he couldn't even count them.

There was Holy Spirit Shrek Academy, Spirit Transferring Shrek Academy, Body Shrek Academy, Forging Shrek Academy, Mecha Shrek Academy, Soul Guidance Shrek Academy, Tang Sect Shrek Academy...

Then came Douluo Shrek Academy, Star Luo Shrek Academy, and Heaven Dou Shrek Academy. Every Top Power with a recognizable name had appeared.

Every one of them had slapped "Shrek" onto its name.

And those were just the biggest ones. Below them were countless tiny academies he'd never even heard of, all named something-or-other Shrek, with nothing but a word added to the front.

One Shrek had fallen, and thousands upon thousands had risen in its place.

Even knockoff merchants couldn't have latched onto the craze that fast.

Lin Yuan stared at the endless list of Shreks on the screen, his mouth twitching.

Had these savages on Douluo lost their minds?

But those Shrek Academies weren't what shocked him most.

There were three others that defied belief.

All three were simply called Shrek Academy, with no prefix at all.

But the first had Flender as its dean. The second had Taotie Douluo Xuan Zi. The third had Ling Zichen.

He knew the Temporal Turbulence had made a mess of time—Tang Wulin had returned after three thousand years as an infant. But nobody had told him things had gotten this chaotic!

Was his Divine Examination about to span four Shrek Academies across four parallel worlds?

Had everything gone completely insane?