The Divine Examination Begins-Whoa, There's Another Powerhouse

But a smile soon returned to Lin Yuan's face.

However it had pierced through, this was tremendous news. It meant he could drain several other Douluo Continents alongside this one.

If he devoured several parallel worlds at once, forget the Dragon God—he might even produce a few Supreme Gods.

He would give them all access to the Divine Examination. Every last one.

Soul Land I, Soul Land II, another Legend of the Dragon King world, and Ultimate Douluo. All of them.

If they wanted to participate, let them. Anyone from Shrek could join.

But this Douluo Continent had rather too many Shrek Academies. They could participate in the Divine Examination, but he would set up an academy assessment system and make them compete for the single place as the legitimate Shrek.

Only the academy ranked first in overall strength would be the one true Shrek Academy. The rest would all be impostors.

He would let those academies enter the assessment, but their teachers and students could not receive individual Divine Examinations. If he gave them all one, who would hunt down Shrek's people for him?

Besides, he couldn't afford it. That would be like taking responsibility for every soul master on Douluo Continent with Innate Soul Power of level six or above. There had to be hundreds of thousands of them.

The soul masters in Legend of the Dragon King were exceptionally strong, after all. Draining the entire Divine Realm probably wouldn't be enough.

He did intend to drain the Divine Realm, but doing it for nothing would be a colossal waste.

With those rules settled, Lin Yuan turned his attention back to the [Divine Examination Display Panel].

Flender's Shrek from Soul Land I, Xuan Zi's Shrek from Soul Land II, and the Shrek from the other Legend of the Dragon King world had all entered without trouble. Only the fourth left him unsure what to do.

Ultimate Douluo was simply too outrageous. Its world had already ascended. Pick any elder from the Sea God Pavilion, and they would be a god-level powerhouse.

Even Six-Word Battle Armor existed there.

And Ling Zichen was immortal. The monsters from Ultimate Douluo would crush everyone else even if they were the same age.

If they joined the Divine Examination's contests, it wouldn't be a competition. It would be a massacre, and he would struggle to keep it under control.

Lin Yuan thought it over carefully. Then a wicked grin spread across his face.

If they're that strong, they can stop being examinees and become the bosses instead.

He would make Ultimate Douluo's Shrek and its entire world the final boss world.

It would open once a month. All examinees could participate, and the teachers, students, and Divine Examination participants from every Plane's Shrek could team up to attack it.

At first, they might only be throwing themselves to the wolves. But as the Divine Examination continued and the top powerhouses grew stronger, they should eventually be able to conquer Ultimate Douluo.

Rewards for the monthly boss battle would be settled in points. To make sure they fought their hardest, he would add a resurrection mechanism. It would only cost a little Divine Power. If Tang Hao could do it, why couldn't he?

The Divine Realm would foot the bill for everything anyway. If they could conquer the Ultimate Douluo world, it would be glorious.

There was a Great God Circle there, after all. Temporal Turbulence really was a wonderful thing—it had linked so many parallel worlds for him in one stroke.

Once he had finished planning, Lin Yuan added the instructions to the Divine Examination one by one. He drew another massive surge of Divine Power from the Divine Realm, and the Dragon God's Ten Trials officially descended.

A vast Divine Examination spanning six entire Planes had begun.

The moment it descended, a small Baby Dragon statue appeared out of thin air at the center of every Shrek Academy in the worlds of Soul Land I, Soul Land II, Soul Land III, his main Legend of the Dragon King Plane, and Ultimate Douluo.

The next instant, every registered Shrek teacher and student in those worlds except Ultimate Douluo lit up in various colors. More than fifty thousand people entered the examination.

Over thirty thousand received the White-Level Five Trials, over ten thousand the Yellow-Level Six Trials, over three thousand the Purple-Level Seven Trials, and over a thousand the Black-Level Eight Trials. Finally, more than 150 received the ninth level, the Red-Level Nine Trials.

After the Divine Examination descended, a corresponding Divine Examination Mark appeared on every Shrek teacher's and student's forehead. Each mark vanished again soon afterward.

But the moment those marks appeared, every faction in those worlds that Shrek Academy had planted spies in discovered them. They had effectively been labeled in plain sight.

One second, those spies were calling people their brothers. The next, a Divine Examination Mark appeared on them.

How was anyone supposed to explain that?

A huge number of Shrek spies were exposed on the spot. They were caught before they could even explain themselves, then dealt with by the factions they had infiltrated.

Shrek lost a chunk of its examinees as soon as the examination began.

The descent of the Divine Examination sent every world into an uproar. The curtain had risen on a spectacular show.

Lin Yuan projected all the detailed rules onto the Heavenly Screen. He used his Divine Power to erect a screen not only above the main Legend of the Dragon King world, but also across the other four Planes apart from Ultimate Douluo. He made every rule public for anyone to read.

He hurriedly split off several Baby Dragon avatars to manage the different sections. Then he took the Golden Dragon King's External Soul Bone, the Golden Dragon Wings, and returned his soul to his own body.

Yes, his own body.

The moment Lin Yuan realized he was trapped in the Divine Realm, he had begun thinking of a Golden Cicada Escape. Roughly eleven or twelve days before the Divine Realm collapsed, he had used an enormous amount of Divine Power to create a body. Then, with all his strength, he tore open a tiny rift in space and secretly sent it back to Douluo Continent.

It was a soulless body, bound to be an idiot. Lin Yuan had worried that it might die. Fortunately, it had survived.

When Lin Yuan's soul entered that body, he finally felt truly alive again.

He opened his eyes to a figure that was both strange and familiar.

It was a middle-aged man with white hair and a scarf around his neck. He looked somewhat weathered but carried an air of quiet scholarship. Holding a bowl of medicine, he carefully brought it to the bedside.

"Dean, you're finally awake."

Dean? Me?

Lin Yuan grumbled inwardly and rubbed his temples.

"My head hurts a little. I must have overworked myself these past few days."

"Leave me alone for a while."

"All right."

The middle-aged man thought nothing of it. He set down the medicine and quietly withdrew.

Once the man was gone, Lin Yuan closed his eyes and frantically sifted through the memories left in the body.

He needed to find out how this person had grown up and become a dean.

And who was that man?

But when he looked, he froze.

Fragments of another soul remained in the body.

Someone had been living in his body for twelve whole years.