Xuan Zi Declares Phainon Unworthy of His Fame! Anaxa Reveals the Truth!

Looking at the barren valley, everyone sighed.

Dai Mubai was praying that Yu Xiaogang would make the list.

By the Sky Curtain's rules, the more miserable someone was, the better his chances of making the melancholy ranking!

An idea suddenly struck him, and he said:

"Grandmaster, why don't you let us beat you up?"

"The worse we beat you, the better your chances of making the list!"

"You might even surpass Phainon!"

Ning Rongrong's eyes lit up at this outrageous suggestion.

Eager to stir up trouble, she said:

"Grandmaster, sacrifice yourself for Shrek's future!"

Tang San froze. His friends were reckless!

How could they even think of beating up their teacher?

But the Sky Curtain's rewards were too tempting.

He looked at his teacher earnestly.

"Teacher, all our hopes rest on you!"

Yu Xiaogang's face crumpled like a bitter melon. He was numb.

The hell? What happened to "a teacher for a day, a father for life"?

Little San, have you forgotten your oath?

You're joining in too?

But when he failed to object, everyone took it as agreement.

They assumed he was simply too embarrassed to say it aloud.

"Ow! Not the face!"

"Dai Mubai! You little bastard, you hit hard!"

"Little San! Are you just going to stand there? Make them stop! Oww—"

Amid one scream after another,

Yu Xiaogang was beaten black and blue, with two enormous black eyes.

Seeing the apology in Tang San's eyes,

Yu Xiaogang endured the pain and clasped his hands behind his back.

"Little San, if it means raising you all into gods, what does sacrificing one man matter?"

Dai Mubai could not help but feel respect at those noble words.

This time, he truly admired him!

The Grandmaster might be hopelessly weak, but when it came to having a thick skin, he was surely number one on Douluo Continent!

Tang San breathed a quiet sigh of relief. Teacher's miserable enough now. That should do it, right?

Just then, Tang Hao frowned. "Who's there?"

With a chilling, lilting laugh, Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo appeared.

Chrysanthemum Douluo raised his hand with his little finger extended. Looking at the ridiculous scene below, he clicked his tongue in wonder.

"As expected of the Clear Sky Douluo. Your senses are sharp."

"And I got to watch such a touching display of devotion between teacher and students!"

"All for the Sky Curtain's rewards. I can't believe you went this far."

The world of Douluo II.

Shrek Academy.

Xuan Zi watched Phainon fail the trial.

It only strengthened his earlier judgment.

The Sky Curtain existed to prop up this Phainon fellow while using everyone else as stepping stones!

First on the melancholy ranking? Xuan Zi had seen enough: the man did not live up to his reputation!

He scoffed.

"Hah, I knew it! The people of Amphoreus are no good! They can't handle a little pressure!"

"Send our Shrek disciples over, and passing that trial would be a sure thing."

Mu En rubbed his brow with a headache.

He was old and had long been searching for a successor.

Across the entire academy, Xuan Zi was barely qualified in seniority and strength.

But how could Mu En entrust the academy to him when he acted like this?

Mu En spoke with patient gravity.

"Xuan Zi, you can't judge things by their surface."

"I suspect Phainon won't let this setback crush him."

"This pain will become nourishment for him instead."

"Otherwise, how could he bear the name of savior?"

Xuan Zi nodded perfunctorily at Mu En's words, but inwardly, he dismissed them.

Get ahead once, and you stayed ahead!

Failing a trial was failing a trial!

Losers deserved nothing more than to eat the dust behind the winners!

And get mocked mercilessly for it!

[The Flame Reaver attacked once more.]

[He struck the Grove of Epiphany, targeting Anaxa, Trianne, and the others!]

[Anaxa was Phainon's teacher.]

[The childlike Trianne was the Threshold Demigod, born from a fragment of Tribios's soul, the first demigod of Amphoreus.]

[She could open the Hundred-Realm Gate to transport others.]

[To protect Phainon and the others, Trianne exhausted all her strength to open the Hundred-Realm Gate one final time.]

[Though Mydei, who had just become a demigod, defeated the Flame Reaver,]

[news of the attack on the Grove of Epiphany still ignited the Council of Elders' ambitions.]

[They had long coveted authority over the Flame-Chase Journey and were waiting for their chance.]

[The Citizens' Assembly was their home ground!]

[Everything would be decided by vote!]

[Aglaea entrusted Phainon with the crucial task of debating them.]

[Phainon debated the leader of the Council of Elders, and the vote ended in a tie.]

[The final vote belonged to Phainon's teacher, Anaxa.]

[Anaxa had always opposed the Flame-Chase Journey and clashed with Aglaea, leader of the Chrysos Heirs.]

[Yet this time, he chose to support the Flame-Chase Journey.]

[For he had learned the truth of the world.]

[At the Citizens' Assembly, Anaxa raised his arm high. "I have unraveled the truth of this world!"]

["When the Flame-Chase Journey ends, the prophesied World-Bearing Titan, Phainon of Aedes Elysiae, will use his complete and unbroken Remembrance to recreate us all in a new world!"]

["The Titans who bear Core Flames were the Chrysos Heirs of the past, and the Chrysos Heirs who bear those same Core Flames are the Titans of the future!"]

["Through the World-Bearing Titan's miracle, all our souls will endure forever and enter that newborn world!"]

[The truth Anaxa revealed shocked everyone.]

[Anaxa cleared Phainon's internal obstacles, then faded away.]

[He and Aglaea agreed: Phainon was a born hero, far better than Aglaea at seeing into people's hearts.]

[Aglaea handed leadership of the Flame-Chase Journey to Phainon, then died in an assassination carried out by the Council of Elders.]

[Teacher Trianne had sacrificed herself. Teacher Anaxa had faded away. Even Aglaea had died.]

[Watching the people dear to him depart one after another, Phainon had no choice but to hold back his grief, shoulder the burden, and become the leader of the Flame-Chase Journey!]

[For he had promised Anaxa: "We will all meet again in the new world."]

[And Phainon's next goal was to reclaim the Sky Titan's Core Flame!]

Watching it all unfold,

seeing the sacrifices come one after another across the Sky Curtain and hearing the truth Anaxa had uncovered,

everyone was shaken.

They had known Phainon might suffer greatly on his path to save the world.

But they had never imagined that the teachers and friends at his side would march to their deaths one after another with such resolve!

"Little Trianne was so brave!"

"She might look little, but didn't you hear the Sky Curtain? She was the first demigod!"

"Anaxa seemed so harsh and rational, yet at the very end, he cleared the way for his student."

"Even Aglaea, their leader, died? Waaah! No one's going to make fun of Phainon's taste anymore."

"So the truth of Amphoreus has to do with a cycle of recreation?"

"The Titans who bear Core Flames were once Chrysos Heirs? What a turn!"

"So it ends with Phainon becoming a god and bringing everyone back to life?"