"Looks like this old man came at just the right time for a feast."
Mu En did not know why Huang Jinxu had arranged this, but the boy always had his reasons.
"Little Xu, if I'd reformed the academy as you wished back then, would you have stayed and devoted yourself to it wholeheartedly?"
With nothing else to do, Mu En struck up a conversation.
"Mu En, what do you think of Shrek Academy as it is now?"
"And what would things look like without the threat of the Sun Moon Empire?"
Huang Jinxu did not answer Mu En directly. He turned the questions back on him.
He had no wish to answer that question.
The reason was simple: no matter what Mu En did, he would never devote himself wholeheartedly to Shrek Academy.
What he had said back then had only been an excuse.
He knew the academy's leadership well and had been certain Mu En would not do as he wished.
And even if Mu En had, he could always have found another excuse.
"What's wrong with Shrek Academy leading the continent's Soul Master World?"
Mu En did not give Huang Jinxu's words much thought.
Nor did he care to imagine such a world.
Though he had encountered things he could not accept, he was, in the end, a man of Shrek Academy.
He had placed his lifelong faith in Shrek Academy.
Had Spirit Hall not guided the continent's Soul Masters for tens of thousands of years?
Why could Shrek Academy not do the same?
Huang Jinxu merely shook his head and said nothing more.
By then, Huo Yuhao had begun roasting the meat.
Mu En's attention shifted to him.
His clouded eyes fixed on the meat in Huo Yuhao's hands.
Though he was now terribly weak, with