At the same time, inside Shrek Academy.
Unlike the Mingdou Mountain Range, where smoke choked the battlefield, corpses littered the ground, and Evil Soul Masters ran rampant, Shrek Academy had fallen into a silence it had not known for centuries.
With White Mourning Cloth around his head, Xuan Zi pushed the pale golden coffin slowly into Sea God Lake. Blind Bro, watching nearby, could not help throwing up his lunch.
Not long ago, he had often bathed and swum in Sea God Lake. Now that he thought about it, the lake had held the remains of a dozen past Deans. He could not feel quite so cheerful about swimming there anymore.
As the ceremony slowly ended, Xuan Zi looked at the Shrek Academy students on the Plaza and nodded.
"Good. Children, you're all good children. Staying firmly with my Shrek Academy is the wise choice."
"As for those who want to leave, I'll expel every last one of them."
Xuan Zi swept a hand through the air and vanished on the spot.
The people around him began whispering among themselves.
The freshman ranks in particular had dwindled. Of the hundreds upon hundreds of students across five or six classes, only seven or eight hundred remained.
The parents of roughly two or three hundred students had chosen to take their children away. Few had stayed.
Xiao Xiao pursed her lips and frowned at the lifeless academy.
She had come here because Brother Jiang Hao and Brother Owl had ties to Shrek City.
But now they stood against Shrek Academy. She had only just enrolled; if she dared say she wanted to drop out, her father would probably lead troops all the way from Dragon City to spank her.
Xiao Xiao felt helpless. If only I'd known then what I know now.