The sunset's lingering glow gradually faded, and a thin veil of dusk settled over Holy Spirit Academy. The children's laughter slowly subsided as their teachers led them back to their dormitories in orderly groups.
Tang Wulin stood before Holy Spirit Academy's teaching building, watching the last child enter the Dormitory building hand in hand with a teacher before softly letting out a breath.
"Wulin."
Ya Li's voice sounded behind him, carrying a barely perceptible heaviness.
Tang Wulin turned around and saw Ya Li standing a short distance away. The gentle smile she had worn before the children was gone, replaced by a complicated, solemn expression.
"Godmother, what's wrong?" Keenly sensing the change in her mood, Tang Wulin hurried to her side.
Ya Li glanced up at the gradually darkening sky and said slowly, "Wulin, go down to the Dungeon. Ming... he wants to see you."
"The Dungeon?" Tang Wulin froze for a moment. Shrek Academy's Dungeon was where its most dangerous criminals were imprisoned. Every inmate there was a vicious, heinous villain.
"Ming wants to see whether the Dark Four Heavenly Kings can be persuaded to abandon evil and return to the right path," Ya Li said, her voice low but clear. "At the very least, they must never threaten the continent again. You should try talking them around too."
The Dark Four Heavenly Kings!
Tang Wulin's pupils contracted slightly. Those four Super Douluos, who had once brought tremendous disaster upon Shrek Academy on the battlefield, were actually imprisoned in Shrek's Dungeon.
He remembered that after the Abyssal Holy War, the Holy Spirit Cult's remaining forces had been wiped out one by one. As pillars of the cult, the Dark Four Heavenly Kings had naturally been captured by Shrek Academy as well.
"They... are still alive?" Tang Wulin asked in