"Where's Xuan Zi?"
He hoped his gluttonous martial nephew had merely gone out to buy food as soon as he returned. If he had done anything beyond Mu En's expectations, that would be unacceptable to Shrek's strongest expert.
"Xuan Zi, he..."
Xian Lin'er, standing beside him, likewise realized the gravity of the situation, her face falling silent.
A bad premonition rose in her heart.
She did not know what image Xuan Zi held in the eyes of elders from the previous generation, such as Mu En, but to her, at least, he had absolutely nothing to do with reliability.
Especially since, before this, the students Xuan Zi had taken out for training had given him a fifty-percent approval rating. The reason was simple: the other half had already kicked the bucket.
Had something gone wrong this time too?
Could Lexuan's gains this time have had nothing to do with him?
"Mu En."
"He wasn't the one who hunted my soul ring."
Only after a long silence did Zhang Lexuan speak. Xuan Zi hunting a soul ring for her... that had never happened before, and it certainly would not happen again.
"How is that possible?"
"Then he went out with you..."
"To do what?"
Although Mu En was not surprised by this answer, he still could not help speaking in a low voice. That was Shrek's future leader, Xuan Zi, the man who would take over Shrek from him!
And the Zhang Lexuan before him was someone he was grooming to lead the next generation. When Xuan Zi began finding his strength insufficient, she could serve as his right-hand assistant.
Surely...
Xuan Zi could not have made a mess of things at such a critical juncture!
"Impossible. Absolutely impossible."
"How could Xuan Zi do this?"
Disbelief was written all over Mu