How Dare the Tang Sect and Shrek Call Themselves Neutral Organizations?

Luo Chen's words were not without reason. Every time Shrek Academy held its first-year final assessment,

the students were required to leave Shrek City alone and travel to Mingdu, the Federation's capital, passing through at least ten cities on the round trip.

In each city, they had to single-handedly defeat an opponent whose soul power was at least five levels higher than their own. Soul tools, help from others, and special assistance from soul spirits were forbidden.

They even confiscated every Shrek student's money.

As a result, all sorts of lawbreaking and misconduct occurred in the major cities during every final assessment.

Even if those students were eventually arrested, with Shrek Academy backing them and their young age taken into account, they still had to be released!

The worst of all was the so-called military training for inner court students!

Just to reach Devil Island, they threw the entire North Sea Legion into chaos!

That was already open defiance of the Federation!

Moreover, Shrek City enjoyed extensive autonomy and independent internal administration, belonging to the Douluo Federation in name alone.

But its judiciary, taxation, and administrative authority were entirely controlled by the academy. The Federation had no right to interfere with the city's laws or administration.

Federation officials had no law-enforcement authority upon entering the city and could not mobilize its resources or troops.

Once the troops within Shrek City began moving, how would they be any different from a genuine terrorist organization?

The Federation's patience with Shrek Academy had long since reached its limit.

Hearing this, Cai Yue'er knitted her brows tightly.

"Like the Tang Sect, Shrek Academy upholds the principle of neutrality."

"Upholds neutrality?" Luo Chen sounded as though he had heard the greatest joke in the world.

"How dare the Tang Sect and Shrek call themselves neutral organizations?"

"Have you forgotten that the great explosion in Mingdu, in the Sun Moon Empire ten thousand years ago, was the work of Shrek and the Tang Sect?"

"Nearly a third of Mingdu was devastated."

"How many innocent civilians died in that explosion?"

"The wronged souls of civilians that those evil soul masters from the Holy Spirit Cult absorbed in that explosion probably haven't even been used up to this day."

"Oh, I almost forgot. Ten thousand years ago, your Tang Sect Master, Tang Ya, and your Sea God Pavilion Master, Ma Xiaotao, were both once holy maidens of the Holy Spirit Cult!"

"The Holy Spirit Cult has Shrek and the Tang Sect to thank for growing to its present size! You really are brothers in arms with the Holy Spirit Cult!"

Outside the sky screen, Xu Tianran's face filled with shock when he heard this.

The great explosion in Mingdu ten thousand years ago?

Wasn't that his own era?

Suddenly, he recalled the Body Sect's attack on Mingde Hall not long ago.

He immediately gave an order.

"Have the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Legion garrison Mingdu to prevent another attack by Shrek Academy."

Xu Tianran had barely finished speaking when he heard Luo Chen add something else.

"Your Shrek Academy and Tang Sect keep insisting that you don't meddle in politics, yet ten thousand years ago, you sent people to assassinate the Sun Moon Empire's emperor at the time, Xu Tianran."

As Luo Chen finished speaking, Xu Tianran's expression shifted from shock to delight.

"This throne belongs to me after all!"

Then his delight turned to fury!

"What a fine Shrek Academy!"

Xu Tianran turned toward Ju Zi beside him and took her hand.

"Ju Zi, I know you are determined to take revenge. I am now placing the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion under your command, but for the time being, it must defend Mingdu alongside the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Legion."

"Yes." Ju Zi's face lit up with delight. She had never expected military authority to come to her so quickly.

Mingdu's ordinary citizens were just as furious.

"What? People from Shrek Academy caused the explosion?"

"How are they any different from those evil soul masters? At least the evil soul masters haven't blown up our Mingdu!"

"Shrek Academy doesn't see us as people at all! Soul masters' lives count as lives, but don't the lives of ordinary people count too?"

For a time, Shrek Academy became the target of everyone's condemnation.

Only Yan Shaozhe treated it with utter disdain.

"So what if we blew up Mingdu? So what if we assassinated Xu Tianran?"

"This is war, and in war, no means are off-limits! So what if I blasted Mingdu into the ground!"

The same discussions also broke out across the Douluo Continent during the Spirit Hall era.

The vast majority of ordinary citizens in the Star Luo Empire and Heaven Dou Empire sided with the Sun Moon Empire's civilians, whom they had never even met.

Before long, Flender received several messages.

His face livid, he said to Yu Xiaogang beside him,

"Xiao Gang, I just received word that dozens of students have withdrawn from our Shrek Academy."

"And the Four Elemental Academies have canceled their decision to merge with us."

"They asked how our Shrek Academy was any different from an academy of evil soul masters."

At this, fury rushed straight to Yu Xiaogang's head, and he could no longer contain himself.

"Let them leave! Let them all leave! I never wanted to accept those useless fools anyway! They're nothing but losers defeated by Shrek!"

"My Shrek Academy-I, Yu Xiaogang-trained a god! Those useless fools don't deserve to stay at my Shrek Academy!"

Within the sky screen, Cai Yue'er no longer knew what to say.

She could not understand why Luo Chen knew these secrets!

Those records should have been almost entirely deleted back then. There should have been very few people who knew about them.

Inside the carriage, besides Luo Chen and Cai Yue'er,

Gu Yue and Pan Wen were also present.

Gu Yue had lived through that era and naturally knew what had happened, so she was not surprised.

Pan Wen, however, was utterly dumbfounded.

Wait, what?

If you're going to blow things up with Shrek, don't drag me into it!

Am I allowed to know any of this?

I'm just on a diplomatic mission to the Star Luo Empire! I'm only a secretary-general!

Pan Wen was already on the verge of breaking down.

Yet Luo Chen continued.

"How many Federation resources did your Sea God Pavilion's Ya Li consume to cultivate to Limit Douluo? Yet now, when the Federation needs the Holy Spirit Douluo, it has to invite her and obtain Shrek's permission."

At this point, Luo Chen looked out of the train at the Star Luo Empire.

"Isn't the Tang Sect, with its close ties to Shrek, responsible for the technology the Star Luo Empire has today?"

"You take the Federation's resources, subsidies, and technology, then turn around and sell weapons to the Star Luo Empire and Dou Ling Empire. Do you dare claim that Shrek knew nothing about this treason?"

"Do you really think I don't know-that the Federation doesn't know?" Luo Chen sneered.

[If not for all these reasons, why would the Federation have internally approved the Spirit Pagoda stealing those two Level Twelve Soul Cannon Shells, preparing to destroy the Tang Sect headquarters and Shrek Academy in Shrek City in one fell swoop!]

[In the Federation's eyes, if the Spirit Pagoda, the Tang Sect, and the Shrek students within Shrek City joined forces, the Sun Moon Federation would probably have to change its name!]

Outside the sky screen, within the Sea God Pavilion during the Peerless Tang Sect era,

Yan Shaozhe froze. What did he mean, the Spirit Pagoda was preparing to blow up Shrek and the Tang Sect?

Hadn't the Spirit Pagoda been founded by his junior brother, Huo Yuhao?

Yu Xiaogang of Shrek Academy twenty thousand years earlier was equally stunned.

"Wait, what? What does that mean?"

"Shrek Academy is about to be destroyed?"

"No! My Shrek!"

"That's impossible! This must be fake!"