Dai Youheng and Nana had already spent nearly two months in Maple Leaf City.
At last, the day had arrived for Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to exchange their students back.
From the same inn as before, Dai Youheng looked down at the plaza as the two sides completed the handover.
This time, however, he had reined in his aura completely. Even Yan Shaozhe could not sense him at all.
Both sides took back their own students: the Hongchen siblings from Sun Moon, and Huo Yuhao and He Caitou from Shrek.
Before leaving, Jing Hongchen gave Huo Yuhao something, then whispered a few words in his ear.
Dai Youheng knew it was a starlight sapphire ring, and it was packed with treasures.
Jing Hongchen had traded it for some of Huo Yuhao's ingenious creations combining Tang Sect Hidden Weapons with Soul Tools, but he could never allow Huo Yuhao to actually take so many treasures back to Shrek.
In fact, he did not intend to let Huo Yuhao himself return to Shrek. The boy had considerable talent and had learned a wealth of essential Soul Tool knowledge from their Virtue Hall. Would letting him return to strengthen Shrek not amount to aiding the enemy?
He had therefore secretly contacted Evil Soul Masters to help ambush and kill Huo Yuhao along the way.
Huo Yuhao had actually anticipated this as well. He suggested that he leave separately with Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er rather than travel with the main group, so the others would not be dragged into it.
"Youheng." The Snow Empress's spectral figure quietly appeared beside him. Her ice-blue eyes turned toward the boy below, who still looked somewhat immature yet already bore far too much. "Back at Shrek, this child did sincerely call