(Thirteen) Zhang Lexuan unleashed: a pack of old fools living in a drunken stupor on past glories

"I knew it!" Ning Tian clenched her fists. Unfortunately, she had not taken part, merely hunkering down inside the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, which had been fortified into an iron bastion.

"All right, I won't waste any more words. There are still people who need me..." Ning Hao did not linger. Flames spurted from the tail of his Flying Soul Tool, and he streaked away like a meteor, disappearing into the horizon.

"That fellow... a shame the people from the Clear Sky Sect took him away." Elder Zhu gazed regretfully at the wrecked room.

"It's fine. Keeping ourselves safe was the greatest victory," Ning Tian said with a smile.

"Grandmaster Senior Sister, what are you doing?! Hurry and come with us!"

The Shrek Students called out anxiously.

At Mingdu's southern defenses.

Countless Soul Engineers had their Soul Cannons mounted, ready to intercept the people from Shrek Academy.

Yet Zhang Lexuan stood impassively amid the Sun Moon Soul Tool Legion, quietly watching Shrek's defeated troops.

"Enough! All of you, stop talking!" Xuan Zi snapped.

"You benefited from Shrek Academy's kindness, yet you chose to betray the academy after being beguiled by the Sun Moon Empire. Shrek will never need an ungrateful wolf like you, who turns her back on loyalty and trust!"

At his words, the teachers and students were all somewhat shaken.

Everyone present was either a teacher or an Inner Court Disciple.

As the Inner Court's Grandmaster Senior Sister, Zhang Lexuan's standing there went without saying. She had even been explicitly designated the Sea God Pavilion's successor for the next generation; after Xuan Zi, it would be her.

For a true pillar of Shrek like her to defect to the enemy struck everyone like towering waves in a raging sea.

Countless disciples stared at Zhang Lexuan in