Chen Ping swept his gaze underwater, where Zhao Wuji's Statue lay quietly beneath the silt covering the lake bed.
Spending the last of his points, Chen Ping soon obtained information about Zhao Wuji's Statue.
[Name: Zhao Wuji's Statue] [Origin: A statue commissioned and built ten thousand years ago to commemorate Shrek Academy's founding members and the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils, who defeated the Golden Generation and went on to become gods one after another. Later pushed into the water separately.] [Temporal Afterimage: Awaiting viewing]
Rather than dampening his spirits, the brief information invigorated Chen Ping. He leaped into the lake without raising so much as a splash and swam like a fish to Zhao Wuji's Statue once again.
The last time he had seen this statue of Zhao Wuji, he seemed to have still been a first-year freshman in Shrek Academy's Outer Court. Ma Xiaotao's rampaging evil fire had left him no choice but to jump into the lake.
Now, times had changed, and the moment had finally come for him to truly unravel the mystery of the statue before him.
Reaching out to brush the silt off Zhao Wuji's Statue, Chen Ping directed his spiritual power toward it.
Immediately afterward, a mass of distorted light and shadow appeared before Chen Ping, as though time had begun flowing backward.
Chen Ping knew full well that this was a temporal afterimage projected by Elf, who had used the power of fate to reverse time throughout a small area, sending it ten thousand years back along the river of time.
Soon, Chen Ping's viewpoint rose higher and higher until it emerged above the water. The Shrek before him-no, to be precise, the complex of buildings now before Chen Ping should have been Spirit City.
Inside Spirit City, the original