Following behind the Sea God Pavilion Elders were more than forty Inner Court students from Shrek Academy.
As for Shrek Academy's teachers, they had split evenly into three groups and headed to the other three city walls to command the Outer Court students there. They knew the students best, making it easiest for them to take command.
Xuan Zi gazed into the distance, sensing the terrifying atmosphere that had silenced even ten thousand galloping horses. Although he had long known the scale of this beast tide from Star Dou Forest, his expression remained grim.
Among the Elders, he was one who had experienced the previous beast tide.
Yet the situation before him surpassed even the last one!
By wantonly slaughtering hundred-thousand-year soul beasts in Star Dou Forest, the Holy Spirit Cult-or rather, the Sun Moon Empire-had diverted the flood of calamity eastward. Though sinister and vicious, it was a good move from the Sun Moon Empire's perspective.
During the previous beast tide, besides Shrek City immediately sending out a call for help, Shrek Academy had Mu En overseeing matters and powerful reinforcements from the Body Sect at its side.
Although the Body Sect and Shrek Academy were not on good terms, they had coordinated well that time.
Only then had they finally held out until sufficient reinforcements arrived, halted the soul beasts' advance, and ultimately signed a pact of mutual nonaggression with the great ferocious beasts.
But this time, although Shrek had stockpiled countless more soul tools than before, Xuan Zi still felt uncertain without a true large-scale war to test Shrek's fighting strength.
Moreover, as far as the Sun Moon Empire was concerned, its objective had already been achieved.
Even thinking with one's toes, one could tell what would happen with Shrek now mired in the beast tide and