After shoring things up with Xu Jiujiu, Ye Qing did not linger in Star Luo City for long. He stopped by to see how their protagonist was doing, then returned straight to Shrek Academy.
The protagonist was Huo Gua, of course.
Almost eleven years old, his Soul Power Level was a little over eight. His father did not love him, his mother had been sacrificed to the heavens, and he stood like a lackey in the Duke's Mansion.
Oh, no, he did not stand like a lackey. He actually was a lackey in the Duke's Mansion, more of a beast of burden than an actual beast of burden. Anyone could come along and stomp on him a couple of times. He was even more of a loser than that loser Lu.
"Going by the plot, next year should mark the end of Huo Yuhao's three-year term and the Dragon King's return, right?" Ye Qing sank into thought.
Since he had spent the past few years pushing Bei Bei to work harder, the two of them had actually entered Shrek a year early. As for why Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan had also entered a year early, he would probably have to ask whether someone up in the heavens had interfered.
Bei Bei's original encounter with Huo Yuhao during his third-year vacation had also shifted to his fourth-year vacation.
In other words... there was still a year left.
"But what about Zhang Lexuan? In the original story, she clearly went through an attack by a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, with Xuan Zi rendering a great service to the Holy Spirit Cult, didn't she?" Ye Qing could not make heads or tails of it. To confirm this, he had gone to hang out with Zhang Lexuan every few days over the past year.