With a chestful of pent-up frustration and nowhere to vent it, Long Yeyue pushed open the heavy stone doors and slowly entered the vast treasure vault of Shrek Academy.
"That brat Yun Ming really does grow more backward with age. He doesn't understand the slightest thing about respecting his elders and teachers. All I wanted was to demand justice from Sun Moon Academy, yet he dared stop me and ruin my plans."
"Hmph. He doesn't even know Shrek's traditional virtues."
A surge of impatience welled up within her.
She sneered inwardly. Rather than let her go, Yun Ming had assigned the task to Ya Li.
Ya Li had, after all, come from outside. Yun Ming had brought her back to Shrek from the outside world all those years ago; she had not been steeped from childhood in the character Shrek had accumulated over ten thousand years.
In Long Yeyue's eyes, someone like that could never truly count as one of their own, with roots of the proper stock.
Now that she had been sent away, who could fathom the human heart? Who could guarantee she would not leave and never return?
As Sea God Pavilion Master, he had not even carefully weighed such a risk. How foolish.
The treasure vault dazzled the eye, with perfectly preserved Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, rare natural treasures, and all manner of rare metals neatly displayed on either side.
She wandered slowly without a destination. Her gaze happened to sweep across a shelf of ancient books, then abruptly fixed on the yellowed volume titled Secret of the Body.
"Recognized as the continent's strongest, yet he has nothing but an empty reputation, without a shred of an elder's courage. Back then, I stormed the Spirit Pagoda alone and slapped its master in front of everyone.