Wait-where were my herbs?!

They set genius as the threshold for admission, then claimed all the credit for themselves.

Any organization could pull that off.

Of course, Shrek was not entirely without merit. After all, it could not have survived so many years without some real ability.

"Thank you for the reminder."

Mu En nodded, little expression showing on his face.

As the Sea God Pavilion Master and Shrek's strongest member, he naturally knew what Shrek was like.

More precisely, many of those present knew. It was just that no one was willing to puncture the illusion.

Everyone played dumb together, as though the problem did not exist.

And indeed, Shrek remained the same old Shrek.

Only today, with Mo Lin's arrival, had all of that been shattered.

Although Mu En showed no outward reaction, he knew Shrek would have to change.

Otherwise, once word of today's events spread, it would be an utterly devastating catastrophe for Shrek.

Stopping the news was already impossible, unless they could kill Mo Lin outright on the spot.

Of course, that was even more impossible. If he could do that, he would not still be standing here now.

After saying that, Mo Lin fell silent and quietly waited for Huo Yuhao to return.

About a quarter of an hour later, Huo Yuhao returned.

It should not have taken so long, but that cannon blast earlier had scattered everyone. He had only found Tang Ya and the others with Electrolux's help.

After explaining the situation to them, he had returned here.

He had not found Wang Dong, so he could only ask Tang Ya to pass the message along.

"Finished your business?"

"Yes."

Huo Yuhao nodded.

"Then let's go."

He placed his hand on Huo Yuhao's shoulder.

The next instant, the two vanished on the spot.

Before Mu En could even make out which direction they had left in, he had already lost all trace of them.

"What incredible speed."

It was not spatial translocation, but purely an enhancement of speed.

Among everyone he knew, not a single person could reach such speeds.

At that moment, the danger Mo Lin posed rose yet another level.

"He isn't god-level, yet he surpasses god-level. Just how did he do it?"

Mu En did not understand, but there was nothing he could do.

The man was too strong-so strong that it left him in despair.

"Tell the people below to spread word of what happened today. The faster, the better."

Since he could not stop it, he would not try.

Rather than passively letting it spread, he might as well step forward and add fuel to the fire himself.

Regardless of whether the other man had any other intentions, this would at least ensure that the fire did not burn them alone.

Since Shrek would have a hard time, no one else should expect peace either.

Among the major powers, whose hands were clean?

"Oh, and give the Star Luo Empire special attention."

"If I remember correctly, Huo Yuhao seems to have come from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, doesn't he?"

"And as for the Tang Sect, allocate a batch of resources from Shrek to them. Help them resolve their troubles as much as possible."

Naturally, he knew what Huo Yuhao had just gone to do.

It was fine that he had left. At least they were not completely at odds.

And the Tang Sect was the most crucial link.

Yet however he looked at it, this link seemed like an opening the other man had deliberately left them.

Could it really be as he had said-that he was actually easy to talk to?

But Mu En quickly erased that thought from his mind.

What a joke. After that display just now, who would believe anyone claiming he was easy to talk to?

Still, since the other man had left an opening, he would have to step into it even if it was a trap.

After all, if he did not, what if the man came looking for trouble with them?

In reality, though, they were overthinking it.

Mo Lin did not care about any of this at all.

And he really was easy to talk to, but for some reason people always misunderstood him.

So much so that he kept wondering whether someone or other was deliberately slandering him.

The Body Sect's heartland lay within a seldom-visited primeval forest in the Heaven Dou Empire.

It was a paradise for those with Body Martial Souls.

And there was only one condition for admitting disciples here: they had to possess a Body Martial Soul.

They could join regardless of their Soul Power level. The condition was genuinely very accommodating.

Had Huo Yuhao gone to the Body Sect instead of Shrek back then, perhaps all that subsequent nonsense would never have happened.

But that was hard to say. Given how much importance Tang San placed on Huo Yuhao, it was entirely possible that he might get Tang Wutong a Body Martial Soul.

That was also the main reason he had not brought Huo Yuhao straight to the Body Sect before.

"We're here."

They landed on a huge circular plaza built within the Body Sect.

A large number of Body Sect disciples were gathered there at that moment.

Du Busi, the Body Sect's sect master, was there too.

At the sight of the two suddenly appearing, everyone froze for a moment before immediately growing excited.

As for why they were excited, of course it was simply because they were so warm and friendly.

Thus, after a warm and friendly exchange, albeit with a little blood involved, Huo Yuhao successfully joined the Body Sect and became the personal disciple of its previous sect master.

As for why it was not the current one, that was because the current sect master already had a disciple.

Besides, Electrolux intended to train him personally. They were only here to put his name on the rolls; Electrolux could handle everything else himself.

Mo Lin had no objections to that. All he cared about was whether the spatial coordinates would remain stable.

He remembered being dumped into the sea the first time he came over. It had taken him an enormous amount of effort to find land.

Mainly, he had no map and did not know where he was. Had he not taken control of a Sea Soul Beast, he might have wandered the seas until he died.

"All right, everything's settled. I'll be leaving now."

With the matter resolved, he prepared to head back.

"Oh, right, Electrolux, can you expand that Undead Demiplane of yours some more? There's not quite enough room."

Suddenly remembering something, Mo Lin sent Electrolux another voice transmission.

Travel between the two worlds did not allow him to bring any items.

But he could source materials locally.

Those Soul Cannons from earlier had all been made here, and he stored them in Electrolux's Undead Demiplane.

Before he found Electrolux, he had always found deserted places, dug holes, and buried them.

Ever since Electrolux appeared, he no longer had to go to the trouble of digging pits.

"..."

Electrolux fell silent. Especially as he looked at the assorted Soul Tools and materials crammed into his Undead Demiplane, he seriously questioned whose territory this really was.

Was there something seriously wrong with this brat? Why make so many weapons?

What, was he planning to blast the entire continent flat?

The Soul Cannons he had brought out above Shrek earlier amounted to only a tenth of his total stock.

By Electrolux's rough estimate just now, there were at least forty thousand Soul Cannons here. As for the other things, he did not really recognize them, but there were plenty of those too.

The Undead Demiplane now held few undead, but a great heap of Soul Tools. It was nothing short of an arsenal.

As for why there were so many, it was entirely because Mo Lin was ill.

And that illness was called: [Insufficient Firepower Phobia].

It had already seeped into his bones, beyond all hope of a cure.

Back in the shop, Mo Lin checked its surveillance footage.

Just as he had expected, not a single person had visited during his absence.

In that case, he could close up with a clear conscience.

Open for half a day, closed for half a day-whim was the guiding principle.

He worked out the time and found that there was still about half an hour until mealtime.

So Mo Lin dug out the ancient text he had previously promised Dugu Bo from his room. After checking it carefully once, he delivered it to Dugu Bo's home.

Only, Dugu Bo was not home at the moment. Apparently, he had gone out and would not return for several days.

"Gone out? Oh~"

As though he had understood something, Mo Lin revealed a meaningful smile.

Meanwhile, Dugu Bo had arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, ready to pick the aromatic silk beauty he had promised Mo Lin.

But when he arrived and saw the bare ground, looking as though locusts had swept through it, he froze in utter stupefaction.

"Wait-where were my herbs?!"