The Video Goes Viral Across the Web! Ancestor Cai, You're the Real Demon Empress! Spirit Pagoda: We're Involved Too?

Yun Ming flew out with Long Yeyue. Seeing that she was still struggling, he snorted coldly:

"Elder Long, will you only be satisfied once you've destroyed Shrek?!"

"If you keep this up, Shrek's twenty-thousand-year legacy will be destroyed in our hands!"

Hearing this, Long Yeyue calmed down a little, but still snorted and stubbornly retorted:

"What do you mean? Are you blaming me for what happened today?! I told you not to let that brat play the video, but you wouldn't listen!"

Yun Ming narrowed his eyes. "What? Elder Long, you knew about this from the start?!"

Long Yeyue's heart jolted. Realizing she had misspoken, she hurriedly turned away. "I didn't."

Yun Ming knew full well that there was probably more to this, but he had no time to pursue it now:

"Heh, that had better be true. Elder Long, please return to Shrek immediately. If you're unwilling, I'll have to help make you willing."

Long Yeyue snorted coldly:

"Yun Ming, what do you intend to do? Will sending me back to Shrek solve anything?!"

Yun Ming let out a long sigh.

"Then what do you suggest, Elder Long?"

"Simple. Destroy the evidence! Threaten every news outlet in the Federation so they won't play that video! Threaten the Federation Parliament! Suppress this by force!"

Yun Ming was stunned.

Was that even fucking human speech?

If Shrek had that kind of power, would he fucking need Elder Long standing here teaching him what to do?!

"Elder Long, what do you think the Federation is? A block of tofu you can crush however you like?"

"Isn't it? Yun Ming, where did that hot blood go when you snatched Ya Li away all by yourself back then?! Are you scared now?"

Yun Ming held his forehead. "That was only because the military didn't join the fight! If I actually did what you said, Shrek would immediately become the enemy of the entire continent. We'd be besieged by the whole continent!"

Yun Ming was inwardly speechless.

Long Yeyue's proposal was essentially choosing nuclear war between cold war and hot war.

If Shrek really ended up fighting the entire Federation with a single city...

Heh.

He himself could come out unscathed. As a mighty Quasi-God, he could run whenever he wanted.

But what about Shrek?

If even half a roof tile remained of Shrek, that would count as the Federation military having dropped a dud!

As the strongest person on the continent, Yun Ming understood the military's strength far better than ordinary people did.

No matter how strong an individual was, fighting the entire Sun Moon Federation was nothing but a fool's dream.

His own strength had been one reason he had managed to snatch Ya Li away alone back then, but the greater reason was that the Federation hadn't wanted to tear away all pretense of civility with Shrek!

Long Yeyue fell silent.

Yun Ming truly had a headache. This master's wife of his did nothing but stir up trouble, escalating matters to hell difficulty.

Then, whenever she ran into something difficult to handle, she chose silence!

Just then,

Ya Li flew out.

"Elder Long, listen to Yun Ming. Return to Shrek immediately."

"If that child Li Chen was right, the Federation's media will probably be broadcasting that video evidence any moment now."

"Our only option now is to immediately sever Cai Yue'er's ties with Shrek. We must shift all blame onto Cai Yue'er and the already-dead Federation law enforcement team."

Ya Li spoke rapidly through voice transmission.

Yun Ming was surprised, and Long Yeyue was startled too.

That was right.

Cai Yue'er absolutely deserved death now. Cutting their losses in time was their only way forward!

Ya Li sighed inwardly. She didn't want to resort to such dirty methods either, but they had to contain the damage. Otherwise, Shrek would immediately draw the flames onto itself and become the entire continent's common enemy.

She was part of Shrek too. Even if she was unwilling, she could only do this.

Ya Li instructed them earnestly:

"At the same time, Elder Long, you must be stripped of your position and leave the Sea God Pavilion. Cai Yue'er is already dead, and you stopped Long Xiaoyao during the day. If you don't step down, the public will have no outlet for their anger."

"And you, Yun Ming. You must personally capture those two Dark Heavenly Kings to set the record straight. Let everyone know that Cai Yue'er is Cai Yue'er and does not represent all of Shrek!"

"Finally, let me apologize to the public on Shrek's behalf. Leave all subsequent negotiations with the Federation entirely to me as well."

After hearing Ya Li out, Yun Ming felt considerably more settled.

Long Yeyue nodded too. "Mm. Ya Li, Shrek is truly blessed to have you. Sorry for the trouble, then."

With that, Long Yeyue left directly.

After making an enormous mess, Long Paopao once again chose to dust off her backside and run away.

Helpless, Yun Ming could only nod to Ya Li, then swiftly fly off to search for the two Dark Heavenly Kings.

Ya Li remained where she was and sighed helplessly.

She was from the Federation, held the title of Holy Spirit Douluo, and had saved countless lives.

By rights, the best course now would certainly have been for Long Yeyue to apologize and bear the public's wrath.

But Ya Li knew Elder Long's temper. If they made her apologize publicly and she caused another scene, they would truly be finished.

Ya Li had no other choice but to step forward herself.

She would use her image as a healing Soul Master to restore the public's trust in Shrek.

Ya Li understood perfectly well that this meant spending people's faith in her and her personal reputation to preserve Shrek.

"That Elder Long... and Cai Yue'er. Sigh. After this, if you cause any more trouble, there'll be nothing I can do either."

Ya Li took a deep breath, suppressing the anger in her heart.

Meanwhile,

The moment Li Chen's communicator was destroyed,

Media outlets and newspapers throughout the Federation, and even on the other two continents in the Star Luo Empire and Dou Ling Empire, all received the video.

The major media outlets immediately released such an explosive video. In just a few hours, shortly after midnight, Shrek's name shot straight to number one on the trending list!

"My God! Utterly devoid of conscience!"

"Cai Yue'er colluded with the Holy Spirit Cult to frame the War God Temple? Then turned around and pinned the blame on the Federation's high-ranking talents? What kind of animal does that?! Is that fucking human?!"

"Ancestor Cai harmed three worthy parties with one move, screwing over the Holy Spirit Cult, the War God Temple, and the Federation in one go. Tell me, are you impressed or not?!"

"666! Even the Holy Spirit Cult would have to kneel outside her door and learn. Ancestor Cai, you're the real Evil Soul Master!!"

"Here come the Holy Spirit Cult fanboys. Even the Demon Empress would have to take her as a master for this!"

"All I can say is, good riddance to Cai Yue'er! Don't just curse Cai Yue'er. What about Long Yeyue? Do you think that old thing is any better?!"

"Heh, blind prediction: this incident was Cai Yue'er's personal conduct and has nothing to do with Shrek officially!"

"Kill the prophet!"

"How dare you! Who put this video in my communicator? You dare slander the great Shrek!"

"Heh, did you just admit this is your communicator?!"

People from all over Douluo Star cursed Shrek, and Cai Yue'er was crowned Shrek's number one maggot.

She was even crowned the Holy Spirit Cult's ancestor.

Amid the netizens' furious tirades on the Soul Net, Shrek's official website account had already been swarmed into disabling comments.

The netizens also started making memes along the way:

The fake ancestor of the Holy Spirit Cult: the Demon Empress.

The real ancestor of the Holy Spirit Cult: Cai Yue'er.

Li Chen traded in his old communicator for a new one free of charge, getting Shrek to replace it. Scrolling through the Soul Net, he was thoroughly amused.

"Does the surname Cai have some kind of magic? How come even in the Dragon King era, Ancestor Cai still has so many disciples in her sect?!"

Li Chen chuckled as he spoke.

But he was purely joking. Though they shared the surname Cai, with Brother Kun from his previous life, it was a matter of laughing at the memes, not the person. With Cai Yue'er, both the person and the memes were rotten through. She only deserved a seat at the maggots' table.

At midnight,

On the streets of Mingdu,

Large crowds began marching, vehemently demanding that Shrek be held accountable and the wanted notice be rescinded immediately!

Hearing the sounds outside, Long Xiaoyao and Ye Zhaolu exchanged smiles.

"Wonderful, wonderful..."

Ye Zhaolu threw her arms around Long Xiaoyao and couldn't help bursting into tears.

In this life,

They had survived.

Not long afterward,

Beyond Mingdu's outer ring, in the opposite direction from Long Xiaoyao and Ye Zhaolu,

The two Quasi-Gods, Yun Ming and Chen Xinjie, finally caught the two Dark Heavenly Kings.

Dark Bell and Dark Phoenix did indeed have some brains. They had tried to flee in the opposite direction while the War God Temple was pursuing Long Xiaoyao.

Unfortunately, without their inside accomplice Cai Yue'er's help, they had no way to escape.

Dark Phoenix Leng Yulai looked at Yun Ming in the sky and narrowed her eyes.

"I never thought I'd ultimately die at Yun Ming's hands."

Leng Yulai's feelings were complicated.

High in the sky, Leng Yaozhu was also among those surrounding them.

She had just arrived in Mingdu to assist with the investigation on behalf of the Spirit Pagoda, using this to earn the Spirit Pagoda a hefty dose of goodwill.

After all, Qiangu Dongfeng had absolutely no desire to miss a chance to trample Shrek.

But,

At this moment,

Looking at one of the people on the ground,

Leng Yaozhu's heart jolted with shock.

"Th-this is..."

Leng Yaozhu was dazed. Never in her wildest dreams had she imagined that one of these Dark Heavenly Kings would be her younger sister, who had been missing for years: Leng Yulai!