Huo Yutong finished speaking, but her gaze remained stubbornly fixed on Li Mu.
Li Mu merely rolled his eyes at her words.
He lay comfortably on the bed and yawned.
"Leaving Shrek Academy is my biggest secret. Do you think you can really walk out of Shrek Academy through normal channels?"
"There's a guard every three steps and a sentry every five outside. You can only leave when the holidays come, then find some excuse never to return."
"Otherwise, before then, setting foot outside Shrek City would be as hard as ascending to heaven."
Li Mu yawned again as he spoke, while Huo Yutong stared blankly at him.
A trace of confusion colored the girl's eyes. Clearly, she had yet to grasp what he meant.
Only after Tian Meng said something in her mind did understanding dawn on her face. Seeing the little girl's gaze still glued to him, Li Mu felt rather helpless.
"Do you want to destroy the White Tiger Duke's Mansion? Do you want to avenge your mother? Do you want to scatter the ashes from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion's ancestral graves?"
Li Mu had his back to her, yet his voice was exceptionally clear. Like a demon's whisper, every word fell into little Yutong's mind.
The girl's body, which had only just relaxed, abruptly stiffened. Her fists clenched tight, her nails digging into her palms. Her fierce anger even made her forget the pain in her hands.
Her eyes bored into Li Mu, yet her voice was unusually soft. "I do. I want to avenge my mother."
"If I go to that place with you, will I have to lose anything? Or are you saying that as long as I go with you, I'll be able to avenge my mother?"
Huo Yutong pressed her lips tight as she spoke, her expression somewhat peculiar. After these great rises and falls, her thoughts had already become tangled to the extreme.
Li Mu turned over, calmly studying the girl before him, a trace of scrutiny hidden in his eyes.
"How far are you willing to go for revenge?"
Li Mu's voice was soft, but his expression had turned serious. The girl lowered her head slightly at his words, yet there was not the slightest hesitation in her tone.
"Give up everything. Whatever you want me to do, as long as I can avenge my mother and destroy the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, I... I'm willing."
The girl's tone held a resolve that could cleave nails and sever iron, while Li Mu's gaze grew somewhat strange.
He promptly sat up and reached out, taking Huo Yutong's little hand.
The girl's little hand was very soft. Together with the faint fragrance drifting from her hair, she truly could be described as adorable to the extreme.
Huo Yutong trembled for an instant at Li Mu's sudden action, but she did not resist, letting him hold her hand.
"I can avenge you, and the price is that you serve as my slave and maid for the rest of your life. Are you willing?"
Li Mu winked at Huo Yutong as he spoke. Hearing this, Huo Yutong froze at first.
Her eyes abruptly lifted, looking toward Li Mu with some confusion.
Seeing that the boy did not seem to be lying, she fell silent for a moment before finally nodding gently.
"Of course I'm willing, as long as you can kill the first madam and avenge my mother for me."
Huo Yutong's voice trembled slightly as she spoke, while Li Mu calmly stood up.
He took the girl's hand as a matter of course and led her straight out of Shrek Academy.
Huo Yutong was somewhat bewildered by his actions, but she still let him lead her out.
The two arrived at Shrek Academy's entrance. Beyond it lay Shrek City.
Li Mu's expression, however, was exceptionally calm.
All that talk about being unable to leave Shrek Academy, and about having to enter Shrek Academy.
Those had all been lies.
With a top-tier Ferocious Beast of nearly eight hundred thousand years backing him, in all of Shrek Academy,
the only person he could not defeat was Mu En.
Apart from him, even Xuan Zi would have to weigh whether he could hold out against him.
And with the Snow Empress's terrifying strength, he had naturally not come to Shrek Academy to study.
"I originally planned to find an excuse to stay here a while longer. Ah, forget it now."
"I've even stumbled into having the master of destiny become my maid. Seems like everything else can wait."
Li Mu's expression was somewhat strange as he spoke, and he raised his hand calmly.
Within the illusory space, the Snow Empress looked at the wide-open doorway, her expression turning puzzled as well.
Seemingly noticing the Snow Empress's odd expression, Li Mu spoke in an extremely calm voice.
"I originally planned to find an opportunity to enter the Shrek Inner Court and determine the treasury's location."
"But since we're leaving right now, we might as well just leave."
"Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and Zhou Yi-I originally planned to pick one of the three and kill them while I was at it."
"Then loot the treasury on the way out. But since things have reached this point, I'll kill Zhou Yi."
Li Mu yawned after speaking and looked toward the Snow Empress, his voice as casual as ever.
"Shrek Academy has a Level 99 Limit Douluo. I know your heavenly tribulation is approaching and you need somewhere to hide.
"But there shouldn't be any problem with you making a move for me once, right?"
"Go inside and find Shrek's treasury. Take as much as you can. I'll go do what I need to do."
Li Mu's voice was casual, but when those words came out, not just the Snow Empress-even Huo Yutong stared blankly at him.
She did not understand where the boy before her got such confidence. That was Shrek Academy, where experts gathered like clouds and there were plenty of existences at Super Douluo and above.
But as Li Mu finished speaking, from within that illusory silver secret realm,
a slender, jade-like hand slowly reached out, followed by the Snow Empress's head.
Her gaze remained fixed on Li Mu. Seeing that the boy did not seem to be lying, she soared into the sky in an instant.
The next second, time all around seemed to stop for an instant.
Great masses of ice and snow rained wantonly from the sky, and the entire world transformed into a secret realm of ice and snow in an instant.
Everything between heaven and earth was covered in ice and snow, and the presence of a seven-hundred-thousand-year peak Ferocious Beast erupted.
The Snow Empress's own strength was somewhat greater than that of a Level 99 Limit Douluo.
With her heavenly tribulation looming, she might not be able to defeat Mu En, but snatching some things was indeed not particularly difficult.
As the Snow Empress soared into the sky, Li Mu took a step forward.
Countless streams of water swirled around him, while the ice and snow transformed into icicles in an instant, following close behind him.
He stepped forward, returning to the first floor, and the door opened.
What greeted his eyes was a dumbfounded Dai Huabin and Wang Dong, whose expression was strange to the extreme.
Li Mu waved his hand casually. Before either could even react, the icicles struck them, instantly knocking them unconscious.
Dragging one in each hand, Li Mu tossed them straight into his Silver Dragon King Space.
Having dealt with all of this, he stepped forward again.
He returned to Shrek City's gate and looked at Huo Yutong, who stood there with a nervous expression.
He raised his hand and tossed the girl into the Silver Dragon King Space as well.
Then he stepped forward, his entire body surrounded by flowing water, instantly entering a half-invisible state as he prepared to charge straight toward Shrek City.
He moved quickly, but he had only taken a few steps outward when a deafening explosion thundered out.
Within Shrek City's Sea God Pavilion, an enormous, crystalline icicle over a hundred meters long burst forth beside the Sea God Pavilion in an instant.
As that terrifying power erupted, the entire Shrek Academy shook violently.