At the Shrek Outer Court, Tang Ya looked at Tang Yuhao with some excitement and instinctively pressed him to confirm his parentage.
"Your mother was Tang Xin, and your father was Tang Shi'er. Is that true?"
In Tang Yuhao's memories, those were indeed the names of his parents, both of whom had died young. Naturally, he chuckled and nodded.
For some reason, though, Tang Yuhao thought the two names sounded a little strange.
Tang Ya, meanwhile, was so excited that she nearly wept.
"That's right, you're a descendant of our Tang Sect. It's just... that calamity came in the end..."
Pain flickered in Tang Ya's eyes as she spoke those last words. When Tang Yuhao pressed her for answers, he learned that the Tang Sect had been wiped out.
Tang Yuhao's face flushed red in an instant, and he trembled with rage.
"I'll have my revenge!"
Tang Yuhao's eyes had turned red. Tang Ya took a deep breath and gently comforted him.
"Yuhao, don't rush. We need to grow stronger first."
Bei Bei, watching from the side, nodded in agreement and asked a concerned question of his own.
"By the way, Yuhao, what's your Martial Soul?"
At that, Tang Yuhao summoned his Martial Soul. It was a deep, dark blue, adorned with golden patterns, while the blood-red threads as thin as strands of hair went unnoticed.
Tang Ya summoned her own Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. As if sensing something-the urge to submit and the power of a shared origin-she spoke in a trembling, disbelieving voice.
"Heavens, could your Martial Soul be the Blue Silver Emperor of our Tang Sect ancestor, Tang San?"
Bei Bei's expression turned grave at once.
The Blue Silver Emperor was a top-tier plant-type Martial Soul.
Its grade was in no way inferior to that of his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
Thus, under Bei Bei's guidance, Tang Yuhao went straight to the Outer Court, where Du Weilun personally tested him.
Tang Yuhao released his Soul Skills.
His first Soul Skill was still Blue Silver Entanglement, while his second was Parasite.
Seeing that Tang Yuhao's strength fully met the requirements, Du Weilun nodded, apparently satisfied.
Still, he found it a little strange. Tang Yuhao's Martial Soul didn't seem quite like a standard Blue Silver Emperor.
But Tang Yuhao did indeed possess the Blue Silver Domain as well.
In the end, Du Weilun could only conclude that the Martial Soul might have undergone some mutation as it was passed down.
After all, there were few descriptions of Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor.
And just like that, Tang Yuhao successfully joined Shrek Academy.
But as a new student, he saw a pretty person who looked like a girl come up to him, and this person even began laying down rules.
"My name is Wang Dong. From now on..."
Listening to Wang Dong's rules, Tang Yuhao was immediately displeased.
That set the familiar process in motion: a fight.
But when Tang Yuhao revealed his mutated Blue Silver Emperor,
Wang Dong froze.
Even Mu En, sitting in his chair and posing as an old man, turned to look.
He could sense that Tang Yuhao's Martial Soul was indeed the Blue Silver Emperor, but there seemed to be a strange power within it. He hadn't overlooked the dense, hair-thin blood-red threads.
The mutated Martial Soul gave him a strange feeling.
Yet it was a feeling he couldn't quite put into words.
As a result, Mu En couldn't tell whether Tang Yuhao's Martial Soul had mutated in a good direction or a bad one.
Wang Dong then activated her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul.
"Blue Silver Entanglement!"
When Tang Yuhao casually sent out his Blue Silver Entanglement and ensnared Wang Dong, she thought little of it at first and instinctively tried to cut it apart with Wing Guillotine.
But Wang Dong was horrified to discover that her Soul Power was being drawn away thread by thread. There was even a fine wound on her ankle, and it seemed she had lost some blood as well.
"What is this?"
Wang Dong's face went pale with shock, but Tang Yuhao couldn't be bothered to answer. After he released Parasite again,
Wang Dong felt that it wasn't just her Soul Power or even her blood; something else seemed to be getting drawn out of her as well.
Wang Dong instinctively tried to cut it off with Wing Guillotine, only to find that it took her two or three strikes to sever the mutated Blue Silver Emperor's vines. Their flexibility far exceeded her imagination.
Mu En frowned slightly at the sight. Tang Yuhao's Martial Soul seemed a little too strange.
It was even somewhat close to that of an Evil Soul Master. But then he thought that the Blue Silver Emperor probably couldn't belong to an Evil Soul Master.
He couldn't help wondering whether Tang Yuhao had an innate parasitic ability like that of a Ghost Vine.
As long as Tang Yuhao didn't cultivate through evil means, it didn't matter if his Martial Soul was a little strange.
After all, Ma Xiaotao of Shrek Academy was like that.
Feeling herself being parasitized, Wang Dong was thoroughly enraged. She swept out with Wing Guillotine, while Tang Yuhao used Blue Silver Entanglement.
As he opened the distance between them, he even gathered Blue Silver vines into a shield.
It blocked Wang Dong's attack.
Wang Dong immediately unleashed her thousand-year Soul Skill, Butterfly God Slash!
Golden light flashed.
As it slashed toward Tang Yuhao, he redirected his Soul Power and resisted with all his might.
But by then, Wang Dong's face was already pale, and even flying had become difficult for her.
Under the constant parasitism and plundering, Tang Yuhao's Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul itself possessed the innate abilities to plunder and devour.
With the added effect of the Parasite Soul Skill, after her two crude bursts of power, the Soul Power in Wang Dong's body was already nearly exhausted.
"Since you said strength reigns supreme, you're responsible for cleaning the dorm from now on. When you can beat me, I'll take over the cleaning."
Tang Yuhao didn't provoke others, but that didn't mean he would let them walk all over him. Since Wang Dong had spoken rudely, he didn't mind teaching her a small lesson.
According to the Tang Sect's rules, Wang Dong had just tried to kill him. Once an enemy was identified, there was no need to hold back. Wang Dong had already earned her path to death!
He had only refrained from killing her out of consideration for Shrek Academy.
Wang Dong was furious. Her hand trembled as she pointed at Tang Yuhao, but there was nothing she could do to him.
She could only stare resentfully at Tang Yuhao's departing back and stamp her foot.
What a joke! I've never done that at home. Did I come to Shrek Academy just to be a maid?
But there was nothing she could do. Since she had decided to enroll dressed as a boy, Wang Dong could only swallow this bitter fruit of humiliation.
Meanwhile, Tang Yuhao sensed his mutated Blue Silver Emperor.
During the fight, he had felt the blood-red threads beneath the Blue Silver Emperor's golden patterns grow a little thicker.
After it had apparently devoured blood, he felt that his mutated Blue Silver Emperor had grown stronger again.
Could my Blue Silver Emperor have some unusual talent?
But Tang Yuhao couldn't think that far at the moment.
In the days that followed, Wang Dong officially became Tang Yuhao's maid...