Seeing Xuan Zi utterly bewildered by Mu En's two swift punches, and then casually slapped into a spatial tunnel, the entire Sea God Pavilion fell silent.
The usually high-ranking elders of the Sea God Pavilion didn't even dare to breathe heavily.
Mu En was truly furious!
He even used the power of the Golden Tree, which showed the extent of Xuan Zi's infuriating actions.
All the elders of the Sea God Pavilion, every single one of them, acted like ostriches, burying their heads and not daring to utter a word.
Looking at this group of simpletons, Mu En felt utterly exhausted. He couldn't understand why he had no truly capable person under his command. He had originally wanted to use these last few years to let Xuan Zi think things through and finally get enlightened.
After all, after his death, the strongest person in Shrek Academy would be Xuan Zi. If he was unreliable, Shrek Academy wouldn't even have anyone capable of holding the fort.
But unexpectedly, Xuan Zi was truly incorrigible. Mu En could only throw him into the lowest level of the Golden Tree and imprison him.
Moreover, before throwing him in, Mu En also used the Golden Tree's power to lock Xuan Zi's soul core, completely sealing his cultivation.
Mu En didn't know why he did this.
But he had a premonition that he had to do it. If Xuan Zi entered the lowest level of the Golden Tree with his cultivation intact, Mu En merely thought about it and felt his spiritual consciousness tremble, as if something terrible was about to happen.
(Xuan Zi: Hehehe, that's right! I am Nidhogg!)
"Xiao Zhuang, how are those three children?" Mu En looked at Elder Zhuang and asked softly.
Xuan Zi had only mentioned that Dai Yueheng and the other two were severely injured, and under Elder Zhuang's treatment, their injuries had initially stabilized, with no life-threatening danger, but he didn't specify the exact situation.
Elder Zhuang sighed, his voice tinged with regret: "Elder Mu, I did my best, but I could only save their lives. For the deeper injuries, I am powerless."
"Of the three, the little fellow from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion completely lost the ability to recover his lower body; it was utterly destroyed from the hips down. The other two are not optimistic either. The little girl Xixi lost an arm and a leg, and Gongyang Mo suffered severe damage to his origin due to the corpse poison."
And there was also Chen Zifeng, who was blasted into pieces. The Soul Chasing Sword he left behind was still quietly lying in Ma Xiaotao's soul tool.
One dead, three crippled, four severely injured.
This battle record was undeniably tragic, even somewhat laughable, considering the opponent was merely a Soul King level evil soul master.
How many resources could a wild evil soul master have for cultivation?
Yet, such a wild evil soul master almost wiped out their entire team of inner court elite disciples. If word got out, probably no one would believe it.
"Treat them with all your might. Don't be stingy with the use of medicine. Ensure they receive the best treatment. They were severely injured because of the academy's mission, and the academy cannot let them down!" Mu En said after a moment of silence.
"Yes, Elder Mu." Elder Zhuang nodded slightly. He would treat Dai Yueheng and the other two with all his might, even without Mu En's instruction, because it was his professional ethics as a healing-type soul master.
"Then... Elder Mu, what about the competition team?"
"Should we send people to reinforce them?"
"After all, this is the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament. The academy's ten-thousand-year honor cannot be lost in our generation."
"Indeed, our academy has won for ten thousand consecutive years. The championship title absolutely cannot be handed over to the Sun Moon Empire!"
Elder Zhuang merely started the topic, and the other elders immediately began discussing animatedly. Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er were the most vocal among them. There weren't many eligible students under twenty years old left. Now that four spots were suddenly vacant, their Soul Tool Department could fill them!
"No need, just let them fight as they are," Mu En said with a faint smile.
"Huh?" Everyone was dumbfounded.
Looking at the reactions of the crowd, a hint of undetectable disappointment flickered in Mu En's eyes.
Their vision and foresight were still too poor.
They only ever considered immediate gains, only cared about present successes and failures, never combining the current situation with various factors to make the most correct choices, and never looking towards the distant future.
Shrek's high-level members were already corrupt. Ten thousand years of honor had blinded their eyes, and their lofty status had made their hearts decay.
They had become lifeless.
How much longer could such a Shrek last?
Mu En didn't know, nor did he want to know. Not long ago, Mu En had almost given up entirely. In the original story, without Lin Yun causing trouble, Mu En wouldn't have been able to fully see Shrek's corruption.
But after Lin Yun stirred things up, Shrek's problems were magnified infinitely in Mu En's eyes, allowing him to clearly see every fatal flaw of Shrek.
If time were to rewind two hundred years, Mu En was confident he could elevate Shrek to a new level.
If time were to rewind one hundred years, Mu En was also confident he could ensure Shrek's continued brilliance for another ten thousand years, maintaining its glory as the number one soul master academy on the Douluo Continent, and its status as a soul master holy land.
If time were to rewind fifty years, Mu En couldn't guarantee Shrek would maintain its current status, but he could ensure its legacy.
But now...
Mu En was willing but powerless. He couldn't last much longer, at most three to five more years of life. This time was too short, utterly insufficient for him to make drastic changes to Shrek Academy.
And minor changes would be meaningless; Shrek Academy's fate would remain the same after his death.
One could only say, it was too late.
Unless there was someone willing to work wholeheartedly for Shrek Academy, with their talent, they could grow to the Titled Douluo level in no time. Then Shrek Academy would be free from all worries.
That person, of course, was Lin Yun.
With him, plus Ma Xiaotao, two ultimate-attribute powerhouses, it would be enough to revitalize Shrek Academy.
But Mu En knew this was impossible.
All he could do was make Lin Yun feel a little more goodwill towards Shrek, to remember some of Shrek's sentimental ties.
Provided that... these idiots in front of him wouldn't do anything else utterly brain-dead.
"I said, let them go confidently," Mu En turned his head, looking at the shimmering Sea God Lake outside the window. "Winning or losing isn't important. Honor isn't brought by a so-called competition. You have been blinded by false honor and have forgotten what Shrek's true honor is."
"I actually hope Shrek loses this competition. If the failure of this competition can truly awaken you, then this failure will be even more precious than victory."
"No need for reinforcements. Let them act freely, for they are the true future of the academy."
(End of Chapter)
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