Let's put the turmoil at Shrek Academy aside for now.
It's definitely a complete mess. At least the four deans of the outer court are now getting a headache.
The Soul Master Department has suffered a major blow. Cai Mei'er looks at the increasingly empty outer court campus every day. The well-maintained black hair she once had now has a large number of white strands, and she wears a frown all the time.
In contrast, Zhang Lexuan's mood is quite calm.
Although she is now the Vice Dean of the Soul Master Department and is considered a high-level official at Shrek, the disgusting faces of the Sea God Pavilion members during the last meeting are still deeply etched in her heart.
Ever since she took over the affairs of the Soul Master Department, she has continued to be meticulous in her work, but she only sees it as a job now. It's basically impossible for her to view Shrek Academy as her only home, as she once did.
What's more…
She had also read the book "Phoenix Playing with Two Dragons." If her childhood memories were not mistaken, the enemy who had wiped out her family was an Evil Soul Master…
Her entire family was wiped out, from the family patriarch at the Soul Douluo level to the little infant who was not even a month old. All of them became the vengeful souls of an Evil Soul Master. She had even personally watched her father get dismembered, his painful, wailing soul becoming nourishment for the Evil Soul Master.
So, since everyone in the Zhang family died, why did she, who was not yet twelve years old, survive?
Why did she survive? What power or ability did she have to escape from that Evil Soul Master?
She didn't understand it when she was a child. After she became strong, she deliberately didn't recall those painful memories. But from her current perspective, the Evil Soul Master back then was at least a terrifying powerhouse at the Titled Douluo level. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for no one in the Zhang family to survive except for her.
So, it comes back to the same question.
How did she… escape from an Evil Soul Master at the Titled Douluo level?
For a true powerhouse, it's too easy to find a hiding child. Zhang Lexuan herself can cover a certain area with her spiritual power to search for life within that area.
Everything that happened back then was too coincidental and couldn't be thought through, or it would be full of flaws and inconsistencies.
Now, after reading this book "Phoenix Playing with Two Dragons" and re-examining the tragedy that happened to her with the insight of her Soul Douluo strength, she came to a realization.
"…Why…"
Zhang Lexuan closed the book in her hands, staring blankly at the four splashed words "Phoenix Playing with Two Dragons" on the cover. She looked at the illustration of Mu En on the cover, and a line of clear tears slid down her flawless face.
Was it all a conspiracy?
'As long as you help me get revenge, I'll do anything!'
'Are you really willing to do anything?'
'Yes, help me get revenge. Help me kill the enemy who wiped out my family, and I'll promise you anything!'
'Sigh… alright. Hunting down Evil Soul Masters is originally a duty of my Shrek Academy. Since your obsession is so deep, I'll agree. In exchange, I hope you can become a child bride for my great-grandson.'
'Okay, I agree!'
…
Yes! Hunting down Evil Soul Masters was what Shrek Academy had been doing for ten thousand years. Even without Zhang Lexuan's request, the Titled Douluo Evil Soul Master who had committed such a vile and cruel act of wiping out her family would have definitely been hunted down by Shrek Academy.
As the Pavilion Master of the Sea God Pavilion, it was Mu En's bounden duty to personally take action to kill this Titled Douluo Evil Soul Master and uphold "justice."
But…
He actually used this matter, something he should have done in the first place, to make a homeless little girl a child bride for his great-grandson!
Her vacant eyes gradually refocused. A hint of blood-red flashed in Zhang Lexuan's bright eyes, as if the resentment and fury that would ignite the whole world were burning fiercely in her heart.
"Evil Soul Master…"
"Mu En, you old dog!!!!"
"I, Zhang Lexuan, will not rest until you are dead!"
…
To be fair, the reason for the Zhang family's destruction was indeed a bit strange. The Zhang family was a noble family of the Douling Empire, but their family's inherited spirit was the Moon, the same as the Sun and Moon Empire's royal family.
On the Douluo Continent, anything can be disguised, but a family's inherited spirit cannot be disguised at all (except for transmigrators with cheats). The moment you release your spirit, it's basically confirmed which family you belong to, of course, as long as it's a famous spirit.
For example, the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda. Throughout the Douluo worldview, this spirit has only appeared in the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Clan and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Clan and has never been passed on to outsiders. The Clear Sky Hammer is also a symbol of the Clear Sky Sect, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon is the same.
Why is the Sun and Moon Empire called the Sun and Moon Empire?
It's nothing more than the fact that their royal family's inherited spirits are the Sun and the Moon. These two spirits can be seen on Kong Deming. His twin spirits are the Sun and the Moon, which is enough to prove that the Zhang family has the bloodline of the Sun and Moon Empire.
So much so that… the Zhang family might very well be a branch of the Sun and Moon Empire's royal family that was passed on.
The matter of the Zhang family's destruction was just too strange and suspicious. Having come from the Sun and Moon Empire to the Douling Empire, they couldn't have been too high-profile or offended anyone. Furthermore, the Douling Empire was the weakest of the four great empires, and the forces with a Titled Douluo overseeing them were few and far between, able to be counted on one or two hands.
How could the Zhang family have offended them?
But the Zhang family was still wiped out, and Zhang Lexuan just happened to survive.
This kind of seemingly plausible but suspicious event, combined with the filter of Zhang Lexuan's deep-seated hatred, was further guided by the content of "Phoenix Playing with Two Dragons"…
Zhang Lexuan: From now on, I will no longer be bound. I have never felt so refreshed. I, Zhang Lexuan, will be reborn!
Blood Moon, activate!
Cai Mei'er still had no idea that her "right-hand woman" had gradually turned to darkness, transforming from a fair fairy into a bloodthirsty killer. At this moment, she was almost numb.
Out of a total of less than two thousand students in the outer court, more than half had left. This was practically shaking Shrek's foundation. It's easy to imagine that the enrollment rate for next year's freshmen would surely reach its lowest point in ten thousand years.
Xian Lin'er was even more on the verge of tears.
Under Mu En's leadership, they had finally managed to get a student exchange program with the Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Tool Academy to vigorously develop the Soul Tool Department, but now, eighty percent of the students in the Soul Tool Department have left!
Yes, eighty percent!
The students who joined the Soul Tool Department after being rejected by the Soul Master Department were generally not geniuses and didn't have much backing. These people valued their lives very much. Each of them carried the hopes of their entire village, just hoping to become a powerful soul master and then lift their village up.
But Shrek Academy stirred up such a mess, turning them into birds of a feather.
Shrek's Soul Tool Department?
A bunch of useless trash.
"I admit that your Shrek's Soul Master Department is number one on the continent, but your Soul Tool Department is completely useless and can't even compare to the Sun and Moon Empire."
"In any case, I'll just be anxious here and won't get any training or resources, so why don't I go to the Sun and Moon Imperial Soul Tool Academy?"
"I heard that the Sun and Moon Empire is very welcoming to us joining them…"
So, what are you waiting for?
Grab your bucket and run! Go to the Sun and Moon Empire at light speed!
Xian Lin'er's worried heart completely died. The premise for the Soul Tool Department to take off was to have enough students. Now that all the students have left, how is she supposed to take off?
(End of Chapter)
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