Elder Lin walked up to Mu En with heavy steps and spoke slowly.
"Elder Mu... your body is already in this state, and that Shrek Academy in the sky is unfathomable and far too dangerous. Let me accompany you! Even if I have to risk this old life of mine, I will certainly ensure your safety!"
Hearing Elder Lin's earnest words, a flash of exhaustion crossed Mu En's weathered face.
He took a deep breath, eventually let out a sigh, nodded heavily, and agreed.
This matter had to be properly resolved! An explanation must be given for those two children whose fates were unknown, as well as to that Shrek Academy in the sky!
Afterward, Mu En forced himself to perk up, turned his head again, and stared fixedly at Xuan Zi with a stern gaze, coldly issuing an order.
"Elder Song! You take personal responsibility! Take Xuan Zi inside for me!"
"Let Xuan Zi reflect properly in the Confinement Room! Keep a close eye on him for me! Without my command, he is absolutely not allowed to step a single foot out of the Confinement Room! Furthermore, effective immediately, Xuan Zi is stripped of his position as the Vice Commander of the Shrek Inspection Corps!"
However, after hearing this, Xuan Zi was still quite unwilling. His face flushed red, and he stiffened his neck as he spoke loudly to Mu En.
"Elder Mu! You are being muddled! With your current physical condition, there is absolutely no need for you to take this risk personally!"
Xuan Zi thumped his chest hard and said with an air of righteous indignation.
"Why not let me do it! Since I caused this trouble, I will take full responsibility! I will personally lead the team there and will definitely bring those two girls, Lexuan and Luo Chen, back safe and sound! Then I will give you a perfect explanation!"
Upon hearing those words, Mu En's heart, which had calmed down slightly, twitched violently again. He frowned once more, his eyes filled with absurdity and disbelief.
What did he mean by giving him an explanation?!
Mu En roared frantically in his heart!
If it weren't for you, Xuan Zi, being more of a hindrance than a help, and if you hadn't privately ordered them to become Undercover Agents, none of today's tragedies would have happened!
And now, look at you, dressing yourself up as a hero who turns the tide?!
Moreover, Mu En had a strong premonition in his heart!
With Xuan Zi's impulsive and irritable personality—someone who only knows how to use brute force and is stubborn to a fault—if he were really allowed to handle this matter and negotiate with that monster academy of unfathomable heritage...
Then the result would definitely not be saving the people, but rather things developing in an even more irredeemable and worse direction! Perhaps the entire Shrek Academy would be dragged directly into an eternal abyss by him!
In short, no matter what, that old fool Xuan Zi must not be allowed to cause any more trouble!
"I told you to shut up!"
Mu En shouted sternly, interrupting Xuan Zi without mercy.
"You stay locked up inside for me! Don't you dare say any more nonsense here!"
However, at this moment, Xuan Zi seemed to be possessed, or perhaps to cover up his own faults, he not only didn't shut up but became more excited as he spoke!
Xuan Zi sneered and spoke loudly to Mu En.
"Elder Mu! What fantasies are you still harboring?! There has been no news for three whole months. It's quite possible that those two girls, Luo Chen and Lexuan, have already met with misfortune in that den of thieves and were killed!"
"Since they have already met with misfortune, what we should be doing right now is not talking to that Counterfeit Shrek Academy in a lowly manner! Instead, we should immediately organize the forces of the entire continent to discuss how to counterattack!"
"That Shrek Academy of unknown origin has groundlessly seized the ten-thousand-year foundation and reputation of our authentic Shrek Academy, and now they have cruelly murdered the compatriots and future successors of my Shrek Academy! Such inhumane and frantic behavior is clearly the act of unpardonable Evil Soul Masters!"
"We should immediately announce this matter to the entire Douluo Continent! Reveal their true faces as Evil Soul Masters! Call upon all the righteous people on the continent to crusade against them together!"
"When the time comes, we can not only eliminate them as a matter of course but also rightfully claim all those advanced technologies and resources in that Counterfeit Shrek Academy as our own! We can use that to compensate for our losses!"
"Boom—!!!"
As soon as Xuan Zi uttered these words—words that shattered common values and had no bottom line—the entire Sea God Pavilion instantly fell into a deathly silence!
All the Venerable Elders of Shrek Academy present were stunned by these remarks. Each one of them widened their eyes and couldn't help but fall silent.
"This... is this something a human can actually say?!"
To seize the other party's technology and resources, he didn't even care about the life or death of his own academy's Disciples, directly assuming they were dead, and even wanted to forcibly label the other party as Evil Soul Masters to start a continent-wide war?!
These tactics are simply too dirty and despicable!
Who exactly is the Evil Soul Master here?
At this moment, after hearing Xuan Zi's 'profound theory,' Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo looked at each other, and they couldn't help but gasp frantically in their hearts.
The two of them were sighing frantically in their hearts.
"Elder Xuan is truly something else!"
"This skill of shifting the blame! This operation of using far-fetched arguments and standing on the moral high ground to commit murder for gain is simply seamless and has reached the pinnacle! Even if the two of us studied for another hundred years, we would never reach Elder Xuan's shameless Realm!"
However, after hearing this, Mu En, lying in his chair, only felt the entire World collapsing.
He stared fixedly at the Xuan Zi before him, whose mouth was full of benevolence and morality but whose Soul had actually been corroded by greed and arrogance. His chest heaved violently, and his anger reached its absolute boiling point!
"You... you scoundrel!!!"
Mu En pointed a trembling finger at Xuan Zi's nose and rebuked him in a voice of despair.
"Lexuan and Luo Chen are your Juniors! They are your compatriots! Their lives are currently hanging in the balance, and as an elder, instead of first caring about the safety of the academy's students and thinking of ways to save them, you are here worrying about such things as plunder and seizure?!"
"Every word out of your mouth is about profit! It's about calculation! You... where do you have even the slightest semblance of being a teacher or an elder?! You are simply insane!!!"
Extreme disappointment, ultimate rage, and deep sorrow for the future fate of Shrek Academy, at this moment, like a flood breaking through a dam, completely overwhelmed Mu En!
"Pfft—!!!"
After saying this, Mu En's eyes bulged, and his chest went into a violent spasm.
Immediately after, he spurted out another large mouthful of dark red blood, even thicker than before, like a fountain!
"What... what sin have I committed..."
With one last faint and despairing murmur, Mu En's eyes rolled back, his head slumped weakly to one side, and he fainted!
"Pavilion Master!!!"
"Teacher!!!"
Seeing that Mu En had actually been furious (Qi) to the point of spitting blood and fainting again by Xuan Zi, the entire Sea God Pavilion instantly fell into chaos!
Elder Zhuang hurriedly stepped forward to use his Spirit to treat Mu En, while the other Venerable Elders were also in a state of confusion.
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A/N:
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