Douluo: Peerless Black Tortoise Moon God

Chapter 324 Zhongli Wu: This sect leader actually has a blood relative? How should we calculate our generation?
Shrek City, Seagod's Lodge.

Yan Shaozhe, who was meditating with his eyes closed, heard hurried footsteps outside. He waved and opened the door to the meditation room, and saw Bei Bei with a worried expression. He frowned and said:
"Beibei, what happened? Why are you in such a hurry? You need to calm down."

With a sorrowful expression and tears welling in her eyes, Bei Bei pointed outside and said, "Dean, the envoys from the Heavenly Soul Empire have arrived at the academy, along with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, and the Body Sect. They have come to demand an explanation from us."

"They said that we, the people who went to the Sun Moon Empire, have already..."

Yan Shaozhe's heart skipped a beat; he knew things were bad. He abruptly stood up, grabbed Bei Bei's shoulders, and asked urgently:

"What happened? What happened to them? Beibei, don't scare me. What happened to Grandpa Song and Lin'er?"

As he continued asking questions, Yan Shaozhe's face gradually paled, as a series of unthinkable events flooded his mind.

No, that's impossible!
"Except for Elder Song, all the Title Douluos and Super Douluos... are gone!"

Sobbing, Beibei recounted the intelligence that the Heavenly Soul Empire had delivered to their door.

"Dengdengdeng..."

Upon hearing this, Yan Shaozhe gripped Bei Bei's shoulders tightly, then stumbled a few steps as if the world was spinning. Finally, looking disoriented and incredulous, he pointed at Bei Bei and said:

"No, that's impossible! We Shrek Academy is invincible! Old Master Song is the fastest and the number one agility-type Soul Master in the world! How could something like this happen to him? BeiBei, you're joking with me, right? Right..."

As he spoke, a look of mixed sorrow and joy appeared on Yan Shaozhe's face. Gradually, his vision went black, and he collapsed to the ground with a thud, unconscious.

Just before he collapsed, Yan Shaozhe heard Bei Bei's increasingly anxious voice in his ear.

"Elder Zhuang, Elder Zhuang, something terrible has happened! Dean Yan is in trouble too! Come quick, we need to save him..."

……

When Yan Shaozhe regained consciousness, he was greeted by the worried faces of Beibei and Old Zhuang.

Old Zhuang held his hand, his eyes red with tears, his face contorted with grief, and sobbed uncontrollably, "Shao Zhe, Shrek Academy is counting on you now, counting on you! You absolutely cannot have anything happen to you again..."

"Don't worry, Elder Zhuang, don't worry, I won't fall, I won't let Shrek Academy fall..."

Yan Shaozhe responded with a hoarse voice, his gaze falling into the distance, where he saw the Snow Jade Prince of the Heavenly Soul Empire, the Golden Body Douluo of the Body Sect, the Sect Master of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and a Title Douluo from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan all in the room.

Their faces were all somber and the atmosphere was terrifyingly heavy.

With the help of Elder Zhuang and Bei Bei, Yan Shaozhe got up, cupped his hands in a gesture of respect at the head of the bed, and forced a smile: "I am in poor health, and I apologize for making a fool of myself in front of you all. May I ask what brings you here..."

"Whether you want to see a joke or not is irrelevant. As long as you're not dead, that's fine. Our sect leader is waiting for my reply."

The Golden-bodied Douluo Jinpeng had the most pent-up anger. He coldly said, glaring at Yan Shaozhe, "Yan Shaozhe, this plan to jointly attack the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and capture the former crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire was your idea. As a result, we have suffered heavy losses. Don't you have an explanation?"

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School Master, Ning Gu, usually had a gentle and refined demeanor, but now his face was cold and gloomy. He said in a yin-yang tone, "Yes, we trusted Shrek Academy because of our long-standing alliance. We dispatched our elite forces, a full fifty direct disciples of our sect who were Soul Kings or above, and three Title Douluos also went."

"In the end, they never returned. I heard from the experts of the Body Sect that someone leaked the information this time..."

The titled Douluo of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan said angrily: "In this battle, our Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan lost a total of eight titled Douluos, and our patriarch, who had a cultivation level of ninety-eight, was buried in a foreign land!"

"Who has suffered greater losses than us! Yan Shaozhe, how does Shrek Academy plan to compensate us for this loss! Even the favor shown to Dragon God Douluo is no excuse for you to wipe out our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!"

Prince Xueyu stared at Yan Shaozhe and said slowly, word by word, "Dean Yan, this operation was proposed by you. Apart from a group of people from the Body Sect who returned alive thanks to His Majesty the Body's full support, all the others stayed in the Sun Moon Empire."

"Who do you think leaked this information?"

The Body Sect had long intended to attack Mingde Hall, but the original plan was shelved because of Shrek Academy's proposed sneak attack, and a new plan was adopted instead. Moreover, Prince Xueyu personally witnessed Du Busi leading a group of defeated soldiers back under the pursuit of a terrifying Soul Master, so it was impossible that he was the one with the problem.

Logically, since everyone was so badly injured this time, none of them should be spies. But they knew that Shrek was suspicious!

When Du Bu Si returned, he personally stated that when Mingde Hall Master Jing Hongchen was fighting with the Blue Lightning Clan Chief, he said that the information was given by Shrek Academy, claiming that it was impossible for someone of his status to lie.

After discussing it, they all felt that Shrek couldn't escape responsibility.

Xuanzi is the Holy Spirit Cult's top spy, and Yan Shaozhe is also a suspect!

Just yesterday, Jing Hongchen made a high-profile appearance in the Star Luo Empire, visiting his grandchildren under the guise of an academy exchange. He then went to Tian Dou City in the Tian Hun Empire and loudly proclaimed their self-made "Declaration Against Shrek Academy".

Among them are all sorts of acts of betraying one's roots, starting with criticizing Shrek Academy's origins, criticizing Shrek Academy for disregarding human life before welcoming the Shrek Seven Devils with their overwhelming backgrounds, and criticizing the academy for only graduating 14 out of 62 exceptionally talented students, relying on exploiting students to maintain the academy's operation.

Then, the text criticizes Tang San, the Sea God among the Shrek Seven Devils, for entering the City of Slaughter, obtaining a powerful domain from the evil spirit masters, and then cutting off the path for future generations, destroying the massive prison that held them—his selfish motives are blatantly obvious. Later, during the extermination of the Spirit Hall, he sent the Azure Douluo Dugu Bo to release poison and massacre hundreds of thousands of people, only for the Sea God Tang San to intervene and detoxify them—a perfectly coordinated and skillful maneuver. Meanwhile, the pseudo-master Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Sect laugh maniacally, their madness and inhumanity reaching their extreme.

The Heavenly Soul Empire and the Star Luo Empire immediately verified the top-secret historical records and found that the "slanderous" statements of the Sun Moon Empire were exactly the same as the historical records. They could not be said to be exaggerated, but rather to be objective descriptions.

The subsequent proclamation lamented that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had risked their lives alongside Shrek Academy, sacrificing themselves to save Tang San, the Sea God, which resulted in the tragic death of Sword Bone Douluo. It further claimed that they were excluded from the distribution of the Spirit Hall's inheritance, an attempt to sow discord.

The elders of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School were deeply moved; after ten thousand years, finally someone was willing to speak up for them.

As for the subsequent criticisms of Shrek Academy for using the name of the academy to develop into a country within a country, riding on the backs of the two former empires and now the three major empires, plundering geniuses and resources from all over the continent for its own use, and then blatantly using the lives of countless geniuses to gild its own reputation and maintain its hegemonic position...

While outwardly criticizing the two empires, they were secretly pleased, feeling that the historians of the Sun Moon Empire were not working hard enough. Why didn't they go and conduct on-site investigations in the two empires? They could write more about this aspect so that those Soul Master families would know how difficult it was for them.

Here comes the important part: Having reached this point in the critique of the Sun Moon Empire, we begin to intersperse top-secret news reports—

Shocking! The true identity of Shrek's Gluttonous Douluo is actually the Supreme Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult!

Horrifying! The previous leader of the Holy Spirit Cult had planned this all along. Before killing the Dragon God Douluo's master, he had already planted the Death God Douluo Ye Xishui next to the Dragon God Douluo, and sent the Gluttonous Douluo to infiltrate Shrek Academy.

Revealed! How many Shrek Academy geniuses did the Supreme Elder Taotie kill during his undercover mission, and how did he gradually rise to power, only one step away from becoming the Pavilion Master?

When one door closes, another opens; the Holy Spirit Cult welcomes back the Gluttonous Douluo, and Shrek Academy also has the Bright Phoenix Douluo, Yan Shaozhe!

Jing Hongchen went live in front of the entire Doucheng community, loudly recounting Yan Shaozhe's numerous romantic escapades in his youth, from Feng Ling to Cai Meier, going on and on. The older generation of Soul Masters below were heartbroken, because what Jing Hongchen said was all true.

Finally, Yan Shaozhe's true identity was revealed—the true young master of the Holy Spirit Cult, and the descendant of Ye Xishui, the King of Evil Soul Masters.

Because the Sun Moon Empire had told so much truth, Prince Xueyu, Golden Body Douluo, Sect Master Ning, and others unanimously believed that the truth of the matter was more than 95% likely.

As for the Sun Moon Empire betraying Yan Shaozhe after using the intelligence, they thought it was normal. After all, there was the precedent of the Evening Water Alliance. Maybe the Sun Moon Empire liked to do things like discarding a donkey after it has served its purpose. Or maybe their intelligence source was not Yan Shaozhe, but other titled Douluo, and they wanted to use this opportunity to kill Yan Shaozhe and take over.

But no matter what, Shrek has to give an explanation!

Sweat beaded on Yan Shaozhe's forehead, dripping down his face. His expression turned sorrowful as he said, "Regarding this matter, I will definitely cooperate with everyone to find the real culprit. Please believe that Shrek Academy stands with you. We have also suffered heavy losses this time..."

"Once Yan recovers, he will definitely issue a Shrek Academy recall order to bring back all graduates of the academy and seek revenge against the Sun Moon Empire!"

Elder Zhuang nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, I believe Shrek Academy's ability to gather strong individuals will not disappoint you. The current priority is to pool our wisdom and strength to seek revenge against the Sun Moon Empire."

Prince Xueyu's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. He gritted his teeth, wishing he could go up and kill Yan Shaozhe and Zhuang Yusheng.

"You mean... once isn't enough, you want to do it again?!?"

More than half of Shrek Academy's graduates are from the Heavenly Soul Empire. Shrek Academy suffered heavy losses in the Sun Moon Empire, are they coming to the Heavenly Soul Empire to recover their losses?!

……

The Douling Empire, the stronghold of the Holy Spirit Cult.

Zhongli Wu, who had just recovered from serious injuries, emerged from the pass and roared to the sky.

"Hahahaha, my injuries are finally healed! The orthodox Soul Masters of the Three Kingdoms, prepare to tremble before me!"

Streams of dark light surged forth, transforming into human forms, all congratulating Zhongli Wu on his departure from the pass.

Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng presented the newly acquired "Proclamation Against Shrek Academy" and respectfully said, "Master, this is something the Sun Moon Empire has just produced, and it involves the Supreme Master... On behalf of my brothers, I would like to ask, how many spies do we still have in Shrek Academy? We must not accidentally harm them in the future."

"Um???"

Zhongli Wu snatched the proclamation and flipped to the end, a bunch of question marks appearing on his forehead.

"This leader actually has a blood relative? How come I didn't know?"

"Furthermore, Feng Ling had a past with Yan Shaozhe. Could it be that I, the sect leader, am of the same ilk as this kid? How should we calculate our seniority?"

Thinking of Xuanzi, Zhongli Wu hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "I don't know about this matter either. Let me ask the Supreme Master first... Now, tell me how our sect has been recuperating these past two years, and how our personnel and resources are doing."

My mother is truly amazing. She can send any offspring she gives birth to to Shrek Academy and have them become the future leader of the Sea God Pavilion. I'll have to ask her for advice later.

(End of this chapter)