Douluo Continent: I'm writing a diary, and something's not right with you guys.

Don't be ridiculous. What do the royal conflicts of the Sun Moon Empire have to do with them?

Even though Lin Ye said in his diary that He Caitou would become Xiao Xiao's partner and become the new generation of Shrek Seven Devils, that was a long time from now.

They don't know He Caitou at all, and they don't even know what he looks like. So naturally, they don't feel any panic or unease. Their minds are filled with shock and excitement at the earth-shattering revelation.

Whether you're a former crown prince or a prince of a fallen kingdom, right now, the most important thing is to enjoy the show.

Starry Sky Forest, at the bottom of the Lake of Life.

A faint hint of amusement flashed across Gu Yuena's purple-gold vertical pupils.

She has always disdained to pay attention to the treachery and deceit among human nations.

In her eyes, these humans fighting to the death for power and status were no different from ants fighting for food.

Although she disdains power, she still has to watch the drama unfold.

What's even more interesting is Shrek Academy. Knowing full well that the other party was the former crown prince of an enemy country, they still dared to openly take him in and devote all their efforts to nurturing him. Their intentions are quite obvious.

Unlike others who only see the surface of things, she directly focuses on the core of the matter.

In the cage next to it, the three-eyed golden lion shook its fluffy golden head, its vertical pupils filled with curiosity and confusion.

The human world is so complicated! Even when they're family, they fight and kill each other for positions, and some even kill entire families. How wicked!

This human named He Caitou is so pitiful. He could have been an emperor, but he lost his home and had to come to such a faraway place.

Chapter 76: Shrek Academy Aims to Unify the Continent?

At this moment, Wang Dong'er had already led the freshman class towards the teaching building.

With Zhou Yi, the class teacher, suddenly leaving her post, it wouldn't be right to leave dozens of freshmen standing on the playground, being stared at like monkeys by other students from the School of Foreign Languages.

There are still quite a few students gathered around the playground, whispering among themselves about Zhou Yi's outburst in class. The news has spread throughout the entire Shrek Academy in just half an hour, and even the dean of the academy, Yan Shaozhe, has received the news.

However, he never showed up or gave any instructions; he simply observed from the sidelines, wanting to see how Fan Yu would handle the matter.

Wang Dong'er walked at the front of the group, repeatedly replaying the contents of Lin Ye's diary in her mind. Besides the surprise of watching the drama unfold, she also felt a deep sense of doubt and scrutiny towards Shrek Academy.

She knew very well that although Shrek Academy was nominally a neutral soul master academy, it had been openly hostile to the Sun Moon Empire for many years.

Even with the three great empires of Tianhun, Douling, and Xingluo, the relationship is far more complicated than it appears on the surface.

After all, Shrek Academy is just too domineering. From students to teachers, and even the higher-ups of the Sea God Pavilion, everyone in the academy follows the same rule: those who dare not cause trouble are mediocre.

Under the influence of this philosophy, the soul masters trained by Shrek Academy are all fearless troublemakers who act arrogantly and domineeringly.

Not to mention the Sun Moon Empire, which has always been at odds with them, even the three great empires backed by them—Heavenly Soul, Fighting Spirit, and Star Luo—have a very ambiguous and wary attitude towards Shrek Academy.

However, the Sun Moon Empire's soul tool development was rapid and its national strength was strong, while the three major empires were weak and could only cling to Shrek Academy, a towering tree, without daring to complain in the slightest.

Despite her young age, she already possessed a level of understanding of the intricacies of power politics far exceeding that of her peers.

She used to think that Teacher Fanyu took He Caitou as his apprentice because he was impressed by his amazing talent in soul tools, but now she realized that things were not that simple.

Why would a former crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire be brought to Shrek Academy by Fan Yu and trained as a core disciple? What exactly are the higher-ups at Shrek Academy planning?

Thinking of this, he recalled what Lin Ye had said: Shrek Academy was actually a den of iniquity.

She hadn't believed it before, but now that this has happened, it seems that a corner of the filthy Shrek Academy has been gently lifted.

Honestly, I don't believe the higher-ups at Shrek Academy don't know He Caitou's true identity.

How could anyone not know? Anyone with eyes could see that the skin color of the Sun Moon Empire's royal family is completely different from that of the people of the three great empires: Heavenly Soul, Fighting Spirit, and Star Luo.

He Caitou's dark complexion clearly indicated he was from the Sun Moon Empire; it wasn't just from tanning.

The diary entries that flashed through Ma Xiaotao's mind made her raise an eyebrow.

She had a good relationship with Teacher Fanyu and had met He Caitou many times. She thought the boy was honest and down-to-earth, and his talent in soul tools was amazing. She never thought much about his identity.

Now that Lin Ye had pointed it out, she belatedly realized that He Caitou's skin color was indeed out of place with the other students at Shrek.

Previously, everyone thought that his tan was due to years of training and researching soul tools, but now it seems that it was simply a natural skin color characteristic of the Sun Moon Empire's royal family.

Even if someone turns a blind eye and insists that his skin tone is from years of outdoor training, or that he is an exchange student or a Soul Master from the Sun Moon Continent, they can barely fool him.

But his second martial soul is the Sun Martial Soul! That's a unique martial soul exclusive to the royal family of the Sun Moon Empire. No one but direct descendants of the royal family could possibly awaken it. There's no way to explain that, is there?

Tang Ya bit her lower lip and couldn't help but let out a cold laugh.

Shrek Academy claims to only accept monsters and not ordinary people, and to uphold the righteous path of the Soul Master world, being the last pure land on the continent. But behind the scenes, they are also engaging in such despicable acts of deception and planting spies.

The former crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire was hidden in the academy and nurtured with all his might. If this were to get out, the three great empires would probably be wary of Shrek Academy and would never dare to be so devoted to it again.

As the leader of the Tang Clan, Tang Ya may be a little naive and girlish in matters of the heart, but when it comes to power and intrigue, she is far ahead of her peers.

She could deduce the wicked schemes of Shrek Academy's higher-ups from just a few words.

There are many ways to hide your second martial soul. Any soul skill that can conceal your aura, or a low-level soul tool that can shield your soul, will do the trick.

The problem is that he is Fan Yu's personal disciple and a core genius of the Soul Guidance Department that Shrek Academy is focusing on cultivating. How could the academy's higher-ups not have thoroughly investigated his ancestors for eighteen generations to be able to enter Shrek and become Fan Yu's disciple?

Let alone a second martial soul, the academy could probably find out exactly how many times he wet the bed as a child.

Therefore, there is only one conclusion: the higher-ups at Shrek Academy knew He Caitou's true identity from the very beginning, knowing that he was Xu He, the former crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire.

As the young master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, Ning Tian has been immersed in the power struggles and intrigues of the sect since childhood. He is far more sensitive to these intricacies of power than his peers.

When the diary entry flashed through her mind, she instantly grasped the key point, a look of understanding and coldness flashing in her eyes.

So that's how it is. As far as he knew, Shrek Academy had always harbored strong hostility towards the soul masters of the Sun Moon Empire. How could the academy's higher-ups make an exception and accept a boy from the Sun Moon Empire, and even hand him over to Fan Yu, the academy's top soul tool instructor, to personally train him, showering him with the best soul tool resources?

Now that Lin Ye has said that, all my doubts have been resolved.

A former crown prince who was ousted in a coup d'état harbors an irreconcilable blood feud with the current royal family of the Sun Moon Empire.

If Shrek Academy nurtures him, he will become the sharpest knife Shrek Academy can use to penetrate the heart of the Sun Moon Empire.

As long as they use his former title as crown prince to fight their way back to the Sun Moon Empire and help him ascend the throne, the entire Sun Moon Empire will fall into Shrek's hands.

That was a truly far-sighted and cunning move.

She used to think that Shrek Academy was a holy land in the world of soul masters, but now she realizes that the rulers of this holy land are all top masters of manipulating power.

Shrek Academy has packaged itself so well over the years.

Packaging it as a holy land in the world of soul masters gives you the feeling that if you're not a student from Shrek Academy, your status is inferior to other soul masters.

Chapter 77 Shrek's Ambition is Too Great

Even after learning that he was the former crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire, the academy's higher-ups not only didn't expel him, but instead handed him over to Fan Yu, the academy's top soul tool instructor.

By personally nurturing Fan Yu and showering him with the best resources, what is Shrek Academy trying to do? Their intentions are as clear as day!

Wang Dong'er had just finished arranging the self-study discipline in the class when this passage of text flashed through her mind, and the coldness in her eyes intensified.

Just as she had imagined.

Shrek Academy is by no means a neutral holy land. Just like Tang San, they only care about interests and calculations.

They nurtured He Caitou not because of his talent, but because of his status as the former crown prince and the devastating chaos he could bring to the Sun Moon Empire.

If they can use a teenager who has lost his family and is only a teenager as a pawn to disrupt the enemy country, what else are they incapable of doing?

Tang San could use his own daughter as a pawn to scheme against Huo Yuhao and solidify his position in the God Realm, and Shrek Academy could use a prince of a fallen kingdom as a pawn to control the continent. They are birds of a feather, truly cut from the same cloth.

She took a deep breath, suppressing the surging anger in her heart. Only by becoming stronger, strong enough to break all the schemes, strong enough to make Tang San wary, could she truly escape the fate of being a pawn and live for herself.

How many of the students who have graduated from Shrek Academy over the years have entered the upper echelons of the three great empires of Heavenly Soul, Fighting Spirit, and Star Luo?

Some became the supreme commanders of the imperial legions, some became the chief retainers of the royal family, and some even directly took the position of prime minister of the empire.

Nearly half of the military and political power of the three great empires is held by graduates of Shrek Academy. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Shrek Academy indirectly controls the three great empires.

As soon as Xiao Xiao sat down, she deliberately found a seat very close to Wang Dong'er.

As she read, her mind was filled with the contents of her diary; her face turned pale, and her hands and feet felt cold.

The belief she has been taught since childhood is that Shrek Academy is the sacred hall that all Soul Masters yearn for, and the brightest and most righteous place on the continent.

She finally got into Shrek Academy so that she could study in this sacred place and become a powerful Soul Master.

But Lin Ye's diary laid bare the shady schemes and ambitions behind this sacred hall, exposing them to her in all their naked truth.

It turns out that the relationship between the three great empires and Shrek Academy was not one of dependence and protection on the surface, but rather that Shrek Academy had long since stripped them of their power.

So Shrek had already extended its reach into the core high-level positions of the three great empires?

So what exactly is her long-held dream and aspiration?

Now, not only do they control the upper echelons of the three great empires, but they are also secretly cultivating a former crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire.

Isn't the intention obvious enough? It's nothing more than waiting for He Caitou to grow up, then using his name to fight back in the Sun Moon Empire and support him to sit on the throne of the Sun Moon Empire.

When the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire is trained by Shrek Academy, won't the entire Sun Moon Empire become Shrek Academy's possession?

At that time, the entire Douluo Continent will have to grovel under the control of Shrek Academy. This plan is brilliant, truly ingenious.

When Gu Yuena saw this, she couldn't help but chuckle softly, her clear laughter echoing across the tranquil lake.

Human desires are indeed endless.

Controlling the three great empires wasn't enough for them; they also wanted to seize control of the Sun Moon Empire, attempting to bring the entire Douluo Continent to the feet of Shrek Academy. They certainly had a clever plan.