besides.
Recently, a strange thing happened in the hospital: many students disappeared mysteriously in the hospital, and even Contra-level teachers suddenly disappeared inexplicably.
Even if the Poseidon Pavilion's Super Douluo level soul master took action, no trace could be found. It's like these people disappeared out of thin air.
However, the senior management of Shrek College suppressed the matter very tightly, and only a very small number of teachers, students and senior officials knew about it. Although there were some rumors, there was no panic.
For the time being, Shrek Academy seems to be calm.
But... no one knows how long it can last.
Today, there is an undercurrent in Shrek Academy, and there is an inexplicable and strange atmosphere from top to bottom, giving people a feeling that a storm is about to come.
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Three days.
Ma Xiaotao's condition changed again.
When she first returned to the academy, Ma Xiaotao was very cautious about everything in Shrek Academy and rarely left the dormitory except for necessary visits. I didn’t even dare to eat the food in the cafeteria.
However, after a few days, her caution gradually eroded.
Thinking of walking on thin ice in the past two days, Ma Xiaotao couldn't help but feel a little doubt in her heart.
"strangeness……"
"What on earth was I afraid of the past few days?"
"Speaking of which, that guy told me a few days ago..."
[Can't say, can't think...]
A majestic voice emerged from the bottom of her heart, dispelling a trace of confusion in Ma Xiaotao's heart, and at the same time stopped her from thinking about the content of the conversation that day.
After deciding to return to Shrek Academy, Ma Xiaotao was worried that she would be tricked again, so she and Su Luoheng took the initiative to plant inner hints to prevent Shrek's problems from leaking out from her.
And now Ma Xiaotao was given a psychological hint by Mr. Yin.
So now, even if he is eroded by the power of that position again, when it comes to the content of the conversation that day, he instinctively feels that the content of the conversation with Su Luoheng cannot be revealed.
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Poseidon Pavilion, library.
Although Shrek Academy is still quiet, everything seems to be in order. But Su Luoheng felt an uneasy aura, which made him involuntarily speed up his search for clues.
Every day it's just two points and one line between the dormitory and the library.
Mr. Wang, on the other hand, has been watching silently in the dark, recording the types of books Su Luoheng took from the library, trying to find out the purpose of his efforts to enter this place.
At first, when he saw Su Luoheng looking for history books, he thought it was a smoke bomb he had set off, and he remained focused on it. But after a few days of observation, it was found that the answer was not the case.
Those precious martial arts training books and secret techniques were not even read at all, and they only looked at the historical books there. It seems that this is the purpose of entering the library, and the main focus is purity.
Although he didn't know why he did this, Mr. Wang was relieved. He didn't care what Su Luoheng wanted to read, as long as it wasn't those unique secrets or important classics.
"Shuashua~"
Su Luoheng opened an ancient book again, and the pages made a slight sound, as if telling the history it had seen.
Time passed by minute by minute. The pages of the book kept turning, and Su Luoheng's eyes quickly scanned the contents of one page after another, maintaining a high concentration of attention to look for clues.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Su Luoheng's brows frowned slightly.
The movement paused for a moment, and then he picked up the book and looked at it carefully, with a thoughtful expression on his face, as if he had discovered something wrong. Then I started reading again, this time at a significantly slower pace.
"..."
After a while.
Su Luoheng finally raised his head, as if he had some realization.
In this book, he discovered a major problem.
this book
The content contained is the development history of Shrek Academy:
It records the struggle of how the college has grown from a shabby college located in a corner of Soto City to the number one soul master college in the mainland since Flanders founded Shrek in Soto City.
During this development process, external help is naturally indispensable. In this development history, there are records of many emperors who provided important help on the road of Shrek Academy becoming the number one soul master academy.
But here's the problem:
General cooperation is mutually beneficial and win-win, but the cooperation between Shrek and these emperors is not like this: the price paid by the empire is not proportional to the return obtained.
It can even be said that it is unilaterally paying.
However, these emperors did not refuse to cooperate with Shrek Academy. Instead, they tried their best to promote more cooperation of this type and gave benefits to Shrek Academy in the name of cooperation.
Just like the current territory of Shrek City, it was originally a territory belonging to the Tiandou Empire (before the country was divided). But later, an emperor who had studied in Shrek personally donated this land to Shrek Academy for free.
The euphemistic name is: Thanksgiving College, giving back to the alma mater.
There are many more examples like this.
It is unimaginable that the king of a country would make such a decision.
During Su Luoheng's in-depth research, he discovered that these emperors who were almost mindlessly helping Shrek Academy and crazily giving away profits all had the same characteristic: they all studied at Shrek Academy.
And this situation has lasted for nearly ten thousand years from the first recorded Tiandou Emperor to the present.
With the continuous support of major empires, Shrek rose rapidly and ushered in a golden period of growth and development.
Soon, Shrek Academy surpassed all major colleges in the empire and became the number one soul master academy in the mainland, which has continued to this day. It is even more popular among the people, and its reputation has already surpassed the three major empires.
In addition, other people who have graduated from Shrek Academy will highly respect Shrek Academy. Just like the collision between the Sun Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent thousands of years ago, Shrek could summon countless soul masters with a single call.
The emperor's mindless profit concession.
The soul master's mindless and blind obedience.
If these behaviors were in the past, it wouldn't mean anything. But now that it is discovered that Shrek is under an unknown force that can control his mind, these measures become intriguing.
"So to say……"
"If this power had already appeared at that time, then around the time when the first free emperor appeared, something important must have happened within Shrek Academy."
"..."
Su Luoheng murmured, his eyes flashing slightly.
I have been searching until now and finally made some progress.
Judging from this direction, the scope has narrowed again: all he needs to do is find books about Shrek recorded before and after this time point.
Thinking of this, Su Luoheng's mind moved.
The next moment, the spiritual power once again spread to the entire library.
The more specific scope this time saved him a lot of time, and he found the books he needed in less than half an hour. After collecting these books, start looking through them again.
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Time passes slowly.
Two hours passed in the blink of an eye.
Night falls and the sky is filled with stars.
"call……"
Putting back the books he had read, Su Luoheng stood up and stretched.
Even after narrowing down the scope, it is not easy to find clues.
After checking that it was not too late, he took down another quaint book that had been marked in advance from the bookshelf next door. The cover was covered with traces of time.
This is a book about the history of Shrek Academy. Su Luoheng opened the pages of the book gently. Some of the handwriting records inside were a little blurry, but they could still be read clearly.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
Su Luoheng flipped through page after page.
The ancient book suddenly condensed in his eyes, and the more he turned back, the look in his eyes became more solemn. Because this book records the secrets about the origins of Poseidon Island and the Golden Ancient Tree!
And this is what Su Luoheng wants to know most:
There are different opinions about the origin of Poseidon Island and the Golden Ancient Tree, and one of the widely recognized theories is that after Tang San became a god, he used his divine power to move them from overseas and placed them in Shrek Academy. Then it became the well-known Shrek Inner Courtyard.
Outsiders only know that Poseidon Island and the Golden Ancient Tree are both islands that Poseidon Tang San moved from the sea after he became a god. He placed them in Shrek, and then became Shrek's inner courtyard.
But this generally accepted statement is actually only half correct.
This ancient book has a clear record of this matter: Poseidon Island was moved here by Poseidon Tang San, but the golden ancient tree did not exist on the island from the beginning.
Thousands of years ago, there were no ancient golden trees on Douluo Continent.
However, there is a Tree of Life on Poseidon Island.
And this golden ancient tree, which carries the soul power of countless Shrek sages and has special significance to Shrek, is actually the result of their ancestor Tang San, the God of the Sea, who separated part of his Blue Silver Emperor martial spirit and integrated it into the life. In the body of the tree, it was finally created.
According to ancient books, the ancestors of Tang San used their supreme divine power to bring an island with the Tree of Life from overseas, and integrated part of their divine power and martial soul into the Tree of Life to create an ancient golden tree. Come and shelter Shrek Academy.
It seemed that Tang San would give back to Shrek Academy after becoming a god, but Su Luoheng, who was familiar with Tang San's character, was skeptical and felt that this old silver coin would never be so kind.
The people in Shrek didn't understand Tang San, and he didn't understand it either?
Regardless of the evaluation of the original work, it can be seen just from the luck of the Snow Emperor and the Emperor's auspicious beast that Tang Fozu was an extreme egoist and would use any means to achieve his goals.
He might protect Shrek.
However, the premise is that it does not infringe on your own interests.
And stripping off part of the martial spirit could already be regarded as damaging Tang San's own interests. How could he do such a thankless and loss-making business with his character of being unwilling to make any profit?
so--
The Golden Ancient Tree makes it very questionable about his motives.
Based on the level of trust he had in Tang San, Su Luoheng was 99.9% sure that he could never do it just to protect Shrek Academy.
There must be something wrong with the golden ancient tree. Even if it is not the source of the unknown power and the feeling of the heart, it certainly contributes to the situation. After all, Tang San's character is there.
It's hard not to think of him in a negative light.
There is no way, Tang Fozu is so trustworthy.
But the top of the golden ancient tree has been transformed into various rooms. If you want to study the golden ancient tree, you can only go to the underground world of Poseidon Pavilion, that is, the roots of the golden tree.
But his time in the library was not over yet.
Therefore, Su Luoheng decided to read these classics first. Because the golden ancient tree is highly suspicious. But this matter is of great importance. Everything is possible until it is 100% certain. You cannot be arbitrary.
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at the same time.
Just when Su Luoheng's investigation made a breakthrough, after hearing the news that Tang Ya was about to be put on trial in public, some people within Shrek began to become restless, such as Beibei.
But how could he, an inner court disciple at the Soul King level, interfere with the decisions of the academy's senior officials?
Shrek is a place that values strength. It would still be possible if Mr. Mu was still alive, but now he has no right to speak.
So Beibei can only choose to save the country through a curve: find someone to help!
Looking at the entire Shrek Inner Court, the only person he could talk to who still had a certain status in the Poseidon Pavilion was Zhang Lexuan, the eldest sister of the Inner Court and the heir to the Master of the Poseidon Pavilion.
After making the decision, Beibei immediately
Make an appointment with Zhang Lexuan.
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The shores of Poseidon Lake.
Zhang Lexuan, wearing a goose-yellow dress, stood tall and graceful.
Her long black hair hangs down to her waist, and her fair and flawless face is lightly painted with powder. There is a quiet and gentle temperament in his eyes, which is unforgettable at first sight.
The wait won't be long.
Beibei came to the appointment in a hurry.
His complexion was very poor, his face was as pale as paper, and his red eyes were bloodshot. There was an inexorable cloud of sorrow and gloom hanging between his brows, and his face was even more filled with worry and annoyance.
Obviously, during this period, there was a lot of worry about Tang Ya's affairs.
Seeing Zhang Lexuan arriving, Beibei's eyes showed some hope.
"Beibei, what do you want from me?"
Zhang Lexuan's mouth showed a slight smile, gentle and touching. It was obvious that Beibei took the initiative to meet with her very seriously. For this reason, he also dressed up carefully.
It's a pity that falling flowers are intentional, and flowing water is ruthless...
Beibei, who was thinking about Tang Ya at the moment, how could she care about Zhang Lexuan's current appearance? He approached urgently, holding Zhang Lexuan's arm tightly with both hands, his voice filled with pleading and urgency.
"Sister, can you help me save Tang Ya?"
"I know Xiaoya. She must have been forced to become an evil soul master. Senior sister, please beg the elders and let Xiaoya go. She must have something to hide."
"..."
Hearing this, the smile on Zhang Lexuan's face suddenly froze.
Originally, I came to the appointment with full of joy, but when I heard Beibei's plea, I felt as if a basin of cold water was poured on my face, and I instantly became cold to the bone.
Looking at her nominal child adopter in front of her, Zhang Lexuan closed her beautiful eyes, sighed softly, and then slowly opened them: "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't help you with this matter..."
As she spoke, she withdrew her arm without leaving any trace.
