Besides.

Recently, a strange thing happened in the courtyard: many students disappeared mysteriously in the courtyard, and even Contra-level teachers suddenly disappeared inexplicably.

Even the Super Douluo-level soul master of the Seagod Pavilion couldn't find any trace. It's as if these people have disappeared into thin air.

However, the senior management of Shrek Academy pressed this matter very tightly, and only a very small number of teachers, students and senior executives knew about it. Although there were some rumors, it did not cause panic.

For the time being, Shrek Academy still looks calm.

But...... No one knows how long it will last.

Today's Shrek Academy has an undercurrent, revealing an inexplicable and strange atmosphere up and down, giving people a feeling that the wind and rain are coming and the buildings are full of mountains.

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Three days.

Ma Xiaotao's state 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 entries. I didn't even dare to eat the food in the cafeteria.

Over the course of a few days, however, her caution eroded.

Thinking of walking on thin ice two days ago, Ma Xiaotao couldn't help but feel a trace of doubt in her heart.

"Strange ......"

"What was I afraid of the other day?"

"Speaking of which, that guy told me the other day......

[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 stopping her from continuing to think about the content of that day's conversation.

After deciding to return to Shrek Academy, Ma Xiaotao was worried that she would be tricked again, so she and Su Luoheng offered to plant a hint in her heart to prevent Shrek's problems from leaking out of herself.

And now Ma Xiaotao was planted a psychological hint by Yin Lao.

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 building.

Although Shrek Academy is still quiet, everything seems to be in order. But Su Luoheng felt an aura of unease, which made him involuntarily speed up his search for clues.

Every day, it is the dormitory and the library building.

And Wang Lao has been silently watching in the dark, recording the types of books that Su Luoheng took from the library, wanting to find out the purpose of his efforts to enter here.

At first, seeing Su Luoheng looking for history books, he thought it was a smoke bomb he released, and he was engrossed all the time. But after a few days of observation, it was found that this was not the case.

Those precious martial soul cultivation classics and secret methods don't even look at them at all, and they only have historical books in their eyes. It seems that the purpose of entering the library building is for this, and the main thing is a pure.

Although he didn't know why he did this, Mr. Wang was relieved. He didn't care what Su Luoheng wanted to see, as long as it wasn't those lone secret methods or important classics.

"Whew~"

Su Luoheng opened an old book again, and the pages made a slight sound, as if telling the history he had seen.

Minutes and seconds passed. The pages of the book kept turning, and Su Luoheng's eyes quickly swept over page after page, and his attention remained highly focused on looking for clues.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Su Luoheng's brows furrowed slightly.

After a pause, he picked up the book and examined it carefully, his expression thoughtful, as if he had found something wrong. Then I flipped through it again, this time at a noticeable slowdown.

「……」

Half an hour later.

Su Luoheng finally raised his head, as if he had an understanding.

In the book he had just written, he found a major problem.

This book notes

The content is the history of Shrek Academy:

It records the struggle of how the academy has grown from a dilapidated academy in a quiet corner of Soto City to the number one soul master academy in the mainland from the time Flender founded Shrek in Soto City.

In this process of development, it is natural that outside help is indispensable. And in this history of development, it is recorded that many emperors who provided important help on the road to becoming the first soul master academy in Shrek Academy.

But herein lies the problem:

Collaboration is generally mutually beneficial, but the collaboration between Shrek and these emperors is not: the price paid by the empire is not proportional to the return.

It can even be said that it is unilaterally paying.

However, these emperors did not refuse to cooperate with Shrek Academy, but instead tried to promote as many of this type of cooperation as possible, giving Shrek Academy profits in the name of cooperation.

Just like the territory of Shrek City right now, it was originally a territory belonging to the Heaven Dou Empire (before the division of the country). But later, an emperor who had studied at Shrek personally donated this land to Shrek Academy for free.

The name is beautiful: Thanksgiving to the college, giving back to the alma mater.

There are many, many more such examples.

It is hard to imagine that the king of a country would make such a decision.

In Su Luoheng's in-depth research, he found that these emperors who were almost brainless to help Shrek Academy and made crazy profits all had the same characteristics: they had all studied in Shrek Academy.

And from the beginning of the first recorded Heaven Dou Emperor to the present, this situation has lasted for nearly 10,000 years.

With the continuous help of major empires, Shrek rose rapidly and ushered in a golden age of growth and development.

Soon, Shrek Academy surpassed the major academies in the empire in a faulty way, becoming the number one soul master academy in the continent, and it has continued to this day. It is even more widely sought after among the people, and its prestige has vaguely surpassed the three major empires.

In addition, other people who have come out of Shrek Academy will have great respect for 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 shout.

The brainless concession of the emperor.

The brainless blind obedience of the soul master.

If only these actions had done so before, it wouldn't have said much. But now that Shrek is in an unknown force that can control his mind, these moves are intriguing.

"So ......"

"If this force had already appeared at that time, then something important must have happened within Shrek Academy around the time point when the first emperor who gave away profits for free appeared."

「……」

Su Luoheng muttered, his eyes flashing slightly.

I've been looking until now, and I've finally made progress.

Speculating in this direction, the scope narrows down again: he only needs to find the books about Shrek around this point in time.

Thinking of this, Su Luoheng's heart moved.

The next moment, the spiritual power once again spread to the entire library pavilion.

This time the more specific scope saved him a lot of time, and he had already found the book he needed in less than half an hour. Once you've collected the 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 stars fill the sky.

"Hoo ......"

Putting back the book after reading it, Su Luoheng got up and stretched.

Even if you narrow it down, it's not easy to find clues.

It wasn't too late to see that it was too late, so he took down another pre-marked quaint book from the shelf next door, the cover covered with traces of time.

This is a book about the history of Shrek Academy, Su Luoheng opened the page slowly, and some of the handwriting records in it were already a little ambiguous, but they could still be seen clearly.

"Whew,,!"

Su Luoheng flipped through the pages one by one

The ancient book, suddenly the light in his eyes was slightly condensed, and the more he turned back, the more solemn the expression in his eyes became. Because this book contains secrets about the origin of Poseidon Island and the Golden Ancient Tree!

And this is what Su Luoheng wants to know the most:

There are different opinions about the origin of Seagod Island and the Golden Ancient Tree, but one of the widely recognized theories is that they were all transferred from overseas by Tang San after becoming a god, and placed in Shrek Academy. Then it became known as the Shrek Inner Courtyard.

Outsiders only know that Poseidon Island and the Golden Ancient Tree are both islands that the sea god Tang San moved from the sea after becoming a god, and placed them in Shrek, and then became Shrek's inner courtyard.

And this accepted statement is only half true.

There is a clear record of this matter in this ancient book: Poseidon Island was moved by Poseidon Tang San, but the Golden Ancient Tree did not exist on the island from the beginning.

Ten thousand years ago, there was no golden ancient tree on the 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 a special meaning to Shrek, is actually created by their Seagod Tang San Ancestor who separated part of his Blue Silver Emperor martial soul and integrated it into the body of the Tree of Life.

According to the ancient books: Tang San's ancestor used his supreme divine power to transfer an island with the Tree of Life from overseas, and integrated part of his divine power and martial soul into the Tree of Life to create the Golden Ancient Tree, in order to protect the Shrek Academy.

It seemed that Tang San seemed to give back to Shrek Academy after becoming a god, but Su Luoheng, who was familiar with Tang San's temperament, was skeptical, feeling that this old silver coin would definitely not be so kind.

Shrek's people don't understand Tang San, and they don't know yet?

Putting aside how to evaluate the original work, it can be seen from the luck of the Snow Emperor and the Emperor Rui Beast that Tang Buddha is an extreme egoist who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goal.

He, perhaps, will shelter Shrek.

However, the premise is not to infringe on one's own interests.

And the stripping of some martial souls can already be regarded as damaging Tang San's own interests. With his unprofitable character, how could he do such a thankless and loss-making business?

So—

The Golden Ancient Tree is very questionable about his motives.

With his level of trust in Tang San, Su Luoheng could be ninety-nine percent sure that he would never be as simple as just protecting Shrek Academy.

There must be something wrong with the Golden Ancient Tree, if it wasn't the root cause of that unknown force and the feeling of the Heart Season, but it certainly played a role in fueling the trouble. After all, Tang San's character was there.

It's hard not to think of him on a negative note.

There is no way, Tang Buddha is so trustworthy.

However, 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 the Sea God Pavilion, that is, the root of the Golden Tree.

However, my time in the library is not over yet.

Therefore, Su Luoheng decided to read these classics first. Because the golden ancient tree is very suspicious. But the stakes are high, everything is possible until you are 100% sure, and you can't be arbitrary.

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……

Meanwhile.

Just when Su Luoheng's investigation made a breakthrough, after hearing the news that Tang Ya was about to be tried publicly, some people within Shrek began to sit still, such as: Beibei.

But how could the decision of the top level of the academy be interfered with by a disciple of the inner courtyard at the level of a soul king?

Shrek is a place where strength is valued. If only Mu Lao was alive, it would still be possible, but now he has no right to speak.

So Bei Bei can only choose the curve to save the country: find someone to help!

And looking at the entire Shrek Inner Courtyard, he can talk to each other, and there are still candidates with a certain status in the Poseidon Pavilion, only Zhang Lexuan, the master sister of the Inner Courtyard, is the heir of the next generation.

After making a decision, Babe was right away

Make an appointment to meet Zhang Lexuan.

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On the shores of Poseidon Lake.

Zhang Lexuan, who was dressed in a goose yellow dress, stood slim.

His long black hair hung down to his waist, and his fair and flawless face was slightly powdered. There is a quiet and gentle temperament between Gu Pan, which is unforgettable at first sight.

Wait a little longer.

Bei Bei came to the appointment in a hurry.

His complexion was very bad, his face was as pale as paper, and his red eyes were bloodshot. There was an indissoluble cloud of sorrow and gloom between his eyebrows, and his face was full of worry and chagrin.

Obviously, during this time, I was worried about Tang Ya's affairs.

Seeing that Zhang Lexuan had arrived, Bei Bei's eyes showed some hope.

"Babe, what's the matter with me?"

The corners of Zhang Lexuan's mouth showed a shallow smile, gentle and moving. It can be seen that I attach great importance to this Beibei's initiative to meet with me. For this reason, he also dressed up carefully.

It's a pity that the falling flowers are intentional, and the flowing water is ruthless......

Beibei, who is thinking about Tang Ya at the moment, where does she care about Zhang Lexuan's current outfit? He approached urgently, his hands tightly grasping Zhang Lexuan's arm, and his voice carried a little pleading and eager.

"Senior 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 plead with the elders, let Xiaoya go, she must have something unspeakable."

「……」

Hearing this, the smile on Zhang Lexuan's face suddenly froze.

I was going to the appointment with a heart full of joy, but when I heard Beibei's pleading, it was like being poured a basin of cold water on my face, and it instantly became cold to the bone.

Looking at the nominal child husband in front of him, Zhang Lexuan's beautiful eyes closed slightly, sighed lightly, and then slowly opened: "I'm sorry, this matter ...... I'm afraid I won't be able to help you."

As she spoke, she withdrew her arm without leaving a trace.