Chapter 142 Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya both become Evil Soul Masters? Mu Enren is dumbfounded!
The light and shadow on the sky trembled slightly with Moon's heavy sigh.
The air inside the Sea God Pavilion was almost frozen, and the leaves of the golden tree fell silently.
As the pillar of Shrek Academy, Moon knew better than anyone that Xuanzi's personality flaws had become the biggest hidden danger for Black Shrek.
However...
Mu En leaned back in his recliner, looking at Xuan Zi kneeling beside the stone pillar in the distance, his face full of dejection, and felt a sense of powerlessness.
It is easier to change mountains and rivers than to change one's nature. If Xuanzi could truly be transformed through a single punishment, then he would no longer be the Xuanzi who was addicted to alcohol and food.
"I can beat you once or twice, but I can't shake the carefree attitude in your bones." Moon's voice echoed in the Sea God Pavilion, carrying a sense of melancholy for a hero in his twilight years.
"Look at Shrek Academy now. The older generation is stubborn and mediocre, the middle generation is severely lacking, and the younger generation has died before they even grew up. Is this what they call 'eternal glory'?"
This is precisely Black Shrek's most fatal problem right now—a lack of successors.
They had hoped that the main team could make a name for themselves in the Soul Master Competition and also help out the reserve team, but now more than half of the main team has been lost, and the rest are just kids who have never even been on the battlefield.
[The video continues to play on the screen.]
The scene returns to the memorial service at Shrek Academy.
Before Yao Haoxuan's cenotaph, several elders symbolically wiped their eyes and uttered a few meaningless words about "the heroic spirit living on forever."
Under Black Shrek's existing oversight body rules, cadets dying in the line of duty is considered a "sacred duty."
Aside from a few feigned tears and a cold medal, the academy offered no substantial compensation to the family, nor did it impose any real demotion or punishment on team leader Xuanzi.
These callous rules sent a chill down the spines of the surviving team members.
In this atmosphere, Xuanzi quickly rallied his spirits and, leading his depleted team, embarked once again on the journey to Star Luo City to participate in the Soul Master Competition.
The following scenes move at breakneck speed. The Soul Master Competition was anything but smooth sailing.
Due to the serious injuries to Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and others from the reserve team had to shoulder all the pressure ahead of schedule.
Every match was extremely difficult; Shrek fought their way to the finals, practically teetering on the brink of elimination.
However, at the most exciting moment of the final, another unexpected event occurred.
[In the scene, Ma Xiaotao, facing a powerful enemy, forcibly overdraws her soul power to uphold Shrek Academy's honor.]
The body, already weakened by the excessive strain, experienced a sudden and violent surge of malevolent energy. The intensely hot, dark red flames devoured everything in their path on the field.
[Furthermore, Ma Rulong possessed a high-level soul tool with dark attributes, which unexpectedly reacted with Ma Xiaotao's evil fire, causing Ma Xiaotao's martial soul to undergo a mutated evil transformation...]
[In the end, Shrek Academy successfully won the championship, but Ma Xiaotao's condition was very bad, and she was already heading in the direction of becoming an evil soul master....]
Upon witnessing this scene, the veins on Moon's forehead throbbed.
"It's all a mess...it's all a mess!" Mu En was so angry that he crushed the armrest.
"If Xuanzi hadn't failed in his duty during the mission with the Grim Reaper, Ma Xiaotao wouldn't have been seriously injured; if she hadn't been seriously injured, she wouldn't have needed to overexert herself in the finals; if she hadn't overexerted herself, this would never have happened!"
The entire chain of cause and effect points back to Xuanzi, who fell asleep while eating roast chicken.
Mu En now wished he could unleash his soul power again and cripple Xuanzi, who was far away.
He had secretly made up his mind that when their generation of Soul Masters truly began the competition, even if Yan Shaozhe personally led the team, he would never allow Xuanzi to touch these children again.
Xuanzi sat in the shadows, watching the entire continent witness the chain of tragedies caused by his mistake, and he completely broke down.
"Damn it...why! Why is the screen constantly showing images that are detrimental to me?"
Xuanzi roared gruffly, feeling as if the gazes of the entire continent were piercing his spine like steel needles.
"Even if I have made mistakes, don't I have any merits at all?"
The scene on the screen continued to rotate, focusing on an even more desolate figure.
That's Tang Ya, the current sect leader of the Tang Clan.
[In the scene, she has already spent several mediocre years at Shrek Academy.]
Because the academy's teaching focus is entirely on students with top-tier talent, those with slightly less talent, like Tang Ya, receive no substantial resources for growth here.
After graduation, Tang Ya returned alone to the dilapidated former site of the Tang Clan.
Just as she was trying to revive her sect, Shrek Academy offered her no real protection or support.
[In the scene, Tang Ya falls into a trap meticulously set by the evil spirit master.]
Isolated and helpless, in despair and pain, her martial spirit mutated. Her originally emerald green Blue Silver Grass turned into a dark purple filled with an aura of devouring and death.
"Shrek... a millennium-old empire... hah, it's all just a lie." Tang Ya looked at her blood-stained hands, the last glimmer of light in her eyes completely extinguished.
She completely succumbed to becoming a demonic spirit master.
In the underworld.
Tang Ya stared at her reflection in the sky, a reflection radiating malevolence, her body trembling violently: "Is this my future? After all these years of hard work studying at Shrek Academy, this is how it ends?"
"Sister Xiaoya…" Huo Yuhao stood to the side, his voice trembling. He watched his gentle sister turn into a demon, and a crack appeared in his trust in Shrek Academy once again.
Beibei's eyes were bloodshot. He turned sharply towards the Shrek Academy building and roared, "No! I can't let this happen!"
The audience in the dark world had run out of insults; they felt more of a deep disgust.
"What's the point of studying at Shrek Academy?"
"They either get killed by their own people or nobody cares and they can't get more resources."
"Entering the inner courtyard is like putting your head on your belt; something bad could happen at any moment. It's better not to enter the inner courtyard, as it's not that dangerous, but what's the use of someone like Tang Ya graduating from Shrek Academy for several years?"
"It's really not as good as Shrek from the White World..."
At that moment, the sky suddenly brightened.
[A line of text shimmering with golden light appeared: End of the interim recap of the Dark World storyline.]
[Next, we'll re-enter the white world view!]
When the Soul Masters of the Underworld saw these words, they burst into a cheer of relief.
"Great! Finally, the channel has changed!" A Soul Master rubbed his chest, feeling as if he had been given a new lease on life.
"After seeing so much filth from the underworld, I feel like I'm about to have a brain hemorrhage. Quickly, show me some scenes from the righteous world to cleanse my eyes!"
"Yeah! Regardless of how exciting the matches in the White World will be, at least this incident involving the Grim Reaper is unlikely to happen in the White World, right?"
(End of chapter)