Chapter 13: Exposure Ends, Settlement, [Gravedigger]
On the screen, ten thousand years later, the scene of the Spirit Pagoda's Ancestral Hall slowly dissipated.
The entire Douluo Continent, across both timelines, fell into a strange, suffocating silence.
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[Douluo 2 Era]
Body Sect.
On Sect Master Du Busi's face, which was always filled with gloom, there was now unconcealed disdain.
"Hmph."
Du Busi snorted coldly.
"He is nothing more than a gutless coward who hides in the shadows, calculating hearts and playing with conspiracies and schemes!"
"A true powerhouse should use absolute strength to crush all enemies head-on!"
"This Wang Yan is ultimately just gutter trash that cannot be presented in public!"
He championed ultimate strength and despised conspirators who hid behind the scenes.
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Sun Moon Empire, Radiant City.
Within the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace.
Crown Prince Xu Tianran, who had been watching all this in silence, suddenly chuckled softly.
His laughter was very light, yet it made Ju Zi beside him feel a strange sense of horror.
"Wang Yan... interesting, truly interesting."
Xu Tianran's legs were crippled, leaving him confined to a wheelchair, but this did not affect the heart-palpitating majesty he exuded.
He clapped lightly, as if applauding the end of a brilliant play.
"Such a person is a true ambitious hero!"
"Able to endure what ordinary people cannot, and do what ordinary people dare not."
"Entering the game himself, treating the whole world as a chessboard and everyone as chess pieces, enduring and planning, and finally turning the tables in one fell swoop!"
"This courage, these methods—I consider myself inferior!"
Ju Zi looked at him with some confusion:
"Your Highness, this person is deep and his methods are base; he is just a hypocrite who rose to power through schemes and trickery..."
Hearing this, the smile on Xu Tianran's face grew thicker and colder.
He shook his head slowly.
"A hypocrite? No."
His gaze seemed to pierce through the palace, overlapping with the figure on the screen who bore a blood feud.
"He is my soulmate."
Ju Zi's whole body trembled.
"Only such a person is worthy of being my opponent!"
He lightly tapped the armrest of his wheelchair and said word by word:
"If one day I can meet this person... I must personally..."
He paused, and an amazing light erupted in his eyes.
...personally kill him!
"Only in this way can I live up to this heaven-sent opponent and my ambition to unify the continent!"
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Shrek Academy.
Elder Xuan, Yan Shaozhe, Xian Liner, and all the other elders of the Sea God Pavilion now had faces as pale as ash.
They no longer dared to look at the students around them, whose gazes were a mix of disappointment, doubt, and anger.
A reputation built over ten thousand years was lost in an instant!
The golden brand of Shrek was completely crushed today in front of the entire continent!
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In this extremely oppressive atmosphere, all the images of Wang Yan on the screen vanished.
In their place, new golden characters filled with a sense of judgment appeared.
[Top Ten Hypocrites List, Tenth Place, Wang Yan, exposure of all deeds has concluded.]
[Final evaluation and settlement of rewards and punishments will now proceed.]
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It's here!
Everyone's heart leapt into their throat at this moment!
For such a "hypocrite" who had overturned everyone's perceptions, what kind of evaluation and punishment would the screen give?
Under the watchful eyes of the masses, four lines of poetry slowly emerged on the screen.
[Evaluation:]
[Bearing a sea of blood, he entered the enemy's gate, enduring humiliation for a hundred years.]
[Deceiving the heavens to steal the Spirit Pagoda, once successful, he overturned the world!]
Just four lines, twenty-eight characters, yet they seemed to tell the story of Wang Yan's entire life!
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[Douluo 1 Era]
Elder Hall.
Thousand Ton Douluo and Devil-Subduing Douluo recited these four lines, their eyes filled with tears, feeling a sense of tragic heroism surge in their chests.
"Good!"
"What a Wang Yan!"
The voice of the Second Priest, Gold Crocodile Douluo, like a great bell, was filled with uncontrollable excitement.
The veins on his thick arms bulged, showing his inner turmoil.
"Sixth and Seventh, you have a fine descendant!"
Qian Daoliu looked up at the screen, his eyes filled with endless emotion:
"Once successful, he overturned the world..."
"My Spirit Hall has a successor..."
Suddenly, Qian Daoliu sighed.
"It's just a pity..."
Hearing Qian Daoliu's sigh, the priests looked at him with confused expressions.
"Don't you understand yet?"
"It would be fine if Wang Yan had already accomplished these things."
"But what if the current Wang Yan has not yet succeeded?"
As soon as these words were spoken, it was like a bucket of ice water being poured over their heads!
The excitement on Gold Crocodile's face instantly turned into horror:
"The High Priest means... his plan was exposed ahead of time?"
Qian Daoliu nodded slowly:
"If Wang Yan has not yet succeeded, then this screen is a death warrant!"
Thousand Ton Douluo and Devil-Subduing Douluo, who were still immersed in tragic heroism and excitement, looked at each other, their faces turning pale in an instant.
"It's over..."
Another priest's face was as pale as ash.
"After learning of such a subversive plan, those people will never let him go!"
"He will be eliminated in the cradle at all costs!"
Devil-Subduing Douluo clenched his fists tightly, his nails digging deep into his palms:
"Is heaven going to destroy my Spirit Hall?"
Qian Daoliu's eyes were full of the vicissitudes of time.
"Let's continue watching..."
"See how the screen will deal with him."
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Within the The Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong's phoenix eyes were also wide open, and her breath hitched.
She naturally realized it as well.
"Damn it!"
She cursed in a low voice, her heart filled with anxiety.
Wang Yan's grand plan for revenge made her see her own shadow and gave her a strong sense of identification.
But now, this plan, this hope for the future glory of Spirit Hall, might be exposed to the butcher's knives of all its enemies!
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Within Shrek Academy.
Yu Xiaogang's face turned from green to purple, shaking with anger.
"A rebellious subject, acting against the natural order!"
"A thief! A burglar!"
"Such a person should be nailed to the pillar of shame in history!"
...
The screen ignored the various reactions of the people.
Below the poem, a few more large characters appeared:
[Title Bestowed: Gravedigger!]
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[Douluo 2 Era]
Everyone at Shrek Academy felt a piercing humiliation and chill!
Whose grave was he digging?
It went without saying!
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[Comprehensive evaluation complete, beginning to determine rewards and punishments.]
[It is determined that Wang Yan's actions have caused a huge reversal in the process of the era; his heart is punishable, and his crime deserves penalty.]
[Decided to give him—]
[Punishment!]
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[Douluo 2 Era]
"Good!!"
"Kill him! Cripple him! Cut him into a thousand pieces!"
Within Shrek Academy, countless people shouted excitedly; they had finally waited for this moment of judgment!
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[Douluo 1 Era]
Elder Hall.
Qian Daoliu and the others' hearts turned completely cold.
It was over.
The screen, after all, was going to follow justice and carry out punishment.
On the other side, within Shrek.
Yu Xiaogang was cheering frantically, his face flushed with excitement.
"Good! Excellent!"
"Do you see? The Heavenly Way is clear, and nothing escapes its net!"
"This is the right path! This is heavenly justice!"
"Such a shameless person should be severely punished, his soul and spirit obliterated!"
He seemed to have already seen the scene of Wang Yan turning into ashes under the heavenly punishment, and his heart was filled with extreme delight!