Mu En’s luck was still pretty good.
He happened to run into Huo Yuhao returning at this time, otherwise that final trace of his Life Qi would truly have dissipated.
Huo Yuhao drew closer and heard Mu En’s weak breathing, which finally allowed him to feel a bit more at ease.
So he had fallen asleep.
As long as it wasn’t what he had imagined, it would be fine.
After hesitating for a moment, Huo Yuhao took out the blanket his teacher had prepared for him from his storage spirit tool, gently draped it over Mu En, and then returned to the dormitory.
At that moment, inside Dormitory 203, Wang Dong tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.
For her, this was an extremely rare occurrence.
She didn’t even know how she had ended up with insomnia.
It seemed to have started from the moment Huo Yuhao left the dormitory.
It was already this late, and Huo Yuhao still hadn’t returned.
She hadn’t even told him about the rules she had prepared to set.
Whenever she thought about how Huo Yuhao had left the dormitory together with that woman named Nan Qiuqiu, an extremely uncomfortable feeling would uncontrollably well up in Wang Dong’s heart.
“Bang, bang-bang…”
Right at that moment, a knock sounded outside the dormitory.
“Huo Yuhao is back!”
Thinking of this, a trace of inexplicable joy spontaneously rose in Wang Dong’s heart.
She abruptly flipped over, got out of bed, and hurriedly went to open the door.
As for her previous resentment and the rules she had thought of setting earlier, they had long since been cast to the back of her mind.
“Um…
sorry, I originally planned to cultivate outside, but I ran into some trouble, which is why I came back.”
Huo Yuhao looked apologetically at the roommate who had opened the door for him.
“Did you go wading in the water to catch fish?”
Seeing Huo Yuhao soaked all over, Wang Dong wore a look of utter astonishment.
“No, I just ran into a female lunatic…”
Huo Yuhao didn’t hide anything and briefly explained his previous encounter.
“That’s going too far!
That senior sister hurt you just like that, and didn’t offer any compensation?”
Before Huo Yuhao could get angry or anything, Wang Dong suddenly slammed the table and stood up, her face filled with rage.
She looked ready to demand an explanation no matter what.
After much persuasion from Huo Yuhao, she was finally kept from acting rashly.
During this process, some physical tugging was inevitable, and with this tugging, an inexplicable sensation arose between them.
Huo Yuhao didn’t quite understand what this was, but Wang Dong knew very well.
This represented that a Martial Soul Fusion Skill might form between them.
The farce in Dormitory 203 abruptly ended as Huo Yuhao began changing his clothes.
On the other side, the meeting of the Sea Gods Pavilion was suspended halfway through its discussions.
This meeting had been initiated by Yan Shaozhe.
The viewpoint he wanted to express was only one: to once again invite Huang Jinxu to become an elder of the Sea Gods Pavilion.
If the other party refused, there was definitely something fishy going on, and if he couldn’t give a clear explanation, it would mean he harbored disloyal intentions.
The other elders of the Sea Gods Pavilion initially disagreed, but following Yan Shaozhe’s various persuasions and examples, and ultimately mentioning the 100,000-year Spirit Bone that Huang Jinxu had taken out from the Treasure Pavilion as well as the matter of him heavily injuring someone, he finally won the approval of some people.
The most crucial reason among them was this 100,000-year Spirit Bone.
Given Shrek Academy’s foundation and the number of Spirit Bones in this era, there were more than three 100,000-year Spirit Bones.
However, those three 100,000-year Spirit Bones belonged to the academy’s collective property and were not individually owned.
If any of the other elders claimed they had no thoughts about these three 100,000-year Spirit Bones, that would be an absolute impossibility.
It was just that there had never been a suitable reason or opportunity.
Now, however, it had fallen into Huang Jinxu’s hands, and it was even the most precious one among them, so they naturally held objections.
With Yan Shaozhe taking the lead and rushing to the front, they were more than eager to test the waters.
If any problems really arose by then, they could all be pinned on Yan Shaozhe.
When all was said and done, at the root of it all, it still boiled down to interests.
Just as the elders of the Sea Gods Pavilion were preparing to vote, the activation of the Seagod’s Light instantly jolted them awake.
“This is the Seagod’s Light?”
“Elder Mu has activated the Seagod’s Light.
Given his current physical condition, how could he possibly activate the Seagod’s Light?”
“Did some foreign enemy invade the academy, or what?”
“…”
For a moment, the upper echelons of Shrek Academy instantly grew nervous.
Huang Jinxu and things like that were no longer important at this moment.
They left the Sea Gods Pavilion one after another, rushing to inspect what had specifically happened at the very first moment.
Watching the Sea Gods Pavilion left with only him in the blink of an eye, a trace of anger and a ferocious expression surfaced on Yan Shaozhe’s face.
How could this happen?
Clearly, if they had just given him a little more time, these people would have agreed to his plan, yet such a thing happened at this critical moment.
Even though Yan Shaozhe was extremely unwilling in his heart, he also knew that Elder Mu’s matter was the key at present, so he dragged his body—which had not yet fully recovered—and hurried over to inspect.
When the many elders of the Sea Gods Pavilion found Mu En and saw him on the verge of death, their hearts were thrown into complete chaos.
For a long time, Mu En had been their pillar of strength and their greatest security guarantee.
Now that Mu En was on the verge of death, and after Elder Zhuang had confirmed that even he was powerless to help, how could they not panic?
“What should we do?”
Heavenly Eagle Douluo took the lead to speak, then looked around at the crowd.
Clearly, she wanted them to come up with an idea.
Heavenly Eagle Douluo Song Yunzhi was a person from the same era as Mu En, someone who had once competed with Mu En for the position of head of the Sea Gods Pavilion.
Had it been a few decades earlier, facing this kind of situation, she would only have rejoiced secretly.
But nowadays, she no longer had this thought; she had to admit that Shrek Academy needed Mu En, and only Mu En could hold things together.
The crowd looked at one another, completely at a loss.
“Convene a meeting of the Sea Gods Pavilion.
All upper echelons of the academy must attend, and we must ascertain the specific situation and cause simultaneously.”
Seeing everyone remain silent, Heavenly Eagle Douluo offered her own solution.
“As for the Heavenly Fiend Douluo, should we invite him?”
The one who spoke this time was Life Douluo Zhuang Yusen, and he was standing on Huang Jinxu’s side.
Once Elder Mu truly suffered any accidents, chaos would erupt in Shrek Academy, even leading to a struggle for power.
If someone ultimately succeeded to Elder Mu’s position, he hoped it would be Huang Jinxu, so at this time, he naturally had to let him know the news at the very first moment.
“No, we haven’t yet confirmed Huang Jinxu’s true attitude.
I do not agree to him participating in the upcoming Sea Gods Pavilion meeting.”
“After all, he is not an elder of our Sea Gods Pavilion.”
As soon as Zhuang Yusen brought up this matter, Yan Shaozhe was the first to jump out and object.
After seeing this scene, Heavenly Eagle Douluo Song Yunzhi knew that the strife had begun.
Among the entities capable of succeeding to Elder Mu’s position, within the current Shrek Academy, there were only two people most suitable.
One was Xuanzi, and the other was Huang Jinxu.
Both of these two were insiders nurtured by Shrek Academy.
By comparison, she leaned more toward Huang Jinxu.
It was truly because Xuanzi was unreliable.
But just as Yan Shaozhe had said, Huang Jinxu’s experiences were far too complicated, and for a very long time he had not been within Shrek Academy.
Who could guarantee that there wasn’t something else behind all this?
Once the wrong choice was made, it would be an indelible stain upon Shrek Academy’s ten-thousand-year glory.