According to the intelligence from Shrek Academy, the Tianhun Empire's resistance to the Sun Moon Empire was not particularly intense for two reasons.
First, every time the Sun Moon Empire captured a city, they would immediately announce that the empire would treat the subjects of the original Tianhun Empire equally, promising free martial soul awakening for all school-age children. This alone was enough to dissolve the fighting spirit of most civilians.
Second, every time the Sun Moon Empire captured a city, they would immediately control the local strongest forces or soul masters. This not only served to intimidate others but also made those with intentions to resist harbor scruples.
In summary, from the fact that the Sun Moon Empire stabilized the former territory of the Tianhun Empire in just half a year, it was clear that they had prepared for this unification war for a long time and very thoroughly. This top-down will would not perish due to the iteration of the highest ruler. Zhang Lexuan, being able to control the Sun Moon Empire so quickly, was actually benefiting from this will. This was the general trend.
The fall of the Tianhun Empire was the event with the greatest impact on the continent during Zhu Ziyang's seclusion. Following that was another matter worthy of Shrek Academy's attention and requiring Zhu Ziyang to make a decision. Just three months ago, when Tian Dou City was heavily surrounded in the north, Shrek Academy received a request from the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School.
As one of Shrek Academy's traditional allies, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School was far more reliable than the Haotian School by more than just a little. Therefore, facing their request, the elders like Xuan Zi attached great importance to it. However, the request from the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School shocked them while filling their hearts with excitement.
"You mean, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School wants to join our Shrek Academy?" Zhu Ziyang was also somewhat surprised, staring wide-eyed at Xian Lin'er.
"Yes." Xian Lin'er nodded, her expression earnest, as she said, "The Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School's sect master Ning Yuntao hopes that our Shrek Academy can provide them with a piece of land as a residence for their Seven Treasures Glazed Tile family. In exchange, they are willing to hand over seventy percent of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School's wealth to our academy, and they will no longer call themselves the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School, but instead change to the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Ning family. They are willing to become an affiliated family of Shrek Academy."
"Tsk tsk tsk." Hearing this, Zhu Ziyang couldn't help but smack his lips, sighing with emotion as he said, "As expected of the family best at business on the continent. This abacus is really calculated meticulously!"
"The Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School contributed a lot to defending Tian Dou City. Most of the strong members within the sect were either killed or captured. They themselves don't have much combat ability. To protect themselves, choosing to join our Shrek Academy is the best option." Yan Shaozhe said.
"Exactly. Although the Sun Moon Empire has not yet taken action against the noble groups of the Tianhun Empire for the time being, anyone with eyes can see that this is only a matter of time. And as one of the old sects of the Tianhun Empire, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile School is definitely among the first batch to be purged. If they want to protect themselves, besides resisting, it seems the only path left is to seek shelter from our Shrek Academy." Qian Duoduo also echoed.
"It seems everyone's thoughts are aligned. Alright then, tell Sect Master Ning Yuntao that we can accept them, but the conditions need to be increased. In addition to the original conditions, add one more: the disciples of the Ning family need to join Shrek Academy's inspection team." Zhu Ziyang said indifferently, "Leave this matter to you, Senior Sister. But one thing must be clear: the reason our Shrek Academy is accepting the Ning family is out of consideration for the Nine Treasures Douluo and the Food God Douluo."
"No problem." Xian Lin'er nodded and agreed.
The Tian Yuan Pavilion meeting soon ended, but Zhu Ziyang's matters were not over. He still needed to give a speech to all the disciples and students later. Although the disciples and students remaining in Shrek Academy were all firm academy faction members, in this period of drastic ideological change, many people would still feel confused. This required Zhu Ziyang, the Tian Yuan Pavilion host, a spiritual leader of Shrek Academy, to firm up their beliefs.
Taking advantage of the free time while Yan Shaozhe and the others gathered the disciples, Zhu Ziyang found the Wu Huan'er waiting for him under the Golden Ancient Tree.
"Huan'er!" Zhu Ziyang called out.
"Ziyang brother!" Wu Huan'er ran over excitedly, hugging Zhu Ziyang, her pretty face full of longing.
"It's been a year. Did you miss me?" Zhu Ziyang wrapped his arms around Wu Huan'er's slender waist, smiling as he asked.
"Mm!" Wu Huan'er buried her head in Zhu Ziyang's chest, softly responding.
A year had passed, and at this time, Wu Huan'er's cultivation had already reached level 95. The reason for such rapid progress was completely understandable. After all, before Zhu Ziyang's seclusion, the girl's cultivation had already reached level 88. Before seclusion, Zhu Ziyang gave her a medicinal liquid equivalent to half a source golden pill. In one year, reaching level 95 was very reasonable.
"Has Sister Xiao Tao not come out of seclusion yet?" After the two had been affectionate for a moment, Zhu Ziyang opened his mouth disappointingly and mentioned another woman's name.
However, Wu Huan'er didn't mind at all. After all, her relationship with Ma Xiaotao was closer than real sisters. She replied, "Um, one month after you went into seclusion, Ziyang brother, Sister Xiao Tao came out. After I told her about your seclusion to accept the divine position, and handed her the source golden pill medicinal liquid, she went back into seclusion. She said this time she would achieve godhood in one go and only come out after that."
"I see." Zhu Ziyang was slightly stunned, then his divine sense swept through the underground space of the Golden Ancient Tree, immediately finding Ma Xiaotao sitting cross-legged in a tree cave.
At this time, Ma Xiaotao's aura was very stable, with scorching flame elemental energy flowing around her body. With each breath she took, this energy was continuously absorbed and released. Zhu Ziyang could clearly feel two completely unequal energies colliding and circulating within Ma Xiaotao's body, achieving a strange balance.
He immediately withdrew his divine sense, a sigh of relief in his heart, and a smile naturally appeared on his face. He said, "At most another half year, and Sister Xiao Tao should be able to come out."
"Really!" Hearing this, Wu Huan'er's face showed a surprised expression as she asked, "Then when she comes out, will she be able to become a god?"
"Mm." Zhu Ziyang nodded and said, "She is currently converting the soul power in her body into divine power. The moment she completes the conversion, she can formally accept the Fire God position."
Converting soul power to divine power is a necessary step for mortal spirits to advance to divine spirits. Only when all the energy in the body is converted to divine power can one withstand the pressure of divine-level laws on the body, and then the mortal flesh evolves into a divine spirit body, becoming a true god. For mortals under other starry skies, this is an extremely difficult matter, but for them under the Douluo starry sky, it is the simplest thing.
Because the divine position will complete everything for them. Although it is pulling up seedlings to help them grow, you cannot deny that the pulled seedlings do indeed grow taller.
A king is not honored by the crown, but the crown is honored because of the king!
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Outer courtyard, Shrek Square.
All the outer courtyard students remaining in the academy had arrived. The oldest were already in the sixth grade, and the youngest were only in the first grade. However, the first-grade little friends were about to advance soon. In another three months, it would be the new enrollment day. Although they were unsure if they would have new junior brothers and sisters, at this moment, they were very confused, not knowing why the teachers suddenly gathered them in the square.
However, many students' gazes fell on another group of people. They were uniformly wearing red Shrek Academy uniforms, which were the legendary inner courtyard disciples' uniforms. And that group of people in red uniforms was undoubtedly the legendary inner courtyard disciples. The inner courtyard, how yearning it was!
Among the inner courtyard disciples were many acquaintances of Zhu Ziyang. Leading them were naturally Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and others. However, compared to the outer courtyard students' confusion, the expressions of the inner courtyard disciples were mostly solemn. Huo Yuhao's face was especially ugly to the extreme, while Bei Bei and Tang Ya were comforting him.
Upon closer observation, one would notice that not far from Huo Yuhao and the others, a woman also wearing an inner courtyard uniform stood alone. The woman had a graceful and voluptuous figure, with blue hair cascading like waves behind her, her temperament otherworldly, like a high mountain flower.
However, her appearance was so awkwardly incongruous. Clearly, it should be a delicate and cute smiling face, yet it always maintained an inappropriate coldness, making people feel an indescribable sense of dissonance upon seeing it.
Zhu Ziyang led the various Tian Yuan Pavilion elders, stepping through the air and landing in front of all the students, disciples, and teachers.
With their appearance, Shrek Square immediately fell into silence. On the vast grounds, only Zhu Ziyang's gentle voice could be heard.
"Everyone..."
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