Shrek City truly lives up to its reputation as the largest city on the Heaven Dou Plain. The sheer width of its roads far surpasses that of Xuanfeng City and Xilu City.
The paving material is black limestone, a unique mineral found only on the Douluo Continent. It's highly hydrophobic, heat-resistant, and incredibly hard.
The three Douluo kingdoms all favor this material for their imperial roads. It's rumored that the Sun Moon Empire uses a different material.
Because of their abundant mineral resources, they even use metallic ores for their official roads. Hearing this, Huo Yuhao found it somewhat absurd.
Walking along Shrek City's main street, Huo Yuhao dared not expand his spiritual power too much, only maintaining a vigilance within a five-meter radius.
The density of powerful individuals here was extremely high. Of the twenty people passing by Huo Yuhao, at least five possessed soul power.
In some places, there were even noticeable perception black holes, presumably belonging to Soul Douluo or higher-level experts.
Huo Yuhao estimated that almost all the soul masters on the Heaven Dou Plain were concentrated in Shrek City.
As a sacred land for Soul Masters, its talent-attracting effect is very obvious.
No wonder the Douluo Three Kingdoms both love and hate this place.
They love it because the stronger Shrek Academy becomes, the safer they are, and the Sun Moon Empire dares not be too presumptuous.
They hate it because all the talents of their own empires have been attracted by Shrek Academy, and they can't stop it. They are like incompetent husbands watching their wives and daughters run away with the blond-haired bastard.
They even have to help push him away.
"Shrek is out of strength, hurry up and push harder!"
No wonder that during the Legend of the Dragon King, when Shrek Academy was bombed by the Federation and the Spirit Pagoda, no force notified Shrek Academy in advance.
It was a bit too annoying.
However, it was that explosion that made Shrek Academy realize that status alone is far from enough. After that, Shrek Academy began to get involved in Federation politics and military affairs.
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that Shrek Academy can assemble an ultimate luxurious lineup of two Soul Emperors and five Soul Kings in next year's All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
To be honest, if the Supreme Elder Xuanzi of the Holy Spirit Cult hadn't intervened...
With Shrek Academy's lineup, the other academies can really just give up and go to sleep.
Aside from the Imperial Academy and the Royal Soul Master Academy of the Sun Moon Empire, which could produce a Soul Emperor, the other academies didn't produce a sixth-ring expert.
Two Soul Emperors and five Soul Kings were like a stroke of incredible luck, while the other academies were like speed bumps.
"I don't know!"
"What the hell is stuck to my Phoenix Meteor Shower?"
"Go talk to my White Tiger Protective Shield, White Tiger Vajra Transformation, and White Tiger Demon God Transformation if you have any problems."
The White Tiger Martial Soul of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion hasn't changed its soul skill combination for tens of thousands of years—a pure wheelchair-bound Martial Soul.
Fortunately, the Supreme Elder Xuanzi intervened, giving the other academies a chance.
It's unknown whether the other academies thanked Xuanzi.
On Shrek City's main street, you could find truly anything.
A dazzling array of goods sat quietly on the shelves, waiting for their destined buyers. Shop signs seemed to reach for the sky, and advertisements intertwined, assaulting the eyes of every passerby.
A vast amount of information, woven into a spiderweb by colorful lights, captured the thoughts of passersby.
Some shops even used novelties like Soul Guidance Screens to attract attention.
If Huo Yuhao were to describe this city, he would say it's a city where conservatism and progress coexist.
The way people live and entertain themselves is still similar to what it was ten thousand years ago on the Douluo Continent.
They stroll the streets, walk their birds, and watch Soul Master battles as bloodthirsty spectators.
Watching Soul Masters fight is their only form of entertainment.
In Xuanfeng City, many regular customers like to bring loads of food and wine and drag Huo Yuhao along to the Soul Arena to watch the matches.
They say seeing flesh collide, blood spurt, and hearing the cries of agony is more exhilarating than ejaculating during sex.
Huo Yuhao finds these battle fanatics somewhat incomprehensible; perhaps it's just the nature of older generations of Earthlings.
Rather than watching things that might not even pass censorship on the dark web, he'd rather spend that time watching Peppa Pig.
At least he could learn a few pig noises.
As for advancement, Shrek City is indeed the place with the most advanced Soul Guidance Devices in the Douluo Three Kingdoms!
Mainly because Mu En has been vigorously promoting the development of the Soul Guidance System.
Although Mu En has some flaws, he is one of the few normal people in Shrek.
He could foresee the future development of the mainland and was willing to change the current state of the academy, not wanting Shrek Academy to be bound by that meaningless glory.
Unfortunately, he was too old, and because of the poison that would surely kill him and the evil energy of the Dragon Pill, he could no longer stand up straight.
Although he possesses the cultivation level of a Limit Douluo, he cannot maintain the combat strength of a Limit Douluo in a normal state.
He can no longer protect this academy, and his descendants are just a bunch of clowns.
Xuan Zi, the Chicken Leg Douluo, is too flavorful and doesn't need much salt. This old man seems to be able to directly contact the Dragon Emperor Douluo, Long Xiaoyao.
Is he really not the Supreme Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult?
Sui is probably in for a lot of trouble in the future.
Yan Shaozhe is petty and narrow-minded. He killed the Evil Phoenix with one shot, and his inability to advance to level 96 is even more outrageous.
His relationship with the other high-ranking members of Shrek Academy is like a melodramatic soap opera!
Zhang Lexuan is too young, seemingly love-struck, bound by herself, and unable to support the future.
And the geniuses of Zhang Lexuan's generation have been sent to their deaths by Xuan Zi.
Mu En can see the future of Shrek Academy at a glance.
The Sun Moon Empire will likely attack the Douluo Three Kingdoms again in a few years.
If Shrek Academy doesn't have another Limit Douluo, then Shrek Academy will be the first to be destroyed.
Therefore, even after Mu En died in the original story, he didn't dare to completely merge his soul with the Golden Ancient Tree, leaving a portion as a safeguard.
It's unknown whether he discovered the truth about the Golden Ancient Tree at that time.
Perhaps he did discover it but dared not speak of it; gods and humans are ultimately on two different levels.
Huo Yuhao continued walking through Shrek City, experiencing the authentic Douluo Continent.
As a Douluo transmigrator, not visiting Shrek would be a wasted transmigration.
It's a matter of bloodline certification.
Jiang Nannan's location was next to Shrek Academy, near the Soul Arena.
It's unclear where she got the money to open a shop in such a location.
Shrek City has many Soul Arenas, the most famous being the large Soul Arena within Shrek Academy, which is normally closed to the public, only opening to the outside world during large-scale competitions.
There are also a bunch of auction houses, a specialty of fantasy novels.
They're also hotspots for accidents, and perfect places for protagonists to show off and get their faces slapped.
It's an indispensable part of the fantasy world, and Huo Yuhao planned to take a look when he had time.
He also planned to sell the slightly broken soul bone he had.
Keeping it for himself was useless; the soul skills recorded inside were truly lackluster. He could achieve a similar result simply by imbuing it with his spirit.
According to market prices, a damaged ten-thousand-year soul bone like this should be worth between 100,000 and 1 million gold soul coins.
It mainly depends on the extent of the damage and the soul skills recorded inside.
Shadow Binding is a very excellent control-type soul skill, so this soul bone should be worth over 500,000 gold soul coins.
To Huo Yuhao's surprise, there was actually an Adventurers' Guild here!
Hmm, it seems the original novel did mention this thing briefly.
He wondered if anyone inside would say "Towards the stars..."
and then forget the rest, skipping too quickly.
Soon, Huo Yuhao arrived at the location Jiang Nannan had given him.
As expected, it was a medical clinic.
It was the name that made Huo Yuhao's eyelids twitch.
"Little Huo's Medical Clinic"
"Shrek Branch"
Huo Yuhao smiled, finding Jiang Nannan quite interesting, a bit...unconventional.
His extraordinary vision, granted by his spiritual eyes, allowed him to see the familiar blonde girl treating an old woman.
Her mother was fetching medicine nearby; clearly, she had fully adapted to the heart.
Her cultivation had reached level ten, though she didn't seem to have chosen to hunt for a soul ring.
Huo Yuhao waited outside for a while, until Jiang Nannan had finished fetching the medicine for the old woman, before going inside.
Hearing the curtain rustle, Jiang Nannan looked towards the doorway, her beautiful eyes widening in surprise.
A figure she had longed for appeared in the doorway.
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