The sky was clear and the sun was shining!
They packed their bags and set off for the distant future.
Their destination: Heaven Dou City.
To reach Heaven Dou City, the Shrek Academy group needed to first leave the territory of the Barak Kingdom, then traverse the entire territory of the Silves Kingdom north of the Barak Kingdom, before entering the imperial city of the Heaven Dou Empire. Further east lay the imperial city of the Heaven Dou Empire. The entire journey was long, nearly two thousand li.
This demonstrated the vastness of the Heaven Dou Empire's territory.
Soul Masters traveled quickly, just like their previous trip to the Star Dou Great Forest; this time, they activated their Martial Souls and raced all the way.
Actually, this wasn't necessary; they could have reached the destination by carriage.
However, the flying Soul Master, Flander, disliked carriages, so they had to walk the entire way, calling it exercise.
Two thousand li! Ma Hongjun felt a headache just thinking about it. If he used WeChat to track his steps, he didn't know how many tens of thousands he would have taken.
In his previous life, Ma Hongjun remembered that his highest WeChat step count was 27,000.
They rested in towns and cities along the way, as there were four support-type Soul Masters in the group.
Ning Rongrong hated this kind of running and traveling, having been trained in this way since childhood, and it was tedious.
So, every time they rested, Ning Rongrong would ask Ma Hongjun to massage her legs, and in exchange, she would wipe Ma Hongjun's legs as well.
After comforting Ning Rongrong, Ma Hongjun still needed to check on Zhu Zhuqing, not wanting to favor one over the other.
Ma Hongjun wasn't just a drop in the ocean, but an inexhaustible well of energy.
However, time was limited, and he had to allocate his attention to the two women.
As an agility-type Soul Master, Zhu Zhuqing naturally had no burden when traveling, so she didn't need her legs massaged, but rather her... well, you know.
In this way, Ma Hongjun barely rested during the journey, but he was an iron man with inexhaustible energy,
always maintaining a high level of performance.
Although they were traveling, the master's training continued as planned.
Training the students was not only about strength but also about mentality.
Everyone has a first time.
And today, the Master's training objective is to let the Shrek Academy students experience their first time, to see blood.
Today, the group traveled to the capital of the Kingdom
of Sylvester. Tonight's training ground is the Sylvester Grand Arena.
In the cities they passed through before, the Master would visit the Grand Arena to observe the team battles and find suitable targets.
Today, they found a suitable team in Sylvester:
the Ferocious God Team. A level 40 Silver Soul Battle Team, after reaching the Silver Soul Battle level, they achieved 31 wins in 46 battles, killing 63 opponents and injuring 98. They are known as the most lethal weapon among Silver Soul Battle Teams. Most Silver Soul Battle Teams are unwilling to encounter them because their fighting style is too ferocious.
The Ferocious God Team is a team composed entirely of power-attack type Soul Masters. Since its inception, they have fully utilized the "mad dog" tactic. Their captain, Meng Li, has always believed in one saying:
The strong fear the ruthless, and the ruthless fear the reckless.
In previous team battles, regardless of the opponent, the Ferocious God Team, led by him, would launch a desperate and frenzied attack, even if they lost, they would inflict injury or death on their opponents.
This team was infamous and its fearsome reputation was widespread. The team that
Grandmaster wanted to make Shrek Academy shed blood was this kind of team.
Shrek Academy might not be a match for this Silver Soul Master level team. Shrek Academy could defeat them if they used all their resources, but they would also pay a price; a slight misstep could result in the death or serious injury of a member.
Therefore, Grandmaster suggested that everyone use the hidden weapons made by Tang San.
During this period, Tang San had spent most of his time assembling hidden weapons, and Grandmaster had personally tested the power of various hidden weapons. Now was the time to test them in actual combat.
This team was different from the Berserker Team; they intentionally killed, even if they could win. The
Berserker Team, on the other hand, lost their minds due to fanaticism and couldn't control themselves, passively injuring others.
Therefore, killing this scourge of the Soul Master world, the Ferocious God Team, was the best way to rid the world of evil.
Just like the original plot, regardless of whether there was a time travel or not, some people and beasts destined to die couldn't escape their fate. At the start of the battle
between the Shrek Academy team and the
Fierce God team, right after the Fierce God team summoned their martial souls,
the Shrek team uniformly raised their right hands, their black boxes facing the Fierce God team.
Seven Zhuge Crossbows, one hundred and twelve bolts.
*Thud thud thud thud thud thud*—there
were no screams, only the sound of bolts piercing flesh.
Then came blood. On the battle stage, the seven members of the Fierce God team slowly collapsed, pools of blood connecting around them.
"Instant kill!"
Silence fell over the scene; only the beating of heartbeats could be heard on the Shrek Academy side.
The seven men's faces were almost deathly pale.
Murder...
This was everyone's first time.
Ma Hongjun instinctively thought of the police, then frantically looked around.
Unlike killing soul beasts, he had an innate compassion for his own kind.
That feeling was indescribable.
The smell of blood wafted over, perhaps because he was human, it seemed stronger than the smell of dead soul beasts.
His sense of smell was unusually sharp at this moment.
"Ugh—"
The first one to be unable to hold back was not the girl, but Ma Hongjun.
As someone who had transmigrated from the information age, a peaceful era, and a prosperous country, he rarely saw bloodshed, let alone killing.
No matter how deserving the Fierce God Team was, even though he comforted himself,
looking at his own hands and then at the seven people lying in pools of blood opposite him, his heart still churned.
To save face, Ma Hongjun pulled Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing away from the Soul Arena first.
As expected, Flander and the others were already waiting at the exit. After calling everyone over, they began the psychological counseling they had prepared.
And it has to be said, the psychological counseling was quite effective.
Just like when you initially feel you've done something wrong, but an elder explains and comforts you, saying you did a good job, your mood improves considerably. Most importantly, your attention is diverted.
This was a memorable training session, deeply etched in everyone's minds.
...
The Heaven Dou Royal Academy isn't located in Heaven Dou City, but outside of it.
Like Shrek Academy, which was built outside Soto City, but Shrek was built because of poverty. The
Heaven Dou Royal Academy was built outside the city to facilitate the construction of a simulated training environment.
Ning Rongrong's family also lives outside Heaven Dou City; in her words, her family's castle isn't far from Heaven Dou City, and she had visited the Heaven Dou Royal Academy when she was a child.
This time, led by Ning Rongrong, the group crossed a mountain and saw the bustling buildings ahead.
Reaching the mountain gate, a group of young men and women dressed in identical, colorful, and ornate clothes approached.
They were surrounding a man.
Seeing the Shrek group looking travel-worn and dusty, they showed disdain.
"Halt! Who are you?"
Flander stepped forward and politely explained his purpose.
Unexpectedly, the person opposite him was extremely arrogant.
"You bumpkins, daring to come to our academy for exchange? I bet you're beggars from somewhere. Get lost. Otherwise, we'll have to use force."
Ma Hongjun had already guessed who this arrogant fellow was.
Only the prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Beng, could act so rudely and unreasonably.
This guy wasn't like he seemed on the surface; in reality, he was a nobody.
You see, in the original story, he eventually became the king of the Heaven Dou Empire.