After all, the elders viewed Shrek Academy as the number one soul master academy on the continent, not so disorganized group. Since they had already decided to carry out this risky rescue mission, they had to be as prepared as possible, minimizing errors to ensure everyone's safety.
The eting lasted a long ti. By the ti everyone left Sea God's Pavilion, the sky was painted with fiery clouds, reflecting onto the lake like a sea of rubies.
Yan Shaozhe turned to Elder Song, his expression serious. "Elder Song, I entrust these students to you. Please bring them back safely."
Elder Song smiled faintly. "Shaozhe, I will do my best to protect them. But you must also be careful. Attacking the Sun Moon Empire's border forces to draw their attention is no easy task.
Once their experts are drawn to you, you'll face serious danger. If things take a turn for the worse, fall back imdiately and follow the contingency plan."
"Haha, don't worry, Elder Song! We're all battle hardened veterans we won't make foolish mistakes." Yan Shaozhe was brimming with confidence.
After a few more words, the two groups split up. Yan Shaozhe led his team towards the Sun Moon Empire's borders, preparing to strike their soul engineer regints and create a distraction.
anwhile, Elder Song led Bei Bei's team towards the Sun Moon Empire.
However, to avoid alerting enemy surveillance and ensure they reached the prisoners' location quickly, they chose to travel by sea via Star Luo Empire instead of going through the heavily monitored land borders, which were now equipped with Sun Moon detection soul tools.
During the journey, everyone except Wang Dong and Elder Song used flight type soul tools with wind resistant barriers to move swiftly through the skies. The landscape below shifted constantly as they flew.
At the very back of the formation, Wang Dong flapped her Goddess of Light Butterfly wings, feeling a deep resentnt not towards her companions, but towards the presence in her mind.
She desperately wanted to eliminate that intrusive consciousness.
Her father and uncle called it her "illness", but she had found no cure.
If not for that damned presence, rejecting every Sun Moon Empire soul tool with relentless resistance, she too could be flying effortlessly with a flight type soul tool like the others.
Of course, thanks to her martial soul's abilities, she could fly even without being a Soul Sage.
But she still wanted a flight soul tool because they could accelerate flight speed.
After a while, Elder Song called for a rest break.
She led the group to a shaded forest, where they could recover.
For Elder Song, such a short flight was nothing even at her age, her vast soul power reserves made her far more resilient than the young students.
The tired students, however, welcod the rest. After a while, Elder Song led them back into the air.
They flew for a long ti, until they finally arrived at the southern coast of the Star Luo Empire.
At the distant horizon, where the sky t the sea, a radiant sunset was sinking below the waves, casting golden light across the ocean's surface.
As ti passed, the golden glow receded, giving way to the deepening blue of night.
The students knew that soon, the sun would fully disappear beneath the ocean.
Crash! Crash!
The waves roared as they collided against the shore, filling the air with the deafening sound of ocean tides.
Wang Dong breathed in the salty sea breeze, staring at the vast ocean before her.
Xiao Xiao walked up beside her, smiling as she gazed at the sea, her eyes filled with wonder.
"It's beautiful," Xiao Xiao murmured. "This is my first ti seeing the ocean. Wang Dong, have you ever seen it before?"
Without hesitation, Wang Dong replied, "Not that I rember. This is the first ti I've ever seen the sea."
But after a mont, she frowned.
"And yet… I don't just think it's beautiful I feel… connected to it."
Xiao Xiao looked at her, confused. "Connected?"
"Yes," Wang Dong nodded, deep in thought. "It's strange. This is my first ti seeing the ocean, so why do I feel such familiarity?
The ocean isn't family it shouldn't feel this… natural to .
But I can sense that it has sothing to do with the presence in my mind.
It's like it's been subtly influencing my emotions, altering my perception of the ocean."
A bitter smile crept onto her face.
"I want to use soul tools but I can't.
I see the ocean for the first ti but I feel drawn to it.
That thing inside … it's like it's slowly reshaping my thoughts, molding to fit its will.
Maybe that so called 'Tang Wutong' is just so arrogant soul tool hating, ocean loving person."
Xiao Xiao's heart ached for her.
She knew how much pressure Wang Dong was under.
Even renowned healers and Spirit type Title Douluos had been powerless to remove the foreign consciousness.
As her closest friend, all she could do was offer comfort.
She gently reassured Wang Dong, and gradually, Wang Dong's mood improved.
Then, she turned to Bei Bei and said, "Senior Bei, I just realized sothing. To make our rescue mission easier, I'll need to disguise you turn you into a girl."
Bei Bei stiffened.
"…A girl?"
"Yes," Wang Dong nodded. "You need to blend in, and disguising you as a young woman is the best way to avoid suspicion."
Bei Bei's face twitched.
"Wait hold on. You're saying you're going to… make look like a girl? Is that even possible?!"
He had never disguised himself as a woman before!
"Of course, it's possible!" Wang Dong said confidently. "You need to trust in my family's disguise techniques.
Even though we lost in the tournant, plenty of people still recognize us.
That was the most watched competition on the continent.
Too many people saw our faces. If we enter any city without disguises, soone will recognize us."
"…And the others?" Bei Bei asked.
"I think everyone should get disguised," Wang Dong explained.
"It'll significantly increase our safety."
"Don't worry the disguises aren't permanent.
Once we're done with the mission, we can remove them anyti."
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