"Wait, that direction!"
All the spirit beasts were running towards the east, not even glancing at Shrek Academy. This was both perplexing and thought-provoking.
After all, Liyue was located to the east.
"What are the spirit beasts going to Liyue for?"
As if struck by a sudden thought, Mu En's eyes lit up. He remembered that when Zhongli had last visited, the Ice Empress and Snow Empress had been with him.
"There must be some unknown secret between the spirit beast race and the Martial God!"
After muttering to himself, Mu En waved his hand at the others and said, "Since they're not coming for us, let them go."
"Yes, Elder Mu!"
The others quickly responded. After the spirit beasts had passed, they returned to their posts.
Now, there weren't many teachers or students left "holding the fort" at Shrek Academy.
The remaining teachers and students were the most steadfast supporters of Shrek Academy. They had all received some form of benefit from the academy, which was why they hadn't left.
No matter what, the current conditions at Shrek Academy were far better than when Flender had first established it!
The passage of the spirit beasts caused the most panic among the common folk and the city administrators.
"Report to the city lord, spirit... spirit beasts are attacking the city!"
"What? How could there be spirit beasts here? Quick, follow me to face the enemy!"
After the initial shock, the city lord quickly regained his composure and stood up, ready to face the enemy.
No matter how the spirit beasts had come, he had to do this.
"Re... report to the city lord!"
Just as the city lord stood up, another person came running in a panic.
"The spirit beasts are already here, why so much formality! Speak quickly!"
"Uh..."
The person paused for a moment before saying, "City lord, the spirit..."
"Have the spirit beasts already broken in?"
The city lord's eyes widened in disbelief.
What level of spirit beast could be so terrifying?
"No, not that!"
"??"
"If you keep wasting time, I'll cut you down!"
Hearing this, the messenger trembled and quickly said, "City lord, the spirit beasts aren't hurting anyone. They... they're running towards the east."
Hearing this, the city lord was momentarily stunned, feeling confused.
As if struck by a sudden thought, he quickly activated his martial soul. Seven soul rings rose from beneath his feet, and a pair of black wings appeared on his back.
As the lord of a major city, he was a Soul Sage, and he also possessed the ability to fly.
With a flap of his wings, his body disappeared from the spot, leaving only the two messengers behind.
He wanted to see for himself what was happening.
As a flying Soul Sage, the city lord quickly reached the city walls, only to see the distant footprints of the spirit beasts.
"How strange..."
Their city was adjacent to Shrek Academy. Shrek Academy, or rather Shrek City, had been the first line of defense against beast tides.
Shrek City had been destroyed and had not yet been rebuilt, so it wasn't strange for the spirit beasts to reach their city.
What puzzled him was that these spirit beasts seemed to have a purpose, simply running wildly towards the east without harming anyone or attempting to attack the city.
"No, I need to inform the next city about this situation. Otherwise, if it's a misunderstanding..."
The direction the spirit beasts were heading was towards the east!
From their direction and the fact that they hadn't harmed anyone, it seemed they were likely heading to Liyue!
Thinking this, the city lord didn't dare delay and quickly flew towards the next city.
With his ability to fly, he was much faster than the spirit beasts on the ground.
After all, the next city was the border defense line. If he didn't inform them... the consequences would be unimaginable!
The spirit beasts ran wildly, only stopping for necessary rest. The rest was mainly for the hundred-year and thousand-year spirit beasts, as only the weak ones needed to rest.
While the spirit beasts were on their way, Zhongli wasn't idle either. He stood on the land of the undead realm, arms crossed, admiring his handiwork.
The undead realm had now been completely transformed. Not only had the "land" area expanded many times over, but there was also "sunlight," water, and trees.
At the core of the undead realm, Zhongli had added the Life Gold, which had brought about such significant changes.
Of course, the trees and such weren't created by Zhongli using divine power, he didn't possess such authority.
Instead, he had obtained seeds from Gu Yuena, and under the influence of the Life Gold, they had quickly taken root, sprouted, and grown into towering trees.
The undead, who had never seen such a scene before, curiously observed their new living environment but did not destroy it.
This place was hard-won, and even though their intelligence was limited, they couldn't bear to ruin it.
"What should we do with these undead?"
The undead creatures were the natives of the undead realm, and as outsiders, they couldn't just exterminate them.
Perhaps because they had been touched by the light, they didn't exude the violent aura that legends spoke of.
As for the aura of death, that was inevitable, they were, after all, undead creatures.
After a while, Zhongli came up with a compromise.
He divided the space of the undead realm into two halves. One half would be inhabited by the undead, and the other by the spirit souls.
Such a task wasn't difficult for Zhongli.
After using a formation to split the undead realm and transferring the undead creatures, Zhongli sighed, "I'm feeling a bit tired."
Indeed, creation was far more difficult than destruction. Crushing Tang San a hundred times wouldn't have been as exhausting as creating this place.
The only regret was that if there had been other rulers to assist, the undead realm would have been even more complete.
After setting up a teleportation formation in the spirit soul's territory and inspecting it, Zhongli disappeared from the undead realm.
For the undead creatures, this day had been a truly wondrous one!
They had witnessed... a god creating a world!
For them, this was no different from the act of creation.
As the sun set and the moon rose, time flew by, and several days passed in the blink of an eye.
Hundreds of spirit beasts had now reached the eastern coastline and were staying there.
The human rulers finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Their guess had been correct, the destination of these spirit beasts was indeed Liyue.
Throughout the journey, there had been no conflict between the spirit beasts and humans. This was the first time in tens of thousands of years!
After all, these spirit beasts were powerful enough to launch a small-scale beast tide!
Gu Yuena, Di Tian, Xiong Jun, and others also made their appearance at this moment.
Their arrival caused the human experts observing from the shadows to break out in a cold sweat!
Fortunately... fortunately, there was no conflict!
Otherwise, the casualties would have been devastating!
Although they didn't recognize Gu Yuena and the others, it wasn't hard to guess that these were the rulers of the Star Dou Great Forest!
Liyue was some distance from the coast, and ordinary people needed to take a boat to reach it.
But spirit beasts weren't humans, and ordinary boats couldn't carry their massive bodies.
At that moment, a brilliant light erupted from beneath the sea, causing the water level to rise. A dazzling path leading to Liyue appeared before everyone's eyes.