Chapter 1182: Vast Sea Cosmic Crystal (1/2)

A warm and gentle smile appeared on Yali's face. Even though her eyes were completely dim and soulless, her smile was just as gentle as ever.

”Call me 'mistress' from now on. You're inheriting his Divine Atlas Spear, so I'm taking you as his disciple in his stead. His inheritance has been contained in the spear in its entirety.”

Yali offered the Divine Atlas Spear to Tang Wulin, and he accepted the spear as countless emotions surged through his heart.

He fell to his knees before raising the Divine Atlas Spear high above his head, then kowtowed to Yali three times in succession. ”Wulin pays his respects to Mistress Yali!”

Yali looked on with a gratified look in her eyes. ”I'll make sure to stick around until that day comes. I'm sure you'll glow just as radiantly as he did in the instant you revive Shrek Academy. The most painful moment of Yun Ming's life was the moment that the academy was destroyed, but I never thought of him as a failure of a Sea God's Pavilion Master, and I will always take pride in him. Don't squander his spear; I hope it'll become a pillar that supports Shrek Academy one day.”

”Yes, Mistress; I'll do everything in my power to live up to Teacher's expectations!”

Yun Ming was once Na'er's teacher, and from this moment forth, he was also Tang Wulin's teacher.

Tang Wulin rose to his feet again with the Divine Atlas Spear in his hand, and Lan Muzi smiled as he said, ”Lan Muzi pays his respects to the pavilion master.”

Only then did the other inner court disciples return to their senses, and all of them bowed toward Tang Wulin at the same time. ”We pay our respects to the pavilion master!”

That's right, from the moment Tang Wulin accepted the spear, he had already become the current Sea God's Pavilion Master, the true leader of Shrek Academy.

A faint smile appeared on Long Yeyue's face as she nodded at Tang Wulin in an approving manner. ”I also have something to give to you.”

She extended a hand toward him as she spoke, revealing a transparent rhomboid crystal. The crystal was of a shimmering blue color, and there seemed to be water rippling within it.

Tang Wulin's attention was instantly drawn to the blue crystal. There seemed to be an enormous suction force within the crystal, and as soon as his gaze settled on it, he immediately sensed that his enormous spiritual power was drawn into the crystal.

His surroundings instantly fell silent, and Tang Wulin was stunned to discover that he seemed to have entered a boundless blue world.

There were translucent blue fish swimming past him, and this entire blue world seemed to be filled with boundless life force energy.

This was an extremely wonderful feeling, and he felt as if he were bathing in rich life force energy.

After what seemed like an eternity, but also what could've been the mere blink of an eye, Tang Wulin returned to his senses, and he was still staring blankly at the dazzling crystal in Long Yeyue's hand.

He raised his head to look at everyone else, and it seemed that none of them had been struck by the same feeling as him; all of them were merely stunned by the radiant beauty of this rhomboid crystal.

”This is the Vast Sea Cosmic Crystal, and it's an extremely rare treasure that has always been kept in the Sea God's Pavilion. It's also the most precious treasure in the entire academy, and its origins date all the way back to over 20,000 years ago. The first master of the Tang Sect, Thousand Hand Douluo Tang San, who was also the leader of the first generation of Shrek’s Seven Monsters, was the one who had obtained this treasure.

”We don't know how he managed to obtain it, but what we do know is that this crystal played an extremely important role in his ascension to become a god. In our academy, only those who have reached the Limit Douluo level and have accrued enough experience have the right to sense the crystal and search for a path to the Divine Realm through doing so. This Vast Sea Cosmic Crystal has always been kept in the Sea God's Pavilion, and on the day that the disaster struck, the pavilion master gave it to me and told me to protect it.

”As the oldest living member of Shrek Academy, I should've been the one to protect the academy until the very end, but he told me that he had a responsibility to see things through as the pavilion master, so I lived on. Today, I'm giving this Vast Sea Cosmic Crystal to you in the hope that you can complete his final wish. I hope that you can restore Shrek Academy to its former glory and protect it as all of the past Sea God's Pavilion Masters have done.”