Pulling the Five Elements Academy into the Fray
For the most part, Shen Guang Grand Scholar agreed with Shuijing Grand Scholar's suggestions. These three points were all highly relevant to the Five Elements Academy's current needs.
The third point in particular—the safety of the Academy's senior leadership—had indeed sounded an alarm. For these people, their personal safety naturally came first.
No matter how ambitious you were, if your personal safety wasn't guaranteed, everything else was just an illusion and ultimately meaningless.
In any case, the Five Elements Academy had recently made a fortune, so money was no problem. As long as they were willing to spend, there were still plenty of experts among the general populace who would be willing to join.
After all, the Five Elements Academy's reputation spoke for itself. Joining it wasn't a bad choice; it was certainly much better than becoming a wandering ghost.
These days, it wasn't that ordinary martial artists didn't want to band together for mutual support. They simply couldn't find a place where they could put down roots. Even if they joined a major faction, they would basically be sent to serve as cannon fodder, expendable on the battlefield.
If they were truly top experts, and could gain status in the Five Elements Academy along with generous compensation, those enticing conditions would naturally be enough to recruit some of them.
The Five Elements Academy now needed some support from the general populace to strengthen its ranks. It also needed those recruits to foster healthy competition with the geniuses from the three Academies behind it, so the two sides could complement each other.
With Shen Guang Grand Scholar's approval, Shuijing Grand Scholar was put in charge of the matter and threw himself into it with great enthusiasm.
Shen Guang Grand Scholar then reminded