Multi-pupil Gives In
Whether Grand Scholar Linghua had been bought off was something Jiang Yue naturally wouldn't say outright. He'd leave Multi-pupil Grand Scholar to puzzle it out for himself.
The more Jiang Yue played things mysterious, the more Multi-pupil Grand Scholar panicked. He kept imagining all sorts of possibilities, and in the end, he decided that Grand Scholar Linghua must have been bought off. Otherwise, why would her temperament have changed so drastically, and why would she have started a civil war as soon as she returned to Taiyi Academy? The whole academy was in utter chaos now. Even Grand Scholar Biyao had died for no apparent reason. It was practically a suicide pact.
If someone had told him that Grand Scholar Linghua hadn't been bought off by the Surface Humans, Multi-pupil Grand Scholar wouldn't have believed it.
But the thought that the Surface Humans had infiltrated Taiyi Academy to such an extent made him feel uneasy and, despite himself, somewhat pessimistic.
This was Taiyi Academy—the very academy that had once outmatched Titan Academy. How had it suddenly fallen so low?
Could Grand Scholar Linghua, like him, have been captured by the Surface Humans?
In theory, the fact that Grand Scholar Linghua had also been bought off should have made it easier for him to accept. After all, with her as an example, if he compromised, it wouldn't look quite so glaring or humiliating.
But when he thought of Taiyi Academy's current state, Multi-pupil Grand Scholar still felt uneasy. By now, he'd gradually steeled himself to accept a compromise. That didn't mean he was willing to return to Titan Academy and stir up infighting and division like Grand Scholar Linghua had—or make the place descend into chaos.
It wasn't that Multi-pupil Grand Scholar had any deep affection for Titan