1592: The Fight for the First Pass
The fake Shuijing Grand Scholar was Jiang Yue himself. As the leader of the Star City Squad, there was no doubt he could pass himself off as Shuijing Grand Scholar.
As for the Star City Squad, he naturally brought them into Giant Stone Pass as his personal guards. With a Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholar personally stationed at Giant Stone Pass, nearly everyone lined the streets to welcome him, their morale soaring. No one could possibly suspect where the guards he'd brought along had come from or whether there was anything wrong with them.
In fact, it never even crossed anyone's mind.
Sure enough, after the fake Shuijing Grand Scholar entered Giant Stone Pass, the unsettled mood among its people immediately calmed.
As soon as Jiang Yue arrived, he summoned every notable leader in Giant Stone Pass to a meeting to unite their thinking.
He opened by emphasizing Giant Stone Pass's strategic importance and the need—and resolve—to hold it.
Having made their resolve clear, Jiang Yue didn't dictate what they should do next. Instead, he welcomed ideas from everyone, promising to take good advice wherever it came from.
Seeing how approachable Shuijing Grand Scholar was, without a trace of a Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholar's airs and without putting on a stern face to intimidate them, many people's impression of him improved considerably.
Since he'd invited everyone to speak freely, and the fate of Giant Stone Pass's defenses was at stake, people didn't hold back. They offered their suggestions one after another, and the meeting was lively.
One person pointed out that Giant Stone Pass's greatest asset was its giant stone formation. They had to protect it and give Titan Academy no chance to exploit a weakness. Different groups should be assigned to