Shen Tianxue answered the voice transmission and asked, "Dean Zou, are you trying to get yourself killed?"
"I only sent you a few little gadgets recently developed by the Communication Institute, so you could have some fun with them. Why are you so angry?" Zou Qian said listlessly.
Shen Tianxue tightened her fingers, and the Listening Wind Ruler shattered in her hand.
Pei Daiqing picked up the second Listening Wind Ruler from the ground and answered the voice transmission. Zou Qian's utterly unsurprised voice came through again. "I knew you'd want to test the quality of our Listening Wind Rulers, so I sent you a few extra. Go ahead and give them a try."
"Why go to all that trouble?" Pei Daiqing couldn't help laughing.
"Of our nine institutes, yours is the only Agricultural Courtyard without a Sage in charge. It's all left to the instructors, so the students below probably aren't convinced," Zou Qian said. "Either of you could come back. Both of you would be even better."
"Isn't Ou Rushuang still alive, more or less?" Shen Tianxue said. "Why not haul him back and have him hold down the Agricultural Courtyard?"
She put a marvelous emphasis on the word "hold down."
Lying back in his chair, Zou Qian rubbed his chin. Shen Tianxue certainly had some nerve.
"Ou Rushuang's reputation is already ruined. If a member of the Xuan Kui Hundred Bandits took charge of the Taiyi Agricultural Courtyard, wouldn't the students tear the place apart?" Zou Qian said. "Ou Rushuang isn't the only dean in the Agricultural Courtyard. Since you two are among Taiyi's Twenty-Four Saints, you ought to do something for Taiyi."
Shen Tianxue snorted. "Not turning the Agricultural Courtyard's students into Luosha Practitioners who kill without batting an eye is already me doing Taiyi a