"Do you have any good suggestions, sir?"
The elders and sect masters of several sects exchanged glances, then shrewdly tossed the question back to Ye Xiu.
Those who could enter this secret chamber today were all from sects with deep enough dealings with the Alliance. There was no shortage of major sects in the cultivation world, and since no one feared anyone else, they naturally had to rely on their own abilities to seize opportunities for cooperation.
Besides, not everyone thought highly of the grand plan the Alliance had laid out this time.
"The Alliance's plan is already out in the open. The required numbers are fixed; in truth, it is simply drawing the target after the arrow has been shot."
Ye Xiu smiled.
"The Alliance's friendship with your sects is one thing, but for us to interfere in your internal affairs would be somewhat inappropriate."
"How about this? I will first lay bare the Alliance's thinking. The key to the academies founded by the Alliance is to teach and cultivate enough Alliance officers to handle the coming infrastructure construction and maintenance."
"These people's cultivation is not particularly important. Nor do I care what techniques they cultivate. When it comes time to suppress unrest, Spirit Guns and warships will be indispensable anyway."
Ye Xiu looked straight at the people before him.
"Half of the time in every academy—whether it is an academy later established through exclusive cooperation, or a jointly run academy created through everyone's involvement—the courses taught by instructors dispatched by the Alliance must account for a full half of all class time."
As he spoke, Ye Xiu stirred his spiritual power, and the pressure of a great cultivator spread invisibly outward.
Though everyone present possessed considerable cultivation, they still felt as if thorns were pricking their backs.
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