Takeda's expression visibly softened as his gaze fell on Song Yao.
"Oh? So it was young friend Song Yao? What is it? Do you have something to say?"
"Songyue Academy has a rare book, the Medicine King Divine Canon. Senior promised to give it to my Song Family."
Song Yao looked at Takeda and spoke with a beaming smile.
"Song Yao, you... it was you who betrayed the academy?"
"I was wondering how the academy's grand formation could have been destroyed for no reason. So you were the one behind it."
"Damn it, you traitor. You're from the Song Family, one of Guming Kingdom's Four Great Families. How could you..."
"Dean Chu, Song Yao is merely at the Out of Body stage. For him to dare do this, the Song Family must have long since been secretly backing him."
"Traitor, damned traitor! Song Yao, you—and the Song Family—actually pledged allegiance to the Fusang Sect and betrayed Guming Kingdom?"
Hearing Song Yao and Takeda's exchange, the academy instructors present all froze where they stood.
Each was dumbstruck as a wooden chicken, too shocked to utter a word.
As cultivators of Songyue Academy and Guming Kingdom, betraying Guming Kingdom and joining the Fusang Sect was something many cultivators simply could not accept.
The six Spirit Severing stage deans led by Hu Daoyuan, meanwhile, swiftly came to their senses, their voices rising one after another.
Some sternly berated Song Yao.
Others were beside themselves with fury.
After just a few simple remarks, everyone gradually understood as well.
Behind Song Yao stood the Song Family, one of Guming Kingdom's Four Great Families—a force whose strength and scale did not lose to Songyue Academy in the slightest.
It went without saying that Song Yao's actions could not possibly have nothing to do with the