spooky invasion

Chapter 1541 Internal Conflict at Taiyi Academy
Although the Eagle Country suffered terribly in this war, it is far from being unable to hold on.

The high-intensity and high-severity war made everyone breathless. In the face of the general trend, no matter whether it is a consortium or a family, it is difficult for them to remain immune. Even if they have sacrificed a lot of wealth and many outstanding talents because of this war.

But smart people know that this is a war that cannot be lost.

In a big way, if the Eagle Nation loses this war, the early advantages that the entire surface world has worked so hard to build up may collapse in an instant, which will help the Earth Core Clan build confidence and reverse the situation, thus affecting the final outcome of the war between the two places.

To put it simply, if the Eagle Country loses this war, it will surely decline rapidly, or even collapse, with all its members scattering like monkeys when the tree falls.

Without the Eagle Country as a host, it would not be so easy for these chaebol capitals to find the next host. After all, in the Sunshine Era, the Eagle Country was recognized as the best host by capital.

Therefore, these capitalist tycoons and hidden families in the Eagle Country would not sit idly by and watch the land of the Eagle Country being occupied by the Earth Core Clan, and they would not be willing to be kicked out and flee in embarrassment.

Even if it means paying a heavy price, the Eagle Country must be preserved. For them, this means survival.

Once the war breaks out, it is difficult to change it by personal will, and it cannot be stopped by anyone just shouting "stop".

Jiang Yue, the instigator of this war and the leader behind it, has a fulfilling life every day. In battles with Han Jingjing, he constantly comes into contact with various bloodline talents from the three golden clans of Taiyi Academy. Every time he fights, he can gain new inspiration. His understanding of these three clans is also constantly improving.

In fact, the combat effectiveness has naturally been greatly improved. Jiang Yue's practical experience is already rich enough. However, Han Jingjing's practical experience gained from it has truly tempered her personal strength.

The continuous combat for more than a month has brought Han Jingjing more experience than in the past few years, making her a top-notch fighter tempered in actual combat.

In terms of practical experience alone, Han Jingjing has far surpassed other young talents in Dazhang Country. In the entire surface world, almost no one dares to say that he has more practical experience than him.

Of course, Jiang Yue is an exception. In the surface world, Jiang Yue has actually jumped out of the Three Realms and is no longer in the Five Elements.

However, the balance of war has not yet shown a serious tilt.

The Eagle Nation was throwing its full weight into the war. Although the Taiyi Academy of the Earth Core Clan was already in a state of panic, they still gritted their teeth and continued to mobilize.

In the inner world, Taiyi Academy has actually tried every possible means and invested huge amounts of money to mobilize more troops.

There will always be brave men under a big reward, and those who are willing to join the surface battlefield can still be mobilized. However, the cost has doubled again in just over a month.

The cost of recruiting soldiers, which was already as high as that of the heavens, became even more unbearable for Taiyi Academy after doubling.

Yes, the huge Taiyi Academy felt that its financial and material resources were being consumed at a rate visible to the naked eye. War was like a glutton, madly devouring the wealth of Taiyi Academy.

The three major golden clans jointly supported the Taiyi Academy, but under such adverse circumstances, some differences also emerged.

The original chief academician, Academician Jiuxiu, who had the final say, was also met with certain doubts in the Taiyi Academy.

And the questioning was not done in private, but openly at the high-level meeting of the academy.

At the high-level meeting of the academy, Grand Scholar Linghua, who temporarily returned to the inner world to report on his work and seek help, openly expressed some different opinions on this war.

She expressed her opinion implicitly and gave her own inference. In the short term, it would be difficult for the inner world to completely defeat the Eagle Nation in the surface war.

Unless Taiyi Academy can mobilize ten times the number of troops and send them to the front line continuously in a short period of time, and these people have to be fearless and brave, even if they know that their survival time on the front battlefield will not exceed ten days, they have to go into the battlefield without hesitation.

Given the current spiritual outlook of the inner earth world, can it be so fanatical and radical?

Grand Secretary Linghua explained the interests involved from her unique female perspective. Although she did not explicitly say that the war could not continue, the hidden message was clear to many high-ranking officials.

The chief academician Jiuxiu naturally heard it as well.

Naturally, he was furious, even caught off guard, and felt stabbed in the back by Linghua, which made him extremely angry.

If Linghua was not a Grand Secretary with a Purple Gold Ribbon, but a different one, Grand Secretary Jiuxiu might even order her to be arrested and tortured, asking her whether she had been brainwashed by the humans on the surface, or even whether she had any collusion with the humans on the surface.
Why would you say such demoralizing and discouraging words at this critical moment?

In the Earth's Core World, the Earth's Core Clan must win. This is the most basic political correctness. If you, as a senior member of the Taiyi Academy, even this basic thing is shaken, this is a very bad sign.

In the eyes of Jiuxiu Grand Secretary, this was simply treason.

Jiuxiu originally wanted to mobilize public opinion to condemn Linghua University Scholar. After all, as the chief university scholar, if he openly suppressed Linghua University Scholar, it would be too rough.

Following the suggestion of Grand Secretary Jiuxiu, several Grand Secretaries with Golden Ribbons and several ordinary scholars jumped out one after another, expressing their irreconcilable hatred towards the surface world. They said that the inner world had advantages in military force, population and resources, and as long as the battle continued, the inner world would surely win.

The population of the surface world is so small that if they continue to fight, their population will definitely be exhausted. Even if they have to sacrifice their lives, at the limit of one for one, the population of the Earth Core Tribe can replace the surface world three or five times.

With such an advantage, why would the Earth Core Tribe lose?

This argument does sound very reasonable.

But only those who have entered the front lines, actually fought with the surface world at the front, studied the war situation in depth, and experienced it personally, can truly understand.

In this war, population factors are certainly important, but the current population advantage of the Earth Core Tribe cannot play a key role at all.

First of all, the different classes of the Earth Core Tribe have been completely torn apart. Although the population advantage seems huge, in fact, the vast majority of the population are still grassroots, and it is difficult to mobilize these people easily.

More importantly, the inner earth world is an expedition to the surface world, which means entering a completely unfamiliar battlefield and fighting.

To cross the Earth Core Passage, not to mention the long journey, the Earth Core Tribe’s base on the surface world cannot allow unlimited access to the Earth Core Tribe. Their base is not big enough to accommodate so many Earth Core Tribe. If the territory cannot accommodate them, they can squeeze in. The most important thing is that the logistical resources are completely incompatible.

Without resources, even if the population was crammed in ten times, it would only be a beautiful burden. Apart from other things, just these hungry mouths would consume so much food, spiritual medicine and spiritual stones in a day.

This is something the Earth Core Clan simply cannot afford. Even the Taiyi Academy, which is as wealthy as a country, cannot afford such extravagant consumption.

If the teleportation array port is not built properly, supplies and food cannot flow in on a large scale. If they still have to rely on horses, camels and carts to transport them, the efficiency will ultimately be low.

This is not a war within the inner world, but a cross-domain war after all.

These are just objective reasons.

What made Grand Secretary Linghua make those judgments was not only these objective reasons, but also the battle situation on the surface battlefield in recent days.

Originally, I thought that with so many experts from Taiyi Academy and the three golden clans specifically attacking the Eagle Country, they would definitely be able to make the Eagle Country suffer a lot.

But the result?

The Eagle Nation is in a bit of a mess, but even more embarrassed are their Earth Core Tribe.

They could barely accept that they were defeated by technological weapons on the front battlefield, but what was even more heartbreaking was that even in a competition between masters, they did not have a clear advantage this time.

Especially the loss rate of masters, which was so high that it made Linghua University Scholar very distressed and shocked. You know, in the past month or so, the quality of masters mobilized by Taiyi Academy was definitely not just for show, but many quasi-first-class or even first-class masters were really involved.

These people entered the surface world and achieved remarkable results. But the casualties were indeed very high. Not to mention that if they killed 1,000 enemies, they would lose 800 of their own. If they killed 1,000 enemies, they would lose 300 to 400 of their own.

Grand Scholar Linghua became more and more frightened as the fight went on, which resulted in her having to return to Taiyi Academy this time, ostensibly to seek help and a solution.

In fact, she also wanted to test the attitude of Jiuxiu Grand Secretary to see if he felt extremely frustrated and chose to stop the war or even make peace?

As things stand, it's not all good.

Scholar Jiuxiu was just as she had always known him to be, stubborn and obstinate, full of ambition and appetite for the surface world. As long as the fighting power of the Earth Core Clan was still there and the structure of the Taiyi Academy was still there, he would definitely not make peace easily.

In other words, Jiuxiu Grand Secretary was not hurt by the beating, let alone scared.

What Jiuxiu Grand Secretary did not expect was that there were quite a few Golden Ribbon Grand Secretaries and ordinary bachelors who spoke up for him.

But there was actually a group of people at the scene who chose to remain silent. This group of silent people actually accounted for at least 40% to 50%.

This made Jiuxiu University Scholar feel unprecedentedly frustrated.

You know, his authority in Taiyi Academy has never wavered in the past few hundred years. Not to mention that Linghua Grand Secretary is only ranked third among the Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Secretary, even the second-ranked Biyao Grand Secretary has never disobeyed his wishes.

His authority in Taiyi Academy is definitely not inferior to that of Grand Scholar Jiang Ling of Titan Academy and Grand Scholar Shen Guang of Five Elements Academy.

None of these chief academicians were given their titles for nothing. Their authority was earned through fighting and proven time and again through their strength.

Those who challenged their authority were basically dead. Even if they were not dead, they had already surrendered long ago.

Like today, with so many people remaining silent, Grand Secretary Jiuxiu had to be alert.

For the Chief Academician, once he opens his mouth, everyone should agree with him. Even if there are a few different opinions, they should not exceed one-tenth, and their attitude must be humble.

But today, the wind direction has become so strange?
Why are there as many as 40% to 50% of people who remain silent? Even though they are silent, their silence actually expresses another meaning: they do not want to denounce Grand Secretary Linghua, and they even agree with what Grand Secretary Linghua said.

How could this not make His Excellency the Chief Academician feel an unprecedented sense of crisis?

He would never allow these silent fence-sitters to remain silent.

"What about you? If you have any ideas, please speak freely. Our Taiyi Academy is in a difficult situation now, and we need you to overcome the difficulties together and work together. You can't remain silent. In my opinion, can your silence be regarded as a reluctance to take responsibility?"

What a big hat.

Now that things have come to this, it would be inappropriate to remain silent and not express an opinion.

Some people, though reluctantly, still expressed some opposing views insincerely. In fact, their tone of voice has already proved that they do not agree with the views they said.

They had no choice but to do so due to the pressure from the Chief Academician.

But at this moment, another authority spoke up. It was the second-ranked Baguio University Scholar.

"Chief, Linghua has been in the surface world these days. Her understanding of the surface battlefield should be more intuitive and in-depth than everyone here. I think that even if we don't agree with her views, we should be vigilant. Should we even consider going to the surface battlefield to check it out ourselves? Whether it is right or wrong, verifying it yourself may be the most responsible behavior at the moment. Such a messy statement as the current one seems to only care about the position and ignore the truth."

what?
Everyone present was smart, and Grand Secretary Bi Yao's words immediately made everyone understand her attitude.

Even if she didn't openly support Grand Secretary Linghua, her intention to cover up for him couldn't be more obvious. Most importantly, she didn't agree with the Chief Grand Secretary, which was the most important news.

It seems that the wind direction has really changed.

Grand Secretary Jiuxiu took a deep breath and looked at Grand Secretary Biyao with deep and complicated eyes.

"Fellow Daoist Biyao is indeed worthy of being the best friend and confidant of fellow Daoist Linghua. People outside say that you two are so close that you two wear the same pants. It seems that this joke has some basis."

He smiled casually and continued, "I don't mind going to the surface battlefield to take a look, but everyone looks at things from a different perspective. Some people see pessimism and despair, while others may see a turnaround and hope. In the final analysis, do you all believe it? The inner world is so big, and the population is ten or twenty times theirs. Why can't we take over the surface world?"

"As for Linghua, you stayed on the surface world for so long. How much of the decapitation plan you drew up was actually realized?"

"Or, because this plan, which was doomed to fail from the beginning, unexpectedly failed, you hid in the surface world and only returned now that the limelight has subsided?"