spooky invasion

Chapter 1543 Conflict Erupts

Jiuxiu Grand Secretary's rage was restrained after all. To put it bluntly, he was not necessarily as angry as he appeared to be, but more to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, to intimidate the group of silent people just now.

Just as wild animals claim their territory by killing, the Nine Scholars were clearly there to consolidate the authority of the Chief Scholar.

Perhaps he was indeed angry and even memorized the names of those scholars who did not express their opinions, but he did not escalate his anger.

Obviously, he also knew that Taiyi Academy had been severely damaged. If the attack was further expanded, there would be even fewer people available in Taiyi Academy.

The two Grand Secretaries, Biyao and Linghua, were placed under house arrest, and the effect of killing the chicken to scare the monkeys was definitely enough.

Although the two grand secretaries, Bi Yao and Ling Hua, did not resist or openly confront him, it did not mean that the matter was resolved.

Jiuxiu Grand Secretary knew that once the internal strife started, it would be difficult to deal with it.

Grand Scholar Bi Yao represents the Demon Flower Clan, while Grand Scholar Ling Hua represents the Yao Grass Clan. He cannot deal with them however he wants.

Putting them under house arrest was the only measure he could take at the moment.

If he really wants to deal with those two, it's not something that he, the chief academician, can do just by opening his mouth.

The Treasure Tree Clan, the Yao Grass Clan, and the Demon Flower Clan must discuss this. If the two are dealt with lightly without discussion, the Demon Flower Clan and the Yao Grass Clan will inevitably fall out with the Treasure Tree Clan.

Originally, the three golden tribes jointly supported Taiyi Academy and had a harmonious relationship. But no matter how good the relationship was, it was not always close.

Especially after the special medicine incident, Taiyi Academy has almost always been in a stage of war. There are still some minor conflicts of interests among the three golden clans. Each of them has its own calculations, and there are actually some invisible cracks in the relationship.

If something happened to Grand Secretary Bi Yao and Grand Secretary Ling Hua during this sensitive period, or even if they were executed by Grand Secretary Jiu Xiu, this invisible rift would surely expand, and even lead to a real split.

You know, Grand Scholar Bi Yao and Grand Scholar Ling Hua are, after all, the spokespersons of the two golden groups in Taiyi Academy, and they represent the interests of the two golden groups.

If they were killed without warning, the Demon Flower Clan and the Yaocao Clan would be in great trouble.

Therefore, even if Jiuxiu Grand Secretary was furious, he could only put them under house arrest first and then try to negotiate behind the scenes through the three major ethnic groups.

It would be best to persuade these two people to change their minds and stop being stubborn. Even if they have different opinions, they should be reserved at this time, stand in the direction of the overall situation, and be consistent with him as the chief university scholar.

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Jiang Yue and Han Jingjing, who were fighting in the Eagle Country, were also growing rapidly after more than a month of fighting. However, in the past few days, Jiang Yue vaguely noticed that the fighting spirit of the Earth Core Clan seemed to have weakened, and the number of troops invested had also decreased.

At first Jiang Yue thought it might just be a coincidence, but as time went on, Jiang Yue clearly felt that the Earth Core Clan was shrinking their front line. They actually began to retreat in this protracted stalemate!

Based on his understanding of the Earth Core Tribe, Jiang Yue speculated that the Earth Core Tribe must have adjusted their strategy, or even that something must have happened to them.

Otherwise, in such a stalemate, taking a step back would mean showing weakness. Why did the Earth Core Clan take more than one step back?
In fact, the Eagle Nation had been supporting the war reluctantly. When they felt the Earth Core Clan retreating, the Eagle Nation knew that it had to pursue the victory even if it had to grit its teeth.

The battle line has been advancing, and the Earth Core Clan has completely condensed the battle line in the shallow soil layer of this spiritual vein, trying to protect this spiritual vein.

In fact, when the spirit vein was exposed, this shallow soil area was destined to be difficult to defend. After all, this was the territory of the Eagle Country, and in surface warfare, the Eagle Country's technological advantages and local combat power advantages were still quite obvious.

Although your Earth Core Tribe has a large population, it is impossible to send all of them to this battlefield. The Eagle Nation is fighting at home, and its transportation capacity and ability to mobilize troops can completely crush the Earth Core Tribe.

After several days of hard fighting, the spiritual veins in the shallow soil layer were finally lost. The Earth Core Clan left behind a pile of corpses and finally retreated to their base deep underground.

Of course, although the shallow soil area was lost, it was only a small section after all.

For the entire spiritual vein, this area only occupies a small part. After being cut off, about two or three tenths of the other side of the spiritual vein is completely unusable.

However, once the remaining part extends to the deep soil layer, the Eagle Nation is still unable to carry out large-scale destruction. In the area entering the deep soil layer, the Earth Core Clan still stationed troops to defend.

It seems that the strategy of the Earth Core Clan is also very clear, which is to abandon the fantasy, give up the ambition to guard the entire spiritual vein, give up this two or three tenths of the spiritual vein, and choose to guard the remaining seven or eight tenths of the spiritual vein in the deep soil layer.

In this way, even if this spiritual vein cannot be fully utilized, it can at least play 60% to 70% of its role, which is enough to guarantee the spiritual power of the teleportation array port. However, the transmission capacity of the teleportation array will be slightly discounted, and these discounts can be compensated by using spiritual stones.

To sum up, even if the teleportation array cannot operate at 100%, it can at least guarantee 70% to 80% of the carrying capacity, which is still within the range that the Earth Core Clan can bear.

However, this is only a temporary estimate. After all, the distribution line of the spirit vein is too long. If the surface humans attack again in the middle and cut off and destroy the spirit vein again, maybe only 70% or 80% of the remaining spirit veins will be left, or only half of them will be left.

Although the remaining spirit veins are all in relatively deep soil layers, the battle has reached this point, and the spirit veins are no longer a secret. The humans on the surface will definitely find ways to destroy them in the next step.

In fact, after the Eagle Nation won the first phase, it was indeed planning the second phase of the attack. Knowing the strategic significance of this spiritual vein, the Eagle Nation would never stop even if it was somewhat injured.

Stopping at this time may mean all the previous efforts are wasted.

The Eagle Nation continued to mobilize, and this time even lowered its noble head to ask for support from the Da Zhang Nation and other major countries and regional forces.

However, all parts of the surface world are now at war with the Earth Core Tribe, and teleportation arrays appear not only in the Eagle Country, but also in other countries as well.

Everyone is caught in a tough battle, who can spare people to go to the Eagle Country to help?

Although the situation in Dazhang Kingdom was relatively less stalemate, the Star City team had gone to Eagle Kingdom before but was turned away. Their kindness was taken for granted, so Dazhang Kingdom naturally declined.

The Eagle Country is shooting itself in the foot.

Of course, the Eagle Country still has its combat effectiveness. They called for reinforcements only to borrow the help of others to relieve their pressure a little and reduce some sacrifices within the Eagle Country.

To put it bluntly, the Eagle Country needs cannon fodder. In the Sunshine Era, the Eagle Country was best at using the opponent's strength to fight back, calling on friends and ganging up on the opponent.

This time, the Eagle Nation knew that they would be isolated and helpless, and this situation would last for a long time. They had to bite the bullet and continue fighting until the Earth Core Clan gave up the construction of the teleportation array port.

Jiang Yue and Han Jingjing also took this opportunity to take a short break, and then they went deep into the Earth Core Clan's stronghold for in-depth reconnaissance.

Just as Jiang Yue expected, problems did arise with the Earth Core Tribe.

Originally, the defense system of this stronghold was perfect. If it weren’t for Jiang Yue, it would be difficult for any other awakened person to find a infiltration point.

And now, the number of defenders alone has been reduced by at least half. For the base of the Earth Core Tribe, this is already an extremely exaggerated reduction in personnel.

Although the battle was brutal, Jiang Yue was somewhat surprised by the heavy casualties of the Earth Core Tribe.

However, as the investigation deepened, Jiang Yue soon discovered that the atmosphere in the Earth Core Tribe was not right. There was an internal conflict among the Earth Core Tribe!

In the Dixin tribe base, there were hardly any people from the Yaohua tribe and Yaocao tribe. Originally, there were many children from the three golden tribes in the base, and they were the main members of the Dixin tribe's middle and high-level forces.

And now, the middle and high-level leaders here are almost all of Baoshu clan bloodline, and there are also some masters from other first-line forces.

The masters of the Demon Flower Clan and the Yaocao Clan seemed to have completely evacuated from this stronghold.

There's something not quite right about this.

Jiang Yue and Han Jingjing quickly sneaked deep into the stronghold, and took the opportunity to infiltrate a transport team, killing two people and replacing their identities.

The transport teams are usually recruited from the public, and many of them are adventurers. They are not big shots themselves, nor are they children of wealthy aristocrats, so they do not have to worry about their identities being suspected or even exposed.

After some inquiries, the two were also shocked.

They had always wanted to meet Grand Scholar Linghua in the surface world, but they didn't expect that he had already returned to the inner world seven or eight days ago.

What’s more crucial is that after returning to the inner earth, Grand Scholar Linghua was placed under house arrest by the Chief Grand Scholar of Taiyi Academy and sent to Mingxin Court to reflect on his mistakes!

With her was the representative of the Demon Flower Clan, Grand Secretary Bi Yao, who was also a Grand Secretary with a Purple Gold Ribbon.

In other words, the two great academicians with purple gold ribbons of the Taiyi Academy were actually placed under house arrest by the chief academician Jiuxiu!

These are the second and third in command of Taiyi Academy.

Even if the Jiuxiu Grand Secretary strictly ordered the matter of the internal strife in the Taiyi Academy to be kept secret, how could it be kept secret? At that time, there were at least a hundred Grand Secretary with Purple Gold Ribbon, Grand Secretary with Gold Ribbon and ordinary bachelors who participated in the meeting. Everyone had a mouth, and it was impossible for everyone to keep their mouths shut.

The news is bound to leak out.

After all, there were many people from the Demon Flower Clan and the Yaocao Clan among those scholars. Since their clan's Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholar was under house arrest, they would naturally spread the news as soon as possible.

The news spread almost as soon as the internal conflict broke out.

The Demon Flower Clan and the Yaocao Clan were naturally furious, and they immediately went to the Treasure Tree Clan to ask for an explanation, and even quickly conveyed their attitude to the Grand Secretary Jiuxiu.

No matter what his reasons are, the two grand secretaries must be immediately and unconditionally freed and their safety guaranteed, otherwise don't blame the two major ethnic groups for being rude.

Grand Secretary Jiuxiu also took a tough stance, saying that all his proposals were for the benefit of Taiyi Academy and the Earth Core Clan.

These two people made unfavorable remarks, undermined morale and disturbed the military spirit. They can only be released if they publicly apologize and resign from their posts.

Of course, these two places will still be reserved for the Demon Flower Clan and the Yao Grass Clan.

However, Jiuxiu Grand Secretary's statement was so strong that it deeply angered the two major ethnic groups.

There were actually some cracks between the three golden tribes. The strong statement made by the Grand Scholar Jiuxiu made it seem as if the Treasure Tree Tribe had already defeated the Yaocao Tribe and the Demon Flower Tribe.

Especially in the last incident with Grand Elder Yin Qiao, the two major golden tribes already felt that there was something wrong with the Baoshu tribe, and they had already had some unpleasantness with each other.

And this time, the cracks were undoubtedly magnified all of a sudden.

After repeated negotiations between the two major tribes, Jiuxiu Grand Secretary still refused to compromise and declared that he represented not the Baoshu tribe but the Taiyi Academy.

The authority of Taiyi Academy must not be shaken, not to mention that Linghua and Biyao were clearly wrong. As the chief academician, he would never compromise.

Once conflicts arise, the overall situation can easily be forgotten.

The two tribes issued an ultimatum, but still failed to get the compromise of the Jiuxiu Grand Secretary. In anger, the Yaohua tribe and the Yaocao tribe ordered the frontline teams to retreat and return to the center of the earth for repairs.

In other words, except for the direct troops of Taiyi Academy, all the teams and personnel related to the Demon Flower Clan and the Yaocao Clan directly evacuated the battlefield.

This matter became a big deal in an instant.

At first I thought it was just a threat, but I didn't expect them to actually do it. Not only that, the Demon Flower Clan and the Yao Grass Clan not only evacuated their personnel, but also began to restrict the transportation of spiritual medicine resources.

The entire inner world was in an uproar. No one could have imagined that such a serious internal conflict would break out within the Taiyi Academy.

Originally, the Five Elements Academy and the Taiyi Academy had a pretty good relationship, and could even be considered allies.

But ever since the Taiyi Academy forcibly demanded the Bachelor of Hydraulic Engineering last time, the Five Elements Academy felt humiliated and felt that the Taiyi Academy was too overbearing, so this time they did not even come to mediate, but instead watched the joke silently behind their backs.

Let’s make a fuss. It would be best if the internal strife in Taiyi Academy becomes more severe, and it would be best if the three major ethnic groups fight each other.

Once the situation gets out of control, the Titan Academy has already been weakened, and the Taiyi Academy has been further weakened by internal strife. It will be difficult for the Five Elements Academy not to be the boss.

The Five Elements Academy has always had the ambition of the Five Elements Academy. They have been planning step by step, and in fact, they have always wanted to touch the position of the boss of the inner earth world.

Undoubtedly, this opportunity has come now.

Sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight is undoubtedly the best choice.

As for the surface war?

So what? The surface war is still going on. Even if we can't win for the time being, can we continue to be in a stalemate?
The worst outcome would be to close the door and, as in the past, the surface world live their lives and the inner world live its own life, with both sides living in peace.

As for genetic assimilation, why should we be afraid of it? Can humans on the surface of the earth really break into the inner world?