Chapter 588: Secrets

Inside the academy, in Vice Dean Suxin's office.

Li Luo stood obediently upright. Vice Dean Suxin looked at his honest appearance and said with a half-smile, "There's no need to act so harmless here with me. After what Mentor Shen Shen Jinxiao said earlier, you've probably already borne a grudge in your heart, haven't you?"

Upon hearing this, Li Luo hurriedly shook his head and said, "Vice Dean, you mustn't wrong me. Who in the academy doesn't know that I, Li Luo, respect my teachers and honor the Dao? Although Mentor Shen Shen Jinxiao lacks a bit of magnanimity, I still respect him greatly."

Vice Dean Suxin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She pointed to a chair nearby, indicating he didn't need to stand so stiffly.

"The Sacred Tree Spirit Crystal is indeed an extremely high-grade cultivation resource within the academy. Even Mentor Zihui couldn't stop thinking about it, so it's only natural that Mentor Shen Shen Jinxiao raised some objections." she said.

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Li Luo obediently sat down, then without any concealment, directly said, "I feel that based on our merits, we are worthy of this reward."

His words did not conceal his covetousness and longing for that "Sacred Tree Spirit Crystal."

Vice Dean Suxin also elegantly sat down on the side, while taking a teapot and pouring a cup of hot tea for Li Luo, smiling, "You little rascal, you really are straightforward."

Li Luo accepted it as if flattered, grinned and said, "Because I trust you, Vice Dean Suxin. In the hearts of our academy's students, you are even more trustworthy than Dean Pang. Everyone says your greatest trait is being fair in reward and punishment!"

Vice Dean Suxin helplessly shook her head, "Li Luo, with that mouth of yours, paired with that face of yours, I truly worry for the young ladies in our academy."

Li Luo laughed dryly, "Vice Dean, I'm a man with a fiancée. Please don't make me sound so casual."

"Your fiancée... Jiang Qing spoils you too much, I'm afraid she simply can't keep you in line."

However, Vice Dean Suxin didn't dwell on this topic. Instead, she took a small sip of hot tea and said, "Don't worry. You've Li Xia Da Gong for the academy, I won't be so stingy as to begrudge three Sacred Tree Spirit Crystals. If you truly want them, I'll have someone send them to you later."

Li Luo was overjoyed, "Thank you very much, Vice Dean!"

"This Mixed-Grade Tournament was far more dangerous than previous ones. You paid such a great price to win honor for the academy, we absolutely cannot treat you poorly." Vice Dean Suxin sighed.

Speaking of Red Sand Prefecture, Li Luo couldn't help but ask, "Vice Dean, that 'Catastrophe' of the Black Wind Empire should be man-made, right? That Crimson Armor General clearly belonged to some mysterious faction."

Vice Dean Suxin's gaze grew much more Mian Se Chen Zhong. She didn't hide anything and said softly, "Your Mixed-Grade Tournament was being watched closely by the higher-ups of all the major academies. The appearance of that Crimson Armor General also caught the attention of Elder Elder Ling Yu, especially that person's fusion with an Other at the end..."

"At the time, Elder Elder Ling Yu's expression even changed, and he blurted out three words."

She glanced at Li Luo and slowly said, "Guiyi Hui."

"Guiyi Hui?!"

Li Luo's heart jolted, and he said, "Is this a faction?"

Vice Dean Suxin nodded and said, "It is an extremely terrifying and enormous faction. Its strength and the reach of its tentacles are beyond your imagination. However, this 'Guiyi Hui' generally stirs up trouble over in the Inner Shenzhou. I didn't expect it to appear this time on a remote continent like our Eastern Region's Outer Shenzhou. It seems their tentacles are beginning to extend again."

"Guiyi Hui and the Academy Alliance are great enemies. No, to be precise, its ideology is incompatible with the vast majority of human factions."

"What ideology?" Li Luo asked in surprise.

Vice Dean Suxin slowly said, "The countless factions of the human race all believe that Others must be eliminated as soon as possible to prevent them from running rampant and spreading. After all, you should now understand the harm Others cause very clearly."

Li Luo nodded with a heavy expression. In Zhenjiang City of Red Sand Prefecture, he had personally witnessed Others use countless humans as food in an extremely cruel manner. That scene, no matter how iron-willed a person was, upon seeing it, would likely be consumed by rage.

Others possess no benevolent emotions. They are the gathering of countless negative emotions, and the negative emotions born from human fear and desire are what they love most.

They are born to be the source of calamity.

"But this Guiyi Hui is different. Their ideology is coexistence with Others. In their eyes, Others are merely the evil of the human race. They are also a part of humanity. They separated from humanity, which led to humanity's decline. After all, countless years ago, humanity once reached an extreme brilliance."

"Therefore, to make humanity flourish again, the only way is to fuse Others back into one body. This is the so-called unification of good and evil, welcoming the true self."

"The Crimson Armor General you saw obtained a powerful and twisted power through this very method." Vice Dean Suxin said.

Li Luo said with an ugly expression, "Truly a bunch of lunatics."

"They are indeed lunatics. In order to allow more Others to appear in the world, they constantly open rifts between worlds in various ways, creating catastrophes everywhere, causing Others to run rampant, and ultimately selecting powerful Others that have some kind of compatibility with themselves to perform so-called fusion, seeking the 'true self'."

Speaking of this, killing intent also surged in Vice Dean Suxin's eyes, "As for how many people will die because of this, that is not within their consideration. In the eyes of these lunatics, for their 'true self', any number of deaths is worth it."

Li Luo frowned deeply, feeling that this group of lunatics was simply creating disasters all over the world. Moreover, countless Wang Hou powerhouses of the human race rush into those Wang Hou battlefields one after another to block the Others' advance, while these bastards hold them back from behind and deliberately let Others into the world. This is simply infuriating to both gods and men.

"Isn't there any other top faction that can wipe them out?" he asked in confusion.

"Guiyi Hui's strength far exceeds your imagination. Even if the Academy Alliance went all out, it might not be able to eradicate them. Moreover, Guiyi Hui hides extremely deeply among the human race and is extremely mysterious. It lurks within humanity, and no one knows if the upper echelons of certain factions might also be their people."

"This is a true behemoth. Its terror makes even my heart palpitate." Vice Dean Suxin sighed softly.

Li Luo's heart was filled with chill. This kind of information was indeed too shocking for him. In the eyes of the so-called 'Guiyi Hui', perhaps his House Luolan Mansion was like an ant. No, not just House Luolan Mansion, even the Great Xia Kingdom could likely be easily destroyed.

After all, the Black Wind Empire was a precedent. A prosperous nation whose strength was not inferior to the Great Xia Kingdom, once targeted by 'Guiyi Hui', meant the overthrow and destruction of the country.

This is a terrifying faction that truly stands at the pinnacle of this world.

Li Luo sighed inwardly. Forget it, this kind of problem was simply not something a small Xiangshi Stage cultivator like him could consider. Better to leave it to the Academy Alliance and those super factions in the Inner Shenzhou to worry about.

Vice Dean Suxin did not continue speaking. After all, knowing this kind of secret would only add pressure to Li Luo. After all, an existence like 'Guiyi Hui' was something even the Saint Exoteric Star Academy did not dare to provoke.

"Calling you here alone this time, perhaps you should have guessed what it's about?" she changed the subject and said with a smile to Li Luo.

Li Luo's heart stirred, but he didn't speak.

Vice Dean Suxin extended her jade-like hand, and light flickered in her palm. The next moment, a golden cup about the size of a palm, dark gold in color, appeared in her hand. The golden cup was extremely exquisite. On the cup's body, a golden dragon coiled and perched, its tail and head forming the handle of the cup. The golden dragon's eyes gleamed with Jin Guang, and an indescribable oppressive aura spread out.

The space within the room seemed to tremble inexplicably at this moment.

A faint, indistinct dragon's roar resounded, as if traversing time and space, coming from ancient times.

Li Luo stared at the golden cup that had appeared in Vice Dean Suxin's hand, his heart immediately jolting, his pupils slightly dilating.

Obviously, this golden cup was the legendary "Dragon Bone Sacred Cup"!