Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 244

A meeting of the upper echelons took place after news of Fan Li’s death spread out quicker than any wildfires. All the teachers had a frown on their faces, rendering the atmosphere in the room quite somber and dreary.

"How is the situation?" asked headmaster Bai Han after a while, finally breaking the silence and starting the meeting.

"As bad as one would expect," replied the teacher in charge of gathering information for the Academy. "The rumors that we killed Fan Li for his inheritance have dramatically increased. No doubt that the people of the Dao Opening Sect are using this opportunity to further ruin our reputation.

"On top of that, many factions have started to ask our Academy for an explanation, putting pressure on us."

"So, what if they ask us for an explanation?" said one teacher. "Since when has our Academy ever been afraid of anyone?"

"In many situations, this might be the case, but when all of them have the opportunity to ally to fight against us, adding the possibility that the Dao Opening Sect might join in the situation, there is really nothing we can do at this point.

"On top of that, many of our allies have started to doubt us, thinking that we are selfish for taking the inheritance for ourselves without given them any benefits--even though they supported us during our lowest point. Some of them have even threatened to stop supporting us if we do not give them a proper explanation."

After hearing this explanation, a collective sigh could be heard inside the meeting room. This sigh symbolized all the grievances that these teachers have suffered in the past few decades; they wanted to lash out, but could not find a person or thing to lash out to--especially the person truly responsible for all their pain and suffering.

After a few seconds of silence, headmaster Bai Han asked: "Is there any good news at all?"

"Well the only good news is the fact that no sect or faction has brought the possibility of an Emperor Dao War so far; despite the rising tension, everything seemed to be under certain control. To be honest, headmaster, I find this fact very disturbing; it was as if everybody was waiting for something, but I do not know what exactly."

All the teachers had a serious look on their faces after hearing this. They did not doubt this teacher’s words as he was in charge of not just gathering information for the Academy, but analyzing them as well. And until the recent events, he had been excellent at his job.

He had been with the headmaster since they were young. And in many of his confrontations with the Shadow of the Dao Opening Sect, his information has granted Bai Han many advantages over Wang Tian.

As for Bai Han, he too believed in his agent’s words, but since they could not discover any concrete evidence, nor was there any speculation of what truly was going on, he had to move on.

"Keep a lookout for any sudden change in the situation. Now, what about how the person who killed Fan Li? Do we have any clues whatsoever--especially how that person managed to disarm all the formations?"

The Information Gathering Teacher looked in a certain direction for a brief moment before answering the question. There lied a group of teachers that had strongly disagreed with Bai Han’s decision to rig the competition. Ever since that event, there has been a little rift among the upper echelons of the Emperor Enlightening Academy.

"One of our teachers opened the formation for someone else. After an investigation, we discovered that the teacher had committed suicide while leaving a note claiming that the people of the Dao Opening Sect forced him.

"However, after betraying the Academy, he felt ashamed of his actions, so he killed himself to atone for his sins."

"Was that person controlled? And how reliable is this suicide note?" asked Bai Han with a heavy tone.

"After our investigation, we could not determine whether he was under any spell or origin artifacts as his soul was annihilated. As for the note, there was no sign of tampering, meaning that the note was indeed written by the teacher., however..."

"This note means nothing," replied Bai Han. "Even if we were to announce it to the public, they will just think that we were trying to frame the Dao Opening Sect to get out of this sticky situation.

"Not to mention the fact that whoever did this is trying to further increase our conflict with the Dao Opening Sect."

"So. our Academy lost a Saint Realm powerhouse, our reputation was further tarnished, and the whole world appeared to be our enemy. Yet, we cannot do anything about it?" asked one teacher.

The room was once again covered by a depressing silence. The fact that what that person said was true and the fact that he stated such a fact as plainly and straightforward as possible made the entire situation even worse.

"What about divination? Could we divine the perpetrator? Or ask the Heaven Mystery Pavilion to do it for us?" said one person with hope and yearning.

"Divination did not have any result. As for the Heaven Mystery Pavilion, they said that they did not want to have anything to do with this situation."