Who wants to become a god? Aren't you all forcing me?

#435 - Chapter 434 I feel something is wrong

"Other possibilities?" Zhou Mo raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "What other possibilities?"

Li Bai didn't speak, but turned his head to look out the window, a flash of clarity in his cloudy eyes.

If the Ying family didn't have a Fourteenth Forbidden expert, they could actually use the Underworld as a backer, as long as they hid it well enough.

Then, without anyone knowing, they could cultivate their own Fourteenth Forbidden expert, unique to the Ying family, and then completely cut ties with the Underworld. That way, there would be no further doubts about the matter.

Thinking of this, the clarity in Li Bai's eyes gradually dissipated, and a greater doubt surged in his eyes.

If the Ying family really did what he thought they would, then the problem would be even bigger. What made them so sure that they could cultivate a Fourteenth Forbidden expert?

Could it be that cultivation could ignore the mental barrier of a Resurgent?

The further you go in the Forbidden ranks, the harder it is to achieve a mental breakthrough. On the one hand, the threshold of psychological endurance has reached a very high level after more than a dozen impacts. Furthermore, there are too few crises that can threaten a Thirteenth Forbidden expert, and they are too dangerous!

The higher someone's position, the more they cherish their lives, because they already possess almost everything. No one wants to be crushed in the wheels of history because of a single breakthrough.

Thinking of this, Li Bai nodded secretly, the doubt in his eyes gradually dissipating, but his active mind couldn't help but think further.

"Assuming the Ying family is really confident that they can cultivate a Fourteenth Forbidden expert, then why eliminate Ye Longshan and cooperate with the Underworld?"

Li Bai stroked his chin, his eyes slightly narrowed.

Obeying Ye Longshan and living a life of lingering on, and then allowing the Ying family to climb back to the top of the pyramid after cultivating their own Fourteenth Forbidden expert, the risk of doing so would definitely be much smaller than relying on the Underworld as a backer.

But why did the Ying family choose the latter?

"Could it be that cultivating this Fourteenth Forbidden expert requires the power of the Underworld?" Li Bai raised a single eyebrow and said to himself.

"Lao Bai, I'm asking you a question. What are you daydreaming about?"

Zhou Mo reached out and pushed Li Bai, pulling his wandering consciousness back into his body.

Li Bai turned his gaze back and smiled awkwardly: "I was thinking about things so deeply that I got lost in thought."

"Hey, what was that other possibility you mentioned earlier?" Zhou Mo blinked his big, inquisitive eyes.

Li Bai waved his hand: "It's just wild thoughts, nothing worth mentioning."

Zhou Mo put his hand on the table and leaned forward aggressively: "Let me hear your wild thoug…"

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Just then, the door of the council room was pushed open again, directly interrupting Zhou Mo's words.

"I'm a little late."

An old man with a slightly hunched back and high cheekbones walked into the council room and slowly came to his seat and sat down.

This person was named Ying Yi, the department head of the Special Abilities Department, and also a direct descendant of the Ying family consortium.

Li Bai smiled and replied, "We haven't been here long either."

Zhou Mo retracted his arm and straightened his body: "Now that everyone is here, let's discuss the disaster caused by Li Chenqiu and come up with a countermeasure."

Li Bai put away his bun, glanced at Ying Yi, and seeing that he had no intention of speaking, turned to Zhou Mo and said, "Lao Mo, what do you think should be done about this matter?"

Zhou Mo leaned back slightly and crossed his arms: "What else can we do? Let Li Chenqiu return the star points to the students, revoke his position, and give him a demerit. That's it. What do you think?"

"This…"

Li Bai frowned slightly and was about to intercede for Li Chenqiu when Ying Yi, who had been silent, spoke.

"I don't think that's appropriate."

Zhou Mo looked puzzled: "Not appropriate? What's not appropriate?"

Ying Yi's eyes were calm, and he said unhurriedly:

"Nothing is appropriate. You were wrong from the beginning. What do you mean by the disaster caused by Li Chenqiu? This is clearly a disaster caused by the students. If they didn't make trouble, would we be here having this meeting?"

Zhou Mo's face showed a dazed expression, and he said in disbelief, "You… are you serious?"

"I don't joke usually, and I think you know that very well. This kind of thing, snatching other people's student cards, is very common in Star Plucking. More than half of the students have directly or indirectly participated in this kind of thing.

If we now want to hold Li Chenqiu accountable because of public opinion and stand up for these students, then what do the three of us become? What does the Star Plucking Academy's academic affairs system become? Puppets who obey public opinion?"

Ying Yi spread his hands and looked at the two of them in confusion.

Zhou Mo narrowed his eyes and asked, "Yi, Old Devil, tell me the truth, what is your relationship with this Li Chenqiu?"

"I have no relationship with him. I'm just expressing my opinion." Ying Yi's face didn't show any emotional change.

"Then, I'll express my opinion on your opinion. Snatching student cards between ordinary students is just a small matter. What's there to manage?

But this matter of Li Chenqiu's is not a small matter. He alone snatched the student cards of thousands of students. You must have seen the impact. Is it appropriate for us to sit idly by?"

Ying Yi asked in return, "I'd like to ask, what grounds are you going to use to manage it?"

Zhou Mo was slightly stunned and replied subconsciously, "Just manage it directly!"

Ying Yi smiled helplessly: "Lao Mo, can you think before you speak? How can you manage it directly? Li Chenqiu's behavior seems like snatching at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, is it snatching?"

"Why isn't it snatching?"

"When you snatch other people's student cards, do you inform them a week in advance? Do you take different amounts of star points based on their behavior? Is there a formal approval from the Department of Discipline and Law?"

Ying Yi asked three questions in a row, leaving Zhou Mo speechless and Li Bai dumbfounded.

Seeing that no one was speaking, Ying Yi continued: "In my opinion, this is just an upheaval caused by reform. Star Plucking Academy has been chaotic for too long. More rules might not be a bad thing.

As department heads, what we have to do is wait and see. If this reform doesn't make Star Plucking Academy better, then we can intervene directly. There's nothing to say about that."

Zhou Mo's Adam's apple rolled slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "That's absurd. Do you know what you're saying?"

"I know very well what I'm saying, and I also know very well what you're doing. If this reform will make Star Plucking Academy better, but it can't proceed because of your stubbornness, it's only right for me to say that you are a sinner of Star Plucking."

"I… Yi, Old Devil, you're really good at arguing. You can forcibly turn black into white and white into black. I was almost led astray by you!"

"I think my opinion is correct. It's your business if you don't agree with it."

"Correct? Snatching thousands of student cards and monopolizing tens of millions of star points. Anyone with eyes can see who's right and who's wrong in this matter!"