“Supreme Rector, you’re like an incarnation of wisdom! How did you ever come up with an idea like that?”

“Excellent plan. Fighting our way in there and saving Yang Qi in his moment of crisis will be of immense benefit to us. Once we have him, we can lock him up and extract his secrets at will.”

“Exactly.”

“Hmph! Yang Qi’s not going to escape this time.”

“That little brat killed Kingly Beheader and nailed his head to a spike outside his main gate. What an insult to us! If we don't kill him, how can we maintain our authority in the collegium? He needs to die as an example to others!”

“But if we do this, it’s crossing the river and burning the bridge. There’s going to be a lot of gossip afterward.”

“Ah, what are you scared of? If anyone dares to say the wrong thing, we can just have them killed. Once we capture Yang Qi, we can go destroy the Sage Monarch planetary system and get his mother too. What do they call her again? The Holy Mother. According to my information...