All the teachers were surprised by the sudden outburst of the headmaster. Usually, Bai Han always had a calm and ethereal temperament to him; he always remained calm in every situation. So why was he acting in such a way?

"Headmaster, what's wrong? Did something happen?" asked one of the teachers.

Bai Hai then took a deep breath to calm himself down before explaining: "I just calculated the secrets of Heaven and discovered that the Qi Luck of our entire Academy has been reduced by 5%!"

All the teachers gasped out loud after hearing this. With how powerful the Qi Luck of the Emperor Enlightening Academy is, even if 0.1% is lost, it is a sign for concern. A 1% lost would make the Academy on the highest alert.

But now, 5% is gone and no one even noticed it happening.

After thinking about this, all the teachers had an ugly looked on their faces as they also began to calculate the Qi Luck of the Academy; and they all came to the same conclusion as BaI Han,

Now, they started wondering what was going on.

Bai Han then started to mobilize the Wisdom Eye, which is the intelligence agency of the Academy--similar to the Dao Opening Sect's Shadow.

A few days later. In a secret room, Bai Han and all the upper echelons of the Academy were reading a report of the current situation of the world; it was then that they learned that rumors of them despising Professionals have been spread throughout all over the Myriad Emperor World.

By now, the majority of Alchemist, Talisman Maker, Array Master and Refiners in the entire world have heard about these rumors. Then, they all developed a negative view of the Emperor Enlightening Academy, hence the result of the dramatic decrease in the sect's Qi Luck.

"What do we do now?" asked one teacher with a look of worry in his face.

He knew well how much power and influence these Professionals have in this world. There is a reason they are considered very noble and have high status in this world--especially Alchemists.

There are no cultivators that will not need the help of pills in his life. Whether it is breakthrough cultivation realm, increase strength or talent, or even save their life: all cultivators will need the help of an Alchemist at one point or another.

"Maybe things are not as bad as we imagine," replied one female teacher. "Our Academy's reputation has been positive for countless years. As long as we announce our stand on the matter, things should go back to normal--or at least, not further escalate."

Many teachers calmed down and nodded in agreement with us. However, some of the more cunning ones knew that things were not so simple.

"Your words may have been right if this was actually an accident, however, given how fast this news traveled around the world, do you think that this was a coincidence?"

"You mean someone is purposely attacking us? But who dares go against our Academy?"

"Isn't it obvious?" suddenly said headmaster Bai Han. "Who did we have any conflict with in the last few years?"

"Headmaster, you mean, Sacred Son Wang Wei?" asked one teacher with an incredible look on his face. Then, he suddenly thought of Yan Liling' strange behavior during the opening ceremony.

"Are you saying that he planned the whole thing more than ten years ago?"

Bai Han just nodded calmly, however his clenched hands inside his robe betrayed his actual mood.

"So what do we do now?" asked one teacher.

"All we can do now is to announce to the world our stand on the matter, then try to prevent any further rumor from spreading. Luckily for us, many of the world's cultivators are currently watching the [Heaven Chosen Selection Trial], we can talk to them directly."

All the teachers nodded, then they proceeded to plan out their response.

Meanwhile, inside Yan Chen's Small World, more than 100,000 meters deep in an ocean, Wang Wei opened his eyes, then with great effort, took out a talisman from his space ring.

"Wei'er, the Academy have just noticed our actions and are preparing to deal with the situation," said Sect Master Wang Tian.

"How long has passed?" asked Wang Wei through Divine Sense.

"10 years."

"Later than expected. It seemed that mother's plan to hide the secrets of Heaven and Earth in order to prevent the Academy from noticing the change in their Qi Luck worked wonderfully," replied Wang Wei.

"After all, you did inherit your cunning nature from her."

"Then, let's proceed with the second step of the plan: continue to use public opinions to ruin their Academy's Qi Luck. However, beware father, the enemy can also use the same tactic against us."

"I know, but you do not need to worry. In the past years, we have used all the information you told us about how to use public opinion and developed counter-defense against them."

"That's good," replied Wang Wei, then he cut the communication. He looked in the direction of the Academy, sneered before closing his eyes to continue cultivating.

Although he knew that this method could only blow a small blow to the Academy, this was just the beginning of his plan.

So, under the Dao Opening Sect's order, countless agents started to spread more terrible news about the Emperor Enlightening Academy throughout the world; this time, the news was not only focused on the Professionals, but all the terrible things that the Academy has done.

Well, many of these things were in fact false, but Wang Wei did not care about such a thing. On top of that, Wang Wei also focused not just among cultivators, but als