Chapter 1546 -s 1494–1495 The Wind Rises at the Taoist Academy
"Why not help the other party?" Pei Xuanjing rebutted, "Do you think the Jade Emperor was naturally meant to sit in that position as a puppet without the qualifications to change the situation?"
Pang Hong’s expression faltered, looking at his own disciple’s astonished face. Pei Xuanjing continued, "Nothing is immutable, nor is anyone fated to do something. If the other party has the strength and qualifications, why can’t they be entitled to rise even higher, and why shouldn’t I support them?"
"If everything were immutable, and the powerful couldn’t obtain a status that matched their abilities, then for us, I should still be the Taoist from that small town in the Border County, and you, in Tiandu City, facing uncertainty daily. How could we then stand here!"
"Disciple is wrong!" Pang Hong hurriedly apologized to Pei Xuanjing.
Pei Xuanjing didn’t dwell on the matter and simply told him to go find the Jade Emperor and make this situation clear.
After Pang Hong and Yu Zhenzi left, they first circulated the matter within the Shenxiao Sect and then began to send out their disciples and personally visited several immortal sects, while also spreading the news through the Taoist Academy.
Taoist Academy!
This institution, established by the Longevity Taoist Monarch, was initially scoffed at by all. But as time passed and the Academy grew in strength and size, it became unstoppable, and no one could suppress it nor wished to offend the Longevity Taoist Monarch for it.
After tens of thousands of years, the Taoist Academy had grown to an unimaginable extent, not inferior to any immortal sects and even surpassing some.
Apart from the protection and care offered by the Longevity Taoist Monarch, this was also because the Academy operated under a much looser framework than many sects.
The original purpose of founding the Academy was to offer all beings a chance at Cultivation, and for many Cultivators, an opportunity to seek answers to their questions and advance further.
Apart from providing certain subsidies to novice Cultivators, anything else the Cultivators wished to acquire within the Academy had to be exchanged for with Contribution Points, a very fair transactional relationship with no need to bind with sentiments or constraints.