Lu Zhou's question stumped President Zhou. His research after the dawn of the Lotus-severing era had always been classified. The academy's core disciples and the Imperial family were the only ones privy to this matter. It had never been revealed to outsiders.
As Zhou Youcai hemmed and hawed, Lu Zhou said with a sigh, "I remember there was a time where the Big Dipper Academy was righteous and magnanimous. What a glorious period that was. Back then, the scholars under the heavens longed to join the Big Dipper Academy. A few centuries have passed since then… and this is what the academy has become. It's now isolated, egoistic, unconventional, overly subjective, and disregards the world… It's no wonder the academy has been reduced to this."
Zhou Youcai was ashamed when he heard these words.