Until dusk gradually approached.
The Governnt Office finally sent soone, and they knocked on the door of Xie Mansion.
It was led by an official wearing a green robe, with a sowhat ingratiating smile on his face. Following him were four people, whose hands supported trays containing, in order:
[’Light Crimson Robe’, ’Guardian Order’, ’City Official Seal’, ’Sword of Righteousness’.]
In chaotic tis, heavy penalties are necessary, especially in the martial world.
The Light Crimson Robe represents status. Wearing this robe, you are ranked a seventh-grade official of the Great Zhao Governnt Office!
Whatever happens behind the scenes is beyond control, but on the surface, anyone in ordinary clothes must at least show respect to this robe!
The Guardian Order allows one to mobilize a city’s troops, three hundred martial soldiers, even if you are the Director of the Eighth-Grade Military Departnt, you must comply.
The City Official Seal represents authority. Whether it’s common folks or wealthy rchants, or local powers or noble clans within or outside the city, you have the right to command them, and defiance ans rebellion.
And rebellion leads to the next procedure, which is the Sword of Righteousness!
As a seventh-grade chief guardian, wielding this sword, anyone within the governnt system who betrays, offends superiors, or violates the laws of Great Zhao...
You have the authority to decapitate them and subsequently award official ranks!
Why did Xie Qiaoxuan previously run around and even seemingly send gifts to forr Prefecture Venerable Bai Qiuyi, just to secure this ’Seventh-Grade Guardian’ position for Song Chai Xin?
Because holding a position in the mansion is nowhere as prestigious as guarding a region; the resu gained is far more impressive!
Especially for a martial artist, being able to govern a place without chaos in the Great Zhao, marks one as an outstanding official, unparalleled in future prospects and resource support, beyond imagination compared to other positions.
Amid the folks of Xie Mansion, alongside the enviable gaze of the thirty-sothing eighth-grade mansion official in a green robe...
Song Chai Xin donned the Light Crimson Robe, paired it with the Sword of Righteousness, stored the City Official Seal in his sleeve, and wore the Guardian Order at his waist.
Seventeen-year-old youth, his sleeves billowing, stood against the wind.
With graceful brows, bright eyes, radiating sharpness.
"Sir, may I know the city I am to be assigned?"
With a large hand securing the sword at his waist, Song Chai Xin couldn’t help but feel spirited.
The mansion official laughed in response:
"Let Song Guardian know,"
"Within Wutong Prefecture, there are seven cities under its jurisdiction."
"To the far northwest from here, there’s a city nad ’Black Mountain’, near the wilderness. Mountains abound, and within, mystical creatures and beasts as well as precious herbs and materials are likely abundant."
"From today onward, your term is four years."
"In Black Mountain City, you’ll be the unchallenged..."
"Black Mountain Guardian!!"
...
On the other side.
In the Demon Hunting Departnt, Xiang Zhulu and Sword Observation Elder stood together, solemnly looking at the girl in demon hunting attire before them:
"Have you decided?"
Ruan Xiuxiu nodded:
"As the Black Mountain Demon Hunting Chief, though I am eighth-grade and my cultivation isn’t sufficient, yet..."
"I truly wish to go, Master."
"Junior Brother Song can’t do it alone."
"I’ve tead up with him to hunt demons for half a year; I’m no longer just a blank sheet."
"If the treatnt from Yunluan Mountain was harsh to him, what if he harbors a grudge against Yunluan Mountain in the future?"
"I’m going to beco the Demon Hunting Chief in Black Mountain City also to forge better relations with fellow disciples."
The girl’s eyes sparkled.
Seeing this, Sword Observation Elder was speechless.
Are you worried he’d be disappointed in Yunluan Mountain?
You’re driven by your own desires!
Old man likes to speak the truth.
Moreover, with Song Brahman Mirror in Yunluan Mountain, there’s no need for you to fret.
Yet he did not refuse.
This world is tough, far beyond what’s observable in a corner on Yunluan Mountain.
Stepping out more often never hurts.
Yunluan Mountain is known for ’demon slaying’, often interacting with the Demon Hunting Departnt, Sword Observation Elder intended to lead Ruan Xiuxiu onto this path.
Even with silent complaints in heart, he handed over three Sword Jade Talismans to the girl, nodding slightly at Xiang Zhulu beside him.
The latter understood, handing her a set of chief’s uniform and a command to mobilize a city’s patrol and auxiliary demon hunters, the Demon Hunting Order.
All entrusted to this youthful maiden not yet twenty.
Xiang Zhulu softly spoke:
"Once you enter the Demon Hunting Departnt, apart from death, you can’t escape."
"Previously just a patrol, obeying orders."
"But if you beco a chief official of a city..."
"You must think clearly."
"Acting emotionally is not necessarily desirable."
Switching her outerwear to the Director’s Robe, the girl swiftly tied her ponytail with one hand, her brows exuding heroic spirit, her eyes focused:
"Once you enter the Demon Hunting Departnt, apart from death, you can’t escape."
"I’ve considered it, Demon Hunter Master."
This phrase from the Great Demon Hunter Master is often recited by superiors to Demon Hunting Departnt mbers upon appointnt or promotion.
Whether they can embrace the determination and resolve once held by ancestors...
Is only truly known by the individual involved.
As for Ruan Xiuxiu,
If heading to Black Mountain is seventy percent for Song Chai Xin,
Then the other thirty percent is for herself as well.
After all,
Without enduring hardships,
How can one beco steel?
Seventeen-year-old seventh-grade guardian.
Twenty-year-old Demon Hunting Chief.
Holding office in one region.
Such examples, outside Baoping State, are unknown.
But in the vast Baoping State...since the founding of Great Zhao, have never existed.
Indeed,
Like the rising sun.
Boundless prospects!
(ps: These four Chapters totaled nineteen thousand words. I’m short a bit, so I’ll write until dawn to supplent four to five thousand more. Tomorrow, I’ll update three Chapters, aiming over ten thousand words, exceeding the task.)
(Subscriptions are unsatisfactory, many authors feel their ’Dao Heart’ crumbling, but I’m different.)
(I’ll strive harder to keep everyone, this is my burning spirit!!)
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