A Rejected Political Marriage

"Commander Xiao Yan! We want to become stronger!"

The next day, just as Xiao Yan stepped into the Training Ground, Ling Quan led the Third Unit to stand before him, their expressions resolute as they made this request. Xiao Yan was briefly stunned. He swept his gaze over those behind Ling Quan before finally fixing his eyes on Ling Quan's face. Staring at him for a long while, he slowly asked,

"What do you intend to do once you become stronger?"

"Nothing." Ling Quan answered without hesitation. "I only hope that when I need to use force in the future, I won't be as powerless as I was yesterday!"

Seeing no malice whatsoever in Ling Quan's eyes, Xiao Yan's lips curved faintly upward.

When it was necessary to use force, huh?

"Sure." Before Ling Quan could reveal any joy, Xiao Yan continued with a smile, "But if that's the case, your previous training was far from enough. Are you sure?"

Xiao Yan spoke with a smile, yet the sight of that smile made everyone's hearts tighten.

The previous training... was still far from enough?

Even Ling Quan could not help swallowing as he cautiously asked,

"Um... Commander Xiao Yan, could I ask what kind of training it would be?"

"Hmm—" Xiao Yan pondered for a moment, then raised one finger. "Let's put it this way. First, recall the training you underwent before."

Hearing Xiao Yan's words, everyone began recalling their earlier training: carrying loads more than five times their body weight and running five hundred thousand kilometers without stopping within a set time limit, carrying loads more than ten times their body weight while doing fifty thousand uninterrupted push-ups... and so on. Honestly, if Xiao Yan had not allowed them to use Dou Qi and prepared enough medicinal pills to