Great Zhou had an extremely stringent system for calculating Military Merit, with written provisions to cover every possible circumstance.
For Wing Bone Demons like those burned to ashes today, Great Zhou had several methods of verifying merit.
For instance, one could collect the Wing Bone Demons' ashes and submit them to the Ministry of War Military Merit Office, where specialists would inspect and verify them before the Military Merit could be recognized.
As for the seal verification mentioned by Eastern Patrol Commander Jing Zhan, that was a privilege unique to the Heavenly Patrol Division. Only they could invite Kings, Dukes, Marquises, Viscounts, and other nobles of sufficient standing who had witnessed the event to verify Military Merit with their seals.
No one else had such qualifications.
However, the Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters under the Wind Patrol Envoys' command were extremely seasoned. They collected Devil Race remains scattered throughout the earth—ashes, slime, hair, and the like.
With such evidence, the Military Merit Office would confirm the Military Merit much more quickly.
Very soon, in just the span of a quarter-hour, the Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters under Eastern Patrol Commander Jing Zhan had finished tallying the Military Merit.
The Military Merit belonging to the Heavenly Patrol Division naturally required no inquiry from outsiders. The only matter needing explanation was the more than one hundred Wing Bone Demons slain by Ye Zhen, as well as the strange creatures formed from the tens of thousands of Insect Demons that had fallen from the Corpse Spirit Devil Lord's body.
"The Wing Bone Demons slain by Captain Ye total ninety-seven. According to the Great Zhou Military Code, killing one ordinary Wing Bone Demon earns one hundred marks of Military Merit. For every additional level of cultivation a Wing Bone Demon possesses, an additional ten marks of