Before nightfall, Li Kuangdao deployed the entire group.
He organized all the rogue cultivators into three smaller squads, with his three trusted aides serving as captains.
Thanks to his Golden Dan Realm cultivation, Jiang Yan snagged the position of deputy captain. His main task was conducting night patrols and safeguarding the entire group.
What Jiang Yan found rather coincidental was that Zhou Yunsong and Chai Sanniang had also been assigned to the patrol squad, placing them temporarily under his command.
Although everything was makeshift, Jiang Yan did not attach much importance to the authority of his temporary position as deputy captain. Still, out of respect for Li Kuangdao, he divided the patrolling martial artists into two teams, responsible for the first and second halves of the night.
"Liu Xinyi, Cao Xiuyun, Zhang Hu, Zhou Yunsong... You'll patrol the first half of the night."
"Li Shanchang, Xu Zhenyuan, Chang Ping'an, Chai Sanniang... You'll patrol the second half of the night."
"If anything happens, send a signal immediately!"
Holding the roster, he assigned them based on the apparent strength of the various rogue cultivators.
However, there was one thing he had done deliberately: he had separated Zhou Yunsong and Chai Sanniang.
There was something ambiguous between the two young people. If he assigned them to the same group and their romantic entanglement caused a lapse in the security line, the loss would outweigh the gain.
However, Zhou Yunsong was somewhat dissatisfied with Jiang Yan's decision.
He stepped forward and said respectfully on the surface, "Senior Jiang, could you let me take part in the latter half of the night patrol?"
As he spoke, he gazed at Chai Sanniang with deep affection, maintaining his persona as an infatuated lover.
He had been pursuing Chai Sanniang intensely lately, so naturally he was unwilling to