Lu Ye led Li Baxian and the others to the Recruitment Division, where they registered their names, had their past Battle Merit assessed, their Military Ranks determined, and their Guard Tokens issued. Having gone through the whole process once before, he handled it with practiced ease.
The Battle Merit they had earned previously was not much, so they all received only the Military Rank of Fruit Guard.
This was also the rank most True Lake Realm cultivators newly arriving at the Province Guard could obtain.
The level of one's Military Rank was tied to the amount of one's monthly stipend. A Fruit Guard received only ten thousand Battle Merit each month, nothing compared to Lu Ye's Captain rank.
The monthly stipend for a Captain was thirty thousand, and Lu Ye received double that amount—sixty thousand Battle Merit every month.
This had been one of the terms Qian Wudang had agreed to when he asked Lu Ye to take up the position of team captain.
Lu Ye had previously thought every captain received the same treatment. It was only when he chatted with Geng Wuwang some time ago that he learned this was not the case. Among all the captains of the Law Enforcement Hall, it seemed only he received a double monthly stipend!
Only he had his own residence in Vast Sky City as well. None of the other captain-level cultivators had a fixed place to live.
Only great cultivators of the Divine Sea Realm were qualified to own a residence in Vast Sky City.
Only then did Lu Ye understand that the terms Qian Wudang had offered him were not rules of the Law Enforcement Hall, but ones he had set himself.
His purpose had been no more than to lure Lu Ye into becoming that captain, then place