On the training grounds.
In the direction where the Martial Academy students stood.
Seeing Jiang Ning standing atop the arena, Lin Jia'er suddenly felt a trace of regret in her heart.
With strength like Jiang Ning's, he would certainly seize the squad leader position.
A squad leader of the Inspection Office was a Principal Ninth Rank official of Great Xia.
Though the difference between that and an Inspection Guard was merely one of principal versus subordinate rank.
The gulf between them was as vast as the heavens.
Subordinate Ninth Rank, an Inspection Guard.
They were merely low-level workers within the Inspection Office, a power-granting institution, tasked with dirty and exhausting work.
A Principal Ninth Rank squad leader, however, held the authority to command nine Ninth Rank Martial Dao Inspection Guards.
That was a Ninth Rank military official who truly wielded real power.
In other words, from this day onward, Jiang Ning was no longer an ordinary commoner, but a Principal Ninth Rank military official with real authority in his hands.
The status brought by such tangible power could rival that of most Subordinate Eighth Rank officials.
One had to know that even in the commandery city of Dongling Commandery, an Eighth Rank official could be considered a person of some standing.
After all, even the commandery governor was only a Fifth Rank official.
The more Lin Jia'er thought about it, the more regret she felt.
Such a young martial artist, capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with Eighth Rank officials—his future was bright beyond measure.
He was undoubtedly an ideal match in her heart, an ideal match brimming with potential.
But she also knew that it was already impossible between them!
Once she had pushed him away that day, it had become impossible!!
Elsewhere.
He Jinyun, his face sallow and