Then someone said, "Lord Leng has a point."
"Without sufficient practical cultivation, he cannot fulfill the role."
Several officials voiced their support for Leng Can.
Some had originally supported Li Qingxian, but seeing others object, they began to hesitate.
Practical cultivation was indeed the Night Guard's bottom line.
Over the years, many people had tried to join the Night Guard merely to pad their credentials, but the practical cultivation requirement had stopped them, forcing them to leave.
Song Yanxue was about to speak again when the Coward King sighed. "Qingxian's cultivation is indeed just a little lacking, but I don't think that is the key issue. Still, since some of our colleagues object, we shall shelve the question of who will head the Patrol Bureau and discuss it later. We cannot replace Director Song the moment he leaves. We must not chill the hearts of the soldiers going to the front."
"The Lord Commander is right," Leng Can said.
Everyone looked toward Li Qingxian, who remained utterly motionless.
The Coward King surveyed the Directors' Hall. "Has anyone learned the cause of the conflict between the Southern Star Sect and the Mountain Fate Sect?"
Song Yanxue said, "The Patrol Bureau has uncovered the cause."
"Speak."
Song Yanxue said, "Crouching Ox Mountain was originally unowned land, under the joint jurisdiction of the Divine Capital and Yan Prefecture. A few days ago, a party of cultivators passed through Crouching Ox Mountain. One of them, a middle-rank Fate Arts Master from the Mountain Fate Sect, vaguely sensed that the mountain was extraordinary. He went in to investigate and discovered that it was an exceptional feng shui site. He also said it was the legendary 'Three-Extreme Land': extreme nobility, extreme prosperity, and extreme auspiciousness, just one step short of a Four-Extreme Land. As you all