Commanding the Enforcement Team, the First Mission: Rescuing Ruo Lin and the Trapped New Students (3.5k)

The Inner Academy.

On a flat stretch of open ground.

Dozens of young disciples in fitted combat attire stood silently at attention, their faces solemn. Each wore a scabbard at their waist, a hand resting seemingly casually on the hilt. Their movements were perfectly synchronized. Even a Dou Wang expert facing these disciples would have felt their sharp, murderous aura.

And avoided their edge for the moment.

These were the current members of the Inner Academy Enforcement Team.

There were seventy-four in total. Even the weakest was above the Da Dou Shi level, and there were quite a few Dou Lings among them. They were on an entirely different level from the Outer Academy Enforcement Team, and every elder who led them had a cultivation of at least Dou Wang.

They could be called Jia Nan Academy's sharpest blade, used to handle most of the Black-Corner Region's darker affairs.

"All the disciples are here. Please inspect them, Elder Xiao..."

Several figures approached from beneath the shade of a tree nearby.

At the front was a powerfully built middle-aged man whose jet-black combat attire bulged around his frame. The calluses on his hands, revealed inadvertently as he walked, clearly came from years of gripping a saber. He strode like a dragon and paced like a tiger, brimming with strength...

He was the commander of these enforcement members, an expert at the peak of Nine-Star Dou Ling. As for the team's elders, they generally remained in seclusion unless a particularly dangerous operation arose, leaving him to manage the team.

Among the ranks, Wu Hao, one of the newcomers standing toward the rear, had his eyes lightly closed as he rested. One hand lay casually on his saber's hilt. He looked relaxed, yet radiated a sharp aura. If anyone launched a surprise attack,