"Bad news, Qianyuan. The situation seems to have changed."
Several days later, Fang Qianyuan, who had been spending his idle days at home, was summoned by Yu Shixian once again.
This time, Yu Shixian did not offer earnest instruction on the lessons of governing a region, nor did he introduce the sect's personnel or explain the tangled relationships among their various allies. Instead, the moment they met, he delivered unwelcome news with a grave expression.
"Changed? In what respect?" Fang Qianyuan asked.
"Your appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Warrior Administration, of course!" Yu Shixian seemed to be suppressing his anger as he said heavily, "I was careless, too. I never imagined those people still had another move up their sleeves, that they could collude with people inside the administration and stir up trouble!"
"Collude with people inside? Has the Black Wolf King joined forces with the top experts who hold prestige and authority among the Warriors?" Fang Qianyuan reacted quickly, immediately thinking of this possibility.
"Exactly. Did I tell you before that, after the Warrior rebellion, many Warriors were killed, wounded, or split into different factions? The stubbornly defiant were all purged by our sect with iron and blood, while the remaining experts were assigned to either the Main Hall or the New Administration, each with a place to go?"
"Those people were all investigated and cleared of any intent to betray the sect. They aren't as radical or extreme as Wu Lianyi, either. But they could still become obstacles to the restructuring..."
Even in a private conversation with Fang Qianyuan, Yu Shixian remained cautious in word and deed, speaking in extremely veiled terms.
Nevertheless, Fang Qianyuan understood.
Most of those Warriors were grains of sand the elders had mixed into the Warrior Hall. Quite a few had once been