Yan Wuyuan did not keep him guessing.
She straightened, rested her right hand on the armrest, and shifted from a casual tone to a serious explanation.
"The reason all the Candidate Chief Inspectors have been recalled..."
"Is that the post of Pacification Guard Commander has been vacant for a year."
Yi Yang was taken aback.
The Pacification Guard.
The most elite mobile fighting force in the Suining Prefecture Heaven Patrol Office.
Every member was an elite. They took no part in routine affairs and only deployed when neither the Evil Punishment Office nor the Evil-Breaking Office could deal with a target.
The twelve black-armored cavalrymen who had escorted him back from White Fish City belonged to the Pacification Guard.
"A year ago, the previous Commander, Ding Xiang, encountered an Incense Master of the Nine Evil Sect during a mission and died on the spot."
Yan Wuyuan's voice was utterly calm as she continued, as though discussing something that had nothing to do with her.
But Yi Yang heard the weight behind her words.
For Ding Xiang to have reached the position of Commander, he had to have been at least a Mid True Astral expert who had achieved hundred-meridian astral communion.
With astral energy coursing through every bone as one, every punch and kick could shatter stone tablets and rocks as easily as crumbling earth.
Someone at that level had died so easily at the hands of the Nine Evil Sect?
"After Ding Xiang died, the Pacification Guard was a host of dragons without a head.
"In the end, Chief Inspector Lu Quanan decided to have Pei Zongyue, the Deputy Hall Master of Judgment Hall, temporarily take over as Commander."
A flash of understanding crossed Yi Yang's mind at her words.
No wonder.
Pei Zongyue had been able to dispatch