As Yi Yang reached the entrance to the Pacification Guard camp.
As luck would have it, the door of a barracks that had remained shut for three days swung open from within.
A man with a tall, straight bearing emerged through the camp entrance. His aura was utterly different from three days ago. True astral force circulated around him, and though he had yet to fully rein it in, the weighty presence of a true astral realm warrior was unmistakable.
It was Xu Min.
He wore training clothes he had not yet had time to change out of, his lapels hanging open and his forehead covered in sweat. Unable to control his strength, he had stamped two fine cracks into the blue bricks beneath his feet.
Xu Min looked up and saw Yi Yang. He froze for a moment, then hurried over.
"Sir."
Yi Yang stopped, his gaze settling on the man who had emerged.
Good.
That pill wasn't wasted.
Three days earlier, after emerging from seclusion, Yi Yang had sensed that someone from Qing Province would soon arrive.
Before leaving, he needed a trusted subordinate who could help him handle miscellaneous affairs in Qing Province.
That subordinate's cultivation could not be too low, and his loyalty had to be absolutely dependable.
Xu Min was the best choice.
From their first meeting in White Fish City to the subsequent upheavals within the Pacification Guard, Xu Min was the only squad captain who had stood by him from beginning to end.
His abilities had also proven serviceable during the suppression of the beast tide in Donglai County and the quelling of the turmoil at the Profound Sword Pavilion.
He had both loyalty and ability. All he lacked was cultivation.
So Yi Yang had given Xu Min the Astral Condensation Pill he