But after giving it some thought, Zhao Tingjian soon felt relieved again.
No matter how she had obtained those battle merits, her merit points were solid and real, with no room for fraud. After all, the human race had been fighting the extraterrestrial fiends for far too long. The battle merit system had long since matured; there were simply no loopholes to exploit.
Th-this was like finding a treasure~
Zhao Tingjian felt as though an immortal artifact had fallen from the sky and smashed right into him. It felt so good he could hardly stand it~
"You're Wang Yingxuan, right?"
Old Marshal Zhao Tingjian looked at Wang Yingxuan with a kindly expression. The more he looked at her, the more pleasing she seemed.
The girl practically radiated cleverness. She was talent worth cultivating. If nurtured properly, she might one day become his right-hand woman.
Smiling broadly, he said, "To be honest, it's no problem if you want to work under me. But you'll have to start as a battalion commander."
"One battalion? Just a few hundred people—what use is that?" Wang Yingxuan shook her head like a rattle drum. "No, no. At the very least, I have to start as a regiment commander."
"A regiment commander?" Zhao Tingjian bristled. "The commanders and deputy commanders of our regiments are all Divine Ability Realm cultivators. A little girl like you won't be able to command respect."
Although Xuanwu cultivators generally looked young, making their actual ages difficult to judge, he was an old fellow who had lived more than three thousand years. He had seen enough to make a rough estimate. This girl was definitely under two hundred years old, and her cultivation was only at the early Purple Mansion Realm. She was still far from the Divine Ability Realm.
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