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  Li Hui followed He to rush into this tall building, which is a spacious and high hall, with a depth of more than 20 zhang, a width of 10 zhang, and a height of also about 5 zhang. The entire hall was decorated extremely simply, with only a dozen or so tables placed on either side, and a wide table in the center at the back of the hall.

  The entire hall looks simple and unadorned, without any sense of luxury, but it gives people a sense of solemnity.

  "Your Excellency, the person has been brought." He Ben said respectfully with a bow.

  Lyu Yanzhao, who was sitting at the desk in the middle, sorting out a pile of jade slips, looked up and glanced down, nodded slightly and said calmly: "Alright, you can go now."

  After He Ben Gong finished paying his respects and turned around to leave, only Li Hui and Lü Yan Zhao were left in the hall.

  Lü Yanzhao smiled slightly, looking at Li Hui with interest: "You're Li Hui, right? I remember that a year ago, on a whim, I gave you my token and recommended you to join the City Guard. How come it took you a whole year to think of finding me?"

  The tone was flat and calm, without excessive enthusiasm, nor did it make Li Hui feel cold.

  Li Hui felt more at ease with this, as he had only met Lü Yan Zhao once before. The other party's gift of a letter of introduction was probably just a momentary whim, and now that things were calm, it seemed the other party didn't have any ulterior motives.

  "Senior Lü, I had been thinking of retreating to cultivate for a while and now that I have made some small progress, I wanted to come out and gain some experience. That's why I'm here." Li Hui replied calmly.

  Lü Yanzhao's heart moved slightly, and he had a few points of appreciation for Li Hui's attitude. With such a mindset, one could go further on the path of cultivating truth. He nodded his head and said in a calm tone: "You've come at just the right time. Next month is the new round of city guard recruitment exams. If you're interested, you can give it a try. I can only offer you a recommendation quota; everything else will depend on your own abilities."

  Li Hui's face didn't show any unusual color, and he calmly said: "Thank you for the recommendation, junior still has some skills, but junior still hopes to understand more about this city guard team, see if it's suitable for junior. If not, then there's no need to waste senior's recommendation."

  Lü Yanzhao was taken aback, then burst out laughing: "Not bad, not bad! With this state of mind, you can go even further on the path of cultivating truth!" His words were full of praise.

  Li Hui remained expressionless: "Senior is overpraising, junior just spoke out his own thoughts."

  Lü Yanzhao nodded: "It's time for you to understand what the City Guard is like and what responsibilities it has. This jade slip has a detailed introduction, after you finish reading it, you'll understand, I believe you'll have your own judgment, but I still hope you can join."

  As they spoke, Lü Yanzhao picked up a jade slip from the case and gently sent it flying over. The jade slip floated steadily in front of Li Hui.

  This move was just a simple application of the driving object technique, Li Hui could also do it, but he couldn't do it as effortlessly as Lü Yanzhao.

  Li Hui stretched out his hand and passed the jade slip over it, directly inserting his spiritual consciousness into it to retrieve the information inside.

  Li Hui stood still on the spot, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, apparently concentrating on the information within.

  Lyu Yanzhao's face didn't show any impatience, and he casually rearranged the jade slips on the table again.

  Half a time later, Li Hui finally withdrew his mind from the jade slip, with a hint of emotion on his face.

  This jade slip contains detailed information about the City Guard and the conditions and assessment methods for entering the City Guard.

  The Ziw Palace has two powerful external forces under its command: the Tianji Guard and the Shenfeng Camp.

  Tianjiwei is responsible for the internal defense and security management of all cities under the jurisdiction of Ziwangong, including monitoring of city markets, guarding transmission arrays, monitoring of city forces, population management, security management and other matters.

  Although it is not the core force of Ziwei Palace, in fact, the management and defense of all cities under Ziwei Palace are entirely in the hands of Tianji Camp, which is a truly powerful force with vast and complex powers.

  All rentals and sales of mansions in the city, operation of markets, transmission arrays, must be operated under the management of Tianji Camp.

  The City Guard was a branch of the Heavenly Machine Division responsible for maintaining law and order within the city.

  The duty of the Wind God Camp is to monitor and restrain the various forces in the subordinate cities of Ziwu City, eliminate those with ulterior motives, capture some escaped enemy forces cultivators, or pursue and kill those cultivators who have committed crimes.

  The cities under the jurisdiction of Ziw Palace, in addition to Ziw City, are thirty-six large and small cities that form a protective barrier around Ziw City.

  In these large and small cities, including Ziwai City, it is unknown how many major and minor sects are distributed. These sects all exist under the restraint of the Ziwai Palace.

  Ziwei City is the headquarters of Ziwei Palace, and these sect forces naturally dare not make any unusual moves. In fact, the sect forces in Ziwei City are usually branches of these sects, and their true headquarters are distributed among the thirty-six subordinate cities.

  So many factions, it's inevitable that some factions are not willing to exist under the rule of Ziwei Palace, wanting to get rid of this subordinate status and even become a dominant force like Ziwei Palace.

  For these forces, Ziwu Palace will ruthlessly eliminate them, and this task is usually carried out by the Shenfeng Camp in conjunction with the Tianjiwei of the city.

  No matter when, there will always be such forces emerging, especially in those remote cities, but the status of Ziwei Palace has not been shaken at all, it is the credit of Tianjiwei and Shenfengying.

  Managing such a large force naturally requires certain laws and regulations, for example, in this city, it is forbidden to fight or plunder, but there are always some monks who violate the ban.

  In this case, the city guards under Tianjiwei usually handle it, and punish them according to their crimes. Lightly, they are imprisoned and sent to various large mines as laborers. Heavily, they are deprived of their dantian and become ordinary people. There are even heavier ones that directly kill them.

  If these monks who committed crimes escaped from the city guards' arrest, they would be captured or directly killed by the Divine Wind Corps.

  It is rare for rebellious forces to appear, but monks who secretly escape after violating the law are common occurrences.

  So generally speaking, the Kamikaze corps is more often used for hunting down and killing criminals.

  The members of the Divine Wind Camp, due to their duties in supervising and restraining various large and small forces, also have a relatively high status. Even a Golden Dan cultivator from a small sect would show respect to a Qi Refining cultivator from the Divine Wind Camp.

  Joining the Tianji Guard and Shenfeng Camp comes with a substantial annual reward, and may even bring additional bonuses based on merit, such as top-level cultivation techniques, rare refining materials, spiritual equipment, and treasures.

  The conditions for joining Tianjiwei and Shenfengying are also very strict.

  Firstly, the minimum requirement for joining the Tianji Guard is to have reached the Foundation Establishment stage. Secondly, one must pass the assessment of the Tianji Guard. As for members of the Shenfeng Camp, they are selected from among the Tianji Guard and only those who meet the requirements of the Tianji Guard can join after undergoing further assessments. Even some high-ranking cultivators in the Shenfeng Camp originated from the Tianji Guard.

  From this point of view, the Divine Wind Camp can be said to be rooted in the Heavenly Machine Guard, but it does not belong to the Heavenly Machine Guard's jurisdiction. The two often cooperate with each other.

  Whether it is the Tianjiwei or the Shenfengying, high-ranking cultivators who have reached the Jindan stage or above are directly under the Ziwipalace. For example, leaders like Lü Yanzhao must be disciples of the Ziwipalace. If they are not disciples of the Ziwipalace and reach the Jindan stage, they can only continue to stay in the Tianjiwei or Shenfengying if they join the Ziwipalace; otherwise, they will have to withdraw.

  Every year some masters leave Tianji Camp or Shenfeng Camp, so every year some new members are added.

  PS: First update, please collect! There's another one! Today was another day of running around outside, picking someone up from the airport and sending them to the train station. My Sundays are always like this, it's hard for me to focus on writing!