Zhang An was silent for a long while before finally saying, “I’m tired. Wang Ye of Battle Heaven can decide how to handle the rest of you. I’m just the dean of education at a martial university, not your ranking officer!”0

He vanished on the spot, possibly to muse over certain things. 2

Director General Wang looked at the group, then at Li Hao. After brainstorming for the proper sentencing, he said, “Although you did not wallow in the mire with Sun Xin, it is an incontrovertible fact that your incompetence led to misconduct and neglect of your duties! You aided and abetted the tyrants so that Sun Xin could recover and even advance further in his cultivation!0

“In accordance with military regulations, all of you are hereby demoted three ranks, sentenced to five hundred lashes each, and assigned to the vanguard…” Although the vanguard no longer existed, such was Wang Ye’s determination. “Whenever we encounter the traitors, you are to charge at the front of the army! Not a single step can be taken backward and you will fight unto the death!”0

Boom!0

Several hundred soldiers pounded their chests...0