Dual Cultivation: Beasts and Women!

Leaving the Library in the early evening, Liam was impressed by his experience today. The City One Library was incredible, even in its open area.

Liam spent almost three hours of his day in the Library and realized that the free section was not only much larger than the one in City Thirteen—with at least ten times as many volumes available—but also had more in-depth information and higher-level techniques than the level 3 section of the City Thirteen Library.

This made Liam think that he would have to devote a lot of time to the Library in the next few weeks. Since he intended to escape from the headquarters at his second opportunity, it would be crucial for him to absorb as much content as possible from this place.

Today, he didn't search for information about the blue star in his soul space, but he intended to search for it starting the next day.

As for the hours he spent in the Lotus Temple, he hadn't improved his level just by cultivating in a cultivation space that was useful for fourth realm cultivators. However, he had gotten closer. He had made significant progress in his first cultivation session there!

Now, as he walked and thought about these things, Toby led him to the Law Enforcement Hall, this time to meet the group that would be under his management.

Toby's day of service was ending and after that, Liam wanted to eat something good and go home to wait for his women.

As he approached the Law Enforcement Hall building, Liam spotted one shop that had caught his eye earlier. A small, nondescript looking shop with large panes of glass showing the inside of what appeared to be a bookstore was in Liam's line of sight, 300 meters from him.

Ignoring the letters with the store's name shining brightly, he focused on what this now-closed place sold.

Books.

Unlike in City Thirteen, there were places in City One that sold books, maps and more with information about Twin Land, even books for learning special languages.

The inner members of the sect needed to be able to travel around the continent, knowing the places to avoid, where to look for new disciples, and how to communicate with the different races present on the continent. As such, the inner disciples had opportunities far beyond those of the outer disciples.

Liam wanted to fill the library in his current home with books so that he and his wives could prepare for the not-so-distant future, he hoped.

But that was a subject for another day, and he soon entered the Law Enforcement Hall, led by Toby to an area on the second floor of the building, where he discovered his name inscribed on one of the doors.

"Chief Porter, this will be your department from now on." Toby nodded toward the black door with Liam's name in white.

Liam looked around the corridor they were in and saw several other doors like his, with the names of various department heads—he guessed.

Toby opened the door and Liam could hear the sound before he saw it, indicating that several people were there at the moment.

He walked in ahead of Toby and came upon a group of five men and six women, some of whom were finishing setting up chairs, while others stood with their arms crossed or leaning against the walls, waiting. Of all these people, only one woman with short black hair didn't have a mask on her face, while the others were clearly uniformed Officers.

The group looked in Liam's direction and, seeing his red clothing, immediately stopped what they were doing and changed their postures in front of their boss.

"Chief Porter!" They all said simultaneously as they organized themselves militarily in one corner of the room.

Liam narrowed his eyes as he heard a familiar tone among the new voices.

Toby introduced him. "Chief Porter, everyone here will be under your command from now on, plus a few others who couldn't make it, like Miss Electa. Anyway, you'll have 15 people under your command in the Law Enforcement Hall, including me and those in front of you."

Liam greeted everyone there, listening to the names of each of them until he reached the owner of the voice he already knew. When he confirmed Jane was in this group, Liam didn't reveal the fact that he already knew her, but he was pleased. Jane wasn't even 17 yet, and she was already a 1-Star Spirit Earth cultivator. Her future would be excellent!

Aside from Jane and Electa, whom he already knew and knew about cultivation, this group comprised 4 Spirit Earth cultivators, all of whom were at a high level, and the rest were newly promoted Spirit Sky cultivators. According to Toby, the ones who were missing today were 9-Star cultivators from the Spirit Earth Realm who were engaged in other activities.

After getting to know the basics of the group, Liam said a few words of little significance and then heard from Toby about his responsibilities, especially the more routine ones.

"... This group of officers is under your command and must act mostly in the external area of the sect to maintain order and the law. Normally, we form groups of 3 Officers and send them to different cities to investigate, guard, transfer disciples, and so on.

Tomorrow, when you start your duties, I'll have several requests from the Guardians of some cities on the other side of the peak for you to help carry out. Requests from Commanders are less common, but it's normal for us to send sect members from time to time to bring in resources, pick up important resources, and so on. But we have nothing like that right now, so your routine will be more focused on the situation with the outer cities, Chief."

Liam himself had seen members of the Law Enforcement Hall in City Thirteen a few times in his few months in the cult. But the sect's outer area had a total of nine cities and tens of thousands of disciples. Department heads like him were constantly investigating murders, robberies, disciple deaths in the forests of the headquarters, and so on.

Just as the deaths outside the cities were not solved by punishing those responsible, the sect investigated everything that happened in its headquarters for the sake of organization and record keeping.

The Law Enforcement Hall was the main pillar behind the structure needed for all of this to happen!

Liam understood their situation and told the group. "I will study your backgrounds and determine your functions according to your aptitudes. For now, wait for my decisions."

The silent group there repeated the same word of understanding after he finished speaking.

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"For now, you are dismissed." Liam spoke the words these people most wanted to hear before turning to Toby and saying the same. "You are also dismissed for today. See you tomorrow, First Officer."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

As the group left, Liam motioned for Jane to stay behind. Once it was just the two of them in the 100 square meters room, he ordered her to take off her mask.

"I didn't expect to find you here like this, Big Brother Liam," Jane said with a smile on her youthful face, eager for her new role and working under Liam's guidance.

She was probably one of the weakest officers in the sect at the moment, but there was no fear in her eyes, only excitement about the future.

"How is your situation? I heard you moved here the day before I fought William." He said curiously.

Liam didn't see Jane as a woman, but as a little sister. Of course, he saw her potential as a cultivator, but he really had no interest in cultivating.

Jane still seemed like a child.

Even if she matured as she got older, he didn't feel that he would try to cultivate with her one day.

"I'm fine... I was confident that you could beat William, so I wasn't worried, Big Brother. But it's good that you're here..." She pointed to his red uniform. "It's good that you mysteriously became a Division Chief, haha."

"Hmm, things happened a little faster than I expected... Anyway, Mary is already in the inner area. If you want, you can come and live with us on my estate. There are plenty of rooms for you to join us." He invited her, knowing that the houses in City Four, as good as they were, didn't have the same mechanisms as the houses in City Two.

Liam's current house was like a small faction headquarters. It was big enough to accommodate a group of ten people, with areas for rest, cultivation, and study for such a group to develop well. In particular, it had a cultivation room that Jane and the others could use for free, unlike the normal situation of the sect's officers, who had to pay to use the Lotus Temple's rooms.

An Officer's wage was only 600 merit points, not much compared to the cost of the sect's internal services. He wanted his women and friends to focus their spending on the most necessary things and use his benefits to become stronger without feeling the burden of their poor financial situation.

"Huh? Are you sure about that, Big Brother?" Jane asked innocently.

He laughed as he motioned for her to join him. "Of course. A Herbalist like you can do a lot for all the residents of my residence... By the way, would you like something to eat? The others are busy, and I don't want to eat alone."

"Hehe, if you pay, of course I will." She put her mask back on as she left the Law Enforcement Hall with him.