Chu Ning had an inkling that this was some kind of poison, meant to prevent them from escaping.
Chu Ning decisively took the elixir from Tan Zheng and swallowed it, then followed the squad towards their assigned destination.
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Halfway through their journey, Chu Ning realized why his teammates seemed so relaxed; they were assigned to Sanlian Town, close to the inner regions, where marauding soldiers from RouTu Nation seldom ventured.
The most likely scenario was that they would stand guard for two or three days and then return without having accomplished anything.
When Chu Ning and his companions arrived in Sanlian Town on their warhorses, they found a small squad of twenty people already there, all martial artists, without a single martial master among them.
Their gazes towards Chu Ning were filled with envy, just as Ji Yang had described in his first letter about the Bloodfire Camp.
