To be promoted to Commander in the Demon Suppression Guard, two conditions must be met.
First, one must accumulate ten Great Merits.
Ten Minor Merits are equal to one Great Merit.
A Riding Patrol on a month-long tour would, under normal circumstances, earn five Minor Merits at most.
Therefore, merits are not that easy to obtain.
The reason Gu Zheng accumulated ten Great Merits so quickly was partly because clearing out the Demon Fiends inside and outside Qingshi County had also counted toward his merits.
Of course, the bulk of it came from Baishui County this time, from saving people via surgery.
The calculation of merits is linked to the number of Demon Fiends slain, but that is not the main factor.
What's more important is the impact.
