Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 329: You Need to Stand Up

Before coming here, Yang Qian's main purpose, besides gaining experience in Shuangqing Prefecture, was to track down Yue Wang Zhou Zhong, who might have escaped.

But now that he had arrived in Shuangqing Prefecture, especially after seeing and hearing so much news in Taocheng and Pingcheng, Yang Qian found that his previous thoughts were indeed a bit too presumptuous.

The complexity of the situation in Shuangqing Prefecture was completely beyond his expectations.

Although Yang Qian was full of confidence when facing Juan, and on the way to Pingcheng, he used the experience gained from destroying the Xingsheng League and Taocheng Baihualou to improve his cultivation to the Out-of-Body Realm. But can he really walk sideways in Shuangqing Mansion?

Yang Qian now feels that this is definitely not enough.

According to Captain Zhao from Pingcheng, the White Bone Immortal Bai Xian in Baiguling is a real demon in the Nascent Soul stage.

The fox demon in Baihualou had said before that a mountain like Baiguling was not the top power in Shuangqing Prefecture. The truly powerful power was still in the Wanli Bamboo Sea. It seemed that they were not abusing the people directly in Shuangqing Prefecture, but behind the scenes.

If that's the case, how strong are the forces behind the scenes? It's inevitable that someone in the Out-of-Body Realm will be in charge.

Could there be any great demon or great monk who can break the destiny?

Moreover, Yang Qian no longer has many means to improve his cultivation and combat power in a timely manner like before.

After all, it was not appropriate to continue asking the Five Thunder Palace for it. Because if he went beyond the Out-of-Body Realm, it might involve the core means of the Five Thunder Palace to establish a sect, and whether they were willing to give it back to him was uncertain. He might need to look for another opportunity.

So Yang Qian actually listened to what Kuang Yu said before.

Pingcheng's people were treated like pigs, and it was not Pingcheng's fault. But Kuang Yu seemed to be hesitant to talk about the government office in Shuangqing Prefecture, suggesting that the problem was with the government office.

Or to be more precise, the problem lies with the governor of the provincial capital, Xiao Cangyu.

If he took the normal approach, Yang Qian should first go to the provincial capital to find out Xiao Cangyu's background, and then, like he did when dealing with Yue Wang Zhou Zhong before, he should find a subtle detail to investigate and slowly get rid of Xiao Cangyu.

But doing so would inevitably take a long time. Secondly, Shuangqing Prefecture was different from Jizhou Prefecture. There were too many variables here. If something went wrong, it would be very easy for Yang Qian's plan to fail.

That's why Yang Qian told Juan to "cut the Gordian knot".

Rather than slowly investigating from the inside out, it is better to attack from the outside first. Even if Baiguling is not the top force in Shuangqing Prefecture, it is definitely ranked among the top. There must be some useful threads that can be pulled out of this force. This is the first.

Second, no matter how famous Yang Qian was in Jizhou Prefecture, it would not work in Shuangqing Prefecture. Just like what Kuang Yu said just now, Jizhou Prefecture did not have the ability to fight against a demon mountain. To put it bluntly, it was hinting that Jizhou Prefecture and Shuangqing Prefecture had to face different predicaments, and it was also a reminder for Yang Qian not to overestimate his own abilities.

The bottom line is that Yang Qian has not yet been able to establish himself in Shuangqing Prefecture. No one believes in him and thinks of him as either a corrupt person, or someone who makes a lot of noise but does little and will definitely run away, or a short-lived person who came in upright and left horizontally.

Therefore, as long as Yang Qian could take down Baiguling, it would be equivalent to establishing a stronghold in Shuangqing Prefecture. His strength would also allow all parties to have a general understanding of him. By then, he would not only be a newly arrived chief constable, but also a dragon crossing the river.

Anyway, Yang Qian didn't believe that there wasn't even a city chief in the huge Shuangqing Prefecture who didn't collude with evil thieves and bandits. If that were the case, the Shuangqing Prefecture Chief Constable before Yang Qian wouldn't have disappeared inexplicably.

When leaving Pingcheng, Yang Qian did not bring all the inner guards with him, but only brought five people including Juan. He did not even ride horses, but chose the mountain road, relying on the detailed map he had taken out from the army to cross the mountains and ridges. After three days of marching, he could see patches of gray-white rocky mountains with very few trees in the distance.

"Sir, that should be Baiguling Ridge."

The six people in the group, including Yang Qian, were approaching a demon mountain for the first time. They couldn't help but stop and look at it from a distance.

In addition to the vague feeling of strong yin energy emanating from the mountains, there is also a sense of psychological oppression that comes over one.

"The five of you stay here, take this formation plate and the talisman, and be ready to meet me on the spot." Yang Qian said as he handed the formation plate he had refined to Juan and gave instructions at the same time.

"Sir, we"

"No need to say more. You are not strong enough. It is too dangerous to go into the Monster Mountain with me. It will also take up my energy. It is better for me to go in and out freely by myself."

Juan wanted to say that he could go with them, and the others would just stay where they were, but Yang Qian refused.

After entering Baiguling, Yang Qian restrained his breath, used the escape technique, and in the blink of an eye he was several miles away.

The reason why he stopped was because Yang Qian saw a strange scene that was no less bizarre than the one he saw when the huge evil god statue was moving in Jizhou City: a person was hung on a cliff, wrapped in black silk, and there were many strange and indistinguishable patterns on the silk, as if they were painted on.

These people were not breathing, and there was no sign of life. They should have been corpses. But Yang Qian could feel that the souls of these people were still in their bodies. And although the bodies were pale and bloodless, they were not dry and elastic, nor did they stink or rot.

In the end, there were not just one person who looked dead but were not corpses, but more than a dozen of them hanging on the cliff in front of Yang Qian!

The highest one is more than ten feet above the ground, and the closest one is only half a foot above the ground.

They look like pupae with their heads sticking out.

Human pupa?

As he got closer, Yang Qian could even sense the familiar Yin Sha aura from these strange human pupae. This aura was most obvious on the evil cultivators. For ordinary people, Yin Sha was no worse than poison. If they were slightly exposed to it, they would be dead. However, these human pupae did not seem to care about this.
"Stop! Who are you? How dare you enter Baishan!"

Yang Qian was a little surprised. His divine sense did not detect anyone around him. He turned his head and saw a skeleton lying in the corner of the stone wall. He had indeed seen this skeleton before, but he did not find anything strange about it. It was no different from the skeletons in the mass grave.

I didn't expect that the bones would speak now.

Yang Qian blinked his eyes, locked his mind on it, and found that there were actually magic patterns engraved on the head of the skeleton, which he had overlooked at first. At this time, the other party was using these magic methods to talk to him through the mouth of the skeleton.

Walking closer to the skeleton, ignoring the skeleton's arms that seemed to be trembling in fear as it stood up, Yang Qian grabbed the skeleton's head and looked at the magic pattern on the back of its head. At the same time, he expanded his divine sense and quickly sensed the other end of the skeleton in an underground cave less than half a mile away from here, following the soul veins involved in the magic pattern.

(End of this chapter)