Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 395 is in full swing
Yang Qian was too lazy to take care of the affairs of the Military Office and handed them all over to Zhao Ting.

From then on, Zhao Ting was in charge of everything from recruiting soldiers to training. Even Yang Qian, who was in the army, had no intention of intervening.

However, Hu An hinted that the military office should not be staffed entirely by Zhao Ting's men, as this might cause trouble. It would be better to be prepared from the beginning.

How could Yang Qian not understand Hu An's idea? Without saying much, he handed the matter of adding people to the military office directly to Hu An, but gave him a restriction, that is, Zhao Ting's people in the military office must not be less than 40%.

Yang Qian had no objection to the royal family wanting to further control Shuangqing Prefecture, but he also did not want to see them sidelining him.

As for the affairs of the government, Yang Qian simply handed them over to Cui Mingsheng.

In the words of Cui Mingsheng: first squeeze out all the water in each city. The drier it is, the easier it will be to adjust later. At the same time, you can also see clearly which ones are just pretending and which ones are really capable.

In addition, the vacancies of the yamen masters should be investigated, and Cui Mingsheng suggested promoting them from the local area. Because the situation in Shuangqing Prefecture was too special, it would take a long time for outsiders to get familiar with the situation, and there was no way they could get into the state quickly, and they were not as efficient as local officials.

Therefore, before Cui Mingsheng squeezed the moisture out of various places, Li Yiming and others had to continue staying in the provincial capital, leading a leisurely yet fearful life.

Yang Qian was free all of a sudden. Apart from receiving some news about the escape of the demon mountain or the bandits from the mountain stronghold, he basically had nothing to do in the city.

Now that the city was idle, it was Yang Qian's turn to take care of his own affairs.

The first place Yang Qian arrived at after leaving the city was Xiangyao City, which he had been to not long ago. However, it was not in the city, but in a mountain stream more than 60 miles away from the city.

There is not much water in the mountain stream, but there is a small secret place that has been abandoned and no one cares about it. This was also obtained after collecting information seized from all aspects.

There are not only in Xiangyao City, but also in Shuangqing Prefecture, there are more than ten small secret realms, most of which are abandoned secret realms like the one in Xiangyao City that have been drained of their value. They are left vacant, waiting for the secret realm to disappear on its own. This process may take a few years, or even a hundred years.

Yang Qian’s understanding is that these small secret realms will eventually hide in the space cracks between heaven and earth again, so they “disappear”.

Although the secret realm was abandoned, the threshold still existed. If Yang Qian wanted to enter, he had to follow the rules of the secret realm. He had to take out a "Heavenly Man" stone tablet, and then he could pass through the magical barrier that separated the main space from the secret realm.

Even though it was the second time that Yang Qian experienced this kind of space travel, he was still amazed by the feeling. However, after careful consideration, he still gained nothing. It seemed that this barrier of space travel was beyond his cognition and was not even something he could understand now.

Entering the secret realm, Yang Qian felt a desolate scene, which was completely different from the small secret realm he had entered in Yuzhu Forest before.

Not to mention the spiritual energy condensing into fog, even the air here is turbid, and there is no spiritual energy at all.

Yes, there was not even a single bit of spiritual energy! At least with Yang Qian's out-of-body cultivation, he could not sense any spiritual energy in this small secret realm.

Only exhaust gas!

Looking around, the surroundings were barren and full of broken stones. Not to mention living things, there was not even a single large stone to be seen. But there was one thing that was the same as the small secret place Yang Qian had visited before. There were still many flags of various colors planted here, which should have been left behind during the initial exploration.

Yang Qian did not dare to be careless. He continued to follow the path marked by the flags and went deeper and deeper, and he was able to identify from the flags some of the threats that still existed in this place.

In addition to some magic arrays hidden under the gravel, which would trigger a series of attacks if stepped on, there were actually "living things" here. However, the creatures here were different from any that Yang Qian had seen so far.

Yang Qian used his divine sense to carefully explore but found no signs of life, then he reached his hand into the gravel with a red flag on the side. Instantly, he felt a sharp and powerful creature biting his hand, but it was blocked by the protective energy. However, the protective energy also quickly became thin in this biting, and in a few breaths, it was about to be bitten through.

Is it so powerful?
Why do I still not feel any vitality?

It was not until Yang Qian caught one of the creatures biting his palm and lifted it out of the ground that he saw what was biting him underneath.

They were bugs the size of a fingernail. Of course, they only looked like bugs, but they had no soul fluctuations and no vitality. Even though they were gnawing at the protective energy with their mouths open and sharp, they did not feel alive.

It's like a stone that looks like a bug, moves, and bites things.

It sounds contradictory, but it happens to be very appropriate for the current situation.

Can something that has no soul, no vitality, and is even completely indistinguishable from a stone in the mind be considered a living being?
Yang Qian used his mysterious energy to confine the "little bug" in his palm, but he soon discovered that even his mysterious energy would still be eaten by it. Finally, he tried his thunder energy, but it was useless.

Only by setting up a simple trapping array with a mysterious energy structure in the palm of the hand can this "bug" calm down. It retracted its legs and tentacles, closed its mouth, and remained motionless, just like an ordinary stone that can be seen everywhere here.

Yang Qian observed it carefully for a long time, and finally shook his head. He still denied the idea that this thing was a living being. Without a soul and vitality, there is essentially no life, or it can be said that it is not life at all.

Moreover, Yang Qian discovered that no matter how much he gnawed on it, it would not be digested or absorbed. It would just go around in his stomach and then turn into the disgusting waste gas in this little secret realm and be sprayed out from the back door.

Yang Qian observed carefully as he walked. After a while, he crushed the bug in his hand with brute force and found that even after it was broken, it looked like an ordinary stone. After it was freed from its restraints, it would never "come back to life" again.

"This looks like a clay sculpture, some kind of magical power that can move?" Yang Qian had a sudden thought. But he was very uncertain immediately. Because if it was a magical power, there should be magical power fluctuations on this thing, but this was not the case.

This made Yang Qian give up his thoughts immediately, and he realized that these ghost things were temporarily just like the strange barrier at the entrance and exit of the small secret realm, which was beyond his current ability to understand.

Throwing away the crushed "bug", Yang Qian continued to move forward. He couldn't help but be full of expectations for the wordless stele in this small secret realm: In such a strange little secret realm, what would the wordless stele contain?

Will it be the rest of the "Northern Mysterious Book"? Or some other new content?

(End of this chapter)