Chapter 72 Pyloric Valley
The yellow paper fluttered and swayed, seemingly moving slowly, but in fact it was very fast.
It flew out in the blink of an eye.
"It's done!"
Jiang Zhou shouted, and chased after it, shouting, "Follow it!"
Jin Jiu was slightly stunned and quickly chased after him.
…
"That's the direction of Beidu Bridge!"
Jiang Zhou is now a junior master of the ninth rank in both immortal and martial arts, and Jin Jiu is an old demon patrol guard who entered the ninth rank several years ago.
Although the yellow paper was fast, it was easy to catch up.
They chased him all the way out of the county town and traveled north for more than ten miles.
"That's the Pyloric Valley."
Jin Jiu looked at the direction where the yellow paper floated and couldn't help but say, "Is the demon cave really here? I followed Captain You to look for this place yesterday, but found nothing. Even the spirit writing technique of the Wanxiang Hall didn't work. We just went around in circles in the mountains."
"Isn't your method the same?"
Jiang Zhou had been in the Sujing Division for quite some time and knew a lot of things.
The Sujing Division was responsible for pacifying the evil spirits in the world, and the Wujun Sujing Division also governed the entire Nanzhou.
It is impossible that there are only the Demon-Slaying Captain, the Demon-Patrol Guard, and the Knife-Bearer.
He heard that there were three halls and one prison in the office, which was the standard configuration of the Sujing Office in the thirteen states of Daji.
The first prison is naturally the prison of swords.
This place is the most mysterious. Jiang Zhou has never had the chance to get close to it. Apart from the name, he has not even heard a single piece of information about it in the company.
Baijie Hall is one of the three halls, responsible for exorcising demons. There are many public rooms open to both the inside and outside of the hall, such as the Demon Patrolling Room and the Recording Room.
There is also Qianji Hall, which specializes in forging weapons and refining equipment, and the weapons arsenal is also under its jurisdiction.
And Vientiane Hall.
This Wanxiang Hall gathers many strange people in the world, and it is said that they have all kinds of incredible and strange skills.
In the short two months that Jiang Zhou had been in Sujingsi, what he had seen was just a tiny fraction of this behemoth.
However, although the Sujing Division is large, it is just a drop in the bucket for the entire Daji.
Speaking of which, the administrative system of Daji is very different from the world where Jiang Zhou lives, both in ancient and modern times.
The territory of Daji is extremely vast, and even with the power of the imperial court, there are many places that are beyond its reach.
The system of provinces, counties, kingdoms and wilds is implemented throughout the country.
Each of the thirteen provinces in the country has a governor who is responsible for supervising the counties.
Each state has a county, with a county magistrate, also commonly known as the prefect, who governs the counties under the county.
The fiefs of the princes were established as kingdoms, counties and kingdoms coexisted, and cities were built as towns.
A capital city including its suburbs is called a county or a country.
Towns, villages, wastelands and other places outside the counties and kingdoms were called "bi ye" and did not belong to the formal administrative area of Daji.
Many of Daji's policies could only be implemented in the counties and states, while the remote and wild areas were basically left to fend for themselves.
The Sujing Division can only manage the counties and prefectures, and is unable to take care of areas outside of the counties and prefectures.
They have no control over the vassal states, and they are not able to control the barbarians.
Let’s get back to the topic.
Speaking of Wanxiang Hall, Jiang Zhou's "natural spiritual eyes" are considered rare in other places, but they are nothing special in Wanxiang Hall, otherwise Shi Feng would not have looked at him with such a little bit of "special eyes" at the beginning.
He had heard of this art of spirit writing.
It is a strange and unique skill that came from a strange man in Wanxiang Hall.
One can predict good or bad luck and search for traces in a wooden basin filled with incense ash .
However, no magical skill in the world can be omnipotent. It has limitations and may fail.
The same applies to seeing a demon and beheading it.
But it is too early to conclude whether it is useful or not.
"Whether it works or not, just follow us and you'll know."
The two men chased the yellow paper across the Beidu Bridge, and the yellow paper turned and floated to the east.
Over there is a rocky slope with few people.
After walking for a few more miles, Jin Jiu asked curiously, "Why did it stop?"
The yellow paper suddenly stopped in front and floated in the air.
Jiang Zhou looked around and saw huge rocks everywhere, blocking his view.
However, among the rocks, piles of white bones can be vaguely seen.
In his spiritual pupils, this place was shrouded in a layer of black mist that was so thick that it seemed substantial.
That is evil spirit, or what people often call Yin Qi.
It was hard for him to imagine that there was such a gloomy place not far from Wujun County.
To say that I allow others to sleep peacefully beside my bed is an understatement.
It's just like... digging a manure pit next to where you sleep and raising a pool of maggots in it.
He couldn't help but frown: "Where is this place?"
Jin said that he didn't seem to care about the bones all over the ground, and said, "This is the Pyloric Valley."
"A long time ago, it was just an unknown rocky slope. Because of its remote location and unknown reasons, there was almost no grass growing here. Few people would come to this place, and it didn't even have a name."
"So people often dumped corpses here. Over time, there were more and more corpses, and the area became larger and larger, and it became like this."
He shook his head and smiled: "Even if you kill someone and throw him here, most likely no one will pay attention."
Jiang Zhou frowned and said, "Isn't this kind of place very evil?"
"Evil nature?"
Jin Jiu nodded and said, "If it is a mass grave that no one cares about, it is indeed evil. Where do you think the word 'pylorus' comes from?"
"Logically, there shouldn't be a place like this next to the county town, but it happens to be here. Aren't you surprised?"
In response to Jin Jiu's mystification, Jiang Zhou laughed and said, "Everything has two sides, there are good and bad sides, and even the clearest water has no fish."
“Where there is sunshine, there is always shadow.”
"Although the Sujing Division is responsible for suppressing demons and pacifying peace, the world is so big. How can a single Sujing Division manage everything?"
"So, it is better to open it up than to block it. Since we cannot kill them all, we might as well leave some space for them."
Jin Jiu was stunned and said, "Could it be that you have heard about it from somewhere else a long time ago?"
"Do I need to hear this? Just think about it and you will know."
Jiang Zhou looked at the pervasive black fog and shook his head.
Jin Jiu sighed, "Alas, you are indeed worthy of being chosen by great scholars. You are indeed not comparable to us rough people. With your brain, you should study and take the imperial examination."
"If I had that ability, I would like to go, but unfortunately you overestimate me."
Jiang Zhou curled his lips and said, "You came to check, but didn't find anything?"
"No."
Jin Jiu smiled and said, "This place may look evil, but apart from some ignorant little demons, the big demons would never dare to stay here."
"You didn't know this when you first entered the department. Not only will the Sujing Department clean up this place regularly, but the Taishou Mansion will also mobilize personnel from the Bandit Suppression Department and the Heaven Supervision Department to search the mountain on a large scale to avoid any omissions."
Jiang Zhou roughly understood what he meant after hearing this.
Since it is a specially set aside garbage dump, the garbage will naturally be disposed of regularly. Otherwise, would the garbage continue to accumulate?
Which demon dares to stay here? Waiting to be dealt with?
but……
Is it just looking evil?
I'm afraid not.
At least the spirit writing technique of Wanxiang Hall is ineffective here, and the technique of slashing the blood of demons doesn't seem to work either.
Jin Jiu said: "Since that knife sharpener could be injured by a student's handwritten letter, he can't be a powerful demon. His behavior is rampant. If he doesn't know how powerful he is, it's possible ."
He shook his head and said, "We have already searched this place several times yesterday, but there is no trace of it. If your magic is correct, it must have hidden deep in the Pylorus. The Pylorus Valley is vast. Unless the governor's office has gathered the three divisions, it would be very difficult to find it."
Jiang Zhou asked, "Didn't Liu Shusheng escape back by himself? Could it be that he couldn't find the way to the cave?"
Jin Jiu shook his head and said, "He doesn't even know how he got back. According to what he said, he was possessed by a ghost."
"But not only did he wake up inexplicably and see the true appearance of the ghost, but he also escaped on his own. It's incredible."
"Bear!"
As the two were talking, they saw the yellow paper hovering in the air suddenly catch fire and turn into ashes and fly away in an instant.
Jin Jiu was stunned: "This..."
Jiang Zhou shook his head and said, "The spell has failed."
"So what now?"
Jiang Zhou was not surprised to see that the demon-slaying blood curse had no effect.
It's not like he hasn't encountered this kind of situation before.
The sensing range of the Demon-Slaying Blood Curse is only about thirty or forty miles.
If the demon has a way to conceal its breath, this spell will hardly work.
Jiang Zhou was a little unwilling, so he took out the dirty thing again and cast the blood-cutting curse again.
The cursed yellow paper still circled in the pyloric valley.
After struggling for most of the night, there was still no result.
"Brother Jiang, why don't you go back first?"
Jin Jiu sat on a rock, watching the darkness around him grow thicker and thicker, until he could hardly see his hand in front of him.
Although this place is often "cleaned", it is after all a place where negative energy gathers, like the pylorus in the human body, the most filthy and evil, hence the name.
There might be some unexpected events.
Jiang Zhou nodded when he heard this.
He already had a feeling that it wasn't that the Demon-Slaying Blood Technique had failed to work, but that the place where the ghost was hiding was most likely nearby.
It's just that there's something special that makes them go around in circles here.
He saw more than Jin Jiu, and the increasingly thick yin energy also made him feel uneasy.
He had to give up temporarily and turned back to Sujingsi with Jin Jiu.
I walked back a short distance when I heard a faint laugh: "It's really true that after searching everywhere for something, I finally found it without any effort..."
