The Great Qin Prison Suppression Bureau, the Great Qi Night Watchmen, the Great Jing Central Heavenly Prison... these were all organizations in the major powers responsible for handling the affairs of the dark side, each of them a byword for terror.
Yet their specific functions were not entirely the same.
The Prison Suppression Bureau and the Central Heavenly Prison both governed criminal justice throughout their realms. The former often hunted down criminals across the land, without regard for whether they were within or beyond Qin Kingdom; the latter focused on Jing Kingdom itself, rarely baring its fangs beyond the Central Regions... that was usually the Mirror World Terrace's domain.
The Night Watchmen had prisons of their own, but they oversaw only a single Heavenly Prison in Linzi City, holding only criminals personally ordered arrested by the Son of Heaven. They held no authority over criminal justice across the realm, nor did they stand in a subordinate relationship to the Capital Patrol Inspection Office. True to their name, they were more like the lantern and clapper of a night watchman—patrollers of the Long Night.
Among such blades of darkness, judged by outward reputation alone, the Great Qin Prison Suppression Bureau was now the most vicious. The Central Heavenly Prison, once enough to make people pale at its very mention, was gradually fading from renown.
The Mirror World Terrace was the opposite. Its actions had grown increasingly flamboyant; it illuminated "all sides" and reflected "The Present World." There was nothing beneath heaven they did not meddle in.
Sang Xianshou came from the Central Heavenly Prison and could absolutely be counted as a fiendish existence.
Yet when You Que mentioned him, his tone was so casual.
Worthy indeed of a supreme figure who had once claimed the foremost seat beneath heaven.
Chu Xu