Daily life of a cultivation judge

The instant he arrived at the kitchen like a man with a time-sensitive and dire mission with monumental implications, he immediately asked for all the meals he had missed.

The Chef as if in anticipation of Yang Qing’s exact reaction walked out of the kitchen with a tray filled with all kinds of meals from snacks, to meat dishes, to vegetable dishes and soups.

“Feng Ya you know me too well..” Yang Qing eagerly said with saliva dripping from his mouth as he eyed the meals being placed on his table.

With no hesitation, he jumped on them like a beast that had been starved for months on end.

“Feng Ya, I am so glad you’re here..” Yang Qing said as he leaned back in his seat with a satisfied smile tugging his lips.

“I’ll see you for supper..” Yang Qing said as he left.

Since he wouldn’t be back for lunch he made sure to bring some of the dishes Feng Ya had made.

He would rather skip cultivating than miss a meal especially if it was on the Order’s tab. For some reason that single fact made the meals tastier and him hungrier for more.

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1100 kilometers away from the Deer Mountain Branch

“This should be the place..” Yang Qing grimly muttered as he looked at the landscape that was the picture of armageddon.

In front of him was a large stretch of land that was filled with chaotic energy of different elements and attributes colliding. The energy seemed to be alive. Yang Qing could sense the emotion contained in some of them. There was anger, wrath, firm determination, pure malevolence, desperation, honor, fear… each energy seemed to be a chronological description of the emotions of those who left them there.

Yang Qing couldn’t help but sigh as he took in the sight before him. The Deer Mountain Range no matter which part of it you were always had that verdant life force but where he was things were different.

It was bleak yet chaotic. Different forms of energy were continuously clashing, the ground below was filled with the air of destruction.

The whole ground within 15 kilometers from where Yang Qing was had caved in. It Looked like several dozen mountains had been repetitively smashed into the area with terrifying force and momentum, other areas looked like multiple volcanoes had exploded with extreme ferocity that not only burned and destroyed the ground but also shredded the mountain itself apart with the debris flying in every direction charring everything and anything in sight.

The air was hot to the point that one would feel like their lungs were burning, while the smell of blood permeated through every inch of the area.

Anyone who saw the area would instantly know a terrifying battle took place there as indeed it did.

The place Yang Qing stood with an air of solemnity surrounding him was the ground from which the obsidian serpents, the deacons of the Blue Soul Flame Crow Syndicate, the team from the Deer Mountain Kingdom, and lastly the team from the Deer Mountain Branch battled.

Yang Qing raised his hand as he felt the air around it. He could feel the desperation and the tenseness from that fight, it still had not left the area.

The area was south of both the Deer Mountain Kingdom and the Order’s branch. After his analysis yesterday, Yang Qing decided to visit the battleground to see if he could glean anything that may complement or supplement his findings from yesterday’s interaction.

There were a lot of unanswered questions surrounding the battle from how the Blue Soul Flame Crow Syndicate discovered the area in the first place.

If they had accomplices, who were they and what was it they were after?

What could be so valuable that they would risk coming this close to the branch of the Order?

He didn’t know if being here would help him answer any of the questions he had, but he had to try.

Yang Qing closed his eyes and slowly walked through the area. An ethereal and gentle charm was released from his body as he walked. Some of the remnant energy from the attacks would gravitate towards him like some force was pulling them toward him. Yang Qing would stretch his hands with his eyes closed every time they did. He would parse his hands through them like he was passing his hands down a gentle flowing stream.

A green energy filled with vitality would be released from his hands every time he made contact with those energies.

“This energy, it’s Hao Da’s..” Yang Qing muttered as a blue light that looked like a meandering river moved to his palm.

Despite its gentle-looking exterior, that single strand of blue light would shred apart the body of a middle-stage core formation expert if they were unlucky enough to be caught by it.

It contained a terrifying sword force that was in the shape of a flooding tide.

Yang Qing was intimately familiar with Hao Da’s sword intent. It contained the water element however it lacked any of the gentleness associated with the element but instead had its other characteristics such as a sense of boundlessness and relentlessness. A tide that never stopped recedes. It flows continuously smothering and drowning everyone and everything in its path. It had a denseness to it that suffocated even someone’s soul.

Hao Da’s sword intent was terrifying in that regard. Once released you would feel a sense of suffocation before even the attack fell, and once it did fall, it was a storm after a storm that never let up. His sword intent though wasn’t the most destructive as far as sword intents went, it was one of the most versatile Yang Qing had ever seen.

It restrained, suppressed, oppressed, and finally devoured everything it set its sight on. With it Hao Da could fight multiple opponents without being at an extreme disadvantage, his intent was adaptable to different circumstances as it could tear apart not only linear attacks but it could also do things such as restrain and purify miasma by smothering it, and his sword intent’s momentum affected even the soul of a cultivator.

Yang Qing had no doubt Hao Da’s sword intent played a significant role in why the team were able to fight against the obsidian serpents and the two deacons from the Blue Soul Flame Crow Syndicate for as long as they did.