Daily life of a cultivation judge

Chapter 484 Unravelling the thread (2)

"But..Deng Chao delivered but when he did, his sect members including his brothers had been butchered by the five guests.

It was pitiful, however, from start to end he was brilliant. I still can't forget that monolithic crystallized palm that fell from the heavens as if pouring its wrath upon the invaders.

The Crystal Palm Jade art, even among the gold-grade arts that we have, few are able to match the might it showed that day.

I think in that moment he had stepped beyond the stage of perfection when it came to the art and reached the final step, unity sentience. Something that can only be achieved with gold-grade and purple-grade art.

Just like its name, it means the art comes to life and resonates with the user, and in that moment Deng Chao had reached it and used it to raze the enemy along with his own sect ground.

It was truly an unforgettable sight, which was why after it had subsided, I came back, to find nothing but a gigantic palm-sized bottomless crater with destructive energies capable of killing an early-stage domain expert, filling in the area.

The enemy, the sect, and Deng Chao were all absent. I assumed them to be dead, and I don't maybe guilt or admiration for Deng Chao I decided to investigate them to chronicle the Crystal Palm Jade Sect so they don't end up forgotten and that they had a cultivator with a true spirit.

For that, I needed to properly dig into their pasts and follow that thread up to their end. I felt it was the least I could do as one of the few witnesses to the whole thing.

Progress was slow, pitifully so at the start because of how tumultuous and chaotic things were for us at the time, which prompted me to enlist Zhu Lao's, Ren Shu's, Shao An's, and Yu Long's help at the time.

The progress was still snail-paced even with their involvement but we still made some, which was how I ended up discovering that two people had survived that day; the quasi-soul formation expert, and one of the attackers from the sect that had besieged them.

The attacker immediately sought refuge with a rank 1 empire the Red Fire Abalone empire. At the time I had suspected that maybe the quasi-soul formation expert was from there, but that proved to be wrong.

That attacker ended up dying a few hundred years later from the injuries he had sustained from the fight, and the quasi-soul formation expert vanished like he had never existed.

But even with little to work with and help from Zhu Lao and the rest, I was able to recreate the history of the Crystal Palm Jade Sect, and eventually traced it back to its four founders one of which was the illusory Deng Chao.

I admired him more after discovering how he was. He never sought fame and was always there when his brothers and sect needed him.

Then when I started digging into him that's when i stumbled upon some bizarre happenings. His past seemed like it was blank before he met with the three sworn brothers he made and eventually founded the Crystal Palm Jade Sect.

Blanked-out pasts isn't exactly a bizarre thing, but it was that blank past and his art that eventually led me to Jiang Fu's dad, about 300 years later.

The crystallized palm art Deng Chao used was unique, and as I was digging into his past, I was always curious if there were people or places that had something similar to it. I did out of pure interest, really, but I ended up finding a group of individuals who exhibited something similar, though not on the same scale as Deng Chao's display of it.

An alchemist with jade hands and eyes who could traverse into any miasma-filled region, and harvest any poisonous material with nothing but their bare hands, a diamond body cultivator losing to a 10-year-old in a pure fist brawl, a crystallized jade beauty whose radiance during the fool moon drove countless to madness.

Random people, random events with nothing similar except for the fact they had crystallized jade bodies, and their pasts had been erased at some point, and all of them died along with the organizations they belonged to at the time.

It wasn't hard to guess that they were targetted, and now with a line to follow I dug deeper to uncover their identities which led me to countless organizations lost in the river of time, with the history dating back tens of thousands of years, each destroyed because of one reason or another but in each of those organization they had a standout person with a jade body or essence.

As I pulled that thread it eventually led me to an inn owner by the name of Jiang Tao, Jiang Fu's father, and from him was that I finally heard about the spirit jade turtle Li family, a family that had made a contract with the Jade Turtle spirit beast from their founder's time which was over a million years ago..."

Meng Chao clasped his hands together as he eyed the three whose attention was firmly on him.

"You all know about physiques. You can acquire them through training, you can gain them through some fortuitous encounter that transforms your body, some are gifted by the Origin Dao itself and then there are those that are passed down by a bloodline, and more often than not those that fall under this category are usually tied to some powerful creature be it a spirit beast or a spiritual plant, and the Li family was the same.

Their ancestor made a soul pact with the Spirit jade turtle. It's not a well-known creature due to its reclusive nature, but it is a standout spirit beast nonetheless, one with a two-generational gap to the ancients.

I'll let Yang Qing explain to you two about them later.." Meng Chao said when he saw the puzzled looks of Dai Chen and Zhang Qinggee.

"But I guess it can't hurt to give you a picture. You have heard of dragons, phoenixes, vermilion birds, white tigers, and the like. Mythical races they liked to be called.."

The duo nodded.

"Well, the ancients could loosely be considered their parents or originators.."

The revelation was like a thunderclap to the duo as they widened their eyes. Just any of the mentioned beings was terrifying beyond measure, they shuddered to imagine what the ancients, their originator, how powerful were they?

"Now these mythical creatures, they also have descendants of their own. Dragons have flood dragons, the phoenix has the yuan bird, and the Ba She snake you fought before, though I suspect the one you fought had the thinnest of Ba She bloodline.

If you had fought one with a pure bloodline, the fight would have been much harder. The Ba She are descended from the taotie so in some respect they have their devouring ability, able to swallow all kinds of techniques and use them to nourish themselves or rebound the attack, giving them thorny defensive capabilities.

And then there is the Spirit jade turtle, descended from the Ao tortoise, the tortoise large enough to support an entire world on its shell..."