Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 924: Man and sword (1)
"After our sect master’s celebration, and the falling out we had, even though I realized I was wrong in the way I acted, my pride didn’t allow me to as I rationalized and excused my actions blaming it all on what happened to me in Red Maple Empire 83 years ago.." Jiang Huang said as he turned his gaze from his palms to Yang Qing.
His facial features were no longer humanized and gentle as they were, a few moments ago when he was recounting his experiences at the Azure Rain Sword Sect. They had instead regained the coldness from before.
"After secluding myself for so long, and having already reached the necessary threshold to push open the doors of the palace realm, I decided to break my seclusion and travel a bit to clear my head and relieve the accumulated tension I had accumulated since we lost the previous sect master and the other palace realm experts from the sect.
I never gave myself the chance to process it all. That loss, losing my master too, and everything that had happened after.
In terms of accumulation of dao insights, I may have met what was needed to reach the breakthrough, but in terms of mentality, I could tell I was still lacking somewhat, and if I underwent my tribulation, there was a high likelihood I would perish at worst, or end up crippled at best with my mental demons ravaging my sanity while I still lived.
Funny, the state I am in is no different than what I feared.."Jiang Huang said in a self-deprecating tone.
"So to ensure my breakthrough was as smooth as possible I decided to break my seclusion and travel to clear my mind, confront my thoughts, and whatever feelings lay hidden within my heart, as I walked along experiencing the ties of life.
The journey proved to be fruitful as I could feel my spirit which had long grown stifled become lighter and freer during my travels.
I didn’t have any particular target in mind as I traveled and just went as my heart felt like and let the heavens be my tour guide. That sense of freeness was invigorating and refreshing, and before I knew it I was a few thousand kilometers away from the shores of the Millionsfold Treasure Ocean.
Even that far away, I could still see and sense its ethereal beauty and transcendent majesty.." Jiang Huang wistfully said as his eyes gleamed with awe and a little bit of what looked like passion.
Yang Qing couldn’t help but sigh inwardly as he saw the looks some of the domain experts present had.
They may not have said anything or shown any emotional indicators, but Yang Qing could tell they were in unanimous agreement with Jiang Huang’s sentiments.
Yang Qing couldn’t help but feel bitter and envious about it. If there was one place he wanted to desperately go to more than any other place it would be the Millionsfold Treasure Ocean, but if he was asked, the place he would avoid most the answer would still be the same, it would be the Millionsfold Treasure Ocean.
It was the only thing he feared as much as he did Old Fiend Lei but it was also the place he most desperately wanted to visit, even just once.
Who wouldn’t want to visit a place that has been dubbed the ocean of immortal treasures? It was the most fantastical place in the entire continent, and if he was so inclined, from how he had heard the others talk about it, crowning it as the most fantastical place not only in the entire southern continent but also in the entire world would not be a stretch either. It was just that magical.
No other place had been recorded to produce as many saint-grade treasures as the Millionsfold Treasure Ocean has, and its effect wasn’t only on treasures, but on living things too, such as people, and spirit beasts. There have been records of cultivators who had long stagnated in their realms achieving both minor and major breakthroughs just by meditating on the shores or even inside that ocean, and the number was not small either.
It was a place of countless miracles that subverted the imagination. Its name alone was enough to incite the interest of many, of which Yang Qing was included. Night and day, ever since he heard of it, and the legends surrounding it, he would fantasize about going to the place, taking a dive, and coming out with a dozen saint-grade treasures, or diving in there and finding an immortal manor with his name on it.
With the manor in his possession, he would not have to slave for the Order. He would slap the Order’s face with his wealth, and choose any post he wanted. He would want for nothing.
He would lose himself in those fantasies, with some even extending for days, but he never could pull the trigger and go there, and the reason for that was he was deathly afraid of the place, even more than any other place, after all, four soul formation experts of which one was even a late stage soul formation expert were rumored to have died in the place in the place.
Those were just soul formation experts, when it came to domain experts, he had it in good authority that their numbers were in the triple digits. He would never go to a place with such a high mortality rate.
Who were soul formation experts? They were the closest thing to immortality and omnipotence he could think of, and when it came to domain experts, they were no slouches either.
In the present day and age of peace, most domain experts were guaranteed to live out their entire lifespan. Provided a domain expert didn’t foolishly court death by let’s say antagonizing some soul formation expert somewhere, they got to live long, and yet close to a thousand of them had died in the Millionsfold Treasure Ocean in the past millennium.
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That fact showed how treacherous the place was. Yang Qing wasn’t too sure if he reached the soul formation realm, he would dare go there, who knows, he would have to be an immortal cockroach with multiple clones to actually dare venture there.
But his fears aside, he did make a promise to himself to go there at least once, if not just for sheer curiosity and experiencing its grandeur for himself.
Feeling himself almost slip away down that rabbit hole, Yang Qing quickly pulled his attention back.
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"Standing that far away yet so close, I was tempted to complete the journey and actually see the Ocean in its greatness for myself, but ultimately I decided not to.
We had already lost three palace realm experts to the ocean and I was not all too eager to add myself to that number. At least not before breaking through to the palace realm. To me breaking through to the palace realm mattered more than anything else.
The allure of a treasured place filled with countless saint-grade treasures paled in comparison to my ambitions of reaching the palace realm at the time.
By the time I reached that close to the Milliosnfold Treasure Ocean, my mind had already sublimated and my spirit refreshed to the point that I felt confident enough to smoothly undergo my breakthrough...."
