Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 958: A diamond for celebration
"Seems like you’ve made large gains since last you were here," Song Chuanli said looking slightly amused at the pure childish look of glee Yang Qing had on his face. His smile was like a child who had just made a great achievement.
"I’m still lacking compared to you," answered Yang Qing as he rubbed his nose, still looking clearly pleased with himself despite his words.
How could he not be?
Surveying the elemental distribution in Song Chuan’s entire abode and moving the continental five elemental soil was no easy task. It placed great demands on one’s ability with the five elements, especially when moving the continental five-element soil.
Because of its unique nature if you wanted to move the soil you had to be proficient with the five elements and if you were not then moving even a single grain proved to be an impossible task.
Well, technically it could still be moved even if one wasn’t adept in the manipulation of the five elements, but for one to be able to do so one had to have strength capable of moving an entire continent for each of the grains whether one or a handful, they all had the weight of an entire continent on then, come one come all, the weight would be the same. If you could lift or move an entire continent by yourself then you would be able to move the soil even without a deep understanding of the five elements.
But how many people had such strength? Yang Qing for sure had not seen anyone capable of it, if there was, then such a person would have long unified the entire Southern Continent and dubbed themselves emperor of the entire continent.
Moving an entire continent wasn’t just moving earth, it meant having the ability to move it in its entirety including all the features contained therein.
Back then before the Order was established when the entire continent was at war to the point even a few organizations from other continents tried to sneak in, no matter how bad the war became or how consuming it was, the continent remained robust and enduring as it always was despite cultivators and mortals dying in the millions and dynasties falling like flies every other day.
No matter how much damage the people and other living things inhabiting suffered, the continent itself remained undamaged and enduring. Someone who could truly move the continent had to have the ability to truly and genuinely injure it and with all the tomes he had consumed over the years, Yang Qing had never heard of anyone having the ability to do so.
Therefore as it currently stood there was only one sure way of moving the continental five-element soil and that was by using your understanding of the five elements and using that to move it. Only then would you diffuse the weight in them to actually move them, but even with understanding it still had its hurdles.
The shallower your understanding was, the heavier the burden you faced when moving it, and the deeper your understanding was, the smoother the movement and the easier the burden was and you could not afford to slack your concentration for even a bit, because if you did, you would face the backlash force that was multiple times larger than what Ma Yuan experienced.
The circular platforms that he and Song Chuanli stood on were made of chaos aegis stone whose latent energy provided them protection against the backlash, but even then some got through.
Yang Qing’s journey of moving the soil started when he was at the foundation establishment realm, back then he could only do it for fifteen minutes, and he would be close to passing out immediately after and that was with Song Chuanli taking the larger part of the burden while he and Xia Boqin split theirs.
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When he reached the peak stage of the foundation establishment realm he managed to extend that time by three minutes, moving from fifteen minutes to eighteen minutes and when he broke through to the core formation realm was when he was finally able to hit the twenty-minute.
At the peak of that realm, the maximum he could hold out for was forty-five minutes but now that time had more than doubled as he held out for two hours and thirteen minutes. That was a huge leap from where he was, and the best part was, his body and soul didn’t feel like they had been mobbed by a million mountain-sized golems, at best he felt like a thousand of them had got a punch, and a kick in.
How could he not feel elated with a massive jump like that? Those two hours were the best validation that he could ever get that he had gotten stronger.
When he came here the most he was hoping for was maybe one hour and a few minutes with the leap coming on account of how deep his understanding and interaction of the dao had become because when last he was here, he had been at the quasi palace realm, which meant he already had some interaction with the dao, and the best he could do was the forty-five minutes he made, and now, he expected to add maybe thirty more minutes on account of his growing abilities and understanding.
A jump of almost one and a half hours wasn’t in his expectations hence the thrill and elation. This was the greatest indicator that he had truly grown. Eight months ago when he moved the soil it always felt like he was moving his hand through millions of solid rocks where moving his hand forward felt like an uphill task, but now, he felt like he was running his hand through extremely thick and heavy mud with a few lines here and there that was saturated with enough water that his hands could pass through without strainging too much.
If it wasn’t because he was afraid of embarrassing himself in front of Ma Yuan, he would have allowed the emotional tears he was holding back to fall.
He didn’t mind Song Chuan seeing him cry because he had seen him do it a million times, especially when he was starting out, and they were not at all tears of joy. They were tears of frustration and regret, and some of them were manipulative when he realized he could get away with eating more fruits whenever he dropped a tear or two.
He couldn’t help but chuckle lightly as he remembered his shameless antics from back in the day.
"I can’t wait for Boqin to come out of seclusion so I can reap him off," thought Yang Qing as a cunning glint flashed in his eyes.
Back then because of how back-breaking and soul-crashing the work was, he and Boqin decided to make a game out of it. They would bet who would last longer, a bet they have sustained to date. It was always close draws without one having an edge over the other, but now, Yang Qing couldn’t help but feel that he now had a solid chance of one-upping the noble-looking Boqin.
"I need to set up recording talismans," Yang Qing muttered with eagerness as he looked around him searching for the perfect position to place them.
"What is he planning now?" Song Chuanli thought with a sigh as he turned to leave, his hands clasped behind his back.
"You can pick three, as for the rest, I don’t care," Song Chuanli said as he was leaving.
His words like an alarm bell pulled Yang Qing from whatever schemes he was planning, bringing sanity and clarity to his eyes.
"You’re always the best, Chief Song," Yang Qing gingerly said before he flashed and appeared next to the diamond echo peach tree, his grin especially wide eyeing those glistening fruits and choosing the best.
As someone seasoned in that particular area, he quickly found the best three and wasted no time harvesting them. Only after he did so, did the excitement die down long enough for him to look at Song Chuanli’s departing figure.
"I still have a long way to go," Yang Qing said with a sigh.
No matter how great of an improvement he had made, he was still a far cry from Chief Song Chuanli. Even now as they were operating the art to move the continental five-element soil, despite him being a palace realm cultivator, and technically having a higher cultivation base, he was still taking the assistant role in the operation, with Song Chuanli taking the primary role, which meant he took on the greatest pressure of the operation and paved the path forward for Yang Qing to walk through.
But despite taking that role, Song Chuanli didn’t look even remotely exhausted, and if it wasn’t for Yang Qing’s exhaustion, he would have been able to do it himself.
As far as Yang Qing knew, when the sacred heart peony and eternal night oak tree were just young buds, Song Chuanli operated that platform for two months straight without pause, and he only stopped because he had already achieved his intended target for the two spiritual plants, and he had done it without relying on the chaos aegis stone.
Yang Qing shuddered at the thought of how long he could move the soil if he had no limitations and used the chaos aegis stone that helped reduce the burden of moving the soil. On a conservative estimate, Yang Qing was willing to bet he would be able to last at least six months, whereas he was busy celebrating his two-hour time limit under a secondary role.
If he took primary, which he would have to with Song Chuanli going for his seclusion tomorrow, the best he could hope for was maybe twenty to thirty minutes.
"I can only know tomorrow," Yang Qing said with a sigh before his eyes suddenly lit up.
"But for now, I shamelessly celebrate the victory," he uttered as he took a bite out of one of the diamond echo peach fruits. His teeth easily pierced through the diamond exterior reaching into the soft silver flesh encased within that exploded with glittering juice as Yang Qing bit into it.
Ma Yuan whose attention had been on Yang Qing found himself swallowing as he saw Yang Qing chew into the fruit.
"You can forget about him sharing one with you. He has always been selfish," said one of the beetles with an aggrieved and resentful tone.
"And greedy," added another.
"And cunning,"
"An all-round scumbag. Be careful around him Ma Yuan," said the eldest of the beetles before all the beetles turned to resume their work, Ma Yuan taking one last longing look before following them.
The four beetles and one man all had this lifeless spirit in their movements, all because of a certain green haired youth currently licking his hands screaming in joy at how tasty the fruit he had just eaten was.
