Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 961: Day one of the walk-ins

Yang Qing spent a few hours going around Song Chuanli’s abode sampling the goods while returning the favor by generously spreading out his verdant universal qi which felt like heavenly nectar to all the plants around.

Once both parties had their fill and were satisfied with the ’transaction’, Yang Qing met with Song Chuanli one final time to iron out a few things in case there was anything else the craftsman wanted to handle while he was away.

Luckily for him, Song Chuanli didn’t demand much from him other than to ensure at least once a week that the continental five-element soil was moved appropriately. The schedule was made in consideration of Yang Qing’s present abilities. Even if he was a second-stage palace realm cultivator with a natural affinity for the five elements because of his cultivation art and physique, moving the soil was still demanding.

With him taking the greater burden of the task, Yang Qing could only handle about two hours of it, without him that time would drastically shrink, and the toll Yang Qing would face would be ten times what he usually faced.

As such, Song Chuanli felt it prudent for Yang Qing to only do the task one day a week, with the same schedule being maintained even when Xia Boqin came back from his seclusion. As for the rest of the tasks, that was left to the four cleansing beetles, which Yang Qing didn’t have a problem with.

Even with Song Chuanli around, the majority of the tasks around the abode were usually left to them. Song Chuanli would only step in when it was time to move the continental five-element soil, or when he was looking to harvest the wood from some of the branches on the trees, or if some rare species were being introduced into the abode.

But other than that, everything else which included the day-to-day, was left in the capable hands of the four beetles, an arrangement Yang Qing much preferred since in addition to regularly doing check-ins at Song Chuanli’s abode, he still had his duties as a palace realm judge to handle.

The only saving grace was it didn’t seem like he would be dealing with anything complicated for the time being, having been assigned to the walk-in cases for the next month after the completion of the Golden Bamboo Pavilion case.

Yang Qing preferred walk-in cases, though it didn’t start like that. In his early days as an outer core court judge, he absolutely hated the weeks he was assigned to handle walk-ins. The reason he started scheming and secretly sending letters to the Order, and doing all manner of things that roughly boiled down to him calling the Order a ruthless employer was because of those walk-ins.

On any given day, the outer core courts could be considered the busiest court in the entire Order. Because of the bracket of cultivators, the court dealt with which is from the body refinement realm to the foundation establishment cultivators, who numbered in the hundreds of millions around the continent, that number meant that the cases never stopped coming in and the walk-ins were the absolute worst.

Being assigned the walk-in schedule in the outer core courts was no different than a death sentence. The schedule as far as Yang Qing could tell seemed to be the same across the different courts. As an outer palace court judge, he would be assigned to the walk-in for two months which would be split into a month, with the first month being handled in the first half of the year, and the second month falling in the latter half.

As a judge, he had no control over when those two months would fall in. The scheduling fell under the jurisdiction of the Judicial Review Committee working in conjunction with the Administrative Hall. They both had access to relevant information to better make the schedule be it in terms of the cases the judges were working on, who was available, the ability of the judge, and so forth.

When Yang Qing was at the outer core courts, the schedule was the same. Two months out of the year he would handle walk-ins. As per the guidelines of walk-in cases, provided the cases were there, you could not leave the courtroom until you resolved it, and with a place like the outer core courts where it had no shortage of them, it meant that for the month, Yang Qing couldn’t leave his courtroom.

He would resolve one case and another came in, without pause which permanently grounded him in his courtroom without even as much as a single five-minute break. Since there was no set quota in a place packing thousands upon thousands of walk-in cases, it meant Yang Qing would never get to see the outside of his courtroom for those two months.

The only saving grace about it all was that walk-in cases were all mediation cases where the judge would just help the two or more opposing sides reach a middle ground and enforce the said agreement. Any case that fell outside said purview would not be assigned to the pile, but even then, it was an exhausting endeavor, and Yang Qing absolutely both hated and dreaded it.

His outlook on it changed when he got to the superior core courts. The reason for that was while the two-month schedule remained the same, the number of cases he handled wasn’t as much as it was in his outer core court days. The cases were not continuous without pause, on occasion, he would have a day or two where there was nothing, and in such cases, he could do with the day as he pleased.

For a slacker like him, one could understand why he would get excited by the prospect and now in the outer palace courts, he believed the number of days where he had nothing to do during the period would only increase as evidenced by its start.

Today was day one of the walk-ins and he was here breaking a sweat and eating his fill of fruits. He could only hope the form continued, but knowing the Order and the continent he lived in, it was unlikely that he would spend the entire month without a case. But one can only hope.

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