Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 979: Violation of the contract (1)

Fan Cai breathed out slightly, trying to clear the frustration and all manner of congested complex emotions that had piled up in his heart. At the moment, there was only one thing he should focus on, and that was confirming his mother’s well-being. The rest could wait till later.

"Despite her apparent distrust of humans, it didn’t seem like it applied to all of them. At some point in her life, she met one, and I am not sure what happened between the two, I can only guess something life-changing happened between the two, and it was life-changing enough to make my mother go back to the sect with him.

Though she tried to hide it or evade it when I asked, I think that person was my father," Fan Cai said as a longing melancholic look flashed in his eyes.

"She didn’t tell me his name only that he was an elder of the Starlight Lake Sect and that she owed him her life. She might be a stranger to me but I think in the little time I have been around her, I know her to be a person who will always repay her debts and keep her word.

She was unreliable in many ways as a parent but she has never lied to me. Every promise she made good or bad, she always kept.

So whatever life-saving favor she owed that elder, she endeavored to repay it, and she did so by indenturing herself to the sect. It is why I believe the sect is holding her against her will.

She had a contract drawn up," Fan Cai said as he took out a silver parchment from his storage ring and placed it on the table. The silver parchment was plain without any writing.

"As her blood-related child, just like hers, my blood can also unlock its contents," Fan Cai said as he bit his index finger, pouring the drops of blood onto the silver parchment.

The blood droplets moved in a mysterious charm around the parchment, and with every movement, a component of a glyph would appear along their trail, and those components eventually combined to form a rose that burned with silver flames. The petals wilted off the rose and with it, words started forming, and within seconds the entire rose had disappeared, and in its place were writings that covered the entire parchment, and at the bottom, the flamed rose from before reappeared there, albeit a condensed version and it seemed more like a drawing than the lifelike version that had just wilted.

But even as a drawing, it still contained the charm and the ethereal and boundless power from before. Below the rose were the words ’Silver vermilion rose pavilion’

"This is the contract she made with the Starlight Lake Sect. As you can see she promised to act as the sect’s guardian for 23,000 years, and after that she would be free of the obligation.

The agreed period already lapsed five months ago. My mother promised to come for me the day her contract ended. As I mentioned earlier, she has never once lied to me. If she said she would come, then she would.." Fan Cai said with staunch conviction before his pupils started flickering and he became deflated and fraught with worry once more.

"The only way she would break her word is if something happened to her," he added with a lowered head as he stared at the silver parchment.

"If the terms are fulfilled the contract will combust. Is what she said," Fan Cai muttered absentmindedly.

"But it is still here. Is she alive? Is she dead? Whatever the case is, the fact that the contract is still intact, and I haven’t seen her in five months past the agreed date, then it means something happened to her, and I believe the Starlight Lake Sect has a hand in it,"

"May I?" asked Yang Qing, reaching out for the scroll after receiving a weak nod from Fan Cai.

Even without touching it, he could feel the ethereal power coursing through it, and the binding power that lay within it.

"Your mother is likely alive," Yang Qing said as he examined the contract, his words brining life into the distraught Fan Cai.

"How do you know that?"

"The contract told me," Yang Qing said as he pointed below, where the drawing of the rose was, flanked to its left and right with the distinctive auras of two individuals.

"Part of the mechanism of this contract is it’s tied to the life of those involved. If something were to happen to either of the involved parties here, then the contract would be invalidated and disappear.

This part here is your mother’s signature," Yang Qing said as he pointed to a complex lotus like seal to the left of the drawing of the rose. That seal matched the one to the right of the drawing, but they each carried distinctive energies that differentiated them from one another.

Yang Qing who had a unique sense for the nine-heart deer because of his universal qi, instantly captured her energy from within the seal. That wasn’t the only thing, he could also tell the difference in strength between the two lotus seals. The one from Fan Cai’s mother seemed stronger than the one on the far right, and the rose drawing seemed to act like an equalizer.

"So she’s alive," Fan Cai said, his voice trembling, as he weakly smiled, trying hard to hold back his tears.

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"She is," Yang Qing said, taking great care to conceal his emotions as he could sense the traces of another seal appearing on the parchment.

Fan Cai was right, something had likely happened to his mother, if the faint fluctuation of another seal appearing were any indicator.

Contracts were binding, and once written it was hard to change them, not unless something happened, but even then, the change would only happen if the events touched on the terms of the contract.

Someone wouldn’t be able to change the terms of the contract just because they wanted to. Any change that appeared would have to adhere to the binding rules that powered said contract.

As far as Yang Qing knew, one of the few ways to make changes to the contract was if there was an indirect or direct violation of one or more of the terms of the contract. Or something happened that made it difficult for one of the parties to fulfill their end of the agreement.

Yang Qing couldn’t help but sigh as he moved his attention from the seals, to the contents of the contract.