Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 982: Starlight Lake Sect

There was a high chance that the Liu Jie in the contract had some relation with his mother. Another factor that supported his guess was his mother handing him the contract for safekeeping. With her long absence, he had a long time to think through some things and one of those things was the contract and why his mother handed it to him for safekeeping.

That reason didn’t make any sense, considering his cultivation realm. Yes, he was one of the youngest core formation experts around, but that wasn’t out of talent, but rather his circumstances, and as a core formation expert, while he was strong in certain circles, in the grand scheme of things, he was just a strong ant.

His abilities were insufficient to act as a keeper for a contract signed by a rank two organization, a rank three organization, and a sixth-stage palace realm expert. He had no business handling their contract.

It wasn’t like the contract could be tampered with, considering the longstanding reputation the Silver Vermilion Rose had with such matters, and if there was an issue, as evidenced by current events and his actions, he would be too helpless to directly do anything about it.

The only reasons that made sense to him as to why his mother left him the contract, one of them was so he would know beforehand if anything happened to her, and if something did happen to her, the contract served as the clue to the reasons why, and knowing his mother, he would want him to know, not so he could avenge her, but so he could avoid the Starlight Lake Sect and create a wide berth with them.

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The other reason, which was more like wishful thinking on his part, he thought his mother gave him the contract knowing full well his thoughts from that night. He thought this was her way of answering the question from that night, that it was her way of saying

"This is the Jie whose name I mentioned that night."

As for why she would do that, he figured his mother may have been wary that with her contract coming close to the end, something might happen to her.

Her reasoning could have been out of her overly suspicious nature of others, or she had substantiated reasons to believe so, either way, whatever the underlying reason was, his mother may have believed that something tragic would happen to her, and as such she gave him that contract as her way of indirectly answering the question he asked her that night.

Maybe it was her way of at least letting him know his father’s name since she won’t be around. At the very least he deserved that.

Even thinking about it now, he knew how farfetched that reasoning was. He has never known his mother to be accommodating or thoughtful to that extent. The thought that she was leaving him a clue about his father’s identity by sharing his name as her last good act was likely something his mind had concocted so he wouldn’t continue resenting his mother in case something really did happen to her.

It could be his way of preserving her memory by distorting her final act to seem considerate like the mother he had hoped she had been all his life.

"None of that matters now. Confirming her current status is of utmost priority, the rest can come later," thought Fan Cai as he shook his head to clear it.

Yang Qing asked a few more questions for clarity before a short period of heavy silence blanketed the area when Yang Qing asked for a moment to go through some information in the jade slip handed to him.

The information contained therein was about the Starlight Lake Sect which happened to touch on a bit about Fan Cai’s mother.

The Starlight Lake Sect was quite ancient, having been around for at least 100,000 years, which was rather surprising for a sect of its rank. Most rank three organizations didn’t have a history that long with a lot of them disappearing into the sands of time and destruction. But on reading further, Yang Qing realized why.

At some point in its history, they had produced one the most gifted disciples they ever had who managed to cultivate to the domain realm. With the powerful abilities of a domain expert and their 100,000-year lifespan the moment one broke through to the realm, Yang Qing understood how a rank three sect survived for so long.

There was a reason it was said to produce a domain expert was to produce a dynasty. Barring any unfortunate circumstance of extraordinary proportions, a domain expert was likely to live out their entire lifespan unlike those in the lower realms whose life and death were not on their hands no matter how carefully they lived.

A domain expert was likely to live out their entire lifespan if they kept a low profile. With their absurdly long lifespan of 100,000 years, whichever organization they belonged to, would receive their protection for that long. It was more than enough time to establish deep foundations, especially with the abilities of that domain expert as the guiding force.

This was the reason that these organizations that had once produced a domain expert in their history still remain relevant even after they lose their domain expert. The accumulations said experts leave behind are sufficient to guarantee the survival of those organizations and even ensure continuity as was the case with the Starlight Lake Sect.

Throughout their history, they have never produced another domain expert, and going by the history provided, that particular domain expert seemed to have died before he could exhaust his lifespan, but even then, because of his presence and effort, Starlight Lake Sect has remained standing to date, and never has any point in its history since that domain expert appeared, has it failed to produce a palace realm expert.

They may not be as prosperous as they had been back then, but they still had some voice in the continent because of the palace realm experts they continuously produced, and whatever protective means that domain expert had left in place for his sect.

Presently they had four known palace realm experts, the lowest recorded number of palace realm experts they have ever had at any one period in the past fifty or so odd thousand years, but despite how low it was, it was still more than most had.