Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 993 - 12 middle grade spirit stones

Like the Starlight Lake Sect, the Yu family could be considered a long-lived organization having been around for as long as them.

The clan has been around for at least 100,000 years but has not had an illustrious history as the Starlight Lake Sect in that they had never produced a domain expert. Still, they have consistently produced palace realm experts over the years ranking fairly well among their peers and now they finally managed to produce a domain expert.

The Yu family seemed to be moving in an upward trajectory for them and with a domain expert at the helm, it could only get better for them. However, the team from the Starlight Lake Sect didn’t seem all too happy about it with Xie Yuan, Meng Jiayi and even Fan Ha not concealing their intense dislike for Elder Yu Hui, who seemed to be enjoying the looks they were throwing at him.

Looking at the interaction between the two, one would not believe that they had a deep familial history with one another, especially with the flippant way Elder Yu Hui seemed to be treating the former and current sect masters of the Starlight Lake Sect.

A long time ago one of the clan patriarchs of the Yu family on his adventures stumbled upon a youth who was being sold in a slave market. With how chaotic things had been back then, slavers markets were an all too familiar thing, and though those markets persist to date, it is not done as freely and ubiquitously as they were done back then with only select places firmly known for them.

That Yu clan patriarch as he was out interacting with the mortal dust of the world, experiencing the joys and sorrows of life, his journey led him to a certain city that was a well-known hub for all manner of trade, especially the black market stuff, which meant it had rare goods that one would more than likely not find elsewhere.

He had gone to that city purposefully in the hopes of trying his luck and maybe stumbling onto something that would improve his cultivation base or one that would benefit his clan. At the time he had not been chosen as the clan patriarch and was just one of the seedlings suggested for the position.

In the process of trying to find something to improve his odds in his fight for the seat, he ended up stumbling into a young boy, about six or seven years old, collared up, his identity clear to all that he was a slave.

The young boy had no cultivation base but the Yu clan patriarch felt there was something special about him even if he didn’t know what. Following his intuition he bought the boy for a measly 12 middle-grade spirit stones. He had even overpaid by 2 middle-grade spirit stones with the original value standing at 10 middle-grade spirit stones. Had he decided to haggle, the price would have likely been lower.

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Having purchased the boy, the Yu clan patriarch cut his trip short and went back to his clan with the boy in tow.

Now coming home with a slave wasn’t something odd. Most of the servants handling menial tasks in cultivation organizations like large clans and sects were usually slaves or former slaves.

So the Yu clan patriarch bringing back a slave wasn’t an eyebrow raiser, but it ended up becoming a hot topic when he instantly declared that the boy would be his disciple and eventually, if his conduct proved to be worthy, he even had the intention of adopting him as his child.

This did not sit well with a majority of his clan members especially his family from his parents to his inlaws down to his wife. He was drowned in a river of spit from all the chastising he got with the only group being pleased with all of it being his competitors for the seat of the clan patriarch, with even some going to the extent of defending him so the saga could continue.

Despite the noise and endless pressure around him, he obstinately stuck to his decision and didn’t banish the young boy as most within the clan wanted to with some like his parents advocating harsher means like killing the boy to appease the masses.

The Yu clan patriarch heard none of it and because he was one of the most talented figures in the clan, other than being chastised it never went beyond that, for him that is, for the eight-year-old slave he had bought, it was a different case.

While the Yu clan patriarch protected him as much as he could even going to the extent of beating up the tigers to scare the monkeys within his clan, the eight-year-old boy still suffered mistreatment from many within the clan, especially during the periods when the Yu clan patriarch wasn’t around, with the biggest opportunity coming when he went into seclusion to try and break through to the late stages of the palace realm, which if successful would have guaranteed him the seat of the clan patriarch as he would have been one of the most powerful members of the clan bar two or three individuals within the clan who were all older than him by several thousand years.

While he had put several measures in place to ensure the young boy’s well-being during his seclusion, ultimately he had underestimated how much and how many despised his special treatment of that boy with the biggest issue being his identity as a slave. The irony was, that those who tortured the boy the most were those who staunchly supported that clan patriarch.

To them, the boy was an unwanted stain that besmirched his radiance with the strongest believer of that sentiment being his family, specifically his son, who was just a few years older than the young boy.

With the son of the potential soon-to-be clan patriarch being the top tormenter, how many within the clan would be willing to stop him?

When his father was around, the son hid his true thoughts deeply, only choosing to finally act on them when he went into his seclusion.

Despite his apparent hatred for the boy, he couldn’t go too far with the torment. In as much as he believed even if he were to kill him his father would unlikely punish him severely for it, that was something he and most within the clan had unanimously decided not to try and confirm.

His father was the most genial person in the sect but once triggered there was no one more terrifying and dangerous in the entire sect. No one was willing to touch his reverse scales not even his son, as such his son and the others played a fine line in the torture of that clan patriarch’s disciple. It was severe enough to leave him broken but not severe enough to kill him.

They hoped they would torment him enough to the point that he would choose to leave, but it turned out the disciple was just as stubborn as his master. He never budged one inch and weathered through it all and he was better off for it as it forged his will, eventually, he held through till his master successfully broke through to the late stage of the palace realm breaking his seclusion and becoming the next clan patriarch of the Yu family.

His years of torment finally ended at that moment. With his backer out of seclusion and the rise in status, he was no longer just the disciple of some seedling but the disciple of the clan patriarch of the Yu Clan, which was a different level of gravitas. Disrespecting him was disrespecting the Yu Clan leader, there was no separation if one considered the solemn relationship between master and disciple.

There were things they could get away with if his master was not the clan leader but once he became the clan leader all their actions against him whether big or small, halted because if caught, as per the rules of the clan, besmirching the authority of a clan leader had a serious consequence with some ending in death and others ending in one’s entire lineage being banished and written off the clan registry.

No one could take that risk and besides, in that time since their clan patriarch brought that eight-year-old back, other than the strong spirit he had shown in not breaking under the fearsome pressure he had been under, he also showed tremendous talent. It took only four years for him to move from someone with no cultivation base to a foundation establishment cultivator with top-tier blue-grade pillars that had hints of gold in them making them quasi-gold-grade pillars.

His talent was undeniable to all within the clan, the only thing that made them averse to him was his identity as a slave.

With time as long as he improved his strength, many would be forced to acknowledge him whether they wanted to or not, however, that young boy beseeched the Yu Clan patriarch to let him leave the clan.

With the attitude of the clan and how they treated him, even if he devoted his entire being to the clan, there would always be that divide between them even if his master was the clan patriarch, with most being wary of him, especially his son.

The clan patriarch’s son’s treatment of him started from a place of disdain and misguided honor of a son trying to protect the reputation of his father but with time that motive switched to envy as the former slave’s talents started shining through before finally it grew into fear.

As long as he remained there, his presence might likely end up creating a heart demon in the son, thus the clan patriarch’s disciple requested to be allowed to leave. Despite their time together being short, the two truly treated one another as master and disciple, honoring all the precepts inlaid within it.

The disciple didn’t want to harm his master’s family and the master didn’t want his disciple to live in a place where he was not wanted, a place where all the eyes around him were either wary, filled with envious hatred, or disdain for what he once was.

Thus they felt it was for the best, and the disciple left. Eventually, his path led him to the doors of the Starlight Lake Sect where he became its disciple and thereafter he ended up becoming the first-ever domain expert of the sect, completely shedding off his past identity.

12 middle-grade spirit stones. That was the price of a domain expert.

One could only imagine how those from the Yu clan felt when they received the news. Even after leaving the Yu clan patriarch still maintained contact with his disciple and was also one of the earliest people to receive news of his breakthrough.

The Yu clan patriarch on receiving the news was so jubilant that he declared a week-long celebration in the Yu clan in honor of the meritorious achievement of his disciple.

Not many within the clan shared that enthusiasm, with most, especially those who had a hand in his torment were filled with trepidation. They no longer saw him as a former slave but as a terrifying domain expert who could rip their lives with a mere flick of his fingers.