Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 995 - 100 year ultimatum

It was more of a test at first to see if the Starlight Lake Sect was willing to swallow it which they were, and understandably so. That period was the lowest point for them. If the chronological story handed to Yang Qing could be considered as fact then it could indeed be considered so.

That was the period when Meng Jiayi held the seat of sect master. He was a fourth-stage palace realm expert at the time as evidenced by what was in the report and further supported by the information in the contract he had signed with Fan Ha.

Barring any hidden experts they may have had, he was the most powerful member of the sect. A fourth stage palace realm cultivation base while wasn’t much when one considered the entire continent as a whole, it was not dismissible either.

Whether it was the holy lands, rank one organizations, or rank two organizations, despite these institutions having people stronger than the palace realm, those with palace realm cultivation bases still served as the core strength of these organizations.

Meng Jiayi with his fourth stage palace realm strength while he may have not had a powerful voice around the continent, still had a voice but the problem was the opponent he was facing.

Other than him, the Starlight Lake Sect had six more palace realm experts that were known, all weaker than him, of course, but a decent lineup nonetheless.

Sadly for them, such strength wasn’t enough to give them a voice against their opponent at the time, the Yu clan, who believed their time had finally come. At the time they already had several late-stage palace realm experts, at least four of them, without taking into account the about fifteen or so other palace realm experts they had within their ranks.

That lineup was not something the Starlight Lake Sect could directly contend against, hence their slow concession to the demands that the Yu clan were making against them, but despite the disparity between the two sides, the Yu clan never pushed them too much to the point of desperation.

Regardless of how much the Starlight Lake Sect had fallen, it was still a sect that had produced a domain expert. Who knew how many trump cards said domain expert had left behind to preserve his sect in case the worst happened?

Some of those trump cards were likely to be powerful enough to devastate the Yu Clan. Just a talisman containing 70% of their strength was likely to rip apart their clan grounds thus the Yu clan always measured their actions, not going too far but doing just enough to assert their dominance against the Starlight Lake Sect.

That would have likely remained the case had they not produced a domain expert of their own. Without one, their measures would have forever been soft, restricted to what the Starlight Lake Sect could endure, whilst remaining in one piece, but all that changed 200 years ago when finally the Yu clan produced a domain expert.

The mask was completely pulled off from that moment forth. They were no longer subtle about their actions and openly tried to suppress and dominate the Starlight Lake Sect.

The Starlight Lake Sect endured it as much as they could with the help of Fan Ha whose appearance in those 20,000 years was heaven-sent as she was able to help the sect soak some of the pressure but even then, she was limited since the Starlight Lake Sect only had her as the sole late stage palace realm expert while the Yu Clan had three of them.

Things finally took a turn to the point of no return between the two sides when the domain expert of the Yu clan made a declaration.

All hostilities between the two sides would end if the Starlight Lake Sect handed over the Golden Void Lotus sword. This blade belonged to the domain expert of the Starlight Lake Sect. It was the blade he had used in his formative years in the sect and it had been a gift given to him by his master as a parting gift when he was leaving the Yu clan.

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It was made from void lotus core and 50,000-year-old golden suncore, both top-tier monarch-grade materials.

When he was handed the sword, it had not formed a spirit yet, but after accompanying him in the period thereafter, it birthed a spirit, raising its strength even further. While it could not evolve into an ascendant-grade weapon, it was close enough. Its abilities without being wielded by its master were more than enough to defeat several peak stage palace realm experts.

After his death, it was considered one of the trump cards of the Starlight Lake Sect, though as with most artifacts with awakened spirits, its loyalty was to its owner and not its sect.

Therefore barring a sect destroying calamity, it would not act, and those from the Starlight Lake Sect could not convince it otherwise which was how the Yu clan managed to repetitively humiliate them over the years.

The Yu clan asking for that sword was the final straw. The sword may have been a bystander but it was still the favored weapon of one of the most illustrious sect masters. The Yu clan’s domain master asking for that sword was no different than spitting on their sect master which was something they could not swallow.

They rejected him without hesitation even if it meant the entire sect would perish in the process.

That domain master didn’t attack them despite the rejection and instead gave them 100 years to think the matter over, after which when the time was up, if they accepted then the Starlight Lake Sect and the Yu Clan would reestablish an alliance like the days of the old but if they rejected, then said domain master said he would take the sword himself and personally destroy their foundations whilst he was at it.

That deadline was fast approaching. The Starlight Lake Sect had about four years left.