Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 999: Striking an agreement (2)
"We managed to produce a domain expert, something most organizations have been unable to do. Something we have never been able to do until that moment and when we did, the fate of the sect changed in ways we could have never imagined.
100,000 years of glory," Xie Yuan said, and though her tone was even and calm, one could detect the passion within.
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"There is also another side of it. A side that I and those who came after our domain leader passed away have had to deal with.
The pressure to not waste the opportunity he gave us, the pressure to not dishonor that chance, and the pressure to replicate what he achieved.
When you manage to produce a domain expert, and your first one at that, it is easy to forget how long it took, or how difficult it is. You automatically assume that you can replicate the feat.
If you did it once, you can do it again, that’s a thought that appears in most people’s minds despite not meaning to, and for some organizations, they are indeed able to turn that thought into reality, but for others, that is not the case..." Xie Yuan lowered her gaze slightly, hiding the shame she felt, within.
She wasn’t the only one flooded with those emotions as Meng Jiayi was the same, with his, looking even more intense than hers as he took to drinking wine to try and contain it.
"Try as we may we just couldn’t do it. We couldn’t do it when our honored domain sect master was alive and neither could we do it after he passed away.
The pressure kept growing with each passing year with every disciple getting crushed under its mounting pressure, and with each passing year, maybe because of the pressure, or because we were lacking in talent, even producing late-stage palace realm experts started becoming a difficult task and before we knew it we had dropped so low that organizations we didn’t give a second glance, started to eye us covetously," Xie Yuan said, casting a quick side glance toward Yu Hui in the process.
"Those covetous looks slowly morphed into probes and eventually transformed into overt actions meant to shame us and destroy.
But even at our lowest with pressures mounting within and outside, and it seeming like a farfetched dream, we never stopped aiming to reproduce a domain realm expert, as laughable as it was, that dream was what drove most of us to near madness but it was what kept us united and resilient.
Then somewhere down the line, the heavens as if acknowledging our relentless efforts and dauntless will rewarded us for it by giving us a heavenly genius in Liu Jie," Xie Yuan’s voice lowered slightly at the mention of his name.
Yang Qing could see deep sorrow flash in her eyes and something else, looks of affection. There was no doubt that Xie Yuan had feelings for Liu Jie.
Yang Qing quickly imagined the messy love triangle likely involved, and cast a quick look toward Fan Ha, expecting to find the same emotions in her. There was not. Fan Ha’s eyes, though had guilt in them, had another emotion in them too that Yang Qing didn’t expect to find. That emotion was staunch determination.
As for what Fan Ha was determined to do, he had a feeling Xie Yuan and Meng Jiayi had an idea, and with the current matters, Yang Qing had a few guesses of his own too.
"The talent he showed became the shining light in our sect, parting the dark clouds that had been suffocating us.
When a 40-year-old palace realm expert suddenly appeared in our midst, something we haven’t seen in the past 70,000 years, we found an anchor for our hope. With him maybe we can finally return back where we were.
But alas, luck wasn’t on our side this time. To date I still believed he would have reached it, had he been..." Xie Yuan paused slightly.
"Alive.." she added with a heavy expression, her statement affecting Meng Jiayi, Fan Ha, and even Fan Cai, whose ears had perked up since he was mentioned.
"He is dead," he muttered weakly, his voice cracking slightly as he did.
He may have not known the man, but he spent the better part of his life thinking about him, especially with him potentially being his father and now hearing that he was dead, he felt like someone had punched a whole through his stomach and reached out for his heart.
"How?" he bleakly muttered once more as the rims of his eyes reddened.
"He got injured trying to save my life, an injury that forever shattered his prospects at reaching the domain realm," Fan Ha softly said as she clenched her fists, her face, still as taciturn as it was, but the fluctuations in her voice showed it was anything but calm.
"You know he never blamed you nor did he ever regret how it turned out, sister Fan Ha," Xie Yuan said casting a sympathetic look toward Fan Ha.
"And we never blamed you either... At the start maybe because of the sudden loss of what could have been, but now no one does. You don’t owe us anything, Sister Fan Ha. Whatever you think you owe us, you have repaid several times over," she added, in an almost pleading tone.
"I appreciate your thoughts Sister Xie Yuan," replied Fan Ha, her expression softening slightly as she addressed the Starlight Lake’s sect master.
From their interaction, and how Fan Ha only seemed to show emotion where she was involved, Yang Qing guessed they seemed to have a really good relationship, either that or Fan Ha’s guilt propelled her to act differently with Xie Yuan, considering the sect master seemed to have had feelings for Liu Jie.
Fan Cai on the other hand looked lost and confused, unsure of how to deal with the news of the death of someone he had longed to see just as much as his mother. He had just gotten his mother and confirmed she was alive, but in the same turn, he also confirmed that his potential father was dead.
