Daily life of a cultivation judge



"I waited for six months to stabilize a bit of my cultivation base before I went to search for them for compensation and an explanation.

Most of what I owned had been taken. For fear of losing them to the tribulation, I had them stored in the abode, and because I had some faith in their arrays, I thought nothing would happen and they would be safe.

The arrays I had them install should have been able to stop someone at the seventh stage of the core formation realm, and among those arrays, one of them was even a cloaking array meant to hide my abode from the public.

None of them seemed to have worked because 217 years later some children in the foundation establishment realm managed to get into my abode and abscond with all my items.

They took everything including my legacy art, insights into saber arts, my own collection  of different cultivation arts, ingredients and even destroyed the herb garden that I went to great lengths to create..."

Killing intent flashed for a brief second when he said this before Tang Qi hurriedly snuffed it out.

The members of the Silver Blade sect including their sect master trembled when that killing intent flashed.

"At the time, I had no idea who had stolen from me, so my first stop was automatically the Mountain Guarding Array Manor. 

While I don't know much about arrays, but thanks to the palace sense I can at least tell if the array was forcibly broken, which it didn't show any signs of. 

What it did show, was signs of an array that had degraded with time, which made no sense to me since I was 270 years early to the time we had set, which was 500 years.

So I went there and confronted them about it. But they denied it, claiming my tribulation was the one that destroyed it. It made no sense since those arrays had failed long before I faced my tribulations which happened two and a half years ago.

The disciples of the Silver Blade sect had already broken into the abode and stolen almost everything, eleven and a half years prior.

Words were exchanged and when they brought out two palace realm experts, I decided to accept my losses and leave..." Tang Qi said with a bitter smile.

When he broke through, he was ecstatic and over the moon, and when he felt the immense power that came with being a palace realm expert and how he could defeat 20 of his peak core formation stage, he was maddened with joy. 

He could feel it intrinsically, being in the palace realm had some quality to it that was different to the experience he had when he broke through to the foundation establishment realm and later when he broke through to the core formation realm.

While those two stages came with absurd leaps in strength, he still felt 'normal' like it was within the bounds of what the world found acceptable, within reason, like he was grounded in something,  but when he broke through to the palace realm, he felt it. He was different, and he couldn't put his finger on why, but he could feel like he had stepped onto a different stage.

He finally understood why only those who had reached the palace realm were considered true cultivators.

Riding that high, he wanted to do something that complemented his cheerful mood, which to no surprise was going to his garden and doing some farming based on certain insights he had gotten as he was breaking through. But all he got was an abode that was no different than a ruin, and he had been taken for all he had, even the flooring of some rooms had been dug out.

He couldn't believe what he saw. Everything he held of value, taken, well except for his saber which was on him as he was going through his tribulation. But everything else, even random dragon statues he thought would look cool in his abode were taken.

He was livid and with his palace realm strength, he was determined to settle accounts with all responsible and the first stop was the Mountain Guarding Array Manor who sold him faulty arrays.

He thought he could overturn the skies with his strength after all he was a palace realm expert now and a saber user with saber intent to boot.

He imagined it, how things would go. Him crippling a few of their members before slapping the teeth of their founder with the hilt of his saber and getting what he was owed and then some.

But finding his abode cleaned out wasn't the only horrible surprise he got. When he blew his top at the headquarters of the Mountain Guarding Array Manor, he finally realized why formation masters were to be feared.

In thirty minutes whatever self-respect he had as a palace realm expert was beaten out of him. Two killing arrays were enough to destroy him and bring some perspective and clarity to his life, the kind that someone gets when they are nearing death.

Am I about to die because of some slabs and stolen soil? I haven't even enjoyed the flight of a palace realm expert. This isn't how things are supposed to go...Right, I'm still at the Iron Shattering Palm sect and the potion's hallucination effects are about to wear off..Damn it!!

His life was spared at the behest of the owner of the manor Su Ye. Tang Qi high-tailed out of there as fast as he could, afraid that they would attack.

With a dose of humility and caution, he went back to his abode and slowly investigated who robbed him. He was still unreconciled, and some part of him wanted to vent that shame he had just endured on someone and he very much hoped the thieves were weaker than him, had no powerful background, and had no relation with formation masters.

Lucky for him, the Silver Blade Sect fit the requirements to a tee.