Daily life of a cultivation judge



An overbearing pressure flooded the area as a dense smell of blood, and corpses flooded the place.

The ground shook like a catastrophic earthquake was happening.

Dai Chen, Zhang Qingge, Wei Ying, and Mo Liwei quickly stabilized as their gazes fell on the cloud of dust slowly clearing up.

"Is that still the founder?!" muttered Yang Qing as he looked at the behemoth creature that had just revealed itself from the dust.

In front of them was a snake whose size made it seem like it could swallow ten whales in a single sitting with no problem.

Just a single scale of the beast was about the size of his whole hand. 

Lying before them was an enormous snake with red scales. The red scales had a shine, making it seem like they were made of red gemstones. They glistened with a beauty that was enchanting and deadly.

Its eyes had the same matching red pupils that exhibited the same dangerous allure. They seemed to have a hypnotic effect the more one stared into them.

Cold frosty red mist was constantly being released from the gaps between its scales.

"Is that a Ba She?" asked Dai Chen as he looked at the monstrosity below that was still squirming seemingly adjusting its movements to the ground it was on top of.

Every time it moved, the ground below it would form large fissures, as it caved it from the weight of its movements.

"It would seem so, though this one, I don't know how to put it, seems strangely artificial.." said Wei Ying as a pensive look appeared on her face.

The alarm calls she felt at the start of the sentence became a lot more distinctive when the snake appeared.

In terms of strength, the snake before them, despite its size, the cultivation base still matched that of Feng Qiu, and it was that of a sixth-stage palace realm expert.

However, even though the cultivation base was the same, there was something about it that felt disconcerting. The feeling was ephemeral, which was why Wei Ying was puzzled about it, which was why she went on to share her concerns with the rest of the judges.

They all had pensive looks on their faces, especially Yang Qing, who seemed like he had something on his mind that clicked when he heard Wei Ying's statement.

"I received something from senior Green Cocoon.."

Yang Qing made a pause when he noticed the puzzled look on the judges' faces that seemed like they were asking the question,

"Who is this senior Green Cocoon? How come we haven't heard anything about him or her with a name so unique as that one.."

"Ahem, this senior is the spirit of the saint-grade treasure, the necklace made from the 500,000-year-old silkworm.." 

"500,000 year old silkworm...wait! the spirit talked to you?!! when I had it, it was dormant. Blue Universe said it was asleep. At the time I thought it didn't like me much and Blue Universe only made the excuse it slept for years, to make me feel better, but when I asked about the experience of others, they all had the same experience.." Wei Ying said in an incredulous tone, with curiosity shining in her eyes like a curious cat.

"What is it like? How was its voice?" she rapidly fired one question after another.

"Even though I didn't get a response from it, I got a warm motherly feeling from it..It helped me survive the introduction to Senior Blue Universe and Senior Veiled Destiny...." softly muttered Zhang Qingge, with her eyes showing just like Wei Ying, she too was curious about the details of Green Cocoon.

"Oh yeah the enigmatic treasure, I spent my synchronization sharing wine lists with senior Blue Enclave. I wish I had more time.... the recipes he shared were ingenious..." Dai Chen said as he licked his lips with a gluttonous smile appearing on his face.

"She did talk to me once and then went silent.." Mo Liwei suddenly said with a wry smile.

"She?!"

"What did she say?"

"She laughed and said she wished my ancestor was there to see his descendant that has a turtle's persona...she laughed for quite a bit and then dozed off..." Mo Liwei showed he was clearly embarrassed by the tale as he lowered his voice when talking.

The embarrassment grew when he saw the looks the four judges were giving him that seemed to say

"We totally see it.."

"So the senior is a lady? was her voice aged?" asked Wei Ying, which snow balled the conversation into Green Cocoon's personality and other matters that went completely tangent to what Yang Qing wanted to discuss by bringing up the enigmatic saint-grade treasure.

"Do we have time for this?" he wryly thought as he looked at the Ba She that was geared to attack them.

Their conversation barely took half a minute since they were using their palace sense to communicate, but still, Yang Qing felt odd for holding a gossip session in the middle of a fight.

"Did Mao Mao get to them too?" he wondered before he decided to refocus the topic, because he saw the Ba She was well on its way to attack them, and for some reason, he felt it was ill-tempered.

"Senior Green Cocoon left me something in my palace realm which had a slight reaction the moment the burst of red light appeared. It was only for a brief moment before it went back to normal.." 

The instant the red glow appeared from the opal, Yang Qing felt the green orb floating dormant next to the green flame tree at the center of his palace realm, suddenly flicker, then it went back to normal.

If Wei Ying hadn't said anything, he would have likely overlooked the flicker and assumed it had something to do with how hard he was pushing his realm as he multi-tasked.

His guess was reasonable since when palace realm cultivators fought, their palace realm would exhibit changes since it was a conduit for their power. The green ocean within his palace realm had been repetitively swaying back and forth with a lot of high tides appearing, while the green flame tree burned with a fiery green flame that reached the skies of his palace realm.

He thought the green orb that had formed as a result of what Green Cocoon gave him, had reacted due to the changes in his palace realm since it was within the vicinity, and Green Cocoon had likely given him to aid him in his cultivation.

It reacting to the movements within his palace realm seemed reasonable enough, that is until Wei Ying shared her doubts.