Daily life of a cultivation judge Chapter 1414: Where lies your fate? (4)

Regardless of how it ended for him, his presence and impact had been undeniable on both sides, because this group of rogue cultivators didn’t go down as easily as the organizations hunting them had expected, and they paid a very steep price for that underestimation.

But cultivators, if anything, were highly vindictive individuals. True to that nature, those organizations used every ans at their disposal to figure out how and why they lost, and they all arrived at the sa answer: Chen Wunlai, the gifted alchemist and healer who had single-handedly propped up the group while growing his own wings. After all, aside from his innate talent, the reason he was able to support his group so well was that, of all of them, the inheritance they had found was perfectly suited to him.

The inheritance Han Bai and the others found belonged to an ancient alchemy sect called the Dawn Pill Array Pavilion. The Dawn Cloud Oak Tree, upon which the auction house stood, was sothing they had acquired from a hidden, mysterious realm belonging to that sect.

The Dawn Pill Array Pavilion had achieved such mastery in alchemy that they used that understanding to derive the path of formations, becoming a sect well versed in both alchemy and arrays. It was why Yang Qing had strong reason to believe that the arrays within his VVIP section, especially the short-range teleportation array, most likely ca with the oak tree rather than being inscribed by the Vast Blue rchant Company later.

The reason for that was simple: as wealthy as they were, he doubted they had the wealth and connections to acquire the services of a top-tier, Gold-grade formation master, as that was the level of expertise and skills needed to carve even a short-range teleportation array.

Could the Vast Blue rchant Company afford such a master? Possibly, if they sold everything, including themselves, and even then, a deal wasn’t guaranteed. Not to ntion, on top of the astronomical cost just to get a face-to-face eting with a top-tier, Gold-grade formation master, the material cost of laying the formation was equally as high.

Given those demands, Yang Qing felt the formation likely ca with the tree, and that the ancient Dawn Pill Array Pavilion had probably inscribed the teleportation arrays. Maybe even the columns with the mythical creatures were spoils from the pavilion. There was an ancient feeling to the subtle fluctuations of the arrays inscribed on them, and the vivid engravings of mythical creatures seed as though they had been done by soone who had seen the real thing.

rging two paths, or deriving one from the other, was a great testant to how deep their foundations ran in both fields. For a talented alchemist and healer like Chen Wunlai, stumbling onto their inheritance was like giving wings to a tiger. He grew rapidly, supporting his group’s ascent alongside his own. Sadly, the tree that stands out is always the first to be cut down.

The instant he was singled out as the root cause of their misfortunes, all the sects and organizations after the Dawn Pill Array Pavilion’s inheritance poured their strength and resources into targeting him. Eventually, one of them succeeded: the Ye family of the Evergreen Stream Plains. This was a clan rooted in alchemy, which presently was a rank two clan, but at the ti had been a rank three clan with countless experts.

Alchemy was one of the few professions where amassing power and wealth was easy. A low-tier Blue-grade alchemist could raise more Core Formation experts within a short tifra than a middle- to late-stage Palace Realm expert might. And the sa went for wealth. A good potion or pill could shave years of bitter cultivation by introducing wondrous transformations to the body that allow for that shortage of ti.

The founder of the dical Saint Garden was living proof of what a good pill can do for you, as he was allowed to soar from a common mudfish into a majestic dragon who could stir the entire continent just from a few casual words.

So, the Ye family, despite not being a rank two family at the ti, possessed a deep, long-accumulated foundation in alchemy that gave them an accumulation and strength that was close to one, whether it be in terms of manpower or resources. A Domain expert was still a Domain expert. They held a power that no amount of Blue-grade potions or hundreds of Palace Realm experts could ever bridge. But if you didn’t have that, then having hundreds of Blue-grade potions and hundreds of Palace Realm experts was a great alternative—one which the Ye family had in plenty.

They used this foundation to hunt down Chen Wunlai and his cohorts, hoping to acquire the legacy of the Dawn Pill Array Pavilion, which, given that they were a family whose roots lay in alchemy, one could see the appeal. Perhaps they hoped the inheritance would let them finally produce a Domain expert of their own.

After all, no matter how much wealth you possessed or how much you resembled a rank two organization, an insurmountable gap existed between a group that had a Domain expert and one that did not. It didn’t matter how many years they had been established or how much wealth they had accumulated. If you lacked a Domain expert, you could have a thousand Palace Realm experts, countless resources, and a history spanning tens of thousands of years, but if a lone Domain expert targeted you, they could effortlessly take everything away.

Maybe because of this, their pursuit of Chen Wunlai and the others was relentless, and Chen Wunlai died. The others would likely have died too, had his friend(the disciple from the dical Saint Garden)not intervened. He was too late to save Chen Wunlai, so in his place, he used his na to shield his friends from the Ye clan and the others who hunted them for their inheritance.

As for the Ye clan, they sacrificed the person who delivered the killing blow to Chen Wunlai, like a lizard sacrificing its tail to save the body. The disciple of the dical Saint Garden could not pursue them beyond that, as the clan was subordinate to a rank-one power: the Scarlet Blaze Saber Sect. Several of their clan mbers were prominent within the sect, and their achievents in alchemy, boasting over a dozen Blue-grade alchemists, including a few top-tier ones, made them highly valued by the rank-one sect.

So, in as much as the dical Saint Garden held great prestige on the continent, even greater than the Scarlet Blaze Saber Sect, that friend, being just a disciple, could not do much beyond protecting and safeguarding the lives of Chen Wunlai’s friends. Fights over treasures were commonplace in the cultivation world. Even the Order did not punish them, stepping in only when such conflicts spilled over and implicated the innocent. Beyond that, they could do little.