Daily life of a cultivation judge



A bunch of the herbs collected from Liang Tian's farm for purposes of the case had excellent quality, matching even those grown from the herb gardens of the Medicine Valley.

"Then there's the luminescent moss that senior Bai Zou brought the other day...."

"Ahem, Liang Tian while I appreciate the step-by-step introduction of the plants on your farm, and would like to hear more about it later, for now, could we focus on the three herbs you usually sell Owner Bai Zou and whether there were any of the three that you changed up on how you cultivated them.." said Yang Qing.

"Sorry.." said Liang Tian as he grinned foolishly while scratching the back of his mind in embarrassment.

"Well of the three herbs in question I haven't changed much when it comes to the ocean tassel and volcanic fennel. They're pretty hardy plants and highly adaptable.

For the ocean tassel as long as the water it grows under has the same saline conditions maintained and the lighting controlled, it grows with minimal interference for my part.

I use the marine jadeite crystal to maintain the saline conditions and its essence hasn't been drained yet, it's about 7 years shy of it.

As for the lighting part, I use the Eclipse oak tree for that. It absorbs the sunlight around it, which is where I placed the pond containing the ocean tassel. Its leaves are still intact, and it only wilts once every eight months, and it's at night during the full moon. 

As for the volcanic fennel, it's the easiest. its growing area is basically supported and run by an array supported by the beast core of an infernal gland salamander that was at the peak of the core formation stage.

Since I laid down the formation, I've never touched it."

"Thank you senior Bai Zou for the core..I'm thinking of adding spirit flame lemon grass with the volcanic fennel. I feel like the grass would work well with the mutton soup you bring by..." Liang Tian suddenly said, deviating.

"I'll bring some next time when I come, but please finish answering Judge Yang Qing's questions first. We can discuss the other matters after.." Bai Zou gently said as he looked toward Yang Qing like a parent asking a teacher to let off their kid.

"The white scale fairy moss was the one I had a problem with a few years ago but I rectified it. The fairy moss has stringent requirements on the water it grows from. It needs to be dense with wood qi, and yin qi, however, the water feeding into my farm had yang qi mixed into it a few years ago.

While the levels were not that detrimental to it, it would slow down the rate of maturity of the red-scale fairy moss. So every morning before the sun hits, I would sprinkle it with dew collected from the leaves of the moonlit cypress tree on my farm.

The dew it produces has a gentle yin qi in it, which suited perfectly to meet the needs of the white-scale fairy moss.

The quality was in no way compromised or damaged because of it. Over the years I've continually checked it, and I even compared it to the fairy moss I had stored up before the water used in the farm got yang qi concentrations. The qualities are similar. 

Miss Xia Ting picked a few samples, you can compare both and see they're the same, Judge Yang Qing."

"And for what it's worth, I don't think senior Bai Zou is someone who would poison their customers.." added Liang Tian.

"Thank you Liang Tian.."

"Seniors, it's up to you now.." said Yang Qing. 

"Daoist Luo Fan, I'll take the herbs how about you take Miss Li Shu's inspection first? then we can finish up with the inspection of the spirit beasts. What do you think?" asked Alchemist Ma Bo.

"Let's do it that way.." Alchemist Luo Fan readily agreed.

"Miss Li Shu please don't move," Alchemist Luo Fan said as he walked towards her, stopping a few inches away from her.

"Mmh, it's as I guessed.." he muttered after casually scanning her for a few seconds.

Carp of illumination

Alchemist Luo Fan pointed his index finger toward her and a silver carp was produced from his fingertip. The carp was palm-sized and slender and had blue glyphs in its eyes.

Li Shu was taken aback by its lifelike appearance especially when it turned its gaze toward her, she felt like she had been locked on by a real-live spirit beast.

She was about to take a step back because of the pressure the carp was emitting but she remembered Alchemist Luo Fan's order and stood still.

The carp produced a water ball from its mouth that it fired at Li Shu which immediately expanded from a tiny pebble-sized ball to a big ball that was large enough to envelop her and even leave some room for her to move all her limbs around if she wanted to.

The moment Li Shu was enveloped in the water ball the silver carp dived into the blue water ball and then swam directly into Li Shu's body.

Li Shu on instinct blocked her body with her arms, but the carp was like a specter as it phased through her defense and penetrated her body.

Just as Li Shu was wondering what the carp was up to, she saw glowing lines suddenly appear on her body, and the resplendence of that glow grew brighter by the second to the point it could be seen even through her blue robes.

The lines grew in number by the minute, till every part of her body had them.

Vice palace master Pan Xin tugged at palace master Meng Ye's robe as he pointed at Li Shu and the water ball.

"That?" asked Pan Xin with a voice of disbelief.

"It's all her meridians and composition, internal organs, vessels ..everything within her internal structure.." answered Meng Ye with disbelief herself as she took in what was before her

Li Shu's current outward look had transformed. The water ball had shrunk both in size and shape. Its shape became humanoid and surrounded her like a translucent protective membrane. The glowing lines reflected themselves on that membrane, and what seemed to be random lines at fast became the outline of her entire internal structure. 

The meridians, vessels, and internal organs were depicted on the membrane. One could see a massive bowl-sized object at the center of her navel that had a blue wave swirling in a clockwise manner and from that object were multiple channels coming out of it that went throughout her body.

At present the color showing around her body was one single color, which was blue, but after a few seconds, two more colors appeared which were deep yellow and white color and a tinge of green.

Blue was the most dominant, then followed by yellow and white and finally green which appeared in a single place which was her stomach.

"A yin yang imbalance..." said Alchemist Ma Ba as he came over holding the white scaled fairy moss in one hand, and stroking his beard with the other.