Daily life of a cultivation judge



The trio decided to head to their abodes in Blue Peak. On the journey over, Yang Qing took the time provided by the walkover to explain to the duo what the ancients were.

"I can't believe such terrifying beings exist.." Dai Chen said with a sigh after Yang Qing completed his explanation.

"I wonder how many of them are there? And could they.." Zhang Qingee cautiously looked around her as she motioned for the two to bend closer before she said,

"Could they too have parents like.." 

Her statement made a chill run down the spines of Dai Chen and Yang Qing.

They shuddered at the thought of it. 

"Everything has a balance in the world as part of an order. Even if they did have parents, maybe they were normal, unlike them or the ancients are like natural treasures that require the involvement of the world's origin Dao for them to be created, the same thing could apply to the ancients, same as how natural physiques appear..." Yang Qing said.

"With their absurdly long lifespans, I wonder which realms they have reached? If one was given a million-year lifespan, even with a trashy cultivation talent, at the very least reaching the soul formation realm.." said Dai Chen

"Trashy cultivation talent ..huh... Dai, are you taking a dig at the talent of Jiang Fu's ancestor?" Yang Qing teasingly said drawing an awkward smile from him.

"It is scary to imagine it. Dean Zhu Lao told me the green fog swamp was created as a result of one move made by one of them, which destroyed a peak sect that was at the same level as a holy land.

I don't know if that particular ancient was strong even when compared to other ancients but the fact that they could create something like the green fog swamp sect means their realms at the very least I don't believe a soul formation expert can do that.

That particular ancient has more than likely reached the realm above it.." Yang Qing gravely said.

His expression was shared by the two.

As a peak-level organization, they were privy to information that wasn't available to most within the continent, which was in relation to the cultivation realms.

As far as the general populace was concerned, the highest peak one could ever reach in cultivation was the soul formation realm, more specifically the soul supreme stage.

Yang Qing didn't know much about the soul supreme realm, but for clarity so that they could have a general sense of it, they were told a bit about their basic abilities.

When it came to lifespans when one reached the soul supreme realm, the soul's aging process changed qualitatively. 

It's like time reaches a penultimate point before stillness for a soul supreme expert. The concept of aging almost loses bearing for them since five thousand years could pass by but those years were recorded as five minutes had passed by where their souls were concerned.

The whole lifespan of a peak core formation expert could be summed up as just five minutes beneath the gaze of a soul supreme expert.

Yang Qing even sometimes wondered if it was even possible for them to exhaust their lifespan. They didn't need a body to live, a wisp of their soul was enough to reform them in an instant. He didn't know if there were immortals or if immortality was possible but the soul supreme cultivators were the closest to it.

Other than their absurd lifespans, came their base abilities that could send shivers down Yang Qing's spine and the rest who had been present when they were being taught the particulars of a soul supreme expert.

Usually the further up one goes, the larger the gap between different realms but also between the minor stages between the same realm but they were not completely absurd.

A body refinement cultivator could escape from a qi refinement cultivator in a fight. Their odds of escape were high, however, that was only to those at the silver stage and below, the same logic didn't apply to those with a gold body, diamond body, or the peerless jade body, especially, the latter two.

When one reached such a stage, anybody in the qi refinement realm from the first all the way to the twelfth stage, could forget about threatening their life, provided they didn't have the same foundations as them in the body refining realm.

Someone with a peerless jade physique could fight toe to toe with a peak-stage qi refinement cultivator. 

Foundations matter at that level which helps bridge the gap. Those same foundations also play a part in the next realms. Someone with sturdy foundations and at the peak of the qi refinement realm could survive trading blows with someone with an early-stage foundation establishment cultivator, and if said cultivator has the lowest grades, the white pillars, even a middle stage could suffer a loss against someone at the level of Yang Qing in terms of foundation.

Then when you move up, though foundations still play a part in cross-realm fighting, it gets much harder. A peak foundation establishment cultivator with purple-grade pillars could exchange a few blows with someone at the early stage of the core formation realm but winning was out the window, and when it reached the gap between core formation and palace realm, cross-realm fights were impossible.

Sturdy foundations meant nothing, since those who can reach the palace realm and above have sturdy foundations themselves. Then came the gaps between minor realms. At the qi refinement realm, foundation establishment realm, and core formation realm, the gaps between the early, middle, and late stages were not that distinctive.

When one reached the palace realm that's when there would be gaps between minor realms which was why Yang Qing and the rest were forced to team up against the founder of the Ice Emerald Sect who had been at the sixth stage of the palace realm.

However, they were able to pull it off, but when you reached the domain realm, things became harder, and the gap between someone at the first stage and someone at the fifth stage of the domain realm was a huge gulf.

With such a gap, you either run at the first instant or find ten other domain experts at the early stage to force a draw against the fifth-stage domain expert.