Daily life of a cultivation judge

Yang Qing slowly made his way to the palace courts. The mechanism of transport was still the same. He still needed the mimicry chaos sky metal to access the courtrooms, however unlike before, he now went to the side that had the plaque with the words 'palace' on top of it.

The hallways of the palace courts were still in the same design as the ones from the core formation courts. From the materials used on the floor and doors, down to the aesthetics.

Yang Qing clicked his tongue in disdain at another reminder of the Order's stingy ways. His opinion was of course tainted and jaded from all the experience he has had with the Order over the years which left him on the losing end. This was why he conveniently chose to ignore the part that every single material used whether it was at the core formation courts or the palace courts, were all ascendant grade materials, which was something that most organizations wouldn't use freely like the Order.

Yang Qing decided to use the public hallway rather than the employees-only route. He wanted to personally see for himself if the number of cases were similar to the core formation courts or were things in the palace courts much better.

What he saw made him inadvertently smile as he nodded to himself in gratification. Even though the hallway was swamped with cultivators from different organizations, Yang Qing could tell the number was much lower than the one at the core formation courts. Just on a rough estimate, the number present was half of what he saw at the core formation courts on a slow day.

Because of the good mood he was in, Yang Qing even went around offering greetings to the cultivators he came across the hallway. His actions drew a lot of curious gazes, especially from the nervous crowds that were more than likely defendants about to receive harsh sentencing. 

Some even took Yang Qing's greeting as a cue to try and plead their innocence before they were heard. It happened four or five times before Yang Qing decided to reign in his enthusiasm, otherwise, if things turned chaotic from the pleas, he may end up having those cases thrown into his docket.

Luckily it didn't take him long before he saw a courtroom door with the number 24 on it. This would be his new home for the foreseeable future until he gained the qualifications to be promoted to the domain courts. 

Even though the palace courts had the outer palace courts, the inner palace courts, and the core palace courts, the judges would still retain the same courtroom even as they got promoted along the palace courts. The only changes they'd get would be in terms of salary and duties, however, the courtroom and their chambers would not change.

"I almost forgot about it," thought Yang Qing as he paused his footsteps at the door of his courtroom.

"No, I'll need to get it sorted out the moment I'm done here. I can't give them enough time to weasel their way out of it and try to force that abode on me," anxiously thought Yang Qing.

Thoughts about his new chambers made him realize he had forgotten an important thing. As a palace realm cultivator, he should enjoy all rights offered by the Order to someone of that realm, and one of those rights was being given an abode in the gold valley of the Glowing respite valley. 

Regardless of his promotion, he was already entitled to the abode three months ago, the moment it was confirmed he was in the palace realm. However due to unavoidable circumstances tied to old fiend Lei Weiyuan, Yang Qing ended up postponing the matter, and then he forgot about the matter altogether somewhere in between those three months.

But now that he had recalled it, it was time to settle it. He had no intention of moving, not after all he spent on the dream cloud abode in the blue valley and the nest of the celestial nesting weaver. Yang Qing had doubts about whether the abode in the gold valley would be able to match his current accommodations. He was sure whatever abode he got, would have the bare minimum and would require him to spend countless resources to improve on it.  The Order was still the same stingy monster it always was.

Yang Qing would rather not undertake that thankless task that was sure to put a dent in his resources. He had already decided he would redeem the value of his abode, which was a common thing around the Order. Those who didn't want the abode for any reason had the option to 'sell back' the abode to the Order. 

The Order would compensate them the value of the abode in whatever form of payment they deem fit. It could be in spirit stones, artifacts, and natural treasures, or redeeming the services of certain departments of the Order such as the formation hall, and alchemy hall or even gaining access to certain special training areas that required merit points to access. 

Yang Qing had a lot of choices on what he could choose as the equivalent value for the liquidation of his abode. He had zeroed his options to two; he would either have the formation arrays in his abode improved, or he would use it to redeem something from the Orders open vault. 

The open vault was the only treasury within the Order that one could access through merit points or spirit stones or trade-in for something of value. It was like the Order's open market. If you had anything of value, you could use it for trade at the open vault. The rest of the treasuries within the Order were special access. You couldn't get to them unless under very specific conditions, however, the open vault was much laxer, but the items contained there were all of great quality and the high price to match. 

The purple lightning bamboo was something he had gotten from the vault and had cost him close to a hundred thousand merit points which in terms of purchasing power and value was greater than 10 million high-grade spirit stones. 

Yang Qing wanted to redeem his abode for a natural treasure or artifact. The symbiotic relationship he saw at Summerfield kingdom, of the blue grade formation, the quasi monarch grade tree, and the artifact anchoring the formation gave him ideas of promoting spirit development on two different objects just like he detected at the farm in Summerfield kingdom.

If the results of his experiment proved to be fruitful, he could try it on the green flame tree and the duality tree which despite being at the monarch grade, still had not developed their spirituality. The undeveloped spirituality wasn't because of a lack of talent but rather the high requirements imposed on both trees because of their lineage. One of them was intrinsically tied to the Life Dao and the other to the Space Dao. This meant their growth and maturity were slow compared to other trees.

Yang Qing decided to push the matter to the back of his mind as he pushed open the doors to his courtroom.