Daily life of a cultivation judge

"The green jade key will grant you the authority as the defacto owner of the Green jade pavilion, which is a rank 4 merchant organization under the control of the Order using the White rose pavilion as a hidden proxy, so if anyone looks they'll think it's one of their many subsidiaries that isn't worth any mention.

The pavilion has a lot of businesses under it from alchemy shops, to blacksmith shops, to apparel manufacturing and the like. It makes a decent profit, however, none of the members working there are in any way tied to the Order. 

The top leaders think they are owned by some organization under the White Rose Pavilion. However, they have no idea of the organization, but what they do know is to respect the holder of that key as the overall leader of the pavilion," said Assistant Shi.

Yang Qing couldn't hide his excitement as he gently held the green jade key.

"You can also use the key as your identification at the Golden earth bank to withdraw the proceeds of the pavilions from there. They deposit 50% of the profits at the bank every three months.

In terms of the pavilion, I think it's okay to let things run autonomously, but if you want to be hands-on it's okay too since whatever you earn from them along with your discretionary fund is what you will use to support the informants should a need ever arise."

Yang Qing quickly inserted his spiritual sense into the jade slip to see what businesses were under the Green jade pavilion. He was surprised to find despite being a rank 4 merchant organization, they had their hands in a lot of different kinds of business, though some were mostly small scale, however, their bread and butter were in medicine and herb trade.

Yang Qing eagerly went through the list almost as if he was looking for something specific.

"The pavilion doesn't have a restaurant under its list of businesses if that's what you're searching for…" said Assistant Shi.

Yang Qing instantly deflated when he heard that.

"It's not all bad though. Unlike the discretionary fund, whatever you choose to do with the 50% share of the Green Jade pavilion is entirely up to you. Just as long as you're able to handle anything that crops up with your information network, we don't care how or what you spend that share on," said Assistant Shi as he looked on in amusement at Yang Qing's sporadic changes in emotion.

"How much do they make annually?" asked Yang Qing with eagerness in his voice.

"About 10 million high-grade spirit stones a year, though there have been a few good years that its reached about 30 million," answered Assistant Shi.

Had Yang Qing not known about the amount in the discretionary fund he would have been excited about the figure, however, the 40 million figure warped his sensibilities. He couldn't help but think 10 million was too low despite it being an amount he was free to do as he wished unlike the 40 million.

Assistant Shi chose to ignore his despondency and went on to finish with his explanation.

"The last item on the list is the feather of a crystal tear Yuan. Each of the 24 informants has a feather just like that one, however, the one you have is the main controller of the feathers they have.

You will need to refine it with a wisp of your spiritual essence. Once you have, you can insert a bit of your essence into it and it will link you to the other 24 feathers which have also been refined with their owner's spiritual essence. 

The crystal tear Luan is a rare bird with attunement to both soul and space. With the feather you can contact the other informants and using your feather as a conduit, you'll appear in a different domain linked by the feather. Using wisps of your spiritual essence, you can communicate with each other. However because these are just its feathers you can't communicate for more than 2 minutes, otherwise you risk damaging it.

You will need to give it a four-day cool down after every use and it also needs spirit stones or dense spiritual liquids to renew it. So only use it for emergencies or when you want to set up a location for the meetup with the informants.

Other than that I don't think there's anything more to add. The informants have already been informed that you will soon be in contact with them. So please do reach out to them as soon as possible.

I wish you all the best in your new journey, I know it's a lot but the fact that you made it here means you're up to the task. Do take care of yourself Judge Yang Qing and thank you for these.

I have a feeling you may end up with a sizeable profit this year young judge," said Assistant Shi as he pointed to the vermilion wine and the smoked pork.

He gobbled up the remaining piece and downed the wine remaining in his urn. He got up after that and faded like a fuzzy shadow before Yang Qing even had the time to offer his thanks.

"Thanks, Assistant Shi, I hope I will be able to measure up," muttered Yang Qing as he cupped his fist in the empty office.

"Guess this will have to wait till later tonight when I'm done with everything," thought Yang Qing as he fiddled around with the crystal feather with an encumbered look.

Yang Qing sighed heavily as he stored away the three items and disappeared from his chambers with the use of his gold eagle medallion. 

He reappeared an instant later and made his way to the internal logistics division to begin the procedure of liquidating his abode before he went to the external logistics division to introduce himself to Lu Mei the person from the division attached to his court who would aid him in converting and settling up the payments of his commissions, then after that was when he would finally make his way to Requiem and finish his events for the day.