Daily life of a cultivation judge

Chapter 1218: Wish fulfilled

“So that’s what happened,” Yang Qing said with a sigh. As cold as Xia Cangfu’s words had been, he could understand them.

The dangers the Xia clan now faced were of their own making. The incident involving the celestial light hawthorn could still be understood. In the fight for treasures, there is usually no right or wrong.

Many cultivators would have acted the same as that elder and ignored the rogue cultivator’s plea and left with the celestial light hawthorn. After all, it was a rare and precious resource, one that could shift the fate of a cultivator’s journey, or even elevate an entire organization, as it had with the Xia clan by ushering in their golden era.

Yang Qing couldn’t fault them for taking it. They didn’t know the rogue cultivator, and they owed him nothing. But how they treated the retainer clans… now that was on them.

These were people they knew. People they had a history with. Yet they turned on them without hesitation, out of greed and selfish ambition.

Not for a second did Yang Qing believe it had anything to do with self-preservation or wariness toward the retainer clans. That was greed, plain and simple.

There was no reason to fear the four retainer clans. Not with the Silver Crane Sect behind them. Which was likely why their ancestor’s parting words to Xia Cangfu and the others had been so specific—to walk away from the clan if it turned against his disciples or their families. His instructions did not cover the reverse because there was zero chance of it happening.

No matter how strong the retainer clans became, Yang Qing had no doubt in his heart that they would have never acted against the Xia clan first, not with the Silver Crane Sect backing them. There was no way they’d take that risk, and judging by their actions, it was clear they were meticulous people.

This meant the only ones who could have acted freely were the Xia clan. In the end, their greed and short-sightedness doomed them.

Had they not confiscated the core artifacts of those retainer clans and triggered their ancestor’s will, the incident with the celestial light hawthorn wouldn’t have played out the way it did. The Silver Crane Sect wouldn’t have hung them out to dry and left them to deal with the fallout alone.

Given the sect’s strength and the Xia Clan’s founder’s status within the sect, the Silver Crane Sect would have likely intervened. And if they had, then that rogue cultivator’s son would have most likely left empty-handed. Even if he brought in the Cyan Crescent Kingdom, that outcome probably wouldn’t have changed.