Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 910: Three entities as one

Only after the last recording had finished playing did Xiao Gun resume talking.

"The last deal we made with the Sacred Kirin Manor was of that cauldron, and the deal was struck 67 years ago. That cauldron was something we found in some nondescript cave we stumbled onto on our way to try our like at the Millionsfold Treasure Ocean.." Xiao Gun said as he smiled slightly at the thought of how reckless they had been.

The Millionsfold Treasure Ocean was indeed filled with countless treasures too many count with many of them having miraculous abilities capable of even turning the fortunes of three rogue cultivators and transforming them from the malnourished and impoverished carps they were into dragons.

But as opulent as that place was, fortune and danger went hand in hand. For as many opportunistic encounters as the place provided, it provided risks in equal measure. The ugliness and ruthlessness of the Bestial Churning Sea were evident for all to see while the Millionsfold Treasure Ocean looked like this paradisiacal landscape that beautifully hid its ruthlessness.

It may not look as gorey as the Bestial Churning Sea did but that beautiful exterior hid the number of lives it had claimed. Those numbers more than tripled that of the Bestial Churning Sea. There were dangers all around, be it from the ocean itself, specifically the treasures that lurked within it which would sooner kill those after them than let themselves be claimed, or the greedy cultivators looking to steal from others.

The Millionsfold Treasure Ocean was no place for three rogue core formation cultivators with average talent, to go try their luck, and back then Xiao Gun and the rest knew that too. It’s just that they were too desperate from stalling out at the peak stage of the core formation realm for years on end, without one of them showing signs of sensing the doors to the palace realm.

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The desperation to improve their strength coupled with the fear of stagnation and their dwindling lifespan prompted them to take that risk, but luckily they ended up finding the crane-shaped cauldron before they made it that far.

But when his thoughts centered on the cauldron, he couldn’t help but grit his teeth in anger and frustration, with the focus of that anger and frustration falling on Yao De.

He took a second to compose himself and continued.

"When we found it, it was tucked away beneath some rubble in one of the rooms that had been hollowed out within the cave. The cave had small fluctuations evidence of an array that had been placed around it.

Either due to the wear and tear of time, or some other reason, everything that remained of that array had been eroded, and all that was left was residual energy that showed something had once been placed there.

It was Fu Yong’s obsession and familiarity with arrays and Yao Chang’s strengthened soul that they both realized there was something off about the cave.

As rogue cultivators long used to exploring anything that remotely showed some oddity to it, we dived into the cave in the hopes that maybe we would find something that would be able to change our fates.

And that we did. Covered behind rubble and the fog of time, there it was, a cauldron which even though had evidence of how merciless time was, its luster and presence remained unmarred by it.

We may have not known about its origins other than the name that was written on the ladle, but just its presence alone was enough to let us know the cauldron was not an ordinary thing, and maybe finally we may have just found our dragon gate.

We already had an agreement active, so there was no risk of us falling out with each other because of the cauldron.

For fear that we might get ambushed for finding the cauldron, we hurriedly left the place with the cauldron and all its contents carefully stored away and left for the Sacred Kirin Manor for them to structure a new deal centered around the cauldron we found.

Once there, we did try and see if we could decipher its mysteries but with our limited understanding and abilities, whatever secrets it held were lost on us, and we couldn’t ask the Sacred Kirin Manor to appraise it for us, since such services didn’t fall on what they offered.

When it came to payment for the services rendered, we offered the ladle to the manor, while we remained with the bamboo scroll and the cauldron.

The scroll ended up being just as mysterious as the cauldron. No matter what means we used, we could not remove the papyrus reeds that bound.

Maybe because of how long we have been using their services, or maybe because of how precious the ladle we handed to them, may have been, but the person in charge of enforcing our deal did offer a few pieces of advice and hints.

While he didn’t outrightly explain all the intricate mysteries behind it, he did tell us of one thing that mattered to us which was the grade of the thing and the subtlety of it all.

The scroll, the cauldron, and the ladle might have seemed like separate entities but they were in fact one, like how a tree had different branches. Together they combined to form an ascendant-grade treasure, but separately they each had the abilities of monarch-grade artifacts, and top-tier ones at that.

Their origin may have been damaged, which the overseer didn’t expound on, but he did tell us even with the damage to their foundations, the three artifacts separately still had the abilities of a monarch-grade artifact, albeit low-tier ones, and combined while its might couldn’t reach the ascendant grade due to the damage to its origin, it was still a thousand miles ahead of any monarch grade artifact.

We couldn’t believe it when we heard that. Our luck had finally turned a millionfold..." Xiao Gun said as he wore a dejected smile.