As this was going on, up on the platform a different transformation was taking place. The pearl produced by the spirit of the variant ancestral dragon vein was in Chief Justice Lai Ning's hands.
He clenched it with his tiny hands and the pearl was ground to dust and in its place, two objects appeared. One of them was a dark golden-colored robe and the other was a golden liquid that kept morphing into different shapes until it finally settled into an eagle.
The eagle seemed lifelike as it preened its feathers and looked around with deep interest. If one didn't see the process in which it was created, one would assume it was a live golden eagle.
"For obvious reasons, you can't put on your new robes yet, so just hang on to it until tomorrow," Chief Justice Lai Ning said as he handed Yang Qing the dark golden robes.
The Judges wore different colored robes to show which courts they were stationed at. Those at the core formation courts wore light blue robes, while those in the palace courts wore dark gold robes, those in the domain courts wore black robes and lastly those in the spirit courts wore white robes, though it was still in doubt whether there was even a spirit court in the first place.
Soul formation experts were respectable figures even within the Holy Lands, thus a feud or a case involving a soul formation expert was next to impossible.
Who would go tell on a soul formation expert to the Order that they did so and so? The only party that had the guts to do that was another soul formation expert and they wouldn't do that and would instead prefer to settle the matter themselves.
Also, there was the matter of apprehending a soul formation expert. Any soul formation expert whether they were in soul beginner stage or the soul supreme stage had countless means to evade capture or guarantee their survival in unexpected situations. Therefore, the only way to capture one was through overwhelming force and have all escape routes and the battle area covered, or if it is a fight to the death where none of you is willing to leave until the other party is dead. Such a situation even makes it hard to capture a soul formation expert alive.
Therefore, the existence of the Spirit Courts has continually been one of those unanswered mysteries within the Order. The respect and also the difficulty of apprehending a soul formation expert, adds doubt to their existence.
How many cases are there that involve Soul formation experts?
In the years' Yang Qing has been at the Order, he has never heard of a single instance of one being judged.
But the destruction of the Dark Helminth Ghost Sect and the demotion of the rank 1 sect, the Star collapsing sword sect at the hands of the Order, did mean on some level there was a section of the Order that handled cases involving Soul formation experts.
….
The moment Yang Qing's hands fell on the robe, he felt the softness and the grandness of it at the same time. If it wasn't for the experience, he had with the Blue universe enclave robe, this would have been the best robe he had ever had in his entire life.
The touch of it felt like he was passing his hands through a soft galaxy of stars. It was gentle, comforting, and relieving. He could even feel his mind being refreshed, and everything within his body from his qi, his palace realm down to even his internal organs were being strengthened subtly the more he held onto the robe.
Yang Qing's eyebrows shot up as he wondered what this robe was made of. Just the preliminary effects made the Celestial nesting weaver's nest that he was so proud, seem like a dung beetle's home in comparison.
"Kid your luck is pretty good.." Blue Universe like usual dutifully stepped in.
Luckily for Yang Qing, Blue Universe seemed to have been peeping on his thoughts or was really good at reading people. Yang Qing hoped it was the latter.
"This place keeps surprising me more and more on the amount of talent it has.
I can't believe they are giving you a robe made out of; Twisting bright horizon gold, binding flaxen skies crystal, silk from the carmine visage amethyst worm, fur from the saffron tears brass tigress, the lucent twilight tourmaline and it looks to have also been soaked in waters from the curse evasion maroon cloud.. wait there's even silk invisible evasive sands….
It seems they keep changing the materials every time but the grade of materials is always at the same standard…" Blue Universe said with an envious sigh.
"Senior is this a time to take a breath, you are a saint-grade robe, you don't need a breath…quick, finish what you were saying…...
WHAT IS THEIR GRADE?!!!" Yang Qing madly yelled in his mind, hoping Blue Universe would be peeping into his thoughts again and get the loud hint waiting for him in there.
Before today, he had never heard of any of the materials Blue Universe just mentioned. He was a man of simple pleasures and zero treasures. With his current state of financial affairs over the years, Yang Qing chose to admire the things that were within his financial means, which meant buying scraps at the market in the hopes they were treasures, and most of his bought items were usually finished broken decrepit items or cultivation arts, something he could gauge easily, but when it came to natural treasures, it was a different case.
Those who had a plethora of information about natural treasures were usually those who had the means of buying said treasures, leeches who had access to people who could buy them said treasures or people who sold said treasures to those who could afford them.
Yang Qing didn't fit any of those categories. He did try to be a leech on the Order, but the Order proved to be a stingy mighty foe, they even managed to hoist a leech of their own on him, by the name of the Celestial nesting weaver, which ensured having savings was an extinct concept to him.
The thought of his circumstances made his blood boil, but he soon calmed down thanks to the passive effects of the robe he was just given. It seemed to have the effect of calming him down. Yang Qing couldn't help but click at how wonderous the robe was.
"Senior, please continue," Yang Qing whispered in his mind which seemed to have had an effect as Blue Universe finished his statement.
"They are all made of ascendant grade materials that are at the very least mid to high tier in quality. And as for the craftsmanship based on the way they seamlessly melded those materials together, bringing out their respective strengths without a dip in quality, at the very least they are at the gold grade level in terms of skill, and based on their standard, I wouldn't be surprised if they met the requirements of being a purple grade craftsman in 100 years or less.
Truly remarkable, but I can't help but feel it's a waste since you will probably get another robe when you get promoted to the domain courts, which going by your talent won't be long.
It won't be nearly enough time for you to help raise the budding spirit in this robe to your level..." Blue Universe said with pity in his tone.
