Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 1139 - Celestial light hawthorn

1139: Celestial light hawthorn

1139: Celestial light hawthorn

Even though he hadn’t been there to witness it, seeing the anguish Xia Fang showed at that moment was more than enough for Yang Qing to understand what it must have been like for the other clan members.

One could argue it might have been even worse for those who had lived during the clan’s glory days.

They had both the fortune and misfortune of experiencing firsthand what it was like when their clan stood at its peak.

For them, those memories were a double-edged sword—proof that such days once existed, but also a cruel reminder of how far they’d fallen.

Meanwhile, those of Xia Fang’s generation had no such memories to cling to.

All they knew were stories passed down and their own imaginations trying to piece together a time when their clan stood tall.

Yang Qing couldn’t decide whose fate was worse—those who had seen everything they built crumble to dust, or those who had only known the darkness that came after.

Pushing aside those thoughts, Yang Qing brought his focus back to Xia Fang.

“What happened?”

From the way she had phrased it earlier, it seemed clear her clan had brought that calamity upon themselves rather than falling victim to random misfortune.

Despite the heavy churning in her stomach and the weight pressing against her chest, Xia Fang took a deep, calming breath—but it did little to ease the turmoil within.

Still, now that the box had been opened, she might as well pour out its entire contents.

“One of our clan elders, along with a few others, came across a Celestial Light Hawthorne Flower during their travels in a mysterious realm that looked like it had once been an herbology field for some ancient power,” Xia Fang began.

“But, unlucky for them, they weren’t the only ones to discover it,” she added with a wistful smile.

“As one would expect, upon sighting such a flower, a fight immediately broke out among everyone present,” she continued.

“How many petals did it have?” Yang Qing suddenly asked.

“From what my grandfather told me, it had four fully formed petals and two immature ones that were still developing,” answered Xia Fang.

“So, a peak monarch grade,” Yang Qing murmured in understanding.

The Celestial Light Hawthorne Flower was only considered a true dao natural treasure once it formed four petals.

Without them, it was merely classified as a high-grade spiritual herb—still highly coveted, but nowhere near as valuable.

However, once it developed four fully formed petals, it became an entirely different caliber of treasure.

The difference between one with four petals and one without was like night and day.

The reason lay in the unique attributes it gained when it crossed that threshold.

The properties were so rare and potent that cultivators would instantly shed all pretense of cordiality to fight over it.

Even longtime friends who had shared life-and-death struggles together might be tempted to turn on one another upon sighting a Celestial Light Hawthorne Flower with four fully formed petals, let alone strangers.

They were just that precious.

A hawthorn flower of that rank possessed countless benefits that could drive cultivators mad with greed.

There was a reason it was considered a dao natural treasure at that stage and that was due to the wondrous benefits it offered.

For one, if someone who had not yet begun cultivating was bathed in a solution made from the sap of the four-petaled Celestial Light Hawthorne, the solution could cleanse their entire body—marrow, skin, sinews, flesh, blood, and bones—purging all impurities.

By the end of the process, their body would become capable of freely sensing and absorbing qi with ease.

According to records, there were even cultivators who immediately broke through to the diamond body stage of the body refinement realm after fully utilizing the sap.

If its only advantage was strengthening the foundation in the body refinement realm, it would hardly be deserving of the title dao natural treasure or to justify the fervor it caused whenever cultivators laid eyes on it.

The four-petaled Celestial Light Hawthorn’s effects extended beyond the body refinement realm.

Its miraculous properties spanned across the first four major realms of cultivation, from body refinement all the way to the palace realm.

In the qi refinement realm, its stalk produced one of the densest and purest spiritual qis imaginable.

Just a single wisp of it contained potency that was equivalent to centuries of deep meditation and cultivation in an area with a lesser dragon vein.

Not only that—the purity of the spiritual qi from the four-petaled Celestial Light Hawthorne also played a crucial role when breaking through to the foundation establishment and core formation realms.

Its unmatched purity allowed cultivators to refine and form high-quality pillars and cores, respectively.

As long as one wasn’t a wastrel, they were almost guaranteed to form at least blue-grade pillars and blue-grade cores thanks to the flower’s spiritual qi.

Beyond aiding breakthroughs, its spiritual essence possessed a unique quality that made it easier for cultivators to overcome major bottlenecks—a benefit that became especially pronounced in the core formation realm.

This not only increased their chances of advancement but also significantly shortened the time one would take when advancing through the core formation realm stages.

Finally, when it came to the palace realm, the flower had the ability to resonate with the natural laws of the universe, granting cultivators temporary enlightenment into those laws.

This proved invaluable when comprehending profound principles, mastering cultivation techniques, or even elevating and creating their own cultivation arts.

Such insights deepened their interaction with, and understanding of, the Dao, offering a profound advantage throughout their cultivation journey.

These benefits accompanied the cultivator throughout their progression in the palace realm—from the first stage all the way through to the peak.

However, to fully make use of those effects, certain criteria had to be met and one of them was the cultivator’s powers of comprehension and the other was, that the flower had to be used in its complete form to achieve those results.

This meant not a single part could be missing, be it the petals, sepals, sap, or the stalk.

Every component had to be there, unlike in the previous realms where a single component of the flower would have been enough to achieve the desired results.

But even with that stringent requirement, when one considered the results it could produce, it was still an absolute steal—even if it demanded the entire flower, with not a single component missing.

And if one factored in all the other things it could do with its individual parts, it went beyond just being a steal—it touched the realm of miracles.

Beyond cultivation, Yang Qing knew for a fact there were other features of the flower that made it highly coveted, and one of the most remarkable was its healing abilities.

These were just as prodigious—if not more so—than the advantages it offered in cultivation.

When it came to detoxifying poisons, there were few natural ingredients that could match what the four-petaled Celestial Light Hawthorn Flower could accomplish.

Its healing powers didn’t stop at detoxification either—it could mend injuries that would stump even the most skilled healers.

Injuries to the meridians, soul-based wounds, and even damage to the dantian—ailments often deemed irreversible—could be treated using the flower.

In fact, Yang Qing recalled that the Order’s recipe for repairing a cracked dantian required a Celestial Light Hawthorn Flower with at least four petals, though those with more were highly preferred.

The more petals the Celestial Light Hawthorn Flower had, the more stupendous its abilities became.

For example, an eight-petaled Celestial Light Hawthorn could extend one’s lifespan by 4,000 years, while a sixteen-petaled one could push it to 20,000 years.

And that was just a glimpse of the extraordinary advantages it could provide.

If such a flower appeared, how many could possibly resist its allure, even if it was surrounded by countless fatal dangers?

Not many, Yang Qing was willing to bet.