Chapter 798 Surprise caller

Chapter 798 Surprise caller

When he was several kilometers outside of Gold Eagle Town, Yang Qing dispelled his camouflage.

"Now this is more like it.." Yang Qing said as he cracked his neck and massaged his cheekbones as he admired his appearance from the reflection on a water mirror he had conjured up.

"Nothing beats this look.." he muttered, enlarging the water mirror to reflect his entire body. He spent a few minutes gazing up and down his reflection to ensure his body was exactly as it had been.?Only after he was satisfied that he was 'naturally handsome' as before did he make his way to the Order.

Once he arrived, he made a stopover at the External Logistics Division to meet with the Shadow Hawks liaison, Mei Cheng. As always, the place was swamped with eager cultivators looking to redeem their pay.

Yang Qing didn't have to wait long before Mei Cheng pointed communicated with her eyes for him to meet her in the room they met prior.

"Sorry to keep you waiting.."

"No, not at all, senior Mei Cheng.." Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

"How was the trip?"

"Informative, different, and a bit pressurizing if I'm being honest. Meeting with them has changed things for me.."

"In what way?"

"Well,.." Yang Qing paused as memories of the fate of the Ice Emerald Sect, the Hua Clan, the Xin Clan, and the Moon Essence Cauldron Sect flashed in his mind.

"The world we live in is unforgiving, ruthless, where the line between growth and destruction is very thin. They are living in that world every day. If something were to happen to them, would I be able to make it in time to avert it, or prevent the absolute worst from happening or would they end up like the rest, suffering the fate of the cases that come across my courtroom?

Yang Qing exchanged a few more words with Mei Cheng as he gave her the information slip Zhang Tao had handed to him as he left his store, while Mei Cheng handed him a slip containing all the information they had gathered about Jiang Xiang, the emerald spirit weaving fox that had helped the fire adler bear with the evolution of the daughter of the obsidian couple.

After they were done, Yang Qing left directly for his abode, skipping his routine of passing by one of the dining establishments at the Order as he always did immediately after coming back. He still had a lot of leftovers from his little excursion on the restaurants and sideway stalls he visited on the trip back.

Just before he reached his abode, he felt a reaction coming from his communication talisman.

"Is it Meifeng?" he muttered as he took out the talisman. Not a single day passed by without her calling, even during his trip, she made sure to call each day.

"Huh.." Yang Qing said in surprise before answering the call.

"Grandpa Ma Bo, how are you? I was just thinking about you.." Yang Qing fawningly said.

"No need to waste your bootlicking you shameless squirt, I don't have any resources for you to mooch off. How can you still be this way even as a palace court judge? You probably get more resources than I do by now. How can someone be this greedy.."

"It's not greed, it's sentiment. Since I was small, I always enjoyed your gifts. That hasn't changed. You could give me an earth-rank treasure and I'd still be excited.."

"Yes, yes..fine, while I don't have anything in the way of resources to give you, I did dig into that matter of the foundation circle."

"What did you find?" Yang Qing said his gaze turning serious.

The obsidian serpent's daughter had her evolution guided by a foundation circle which was what human cultivators used in the body refinement realm. However, that circle was altered and used on the daughter and even succeeded in helping her evolve into a flood dragon.

The foundation circle was created with the human body in mind, and as far as Yang Qing knew, spirit beasts had no need for it because of their naturally powerful bodies. He didn't even know it worked on them but Jiang Xiang had managed to use it to support an evolution, whose difficulty was miles ahead of body refinement which was enough to draw his curiosity if something like this had ever been done before which was why he contacted Ma Bo to use his connections as a guest lecturer of the Jade Leaf Academy to dig into the matter. Their collection of arts and techniques was vaster than the Order's.