A Life Jade with Nineteen Patterns?

Northern Xianjing Continent, Yushan Nine Luminaries Division.

The sky was only beginning to brighten, and the atmosphere of early morning always made the world feel brand new.

Yet, as the saying went, some rejoiced while others grieved.

As the current governor of Xianjing Continent, Cao Ming had a mountain of complicated affairs to handle. Most of his time was therefore spent in considerable vexation.

Within the governor's residence, he still wore that plain azure robe as he sat upright behind his desk, frowning deeply at a report in his hands.

What it recorded was exceedingly simple: merely a report concerning the whereabouts of a fugitive wanted by the Imperial Court—

[In the Chenglong Mountain Range, six thousand li south of Xianjing Continent, traces of the Vajra Buddhist Disciple were suspected to have appeared, along with the withered skeletal remains of five Great Void Realm Saints.]

Such vile deeds would warrant immediate arrest if committed by any wanted criminal.

Especially when he was so close to Xianjing Continent, Cao Ming would usually choose to apprehend him personally, lest the scale of the disaster expand further.

Yet this Vajra Buddhist Disciple happened to be a major criminal whom the Capital City had explicitly ordered them not to deal with for the time being.

"What a headache..."

Cao Ming pressed a hand to his forehead and sighed. Having cultivated to this point, he had long understood the weight carried by Supremes, and he could comprehend the Capital City's many misgivings in this matter.

The Great Brahma Palace, one of the Four Extremes Twelve Gates, had more than one Buddhist Supreme within its gates.

If he rashly turned against them, any few venerables bearing the acclaim of Arhats who emerged from within could turn his Xianjing Continent upside down.

As for erasing