The Romantic Cultivator

Ji Yuan said courageously to the hundreds of cultivators that were now surrounding him. "Don't you want to overcome this trial? I've found the loophole in this trial that we can exploit."

Immediately all the cultivators began to calm down a little.

"You've better not lie to us!"

"If you can't give us a reasonable explanation then don't blame us for being nasty with you."

"What is it?"

"This has better to be good…"

"Why should we believe you?"

"Come on, convince us then!"

Ji Yuan turned to face everyone with a confident look before he calmly said, "We are now the weakest faction. If we don't unite against our adversaries, soon our side will be doomed…"

"Isn't this crap? We already know this part. Go straight to the point!" Many of the cultivators were shouting angrily.

Ji Yuan returned a weak smile before he said. "We may be the worst faction now but this is only the first day. I've found a loophole that can turn our disadvantage to our advantage."

"Hahaha…"

"What is it?"

"Please don't talk big!"

"You have better not be lying to us all…"

Ji Yuan made a dramatic cough before he pointed at the battle board. "Look! The cultivators from our group are only at the 3rd level but the Air and Earth Faction are all at the 5th level. Do you all know what this means?"

He paused to add with a broad smile. "We have 29 more days to complete the trial. In the meantime, why don't we let the Air and Earth Faction fight it out?"

Everyone: ???

"You still don't get it, am I right?" Ji Yuan laughed aloud. "I guess that I'm the only genius in our faction. We will purposely be at the lowest level while we let the other three factions fight it out with their top cultivators. When all the top cultivators are eliminated then we will have an easier time to the very top. As for the top cultivators, we will let them gather the 10 trial wings and…"

Mo Bei was gasping aloud as he clapped his fist. "And then we don't even have to face any of the top cultivators! What a brilliant plan this is!"

The hundreds of cultivators around Ji Yuan were all gasping with admiration.

"This may just work!"

"Why didn't we think of this earlier?"

"We can turn our disadvantage to our advantage!"

"This Ji Yuan did not lie to us at all…"

"He must be a genius for thinking of this…"

"Then our Fire Faction will be left to fight the weaker cultivators!"

"Haha, with this plan then we will have lowered our chances of defeats and deaths…"

"We are so wrong about him. He indeed has a plan…"

"Unity is strength! Haha…"

"So what is the plan?"

Ji Yuan grinned. "We will divide our Fire Faction into two main groups. We will only fight in the battle arena on alternate days and only once if we have won. The reason why we don't all fight on alternate days at the same time is because we don't want the other factions to find that they seem to be fighting less of the Fire Factions."

Mo Bei nodded and laughed. "Since we have suffered so badly on the first day, then they will think that we are afraid or are just nursing our wounds. We actually won't be missed by anyone."

Many of the cultivators are all nodding at the same time and clapping their hands.

All of a sudden the depressing mood that was in the hall earlier seemed to have completely lifted and many of the cultivators saw a renew hope again.

A quiet voice seemed to have come out from nowhere. "No, this won't work at all."

Ji Yuan frowned as he found this voice to be all too familiar…

It had come from Yu Jingjing as she walked slowly in front of Ji Yuan to repeat. "This plan will not work at all."

Ji Yuan began to smile bitterly; is she trying to rub salt into my wounds? Has she forgotten my help earlier? Surely she isn't this petty, am I right?

Yu Jingjing raised her petite voice, "I can explain. Have you all not noticed that the Air and Earth Faction have both stopped at the fifth level?"

"There are two reasons why they are stopping at the fifth level…"

"One is that they are aware that losing on the fifth level will cause them to lose three of their wings and demoted to the second level."

"Two is that they are aware that they are pairing against the top cultivators and are unwilling to progress further. Of course, we can't eliminate the possibility that they are also in need of a good rest after several fights."

"Three is that they have smart cultivators there as well and have suddenly halted their progression lest the weakest fraction decides to exploit this to their advantage."

Ji Yuan frowned. "Your reasoning is good but they can only work this out if they are working together. Do you think they will be working together, like us?"

Yu Jingjing looked at everyone, "If we can sit down here to work together, do you think that they won't?"

Everyone was speechless and did not know what to say.

They did not dare to suggest the wrong thing lest they will be targeted in the future!

Ji Yuan did not know if the other fractions will be working together as well.

But one thing was for sure; this Yu Jingjing is purposely making him lose his face in public!

So he replied coldly, "We don't know for sure. So we can definitely try if my plan works or not."

"It won't work." Yu Jingjing said coolly. "Because some of the defeated opponents on the fifth level may be on the second level waiting for us."

Ji Yuan immediately said. "If they are defeated opponents then they won't have their cultivation resources anyway and will probably be the weaker ones. Do we even need to worry about that?"

Yu Jingjing said coolly, "This is a risk that we have to take, am I right?"

Ji Yuan point out. "This is better than no plan at all."

"I, on the other hand, have a better plan. I've found a loophole that may allow us to win. Do you want to hear?" Yu Jingjing said as she looked quietly at Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan began to smile bitterly. "Naturally if you have a better plan than mine."

Yu Jingjing smiled, "We can do this in a bloodless way. We can make an agreement with the opposing factions to rig the results of the battle arena. As long as the opponent is a higher cultivation realm expert then the victor will be him. If it is the same then it is a draw."

Ji Yuan: …

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Ji Yuan was not the only cultivator that was rendered speechless by her suggestion. In the Celestial Realm, cultivation realm is not the only measure of a cultivator's true strength. Their profound arts and cultivation trainings also played a huge part. While a sixth realm cultivator may find it harder to defeat a saint but it is still possible.

With so many saints among the four factions, no one will admit that they are inferior to anyone and hereby will have to lose all their possessions.

Many of the cultivators were now laughing at Yu Jingjing and her naivety.

Just as Ji Yuan was about to mock her as well, he caught sight of her earnest look as she said to him. "Great Hero Ji Yuan, can you be the one that will help to persuade the other factions? Then this trial will be a bloodless trial and most of us will be able to overcome this trial."

Ji Yuan: …

Why me? Is she trying to setup a trap for me?

"You may think that I am naïve but I've finally realized that this trial is trying to eliminate us. By the end of 30 days, probably we will have less than 10% of the cultivator that can be remained at the very top and maybe only the top 3% can clear this trial."

She paused to inhale softly. "Have you all never wondered why a defeat will remove three wings after the fifth? The nature of this trial is extremely cunning and wants to manipulate us into feeling frustrated and to kill each other."

With a melancholy look at Ji Yuan, she added. "After I've lost everything, I've finally realized the truth of this trial. I am sure that there are many of you who have lost everything, am I right?"

"We have 705 defeats." She emphasized. "And this number will only increase and won't decrease."

She turned to look at Ji Yuan with pleading eyes; what sort of a man is Ji Yuan? He can even give her a divine sword. She hopes that she isn't wrong about him.

Mo Bei nudged Ji Yuan as he whispered with a smile. "Say yes. You don't want to break her heart, am I right?"

But Ji Yuan said coolly, "I reject it because this is not going to work."

Mo Bei: …

Yu Jingjing: …