The Romantic Cultivator



Ji Yuan was now walking in the streets of the Snowy Pavilion City and he intended to make another visit to Divine Consort Tang Manni.

Hopefully that he had better luck today…

Ji Yuan said to Xiang Li, "You know. I have better luck in finding the artefact core of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth than in asking Divine Consort Tang Manni to be her champion."

Xiang Li giggled, "Are you serious, Big Brother? It should be the opposite. You don't even have a clue to where the artefact core of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth really is in the final trial."

Ji Yuan began to frown immediately, "I do actually."

Xiang Li: …

"Then tell me where it is." Xiang Li challenged him.

Ji Yuan frowned, "I don't want to tell you because I don't like to draw conclusions before I am ready."

Xiang Li giggled, "Then Big Brother is lying. Heehee."

Ji Yuan protested immediately, "I am not. We have already seen it."

Xiang Li asked curiously, "Where?" 

Ji Yuan laughed weakly, "Secret for now. I'll let you know once I figure out a few things first."

Xiang Li: …

She hummed with disbelief, "Well, you can't find it. No one has ever found the artefact core of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth in the past thousands of years."

Ji Yuan had suddenly walked past an inn and he could see from the outside that a dozen men were drinking in this place. 

He was quite startled that this place had outrageous prices and that was why there were almost no one except for the 12 men inside, which was rather odd to him.

It was because there were no maidens in this place and instead, there were only men. Now this was an oddity.

He saw a beautiful beardless man drinking alone on a table and this beautiful man was actually looking with interest at him.

Ji Yuan was startled and wondered if he was a celestial?

But he quickly dismissed this thought when he saw that he had no black ring on him. 

Ji Yuan saw that the other 11 men were looking nervously in his direction and some of them even had murderous look in their eyes.

Now this was not a surprise to Ji Yuan especially when he had recognized 3 of these men as a rebel that he had previously seen in the rebel resistance hideout.

All 11 men seemed to be pretending not to know one another.

Ji Yuan thought with a weak smile: I am in a busy street. Surely, they won't dare to be so reckless as to fight me. I just pretend that I didn't see them and quickly go off from here.

He was not here to fight with anyone and he was eager to visit Divine Consort Tang Manni so he hastened his steps to walk away.

But all of a sudden, this beautiful beardless man had flashed in front of him and was smiling. "You are Yuan Ji?"

Ji Yuan frowned; this was the name that he had used when he was made the great rebel leader.

He answered nonchalantly, "You got the wrong man. I'm Ji Yuan and not Yuan Ji. And I don't know you. Please excuse me. I am a little busy today."

The beautiful beardless man: …

"I am Kong Rong, the new Great Rebel Leader." The beautiful beardless man was suddenly smiling. "I didn't really want to kill you for sports but they told me that you are their traitorous ex-Great Rebel Leader Yuan Ji. Since you are so unlucky to meet me here today, I've no choice but to take action against you…"

He caused briefly to raise two fingers up, "One, submit to me as my male harlot. Two, die in this place."

This beautiful beardless man was indeed Immortal Divine Lord Kong Rong! 

And he was adding with a wry smile, "Believe me. I can kill you with my mere fingers."

Ji Yuan had suddenly roared with an outburst of laughter and many of the people in the streets were looking in his direction. 

"Haha… Haha… what did you say? You can kill me with your mere fingers? And submit to you as… what? Haha… your male harlot? This must be the funniest thing that I've ever heard… Haha… I really don't have that type of interest you know. Hahahaha…"

Immortal Divine Lord Kong Rong had suddenly raised his fingers to flicker at Ji Yuan's head and a suddenly burst of profound power had sped past his fingers.

Ji Yuan had suddenly evaded his head with a sudden shock and the spirit water melon behind him had suddenly exploded by the speeding profound power! 

Immortal Divine Lord Kong Rong was actually quite surprised that there was actually a cultivator that could evade his point-blank attack. 

Ji Yuan was stunned when the spirit water melon had exploded behind him and he gasped, "8th immortal profound power with such a flicker of his fingers. He isn't lying about his strength…"

He quickly tumbled backward in a hurry and had summoned his immortal scabbard in front of him before shouting, "Who are you?!"

"Who am I? Hahahaha. Isn't this too late to know now. I am Immortal Divine Lord Kong Rong." The beautiful beardless man promptly announced.

Immortal Divine Lord Kong Rong frowned when he saw that Ji Yuan had an immortal scabbard, "I didn't expect that you have an immortal scabbard with you. But what is the use of that? You can't kill me with a scabbard."

And he had suddenly burst forth his powerful profound aura and it was black with an outline of gold around him.

All the onlookers were suddenly screaming in fright and were running away. 

"Isn't this the divine aura of a divine lord?"

"He is an 8th Spirit Realm Immortal Divine Lord? Look at the fierceness of his profound aura…"

"Profound darkness! Run everyone… he is wrapped in profound darkness…"

"Inform the divine consorts quickly…"

The hundreds of people that crowded the street, mostly maidens were all running away with great fear in their eyes.

But there were only 2 beautiful men that remained unmoved from where they were; they were the Immortal Divine Lord Kong Rong and Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan felt his legs trembling under the intense pressure of his opponent's profound aura. He was soon forced to muster his spirit animus which formed into the Immortal Desolate Cherubim to lift the intense pressure off from him.

Immortal Divine Lord Kong Rong was frowning lightly, "You have a spirit animus that can temporarily grant you the profound power of the 8th immortal positioning. Now, this is really interesting and not too boring for me anymore. It is worth a fight…"

When he had said that, a dark spirit animus that was shaped like gigantic Asura Demon with six arms had rose up from his dark profound aura.

And he was soon smiling coldly, "You don't think that your 7th cultivation realm can be a match for a true 8th cultivation strength immortal, do you?"

Ji Yuan was dumbfounded at the huge Asura Demon towering over him and he was suddenly being forced to slide backward by the increased intense pressure. 

Also, he could not believe that this new enemy was able to combined the profound strength of both his profound aura and spirit animus together. 

Usually, profound aura will only protect the cultivator and not the spirit animus. But this Immortal Divine Lord Kong Rong was able to protect even his spirit animus with his profound aura.

This was the true profound strength of an immortal spirit cultivator?!

Why was he so unlucky to meet an immortal just by walking in the street? This was simply illogical! 

The Asura Demon was suddenly swinging its six arms and punching at Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan was so shocked as he quickly raised his immortal scabbard to block off the attack but he was also sent flying backward by the huge disparity of profound power that was between them and it was twice as much. 

Now Ji Yuan had the profound power of a peaked 8th immortal positioning due to the temporary attributes of his Desolate Cherubim that added as a buff on him and he was in disbelief when he was sent flying backward.

This was the effect of a profound aura and a spirit animus together, a new type of cultivation that Ji Yuan had never seen before.

He thought that he may just crashed into the walls of the streets and even got his spirit animus dispelled when an alluring melody maiden had suddenly caught hold of him and she was saying to him with her small cherry lips, "Be careful Master Ji Yuan. He has a formidable profound darkness in him."

Ji Yuan was startled to see that it was Concubine Fairy Xu Yifei. 

Or rather her profound aura around her had indicated that she was at the 7th Spirit Realm and she is a divine consort! 

"Fairy… erm… Divine Consort Xu Yifei, it is you? How come you are here?" Ji Yuan was startled to see her.

Great Divine Consort Xu Yifei softly whispered, "I was on my way back to the tavern to look for you. I may have found a cure for you now."

Then she slowly appraised his spirit animus with her brilliant eyes, "You are really strong, Master Ji Yuan…"

Ji Yuan laughed weakly as he stabbed his scabbard on the ground to stop himself from sliding away as the intense pressure was causing continuous waves of invisible profound shockwaves that originated from the Immortal Divine Lord Kong Rong and threatening to sweep away all the cultivators that could not stand in its way.

Even Great Divine Consort Xu Yifei was holding onto Ji Yuan's waist with one had and she had weaved a spirit talisman to weaken the shockwaves of intense pressures. 

Ji Yuan could feel her soft fingers on his waist and it was sending a ringing sensation through his body and he was secretly looking at Xu Yifei's sensual body…

This is too sinful… her body is too sinful…

Ji Yuan looked a little sheepish; this was not the right time to think about this sort of thing…

When Great Divine Consort Xu Yifei saw Ji Yuan's sheepish look on her, she was gasping all of a sudden and she quickly let go of his waist; it was because she had completely forgotten that Ji Yuan did not like maidens.

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Author Note:

1. I'd really appreciate it if the readers can contribute power stones to this story as a show of support even if you are reading from other websites. Your spirit stones are crucial for motivations and releases. Also, it means alot me/ story, Many love and thanks! ლ(⌒▽⌒ლ)

2. In the last chapter there is a small insider joke, Ji Yuan was rebuking Xiang Li about the important of the mainstream cultivation realms and how important the foundation is. In this chapter, he is now at the receiving end of his rebuke when he met a superior immortal cultivator with a better base in the 8th immortal positioning.