The Romantic Cultivator



"Great Champion Ji Yuan, this is your reward." The profound voice of the Trial Spirit thundered in the spatial space where Ji Yuan was taken.

He had been taken to a spatial space where he was given his rewards which consisted of 10 million spirit stones, 100 Jade stones, 2 5th rank profound pills and 10 4th profound pills. 

These rewards floated in front of him and he quickly pocketed them. 

As he was not gifted in alchemy, he was unable to identify these profound pills so he decided to appraise it later in an alchemy guild or asked if the other maidens would be able to recognize any of the profound pills. 

Although he knows nothing about alchemy but he was still excited to have received these profound pills. 

As he took the reward, he began to growl to the Trial Spirit, "Seriously, I like to know the reason why you have been messing around with me? Don't give me the crap about testing me or giving me a fortuitous encounter to temper me…"

"You talk too much. You may go now." The Trial Spirit echoed in the darkness of the spatial space.

Ji Yuan: …

"Wait!"

And a flash of light soon took Ji Yuan away. 

Ji Yuan: …

And he was back in the Divine Temple, at the portal where he had first entered into the Spiritas Tower.

Almost immediately, he found himself surrounded by Xu Yifei, Tang Manni, Dongfang Xin, Ding Jie'Er, Sun Dingjun, Yang Mi, Yu Jingjing, Chu Lixue, Maiden Flower Ju, Xiao Muhan and many of the spiritas maidens. 

The whole hall of the Divine Temple had suddenly exploded into loud cheers and chants for Ji Yuan! 

"It is the Great Spirit Hero Ji Yuan!!! He is back now!!!"

"We should call him the Great Champion now..."

"Great Champion Ji Yuan! Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan! Divine Lord Ji Yuan! Warrior-god Ji Yuan!" 

As for Destiny, she pretended to be cool about it and was sipping her spirit tea but she was actually secretly looking at Ji Yuan. 

Everyone was crowding around him and was jostling him excitingly, "Great Hero Ji Yuan… Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan… Master Ji Yuan… you are back!"

All of a sudden Ji Yuan was blinking his golden eyes as he stared with shock at Chu Lixue and Xiao Muhan amidst the loud welcoming commotions. 

"Senior Sister Lixue, Brother Xiao Muhan, aren't the two of you dead?"

Xian Muhan who could not squeeze to greet Ji Yuan due to the many divine consorts and maidens, began to curse him loudly from afar. "I am dead? I am afraid that your wish is unfulfilled! To think that I am worried that you may die in this trial but you wish that I am dead instead?!"

Ji Yuan laughed as he ignored Xiao Muhan's cursing; he was actually delighted that Xiao Muhan was actually alive to quarrel with him again.

Then he was grinning at his Senior Sister Chu Lixue and he had suddenly seized up to hug her tightly, "Senior Sister! Haha. You are actually still alive."

"Ji... Yuan… what are you doing?!" The Smiling Divine Maiden Chu Lixue was stunned, "Let me go… we are in the public…"

But Ji Yuan did not care about the startled gasps from the divine consorts, especially Ding Jie'Er as he continued to hug Chu Lixue as he laughed jovially, "Haha… haha…"

"What are you… doing?" Chu Lixue was greatly embarrassed now and she was looking flustered.

This caused many of the men that were the surviving champions to stare angrily at Ji Yuan for taking advantage of such a divine maiden in front of them.

As Ji Yuan continued to embrace his senior sister, he saw that his senior sister and Xiao Muhan were not the only survivors; in fact, there were around 50 champions that had also survived the Great Games of the Spiritas Tower.

Chu Lixue could not understand Ji Yuan's excitement but she could guess why; it was because she was also anxious in the past couple of days for Ji Yuan and worried what he may think if he could not find her in the arena of the fifth trial.

Her team was actually lost on the second level of the Dream Dungeon of Tenebris and as her team did not meet the condition of reaching the end portal in 5 days, they were disqualified to join the other failed champions in another arena. 

However, they were allowed to watch the battle imageries just like the rest of the spectators in the waiting area and she was able to watch Ji Yuan in the fifth trial. 

Because of that, she was naturally able to see that her other two protégé sisters, Zhi Jiugong and the Lovely Empress were all in the fifth trial as well. 

She was a little awkward as their senior sister however since she had failed to reach the fifth trial. 

Also, she saw the Ling Feiyue and Shui Xisi were also in the same trial as Ji Yuan and they were quite close to Ji Yuan.

But other than regretting the fact that she could not join Ji Yuan in the fifth team, she was more comforted that he had made it through to the fourth trial and later the fifth trial. 

During the fifth trial, the battle imagery that showed the insane powerful Destroyer fighting against Ji Yuan had stunned her and so did the appearance of the Silver Dragon God Beast. 

She naturally did not know that Ji Yuan had been struck by the profound purple lightning 81 times; this was something that she and the other maidens in the trial would later find out through the memory stone that recorded Ji Yuan's battle imageries. 

In fact, Ji Yuan's memory stone in the Great Games of the Spiritas Tower would be the most heavily copied and sold throughout the 12 city-states of the Northern Alliance Theology Olympiad. 

"That is enough already… or you are purposely taking advantage of me…" She muttered weakly to Ji Yuan and tried to pull him away from her but Ji Yuan was simply holding her too tightly and he refused to let go of her. 

Ji Yuan laughed as he said gently, "You're my betrothed to be. How can I be taking advantage of you? I am so happy to see my senior sister because tonight I have someone to examine my injuries, if you remember…"

Chu Lixue was flustered immediately as she returned a weak and awkward divine smile back to Ji Yuan. 

Rather than saying that Ji Yuan needed her to examine his injuries, it was more correct to say that Ji Yuan was examining her closely instead.

Actually, Ji Yuan had witnessed the demise of plenty of his friends over the past 500 years and as a cultivator, he was supposed to put aside the life and death of his friends behind him as quickly as possible or his dao in cultivation would be affected. 

But he was still particularly sad that when he thought that his Senior Sister Chu Lixue and his Brother Xiao Muhan would no longer be around. 

In fact, he did not know that nearly half of the champions had actually survived.

Except for the third trial, which was either a survive or die trial, the first, second and fourth trial had plenty of champions that failed to meet the requirements and hence, they were taken to the waiting arena. 

But in Ji Yuan's mind, the trials were just live or die and exactly as black or white to him. 

The reason why he had such a mentality was because he did not want to disappoint himself with any false hopes and he would even be more sorrowful later. 

Yang Mi was smiling to Yu Jingjing as she watched the scene between Ji Yuan and her Sister Chu Lixue, "Ji Yuan must have loved my sister so much…"

"Yeah!" Yu Jingjing was also smiling; there was no look of envy in her golden eyes. In fact, she felt quite proud to be Ji Yuan's maiden. 

Meeting Ji Yuan in the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth was the best thing that had happened to her although they had started off by slinging mud at each other and she had even disliked Ji Yuan because she had thought that he was trying to disdain her. 

Suddenly, Great Divine Consort Xu Yifei had interrupted Ji Yuan's moments with the Smiling Divine Maiden as she smiled enticingly at him. "Great Spiritas Hero and Champion Ji Yuan, the divine consorts will like to hold a banquet tonight in my humble tavern in your great honor."

It was only then did Ji Yuan let go of his senior sister in an awkward manner because the way Xu Yifei was looking at him was causing him to look awkward in her presence as well. 

"Sure thing…"

Destiny had suddenly approached Ji Yuan and everyone as she interrupted softly, "My congratulations to the Great Champion Ji Yuan for obtaining the position of the top champion in the Great Games of the Spiritas Tower. I wonder if we are… able to talk in private for a while?"

Ji Yuan was startled by the request of the Goddess Destiny but he answered nevertheless, "Uh, sure. Why not…"

All the others were also startled by the sudden request but they did not dare to interrupt the Great Oracle. 

After all, the Great Oracle had warned them that Ji Yuan would not have it easy in the Great Games of the Spiritas Tower and she was right. 

Maybe, she may even want to warn Ji Yuan of more dangers through her divination and that was the reason why she wanted to talk to him privately. 

Divine Consort Dongfang Xin smiled to Ji Yuan and Destiny, "There is a room in the Divine Temple that you can use. I have someone to show the room to you."

Destiny smiled in return, "Thank you."

Divine Consort Dongfang Xin said to her closest female follower, "Please show the Great Oracle to the private room. Make sure it is the best room in the Divine Temple."

With that, Destiny and Ji Yuan had walked away with a couple of spiritas maidens that were all too eager to show them the way to the private room.

After they were gone, Dongfang Xin had walked to her champions and said nonchalantly. "Thank you for your hard work in the Great Games. You are all dismissed. I will give you the appropriate rewards later."

Then she turned to smile at the Smiling Divine Maiden Chu Lixue, "Maiden Chu Lixue, you may stay."

Sun Dingjun, Ding Jie'Er and Tang Manni were also doing the same as well as they dismissed all their champions. 

The only exception was Xu Yifei as she had only one champion and that was Ji Yuan. 

Xiao Muhan was also allowed to stay since he was a friend of Ji Yuan and he was accompanied by Maiden Flower Ju who said to him, "You are really brave to enter the Great Games."

"Hohoho." Xiao Muhan laughed jovially, "Maybe this time, I can finally have a little breakthrough in my cultivation realm."

He was thinking that he may be able to breakthrough a small boundary from the earth-step initial saint to the heaven-step initial saint level. 

He could not help muttering a couple of dao inspirations to Maiden Flower Ju gained from his experiences in the Great Games of the Spiritas Tower, "One small step for my cultivation breakthrough, one giant leap for my future cultivation boundary." 

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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)