The Romantic Cultivator



All the divine consorts and the spectators were riveted in just a battle imagery and that was the battle imagery that Ji Yuan was in.

It was because he had fought against 20 waves of the dark raptors by now.

At first it was just 10 dark raptors.

Then it became 20 dark raptors…

30 dark raptors…

50 dark raptors…

100 dark raptors…

200 dark raptors were killed by Ji Yuan and only 6 hours had passed when he had pinned the Hunter Snow Black to the wall.

They saw that Ji Yuan was looking exhausted and he was still keep fighting with his flying swords and with the divine sword that was in his head.

His steps were no long steadied but he had continued to keep on fighting!

"Did you all see this?"

"Is it even possible to kill 10 of these dark raptors that attacked at the same time?"

"200 dark raptors are killed now… and more are still coming…"

"Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan has got up again! He is fighting again!"

"If I were Great Spiritas Hero, I would flee first…"

"This is too insane…"

"Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan can't even stand steady now…"

"Yeah and he is taking more than 3 strokes to kill a dark raptor now, instead of 1 or 2 strokes now…"

"He is bloodied now…"

"The dark raptors had struck him across his body and almost rip him apart…"

"Why is Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan's trial so hard and so different?"

"Just how many dark raptors are there?"

"What the cooldown to respawn these dark raptors?"

"Is the trial cheating?"

All over the 12 major city states of the Northern Alliance Theology Olympiad, the ticket prices were all skyrocketing as more and more people wanted to watch the heroism of the Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan and his tenacity fight against the dark raptors.

But the seats were all full because no one wanted to give up their seats.

Many people had actually wanted to save their spirit stones for the final trial but they had all changed their minds and were buying tickets to watch this fight instead.

Last minute sky platforms were erected over the colosseums across the 12 major cities to double the capacity for the spectators but soon it was not enough. 

It was because Ji Yuan had fully lasted for a day and it was now the 4th day and the last day of the trial.

And he had slain 1000 dark raptors by the end of the third day!

Everyone was in disbelief as Ji Yuan seemed to falter but he could keep on fighting back.

His entire body was covered with his golden blood!

There were all too many times that Destiny had wanted to intervene as she continued on with great horrified looks. 

Bai Qianfeng who was a spectator in the colosseum was stunned and she was afraid of losing Ji Yuan…

So did Feng Minyue and Little Princess that were in a different colosseum from her; their tender hearts could not bear to watch the scene but they had to because it was their lord Ji Yuan that was in there! 

The White Sword Monarch who was in another colosseum was also in great disbelief as Ji Yuan had obviously gone beyond his normal ability to fight and he was starting to miss very badly. 

He had taught Ji Yuan his great endurance but this was even beyond his normal barbaric teaching…

"Little rascal! Give it up! Stupid! If a more powerful profound beast comes along, you will be killed instantly! You can no longer fight and just fighting through your sheer endurance…"

Yu Jingjing and Yang Mi were both in tears as they watched the battle imagery in the Divine Temple of the Snowy Pavilion City.

Even Tang Manni, Sun Dingjun and Little Jie'Er were in tears too. 

"Yuan Beluga…"

"Master Ji Yuan…"

"Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan…"

Although Divine Consort Dongfang Xin was not in tears yet but she was shaking nonstop and almost to the brink of tears. 

As for the hundreds of their female spiritas followers, many had broken down in tears already.

Elsewhere even the other divine consorts were wet with tears as they witnessed the heroics of the Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan as he continued to fight on like a true warrior-god!

Divine Consort Fu Rong was weeping for him and cursing Heng Wujian for abandoning the Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan.

Great Divine Consort Long Fenghuang, Divine Consort Atalanta and Divine Consort Aiel the three most influential divine consorts in the 12 major city-states of the Northern Alliance Theology Olympiad were all bleary eyed and rooting for Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan…

Ji Yuan was actually the champion of Xu Yifei but she was in close seclusion now and could not witness his trial or she would burst into tears immediately. 

It was now the 4th day. 

Ji Yuan now required at least 5 strokes to kill his opponent and he would miss often; even his flying swords were not as accurate as before.

But he continued to fight on with just his sheer willpower.

It was because he had made a pledge to be with Jiajia and he cannot die in this place!

The colosseums were now exploding to three times its full capacity as many sky platforms were built.

The Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan had now killed 1200 dark raptors! 

More hours passed.

The battle goes on and the waves of dark raptors continued.

1400 dark raptors were now dead.

1500 dark raptors! 

1600 dark raptors…

1700 dark raptors…

8 hours remaining until the trial was over.

1800 dark raptors were killed!

1900 dark raptors…

2000 dark raptors…

The spectators were angry at the trial.

"This trial must be cheating!"

"Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan is being struck again…"

"Even when the acid explosion exploded on his beautiful face, he was still trying to prevent the Hunter Snow Black from being killed…"

"If he could endure to the last 6 hours then he can leave this Hunter Snow Black to the death already…."

"That's right. The Hunter Snow Black needs 6 hours to respawn…"

7 hours…

2100 dark raptors were now dead…

"How come the raptor numbers seem to be tens of times more than the other black pyramids?!"

"It is as though the trial wants to kill the Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan…"

6 hours left…

Ji Yuan was completely dazed now and he was fighting through with just his sheer willpower which relied on his mental level of his Natural Instinct. 

But even then, his current mental level of the Natural Instinct was not enough and he had broken through to the Ultra Instinct mental level which was not even described in his Divine Heart Recite. 

Although Ji Yuan had lost his sharpness and precision, he was still able to fight barely with the mental level of the Ultra Instinct pushing him forward with his weakened profound strength.

Sword intentions were actually extremely mentally draining to a cultivator too and Ji Yuan had been using his sword intentions for the use of the flying swords domain for almost 2 days now.

He was physically, mentally and spiritually exhausted at the same time!

"6 hours left…"

Ji Yuan had actually timed the trial since the very start. 

With an exhausted grin, Ji Yuan pulled Xiang Li out from the armored chest of the Hunter Snow Black, causing her to drop with a crash to the ground. "Haha, you can die now… you can let your minions kill you, I don't mind now…"

But he did not even have the strength to deliver a final blow to the Hunter Snow Black. 

He just had a little profound strength left and he used it to quickly withdraw all his divine swords before fleeing down the passageway. 

He thought: This is too awkward to my face. The spectators must be booing at me for running away…

But he did not care as his objective was to prevent the Hunter Snow Black from respawning back to kill and hunt him down. 

As he fled, dozens of dark raptors began to chase him down.

It was obvious that Ji Yuan's speed had slowed down quite a lot and he was much slower now.

Ji Yuan's Ultra Sword Spirit had also completely vanished as he had completely exhausted his sword spirit for the very time and he could not use it for the next couple of days.

Without his sword spirit, he could not even use any of his sword domains. But even if he had his sword spirit, he still could not be able to use his sword domains as he had also completely depleted his willpower and he was actually half dozing off with exhaustion. 

He popped in his 20th replenishing profound pill that he had eaten over the past 2 days even though it had little effect as he fled down the passageway. 

"Crap! That is my last replenishing profound pill now and I have to last for another 6 hours…"

In the next 6 hours, Ji Yuan displayed a heaven-step divine sword from one of his flying swords to slaughter his way out through the passageways.

The reason why he was not using Xiang Li or Anyang now were because he did not have the profound strength to wield them anymore.

One must know that once a certain limit in profound strength is hit, the increase in return gets smaller and smaller.

Even this was Aura's limit in helping Ji Yuan to replenish his profound strength.

Right now Ji Yuan was simply using his profound strength for running.

Unlike most cultivators that powered their movement with internal profound arts that in turn required plenty of profound strength, Ji Yuan was a natural runner and his movement required only his physical strength and not his profound strength.

In the past, he was not kidding about his movement speed being in the top 5 except that he had neglected to mention if his opponent did not use any internal profound art, that is. 

In the remaining last 5 hours, he had killed 9 dark raptors.

In the remaining last 4 hours, he had killed only 4 dark raptors.

This led to many spectators to think that the Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan had indeed exhausted himself for he could not even run straight and had even bang against the wall while running.

In the remaining last 3 hours, Ji Yuan had killed 9 dark raptors again.

Many spectators were sighing heavily; the Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan was merely struggling to beat off the dark raptors and this time round he got more injuries. Also there were even 2 explosive acids that got to his back. 

In the last remaining last 2 hours, Ji Yuan had killed 50 dark raptors and he was suddenly looking spirited. 

It was because Ji Yuan had regained some of his profound strength after 3 hours of running, all thanks to Aura. 

And for the last remaining 1 hour, he had killed 100 dark raptors along the way, doubling the number of dark raptors. 

Ji Yuan's kill rate versus the dark raptors were more than 100 times more than the next highest kill champion, and even more than 1000 times better than lowest kill cultivator! 

One must know that there were many champions with only 1 kill or even 0 kill and Ji Yuan had slaughtered more than 2300 dark raptors, which was an insane number of profound beasts! 

The Trial Spirit announced rather unwillingly, "The third trial is over now. All the surviving champions will be sent back to their arenas and have 3 days of break."

When Ji Yuan was still running along the passageway when this announcement by the Spirit Trial was heard and he immediately fell down flat on the ground with a relief. 

He literally banged his way down onto the ground in great exhaustion.

All the spectators were checking Ji Yuan's status and were delighted that he was still alive.

"He is alive!"

"Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan is still alive!"

Across all the colosseums and divine temples; the spectators, the divine consorts and their female followers were all in hot tears and happiness when they had learnt that Ji Yuan was still alive.

And then someone or many people in the colosseums were shouting, "Warrior-God Ji Yuan! Warrior-God Ji Yuan!"

This quickly caught on throughout the 12 major city-states of the Northern Alliance Theology Olympiad even though there were no communications except for the divine consorts in the divine temples to do so as all the spectators were standing up in loud deafening chants, "Warrior-God Ji Yuan! Warrior-God Ji Yuan!"

The Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan had now been upgraded to the legendary Warrior-God status that even their spiritas heroes have been forbidden to hold because this was once the title of the True Devil God.

This had even caught on by the many female followers of the divine consorts in the divine temples as they chanted with great delight even though they were not supposed to make noises in the sacred sanctuary of the divine temples without the permission of their divine consorts.

"Warrior-God Ji Yuan! Warrior-God Ji Yuan!"

And even many of the divine consorts were chanting the same as well! 

Divine Consort Fu Rong, Divine Consort Aiel, Divine Consort Atalanta and many other divine consorts.

Even the Great Divine Consort Long Fenghuang too.

All the divine consorts like Ding Jie'Er, Tang Manni, Dongfang Xin and Sun Dingjun were naturally clapping and screaming with joy that Ji Yuan had survived the trial.

Yang Mi and Yu Jingjing had collapsed into each other arms, with joyous tears that Ji Yuan had survived the trial. 

Yang Mi was so intense on using her divine sense to track Ji Yuan that she had forgotten to check for her Sister Chu Lixue's well-being. 

They had completely forgotten that beside Ji Yuan, there were also the Smiling Divine Maiden Chu Lixue, the Lovely Empress Lu Jiangsu, Shui Xisi, Ling Feiyue and even Xiao Muhan who were also in the trial as well. 

Even Destiny had broken in cold sweat on her back as she stared at the battle imagery for 2 days an she had extended her divine sense to check for Ji Yuan's life pulses constantly.

Little Princess and Feng Minyue heaved a deep sigh of relief when the trial was finally over…

Bai Qianfeng on the other hand was boiling with rage; she wanted to destroy the entire Spiritas Tower!

It was obvious to her that only Ji Yuan's team got the hardest difficulty; the number of dark raptors encountered did not even exceed 50 in most cases and some teams even got less than that. 

Moreover, the Hunter Snow Black that was in the same black pyramid as Ji Yuan, spawned with 7 dark raptors too.

This caused her to be enraged! 

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2. This chapter is actually more than 2k words and can be divided into 2 chapters. But i want this to be a single chapter.