The Romantic Cultivator



Ji Yuan was now looking at the second cultivation slip which contained the Heavens Annihilation Force. 

The first line of this Heavens Annihilation Force had already stunned him.

In order to practice the Heavens Annihilation Force, the cultivator must first be one with his profound defense and power. 

That explained why Yang Batian was equally good with both profound defense and power at the same time.

Therefore, this Heavens Annihilation Force was unsuitable for Ji Yuan since he emphasized more on his profound power than anything else, and he had purposely dropped his profound defense on purpose to deliver more punches to his targets and also because he needed more added speed. 

Most cultivators would wonder why Ji Yuan did not spend more time on his profound defenses; it was because in order to have really good profound defenses, a cultivator must have a superior internal profound art and this cultivation practice requires an intense long period of cultivation in order to gather the spiritual force into the internal profound energies to be used as their profound aura and defense.

It was not easy for Ji Yuan to do especially when he was only a young cultivator at 500 years old and he was extremely active. 

Also, in the past, he did not have enough cultivation resources for long periods of close door cultivation.

He began to skip a lot of information in this Heavens Annihilation Force as he continued to read with his divine sense. 

It seemed that this Heavens Annihilation Force is also divided into 9 stages, similar to the Heavens Annihilation Sword. 

But in order to get to a new stage, the cultivator must first obtain an advancement in the Heavens Annihilation Sword first. 

Therefore, this Yang Batian could only master this Heavens Annihilation Force till to the 7th level. 

Ji Yuan was soon frowning; shouldn't this be the other way round instead? First the internal profound foundation and then the sword art? 

This is the most basic for all the cultivators; even though Ji Yuan has a basic foundation in internal profound cultivation but he has understood this. 

The more he read this cultivation slip, the more perplexed he was; it was because he had suddenly realized that he did understand this cultivation slip with his divine sense even though his internal profound art sucks big time even though there are too many secret cultivations of the internal profound arts that he did not understand and many of the superior ones required the cultivator to have several hundreds of years to fully comprehended. 

Internal profound arts when reaching a high level requires the cultivator to understand what are the Forehead's Three Petals, Cloud Ascending Body, Singularity Point of the Heavens, Soul Dividing Senses, the Invisible Eyes and many more.

Even a master of an internal profound cultivation could not claim to know all the high level basics of cultivation as these high level basics all require hundreds, thousands and even a lifetime to master.

Ji Yuan did not want to waste his time especially when he has no cultivation resources to start on the internal profound arts. 

Even if he has the cultivation resources, he does not have the cultivation knowledge to start and the backlash to his own cultivation core may be severe if he fails.

There were countless masters of the internal profound arts from even the major celestial sects that had gone into seclusion for hundreds of years and they still had the same blocker when they had emerged.

Actually, the same goes for all kinds of cultivations too.

And that was why this Yang Baitian had decided to ask Ji Yuan for help and even sharing his secret cultivation slips with him.

Also, there may be a hidden price attached to an internal profound art too and it may even restrict a cultivator in other areas. 

Ji Yuan remembered when he and Ling Feiyue had found a secret cultivation library in the trial where Xiang Li was, they had discovered a Dark Solstice Profound Art which was a secret internal profound art from one of Ling Feiyue's rival unorthodox celestial sects.

This Dark Solstice Profound Art actually slows down the pace of regaining profound strength by 90% and no number of divine pills will be able to replenish a cultivator's profound strength. But it can offer a burst of strong profound power when this internal profound art is being used.

But this was not what caused Ling Feiyue to laugh nonstop; it was the warning that the cultivator of this Dark Solstice Profound Art should be warned not to take the immortal ascension as it will surely fail. 

Ji Yuan was now frowning suddenly as he read the cultivation slip with his divine sense.

What the heck?

He had actually understood this cultivation slip via his divine sense, with his rudimentary cultivation knowledge in internal profound art?!

He skipped to the last part of the Heavens Annihilation Force where this Sword Deity Hei Baiyue said: If you can read till to the last part then you are definitely not an internal profound art cultivator but an energy profound art cultivator. Not only an energy profound art cultivator but an extremely high level one. This cultivation slip is written for two types of practitioners, an internal profound cultivator and an energy profound cultivator…"

"Hahaha, I hope that you are not offended by the false practice at the start. I am a genius sword cultivator so I don't want anyone to learn my profound arts. If you are able to read this message, then you are qualified to be my direct protégé."

Ji Yuan muttered with disbelief to himself: What the heck? Is this Sword Deity a joker? He had actually spent so much effort to inscribe two sets of profound inscriptions into this cultivation slip and he had joked about the balance between power and defense in order to advance to the next stage…

The ninth stage of this Heavens Annihilation Force was actually extremely complex. But Ji Yuan soon realized the reason why; this Sword Deity Hei Baiyue had actually rewritten the entire Heavens Annihilation Force and revealed the true practice. 

If one would have the Heavens Annihilation Sword cultivation slip and not this Heavens Annihilation Force cultivation slip, then they would not even advance to the next real stage. 

Ji Yuan found out that even the Heavens Annihilation Sword was fake and the real Heavens Annihilation Sword required the second half of the Heavens Annihilation Force to understand. 

Only when he had read the Heavens Annihilation Force, then the divine inscriptions for the real Heavens Annihilation Sword would then appear.

This Sword Deity Hei Baiyue was seriously a joker.

But Ji Yuan was able to quickly understand it as many of the principles were actually quite similar to the Yang Invincible Profound Arts which required the cultivator to first practice the sword then the internal profound arts.

This tested the cultivator's ability to reverse his internal energies and his guts to use the life destructive sword without killing himself first.

The highest level of this Heavens Annihilation Force is actually not a profound aura at all but actually the mystique sword aura. 

Ji Yuan was immediately excited; it was because he had heard that only the immortal sword saints would be able to form the mystique sword auras. But this Sword Deity Hei Baiyue could actually inscribe it for a low level cultivator like himself?

Wait a minute, he called himself the Immortal Sword Deity. Does this mean that he is actually an immortal sword deity in the first place?

When Ji Yuan had finished digesting all the cultivation methods in these two cultivation slips, he looked up to see that Yang Batian was now staring at him.

"You have finally opened your eyes now. It has been 5 days."

Ji Yuan was startled, "What? It has been 5 days?"

But it felt like only a short amount of time had passed.

Yang Batian said unhappily, "For the past 5 days, I have been reforming the defensive arrays in this cultivation chamber because the people outside are too persistent and I have used no less than 1 000 000 high grade spirit stones."

Ji Yuan laughed as he tossed back the 10 immortal jades back to him, "Take this back then. 1 million high grade spirit stones is nothing compared to these 10 immortal jades."

"You think that I am a beggar?" Yang Batian said unhappily but he still took the 10 immortal jades nevertheless.

"So, what do you manage to find in the past 5 days? Or have you been secretly learning from my cultivation slips?"

Ji Yuan laughed weakly as he returned the two cultivation slips back to Yang Batian, "Well, you say that I can secretly learn. Haha…"

Yang Batian frowned, "Can't you lie to make me happier?"

Ji Yuan put on a straight face to say, "I am renowned as an honest cultivator…"

But he quickly said, "After several cycles of cultivation meditation, I have found the solution for you. You need to display the life destructive sword of the 7th Heavens Annihilation Sword 8 times if you want to go beyond the 7th stage. You have to match the profound power of the 8th Heavens Annihilation Sword first with your life force energies first."

Yang Batian looked shocked, "Really? This is suicide… I am no longer young. Where can I find the life force vitality to do so? Do you know what this means? Using life force energies is like burning your life essences and it is called the life and death ordeal as well. No sane cultivators will use it. Are you joking with me?"

"Wait a minute. How do you know about this part? Unless…"

Ji Yuan laughed jovially, "The reason why I can read it is because I am an expert in life force energies."

Then he had taken out his immortal scabbard and slammed it heavily on the floor. 

Yang Batian stared at the immortal scabbard in front of him, "This is a true immortal scabbard?"

Then Ji Yuan took out Xiang Li and Anyang from his immortal scabbard, "I am now going to display my Grand Cross for you to see…"

Yang Batian gasped again, "You have two emperor-step divine sword? Do you even have the profound strength to wield 2 emperor-step divine swords in the first place?"

He was gasping again when Ji Yuan had suddenly lifted up his 2 divine swords in front of him.

"Not only can I lift them but I have also perfectly divine harmonized with my two divine swords. Haha…"

Yang Batian said weakly, "It seems that there is no chance that I can even best you. I am convinced now…"

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Outside the cultivation chamber.

Ding Jie'Er, Sun Dingjun and their female followers were still throwing hundreds of their spirit talismans on the sealed gate of the cultivation chamber. 

Even Divine Consorts Tang Manni and Dongfang Xin were in the scene and they were lending their support by displaying their profound talismans to break down the sealed gate of this cultivation chamber. 

Ding Jie'Er and Sun Dingjun had actually asked the Goddess Destiny to help them but she simply replied, "I am merely an observer. This will affect the balance."

This was a lie because she could easily have kicked the sealed gate opened with her mystic profound arts. 

Destiny was just waiting to see if this may be a trap as she was spying on Ji Yuan all this while. 

As for Xiao Muhan, Chu Lixue and the Goddess Destiny, they were all quietly watching by the side.

All of a sudden Destiny said with an unpleasant look to Ding Jie'Er and Sun Dingjun, "You may stop now. Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan is fine. And he will be out soon."

Now that the Great Oracle had spoken, naturally everyone was totally convinced. 

After all, they had the highest regard for their Great Oracle.

All of a sudden, the gate of the cultivation gate had swung opened. 

And Ji Yuan and Yang Batian were both holding each other by the shoulders as though they were close brothers.

They were both laughing jovially, "Brother Yang Batian! Brother Ji Yuan!"

This stunned everyone.

Chu Lixue asked curiously, "What are the two of you been doing there for the past 5 days?!"

With a heavy sigh, Xiao Muhan muttered, "Isn't this obvious? The real Brother Ji Yuan is never interested in any maidens…"

All of a sudden, he had kept quiet because Ding Jie'Er, Sun Dingjun, Tang Manni, Dongfang Xin and Chu Lixue were all staring coldly at him. 

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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)