The Romantic Cultivator

5 Days earlier when Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao had just used a profound treasure to teleport directly to the Great Desolate Divine Palace.

The Great Demon God Hong Meng was already waiting for her in his throne seat as he smiled to her, "Alas, Number 1. Welcome back. Since you were gone, many things had changed around here."

Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao slowly nodded, "It seemed that the former Evil Cultivation Master has now declared himself as the Evil Cultivation God…"

"And also, the Dragon God Longdi is also dead too." The Great Demon God sighed.

Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao asked, "isn't this good for you? You actually don't need the other two true gods to help you and you want to keep them away from the Desolate Immortal Realm while you are here."

The Great Demon God smiled wryly, "Alas, you really know me so well."

Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao merely said without showing any interest, "I have been with you for the past several thousand of years. That is enough for me to know you."

The Great Demon God smirked coldly, "Unfortunately, that is only for you. Some others like Yin Xian (the Evil Cultivation God) doesn't seem to know me well."

Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao said nonchalantly, "He is forced to join you anyway. So you can't blame him. Anyway, what had happened since I was gone?" 

The Great Demon God smiled as he pointed his old fingers at her and a flashback began to play in Ding Xiaoxiao's head. 

She saw the events that had happened when Saintess Fang Zhenfei had attacked the Great Desolate Divine Palace on her own. 

And the Great Demon God and the Saintess Fang Zhenfei had fought against each other. 

Then the betrayal by the Evil Cultivation Master Yin Xian, the Goddess Alyssa and Number 2 Murong Yue had happened. 

The Evil Cultivation Master had then absorbed the profound strength of the Great Demon God with his Evil Veins Profound Art and then he had proclaimed himself as the Evil Cultivation God.

The Great Demon God was left barely alive as the Evil Cultivation God needed to use his body to maintain the immortal profound array to prevent the Pangu Immortals from descending to help the celestials here.

After patiently biding their time in the Celestial Realm for several thousands of years, the Great Demon God and the other two true gods are now more than a match for the Pangu Immortals.

However, the Great Demon God had decided to play it safe by sealing off the way to the immortal realm and at the same time, he had also wanted to prevent the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth from returning to the Nine Heavens immortal realm.

Right now, the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth had disappeared in the Celestial Realm. 

The Great Demon God was confident that given enough time, he would be able to use his auguries to find the artefact soul of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth and then he would be able to make it into his own profound treasure.

The Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth is a Beyond Divinity profound treasure and the main reason why the Great Demon God wanted to have it was to become a Beyond Divinity true god one day.

His ambition was naturally not to attain as a true divinity and to stop there but to be a Beyond Divinity true god just like the Great Beyond Goddess.

This plan of his, was naturally not revealed to Ding Xiaoxiao.

Rather, he had revealed to Ding Xiaoxiao that the Great Demon God that the Evil Cultivation God and Number 2 had defeated was actually his Avatar.

With the power of his demonic third eye profound art, the Great Demon God was able to create a perfect Avatar that could take damage and also to display the same profound strength as him.

Naturally the Great Demon God did not display his full power through his Avatar as he wanted to lure the Evil Cultivation God to show his trump cards.

For that, the Great Demon God was willing to sacrifice all his Numbers and trusted aide including the Goddess Mel. 

When Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao had finally returned from the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth, the Great Demon God had taken action immediately and he had killed all the evil cultivators that were loyal to the Evil Cultivation God.

And he had also freed all the Numbers.

As for the Goddess Mel, he had sacrificed her to regain the cultivation strength of his Numbers. And he had absorbed her cultivation core with his Ultimate Evil Veins. 

The reason why he had sacrificed the Goddess Mel was because she was a Desolate Immortal of the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm and was not truly from the Desolate Immortal Realm as the Great Demon God.

To the Great Demon God, she was but his pawn to be used against the Evil Cultivation God.

In the end, the Goddess Mel did not even know why she had to die after enduring huge humiliations for the Great Demon God. 

Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao sighed softly when she had learnt of the fate of the Goddess Mel.

She asked quietly, "Are you elevating the Evil Cultivation God Yin Xian just so that you can absorb his cultivation strength?"

The Great Demon God smiled as he stroked his long white beard, "That's right. And I have purposely leaked to him the Evil Veins Profound Art. All along he had thought that I am practicing the Evil Veins Profound Art but he did not know that I am actually practicing the Ultimate Evil Veins Profound Art. The Ultimate Evil Vein can naturally absorb the other Evil Veins seamlessly. I almost feel a little pitiful for Yin Xian now. In the end, he is nothing but my puppet." 

Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao slowly nodded and she was sighing heavily again, "But in order for your plan to work, there is still another important factor that must first taken place or it won't work."

"Oh?" The Great Demon God smiled. "What is it?"

Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao said coolly, "Me!" 

The Great Demon God laughed jovially. "That's right!"

Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao said slowly, "You need to lure me away from the Great Desolate Divine Palace first! Or else your plan won't work."

The Great Demon God laughed, "Ding Xiaoxiao, Ding Xiaoxiao. Why are you so smart? You ought to be my consort instead. That's right. I have to lure you away first. But before I can lure you away to the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth, you have already gone there. So, it saves me quite a bit of work to find an excuse to lure you away."

Ding Xiaoxiao said coldly, "I guess that your trick of luring me to the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth is the same reason why I had gone there in the first place. You had planned to use Sword Saint Ji Yuan or the Death God Mingwang as a bait to lure me inside, am I right?"

The Great Demon God smiled wryly, "I can't deny this and I intend to exaggerate how good this Sword Saint Ji Yuan is. After all, he had killed a 8th rank metamorphosis monster before he had entered the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth and he also had a celestial-step divine sword. So his sword skills are undeniably strong." 

Then he laughed jovially, "I've also purposely asked the Death God Mingwang to enter the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth to create another reason for you to pick a fight with him, just in case you aren't convinced about the strength of the Sword Saint Ji Yuan." 

Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao slowly nodded.

However she knows that the current Ji Yuan is already much stronger than before he had entered the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth. 

She merely said, "Either way or for whatever reason, I am going to the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth." 

The Great Demon God asked her, "So, have you managed to find the Sword Saint Ji Yuan or the Death God Mingwang inside the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth?"

Number 1 Ding Xiaoxiao shook her head, "Unfortunately, no." 

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Author Note:

1. Many have guessed that the Great Demon God isn't so easily defeated by the Evil Cultivation God. This is the reason why.