The Romantic Cultivator

The strong winds were blowing furiously against Ji Yuan and Qiu Xiuyu as they braced for the incoming Divine Calamity that was forming in the dark heavens above in the form of a gigantic dark cloud face above them.

Long streaks of lightning were flashing and striking on the ground below, causing Qiu Xiuyu to be very startled and very much afraid.

Ji Yuan said to her, "Do not be afraid. I am here. There will be 99 lightning that will attempt to strike you."

Qiu Xiuyu gasped, "99 lightning?! I can't survive it."

Ji Yuan answered quietly, "I will be with you. Usually the first few lightning won't hit you because these lightning represent the first few years of your life and usually a cultivator has a pure soul at the beginning. It is only later in life that a person's soul will be corrupted and hence, the lightning will be aimed at you. You need to prepare for it and use your divine sword as your protection."

Qiu Xiuyu nodded fearfully, "My lord must have a really pure soul in order to become a great saint."

"Of course! Haha." Ji Yuan laughed weakly.

He remembered that he had to take 13 lightning strike for his first golden body transformation, which was not too bad already.

Usually if the lightning strike was more than 9 times, most cultivators would not be able to survive the Divine Calamity. However, he was a tougher nut than most.

That is why the storytellers always love to tell the cultivators in the Celestial Realm that the younger they are, the higher their potential is; actually it is only because the younger that they are, the less corrupt their souls are.

The number of lightning strikes continued to strike with increasing frequency.

Ji Yuan was anxious for Qiu Xiuyu.

It was not just his consort Qiu Xiuyu alone but his unborn child as well.

Therefore he was doubly alert.

There was also something that he was anxious about and that was that if a cultivator chooses to help another person to overcome their life and death tribulation, the strength of the Divine Calamity will also be enhanced to the strongest cultivator and doubled again for each additional cultivator.

Therefore Qiu Xiuyu will never be able to take even a single lightning and that is because Ji Yuan is too high level.

But Ji Yuan is willing to take the double strength Divinity Calamity for her.

It will be even more powerful than his own lightning calamity!

All of a sudden the entire heavens were rumbling fiercely and even the mountains were shaking tremendously!

This caused Ji Yuan to have a sudden ominous feeling.

He had never heard of the mountains moving for a breakthrough to the golden celestial realm level even when there were many stories of multiple saints aiding a cultivator to breakthrough.

He muttered weakly, "What is going on here?"

Fairy Anyang offered him a suggestion in his soul sea, "Maybe you aren't just a peaked great saint?"

Ji Yuan frowned, "I am not?"

Xiang Li reminded him with a soft giggle, "May I remind you that you are an 8th rank middle realm cultivator if you were to use your Cherubim immortal core."

Ji Yuan rolled his eyes, "But I can't now and moreover my profound strength is restricted to the fourth realm cultivation level now. Is the heavens blind?"

"Wait a minute." He frowned all of a sudden. "And the strength of this lightning obviously is of the saint power level. Is the heavens cheating or what? Or the heavens have a grudge against me or something?"

Fairy Anyang smiled weakly, "You can try arguing with the heavens all day and you won't get any response. My lord, you have better focused on defending your beloved consort Xiuyu against the Divine Calamity instead."

Ji Yuan sighed bitterly to them, "I can only show off my 8th realm cultivation level for just a while and now I am even demoted to a 4th realm cultivator."

Fairy Anyang smiled, "Your Xiuyu will be so shocked to learn that you are actually an 8th realm cultivator."

Ji Yuan replied, "I can't tell her this or she will think that I am a liar once she is in the Celestial Realm. The 8th realm cultivation level is only for those that can ascend to the Immortal Realm. Moreover, I am only an 8th realm cultivator only when I can display my immortal cherubim spirit animus. I'm not a real 8th realm cultivator."

"But you are." Xiang Li giggled.

All of a sudden a bolt of lightning thundered and flashed toward them.

Ji Yuan immediately displayed his two sword spirits on his hands as he shouted, "Xiang Li and Anyang!"

Two bright sword spirits immediately flared brilliant around Ji Yuan.

At the same time, Xiang Li and Fairy Anyang instinctively know where to lift their divine swords and there was a thunderous shockwave when the lightning collided with the divine swords.

Xiang Li and Fairy Anyang had suddenly turned to physical form when they were lifting their divine swords all of a sudden.

This shocked Qiu Xiuyu when she saw that Ji Yuan's spirit entities were able to have a physical form and she was also shocked when she saw that Ji Yuan had two sword spirits.

Ji Yuan laughed as he praised Xiang Li and Fairy Anyang, "Good work! Hahaha. Even though I can't use my divine swords but the two of you are not restricted and can tap into my soul sea directly. With my sword spirits to guide you, I don't even to take any risk at all."

Fairy Anyang frowned, "This sounds like an exploit to me."

"Who cares if it works." Ji Yuan laughed aloud.

"But Big Brother, the lightning may be close but it certainly cannot hit you or Maiden Xiuyu. You need to be more accurate than this." Xiang Li giggled.

Ji Yuan: …

-1 point with everyone.

Slowly he frowned, "Actually I am only giving a trial run for this first. I am actually very accurate especially when I am aiming the holes. You can't do things at the last minute, do you know."

Somehow this caused Xiang Li, Fairy Anyang and even Qiu Xiuyu to giggle softly in an otherwise solemn mood.

Dozens of lightning soon flashed down but none of them were close enough to strike Qiu Xiuyu.

This caused Ji Yuan to frown silently; this is impossible. She is so pure?

Eventually all 99 lightning had struck all around them but none of the lightning was actually aimed directly at Qiu Xiuyu even though there were some close shaves.

However there were 13 lightning that were aimed at Ji Yuan directly instead.

But luckily there were Xiang Li and Fairy Anyang who were there to protect him.

This caused Ji Yuan to curse loudly, "I am not taking the ascension. Why are you aiming me instead?!"

Even Xiang Li, Fairy Anyang and Qiu Xiuyu were quite astonished that the lightning seemed to be aiming at Ji Yuan instead.

When the 99 lightning had finally passed, Ji Yuan face-palmed himself; this is so embarrassing. Xiuyu is actually so pure and she is purer than me. I can't believe it…I am supposed to be the pure one. Didn't I cleanse my soul completely in the Dream Trial?

There was a sudden bright light as a golden animus began to surround Qiu Xiuyu all of a sudden and at the same time Qiu Xiuyu was transforming into a spirit animus as she was lifted up slowly to the heavens.

When a cultivator managed to ascend, only their profound items will be able to transform with them as these profound items contain profound energies and they will be able to transcend together.

Qiu Xiuyu cried out, "My lord. I am a golden celestial now. Will I see you soon?"

Ji Yuan gasped as he tried to catch hold of her but he was only able to touch her finger with his finger tip, "We will surely see each other again very soon. Remember that I will be in the Desolate Celestial Fraternity. Remember to look for me at the Emperor Hall Sect! It is at the Five Heavens Peaks in the Desolate Celestial Fraternity!"

That was a lie.

Ji Yuan did not want to tell her that she would be randomly sent to a different celestial fraternity for the Celestial Realm is a vast realm, much bigger than the mortal realm.

There are many mortal realms but there is only one Celestial Realm.

Qiu Xiuyu muttered tearfully, "The Desolate Celestial Realm…the Emperor Hall Sect…the Five heavens Peaks…I will remember this…"

Ji Yuan was actually heartbreak to see her fly off but he tried to maintain his manly composure, "There is no hurry to look for me. Remember to look for a spiritual rich mountain to join as your new celestial sect. It is more important to cultivate first…"

Then he quickly said what he had been trying to suppress in his heart, "Xiuyu, I love you…"

Even though Qiu Xiuyu was high up now but in spirit form her perceptions were actually enhanced many times, "Ji Yuan, I love you too. Till the oceans dry up and the stones age to dust, I will love you forever…I want to be with you till the end of time…"

Her voice was extremely melancholy and this caused Ji Yuan's heart to bleed internally when he had heard her last parting melancholy words.

There was another flash of light as the flash of light sped up to the canopies of a small window in the dark heavens and disappeared.

All of a sudden the bright light was everywhere, vanishing the darkness and tranquility was restored.

There was even a rainbow in the clouds above.

Ji Yuan could not resist shedding a drop of tear and his eyes were bleary when he saw Qiu Xiuyu disappeared just like this.

He tried to remind himself; She is only ascending to the Celestial Realm and maybe one day, you may see her and your child again. So Ji Yuan, why are you so sad?

But silently he is afraid because the Celestial Realm is a treacherous realm with many dark politics and hypocrites. And moreover she is already very beautiful now and when she has transformed into a golden celestial, she will be even more beautiful.

And he may be green as well.

"She is even more pure than I've thought. You are really lucky to have met a maiden like her." Yun Chi had suddenly appeared out of the blue.

"Are you crying?" Yun Chi teased him with a wry smile.

"Of course not! I have a heart of stone!" Ji Yuan answered with a hoarse voice.

Yun Chi rolled her eyes before she turned to smile at Xiang Li and Fairy Anyang, "I believe that this is the first time that we have met. I am Yun Chi."

Secretly, she was appraising Xiang Li closely; so she is the Goddess Tear. And who is this other spirit entity? Ji Yuan actually has two spirit entities? No, he has five spirit entities now if I am to include his two sword spirits and immortal animus spirit. Is this really possible? Or is this the power of the Goddess Tear?

She had actually witnessed the entire ascension from afar.

Xiang Li giggled, "I am Xiang Li!"

"I am Fairy Anyang."

Yun Chi chuckled, "You are both so beautiful. More beautiful than me. Ji Yuan is so lucky to have the both of you."

Xiang Li and Fairy Anyang were both suddenly flushing shyly.

Ji Yuan quickly said, "We can both leave this place now."

Yun Chi smiled wryly, "Alas, only for you but not for me. Do you think that the sacred ground of a celestial clan where the spiritual veins are located, is a place that any stranger can enter as they please? They only know you but not me."

Ji Yuan smiled, "Don't worry. I will surely help you to complete this trial. Don't forget I am now their Ancestor Patriarch now. How dare they refuse to heed their Ancestor Patriarch. Haha."

"Maybe I can claim to be their Ancestress Patriarch?" Yun Chi had suddenly winked at him. "I can tell them that I am your consort. What do you think, heh."

Ji Yuan: …

He was suddenly smiling, "I think that is a good idea…"

Yun Chi was smiling too because she had managed to make Ji Yuan smile; she knew that he was clearly heartbroken and was looking sad.