The Romantic Cultivator



All the men and maidens were now weeping as they bowed down to Ji Yuan. 

Ji Yuan smiled gently to the freed men and maidens as he tried to assure all of them, "You are all freed now. All I need is just some information as I am new in this realm. I am a good guy. You may all stand. I actually do not like people to bow like this in front of me. Haha…" 

It was the truth; Ji Yuan preferred people to talk tough with him and showing him no face as he was more at ease and he did not mind as well. 

The old man that talked to Ji Yuan earlier was now looking more composed and he was no longer stammering as he rose to say, "Empyrean Ji Yuan, we are all natives here and we are all taken by Abyssal Great Lord Gui Gongkui to the nearest city to be sold as slaves and living cauldrons for the Abyssals. As for me, I am an old man, my old bones would likely to be sold as food for the abyssal beasts."

Ji Yuan was shocked beyond words. 

Slaves?! 

Living cauldrons?! 

Food for the abyssal beasts?! 

What kind of inhumane lifestyle have these people been suffering here?!

The old man sighed heavily, "Although we are freed now, we actually have no where to go. The Abyssals will hunt us down if they see us in such a large number."

Ji Yuan was shocked, "Really no where to go?"

The old man pondered for a while before he said, "There are probably some savage humanoid races living in the mountain wilderness inside the Bloody Forest. Maybe we can go there but they won't be friendly and we may not be safe there too."

Ji Yuan asked curiously, "If you know that there are people there, the Abyssals would also know too. Am I right? Then why didn't they wipe out all the humans in the Bloody Forest?"

The old man answered with heavy sigh, "I wouldn't call them exactly free. They are actually released in the Bloody Forest by the Abyssals a long time ago to be used as their preys to train their young Abyssals. I am afraid that the humanoid races there are more like savages and we may even be food for them… the poor maidens here won't be sad…"

Ji Yuan nodded slowly; he could see that many of the maidens were scantily dressed and also beautiful. They would probably be violated by the humanoid races and their fates may even be more pitiful than being the pleasure slaves and living cauldrons of the Abyssals. 

He was thinking that there may not be anything that he could really do for them since he would only be here for only 40 days. 

But he could not really leave them here since he felt quite angry about their plight. 

He frowned and growled before he finally said, "I've made a decision. We are going to the Bloody Forest first before I will head to the nearest city."

The old man was shocked, "We are going there?"

Ji Yuan grinned, "We. Meaning that I will also go with you so I will protect everyone until we are there. Now, I want all the people with at least the third cultivation realms to step out…"

There were actually no sixth realm cultivators among the 100 men and maidens so Ji Yuan could actually read all their cultivation realms. 

One must know that once a cultivator reached the Sixth Cultivation Realm which is the Spirit level, they can conceal their cultivation realms from the scrying divine sense of the cultivators. 

There were only 8 men and 2 maidens that had stepped forward.

Ji Yuan nodded to them and he tossed 10 precious heaven-step swords to them. "Take these swords as your weapons from now onward. From now onward, you shall be the protectors of your group here."

The 8 men and 2 maidens were shocked at such a precious gift.

When Ji Yuan saw their expressions, he was smiling bitterly; these were only precious swords and not divine swords. He had already used up all his divine swords that he had gained previously from the Demonic Outer World. But to these people, this was indeed a most valuable gift.

He was suddenly frowning when he remembered that his Orthodox Sword Sect's heritage sword was only a lousy precious sword and he was silently cursing his old man for being so stingy. 

And he could hear his old man protesting in his mind, "Little rascal! Low profile! Low profile! If I give our sect a divine sword then won't the Evil Cultivation Palace knows that we are not an ordinary sect and suspect my identity?"

He had suddenly turned to grin at the old man, "I can see that you are the oldest here and you seem the most respected. What is your name?"

The old man answered respectfully, "Empyrean Ji Yuan, you can call me Old Fu."

"Well, Old Fu…" Ji Yuan grinned, "You are now the leader of this group and you will be leading them from now onward."

Old Fu: ???

He did not seem to really understand.

Ji Yuan grinned, "In short, you shall be the sect leader of this new group."

Old Fu was shocked, "But I am only at the second cultivation realm and I am not strong. How can I be the sect leader?"

Ji Yuan said, "If I say that you can then you can."

Then he turned to look at the other men and maidens before asking, "Does anyone disagrees with me?"

All the men and maidens were shaking their heads and many were even smiling.

Old Fu said gravely, "Then I have a request from Empyrean Ji Yuan."

"Oh?" Ji Yuan.

Old Fu continued, "Then you shall be the founder of our sect and the Patriarch of our sect."

Ji Yuan frowned before he said, "This is not unreasonable. So be it then."

Old Fu smiled, "Then what is the name of our sect?"

Ji Yuan grinned, "The Orthodox Sword Sect then. This is the same as my celestial sect in the Celestial Realm. Hahaha…"

This time round, he was going to play the MIA founder just like his old man.

Then he took out another heaven-step precious sword and gave it to Old Fu, "This precious sword shall be the token of your leadership. Whoever has this sword after you shall also be the new leader of this Orthodox Sword Sect."

When Ji Yuan had said, many of the men and maiden were smiling. "Sect Leader Old Fu… our respects to our Patriarch Empyrean Ji Yuan…"

Ji Yuan turned to say to everyone, "Now we ought to go to the Bloody Forest now where we can find food and water. I don't need any food and water since I am a golden celestial but the whole lot of you will need a place that can provide for your future needs."

He estimated that the food and water supplies here would only be enough to sustain them until they reached the nearest Abyssal City.

Next, he started to check the spatial rings and belts of the dead Abyssal for any useful items. 

He found plenty of blood crystals which contained infernal energies; this was used for the cultivation of the Abyssals and not useful for him except to be used as a currency.

He also found plenty of minor profound treasures and even some spirit stones. 

Seeing that there was actually nothing precious in here, he only took the blood crystals and the divine weapons of the Abyssals since they were too heavy to be used by most people. Next he gave the rest of the loot to Old Fu.

Old Fu was actually stunned by the great wealth that was given to him; after all there were one 7th cultivation realm and 3 6th cultivation realm Abyssals! 

Old Fu stammered with shock, "All these cultivation slips, cultivation resources, rare herbs and profound treasures are for me? Empyrean Ji Yuan, are you sure?"

Ji Yuan grinned, "I saw that there are plenty of cultivation methods. You can impart to the rest of the sect or picked some talented men and maidens to pick up the cultivation methods. I don't really care."

Old Fu said weakly, "Some of the cultivation slips here look extremely formidable and high level…"

Ji Yuan chuckled, "That's alright. Just treat it as the heritages of the Orthodox Sword Sect. Haha…"

He was actually too lazy to learn new cultivation methods and moreover, Ji Yuan did not really like to loot from the dead that he had killed unless he had no other choice. 

The reason why he was cleaning up the loot was for the men and maidens that he had freed and also because he wanted to carefully destroyed the dead Abyssal bodies to avoid unnecessary troubles from any passer-by.

In the past, he actually had several opportunities to own a divine sword after winning a fight with a rich cultivator. One such example was the Saint cultivator of the Black Thief Guild but he did not take away his divine sword or to loot him even though he was dirt poor. 

He may be a tomb raider but he would like to show a little decent respect for the recent dead. Or else, he would have used his sword to kill and rob the weaker cultivators a long time ago. 

There was another reason why he had taken away the blood crystals were because he did not want the freed men and maidens to start cultivating the infernal profound arts which may do them more harm than good. And also, he may have some uses of the blood crystals in this place here. 

He was actually thinking of walking into the nearest Abyssal city to take a look.

If Fairy Ye Chengxi knew of his bold plans, she would have fainted immediately; it was exactly the same when Ji Yuan had decided to visit the Emperor Hall Sect in the past. Except that this time, this was a world of hostile Abyssals. 

But this is Ji Yuan and he has the iron guts of a crazy donkey.