The Romantic Cultivator

Chapter 454 Prelude To The Final Trial (1)

When Ji Yuan, the Great Beyond Goddess, Ling Feiyue, Yun Chi and Feng Minyue had entered through the red portal, they had found themselves overlooking a vast canyon.

Ji Yuan muttered, "So where are we? Where is the final trial? Or are we here already?"

It did not take long for his question to be answered.

A feminine spiritual voice soon murmured from the skies, "Welcome to the final trial. You are among the very first to have arrived. The trial will only open once three thousand cultivators have arrived."

"What? We are not allowed to enter the final trial yet?!" Ji Yuan was astonished almost to the point of speechlessness.

The same voice answered, "Not yet. You have to wait a little longer first."

Ji Yuan asked ruefully, "What if there are never three thousand cultivators in the first place?"

"Then the trial will not open. You will all be expulsed from the Warrior Empyrean Labyrinth when the time limit is reached."

Ji Yuan was taken aback, "You are not joking with me, right?!"

Feng Minyue said quietly, "It is to be expected. This is something that I want to tell you for some time. Currently, no one has ever completed the final trial. To be allowed into the final trial is also considered to be a completion of the trial itself."

Among everyone here, only Feng Minyue had overcome the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth. The rest of them were all first timers.

Ji Yuan was stunned as he blinked his eyes, "What??"

Feng Minyue said nonchalantly, "Usually the final trial will be opened eventually. It is just a matter of time. However, it is nearly impossible to pass the final trial for there is no criteria."

Ji Yuan asked curiously, "There is no criteria?"

Feng Minyue nodded, "That's right."

Ji Yuan asked again, "Even so, how is it possible to gather three thousand cultivators for the trial?"

Feng Mingyue smiled, "There are more than three hundred thousand golden celestials from all over the Celestial Realm. Many of them are the geniuses of their fraternity. We are actually not special and they will soon arrive. I actually did not expect that we will be among the very first."

Then she pointed at the canyons in front of her, "These canyons may well hide a couple of cultivators too."

Ji Yuan smiled weakly as he asked another question, "If there is no criteria then how do we obtain the artefect core of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth?"

Feng Minyue explained, "The final trial is for cultivators to find extreme profound treasures and translucence cultivation arts. It is usually a never ending landscape of hidden cultivation lands. In all my previous attempts inside the final trial, I've never heard that there is a way to obtain the artifact core of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth."

Ji Yuan inhaled deeply as he rolled his eyes, "You are not joking with me, right?"

Feng Minyue looked at him intently, "Do you think that I am joking with you?"

p Ji Yuan smiled weakly, "Well no… but…"

He began to sign softly…

This was the last month already…

Saintess Fang Zhenfei (Jiajia) had told him to stop the Evil Cultivation Palace from obtaining the artefact core of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth while inside but she had never told him the real reason why. (See Chapter 194).

So he turned to look at Yun Chi for an answer.

Yun Chi took a glance at Ji Yuan before taking a glance at Bai Qianfeng.

But in the end, she was quiet.

This caused Ji Yuan to smile weakly but he did not fault her because he knew that this was an inconvenient time and he had no idea if the maiden goddess next to him was an enemy or a friend. But on all appearances, she was more like an enemy.

This was the same thought that Yun Chi had as well. Also except for Ji Yuan and Bai Qianfeng, no one else knew that she was the Death God Mingwang.

Even though Yun Chi had betrayed the Great Demon God and his schemes and had even carried Ji Yuan's daughter in her womb, she was still hesitating.

Her unborn daughter so happened to kick a little fuss at this time as she asked sweetly inside her womb, "Mama, why papa seems so distant now? He has not touched you for some time."

Yun Chi got distracted momentarily as she rubbed her slim belly, "My child, papa is really busy nowadays."

"You are not lying right, mama? Papa has so many sweethearts around him. Mama must be sad." The unborn daughter whimpered softly inside Yun Chi's soul sea.

Yun Chi only laughed softly in her spiritual soul sea, "Hah, no! Your mama is really proud of you and can't wait for you to be born. Moreover I have just accepted a new disciple and her name is Qianfeng. Together, we will defeat the Great Demon God together."

"If mama is not angry with papa then why don't you answer papa?"

Yun Chi answered emotionlessly, "Hmm, I am just cautious about the maiden that is constantly clinging onto your papa. She is dangerous."

"Mama can't defeat her? She is…stronger than mama?"

Yun Chi was forced to admit, "She seems to be and she is really mysterious. Her profound strength is truly terrifying."

But she quickly added with a smile, "Not to worry. I am not afraid of her."

Then she tapped her belly lightly, "Protecting my child is my first priority now…"

In all the millions of creation, no True Gods had never had a child. By some miracle, she was now expecting. This had totally come at a huge surprise to her and for a while, she did not know how to coup with it. Also how did she fall into Ji Yuan's charms so easily?

Until today, she still found it hard to believe how she had fallen into Ji Yuan's hands. Even though she had run millions of simulations in her mind, she still find Ji Yuan's charms irresistible. And this caused her to sigh softly.

After a while, she gathered a divine whisper to transmit into Ji Yuan's soul sea, "Although it may be difficult to obtain the artifact core but for a True Goddess such as me, I can actually pinpoint its exact location."

Ji Yuan was startled to hear Yun Chi's voice in his soul sea but he was also excited, "Yun Chi, I can actually hear you? Xiang Li, Anyang, can you hear Yun Chi's voice too?"

Xiang Li was delighted in Ji Yuan's soul sea as she clapped, "Yes I can!"

Fairy Anyang Xiahou nodded as well, "I can hear Maiden Yun Chi's voice…"

Yun Chi sighed softly before she said, "For thousands of years, we have secretly infiltrated your realm which is the Celestial Realm.  You should know that for immortals to go to the Celestial Realm, our cultivation strength will be suppressed to the peaked seventh rank. Even True God and Goddesses have no exception though it is quite hard for even one of your peaked seventh rank golden saints to even defeat us on even ground."

Ji Yuan agreed in his soul sea even though he had no idea why Yun Chi was suddenly telling him this.

Yun Chi continued, "It will take us thousands of years to restore to the Ninth Immortal Positioning but we are ever patience for time has no real meaning for our kind. We have tricked the Desolate Immortals into attacking the Pangu Immortals via their Ancient Fortress and promising aid to their causes. It is but a lie. We have never helped but torn through into the Celestial Realm to hide our presence. For thousands of years, the Pangu Immortals have been looking for us everywhere but it has always been futile. Then we cut off the only tunnel that can link the upper Immortal Realm to the Celestial Realm, preventing the Pangu Immortals from descending. Now we are the only supreme beings in the Celestial Realm."

Ji Yuan said, "Then you must have paid a heavy price for sealing the tunnel, am I right?"

Yun Chi did not disagree, "Indeed you are right. It is a very, very heavy price in cultivation strength from the three of us but one that we are willing to pay nevertheless. That is why we need the energy from the artefact core of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth to restore some of our cultivation strength. As you have noticed, this Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth itself is an immortal spiritual artefact and defies the laws of the Celestial Realm. It is indeed the energy that we have craved."

"Only some?" Ji Yuan asked curiously.

Yun Chi said, "Our cultivation strength is still being suppressed by the laws of the Celestial Realm. We have restored our cultivation strength, only to use up our Ninth Immortal cultivation strength to close the immortal realm tunnel for a short period of time."

Then she mused, "Do you think that the Great Demon God will allow me to swallow up the energy from the artefact core of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth all by myself? Success or failure, the Great Demon God has already taken the worse case by calculation by itself."

Ji Yuan asked curiously, "Then your mission is irreverent to your cause?"

Yun Chi sighed softly, "I will say that even if I were to swallow the energy from the artefact core of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth, I am still not strong enough to defeat the Great Demon God."

Ji Yuan was smiling bitterly now, "So the Great Demon God is really so strong?"

"Yes…" Yun Chi was forced to agree. "I am actually the weakest of the three. Moreover I am expecting now so you can expect my cultivation strength to decrease further. It is all thanks to you."

Ji Yuan: …

"Yun Chi, you can still joke at this time. We need to defeat the Great Demon God."

Suddenly Ji Yuan began to pause for awhile to ponder over Yun Chi's words. Then he asked with a growl, "That is weird. Since the Great Demon Lord has sent you here then what is he doing in his hideout?"

Yun Chi laughed softly, "You didn't figure it out yet?"

"What?" Ji Yuan was perplexed.

"There are only two things that can arouse the interest of the Great Demon God. One is your Jiajia…"

Ji Yuan was shocked, "Then Jiajia is in danger?! What am I doing here for?!"

"She is stronger than you think she is. You are of no help to her outside." Yun Chi said matter of fact.

Ji Yuan: …

Surely not?

Yun Chi smiled, "Maybe you do stand a little chance now with your spirit animus that can rise your immortal positioning to the eighth. But before that, I can't view you as a serious threat."

Ji Yuan could only smile bitterly in his soul sea, "Yun Chi, why are you so frank with me…" But he quickly asked, "So what is the second thing that the Great Demon God desires?"

Yun Chi coolly said, "You should know. She is your Little Princess. On the surface, it is the Evil Cultivation Master that seems to nurture Little Princess to be his living furnace but actually he did it unknowingly for the Great Demon God."

"This, you are wrong." Ji Yuan weakly answered. "How should I know about this. I am not such a great schemer like your kind."

Yun Chi laughed softly, "How would you not know? You have taken her primeval yin away before she is ready to be a living furnace. My other mission is to take her away if she is in the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth."

Ji Yuan protested weakly, "I haven't complaint that my primeval yang was taken away from me just like that by her in the past…"

"You are too shameless." Yun Chi interrupted him with a soft chuckle.

Unknown to Ji Yuan, Yun Chi, Xiang Li and Anyang, the Great Beyond Goddess had overheard their conversations and she was quietly saying to herself, "How so interesting…"