In the beginning, the Great God Pangu split the Gods Realm into three known realms; the Mortal Realm, the Celestial Realm and the Immortal Realm.
Heretofore, mortal cultivators from the Mortal Realm will now be able to ascend to the Celestial Realm as celestial practitioners and celestial practitioners will be able to ascend to the Immortal Realm as immortal cultivators.
The story begins in the Desolate Celestial Fraternity, one of the many celestial fraternities of the Celestial Realm. In the Desolate Celestial Fraternity, the men prided their beards as dearly as their faces and the women idolized men with beautiful beards. To insult the beards of the men in this fraternity is the same as slapping on their faces.
The Celestial Realm is unlike the lower Mortal Realm where there are vast oceans and plain lands. The entire Celestial Realm is consisted of endless lofty mountains and it is thousands of times as vast as the lower Mortal Realm.
The many celestial clans and populations are situated high above the mountains. Usually the powerful celestial clans will be situated on mountains that are rich in spiritual veins that are refined by rich deposits of jadeites. That will be the most ideal place for cultivation. Other than spiritual veins and jadeites, mountains that are rich in silver and golden celestiums are also ideal, since silver and golden celestiums are needed in great demand to make precious weapons.
Below the mountains, are thick desolate mists and endless bottomless valleys that are filled with many powerful desolate monsters. The spiritual aura below the desolate mists is poor and unsuitable for cultivation.
Moreover the presence of the desolate aura is too overwhelming and can easily corrupt a cultivator inner core. However because of this very same reason, it is the ideal place for the desolate monsters that feed upon it.
In a way, the desolate mists act as a natural barrier between the desolate beasts below and the divine beasts that dwell high in the mountains.
The desolate aura below the mountains actually come from the same mountain veins as the spiritual veins that the cultivators depend upon. The only difference is that this desolate aura is actually refined into spiritual aura by the rich deposits of jadeites in the mountains and by the purifying aura above the mountains that are continuously cleansed by the divine lightning.
From time to time, there is always a possibility that a powerful desolate monster will emerge from the valley below.
The richer the spiritual auras in the mountains, the weaker the desolate auras that will be at the bottom. Therefore it is not wrong to say that mountains that are rich in spiritual auras usually do not have powerful desolate beasts below the desolate mists.
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Ji Yuan had finally opened his eyes.
Today he had finally reached enlightenment and had become a Golden Saint, a seventh realm cultivation expert.
He lifted his fingers to count the number of years that he had hidden in the mountains for his seclusion.
“One hundred years…”
He was startled, “That is really a long time. Hmm…”
Just as he was about to stroke his beard, he was once again startled to find that his beautiful beard was gone.
He quickly took out a mirror and was dismayed to see that he was now clean shaven and was sighing, “I have become so ugly now. I must have lost my beard during my golden body transformation from the sixth to the seventh realm level.”
He began to mutter in great misery, “I’ve heard of stories that for those that have lost their beards during their golden body transformation, it will be a permanent loss. What bad luck I have…”
With a deep sigh, he exercised his profound strength to kick his way out of the cave, loosening the boulders out of his way and almost causing the cave to collapse, ending his adventure in the very first chapter of his new life.
He quickly rushed out of the cave with a heavy relief, “Lucky me! I’ve almost killed myself.”
As he began to make his way down the mountain peak, he started to admire the mountain sceneries that were around him and was muttering at the familiar sight. “It is so good to be alive.”
The Desolate Celestial Fraternity was a mostly mountainous celestial fraternity with a great desert to its south. So there was actually nothing except for mountains.
But it was a familiar sight that he had always remembered and it brought back fond memories.
After a few days of walking, he had finally returned to the mountain peak where he was once the Sword Saint of the Orthodox Sword Sect.
All of a sudden he paused in his tracks when he heard some distant voice; a young maiden and a middle-aged man with bushy beard were seen talking in the tall pine tree groves.
This young maiden was extremely beautiful and she had a heavenly air. She appeared to be out of the world and her presence exuded a superior loftiness.
But Ji Yuan thought, “How come she looks so familiar, like someone that I’ve known?”
He was soon distracted by their conversations.
“Fairy Ye Chengxi, have you forgotten that without my Emperor Hall Sect to offer protection to your Orthodox Sword Sect, you will not have the luxury of strolling in these mountains?”
Ji Yuan was gasping, “Her name is Ye Chengxi…I remember her. She is my most talented senior disciple. What luck. To think that I will be able to meet my most talented disciple that I had previously placed much hope on before I went into seclusion.”
Fairy Ye Chengxi coldly said to the middle-aged man, “That is my business and none of your business.”
The middle-aged man hummed coldly in return, “Fairy Ye Chengxi is indeed the number one Sword Saintess in the Desolate Celestial Fraternity. So why don’t you agree to merge with my Emperor Hall Sect? I’m sure that I will be able to take good care of you.”
Fairy Ye Chengxi hummed, “I hope that you can dare to say that in front of me 10 years later.”
The middle-aged man immediately roared into a jovial laughter, “Do you really think that he will still be able to exit his seclusion? He is probably dead by now. Don’t be stupid. Everyone knows that he is already…”
But before he could finish, the brilliant glare of a sharp sword was displayed at his throat by Fairy Ye Chengxi.
She said coldly, “If I hear a word more from you that is insulting to my old master, I will kill you.”
But the middle-age man remained calm and he was smiling, “I am not afraid to spar with the beautiful Fairy Ye Chengxi who is one of the four renowned great beauties of the Desolate Celestial Fraternity. In fact, I will consider this to be my honor…”
All of a sudden he had turned to the direction of Ji Yuan who was eavesdropping and shouted. “Who is that! Come out now!”
Even Ye Chengxi was exclaiming softly, “Who is spying on us?”
Ji Yuan was smiling bitterly as he showed himself up but not before he had used his profound strength to hide his golden eyes which was a sign that he was a superior celestial cultivator. He had accidentally gasped when Fairy Ye Chengxi was defending his honor and this slip had caused him to be discovered.
He quickly displayed a humble half bow and greeted, “My respect to the two golden celestials.”
Fairy Ye Chengxi raised her alluring beautiful eyelids as she asked gently, “Young man, which celestial clan are you from?”N𝞸VelNext.coM
Ji Yuan stole a glance at his former disciple. She was so beautiful now. In front of her, all the beautiful mountain sceneries had lost its luster and could not be compared to her appearance. He was greatly comforted that she was now so outstanding in her celestial practice and in her profound arts of allure. However, it was a pity that he could not acknowledge her now. It was because he considered it such a shameful thing to lose his beard and he had to find a way to get back his manly beard first.
Ji Yuan replied humbly, “I am just a lowly cultivator that is without any celestial clan. My name is Yuan Ji.”
Fairy Ye Chengxi was suddenly giggling softly, “Yuan Ji? That sounds like meeting your maker.”
But she had quickly realized that she was rude and asked gently, “Will you like to follow me to cultivate the way?”