Ji Yuan did not have the chance to do any ‘scouting’ because his main beloved maidens were all keeping a close eye on him; strictly no sharing for the time being because Ji Yuan had not been spending much time with them for the past two trials.
After Ling Feiyue, Little Princess, Bai Qianfeng and Shui Xisi had realized that they had been so close to losing Ji Yuan, they decided to treat him a little nicer and started to shower him with more affection even in the presence of Yu Jingjing and Feng Minyue; they simply did not care anymore about maintaining the proper social etiquette anymore.
After a few days of search for a new trial, Ji Yuan and his party had found another trial in the deep mountains.
This place was really beautiful and had many waterfalls.
When they had arrived at the trial platform, there were already hundreds of other cultivators.
Ji Yuan did not know whether to laugh or cry when he had overheard them cursing the three spirit old men from their earlier attempted trial.
He thought; are these cultivators the failures from my last trial?
These cultivators were mostly high level cultivators and had a lofty air.
When they saw Ji Yuan and his group, many of male cultivators were scoffing coldly;
“A single male cultivator is actually in the company of several female cultivators.”
“He must be a spineless cultivator.”
“Maybe he is just romancing them…”
Even the female cultivators were commenting coldly;
“Although he is handsome but he is a little too spineless.”
“I doubt that the six veiled maidens that are with him are pretty…”
“Only losers form a group…”
“Maybe he is afraid of taking the trial alone. After all, this is the fifth level.”
“It seems that they are mostly from the Desolate Celestial Fraternity…”
“Why is he a beardless cultivator then? I’ve heard that beardless cultivators in the Desolate Celestial Fraternity are all losers and scums.”
Ji Yuan: …
Ji Yuan: …
Ji Yuan: …
Are these cultivators too free? Why are they gossiping about me instead of focusing on the trial? And why are they all gathering outside the trial?!
“Ji Yuan, ignore them.” Ling Feiyue hummed coldly as she marched to the black stele.
Ji Yuan nodded slowly and saw that they were the only group from the Desolate Celestial Fraternity.
He began to smile weakly; where are all his fans when he needed them the most?!
Are there no expert cultivators from the Desolate Celestial Fraternity?
Where are his friends or enemies?
Ji Yuan had an ugly look on his beautiful face as though he wanted to bash the other cultivators.
Obviously many of the cultivators were actually trying to provoke a fight with him to gauge his strength or reaction.
For the trial, everyone was more or less a rival as they competed for the limited resources.
Even without any mean to check their profound animus, Ji Yuan knew that half of them were probably at the saint level and were all dangerous cultivators.
He was about to shout back at them, being the uncouth cultivator that he had always been and unmindful of his foul mouth when Bai Qianfeng gently said to him, “My lord, you don’t need to be bothered with any of them. They are not worth our time. Why don’t we check the black stele instead? I am curious to know why they are all here instead of inside the trial. This trial may have a specific condition to fulfill first.”
Ji Yuan frowned unwillingly…
Bai Qianfeng smiled as she said gently to him, “Aren’t you a romantic cultivator? Can you be more gracious and more romantic?”
She had been with Ji Yuan long enough to know about his short tempers.
But she also knows that Ji Yuan is really different from the other men; he is really sincerely nice to his beloved and he will endure their gossips about him. Others may scold him for being a spineless man who will endure insults and teases from his beloveds but Ji Yuan actually does not mind at all.
He may complaint about it or muttering curses about it but in his heart, he actually did not mind. It is because Ji Yuan is actually a crude cultivator or rather a grumbly cultivator who tends to complain about everything due to his years of being the protégé grandmaster of the Orthodox Sword Sect.
Even poor Shangguan Yan was not spared his constant grumbling.
But Ji Yuan is now much kinder to Shangguan Yan and had totally restricted himself from grumbling against her; this applies to all his consorts and beloveds as well as he realized that he had a tendency to be a horrible foul mouth crude cultivator.
In the eyes of the majority of the rich cultivators, he is an uncouth, uneducated and a peasant in the world of cultivation.
Not that Ji Yuan really cares about their views on him because he can actually be quite thick skin and know when to retreat strategically at times.
“That veiled maiden in white. Yes, the one with the puny lizard and the ugly green bird. Is she here to take the trial or she is here to take her pets for a walk?” A cultivator laughed aloud.
This caused many of the cultivators to laugh jovially at the same time.
Bai Qianfeng: …
Bai Qianfeng: …
Bai Qianfeng: …
Ji Yuan buried his face into his right hand as he muttered, “This is a terrible mistake…”
Before the cultivator who had first poked fun at Bai Qianfeng knew what was actually happening, she had flashed next to him and had sent him flying with her fists!
The cultivator landed with a loud stump as he struggled to pick himself up with disbelief; he is a great saint and he cannot believe that he can be tossed up in the air just like this.