Since then, she would often tell her protégés to be wary of that shameless Ji Yuan who was getting more and more famous with his poems.
When she found out that her protégés were reciting Ji Yuan's poems, she would harshly rebuke them until they cried. "This shameless and good-for-nothing Ji Yuan is a cultivator and he is writing poems?! What a loser. Don't ever let me catch you with Ji Yuan's poems again or I will flog you!"
Quite a number of her female protégés got flogged by her in the past.
It was because Ji Yuan not only could write beautiful poems but he was also renowned as the most beautiful bearded man in the entire Desolate Celestial Fraternity.
There were many maidens in the Desolate Celestial Fraternity that had a romantic notion on Ji Yuan even though it was rumored that he did not like maidens.
The reason why Ji Yuan did not like to be intimate to the celestial maidens even when he had gone to the brothels was because of his bad experiences with three maidens in the past; his ex-flame that betrayed him, Little Princess and the Sword Saintess Yuluo.
Ever since then, he would always badmouth the beautiful maidens whenever he got the chance.
"She is just beautiful because everyone has said so…"
"I've never seen her face before. How do I know if she is beautiful or not?"
"I prefer to drink in the brothels with my brothers. You guys have your fun but count me out of your naughty play…"
"She is only beautiful because she is a powerful saintess and people did not want to offend her…"
"Do you know why I am so good with my sword? It is because a maiden will only slow down the speed of my sword!"
He was actually did not mince with his words and he did not think that he would get into trouble because he was in his familiar territory where the powerful seven orthodox celestial cultivation sects in his Desolate Celestial Fraternity did not have any influences.
And moreover, Ji Yuan was quite sure of his sword skill and his ability to run away from trouble.
He had never thought that one day he would be set upon by several powerful saintesses of his Desolate Celestial Fraternity where they were the genius of the geniuses of their generations and they had unlimited resources to cultivate.
Ji Yuan had never thought of truly offending these powerful saintesses in the first place and he was uninterested to cultivate to be the most powerful cultivator; he was just happy enough to frequent the trials that he could find and to drink happily with his brothers.
That was until he had met Xia Jiajia.
When he first saw Xia Jiajia, something in him was suddenly ignited.
There was no explanation for this and his heart seemed to tell him that she was the one.
He even forgotten about his unhappy past and started to behave irrational.
Ji Yuan did not know that Xia Jiajia had also noticed him way before that and she could forget about him at first glance.
Unknown to both Ji Yuan and Xia Jiajia, it was because they had already known each other when they were the True Devil God and the Great Beyond Goddess.
The thing that awakened in their hearts were their secret pledge to be with each other. And also, their farewell tears that had happened in the past.
Even though the Ji Yuan and Xia Jiajia did not remember about the past but their souls remember it vividly...
Xia Jiajia was the lofty divine master and also mistress of the Hundred Flowers Divine Palace as well as the Blue Phoenix Sacred Sect, 1 of the 7 most powerful celestial cultivation sect.
She could not easily tell a man that she likes him as there are cunning men who would resort to all kinds of means just to obtain the rich cultivation resources/ profound treasures for their own cultivation.
And she just wanted to get to know Ji Yuan better without revealing her own identity.
She was in no hurry.
After all, she is a cultivator and a cultivator has a long life. '
Xia Jiajia was seriously quite offended when Ji Yuan had tried to touch her butt during their first meeting but that was only for a brief moment. Somehow, she just could not fly into rage in front of him.
There was just no explanation.
Because love doesn't have an explanation.
At that time, she just wanted to know if Ji Yuan was a gay by testing him out and secretly observing him.
That was what everyone had said about him and even her spies had told him that Ji Yuan may be a gay instead.
But she did not expect for Ji Yuan to try to reach out to touch her butt as they went up the stairs to meet Ling Feiyue.
At that point, she already got a feeling that this Ji Yuan was not exactly a gay.
Ji Yuan was not a gay; it was just that he did not want to associate too much with the maidens and preferred to be let alone.
That was until, he met Xia Jiajia and he had suddenly decided that he wanted her to be his dao cultivation partner.
That was what had happened 100 years ago when he had run away for his cultivation breakthrough to hide from the two powerful saintesses Ling Feiyue and Xue Qianxue.
Accordingly to the sacred laws of the Desolate Celestial Fraternity, all offenses will be forgiven if a cultivator is to disappear for 100 years if it is not a blood debt.
The reason for this cultivation law was that a golden celestial takes hundreds of years to attain to the 5th cultivation realm. If all the golden celestials start to kill each other over every little offense, then they would be no golden celestials left for the future generations to groom.
In cultivation stories of course, killing was so common place that one may wonder if the killing only starts when the MC's story actually starts. That is why before the readers can realize the falliacy, the MC will be taken away to a higher realm to trick the readers' logic.
The author of the cultivation story will emphasis on how 'talented' the MC is more than the others while conveniently left out the real cultivation experts that can kill the MC and with a single shot because they won't meet them anyway. Even if the MC met them, they would be his 'friend' to cover a logic issue of the world where enemies exist to allow the MC to defeat them without encountering anyone that can find them to kill them.
The cultivation writers want to write an invincible MC that is like a Mary Sue character so that the readers will feel impress all the time and to make it into a dope addict story which only focus on the awesome cultivation of their MCs while decreasing the world view because there is simply no world view and there is only a last minute addition on cultivations and higher realms.
Which real MC will start off trying to challenge the titans of the world and thinking that they are the best at the very beginning when they got nothing to feel bold about?
Therefore 'smart' is added to the MC while decreasing the smartness and luck of the MC's enemies. Either that, it is some godly unbelievable starting profound treasure that makes the MC stronger than anything else with no one wiser to it.
That how a cultivation story almost always start to see if the readers are smart or not to know that there is simply no world view/ lore while the cultivation writer creates everything at the very last minute.
Ji Yuan's story started off when he is at the 7th realm cultivation and not the first. And he has been cultivating for the past 500 years. There is nothing really special or interesting about his cultivation story in the past 500 years.
That is why his story is an uninteresting read because it is incomprehensive to the sheeps that are stunned to read that a MC actually starts off as a weak 7th realm half-saint that is trying to stablize his cultivation foundation.
Because sheeps are taught to lack world view by the cultivation writers and they lack reasoning and the cultivation writers enjoy doing emotion damage to them by fueling their emotion rages such as, "You offend me. So you die! You shall pay the price! Might is right!"
Back to the sacred laws of the Desolate Celestial Fraternity, Ji Yuan had conveniently made use of this sacred law to 'disappear' and to 'cultivate'.
One may have thought that Ji Yuan had wasted 100 years of his time to run away from Ling Feiyue and Xue Qianxue so he ought to hate them.
Only a non-cultivator would have this notion of wasted time.
Ji Yuan is a true cultivator and he has to devote his time to cultivate anyway. He was merely forcing himself to cultivate due to his misdeed.
But Ji Yuan being a lazy cultivator, did not like to cultivate.
Somehow, Ji Yuan never got a cultivation bottleneck at all.
Because he was lazy and poor at the same time, his cultivation speed was deemed to be normal and he was able to be under the radar of the Great Demon God and the Evil Cultivation Palace for a long time.
Ji Yuan did not know that because he was the True Devil God, he was able to breakthrough cultivation realms after cultivation realms with no chance of failure each time.
And he had attributed it to his 'cultivation good luck' just like the other cultivators who had their breakthrough.
His five leaf clovers that he had with him always seemed to work well for him and he contributed his good luck to it.
One may not know that it was actually nerve racking for the cultivators to have their cultivation breakthrough because they had no way of knowing if their cultivation breakthrough would be successful and how long they needed to stabilize their new cultivation realm afterwards.
That was the reason why Ji Yuan did not even seem to have any cultivation bottleneck when he was at the 8th and 9th cultivation realm, seemingly able to gain mastery of his new cultivation realm with little effort.
When he had first reached the 7th realm sacred saint level as a half-step saint, he had actually though he would need a long time according to what he had learnt.
If one was to think back, it would look very strange that Ji Yuan would actually stabilize his cultivation foundation so quickly while constantly crying out loud that he was a poor cultivator with poor cultivation resources.
Back to Ling Feiyue and Xue Qianxue, Ji Yuan did not think that they would be so petty after 100 years and he was more concerned to look for Xia Jiajia than stepping on their toes again.
Actually, he was stepping on their toes now.
It was because Ji Yuan was now furiously banging Ling Feiyue ad Xue Qianxue at the same time while roaring shamelessly to them and Bai Qianfeng, "I am the alpha of the alphas!"
All three maidens shouted back at the same time, "Shameless! Shameless of all the shameless!"
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Author Note:
1. This chapter has more than 3000 words. The last chapter was also quite long at almost 2k words. Both chapters are like 2 chapters each. Enjoy!
2. The Romantic Cultivator is a mockery of many things, if you are able to decipher some of the hidden meaning. The hardest part is the Japanese code that my Japanese friend has taught me:P