The Romantic Cultivator

Chapter 1078 The Cardinals are all united

Now that Holy Harpy Yue Wushuang was willing to reveal the other moles as well, the banquet had become jovial and the moods were light.

Ji Yuan had also discarded the display of his lowly 2nd cultivation realm and restored his golden eyes too. 

There was no reason for him to maintain his lowly cultivation realm anymore since everyone knows that he was the fake Great Patriarch Sword Saint now. 

The Cardinal Patriarch continued, "We have actually stopped at why the Abyssal King Gong Magog did not want to make his move against us just now."

Ji Yuan nodded, "What do the rest of you think about this then?"

Juan Xian'Er said, "This is something that I have been pondering as well. There is another reason why the Abyssal Immortal Gong Diablo did not dare to strike against us directly."

"Oh?" Many of the Cardinals and Ji Yuan were all looking in her direction, curious about what she had to say. 

Juan Xian'Er said gently, "Now that Ji Yuan and Maiden Ding had explained it, this makes even more sense now to me. Even though the Abyssal Immortal Gong Diablo can destroy the Nightfall Heights if he wishes but he has to pay the cost of returning to the Immortal Great Abyssal Realm afterward because we won't be sitting ducks for him…"

Ji Yuan interrupted with a chuckle, "if the Abyssal Immortal Gong Diablo strikes, then he will surely strike alone or else, the other abyssals will think that their True God is kinda useless and need your help. But in doing so, he has to fight the all the cultivators in the Nightfall Height and even though you may not be able to defeat him but you can definitely make him extract a heavy price in using his immortal power. This will diminish his days in this realm."

Juan Xian'Er smiled as she looked at Ji Yuan and her eyes were gentle, "Right. This is actually one of the reasons too. Another reason is that the other powerful abyssal kingdoms fear the Nefarious Blood Kingdom as well and if the Abyssal Immortal Gong Diablo strikes us before the Holy Communion can be fully etched in the Dark Abyssal Realm, he may face mass rebellions by the abyssals when he has ascended back to the Immortal Great Abyssal Realm."

The Cardinal Pope nodded, "Even though most of the abyssals are converted to the Holy Communism now but many are also believers in the true faith of our Ancient Race too. Many of the abyssals actually consider it to be sacrilegious to attack the Nightfall Heights."

Juan Xian'Er nodded gently, "Even so this may be the case, the end goal for the Nefarious Blood Kingdom and the Immortal Abyssal Gong Diablo is to completely destroy our Nightfall Heights. For this, they will use a variety of tricks and means to accomplish their goals…"

"Firstly, they force our Cardinal Priestess to enter into matrimony with the Abyssal King Gong Magog. This will give them a legitimate reason to prove the superiority of the Holy Communism over our True Faith. When the abyssals from the other kingdoms witness this, then our Truth Faith will surely weaken in their kingdoms and so will their resolute in defending the True Faith of the Ancient Old Ones."

"Secondly, by sending a punitive force to test our Nightfall Heights, they hope to let the other abyssal kingdoms see our weaknesses and even our willingness to make concessions. Then in the eyes of the other abyssal races, our True Faith and the Nightfall Heights will lose the prestige that we have among the abyssal races."

Juan Xian'Er looked slowly at the Cardinal Pope, the Cardinal Herald, the Cardinal Patriarch, the Cardinal Harpy and the Cardinal Confidant, "Are we still going to be pacifists and allow ourselves to be deceived by the schemes of the Nefarious Blood Kingdom and their ancestor god the Immortal Abyssal Gong Magog?"

The Cardinal Herald slowly said, "That is why they have spent so much effort to convert so many of our kind into their moles. I am afraid that most of the moles do not even know that this may be the real intention of the Abyssal Immortal Gong Diablo."

The Cardinal Pope slowly nodded, "Some of them may even think that they are ensuring the survival of our Ancient Race but it is actually pushing our Ancient Race to the very edge."

The Cardinal Patriarch was sighing heavily, "I am wrong. Truly wrong. I thought that by avoiding conflict with the Nefarious Blood Kingdom, I am actually winning peace for our Ancient Race. In the end, all we did is to sacrifice our Cardinal Priestess and to further their nefarious schemes."

The Cardinal Herald was also saying heavily, "I was misled by some of my elders too…"

Cardinal Harpy Li Yifen had now stood up and she was looking awkwardly at Cardinal Priestess Xuan Qiaoqiao, "Your Cardinal Priestess, I am so sorry that I've been nasty toward you and even thinks that forcing you to be betrothed to the Abyssal King Gong Magog is actually a good idea."

Li Yifen was actually also one of the pacifists too. But she was now standing firmly behind Ji Yuan. Since Ji Yuan is a friend of the Cardinal Priestess, she has also fully converted to her side and now she hopes to get into the Cardinal Priestess' good books.

In fact, most of the Cardinals were pacifists before this except for the Cardinal Confident Jun Qianfeng who stands firmly behind the Cardinal Priestess.

Even though Jun Qianfeng is firmly behind the Cardinal Priestess, this does not mean that she has to like Ji Yuan as she had suspected him to be up to no good. 

In fact, Ji Yuan had even suspected at some point of the time that Cardinal Confidant Jun Qianfeng may be a mole because she appeared to be quite nasty toward him.

The Cardinal Patriarch stood up from his banquet seat and raised his fists angrily, "If so, we should close all negotiations and prepare fully for a fight!" 

"We have Savior Ji Yuan to help us to fight Immortal Abyssal Gong Magog, right?" The Cardinal Pope nervously look at Ji Yuan.

Even the Cardinal Herald was looking hopefully at Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan sighed softly as he took a look at Xuan Qiaoqiao and Juan Xian'Er, "To be honest. I can help you deal with the Abyssal King Gong Magog but I am not sure if I may be able to triumph over the Immortal Abyssal Gong Magog. Once they realized that we are not negotiating anymore, their last resort will be for the Immortal Abyssal Gong Magog to annihilate the entire Nightfall Heights. If so, do you all still want to fight? Even if this means the destruction of your entire Ancient Race?"

Ji Yuan's question stunned almost everyone.

But this was a question that was known by everyone and that was the main reason why the Nightfall Heights was willing to negotiate with the Abyssal Blood Kingdom and the Abyssal King Gong Magog in the first place.

It is because it is a fact that the Nightfall Heights is weaker than the Nefarious Blood Kingdom and past its glorious heydays! 

Cardinal Priestess Xuan Qiaoqiao broke the silence as she chuckled softly, "You know my stand. I will fight of course."

When she had said that, Juan Xian'Er could not resist a smile; it was because Xuan Qiaoqiao's stance was too obvious. She did not want to be married off to an ugly abyssal king in the first place and she had been opposing to whatever the Cardinal Council had been throwing at her.

Cardinal Confidant Jun Qianfeng smiled, "I support my Cardinal Priestess in this decision."

Li Yifen was also smiling, "I am also in support of my Cardinal Priestess."

The Cardinal Pope, the Cardinal Herald and the Cardinal Patriarch took a brief look at one another before they laughed aloud together, "Even if our Ancient Race is to be destroyed, we shall fight to the very last!"

Ji Yuan rubbed his chin as he stole a glance at Ding Xiaoxiao who was quietly watching them: Erm, you will help me this time, right?"

All of a sudden, an imperator barged breathlessly into the banquet hall and he was panicky saying. "There is an urgent bad news! The Royal Prince Meshech of the Nefarious Blood Kingdom is leading an army against us. He will be here no later than noon tomorrow!"

Ever since the attack on the Nightfall Heights by the Immortal Abyssal Gong Nephilim, the Ancient Race had increased their scouting range by more than 10 times. 

The Cardinal Patriarch turned pale as he muttered, "They are really fast…"

The Cardinal Herald said, "This Royal Prince Meschech is quite a formidable abyssal cultivator too and he has many top expert abyssal cultivators with him too. This won't be an easy fight."

"I wonder if Savior Ji Yuan is able to join in the fight tomorrow?" The Cardinal Herald looked nervously at Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan had just been through the Immortal Heavenly Wrath and he had also exhausted both of his emperor-step divine swords. 

Also, his wounds were not healing as fast as he had thought.

It is because the Dark Abyssal Realm is poor in spiritual auras that Ji Yuan depends for his cultivation.

With Aura also in a deep slumber due to the exhausting Immortal Heavenly Wrath, his inner spiritual sea was now quite emptied.

But Ji Yuan said nonchalantly, "Leave it to me tomorrow."

Actually Xuan Qiaoqiao, Juan Xian'Er, Li Yifen, Jun Qianfeng and even Ding Xiaoxiao could see the state that Ji Yuan was and they could not help displaying a look of concern in his direction.

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Author Note:

I. In this chapter, all the Cardinals of the Ancient Race, minus the Cardinal Tribune are all united now.