Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

While the purple-haired alluring beauty is currently enjoying her time hacking and slashing all the illusions that appear to be the two people whom she hated the most with all her guts, the other geniuses currently under the illusions are not faring as happy as her, some of them already even having some problems with tackling the cards that they had been dealt with.

Among those who appears to be struggling, a particularly amiable-looking young man about the same age as Su Xiaotian’s current appearance is included, his forehead scrunched as he seems to be having some sort of trouble within the illusion he is currently in.

Nearby, two other young men are also trying their hardest to deal with this illusion as well, one of them in the form of a huge, fierce-looking young man with fire-like hair and a build only paling a bit in comparison with Su Xiaotian, the air around him bending the passing light with the sheer amount of heat coming out of him.

Just sitting right beside him more bothered of the illusion from the Dao Resonating Rock rather than the heat he is currently emitting, a cunning-looking young man which seems to appear shadow-like and ethereal is also trying his best within the illusion, all while the expression on his face changes quite a bit every now and then.

Lastly among this circle that seems to be a part of one group, two ladies are sitting back-to-back, their ice-like temperament something that is enough to catch the attention of most of the young men participating in the Dao Enlightenment Competition.

While they do seem to be among the people who are about to be eliminated within just the first round, the elder from the Dao Seeking Mountain facilitating this first trial thinks otherwise, nodding in admiration as he watches the unceasing determination welling from those five young geniuses, a determination that clearly reflects itself upon the expressions on their faces.

“Ling Feng, one of the two great successors from the Heavenly Secret Tower along with his older cousin Hua Xian’er, Huo Chen, son of the Sect Leader of the Everburning Sect, Wang Sheng, disciple of that monster from the Shadow Blade Organization and lastly, those two lasses, Leng Yue and Bing Xue, disciples of one of the grand elders of the Astral Ice Sect… those young people, they shouldn’t be this strong before, right?”

Being one of the people in charge of the external affairs of the Dao Seeking Mountains, this elder couldn’t help but wonder given that he had already seen those five in their respective sects and forces and he, from watching their sparring when he got the chance, already knows the extent of skills they do have, and frankly, he is more than just impressed of them, the only thing he finds a pity being them born the latest among the current generation of the cultivators meaning that among the talents that are currently here, they are more than likely the ones who are of the lowest cultivation when compared to everyone else.

This doesn’t seem to make them any weaker than the other competitors though given that some of the geniuses who have higher cultivation than them appear to be struggling even more fiercely than they already do, some of the mentioned talents already sweating buckets, and drenching the entire area around them.

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As these geniuses continue to try their hardest to break through the illusion created by the Dao Resonating Rock, the elder from the Dao Seeking Mountain couldn’t help but feel surprised as he saw a young man standing up from his seat, and that is just after a couple of minutes has passed since he activated the illusion formation.

‘Just like what the Headmistress said, he’s really a monster beyond compare…’ the elder said with a wry smile on his face as looks at the young man, the immortal-like aura from the said young man being more amplified by the plain white Dao robe he is currently wearing, making him appear like some sort of high-level disciple of their own force.

“Congratulations, young man, you passed the first trial” as the immortal-like young man approached his position, the elder said with a smile on his face before handing him a token with what appeared to be the mountain range where the Dao Seeking Mountain is located engraved on it, the attention to the detail and the level of craftsmanship indicating that this is an important token, at the very least, within this Dao Enlightenment Competition.

“That token is some sort of key, only those who had passed the first trial will be able to receive that token from me, and only those who have those tokens can proceed to the second trial, of course, you can only proceed once the first trial is done” the elder then explains with an amiable smile on his face before pointing the young man to an open area unoccupied by any participant, said open area seemingly huge enough to hold several dozens of people simultaneously.

“You can go there and wait first, the time before the first trial finishes is still quite long, you can use this time to prepare for the second trial” the elder then said lastly as his attention was diverted back to the remaining participants once again, leaving Su Xiaotian all to himself as he does so.

Seeing that the elder from the Dao Seeking Mountain is no longer paying attention to him, the immortal-like young man then moves towards the open area but not before running his senses and covering the entire flat peak of this mountain, the fact that he infuses both spatial and temporal rule on his senses making it so that not even this elder who is someone who already progressed a considerably level within the Ascension Realm, clueless about his current scanning.

‘I just whipped it up on a whim, who would’ve guessed that I can really use it like that…’ looking at the Half-step Celestial Realm experts who are currently observing their locations not so far away, Su Xiaotian thought to himself as he smiles even more finding out just how effective this method is, slipping even past through the senses of powerful cultivators like them and that even without him pushing his cultivation into higher realms through combat techniques.

After pulling his senses back, he saw the appearance of the figures familiar to him, his friends and some acquaintances who are also currently participating in the first trial, but most importantly, he also saw his lovers, all four of them who participated in this competition, their face focused but not troubled, as if they are currently dealing with the illusion cast upon them with relative ease.

Meanwhile, as he finally finished digesting all the things that he had seen with his extended senses, he couldn’t help but frown as he saw a familiar face, not familiar to him because he had already met them during his time traveling outside but rather because he had already known of him from the previous timeline, someone who he had dealt with quite easily given the massive gap between their strength when he met him, but a troublesome, or rather, annoying opponent nonetheless.