Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

With all of them now greeting each other, the ladies then start talking among themselves once again, recalling to each other what they had gone through in order to pass the first trial of this competition, all while refusing to ask the immortal-like young man of his experiences there despite their curiosity to know what happened to him, mostly due to them thinking that it will just be another hit to their pride should he tell them what he did within the illusion.

Hence brings them to the current situation where the immortal-like young man, Su Xiaotian, can only input his words whenever one of the ladies speaks to him, that is until the conversations moved from their experience on the first trial towards their mundane daily life, a topic in which he is forcefully dragged given that he lives with all of these ladies, except for the alluring Zi Yu'er.

With that, time flows even faster as they wait for the other participants to either succeed or fail on the first trial as well, the faces of the geniuses from outside the Sky Soul Star also being noticed not only by Su Xiaotian, but also the other ladies as well, an expression of wariness appearing on each of their faces, but the one with the most apparent vigilance towards these unknown geniuses being the youngest among their group, Wu Xiaoyao.

'They're here far earlier than expected…' as old memories resurface her current mind, the bubbly young beauty thought as she clicks her tongue to herself, feeling a bit frustrated that the previous prediction of her dear big brother is gradually falling apart at a rate too alarming to ignore.

Looking at her dear big brother's figure though, she couldn't help but feel like the way things are going right now is way better than both of them previously expected, the rate of growth he is showing, especially when he show them just how strong he really is now surprising her the most among all of the ladies that witnesses that single blade swing the reaches beyond the heavens of this world, after all, she had known him for the longest of time, and she knows pretty well where his talent lies.

'Sure, it is really absurd back then, but not this much…' thinking of how unparalleled the immortal-like young man is during the previous timeline, completely slaughtering swathes of Half-step Celestial Realm cultivators despite only being an Ascension Realm cultivator himself, the difference from his talent back on the previous timeline and now being a stark contrast given that even now that he is just at the Nascent Source Realm, he can pretty much kill any average Half-step Celestial Realm cultivator with one swing of his blade.

Cutely shaking her little head as she thought that there's no need to worry about such thing as long as her dear big brother is satisfied with his current state, Wu Xiaoyao then redirected her attention towards the young geniuses who the other participants thought of as people who comes from hidden forces from all over the Eastern Continent, said participants not even having an inkling of idea that these new faces are people not only from outside their continent, but also from outside the Sky Soul Star.

Seeing one among the most talented ones of these group of outsiders, the bubbly young beauty couldn't help but smile with satisfaction on her face as she recalls said person's expression from back when her and her dear big brother encountered her just previously.

'Dongfang Jing… the princess and sole successor of the Azure Star Kingdom' recalling the status of this young beauty who appears to be of the same age as her sisters-in-law, Wu Xiaoyao mutters to herself while thinking of ways to pull her towards their group as well, given how much of a talented lady this girl is, something that is proven by what happened during the events of the previous timeline, with said princess being able to push the domain of her kingdom into unprecedented heights during her reign.

'If I's not mistaken, the queen of that kingdom should be dealing with 'that' now…' thinking of all sorts of things, this bubbly young beauty fails to notice that the lady she is currently observing is now looking towards her direction as well, only learning of this as she snaps out of her thought feeling like there is also someone looking at her, only for her to meet the gaze of the refined beauty looking at her and another figure with sheer curiosity filling her face.

This curiosity however, is not directed to Wu Xiaoyao, but rather, towards the young man whom she is creating all this plans for, her dear big brother, who also seems to notice the gaze of Dongfang Jing already, seeing as he is looking at her general direction as well.

'Looks like I won't need to make any plans for it anymore~~~' seeing the light on Dongfang Jing's eyes, Wu Xiaoyao said to herself in a jovial tone all while humming a little happy tune, causing her older brother to direct some of his attention to her as well.

"My dear little sister, you seem to be planning something" despite only having his memory of the previous timeline only up until the two of them ascended to celestialhood, Su Xiaotian appears to know this bubbly young lady to the same degree as she believes she know him, having struck the mark as he did an educated guess based on how she is currently behaving.

"M-my dear b-big brother, w-what are you talking about?" caught red-handed while she is still happily humming some tune, Wu Xiaoyao felt a bit surprised by the thing that her older brother pointed out, causing her to stutter as she attempts to feign ignorance, an attempt that she so miserably fail.

"You're stuttering you know?" tilting his head downwards so that he is now looking at her completely, Su Xiaotian then reveals an amused smile on his face as he moves one pf his hands right on top of his younger sister's head, rubbing the crown of her head for a bit before he stops without saying any other thing to her.

"T-that…" seeing the smile on his face, Wu Xiaoyao feels even more embarrassed as while she knows that her dear big brother knows her too well, she is still in quite the disbelief that he won't even take time to discover that she is scheming something.

"Don't do too much, Xiaoyao, just let nature take its course…" after seeing his younger sister's expression that is also pretty much her admitting that she is really planning something, Su Xiaotian then reminded her before he directed his gaze towards the familiar figure of Dongfang Jing once again, smiling at her once she met his gaze eye-to-eye as if this is just something normal.

Meanwhile, hearing the words from the immortal-like young man, Wu Xiaoyao feels even more embarrassed as she found out that not only is her dear big brother aware of the fact that she is planning something, it also appears that he is also aware of the plan being something concerning his relation with the refined beauty that they had met only once during their time traveling from their home to the Dao Seeking Mountain.

While these simple words once again made the image of her dear big brother even better in her mind, said big brother, Su Xiaotian, is currently smirking to himself as he witnesses the refined Dongfang Jing shying away from his gaze, averting her eyes away from their direction and moving it to the ground, all while she starts fidgeting to herself as if she can't find a way to calm herself down.

"That lady seems really interested to you, Xiaotian~~~" seeing the figure of the lady they had met in their last restaurant stop from when they are still traveling to reach this place, the empress-like Hua Xian'er said with a hint of teasing in her confident voice as she takes a few steps to stand just right beside her beloved, before directing her gaze to the embarrassed refined lady as well, her eyes revealing a peculiar glow as if she's trying to see through something beyond what is material.

"I know, Sis Xian'er, after all, miss Jing acts completely similar to how you act back then" detecting the teasing on Hua Xian'er's voice, Su Xiaotian then retorted with a slight jab lacing his remarks as well, only, it is just him who thought this is a slight jab, and the beauty receiving it appears to be hit on her sensitive spot as her gorgeous face starts being flooded by a shade of red near instantaneously.

Hearing the words of the immortal-like young man, the other ladies accompanying him starts giggling at his remarks, causing the empress-like beauty to feel all the more embarrassed before she retorted with a hint of defeat in her voice.

"W-what do you know!!"