Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

With their group enjoying their conversations with each other, Su Xiaotian and the ladies fails to notice the time quickly slipping away from them as short moments turn into minutes along with their laughter, with the minutes extending into hours as they continue their small talks.

Along with the shifting of the hours moves the sun in the bright sky as well, it's mighty, warm glow eventually being replaced by the cool air of the gentle moon as it sets down the west, it's few rays of sunlight before it vanishes into the horizon giving anyone who witnesses it a sight to behold.

Gradually, more and more talents start snapping out of the illusion created by the first trial, with their faces bearing all sorts of expression from the emotional spectrum, some displaying pride and joy in their faces, some revealing a skeptical expression, and some other showing such deep terror that anyone might wonder just what is it that they encountered within the illusion created by the array here.

Time passes, and the official limit of the trial is eventually reached, and unfortunately for some of the sects and forces participating here, there are disciples who had failed to meet the requirements to move to the second trial, having failed escaping or breaking out of the illusion before the time limit is up.

While one might think that this, being eliminated within a competition, is normal, the people who were eliminated thinks otherwise, causing most, if not all of them to start complaining about the unfairness of this trials since each one of them encounters a completely different scenario within the illusion, bringing this complain of theirs to the facilitating elder who seems to be way too passive to argue with them.

It is during this time that not only those eliminated cultivators, but even the ones who passed the first trial, found out the other side of this seemingly kind and lenient middle-aged elder, showing a temper expected of someone of possibly even beyond his caliber, putting those disqualified talents back into their place with no way to retort to his words.

It is now a new morning, with the successful participants of the first trial standing within the expanse of the flat mountain top, their attention mostly focused on the facilitating elder that never left this place when all of them are still taking the first trial, the very elder that they believed is a saintly one, only for their expectations to completely crumble apart as they saw his angered, borderline evil side just previously.

"While it might be boring for me to just watch meditating kids trapped and trying to break away from an illusion created by the Dao Resonating Rock, I am pretty certain that all of you enjoys your time within the illusion" the elder said with a jovial smile on his face, his words causing all these geniuses, even the ones from outside the Sky Soul Star, as well as the third imperial prince, to nod in acknowledgement to his words, even if some of them doesn't really think the same way as he does.

"Well, for those who enjoyed that trial, the second and third ones will be so much more fun for you, that I can guarantee" the elder said with a smile on his face before he looks towards the horizon, with a massive floating sword moving to their direction, causing the young geniuses and talents to look at it as well.

Seeing the growing figure of the flying sword, these geniuses deduced without mistake that the sword is something of a transportation that they will use, possibly to reach the place for the second trial, nearly all of them wondering where the next trial will be held all while admiring the craftsmanship of whoever it is that designed and created this gigantic flying sword, possibly a genius of the refining world given that the details of it alone invokes such peculiar, yet enlightening feeling to them.

"All of you can rest for a while now, the second trial will be held the day after tomorrow in order for the participants to prepare themselves fully" the middle-aged elder explains as the gigantic flying sword arrives, causing the young geniuses to feel surprised as they never expected that there will be a resting period after the first trial, especially since they read from the records that the Dao Enlightenment Competition doesn't really give a time for the participants to rest between each trial.

Seeing the confusion on the young geniuses' faces' the elder of the Dao Seeking Mountains merely smiles and waits for a few moments before he starts explaining the change, something that even he finds quite surprising since this is the first time that he knows of that the proceedings of the Dao Enlightenment Competition changes.

"Looks like those who have idea of how the Dao Enlightenment Competition works are quite confused sp allow me to explain… it is the Headmistress who approves of this plan, since she wants to bring out the best of the participants so that they can benefit from the trials more, and all of you can only be in top shape if you are all well rested" the elder said, the geniuses in front of him finding his words reasonable hence their agreement, as to them, benefitting more in this competition is something that they would never deny themselves of.

With that, all the remaining talents who passed the first trial steps into the platform, the gigantic flying sword, all of them seeing another elder at the helm of the flying artifact, seemingly the one manning this flying sword, his straight figure crooking a bit the moment that the elder facilitating the first trial arrives right beside him.

The reason being said elder slapped the back of the middle-aged man controlling the flying sword, causing the man to wince as he feels quite a bit of pain from the hit from his old-time friend.

With these two elders minding their own business as they start to talk, the young men and women starts having their way as well, some of them socializing and conversing with each other, some exchanging stories of their experience not only within the first trial but even their travels towards the Dao Seeking Mountains, and some of them, well, let's just say some of them are up to no good at all.

Despite all sorts of things happening around them though, the immortal-like young man's group is pretty much undisturbed by anyone within the giant flying sword, after all, the events of the Golden Spirit Pool where the young man who appears to be the leader of this group completely suppresses not only one, but two pinnacle geniuses of top-tier forces along with all the other disciples accompanying them is something of a terrifying, borderline impossible feat, especially considering that he still has fairly lower cultivation level during that time.

If that is the only reason Su Xiaotian's group is being avoided however, it won't be enough to deter those that comes from outside the Sky Soul Star, especially the young men among them who seem to be way too interested with the ladies in the group, so much that they couldn't stop themselves from staring at them for prolonged period of time initially.

What stops these visitors from continuing this is the fact that every time they try to ogle one of the figures, whether if it is the empress-like beauty, the maidenly one, the heroic one, the younger, bubbly one or the alluring lady among them, they just start feeling like they are being stared, and also targeted, by an apex predator ready to behead them any second, causing cold, sticky sweat to come out of them from all over their bodies.

{You're really building your fence don't you, my dear big brother~~~} observing the geniuses from outside their planet revealing blackened, seemingly terrified faces, the bubbly Wu Xiaoyao pointed out with a hint of joy and amusement in her words, using telepathy as they don't know when someone can be listening to their conversations.

{I don't want bugs roaming around my treasures after all…} the immortal-like Su Xiaotian then replies with a smile on his face, the words coming from him causing his younger sister to snicker in an amused pity, not towards him but rather towards the group of visiting talented young men who comes from outside their world, young men who are treated as elites by their kingdom, far developed and advance compared to the Eastern Continent of even the entire Sky Soul Star, but only regarded as bugs by her dear big brother.

'It's not like big brother is wrong though~~~' the bubbly young beauty added to herself as she recalls the information about these geniuses in her memories, the talent they have based on what she remembers not even comparable to her older brother's might from the previous timeline, not to mention now that he becomes even more absurd than he was before.