Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

"Hey, you're…"

"Come on, I'll take the first place on this competition!!!"
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"Hahaha, what an arrogant retard, doesn't he even know how many monsters are participating in this event?"

"Please, if you want to be so pessimistic then please don't drag us into it"

After all the time difference from the moment that the Dao Seeking Mountains give out their invitation for the Dao Enlightenment Competition and this moment right now, where the participants are only waiting for a few more minutes before the competition starts, it is only bound that such big and rewarding event will attract a whole lot of geniuses from all different province there is in the Eastern Continent, the most prominent young generation geniuses coming out from top tier forces of all of these places.

What makes it far more crowded with participants than even the Golden Spirit Pool of the Heavenly Secret Tower well known to each and every person, cultivator or mortal, is the fact that it doesn't really need that high of a talent for one to participate here, hence why this is one of the most populated competitions among all of the ones held by top-tier forces of the continent.

"That is…"

"Dear heavens… for someone from the Central Province to even come here…"

"Doesn't this mean that this event is even more significant than the Golden Spirit Pool? After all, there's not a single participant that came from the Central Province during that event"

"Are you pretending to be dumb or actually one? Don't you know how large of a beef there is between the Heavenly Secret Tower and the Imperial Court?"

"What beef?"

"I heard that when those five legendary masters of the Heavenly Secret Tower is still in their youth, the greatest master of the Imperial Court uses their power in order to constantly suppress those people, trying his best to prevent them from reaching the stage of cultivation he has"

"Apparently, he failed though given that the current Heavenly Secret Tower doesn't even give a single damn about what the Imperial Court thinks about them now"

"So that means that the Imperial Court is ruling with tyran─"

"You better shut your mouth before someone related hears you fellow daoist, we don't know just what sort of things those people are capable of"

As the discussion among the crowd participating in the event continues, the time finally comes where the Dao Enlightenment Competition is about to start, testament to that the fact that a single person arrives right above the elevated stage located in front of this public square, the descending figure one of a dignified, saintess-like bearing, her wavy silver hair cascading all the way down to her hips that seems to be curved after an hourglass.

Her figure and bearing are not the only thing that seems to be impressive in her, as despite all the effort to hide her true appearance, the veil covering the better part of her face and only revealing her eyes adorned with an ebony black, shining pupils, one that seems to be tempered by her experience as a leader of a top-tier force, an impression that is slightly mellowed by her long, curly eyebrows and the slightly arched eyebrows decorating those eyes.

While she might be someone that can be called a beauty beyond compare, none of the male, and even female participants dare to look at her for so long given that all of them understands the significance of this peerless beauty's identity, something that they can easily deduce from the clothing she is currently wearing.

A unisex shaped Dao robe seemingly designed similarly to those of the disciples of the Dao Seeking Mountains, the only difference being the fact that this one is embroidered with a golden, chrysanthemum pattern completely complementing her dignified air, partnered with this the adornment on the crown of her head, a golden hairpin with a life-like phoenix carving on them.

Beside this beauty standing are three olden elders, two being ladies that seems to also be a star of attention during their prime of youth, evident from the fact that traces of their former glory still seem to be visible on their already wrinkled face.

The last elder is one that seems even more odd than the two, being an old man of an extremely ancient air, something in every single one of the observers of this event telling them that this old man is even older than the age of those two elderly women combined.

"People of the new generation…" as she finds that the time for the start of the Dao Enlightenment Competition is nearing its start this dignified-looking beauty, the Headmistress of the Dao Seeking Mountain, Tang Jianxue, opens her mouth and starts speaking towards the participants, her voice, despite being melodious and mild, is completely powerful the sound more than enough to drown everyone else's voice and make it so that they are listening to her in full attention.

Seeing that these young people finally start paying attention, Tang Jianxue reveals a smile underneath the veil covering the lower part of her face, a smile that not even the most powerful ones among these young participants can see.

"Once again, I welcome all of you to our humble place, a place of seeking the path, nothing more and nothing less, a purpose which is also the inspiration of today's, well, event for all of you but rather a festivity for my people"

Tang Jianxue said as she waves her hands, this motion alone causing a mountain-like structure created solely by qi manipulation technique showing just how much strength and control of it, Ascension Realm masters like her possesses, given that even some experts couldn't even form a perfectly spherical structure from qi they gathered, not to mention something so detailed and life-like structure similar to this.

"This is what we think the Dao is, a perilous mountain that one must start climbing and finish climbing alone, leaving a trail of themselves to the path towards the peak for the younger generation to take inspiration from"

"This doesn't mean that just because there are paths and trails already laid down before you climb this place, you must just go ahead and follow this path, of course, this is also not completely true given that sometimes, there's just an already mapped path that is just way too suitable for a person"

"What I want to say is, as much as possible, try to explore this mountain using a different path than other people take, because in the end, you will feel more fulfilled seeing things that is unique to you, and knowing that all you did to tread the path you tread, are things you did out of your own volition, not a decision influenced by the paths other people take"

After this little lesson of her, Tang Jianxue feels quite glad that there's a number of young people who seems to be contemplating her words rather than just listening to it, making her look towards these people more positively before she starts speaking once again.

"While this is truly a competition among all of you young cultivators, this is also a chance to see for yourself the path that you all want to take, and compare this path of yours with your peers to temper rather than just to inspire each other"