Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

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"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"

After saying these words, Tang Jianxue then turns around and disappears into the back of this stage, her movement techniques impressive enough that none among the other Ascension Realm experts who are most likely guardians of these young masters and ladies are able to notice it, causing even them, who considers themselves as equals of this peerless beauty, wonder whether their speculations circulating regarding her strength is true at all.

Meanwhile, among those who can see through it, there are those Half-step Celestial Realm experts that seems to be quite impressed with her performance as well, one among them the one who seems to be the most powerful one among all the hidden Half-step Celestial Realm experts here, a blood sister of a kingdom beyond this world.

"She's even better than most Ascension Realm level geniuses from our kingdom" she said more towards the people who are watching the spectacle along with her rather than the words just being pointless blabbering, most of these people nodding at her words as they also acknowledge Tang Jianxue's skills.

However, there is also quite a few who is in disagreement of her claims, harrumphing to themselves as if they found this mature beauty's claim something absurd that it will not even make it even a single bit more believable even coming from her, the sister of the queen as well as a guardian to said queen's daughter.

"That can never be so farther from the truth, Lady Xiang, remember, they are in a far inferior world than ours, so how can you compare someone like this to our geniuses?" another beautiful lady said with a taunting smile on her face as she looks at the other lady, Dongfang Xiang's face, her words not even bothering this lady a bit as she just smiles at her with immutable confidence in her eyes.

"Murong Xiu…" looking at this beautiful lady who seems to rival even her appearance, Dongfang Xiang pauses for a while before she looks at the young people within the crowd of the participants, spotting a particular figure who appears way too exceptional compared to the other participants in the bunch.

"You know, had it not been for the fact that our dear kingdom has enough resources to nourish you up to this state, I doubt you will even reach the cultivation level that the leader of this place attained, not to mention the level of talent she has, with your current talent only being barely equal to her and all" Dongfang Xiang mercilessly pointed out causing this other beauty to feel immense frustration welling from the bottom of her heart.

The reason for that? Because it is nothing but the truth, also the very reason why other than her tone towards Dongfang Xiang, who is a long time thorn to her being the first of their generation, her tone as she talks about the dignified-looking headmistress of the Dao Seeking Mountains is quite sour as well, seeing that even just a random lady from a force they just coincidentally visits is even more talented than her, and what makes her all the more annoyed is the fact that she can't do nothing about Dongfang Xiang's words since she is far stronger than her.

"And seeing that you couldn't even see something, I doubt you're even worth comparing yourself towards that headmistress" as Dongfang Xiang continues her words, her gaze remains focused on the immortal-like young man who seems to notice her gaze as well, his head already turning around to meet her eyes.

Seeing that he is already directly looking towards her, Dongfang Xiang smiles towards his as he reveals a smile to her as well, making her more and more interested to this young man who just seems to be way too out of the conventional for any cultivator.

'Truly, what an interesting lad' the mature beauty, Dongfang Xiang thought to herself with the smile remaining on her beautiful face, her gaze causing the other Half-step Celestial Realm who comes from the same place as her to look towards the direction she is currently staring at, their eyes landing upon and inexplicably getting dragged towards the immortal-like young man as well.

'This…' after trying to look into this young man, this Half-step Celestial Realm experts couldn't help but feel terrified with the things that they see, their minds thinking that they should pull this young man into their own forces as soon as possible, a thought also occupying the mind of Dongfang Xiang.

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After the young participants are all dismissed from the square to proceed to the first trial, they are led by inner disciples of the Dao Seeking Mountains towards the location of the first trial, an amazing, seemingly man-made mountain peak with its topmost part being completely cut into a flat plain, making it painfully obvious that whoever it is that did this, is someone really powerful given how clean the cut is.

"Welcome to the first trial, young ones" once they land into the location, a middle-aged man who seems to be an elder of the Dao Seeking Mountain awaits them with a modest smile on his amiable face.

As he saw that the geniuses from all sorts of forces are already landing on this artificially created plain on top of the mountain, this elder starts explaining, first clearing his throat and infusing his own qi on his voice, making it so that his voice sounds more powerful than it usually is, pulling the attention of all these geniuses towards him.

"Great, now that you're all paying attention now…" as he starts speaking once again, the Dao Seeking Mountain elder starts moving himself towards a massive rock located right at the very middle of this man-made plain, this unassuming rock standing at more than five meters in height and about two and a half meter in diameter, appearing more circular rather than any other shape, the smooth surface of the rock understandably making it harder to lift, all these features making the participants wonder what is the relation of this rock to the first trial.

"For those that don't know what this huge piece of rock is, this here is a Dao Resonating Rock, a special kind of treasure that can cast a person into a maze or illusion of sort and depending on their affinity with the Dao, the time it takes for them to break through the illusion or solve the maze gets longer or shorter, and the stronger a person's affinity is, the more likely they can break through them in a shorter amount of time, even Half-step Celestials uses the stone to check their affinity given that it affects even them"

After explaining these things towards these young cultivators, the middle-aged elder couldn't help but notice the anticipation in their eyes, along with the competitiveness that seems to be igniting upon them as well, something that he, as an ascetic, long discarded, yet the fire in this young geniuses' eyes just makes his heart produce a vigorous, youthful beat once again.