Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

"Hey, old bastard, forget about those young people, how about we deal with the issue at hand?" as he finishes speaking, the ancient old man hears two voices coming from behind his grand disciple, these two speaking right at the same time making one wonder just how long is it that they spent with each other for their thoughts and words to be one of the same.

Turning around, the old man, as well as Tang Jianxue, saw the two other old ladies that accompanies the two of them to the stage previously, these two looking quite irritated as one among them speaks once again.

"That prince from the Imperial Court has the audacity to order us to give our dear grand disciple's hand and offer it to them for marriage"

"This is something that shouldn't be tolerated… not to mention they are even asking to offer up some of the geniuses her as a gift to him"

The two old ladies pointed out making the grand disciple and the grandmaster reveal a frown on their faces, and had it not been for their immense control over their emotions given that they already reach such high level of cultivation, the explosive rage from the two of them will be surely more than enough to wipe out all those young geniuses still far away from them.

After revealing this frown, the grandmaster manages to calm himself first before being followed by the grand disciple, the grandmaster among them starts talking as he took away the paper handed by one of the old ladies and tore it apart before using his fire attribute qi to make sure that even ashes of it are burnt into nothingness.

"This lady right here is a treasure that my sole disciple left behind, and if the imperial family who took this disciple's life wants to take her away out of her own will, then they need to walk through my mangled corpse first" the old man proclaimed as he stops himself from going out of this place towards the young prince who is currently at that plain as well and just tear him apart, but given that said prince is still from the direct line of the people leading the Imperial Court, he chooses not to, for now.

As these top echelon people of the Dao Seeking Mountain discusses about how they should deal with this, the first trial already started, with the young people being settled down by the elder conducting the trial.

"Alright young fellows, now that you've all settled down, I will trigger the formation created to harness the power of the Dao Resonating Rock better, the moment that the light from it drowns your eyes, all of you are going to be sent into the illusion, so prepare yourselves as everything might happen in there, well, except for true death of course" the elder said with his last line oddly taunting and weird rather than comforting, making some of the more audacious participants roll their eyes.

"hehehe, this is getting interesting"

"I wonder what I will face inside the illusion"

"Please anything but the maze, anything but the maze, anything but the maze"

Among those who listened well to the previous explanation of the elder, some people start muttering to themselves as they wait for the formation underneath them to activate, while some outliers are still really calm as if nothing in this first trial can bother them.

Some of those people includes the immortal-like young man, Su Xiaotian, along with all the younger ladies in his group, the only ladies who participated in this event, some exceptional ones including a face quite familiar with the immortal-like young man, while others are completely new to him.

While he couldn't know all of their identities, Su Xiaotian knows a single fact about all this people who acts like that, the fact that at the very least, they are strong enough to rival Astaria or even has some chance of surpassing her in terms of talent, a rather reasonable thing given that she still has yet to undergo rebirth from the Trinity Cleansing Fruit, something that the immortal-like young man already plans for her to undergo once this event finishes.

After seeing that all of the participants appear to be ready now, the elder of the Dao Seeking Mountains bids to them a good luck as he starts the process of activating this illusion formation with the Dao Resonating Rock as the center.

Injecting his qi to a jade slip that seems to control the formation he mentioned, a blinding white light starts washing over the entire area except for where he is currently standing at, causing all of the young geniuses located at this flat plain on top of one of their mountains fall into the powerful illusion created by the Dao Resonating Rock, unconsciously falling into it except for one particular young man who just forces himself to enter this illusion and able to break through it anytime he wants.

While he can break through this place anytime he wants though, this young man, Su Xiaotian, opted not to for now, deciding this is a good time to find out something about the Dao Resonating Rock, as what can even be a better source of studying something than the very source itself right?

Aiming to find out how is it that this rock can generate all sorts of illusions as told to him by his auntie Jianxue, the immortal-like young man first starts walking around and getting a feel of his body created by this illusion, trying to find out whether there is something peculiar in his movements, something that he thought can be a sign of the Dao Resonating Rock failing to copy him in his entirety.

Finding that there's no problem with his body though, the young man couldn't help but nod in satisfaction, finding that this Dao Resonating Rock is so much more interesting than he expected, yet somehow, the system wouldn't even give a single damn about this when said system is also quite excited by the Trinity Cleansing Fruit.

Although he could argue that the one manning the system back then is his dear little sister during the previous timeline, there's still the fact that even that sister of his doesn't find the rock all too interesting when their auntie Jianxue first presents it to them. Discover exclusive tales on My Virtual Library Empire

"I should've explored more during the previous timeline huh…" seeing that even though he has memories of the previous timeline as well even though it is only until the point where he steps into celestialhood, he is still unaware of the precise information about such rock, the young man couldn't help but remind himself in muttering given that all he did back then is accompany his little sister who also rarely goes outside, and other than that, the only thing he did is cultivate.

As he recalls the woes of his previous life though, said young man already starts roaming around where he is brought by the illusion created by the Dao Resonating Stone, a pure white place, void of anything other than himself, not a single thing in this peculiar emptiness he can see with his sight, or even his sharpened senses.