Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

While they enjoy their time travelling upwards towards their destination that is the real location of the Dao Seeking Mountain, other participants of the Dao Enlightenment Competition are actually struggling to climb the towering mountains that seems to just pierce through beyond the clouds, the height of such landmass causing some of the weaker willed geniuses to drown themselves in self-doubt, a thing that is truly terrifying for anyone talented to experience.

While most of them wouldn't even notice the immortal-like young man and his group flying through the air given how focused and committed they are to climb the extremely steep edges of the mountains, some more talented geniuses noticed their ascent to the skies, said more talented cultivators feeling more unfortunate than the ones who fails to witness such sight as now they felt even more doubtful of their actual capabilities.
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While it is fair that they doubt themselves when it comes to what they witnessed though, it is also quite terrifying from the point of view of other struggling geniuses just how much easier is it for them to climb the mountains in comparison to them, those less talented ones already collapsing just a few dozens of meters above the ground, and even some people who cultivated their bodies are already struggling once they reached the hundred meters mark of the place.

"What a monster…"

"Yeah, I heard that those two managed to benefit from some young lady who suddenly initiated a Dao Discussion with the people in a certain restaurant, I guess they benefited quite a lot from that…"

"Heh… Dao Discussions? You think such obscure concept will benefit someone with cultivation levels like ours in such magnitude? You're giving too much credit to that, those two are already really talented to begin with"

"They're called Southwest Twin Stars for a reason after all…"

Looking at two young men seemingly effortlessly climbing the mountains while still moving at a relatively fast speed, the people who remains down on the ground talks to themselves as they watched the two ascend, talking about their identities with some of them even arguing that they only managed to reach that far within that fast of a time due to the circling rumor of them reaping harvest in a Dao Discussion.

"Screw that twin star twin star bullshit, haven't you seen those five beauties with a young man accompanying them? They're practically breaking the rules of the climb!!"

"What dumb shit is that rule of the climb? There's no specifics that said that there's something like that, and besides, don't you know who that young man is?"

"Now that I think about it, I think I saw him somewhere… sssss… is he…"

"Indeed…"

After the heated discussion about the two geniuses who seems to lead the frontmost in terms of their distance away from the peak of the mountains, the people they paid their attention towards the immortal-like young man and his companions, some of them still in disbelief that someone will be capable of straight up just ignoring the array set up in the mountains.

"We're getting closer to the top of the first mountain…." Looking up and seeing the clouds just a few dozens of meters above them, Su Meiyao said with a hint of anticipation glowing in her eyes as if she's also really looking forward to this moment, not because of the competition but rather because she's about to reunite with a long-time friend of hers, a friend who had sworn sisterhood with her under their own bloods.

"That quick? Tian, you're so fast…" looking at the immortal-like young man currently focused on controlling his soul power completely, the empress-like beauty, Hua Xian'er, said with a hint of teasing on her gorgeous face, causing the ladies to smirk as well and giving the young man quite the surprise, choking on the air as her words reaches his ears.

"You want to try if I'm really fast?" refusing to just leave in at that, the immortal-like young man, Su Xiaotian, responded in kind, his words bearing another meaning causing the empress-like beauty to blush in shame as she averts her gaze from him, clearly way too ashamed for her to speak again.

Seeing Hua Xian'er act like this, the other ladies couldn't help but giggle as well, the one who knew all too well how the young man is really not that fast laughing along with her daughters-in-law as well, her elegant demeanor something that doesn't really fit into what she is thinking about right now.

'When little Xian experienced 'it' she's going to regret this joke so much~~~' the black-haired motherly beauty thought to herself as she covers her already veiled beautiful face with her hand as she laughs, almost as if it is already a second nature for her to do so, something that she is already so used to doing whenever they are not in a place, she can call their home.

Talking about each other and enjoying each one's company, the group already arrived at their real destination without their actual awareness of it, the only one exempted from that being the one using his soul power to lift all of them up and fly, said person being the one holding the only person who knows the structure of the place they are currently standing on right now.

"Now my dear baby~~~ and my daughters-in-law… welcome to the Dao Seeking Mountains… While I doubt we will really enjoy our stay here given how much of an ascetic place this is, I hope we can all make good memories here~~~" Su Meiyao said as she looks at the mountain standing at an even higher height than this one, a mountain part of the same mountain range that seems to expand for quite a long distance.

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Meanwhile, inside a grand hall of a building built on top of one of the Dao Seeking Mountain's mountain peaks, two ladies are currently talking among themselves, one of them, one who looks more mature and composed than the other, perks up and seemingly stops her focus on the conversation as she suddenly feels someone familiar in the vicinity.

"Master?" looking at the mature beauty who seems to be out herself, the other one, a younger, more youthful beauty who seems to be of the same age range as Hong Lian and the others, called, wondering just what is it that made this stern master of hers to look so distracted and out of focus.

"This aura…" extending her senses, that of someone who reaches a really high cultivation base for the world's standard already, the older beauty said with a hint of anticipation emerging from her composed expression, as if a crack in an antique, long maintained vase revealing the golden interior underneath.

"Master? Are you there?" waving her hands in front of the older beauty's face, the younger beauty, who bears a scholarly temperament and aura around her due to her intelligent looks and the white Dao robe she's wearing, called once again, only now that the older beauty managed to snap out of her mind.

"Nothing of importance my dear disciple, you will find out about it eventually~" the older beauty said with a smile appearing in her beautiful face making her appear like's she's glowing like a goddess, her appearance something that the younger beauty is already so used to seeing hence she's not even a bit affected by that.