Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

"Alright alright, enough of the show, how about you tell us what you all are talking about?" bringing his younger sister down from being carried like a princess, Su Xiaotian interrupted as he takes a seat with them, sitting just right beside his mother and immediately extending his arms around her shoulders, smoothly pulling her into his arms.

"Aunt Jianxue is going to talk about the content of the competition, well, mostly the trials before the actual competition…" the valiant-looking blond beauty, Astaria, explains, her way of addressing the headmistress of the Dao Seeking Mountains now a more comfortable one as they seem to get along really well during these conversations between all of them.

"Good timing Tian, you can listen as well~" Hua Xian'er added as she smiles towards the immortal-like young man, who then nodded at her in acknowledgement of her words before smiling back at her, making her all the more cheerful.

"Let's listen to Aunt Jianxue's words now, shall we?" interrupting the empress-like beauty, Hong Lian said with a gentle voice causing her long-time sworn sister to nod at her words, the silence after the maidenly beauty's words prompting all of them to look at Tang Jianxue, including her disciple who already knows what the trials are going to be.

Seeing the attention of everyone now focused on her, Tang Jianxue clears her throat for a moment before she starts speaking, starting with the first trial before they enter the real Dao Enlightenment Competition, opting to just give them a general idea of each trial so that they can explore the wonders of said trials for themselves.

"Well, the trial for the Dao Enlightenment Competition has always been divided into three parts, one mostly testing the participants' aptitude and affinity to the Dao, the first of the trials" Tang Jianxue said as she takes out a small rock from her spatial ring, placing it in the middle of the table just in the center of where they sit, the unassuming rock something that she explains the purpose of with her next words.

"This is a Dao Resonating Rock, specifically, a Spatial Rule Dao Resonating Rock, well, it casts you into a maze or illusion of sort and depending on your affinity with the Dao contained by the Dao Resonating Rock, the time it takes for you to break through the illusion of solve the maze gets longer or shorter, the stronger your affinity is, the more likely you can break through them in a shorter amount of time, even Half-step Celestials uses that stone to check their affinity given that it affects even them" she ended as she lets one of them experience the mystical property of the Spatial Rules as she hands the rock to the immortal-like young man.

"You're… really talented, Nephew Xiaotian…" she said as she watches him break through the illusion of this rock within just a few seconds after touching it, sending waves of disbelief in her heart and mind as even she will take half a minute at least to break through the illusion of this rock, proving just how proficient the young man is in terms of Spatial Rules.

"It's just luck, Aunt Jianxue…" Su Xiaotian replies with a modest smile in his face, saying something like that to make his mother's sworn sister believe that this is already his limit, although he still manages to hold himself back from instantaneously breaking through the illusion of this Dao Resonating Rock.

'If it's just my spatial comprehension alone, I think I can break through the illusion within a couple of second, but because of my Extreme Origin Transcendent Soul, the illusion hardly has any effect on me, good thing I even noticed it so I can pretend that it takes me a bit more time' he said to himself mockingly as he feels that the utility of his soul talent is just too absurd, the fact that a stone that affects even Half-step Celestial Realm experts with its illusion not even affecting him a single bit being a testament to the strength of his soul talent.

"Forget about whether that's just really luck or not, now that you are aware of that, just know that the Dao Resonating Rock that the trials will use is of far greater quality than this, so the trials is definitely going to be harder" seeing that the immortal-like young man doesn't want to go in detail, Tang Jianxue said as she sighed to herself, deciding that she's just wait until he eventually tell her given the relation between her and his mother.

"Now for the second trial, this is one that will test your will to the extremes, well, whether my claims are just exaggeration or not to you, we can only tell once you step there…" the headmistress of the Dao Seeking Mountains starts explaining, pausing for a while as she tries to find a good way to summarize this part of the trials, snapping her fingers as she thought of something before she starts explaining once again.

"Well, just think of it as diving deeper and deeper into the ocean, the farther you go, the greater the pressure your body has to bear, however, for this trial, the pressure is not just on the body but the spirit and the soul as well~" she said teasingly as she starts looking forward to how these young ones will perform, her attention for this matter particularly focused on the immortal-like young man keenly listening to her words.

"As for the last one…" Tang Jianxue paused for a while, taking out another thing once again, a small pile of sand that seems to just flow out of her spatial ring, said pile of sand making all the people in the room feel an odd sensation sprouting from their minds.

"Sister Jianxue, this is…" looking at this all too familiar object, Su Meiyao said as she tries to inquire of its authenticity to her long-time sworn sister, said sworn sister merely nodding towards her before she can even finish her words.

"Indeed it is, Sister Meiyao, this is Heaven Severing Sand…" Tang Jianxue confirms causing not only her sworn sister, but also the immortal-like young man and the bubbly young lady, who have memories of the previous timeline, to be surprised as these are quite the rare treasure, not really all that useful for cultivator but a really rare treasure nonetheless.

What is quite surprising is despite the sloppy nature of hers always shining so brightly above all of her redeeming features, Hua Xian'er is also aware of such treasure, the fact that she is truly one of the young heirs of one of the most powerful forces in the East Continent showing, her knowledge of things like this vast despite her usual crass nature.

"What's that Aunt Jianxue?" meanwhile, the maidenly beauty and the valiant-looking beauty is unaware of such treasure, causing them to ask about it, a question that Tang Jianxue gladly answers.

"This is some good stuff, little Lian, little Astaria, well instead of telling you about its wondrous effects, how about you experience its magic for yourself?" the headmistress of the Dao Seeking Mountains said with a smile on her face before she pulls the hands not only of the two curious beauties, but also the other young people, including her dear disciple, towards the pile of sand.