Cheat Cultivator's Ascension - Chapter 440 - 440: Perfect Demonstration
Playing around for a little bit more feeling like they are progressing way too fast, a testament to that being the fact that the distance between them and the group following next to theirs is just getting larger and larger, Su Xiaotian’s group takes their time moving forward, making sure that they completely adapt to the ever-increasing amount of suppression the Sky Compression Valley is exuding before they start moving forward.
As they continue with the trial, each one of them, particularly the ladies who comes in the company of the immortal-like young man, starts feeling like the pressure from the Sky Compression Valley is getting high enough that they need to focus more on adapting to it.
This is only normal though as these four just had their cultivation completely reset by the Trinity Cleansing Fruit, and despite the fact that it only set them an even greater foundation and talent than what they initially have, this sort of trials still majorly relies on cultivation base with one’s talent only being an auxiliary to successfully complete.
Of course, while it may already feel like it is getting harder and harder as they continue to move forward, they are still pretty confident that they will be able to pass through this trial through sheer will alone if their talent or cultivation level is not enough, and even if those two were to fall short, they know that they can always rely on their beloved to make sure that nothing too serious will happen to them.
And speaking of this beloved of theirs, the immortal-like young man, he already starts noticing that these four are already starting to struggle when dealing with the suppressive property of the Sky Compression Valley, prompting him to start secretly increasing the influence of his soul power around the area they are in, not really preventing the suppressive property right now but already prepared that he can cut off the suppression whenever he wants.
While they are all taking their leisure time getting used to the pressure from the Sky Compression Valley as they make the most out of this trial, consistently tempering their internal qi, almost making it look like this is more of a reward rather than a trial made to test their talents, the same cannot be said when it comes to the other geniuses participating in this trial, most of them still just a few dozens of meters away from the valley’s entrance.
While this is the most common sight, there are still outliers among this group, some more talented ones, mostly the young geniuses who came from the outside, are already ahead from the rest of the group by a couple of hundred meters, leaving behind almost every genius from the Sky Soul Star in the dust.
Meanwhile, there is not only this kind of outliers for this trial, as there are people who are just literally dragging the average down with their participation, said young geniuses being the ones who are not even able to move past the first ten meters from the entrance, giving away the fact that they are clearly not cultivators who focuses on tempering their internal qi.
“Su Xiaotian… I will definitely repay this grievance multiple folds!!!” looking at the path in front of him with no one in sight, the Third Imperial Prince, Long Moxie, mutters more to himself than to anyone else, saying those words as his eyes turns red from hatred, feeling extremely humiliated for acting like he just did in front of a massive crowd.
‘How dare you make me act like that! Once I managed to get my revenge, you will definitely be cowering in fear even worse than what you made me experience!’ he thought to himself with his head being clouded with hatred, making his body continue pushing through the mountainous pressure that that Sky Compression Valley is bearing down on him, his knees shaking as if it is about to collapse but his will still forces him to continue on.
“That guy is a monster as well….”
“Heh… he’s just drowned in extreme emotions so he can push himself like that, you think anyone among us won’t achieve something like that if we’re pushed to the extremes?”
“Hahaha, you think that is easy, that is why my friend here acknowledge him as a genius, do you really think just any average guy is capable of reigning over that kind of hatred and use it as fuel to cultivate?”
“That’s… well, that’s true…”
Looking at the imperial prince walking ahead of them, the young geniuses who came from outside the Sky Soul Star couldn’t help but discuss among themselves as they express their feeling of shock seeing that there’s someone else other than that immortal-like young man who is capable of surpassing them in this backwater world.
Meanwhile, as these young geniuses discusses about this potential successor of the Imperial Court, one among them couldn’t help but shake her head as she already thought of this young man as someone about to meet his end.
‘Given what I heard from the rumors about him as well as how he act after the first trial, I don’t think Su Xiaotian is the kind of person to just easily let go of a potentially dangerous enemy like this… just what is going on in his mind?’ this beauty thought to herself as she continues to walk forward a few steps ahead for these outsider geniuses, proving her talent in terms of internal qi being above everyone else of this group, if only just a bit.
“Is the princess interested in this young man? I heard that he’s also a prince in this world, you two are practically a match made in heaven” looking at the clearly contemplating look on this beauty’s face as she stares at the calculative imperial prince, one of the young geniuses asked with an obvious trace of mocking in her voice, making the other geniuses gulp in worry wondering how this princess will deal with it.
“My dear mother always used to tell me that birds of the same feather flocks together, and in regards with your insights, I think that there’s someone that suits him better than me, Saintess” looking at the beauty in front of her, the beauty with the identity of a princess, Dongfang Jing, replies with the same hint of mockery in her voice, her words making the other beauty wonder who is it that she is talking about.
“Oh my, I wonder who’s the lucky beauty that the princess is talking about~” the beauty replies with a smile on her face, already knowing what the princess in front of her is going to reply hence why she even tried to sneak in a praise for herself on her question.
“Why of course it would be you, Saintess, after all, you’re both frog in the well who just don’t know their own limits” the princess said as she starts exuding the air of an expert trained not only as a greenhouse power but an actual expert who can hold herself in the battlefield, scaring the other beauty so much that she couldn’t help but take a few steps away from the origin of this uncomfortable feeling that she just had.
“Thank you for perfectly demonstrating what I just stated, Saintess” Dongfang Jing said with an amiable smile on her face, making this defeat all the more painful for the one she addresses as Saintess.
