Cheat Cultivator's Ascension - Chapter 453 - 453: The Problem at Hand
Seeing the urgency on his older cousin’s face, Ling Feng didn’t even take the chance to joke around anymore as he felt like there’s something bothersome that they need to deal with, this being confirmed as without even as much as greeting them verbally, merely nodding at them, their sworn brother, the immortal-like young man already start pulling attention on himself as he starts speaking.
“Everyone here are people that can be treated as family, so I can say what I have in mind without thinking about anything else… anything that is about to happen here… I know all of you will but still, allow me to thank you for keeping everything to yourselves…”
Hearing the seriousness on Su Xiaotian’s voice, all his sworn brothers nodded, along with his martial aunt and martial sisters, the juniors of said aunts, the last one nodding to his words the ladies who are living together with him, all of them having the same supportive smile on their gorgeous faces as if they are prepared to support him on whatever it is that he wants to do.
‘I don’t know where Old Man Xingtian and Lucius exactly are, so I can’t use the Unbounded Spatial Talisman to get to them yet, so I should probably start by protecting the place…’ knowing the worries of one of his martial aunts, to be exact the dignified looking beauty who is also the very master of this top-tier force, the immortal-like young man thought to himself as he starts scrolling through the main system’s score, the semi-transparent, floating golden screen revealing a thing that he once purchased in the past.
[Nine Star Heavenly Array]
[Creates a domain that spans a thousand meters in radius, inside it, the array masters are the absolute beings, with everyone entering getting suppressed to the realm below theirs, its effect not sparing even celestials. Attacks from the outside will not penetrate the array, but attacks from inside can go out of the array. The array can have as much as nine masters simultaneously]
Spending a significant amount of gold in order to purchase such array, he thought that the power of this should be more than enough to stop even a Celestial-level master from wreaking havoc within the vicinity of the Dao Seeking Mountains.
‘The only problem are those outsiders who might get too curious about this formation…’ as he recalls just how much outsiders there are who are also currently starting to get worried as well detecting the malicious presence of Celestial-level experts rushing towards the place they are one, their worries more for the young ones whom they are guarding, the urgency of the situation making some of them forget about the trials happening as they personally starts moving to pull their juniors out of the Sky Compression Valley.
Not having the luxury of time to worry about all those things though, Su Xiaotian merely goes with the best concealment he can possibly do for now, asking his martial aunt and also the Headmistress of the Dao Seeking Mountains, Tang Jianxue, to open the protective formation of their force, planning to use it as a veil to deploy his Nine Star Heavenly Array as well.
“Aunt Jianxue, is it possible?” explaining that there’s a method for him to defend this place but will need the help of their protective formation to do so, Tang Jianxue nods at her nephew’s request without any further question, waving her hands and making the entire air around the Dao Seeking Mountain to change, the malicious intent once targeted towards the entirety of the place now being dispersed as mere minimal of it remains.
And without missing a beat, Su Xiaotian then starts deploying the Nine Star Heavenly Array within the protective formation of the Dao Seeking Mountains, this act making it so that even the last traces of the malicious intent disappears without fail, making both the ones experiencing it and the one making said people experience such thing wonder in surprise in wariness.
‘This is extremely magical… just what sort of treasure trove is this Dao Seeking Mountain for them to have this level of protective formation guarding the place…’
‘Perhaps we can negotiate with them… probably buy this formation…’
‘We should be prepared to do anything to get our hands on this formation, we shouldn’t let this thing fall to other force’s hands…’
While marveling at the effects of the formation on the outside, on the inside, most of these Half-step Celestial Realm experts are already starting to form a plan to ‘buy’ this formation from the hands of the Dao Seeking Mountains, completely unaware of the fact that the effects they think comes from the protective formation in fact, comes from the formation that the immortal-like young man deploys.
Of course, they won’t even decide to connect the two no matter if they are both an absurd existence in the world, due to the fact that arrays and formations and martial arts are completely different thing, making them think that if this immortal-like young man is already way talented in terms of his martial and combat prowess, then there’s just no way for him to be even more talented in terms of other things, right.
This line of thought being a fatal flaw in their calculation, perhaps something that should’ve been avoided should they have been listening to the stories about the geniuses within the Sky Soul Star’s domain, the fact that Su Xiaotian is a well-known array and formation master, clear from the jade slips that he sold in the large auction within the Heavenly Secret Tower’s domain, something that is quite well known in the eastern continent at the very least.
While most of these people are unaware of this fact, some of the outsiders are still able to deduce a relation between this extremely talented young man and what is happening right now, one of those select few being the mature beauty guarding a princess who is also her niece, said niece already back from the Sky Compression Valley having a serious expression on her beautiful face.
“So that’s what happened huh….’ Thinking about the words of her dear niece, the mature beauty said in a pondering tone as her brows furrowed a bit, adding to her appeal even more rather than diminishing it, something about her troubled expression just making her even more of an attention magnet rather than how she usually is.
“What a little asshole, he was surpassed by other people so he calls on his elders, how laughable for someone supposed to be a top-tier genius of this place…”
Feeling disdain towards the action of a specific junior who participated within the Dao Enlightenment Competition, the mature beauty said with anger apparent in her voice, a powerful pressure descending from herself bearing down on everyone around here, making even people of the same cultivation level as her find themselves having difficulty breathing.
“I’ve been preventing myself from causing too much problem as I know that your mother, my sister, will nag on us the moment we return from this trip but…” as she thought of something, the mature beauty pauses as a smile of absolute amusement, as if she just found a toy she want to play with all by herself, appears on her face, turning silent for a while before she continues with her words once again.
“…If someone really wants to get hurt, then I’ll give them what they want~”
