Cheat Cultivator's Ascension - Chapter 481 - 481: A Meeting With Celestials
Steps continue to resound as a sole figure walks a long, well-lit hallway, the figure’s eyes focused upon the door in the distance, his walk confident and familiar, as if he had already been in this place in the past.
Eventually reaching the door, this figure then closes his eyes before he sighs, and despite the confidence in his eyes, it seems that deep inside, there’s still some worry that weighs on his mind.
And the reason for such worry is revealed as his eyes, tempered by his cultivation advancing solidly step by step, quickly adjust to the blinding light behind the door. What he saw first was a peaceful place, one that is filled with golden rice ready for harvest anytime, these beautiful, mesmerizing views spanning as far as the eye can see.
The moment that he entered this mystical place, he immediately detected two senses bumping on his, these two being owned by existences familiar to him, causing him to move towards their location, his figure disappearing in a flash and reappearing somewhere else in the next moment, this time, in a faraway distance to where he disappeared from.
Right in front of him, two old men are enjoying paying attention to the ready to harvest rice, taking a good look around a certain area and making sure that there are no pests that will hinder their harvest, although, given how strong these two old men truly are, such task would hardly be a challenge to them if they were to use their ability to this mean.
“Oh? Boy, looks like you can separate from your family…” detecting the nearby presence of the young man who just entered this mystical place, one of the old men, one who has such peculiar air around him, said with a teasing tone in his voice, his words making the young figure scratch his cheeks as he felt like he made these two old men wait for far too long.
“Ignore Lucius’ remarks, boy, come work with us…” the other old man, one who seems to possess an immense strength currently beyond reach to the young figure, intervened, waving his hand beckoningly before pointing towards the rice that grows from the ground up.
Nodding at this powerful old man’s word, the young man then starts walking all around, making sure to pay attention to the rice stalks as well as the ground, given that the peculiar old man warned him that there are also rats all around here, something that the powerful old man doesn’t seem to deny as well.
While the three of them are working around, the peculiar old man addressed Lucius, opening his mouth as a question came out from it, a question that caught the young man off guard.
“Say, Su boy, are you aware that there are multiple paths to becoming a Celestial?” the peculiar old man, Lucius, asked, this random question making the young man he is talking with pause for a while as if to think, when in fact, it was merely just to wonder for a short moment how it is that this old man is aware of such thing.
‘Well, considering the fact that Old Lucius is more than likely a celestial just like Elder Xingtian, then I think it is only normal for him to know of things like that…’ the young man thought to himself before he nods to the peculiar old man’s question, his genuine answer, despite surprising the peculiar old man quite a bit, doesn’t make said old man any more curious to how he is aware of something like that.
“It’s good that you already know about that, boy, saves me the trouble of explaining things, so let’s get straight to the point…” the peculiar old man pauses his work of making sure the quality of each rice stalk is pristine, his eyes, seemingly peering beyond the material and seeing through what is hidden deep beneath, glows as he peers into the young man in front of him, a young man whose true depth something that not even the eyes he is most proud of is capable of seeing.
“Say, boy, what do you think of continuing your cultivation in a place with a different cultivation system than here on the Eastern Continent? Who knows, it might even help you acquire insights into your cultivation further into the future?” Old Lucius asked with an expectant smile on his face, and this time, it is no longer only he who stops his work, but also the powerful old man, who is also the grandfather of one of the young man’s companions, possibly the current strongest person who comes from the Eastern Continent, Hua Xingtian.
This other old man, who is about to be his grandfather-in-law, also looks at the young man with quite the expectant look on his face, this old person’s eyes revealing a glint of excitement as if he is looking forward to this young man’s growth, the immortal-like air around the young man something that just makes this old man, Hua Xingtian, believe that there is no challenge that this young one cannot triumph.
Seeing the looks on both of their eyes, the immortal-like young man couldn’t help but shake his head with a wry smile on his face before he faced the two of them as well, thoughts going through his mind.
Of course, one of said thoughts is the fact that he is quite interested in this place as well, having an idea of what the place the peculiar old man is talking about is, a place that he had never managed to visit in his life in the previous timeline.
‘The Western Continent…’ the words pop in his mind as he speculates about some things, for one, the fact that Old Lucius’ name is exactly like that, one that doesn’t truly fit within the names of people in the Eastern Continent, even if it is categorized as one of the peculiar ones.
“If there’s really a place like that, I would like to experience it for myself even if it is just for the sake of it,” the immortal-like young man answered with quite the enthusiasm, surprising both Lucius and Hua Xingtian, the two of them looking quite empty as a thought appears in both their minds.
‘We have been preparing all sorts of reasons to convince him but this…’ fully expecting the young man to decline as they know just how powerful he can be even without competing for resources that comes from the outside, both Lucius and Hua Xingtian can only shake their heads as yet another thought replaces this one, a trace of curiosity as to why this person of the younger generation accepts this suggestion all too readily.
And as if to address this question of theirs, the immortal-like young man then continues his words, seeing the silence of the two old men, his words filled to the brim with confidence and pride, and yet despite that, there are little to no traces of arrogance to his tone at all.
“While I for sure would love to spend more time with my family, I’m still a cultivator after all, I think it is already in my nature to venture into the unknown, especially when it can be beneficial for my future cultivation…”
He paused for a while before his eyes glows in pure anticipation, the air around him changing as if the place turns into a battlefield of flesh, blood and bone, something that made even the two old men, supreme beings who stands beyond the realm and level of mortals, shiver, not in terror but rather from sheer shock at the image that was created by the immortal-like young man’s own mind, snapping out of it the next moment, right on time for them to catch the latter part of his words.
“…and also, I would like to see for myself just what sort of geniuses are in that place…” those words made the two old men smile before they burst into an amused laughter, especially the peculiar old man, who appears to be quite familiar with that place, enforcing further the idea on the young man’s mind that either this peculiar old man already came there in the past, or rather, it is exactly there that the old man is born from.
“Haha… hehehe… boy… that was good, hahaha…” Old Lucius finally managed to speak once he managed to restrain his laughter, still clutching his stomach with a face so bright as if it was the most amusing thing he had heard in ages.
“Well… you will find a lot of interesting things in that place that is for sure, boy, as for geniuses… You will know it when you get there…” Old Lucius said as he walked towards the immortal-like young man, moving one of his olden hands to pat said young man’s shoulders as if to console him about something, something that he opts not to tell.
And while all of this happens, the other old man, Hua Xingtian, merely shakes his head as he already knows what it is that his old-time friend is thinking about.
