Cheat Cultivator's Ascension-Chapter 499: Bai Anxin’s Shock

With the assurance that he gave his older self, Su Xiaotian’s vision starts returning to normal, the previously frozen surroundings filled with monochromatic black now returning to their previous colorful, even vibrant appearance, everything flowing normally again as the clouds in the skies continue to move like usual, and the ocean beneath him starts crashing its waves towards the cliff once more.

"Time to return..." clenching his fist as he feels around the newfound strength he just acquired, the immortal-like young man mutters to himself after some moment, his gaze, seeing clearly despite the large distance, landing on the ladies still watching his breakthrough all too intently, clearly all worried about his safety.

Smiling as he was reminded once again that they are one of the biggest reasons as to how and why he is able to push his cultivation to such a degree like this, he decided to push off other matters for now and focus more on his time with the ladies, especially since he’s about to leave for the Western Continent later.

From within the tallest World Tree among the ones grown within the Roaring Heaven City, a goddess-like, motherly lady looked at the immortal-like young man’s figure with a mixture of pride and relief apparent in her eyes, his figure, now approaching them after such a short yet terrifying breakthrough, causing her heavily pounding heart to calm itself for a bit.

As for the other ladies beside her, they also feel similar, if not the same kind of relief as this devastating beauty, Su Meiyao, their affection for the immortal-like young man making them illogically worry about him facing such tribulation when they are well aware of how absurd his actual strength and combat prowess are.

With explosive speed way beyond what he had when he was just at the Nascent Source Realm, Su Xiaotian’s figure took no time at all in order to cross the large distance between himself and his lovers, his figure appearing right in front of the ladies with such finesse that made it look like he was flying towards this place at a leisure speed, rather than him giving his all.

"Tian... you..." with her golden pupils glowing much more than usual, Su Xiaotian’s stepmother, or rather, going with what she likes to be called by him, his second mother, Bai Anxin, spoke first, surprise and utter disbelief in her shaking voice as her eyes failed to leave her beloved son’s figure.

Wondering what her childhood friend saw in her beloved son, Su Meiyao couldn’t help but check him all too thoroughly as well, her action being followed by the other ladies, starting from the young man’s two grandmothers, then the rest following suit, all of them also wondering what made the usually composed Bai Anxin act like that.

’Did mother see something?’ also wondering what made his second mother surprised like that, Su Xiaotian thought to himself before he actually asked the question, receiving a late reply from the golden-pupiled motherly beauty, as it takes her quite some time to recover from what she saw.

"I-I don’t actually know, I-I just feel like there’s something different, better, and, well..." completely contrary to her usual self, Bai Anxin stutters quite a bit as she tries to explain what she ’saw’, pausing for quite a while as she fails to find an appropriate description for everything.

With the silent wait from everyone, the immortal-like young man knew that his stepmother might just take a longer time to figure out what she wanted to say; hence, despite the curiosity, he decided to push it to the back of his mind, especially since what he saw from her face was more of a pleasant shock rather than anything else.

"Alright, you can figure it out for later, mother, let’s go back home for now, I’ll talk about anything you are curious about regarding this breakthrough there" revealing a doting smile on his handsome face as he held his second mother’s hand, Su Xiaotian said, his words masterfully diverting everyone’s attention to something else, the eyes of all the ladies around him glowing in quite the anticipation as they all have their own confusion regarding his breakthrough this time around.

Seeing that all of them nodded to his suggestions, Su Xiaotian smiled before he snapped his fingers, the array acting within the domain of the Roaring Heaven City, allowing one of its masters, its first master, to bring himself and everyone around him back to their warm abode without any effort at all.

’It should be about time to upgrade this again...’ recalling just how much Universal Coins he has in his possession now as he reads the information about the array on the floating golden system screen, Su Xiaotian thought about spending some of them to improve the protecting array of the entire Roaring Heaven City even more, all to make sure that his family and lovers will be safe here no matter what happens.

[Myriad Heavens Great Array]

[The next improvement of the Nine Star Heavenly Array. Creates a domain that can span as far as ten thousand kilometers 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 many as one hundred and eight masters simultaneously]

’Let’s do it later, they might have a lot of questions for me...’ making a mental note of proceeding with this idea, the immortal-like young man decided to do it as soon as possible; however, satisfying the curiosity of the ladies around him took precedence.

Hence why the moment they settled down, he as bombarded by barrage of question coming from everyone, the ones in the beginning mainly ones regarding his safety, making him feel a mixture of joy and helplessness as it shows just how much each of them cares for him, yet made him unable to share them the important matters about breakthrough given that all that they ask him about is his safety.

It lasted for quite a while before they finally starts asking question about his current cultivation, his reason for breaking through outside despite having the option to dodge tribulation and reach the next realm within the Infinite QI Dimension, how much his strength improved, how it feels like to breakthrough to the Soul Formation Realm with such talent, what changes, everything, and every single question he answered, only omitting the fact that his pedestal improves with this breakthrough, following on the suggestion of his adult self.

"... So that’s the reason why you decided to break through outside huh..." looking at her dear big brother with astonishment in her eyes, the bubbly Wu Xiaoyao spoke, the pause in her words allowing one of the other ladies, the newest addition in the group, Zi Yu’er, to slip in another question of hers.

"Still, I am shocked, how is it even possible that you managed to skip multiple states and reach Soul Formation in one fell swoop without your foundations being affected, Xiaotian?" looking at him with sheer fascination in her eyes, the lady asked, her question seemingly the most simple one, making the other ladies, especially the mature ones, to smile as they thought that while this girl acts the most mature among her peers, at least in terms of how their cultivation works here, she still has so much to learn compared to her peers.