Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

{My dear big brother, are you sure you should clash with the Imperial Court this early?} Looking at the immortal-like young man already quite far away from them as he set to meet the opponent from the imperial court, his bubbly young beauty of a little sister asked telepathically with clear worry in her tone, making the young man himself smile in appreciation before he replied to assure her.

{There's no need to worry, my dear little sister, everything is already set in motion, I am but a mere cultivator trying to fend off for myself and my loved ones, who am I to oppose the natural flow of things right?} peering back towards the group of ladies, looking specifically at the young beauty staring at him with concerned eyes, Su Xiaotian replies, causing said lady to snicker as how he puts himself in his words is just too hilarious to her.

{Please, you, my dear big brother, a mere cultivator? We all know that is certainly not the case~~~} Wu Xiaoyao replied with a knowing smile on her face, her tone now no longer containing that certain concern as she let herself be free of concerning whether they should start fighting the Imperial Court now or not, after all, knowing her dear big brother, there's just no way he would confront them like this without being certain of his ability to deal with them.

As the half-siblings finished their conversation, Su Xiaotian's focus returns on the opponents rushing towards him, these young geniuses of the Imperial Court charging at him with their expression slightly changing to one filled with worry about themselves as the image of his previous, terror inducing smile is now etched deeply in their minds.

Walking forward with a modest smile on his face, the immortal-like young man takes another step forward, the space around him distorting completely, allowing him to disappear from his previous spot, nowhere to be found, this disappearance causing everyone from the Imperial Court to panic quite a bit, their heads roaming around in hopes of spotting where this young man go, a futile effort that not only doesn't help them searching for the young man, but also further deteriorates their current state.

It wasn't only these geniuses who are unable to follow Su Xiaotian's movements, as even those who are sitting and observing in the audience's place, whether they are mortal or half-step celestials, couldn't help but shake their head to snap themselves out of their stupor, having experienced their senses being left behind by the speed of a young person who is merely at the Nascent Source Realm.

While some of the Imperial Court's geniuses are still searching for him, the immortal-like young man already appears once again, standing not even a few meters away from the group trying to attack him, but now with a pure white blade in his hand, with the only color it has being a bright crimson glow that drips from its edge all the way to its tip pointed down the ground.

Seeing the weapon on Su Xiaotian's hand, Long Moxie's first reaction was not greed or anything else, seeing such good weapon, but rather, surprise and concern, as well as an insatiable hunger to know where the liquid dripping from his enemy's blade comes from, a hunger that is about to be satiated soon as the sound of someone shouting reverberated all across the valley.

"AAAAGGGHHH!!!! IT HUUURRTTSSS!!!!" clenching with his other hand the stump where his other arm previously was, one of the Imperial Court's geniuses screamed in an uncontrolled pain as he kneels then directly drop on the ground, not caring a single bit about his reputation as he starts curling from the pain, before he begins rolling around like a child, signifying just how much pain he is feeling right now.

"Come, come!! The proud geniuses of the Imperial Court announced that they would teach me a lesson, hence, this humble one shall request to exchange pointers with all of you…" the immortal-like young man said, interrupting the deafening silence of everyone else but the young man he just severed the arms of, announcing his words as he raises his blade and point it up to the skies before he swung it down once again, ridding it of the blood stain that seems to corrupt its pure white appearance.

A tempestuous gale rages as he swung his blade down, creating a pressure-filled wind that rouses dust from the valley to reach up to a few meters in height, this gale stopping immediately as the young man stops his motion.

Hearing his words, Long Moxie knows that this enemy of his is clearly provoking him and the others from the Imperial Court to take action once again, however, seeing such kind of move that even he himself is not sure whether he can defend against or not, he starts thinking more rationally, prioritizing caution before anything else.

{Get ready to deploy the formation to deal with this trash…} closing his eyes for a few seconds in order to focus on sending a telepathic message to every single genius of the Imperial Court, Long Moxie said, his hand clenched as he is prepared to personally go in the formation to suppress the immortal-like young man with his own hands.

Hearing the instruction from their leader, these geniuses couldn't help but feel surprised, as in their heads, the person they are fighting against is nothing but a mere Nascent Source Realm cultivator, and even if he is someone capable of hurting a Soul Formation Realm expert, there's no way that he can hurt experts of their level, after all, it is only the weakest among them that he targeted rather than anyone else.

However, as much as they treat this young man as nothing more than a slightly bigger ant for them to deal with, the Imperial Prince's orders are absolute to them, hence why they start forming a circle, trying to trap the immortal-like young man right in the middle of it as they start forming obscure hand seals, all while muttering incomprehensible things underneath their breath.

Watching them with quite the interest in his eyes, Su Xiaotian isn't really going to allow them to do just whatever they want, especially after knowing that they are planning to create some sort of formation array and imprison him inside, an information that he deduced from him being able to identify the hand seals and words that they are forming starting from a while ago.

'Being well-versed in everything really helps a lot huh…' recalling how much he improves on every auxiliary job there is due to his [Auxiliary Job System], including his runic and formation array mastery, Su Xiaotian thought to himself as his senses covering the entirety of the Sky Compression Valley starts to focus a bit more on these Imperial Court disciples' hand movements and chants, trying to decipher what sort of formation array they are trying to conjure.

"Su Xiaotian, my patience runs thin, this time, I shall eliminate you personally…" seeing the near completion of the formation array, Long Moxie announces with pride in his voice, drawing out a soft sword with its sheath hanging on his waist, leaping towards the immortal-like young man with the absolute certainty of victory already glowing in his eyes.