Chapter 329: Arriving at the Destination
After waiting for a while for the massive teleportation array to activate, the group finally had their waiting over as the runic array in the ground starts glowing a mystical white, seemingly functioning under the same concept as the Unbounded Spatial Talisman that they often use.
With the white light washing over them and the other people standing on top of it in just a few moments, their bodies moving through space itself as their figures disappears from their previous location, all of them being relocated to the city in the Northeastern Province connected to this place.
"We finally arrived here~" looking around this familiar place that doesn't change even after more than a decade of her not visiting here, Su Meiyao said in reminiscence as she remembers all her time as the brightest star of her generation travelling here, something that she is most certainly all the thankful for as she thinks that this is one of the reasons why she has this amazing young man of a son she has today.
"Should we head for the Dao Seeking Mountains now, mom?" while moving forward to look at the black-haired motherly beauty face to face, Wu Xiaoyao asked with a curious expression on her beautiful face, her eyes revealing traces of her excitement as this is the first time in her life that she is travelling outside without her mother supervising her, of course, that is with exception to her life in the previous timeline that is already erased by what her dear big brother accomplished.
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While it is true that she has all those experience in that timeline though, she still find this trip of theirs something so novel and new as she already got so used to either travelling alone or with her older brother in that timeline, and the company of other ladies aside from her is certainly something that she never experienced in that timeline, given how she is the only living being in the entire span of existence that her dear big brother places an importance to back then.
'This is really fun…' she thought to herself as she waits for her dear big brother's mother, also her mother just because said beauty said that she must address and treat her as his mother as well, same as how her half-brother treats her mother.
"Let's go there now then, Little Xiaoyao, your big brother might throw some people into their doom if we linger around any longer~~~" Su Meiyao teasingly said as she moves one of her hands to pat the bubbly young ladies head, her other hand still tightly holding her beloved son's hand.
"Mother-in-law, should we use some transportation? I know the manager of the Heavenly Secret Tower's branch here, and she might be able to lend us some flying boat to safely travel with" interrupting the conversation between the two as she thought of something, Hua Xian'er interjected with her eyes glowing with a prideful light, as if she is extremely confident that the idea she thought about is going to be something that will be appreciated by the entire group.
"Your idea is really great little Xian'er, but I have a better idea~~~" looking at the empress-like beauty that seems to be quite proud of her suggestion, Su Meiyao helplessly smiles as despite the fact that she doesn't want to break such energy from her, the fact that her beloved son wants them out of the crowd is something that she wants to make happen more, prompting her to take out an Unbounded Spatial Talisman from her spatial ring and preparing herself to use it.
"Let's go to a more private place at least, mother-in-law" before she activated the talisman though, the maidenly beauty, Hong Lian, suggested causing not Su Meiyao, but also all the other ladies in the group to nod, causing them to spend some few minutes finding a pretty much empty space just right outside the city to conceal themselves before using the talisman.
"Let's take the carriage when we're going home" seeing that the always happy-go-lucky Hua Xian'er appearing like she's a bit down right now, Su Xiaotian added before they start transporting themselves, causing the empress-like beauty to smile widely as she nods at him eagerly, this simple act of his causing the other beauties to giggle as they realize once again just how much attention he pays towards each of them.
"Feeling nervous Astaria?" after their giggling, he then directed his attention to the valiant-looking, blond beauty who is currently giggling with the ladies as well, appearing like there's nothing wrong but he just couldn't help but feel like there's something she's not telling.
"Mn…" hearing his words, Astaria couldn't help but get surprised, looking at him with widened eyes before nodding to his question, her face blushing quite a bit reaching her ears in the process, making her appear really adorable in his eyes as he realizes that this is one of those moments where she's more honest with herself.
"There's no need to little Astaria, with your talent, you can pretty much leave every single self-proclaimed genius about to participate in the Dao Enlightenment Competition to dust~~" Su Meiyao added in comfort before looking at the other ladies as well.
"Sam applies to the three of you~~" she added with a smile on her peerlessly beautiful face before her pep talk got interrupted by her sworn sister's daughter, whom she also treats as her own daughter now as well.
"How about when compared to big brother, mom?" the bubbly young beauty asked with a mixture of pure wonder and mostly just joking as she already knew way too well what the black-haired motherly beauty's answer will be.
"Should mother-in-law even answer that?" hearing her words, the one who seems to admire the immortal-like young man's strength the most, Astaria, suddenly jumped back to her usual self as she reveals a wry smile on her face before looking at the object of her admiration, just standing there straightly while watching them talk with each other.
"We don't know it yet, after all, it's comprehension of the Dao that we're going to talk about in that competition and not a combative one where I excel, who knows, some of you might even have better comprehension than me" seeing the helpless smile on their beautiful faces, Su Xiaotian said as some sort of motivation since he doesn't want to cripple their confidence just because of his talent, thinking to himself that lying to make them feel better in this situation is way better as he himself knows the clear difference between their talents.
While it is true that they have a gist of the fact that he is way beyond anyone's league in terms of talent alone as well, the beauties generously receive such compliment as who wouldn't want to, and the fact alone that such compliment came from their most beloved person, not to mention said person being the crowned as the most talented of this generation and the generations recorded before his, makes the compliment all the greater to them.
"Enough with the glib tongue dear, we have more travel ahead of us~~~" being the first to recover from his words, his mother said as she points at the thing blocking their path in front of them.