Opening the door, he saw a dimly lit, straight corridor, presumably leading towards the area of the second test. Walking leisurely, he started treading the path while he inspects his new stats, taking a good look at the status screen while positively commenting at how absurd his current stats is.
[Host: Wu Xiao Tian]
[Age: 13]
[Cultivation: Advance State Pedestal Establishment Realm]
[Qi: Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi]
[Physique: Grand Desolation Transcendent Body]
[Soul: Extreme Origin Transcendent Soul]
[Universal Coins: 12,571,290]
[Stats]
[Strength: 420 innate strength]
[Agility: 420 innate strength]
[Intelligence: 210 innate strength]
[Stamina: 210 innate strength]
[Vitality: 420 innate strength]
[Aptitude: ???]
[Techniques]
[Chaotic Order Weapon Art (Self-derived, from Order Chaos Contradiction Sword)]
[Transcendent's Heavenly Touch (Self-derived, from God of Pleasure)]
[Drunken Dance (Self-derived, from 100+ movement techniques)]
[Rend (Original)]
[Soul Art (Original)]
[Systems]
[Infinite Qi System (Lvl 6)]
[Martial God System]
[Auxiliary Job System]
[Infinite Dimension System (Lvl 1)]
[Shop]
[Inventory]
[Myriad Transformation Orb]
[Compass of Fate]
[Greater Qi Absorption Pill (mortal-grade pill) (12)]
[Void-born Flower]
[Sky-piercing Lance (Mortal-grade Weapon)]
[Celestial Origin Seed (1,240)]
[World Tree Seed (2)]
Looking at the numbers filling the screen, Wu Xiaotian couldn't help but smile as he looks at them, after all, with this kind of stats, there's definitely no one who can match him in the secret realm now, even if all of the strongest people here were to gang up on him.
After all, despite those people still being geniuses, they are still limited by their foundation, and with them being suppressed to the Core Formation Realm, even if they're at the Perfection state, they can only possess double of that cultivation level's stats at most, numbering at one-hundred and forty-four innate strengths, which is just more than half of his lowest stats, that is not even mentioning the battle prowess he got when running the [Chaotic Order Weapon Art].
With his figure brimming with confidence, he eventually reached the end of the corridor, in front of him an open entrance towards a completely black space, with the only thing existing in the void a middle-aged man wearing a weird, Western Earth-like clothing. As he looks at the man vigilantly, the man smiles amiably at him, waving his hand as if to call him.
Feeling that he has no ill intent and adding the fact that he will not progress with the tests if he doesn't enter the venue of the second part, Wu Xiaotian decided to enter the area, the man eagerly looking at him once he do so.
"It has been a pretty long while since someone came here, and I'm pretty sure the very first time that one possesses such absurd level of strength" the man praised as he looks at Wu Xiaotian, his eyes seemingly able to peer through his true strength, something that not even Li Yan and her martial brothers, people branded as Ascension Realm experts, could not.
Hearing his words, one thing popped into Wu Xiaotian's mind: Celestial. As he looks at the man, seemingly carefree and easygoing in nature, he started to talk, first asking to confirm his suspicions.
"Greetings, senior, is it possible that you're the creator of this secret realm?" he asked in with a tone neither servile nor overbearing.
Seeing him act like that, the man was quite pleased, the demeanor of the young man in front of him very much to his liking. Nodding his head, he replies, "I am not, well I participated in creating the secret realm, but I am not its sole creator. However, I am the owner of the secret realm"
"So you're that celestial that descended here and died thousands of years ago" Wu Xiaotian muttered, remembering the story Ling Feng told him about the origin of this secret realm.
"Smart, but not exactly what happened, I never fell, I only made it appear like that because I want to" the figure replied, smiling as if to reminisce those times.
"So senior is…" looking at the man in front of him, Wu Xiaotian is aware that this is not the real deal, as with the help of his true sight, he could clearly see that this is just another puppet, however, the dignity and power from the voice coming out of the puppet's mouth cannot be denied.
"Ah I am remotely controlling this puppet from far away, you are talking to me directly via this puppet" the man said with his face filled with a proud expression, as if what he did is something worthy of praise.
Seeing how the man is acting, Wu Xiaotian got a basic grasp of his character, being the kind of person who is pretty direct and also wants others to be direct to him, hence he asked what he want to know since he entered, "Senior, about the test…"
"Oh right, we are getting side-tracked, thanks for reminding me kid, now for the second part of the test, you are to be tested of your characters. What I want from my inheritor, and probably disciple from this world is someone who has a good heart, great mind and grand ambitions!!!
From your level of strength compared to your cultivation level, I can see that you already have the last one, so I will personally make a new test that will test you of the other two, prepare young man, as I will put you in charge of a difficult situation!!"
After the man speaks, the entire black surrounding started transforming, pillars emerging along with high ceilings, the area eventually transforming to a palace, Wu Xiaotian finding himself sitting in a high place as he hears two women arguing, the two of them fighting each other and claiming something is theirs.
"Sir both of them are claiming to be the child's mother, what is your verdict for this case" a person, wearing a formal attire approached him and asked, now grasping the issue at hand, the two women claiming to be the mother of the child, and neither of them are refusing to admit that they are not the real parent, added to the fact that there's nothing they can use to prove the authenticity of their claims.
"This is…" recalling this particular story in his previous life, he couldn't help but develop a suspicion of that celestial being from the same place as him, after all, only someone from earth might be aware of this story.
Smiling as knows how this story goes, he proceeded to order the person in front of him to get a sword, which the person rush running to get. Once he hands Wu Xiaotian the sword, he got down from his seat and approaches the child between the two women, raising his sword before he spoke.
"Since we can't confirm who's the real mother of this child, we shall split it into two, giving the two women here with half" he said before swinging the sword down, one of the women immediately rushing in front of the child as she tries her best to stop his descending sword, before kneeling, begging him to go and give the child to the other woman instead.
Seeing her action, he smiles as he points at the kneeling lady, sheathing his sword before he said, "Give this child to this kneeling lady, she's the true mother of the child"
As he said that, the surrounding starts disappearing, turning into the dark, empty space again, the man looking at him with a stupefied expression, surprised that Wu Xiaotian solves the question with such speed.
Gathering himself, it dawns in his mind that for someone to finish this in such a short amount of time, one can only do like how that character solves the problem, and the only ones who could possibly know that are people from his previous world.
Looking at the young man in front of him, the middle-age man asked, speaking at the same time as the young man, their words the exact same.
"You're from earth, right?"