Chen Mengzhu didn't speak, just looked in the direction of Xia Chen silently, and his irritable mood gradually calmed down.
I don't know why, but as long as I look at the back of this young man and the harmonious feeling of merging with nature, my unpleasant thoughts always disappear quickly.
She unconsciously took steps and walked towards Xia Chen.
Soon, Chen Mengzhu walked to the high rock. This rock was very large, with a radius of more than ten feet. Even if she and Xia Chen stood together at the same time, it would not look crowded or small.
Xia Chen was still sitting like a sculpture, seemingly unaware of her arrival. When monks enter meditation, their minds are often empty and their consciousness is pure. No matter how much external disturbances there are, they will not invade their hearts.
As the distance got closer, the quiet and peaceful feeling became stronger. Chen Mengzhu bit her lip. She had never taken the initiative to approach a young man, but today, she could not help but come to Xia Chen's side like a ghost. Even she
I can't even explain why.
She sat down slowly, wanting to take one last look at Xia Chen, and then sit not far away from him to practice. It felt good, and her practice would definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
Xia Chen opened his eyes without warning and said calmly: "Are you worried?"
Chen Mengzhu was caught off guard and exclaimed, almost falling on the rock: "You... you have noticed my arrival."
"Monks should be careful when practicing, but they must be vigilant. This is the most basic common sense in cultivation." Xia Chen said slowly.
Chen Mengzhu blushed and quietly sat up: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb you."
"I know." Xia Chen smiled gently. If Chen Mengzhu had malicious intentions, he would no longer be sitting here now.
"By the way, how do you know I have something on my mind?" Chen Mengzhu asked curiously.
"When you walked towards me, you walked slowly, but each step was very heavy and the rhythm was inconsistent. This should be a sign that you are full of worries in your heart." Xia Chen said.
Chen Mengzhu was surprised. She was still far away from Xia Chen when she left, and she deliberately walked lightly, just not wanting to disturb Xia Chen. Unexpectedly, he had noticed it long ago.
After being silent for a while, Chen Mengzhu smiled bitterly and said: "I don't know if you understand this, but I found that I don't know how to practice. When I looked at your back just now, I felt very...peaceful, so I didn't realize it.
The ground came over."
She actually had one sentence she didn't say: You make me feel very comfortable.
"You have encountered a bottleneck. You have too many things on your mind, so you think you can't practice." Xia Chen glanced at her and said calmly, "If you can't calm down, it's best not to practice first, otherwise not only will you not be able to break through, but it will also be easier.
Obsessed."
"Yes... I know." Chen Mengzhu bit his lower lip, "But I can't calm down. This trial is too important to me. If I can't break through the fourth level of magical power, I will lose my last chance.
"
Xia Chen didn't speak. He had no interest in inquiring about Chen Mengzhu's situation at the Chen family. The little girl's troubles were not worth mentioning to him. His troubles were much greater than Chen Mengzhu's.
"Don't you know how to comfort others?" Chen Mengzhu waited for a long time but received no reply. She couldn't help but look at him resentfully.
"Can comforting you help you break through the fourth level of supernatural power?" Xia Chen shook his head and said, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Sometimes the greater the pressure, the harder it is to break through the bottleneck."
"It's easy for you to say." Chen Mengzhu smiled bitterly, "I also know that I shouldn't put too much pressure on myself, but if I lose this opportunity, my family will no longer give me resources, and will not let me try again.
.I have been excluded from the core disciples, how can I still cultivate and achieve breakthroughs?"
"At least you are still alive and will be taken care of by your family, right?" Xia Chen was silent for a while and said calmly.
Chen Mengzhu was stunned and couldn't help but said angrily: "Yes, I am still alive and will be taken care of, but I can't control my own destiny. I must obey the family's arrangement, marry someone I may have never even met, and become someone else."
I was a plaything to carry on the family lineage. Then I was kicked away when I was old. Can you understand that kind of ending? No, you can't understand it at all. How can you understand my sorrow."
"I can't understand it." Xia Chen said calmly, "But at least you don't have to struggle on the verge of death every day, you don't have to fight for resources, you don't have to worry about the magical powers that you haven't practiced, and you don't have to worry about whether you will be there when you encounter a bottleneck.
I will help you to solve your doubts, so you don’t have to worry about someone watching you to kill someone and seize the treasure.
Everything has been arranged by the family, resources, techniques, elixirs, and even the trials have been arranged for you. You just need to go step by step. The trouble now is just that you can't make a breakthrough due to your talent.
Compared with the casual cultivators who may easily die without their bodies intact, which one do you think is more tragic?"
Chen Mengzhu was stunned, and her lips moved. She wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say. She also knew what Xia Chen said, but she had never compared it.
But what she said today from the mouth of a young casual cultivator shocked her heart. Yes, compared with the hard life of casual cultivators, what qualifications did she have to complain about the injustice of fate?
But Chen Mengzhu still couldn't help but be angry, even though she knew she shouldn't complain in front of Xia Chen, but what she got instead of comfort was a calm ridicule, and she always felt a little aggrieved.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have complained in front of you and disturbed your practice. I'm leaving." She said sadly, got up and silently walked down Gaoyan.
Xia Chen said nothing and closed his eyes and began to practice. Chen Mengzhu's troubles were not worth mentioning in his opinion, and he had no time to provide psychological counseling to the little girl.
In fact, in his heart, he couldn't help but sigh heavily: Who in this world can truly control his own destiny?
Chen Mengzhu walked very slowly. She didn't know why. She really hoped that Xia Chen could stop her, and then even if he only gave her a false comfort, it would make her cry happily.
But Xia Chen didn't, and Xia Chen didn't make a sound until she walked back to the original place.
Chen Mengzhu wanted to be angry, but in the end he laughed to himself, feeling that he was a little neurotic. Why should people comfort you? You cry and put your troubles in front of him. In fact, in his opinion, it is worthless.
.
In front of a casual cultivator who works hard to survive every day, he will never consider or understand the troubles of pressure from a family like the Chen family.
Thinking of this, Chen Mengzhu suddenly felt that his mood became much lighter.
She looked at Xia Chen, then sat down peacefully. After calming down for a while, she started practicing again.
Perhaps because he had figured it out, it was not until a day and night later that Chen Mengzhu opened his eyes and felt energetic and full of vitality.
The effect of this training was good, even better than any previous one. Although there was no sign of breaking through the bottleneck, it restored her confidence that had fallen into the abyss.
She looked at Xia Chen for the first time. The young man was still sitting in that place, and his posture had not changed. If she didn't know that he was practicing, she would even have the illusion that he was just a stone. He didn't need to be deliberate, he could do it naturally.
Integrate into nature.
After biting her lip, Chen Mengzhu walked over. This time, she leaned a little closer to Xia Chen, and then sat down in silence.
Just like yesterday, Xia Chen opened his eyes without warning and glanced at her with some confusion.
"You're right. I'm actually not qualified to complain in front of you. I just have some knots in my heart that haven't been opened." Chen Mengzhu seemed to explain after a while, trying his best to show a natural smile.
"Have you opened it now?" Xia Chen asked.
"No," Chen Mengzhu said, "But I feel a little better."
She thought for a while and then said: "The main reason is that I feel good when I see you practicing. I can't explain it, but I do feel calmer."
"Really?" Xia Chen smiled, "If it can give you this feeling, of course it would be best."
"I don't feel like you are a casual cultivator who came out of the Heart Island." Chen Mengzhu said carefully, "You must have a lot of experience, right?"
"I don't have much experience," Xia Chen said. "I'm just like many casual cultivators. I work hard for better practice and may die outside. So I can't compare with the cultivators of your family in all aspects. If there are any advantages,
If so, then the mentality is okay.”
Mentality... Chen Mengzhu recited these two words silently and sighed with some emotion.
Xia Chen glanced at her and felt that he should give some encouragement to this sentimental girl: "Actually, you have reached the peak of the third level of magical power. You will not increase your cultivation much if you continue to practice. At this time, you should put some pressure on yourself.
, the chance of breakthrough will be greater.”
"You said yesterday not to let me put too much pressure on myself." Chen Mengzhu looked at him in surprise.
"I'm not talking about psychological pressure," Xia Chen explained, "but pressure from the outside world. The more dangerous the environment, the more it stimulates people's potential, and the greater the possibility of breaking through bottlenecks."
"I know this." Chen Mengzhu said hesitantly, "Isn't the reason why I came here for the trial just to let the fourth-level demonic beast Blue Water Golden Eyes Beast put pressure on me so that I can break through the bottleneck?"
Xia Chen sighed: "Do you think it's a pressure for you six third-level magical monks to join forces to deal with a fourth-level monster with a severely damaged vitality?"
Chen Mengzhu looked at him in surprise and wanted to ask, "Doesn't it count?" This was already a very dangerous trial in the family. She applied for it for a long time before reluctantly applying.
There is a huge difference in each level of magical power. Although the fourth-level monsters are not as good as the fourth-level monks, they are still fourth-level monsters. Even monsters that have been seriously injured by their vitality are enough to pose a huge threat to the peak cultivators of the third-level magical powers.
Only with the three-level peak magical power monks from six families joining forces, Chen Mengzhu felt that he could hunt down the blue water golden-eyed beast with great confidence, and that was assuming no accidents occurred.
"What do you think is stressful?" After thinking for a long time, Chen Mengzhu said a little depressed. Originally, he felt that the trial was full of pressure, but when Xia Chen said this, it suddenly seemed very relaxed and simple.
"Fly along the Twin Crystal Island, fly tens of millions of miles, fight with all kinds of monsters in the sea, and then fly back alive, even if you are stressed." Xia Chen said lightly.