mtl008 Chapter 303: Unable to explain, sad
Chapter 303: Unable to explain, sad
Yun Yao watched Chu Mochen's resolute back as he left. At that moment, it was as if all the air around her was sucked out, and the world fell into a dead silence. Her lips trembled slightly, and she wanted to shout, but her throat seemed to be choked by something, and she couldn't make a sound.
"Chu Mochen, stop! Why don't you want to listen to my explanation?" After a long time, Yun Yao finally found her voice and shouted in the direction where Chu Mochen disappeared, a little choked up and angry. However, the only response she got was the sound of the wind in the mountains, whirring, as if mocking her helplessness at the moment.
Tears flowed uncontrollably, one after another, streaking down her cheeks and dripping onto the ground beneath her feet. Yun Yao clenched her hands into fists, her nails digging deep into her palms, but she didn't feel the pain at all, her heart was filled with grievances and heartache from being misunderstood.
"Why? Why don't you even give me a chance to explain?" Yun Yao murmured to herself, her eyes blurred with tears. Every moment of her past interactions with Chu Mochen emerged clearly in her mind like a kaleidoscope.
I still remember when we first joined the cultivation sect, we were sent together to carry out that difficult mission, to go deep into the mysterious valley to find the lost magic weapon. The valley was full of dangers, filled with miasma, and the monsters hidden in the dark made creepy roars from time to time.
At that time, Yun Yao accidentally fell into a swamp. The more she struggled, the faster she sank. Fear instantly gripped her heart. Just when she thought she was going to die, Chu Mochen reached out his hand without hesitation, tightly grasped her arm, and his eyes were firm and fearless: "Don't be afraid, I'll pull you up!" At that moment, his voice seemed to have a magical power that dispelled the fear in Yun Yao's heart.
In the following journey, they supported and cared for each other. When they encountered fierce monster attacks, Chu Mochen always stepped forward to protect Yun Yao behind him, and built a safe barrier for her with his powerful spiritual power; and Yun Yao also relied on the knowledge and unique way of thinking she brought from the modern world to help them escape danger and find hidden passages many times.
The days of fighting side by side are Yun Yao's most precious memories since she came to this strange world of cultivation. They shared their thoughts by the campfire, talked about everything, and looked forward to the future path of cultivation; under the starry sky, the occasional eye contact would make each other's heartbeats inexplicably accelerate, and a subtle and beautiful feeling took root unconsciously.
But now, all of this seemed to be destroyed by a sudden storm. Just because of a scam carefully designed by Liu Yan'er, Chu Mochen completely lost his trust in her. The man who used to care for her with tender eyes now looked at her with such cold and questioning eyes, as if she was a stranger and a betrayer.
Yun Yao wiped away her tears, raised her head stubbornly, and looked at the sky. The sky gradually darkened, and dark clouds began to gather, as if reflecting her gloomy mood at the moment.
"Well, since you don't want to believe me, there's no need for me to continue to feel sorry for myself." Yun Yao bit her lower lip and swore in her heart. The unyielding spirit in her bones was completely aroused, and she decided not to indulge in this sad mood and let herself sink.
"System, I want to start practicing." Yun Yao silently called the system in her heart.
"Ding, the host's mood change is detected, triggering a special task: within three days, break through the bottleneck of the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm and successfully advance to the late stage. You will be rewarded with a top-grade Spirit Gathering Array diagram, which can help you achieve twice the result with half the effort in your cultivation." The system's cold electronic sound rang in Yun Yao's mind.
A hint of determination flashed across Yun Yao's eyes. She took a deep breath and turned to walk towards her cultivation cave. Along the way, many fellow disciples saw her red and swollen eyes and her slightly embarrassed appearance, and cast strange glances at her, some curious, some sympathetic, and some gloating. But Yun Yao was only thinking about cultivation at the moment, and turned a blind eye to these glances.
After returning to the cave, Yun Yao immediately entered a state of retreat. She sat cross-legged, closed her eyes and concentrated, following the formula of the exercise, slowly guiding the spiritual power in her body to circulate. At first, due to the fluctuations of her mood, her spiritual power was a little disordered, but Yun Yao kept adjusting her breathing and forced herself to calm down.
She recalled her previous insights from cultivation, carefully controlling every bit of spiritual power, trying to break through the bottleneck between the middle and late stages of the foundation building realm. Time and again, her spiritual power hit the barrier like a surging tide, but was bounced back again and again. Every failure made Yun Yao feel a surge of blood, but she gritted her teeth and did not flinch.
Time passed quietly in this quiet cave. After an unknown amount of time, Yun Yao felt that the spiritual power in her body became more powerful, and the bottleneck seemed to have loosened a little.
"Try harder!" Yun Yao encouraged herself in her heart. She discarded all distractions and put all her mind into cultivation. The only thing in her mind was the trajectory of her spiritual power and the goal of breaking through.
On the morning of the third day, when the first ray of sunlight shone on Yun Yao through the crack in the stone door of the cave, the spiritual power in her body suddenly burst out with a strong light, and a tremendous force surged out from her dantian and spread throughout her body in an instant.
"Success!" Yun Yao suddenly opened her eyes, her eyes flashing with excitement and joy. She felt her own strength improve, and the feeling of controlling a stronger power made her temporarily forget the pain in her heart.
The system's prompt sounded at the right time: "Congratulations to the host for completing the task. You are rewarded with a top-grade spirit gathering array diagram. It has been stored in the system space. Please check it."
Yun Yao opened the system space, took out the formation diagram, and looked at it carefully. This formation diagram exuded a mysterious light, and the formation patterns were complicated and exquisite. At a glance, it was obvious that it was a rare cultivation treasure. She arranged the spirit gathering formation in the cave according to the formation diagram. In an instant, the surrounding spiritual energy gathered like a whirlpool, so rich that it almost turned into substance.
Yun Yao sat cross-legged again, using the powerful effect of the spirit gathering array to consolidate the realm she had just broken through, while further improving the purity of her spiritual power. With the nourishment of spiritual power, her body and mind gradually calmed down. Although the loneliness of being misunderstood in the depths of her heart still existed, at this moment, she had turned this loneliness into motivation to move forward and bravely climbed towards a higher realm.
However, whenever she was practicing, in the dead of night, Chu Mochen's cold back would always appear in her mind, causing her heart to ache slightly. But Yun Yao just bit her lower lip silently, buried the pain deep in her heart, and continued to practice hard. She wanted to prove herself with her strength, and waited for an opportunity that might resolve the misunderstanding...