Chapter 147: Breakthrough

Gu Zhuo suddenly asked: "What do you think of your talent?"

"Do you even need to ask? Of course it's excellent."

Without thinking, Chen Chi said with a beaming face, "Otherwise, how could I be so successful? The simplest example is that if I were really insignificant, the Wan family would have kicked me out in Yangzhou City long ago. How could they even want to give me a share of the pie?"

Gu Zhuo continued to ask: "So what do you think of me?"

Chen Chi stopped talking.

How should he respond to this sentence?
He looked at Gu Zhuo expressionlessly, the emotions in his eyes were very complicated, or... should the word "feeling" be used to describe it?

"You are unparalleled in the world, the best in the summer festival in the past hundred years. It will be hard to find someone who can stand shoulder to shoulder with you in the next hundred years... In short, you are the person with the best cultivation talent I have ever seen."

Gu Zhuo shook his head and said, "Wrong."

Chen Chi opened his eyes wide and asked in disbelief: "What's wrong?"

Gu Zhuo said calmly: "For a thousand years, no one has stood shoulder to shoulder with me."

Chen Chi was totally unable to accept this statement. He thought, let alone those figures who lived in ancient times, could you be more amazing than the Taoist master?
Time is the only criterion to test whether a person is truly talented.

"I think……"

His expression was constipated. After hesitating for a while, his eyes suddenly brightened and he changed the subject: "So what do you want to do by bringing this up?"

Gu Zhuo thought that this question was too stupid, so he rolled his eyes and said, "What I mean is, no matter whose practice has problems, it can't be my practice that has problems."

Chen Chi was stunned for a moment, thinking that this logic made sense, but why did it feel like something was a little off?

Before he could figure out what was wrong, he heard another sentence, with a hint of concern.

"The reason I'm telling you this is because I don't want you to worry meaninglessly. By the way, I'm also telling Lin Wanyi to stop overthinking."

"...Okay, but I want to emphasize one thing."

"please say."

“I’m really not a mailman.”

Hearing this, Gu Zhuo patted Chen Chi on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Chen Chi sighed and said, "Since there is no problem with your practice, why are you still stuck at Dongzhen?"

"To be honest, I think you are being a little too hasty."

He looked at Gu Zhuo seriously and said, "The main thing is that you entered the realm of Dongzhen this spring, and now you are going to break through at the end of autumn. This time is too short no matter how you look at it. I am afraid that your foundation is not stable."

Gu Zhuo thought for a moment and asked, "What is Dong Zhen's original intention?"

"To know the truth of heaven and earth."

Chen Chi frowned and asked in confusion: "Why do you ask this?"

This should be something that every practitioner knows.

"nothing."

Gu Zhuo glanced at him and explained, "I saw that you were worried that my foundation was unstable, so I thought that Dong Zhen had new intentions. Since he didn't, that's fine."

Chen Chi was silent again, wondering what level of confidence this was.

After a while, he sighed deeply and said, "Forget it, I won't chat with you anymore."

Gu Zhuo was a little surprised and said, "I thought you were going to ask me again why I didn't break through."

Chen Chi said: "To be honest, that's what I wanted to ask."

"Then why don't you ask?"

"It's mainly because I don't want to hear words that make me sad anymore."

"I suddenly feel that you are also amazing."

"Huh? Why?"

"Not everyone can be as self-aware as you."

"…Although it's a compliment, I always feel hurt by you."

……

The conversation was quite pleasant, and the main reason was of course Chen Chi's magnanimity.

Gu Zhuo watched his friend leave, agreed to treat him to a hotpot meal the next time they met, and then continued to focus on the present.

The reason for not breaking through is not that complicated, it is very simple.

When a practitioner enters the stage of nourishing the spirit, his soul will undergo a transformation that is like a rebirth, which will confirm and complement the techniques of his own practice.

To some extent, this is an irreversible process.

Now Gu Zhuo is practicing Xingshuang Jie, which is a martial art created by Bai Nanming.

The Star Frost Tribulation is still in its early stages, and the technique itself has not yet been truly perfected. Unlike techniques like the All Things Frost Tribulation that have been repaired countless times, there is a considerable amount of room for modification.

In short, Star Frost Tribulation can become a unique martial art that belongs to him.

This is also the reason why Gu Zhuo has never been in a hurry to break through.

More importantly, the Yuanshi Demonic Scripture left behind by his founding disciple has some similarities with Xingshuang Jieyin.

It’s just that the purpose of the Star Frost Tribulation is to fight against the years, turn white hair into black hair, and retain the beauty of the world.

The Yuanshi Magic Scripture, however, went against the grain, allowing life to bloom brilliantly in a very short time, like a shooting star or fireworks. Otherwise, how could Lu Mingcheng age into such a state?

You know, even the Return to Oneness state can linger for three hundred years.

When Gu Zhuo realized the similarities and differences between the Star Frost Tribulation and the Yuanshi Demonic Scripture, he immediately understood.

How to make these two skills complement each other, integrate into one, and be mutually reinforcing, this may be the path of practice he should take in this life.

This was the real reason why he had tried to break through but failed to do so and always remained in the cave.

In recent days, the elixirs he had obtained from the Qin imperial court were actually to make up for the losses and injuries he had suffered from the violent conflict between the two techniques while constantly trying to achieve his goal.

Such self-torture did not discourage him.
Gu Zhuo was even more looking forward to what kind of transformation his soul would undergo after he successfully solved this problem and entered the realm of nourishing the spirit.

……

Under the night sky, Qing Xiaoyue sat on the eaves of a palace.

Unlike usual, his eyes were no longer on Gu Zhuo, but he raised his head slightly and looked into the distance.

There was a sword light that was about to disappear.

And behind him came a man.

"Why are you here?"

"Would you believe me if I said I was protecting him?"

"Why don't you believe it?"

“Because I don’t even believe this reason.”

Qing Xiaoyue coughed and looked at Pei Jinge who was standing beside her with a rare smile.

"In fact, the queen took into consideration that my injury had not yet healed, but I was too restless to rest. She was planning to marry her daughter to him, so she asked me to take a closer look on her behalf to see how Gu Zhuo made decisions and behaved in various matters, so as to prevent Lin Wanyi from following her old path."

When he said this, he naturally concealed the real reason - the Empress wanted to know why Gu Zhuo suddenly became so against Zen Buddhism.

Pei Jinge said: "Is that so?"

Qing Xiaoyue smiled and said, "What else could it be?"

"how about you?"

He said, "Why did you come to meet him?"

Pei Jinge said unhappily, "Some people in the court think that Gu Zhuo is using your majesty's promise to enrich himself and seek benefits that he shouldn't have. There's already a huge quarrel in the capital, so I can only come over to take a look."

Qing Xiaoyue put away her smile and said slowly, "Someone must be using Gu Zhuo to cause trouble for the queen."

The Qin Dynasty controlled the whole world and all the countries were its vassals. It was truly a wealthy country.

Even if Gu Zhuo was a hundred times more extravagant and wasteful, it was impossible for him to cause any serious damage to the court's finances, because he was not trying to break the Yuhua realm.

What's more, all expenditures now come from the Emperor's treasury.

The nobles in the court made a big fuss about this, which was no different from rich people bargaining over the price of a basket of buns. They could only have ulterior motives.

"Who doesn't know that?"

Pei Jinge's tone was indifferent.

Over the years, she has witnessed countless struggles in the court and has long been tired of it.

Her status also qualifies her to be aloof. As long as His Majesty the Emperor believes in her loyalty, no one can shake her position.

She suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Do you want to continue watching?"

Qing Xiaoyue understood what she meant, turned around and left, saying, "We'll chat a little when you come back."

……

Pushing the door open, Pei Jinge looked at Gu Zhuo's back.

The next moment, she said directly: "Qing Xiaoyue is watching you, don't tell me that you have had contact with people from the Tianming Sect in recent days."

Gu Zhuo was a little surprised to hear this, and thought to himself, why didn't you tell me this time and end the cooperation directly? He shook his head and said, "No."

Then he said, "But I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Pei Jinge suddenly had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, the next moment she heard the news that Xiu Hu Zhenren was under house arrest by the Secret Service.

She was silent for a long time, but finally said nothing, just nodded slightly to indicate that she understood.

"Do you know the prize offered by Cihang Temple?"

"Rebuild the Dao body."

"This is too big a prize, it's totally abnormal. Zen Buddhism must have some ulterior motive behind this."

"fine."

"Why is it okay?"

Pei Jinge's eyebrows slightly frowned.

Gu Zhuo said as a matter of course: "Because the prize will fall into my hands."

(End of this chapter)

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