Yanhuangcheng, Xiyan.

When the story was over, Xiyan was silent for a long time.

As one of the "bigwigs" of Yanhuang City, although Xi Yan is not as prestigious as the three giants of Eric, Pat, and Andy, he is a proper high-level in the Magicians Association, in other words, he is also one of Fang Tian's close people, not to mention that he was given by Fang Tian as a deacon of Yanhuang City or something, just this identity is destined to be not to be underestimated.

It's just that this Excellency is relatively colder than other bigwigs in a group of bigwigs in Yanhuang City, and because of this, he has fewer friends. - Of course, it's just "less".

On Seven Star Island, in his own courtyard, Xiyan stood speechless.

One thing is very similar to the plot in the story, that is, there is also a tree in this garden, and it is also planted by Xiyan himself. However, this is not a small sapling, but a transplanted old tree.

Many times, Xiyan would stand under the tree and meditate, which was a habit of his.

And the origin of this habit is due to nostalgia.

After a long silence, Xi Yan took out a letter wrapped in a good package from his arms, and then opened it carefully and slowly, giving people the feeling that he was not opening a package, but performing a ritual, a very important ritual.

The truth is, in a sense, this statement is not wrong.

After listening to the story told by His Highness this time, Xi Yan found that his thoughts flew again, and flew to the northern region of the empire, a place called Chaoyang City, and more specifically, a very ordinary courtyard on the outskirts of Chaoyang City.

That place where he lived with his teacher for many years.

Presumably that small courtyard has begun to be deserted, right?

The letter was opened. Xiyan lowered his head and read.

In fact, every word in the letter has long been unforgettable, and he will not forget it until he dies, so why should he open the letter and read it? But holding this letter in his own hand has a special meaning for Xi Yan. This letter is the only relic left to him by the teacher.

"Back then, when the teacher was still young. In one year, on the festival of the cold moon, the teacher of the teacher pointed to the leaves in the sky in the court, and said: "In front of your Dao, what is the one who falls?"

For the teacher: "Ye Zibei!"

A hundred years later, the teacher of teachers has passed away.

Another year of the Cold Moon Festival, the teacher faced the double trees in front of the court and watched the leaves fall. I can't help but think of the past. I was overwhelmed with emotion, and I knew at this time that the people who fell in front of me were not only the fallen leaves, but also the time of my generation.

Time is like flowing water, or under your feet, or in front of you, but you don't realize it. When you feel it. You're old. 』

When the gaze slowly came to this paragraph of the letter, even though I was already familiar with the letter. At this time, Xi Yan still couldn't help but look at it, and in his mind, he also recalled one thing that the teacher said at the beginning.

Generally, teachers will accept disciples who are similar to themselves in many aspects, such as similar temperaments, similar endowments, and so on.

Teachers with stupid qualifications often accept disciples with stupid qualifications. For those with better qualifications, on the contrary, they will feel that they are out of character and cannot be used, and of course, vice versa, teachers with excellent qualifications usually look down on disciples with stupid qualifications. Not to mention stupidity, even a slight difference in genius will attract disdain. - What is the use of me for such doomed mediocre people as you are?

In this case, the teacher once told Xi Yan in a conversation and joke, and said: "My temperament is born stupid, but you are much smarter than the teacher, little guy." ”

At that time, Xi Yan was not long after being accepted by the teacher, only eight or nine years old, a veritable little guy, Xi Yan still remembers that he was looking up and asking the teacher, "Then why?"

"Because I was stupid as a teacher, I suffered a lot of losses in my cultivation, so I wanted to accept a smart one so that he would not suffer so much. ”

Hearing this at that time, Xi Yan lowered his head in embarrassment, but in his heart, he cocked his little head contrary to his external performance, happily and proudly, and then took the initiative to work a lot harder in cultivation, because the teacher said that he was very smart, and he couldn't be ashamed!

When recalling this fragment, even though he had been a little sad before, a smile still unconsciously hung on the corner of Xiyan's mouth at this time.

The teacher at that time was also too bad, this is obviously deceiving the child. Where is he smart, if you really want to talk about it, you may not even be as good as a corner of the teacher!

His own hard cultivation, coupled with the teacher's clever teaching.

Combined, Xiyan's cultivation speed was naturally not too slow, and because of this, he came to the third level smoothly. But after reaching the third level, it was stuck all of a sudden, and one card was stuck for a long time.

Xi Yan remembered that he was very impatient at that time, in fact, he was only a little impetuous at first, but slowly, he became more and more anxious.

However, the teacher who had always taught him did not give much advice at that time, but let him be impatient, and after several years, when he still had not crossed the third level, he was very disappointed, and he had to doubt whether he was suitable to become a magician, so he told him a thing slowly.

"I told you that being a teacher is very stupid, and you can't compare with you. You have been stopped for so long at the third level, and it is naturally impossible for you to be a teacher to go anywhere faster than you. Let me tell you, I was more anxious than you as a teacher at that time, and I was so anxious that even my lips began to bubble later. ”

But the teacher of the teacher has always been ignorant of the teacher, and then he even simply went out of sight and was not bothered, went out to visit friends directly, and left the teacher alone, and after a long time, he did not come back until the teacher himself was promoted to the fourth level. ”

"That will be a teacher, but I am really angry, I want to say to the teacher, there are you such a teacher!"

But the teacher said a word to the teacher. ”

Xi Yan remembered that he was a little blind and a little wooden at that time, and the reason for Meng Hemu was that he didn't expect the teacher to be trapped in the third level back then, and he didn't expect the teacher's teacher to be so ignorant, so he asked with considerable curiosity: "Teacher, what are the words?"

"The teacher told the teacher that the path of cultivation is long and long, and the third level is just a small level, insignificant. Level 3 is followed by level six. After the sixth level, there are nine levels, and each one is more difficult than the other, much more difficult. If you can't even pass the first and easiest level, what will happen to the rest of it?"

Xi Yan was stunned at the time, and then it was as if he was being poured from the top of his head by a large basin of cold water. It's not frozen, but it's refreshing all of a sudden, but the impatience that has been entangled in my heart for several years is suddenly gone, and it's indescribably relaxed.

Then when he was cultivating, he felt it again, and the effect of meditation was better than before, and when he was immersed in a better feeling of meditation, he unconsciously passed the third level, and after that, Xi Yan didn't even have much of a surprise!

"It's a little bitter. Eat first. ”

"Because sooner or later, you're going to have to run into it, and more than once. It's not a bad thing to feel it early. ”

Later, the teacher said a lot of similar things. At this moment, Xi Yan thought back and felt that this was probably the most profound teaching of the teacher to him, because the teacher's teaching has always been very concise, and it has never been the long-winded type. Teachers usually don't say what they've said a second time. And this is the only one teaching, the exception!

The teacher didn't just say it a second time, but a third, a fourth, maybe even a fifth.

The teacher should have wanted him to remember this deeply, but at that time, he did not understand the teacher's deep meaning. Even after being promoted to a mage with the help of His Highness, he didn't grasp this.

To this day, in the story of His Highness, he sees all that Kaspersky has after the sixth level.

Even though Kaspersky is a warrior and he is a magician. But as His Highness always said, whether it is a warrior or a magician, they are all cultivators. And cultivators, many times, face the same problems.

It's like Kaspersky's dilemma after level six.

Kaspersky has only experienced it once, and he has already experienced it three times. I experienced it once in level 3, once in level 6, and once in level 9. And these three times, in fact, each time is unforgettable, especially at the ninth level.

And how can you not empathize?

"Hardship is inevitable!"

"On the path of cultivation, there will be difficulties. ”

"Even an existence like His Highness may have his own difficulties, right? It's just that everyone's difficulties are big and small, like His Highness, they will be smaller, and those like me will be bigger. But no matter how big or small, there will always be difficulties. ”

"Promotion is a more difficult climb than trekking, and difficulty is actually a necessary adjustment in the climbing process. ”

"Only when you adjust it well, can you have the strength to go up more. ”

"So the hardship is not a calamity, but an opportunity, a good opportunity to wait for a leap. ”

When the thoughts in his consciousness moved here, Xi Yan felt that his heart suddenly opened up, and he understood a lot at once, and the concept of "cultivation" that His Highness had been explaining to them and others before also became profound and clear at this time.

Depression is not understanding the difficulty.

Depression is a failure to live up to the difficulties.

Whenever you are in a difficult situation, you should understand that it is time to stop and recuperate.

It's rest, it's also tidying. Rest is to temporarily bid farewell to the previous cultivation and let the body and mind get a great rest; tidying up is to look back at the bits and pieces along the way, many things, thinking that they will not forget, but in fact, they are forgotten, and many forgets should not be.

On the other hand, there are some things, things that have been experienced in the early years, that can only be truly understood after a long time. It's not that you have experienced it and understood it.

Looking back in times of difficulty, many things can provide new strength......

Consciousness drifted in this, and at this time, Xiyan also felt that there was indeed a new power in his body and mind. In fact, after His Highness's teachings, the gist of the intermediate master has already been understood, but he has not been able to understand the path of cultivation in depth.

And today, it's a little deeper.

From the current beginner level to the intermediate level, it will probably not take too long.

Thinking of this, Xi Yan raised his head and smiled faintly, and the next moment, he lowered his head, looked at the letter paper in his hand, and looked at the vertical and horizontal pen and ink on the letterhead, but the sadness once again couldn't stop flooding his heart.

"Teacher, your highest achievement is the first method. And today, the disciple has the confidence to surpass you. ”

"You said in your letter that your will is with me, so teacher, please join your disciples to witness the path of the Chinese Dharma. In the future, the disciple will definitely go further, until the day when the disciple loses his breath just like you. ”

"When it comes to self-cultivation, the disciples are already worry-free. ”

Now the disciple has only one regret. ”

"Teacher, why is it a disciple, not you, that you have to meet His Highness Fang Tian?"

People say that the martial arts have reached the end of the sixth level, and now they know that the ninth level is still not the beginning. If he had known about this earlier, he would have been able to change the god of the underworld, muttering out the last words of Kaspersky in the story, Xiyan let out a long sigh. After a long sigh, silence returned to the small courtyard.

Only the occasional breeze blew through the treetops, bringing a slight sound.

Three days later, Xi Yan quietly added a book, or pamphlet, to the library pavilion, entitled "Speaking of Difficulties, On My Practice".

On the fourth day, Fang Tian approved after the book, good!

On the forty-eighth day, Xiyan was promoted to median mage. Of course, that's another story. - Not too long to say. (To be continued.) )