Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 727 - 14 Thoughts Must Be Thorough_2

Tang Xiaolian’s aunt was clearly the chatty type. Seeing Tang Xiaolian ignoring her, she continued:

"You see, your cousin likes you a lot, always asking about Cousin Xiaolian. He’s still single, a university student already, and he’s not even looking for a girlfriend..."

Yan Yu’s mouth corner crazily turned upward as he turned his head to look towards Chen Lingyun. The "Yan Yu" sitting opposite her began to speak as well:

"The three-inch little mushroom is here again? I suggest you stop sitting; otherwise, your height-increasing shoes won’t get their chance to shine."

Chen Lingyun’s mouth corner twitched slightly; then she suddenly reached out and poked Yan Yu’s arm, saying,

"Look at you, so bitchy."

"What does that have to do with me?" Yan Yu replied impatiently, "Can’t someone point out your own flaws anymore? The key thing is to confront these issues head-on, not break down whenever someone says something about you. What’s wrong with being short? What’s wrong with being flat-chested? Don’t you still have a pretty face and a smart brain? Just think of yourself as a large-sized Lolita and accept your imperfections gracefully. So what’s there to get angry about?"

Tang Xiaolian opened her eyes incredulously, staring at Yan Yu, thinking, Captain Yan, you’re actually turning against us and attacking your own people now! Whose side are you really on?

"Hmph." The "Sister Chen Lingyun" sitting opposite finally spoke up indifferently, "Long time no see, and you’re still as sensitive and insecure..."

"Shut your mouth!" Yan Yu immediately glared, chiding her, "No one was talking to you here!"

Tang Xiaolian, hearing his rebuke, felt a surge of fear, dreadfully afraid that in the next moment Yan Yu would be deemed "having moved into wrath" and vanish in a burst of white light.

However, after chiding the person opposite, Yan Yu was just fine as he turned his head to continue with Chen Lingyun:

"Do I make sense? Like when someone says I’m sensitive and insecure, do you see me caring? Hilarious, I might as well have lost if even a tiny bit of anger roused in me. Inner strength is the true form of strength. If you have cultivation power but lack the right mental state, it’s like having a beautiful box filled with trash—it’s useless!"

"Come on, learn from me." Yan Yu turned his head to look disdainfully at the "Sister Chen Lingyun" and said, "You’re trash!"

Chen Lingyun showed a radiant smile, then mockingly said to the "Yan Yu" sitting opposite:

"You’re trash!"

Tang Xiaolian: ......

"Can I do it too?" She tugged on Yan Yu’s sleeve.

"Sure," Yan Yu guided her, "Curse her! But don’t get angry, be disdainful and scornful, understand? Keep this in mind—she’s not worthy to upset you!"

Tang Xiaolian seemed to half-understand but soon mustered the courage to shout at the aunt across from her:

"You’re trash!"

"How dare you speak to your aunt like that?" The aunt immediately exploded in anger, "I’m going to tell your mom, tell your dad! See how they deal with you then!"

Tang Xiaolian quickly shrank back, casting a pitifully pleading look at Yan Yu for help.

Yan Yu was speechless when he saw this. Classmate, you’re a cultivator! What can your dad, a mere mortal, do to discipline you? Your thinking is somewhat absurd, as if holding command over hundreds of thousands of soldiers and being summoned by the emperor to be questioned for a crime.

"Just tell her," he transmitted his voice to Tang Xiaolian, "if she keeps blathering on, I’ll have a word with someone above to get her son expelled from school!"

Tang Xiaolian’s eyes lit up, and immediately she perked up, looking down arrogantly at the aunt:

"If you keep up this drivel, I’ll have my cousin expelled from school, and then he’ll have no choice but to live under a bridge picking up trash to get by!"

"Very good, you’ve grasped the essence," Yan Yu nodded in approval, "Don’t get angry, don’t get irritated, if you can’t bear it then don’t, hit back. The key is to keep your thoughts clear—by stooping to her level, you lose!"

Upon hearing this, Tang Xiaolian felt as if she had found her backbone and immediately began bickering back with her aunt.

"Fit for me? You must be out of your mind! I’m a cultivator! Is my cousin suitable? Mention this again next time you visit my house, and I’ll kick you out!"

"You ungrateful brat, all the love your aunt gave you was for nothing!"

"Pamper me? What kind of pampering? Buying a bag of candy for my cousin and only giving me a few pieces, right?" Tang Xiaolian was firing on all cylinders, her lips smacking with relentless sarcasm. "Let me tell you, I’ve disliked you for a long time, always comparing me to my cousin in front of the relatives, belittling and despising me. Now that I’ve become a cultivator, you hurry over to suck up, do you have no shame? If grandma were still alive, you would have pissed her off to death already. Oh, I just realized why my cousin is so narcissistic; it turns out he’s become a mama’s boy from being spoiled by you. Let’s see if anyone would want him when he goes matchmaking in the future, maybe he should go for a divorced widow with a child!"

Yan Yu, hearing the full force in her voice, knew she had made a mental breakthrough.

In reality, the best way to overcome the Anger Barrier was to turn a deaf ear and have no thoughts in one’s mind, what cultivators often call "serenity and inaction." But Tang Xiaolian was too young and couldn’t achieve the open-mindedness of someone who had lived twice like Yan Yu. She had to use some tricks to maintain clarity of thought, so it wasn’t easy to catch her off guard.

Looking over at Chen Lingyun, the "Yan Yu" on the other side was still making fun of her figure, with extremely limited vocabulary and virtually no Attack Power. Yan Yu didn’t even understand why she had always failed to overcome this trial. Just as he was about to mock her and apply some pressure on the princess, he saw Chen Lingyun suddenly clinging to him, wrapping her arms intimately around Yan Yu’s left arm and said to the "Yan Yu" across from her with a smile:

"You’re just a fake. The real one’s right here."

The "Yan Yu" across from her sneered:

"It wasn’t me who looked down on you; it was him. Otherwise, why would you have lost your composure before?"

"Now I don’t care anymore," Chen Lingyun said with a smile. "Because he told me to face my own shortcomings and flaws directly. I am indeed not tall, and my figure isn’t outstanding, but I have a pretty face and a sharp mind, and that’s enough for me~"

Yan Yu was also surprised, not expecting that a simple compliment from him would suddenly free the princess from her mental shackles, leading her to enlightenment right there and then.

Oh, I get it now. She had lost her composure before, not only because her flaws had been pointed out, but also because she was worried that I would look down on her for those defects. Now, hearing me praise her for her intelligence and looks, she immediately regained her confidence!

This is all my doing!

Seeing that both girls had achieved mental clarity, Yan Yu turned his attention back to his own opponent.

Chen Lingyun from his past life.

Ever since he had told her to "shut up," this Chen Lingyun had been silent the whole time. Only when Yan Yu’s gaze fell on her did she reveal a faint smile and said:

"You know who I am."

"Nonsense, how could I possibly not know?" Yan Yu pondered for a moment, then said, "Let’s finish this."

"We still have to follow the rules here," the other Chen Lingyun said with an unchanged smile, asking leisurely, "Do you still hold a grudge against me in your heart?"

"None," Yan Yu said.

"If that were true, you wouldn’t think about bullying me all the time." She looked towards Chen Lingyun by Yan Yu’s side, who returned a thoughtful gaze. "Or could it be that you’ve developed a special interest?"

"Neither," Yan Yu replied indifferently. "The correct answer is that your personality needs adjustment."

"So that’s how it is." The other Chen Lingyun realized, "My personality is already set, but hers... there’s still time."

"That’s right," Yan Yu said earnestly. "There’s still time for her."

"Should I thank you then?" asked Chen Lingyun with a smile.

It wasn’t the impostor speaking but the real Chen Lingyun beside him.

"You’re welcome," Yan Yu responded coolly. "This trial won’t trouble me; you should know that. Let’s not waste time."

"Hmm, indeed, there’s not the slightest ripple of emotion within you," said the other Chen Lingyun with a smile. "I’m actually curious to see if you can maintain such composure in the next trial."

"What is the next trial?" Yan Yu asked.

Chen Lingyun and Tang Xiaolian also looked over, pricking up their ears.

"Question," the other Chen Lingyun asked instead of answering, with a smile brimming with anticipation. "Killing living beings undermines Merit, anger ruins Mental State, so what can shatter physical Perfection?"

"Uh..." Yan Yu didn’t respond immediately, but two words suddenly popped into his head.

It was that one again, huh?