"By the way, how is your friend's illness?" Yan Chixia asked.

"It's not my friend, it's my friend's wife." Zuo Xiaoyou said: "It was originally a small disease of cold and cough, but it was dragged and it became a serious disease. Fortunately, the treatment was timely and it was fine."

"That's good." Yan Chixia said: "You can come often if you have nothing to do in the future. Anyway, I'm the only one here, so I'm very bored."

Zuo Xiaoyou smiled: "Okay, Captain Yan has high martial arts skills and more powerful magic. Being able to compete with Captain Yan will definitely benefit me a lot."

"Hey, I asked you to play, not to fight with me." Yan Chixia had a headache. Could it be that the old lunatic Xiahou had just left, but this little lunatic came again?

"It's not a fight, it's just a fight." Zuo Xiaoyou explained the difference between the two: "You and I don't compete for fame or profit, there's no need to fight."

"Whatever you say," Yan Chixia also admitted it. Anyway, it's boring to be alone in such a big place, so it's better if someone accompanys him to loosen his muscles and bones.

In the next ten years, Zuo Xiaoyou would come to Lanruo Temple to chat, eat, and practice martial arts almost every day.

Yan Chixia is indeed amazing. Zuo Xiaoyou has competed with him countless times over the years, but no wins.

Not only did he not win, but he also lost miserably.

After losing too much, Zuo Xiaoyou became anxious. A woman couldn't help losing for several years, let alone a big man? Zuo Xiaoyou was cruel. Almost every thunderstorm night, she would first use up all her magic power in her body, and then run to the top of the mountain to find lightning.

The most fear of being serious in everything is that Zuo Xiaoyou becomes serious and the speed of progress is quite terrifying. Even the beggars are amazed at Zuo Xiaoyou's progress. However, it is useless. After ten years, Zuo Xiaoyou lost for ten years.

What's even more terrifying is that he still couldn't touch Yan Chixia's bottom.

Yan Chixia is really too strong. She obviously has no big difference between martial arts and Zuo Xiaoyou. But she completely crushed him in terms of magic, leaving him unable to see even a little hope of winning.

On this day, after Zuo Xiaoyou failed to compete again, he lay on the ground and gasped in a deep breath: He was exhausted.

"Why can't I win you?" Zuo Xiaoyou was very depressed. He lost for ten years, and his confidence was shaken.

"Actually you are already very powerful." Yan Chixia smiled and said, "You are at least five or six times stronger than ten years ago."

"But I always feel that the gap between you is not only not getting closer, but is getting farther and farther." Zuo Xiaoyou gasped.

"That's just your illusion." Yan Chixia shook her head and said, "Of course I am also improving, but the progress is definitely not as good as you. It's just that I have been improving and have created some new magical methods, which makes you feel that the distance between you and me is getting bigger and bigger. In fact, the distance between you and me is much closer than ten years ago."

"real?"

"Of course it's true." Yan Chixia took a sip of wine and said, "It's no good to lie to you."

"Haha." Zuo Xiaoyou felt much better. It turned out that he was not being pulled further and further away, just an illusion.

"In fact, the fighting is the same as the death fight in the martial arts world." Yan Chixia said: "An opponents who know each other always take a lot of time to decide the outcome of life and death. The reason is that they know each other too much. Unless their strength exceeds the other, it will definitely take a long time to fight. But the one who wins in the end is the stronger one."

"But if you fight with strangers, it is easy to defeat the strong with the weak. The reason is that you don't understand.

Because I don’t understand, it’s easy to give the other party an opportunity to take advantage of. If the weak person has a trick that just happens to restrain the strong person, that would be interesting.”

Speaking of this, Yan Chixia turned her head and looked at Zuo Xiaoyou, laughing and said, "Do you remember the incident when you killed the tree demon ten years ago?"

"Of course I remember." Zuo Xiaoyou nodded: "I was able to kill the Thousand-year-old tree demon at that time, and it was thanks to you who severely injured him, which gave me the opportunity to kill it."

"Not bad." Yan Chixia nodded: "Although the tree demon was seriously injured at that time, it would not be unable to withstand your thunder. In my opinion, all this is just your thunder magic that just restrains the evil spirit. Otherwise, even if you are ten times stronger, you will not be able to kill it."

"So that's it." Zuo Xiaoyou suddenly realized. After all, it was just a surprise to defeat the strong with the weak. If the other party knows your skills well, then you can wait and lose unless you have enough hard power!

If he knew Yan Chixia. But Yan Chixia didn't know him, and the two of them fought, maybe he could beat Yan Chixia unexpectedly or even win in one fell swoop. But as time went by, Yan Chixia became more and more familiar with his methods, and he became more and more depressed. This is why he has been practicing crazy for ten years, but he still believes that Yan Chixia is becoming more and more powerful, and he is becoming less and less an opponent.

"Then how long will it take for me to defeat you?" Zuo Xiaoyou could no longer see through the speed of his strength growth, so he could only ask Yan Chixia, a master who is both a teacher and a friend.

"If you follow your current improvement speed..." Yan Chixia pondered for a moment and said, "It's about 10 to 15 years!"

"It will take so long?" Zuo Xiaoyou suddenly felt a little discouraged.

"It's not long." Yan Chixia cursed: "Are you allowed to improve, not me? I am a genius in the cultivation world. In terms of qualifications, how many of them can compare to me? But you kid are better than me! What else are you dissatisfied with?"

"Uh...hehe." Zuo Xiaoyou laughed dryly: "Missing the tongue, wrong tongue."

"Stop talking nonsense." Yan Chixia threw two pig-killing swords over: "Quickly sacrifice to refine your weapons. I really don't understand you. Why do you have the magic weapon of the Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Slaying Sword? You have to use two pig-killing swords as magic weapons? Although the material is really good."

Zuo Xiaoyou held two pig-killing knives and inputted the lightning and magic power in his body into it, and at the same time refined it with heart fire.

This is a necessary step for refining weapons. The cultivation methods and refining weapons in this world are different from the legendary ones. Zuo Xiaoyou studied for eleven years just by studying, and sacrificed these two pig-killing swords for ten years.

However, after his hard work in sacrifice, the two pig-killing swords did not show any signs of transformation of spirits. Fortunately, although there was no transformation of spirits, there was no change.

First of all, the quality of the two pig-killing knives is better, the slashing power is stronger, and it can increase Zuo Xiaoyou's personal single-handed ability.

OK! Actually, it's no big deal.

You can't reach a thousand miles without taking a single step. Zuo Xiaoyou is just stubborn now. Maybe one day in the future, these two pig-killing knives will become spiritual!

After the sacrifice and refining, Zuo Xiaoyou put away the pig-killing knife and said, "Yan Chixia, Ning Caichen said that the court has not been peaceful recently, and many loyal ministers have been sentenced to death by the emperor. What do you think?"

"The country is about to perish. There must be monsters." Yan Chixia's expression became a little serious: "If you don't understand the people's sentiments, he, the emperor, may have been the emperor for a short time."

"It's true." Zuo Xiaoyou sighed: "But it's useless. The treacherous ministers are in power, and many loyal ministers who speak out are put in prison. In order to protect themselves, Ning Caichen has lived like a turtle recently and is very bored."

Nine years ago, Ning Caichen participated in the scientific examination that year. Although he did not win the top scorer, he also took the ranking of Tanhua. Since then, he has been promoted from a local official to a central authority in just nine years. Ning Caichen's rise speed is really weird. Beggars say that the officialdom he knows has never risen faster than Ning Caichen in decades.

It's simply incredible.

Since entering the officialdom, Ning Caichen has gradually shown his versatile side. He has made a lot of powerful people in the officialdom. Even though he accidentally offended someone two years ago, he was still protected by the people behind him. It can be seen that he has a good popularity in the officialdom.

With such convenient conditions, what will happen in the court? Zuo Xiaoyou often gets first-hand news. Now loyal ministers have been killed one after another in the court, which has led to more and more civil and military officials being silent and dare not say a word.

Zuo Xiaoyou knew that there must be problems with such a court, and maybe there would be monsters to do so. Yan Chixia's words seemed to prove this.

"The best way now is to find out the monster around the emperor and kill it." Yan Chixia said.

"It's not that easy." Zuo Xiaoyou said.

"No, of course it's not easy." Yan Chixia said: "But at least it can keep the people in the world safe for a while, and it's worth taking some risks."

"Do you want to go?" Zuo Xiaoyou asked.

"If you go, I will go." Yan Chixia was not fooled.

"Tsk!" Zuo Xiaoyou shook his head: "If something happens, he will be tall, just like you said back then. We little monks like us should take care of ourselves first!"

"Oh!" Seeing Zuo Xiaoyou unmoved, Yan Chixia sighed: "The world is difficult. I will retreat to the world without caring about the world. But I still feel itchy when I heard that there were demons.

"Then you go." Zuo Xiaoyou said: "If you can do it, just do it. If you can't, come to me for help. You will be cheaper."

"Bah! If you can't even handle me, what's the use of finding you?" Yan Chixia was extremely contemptuous.

"Don't provoke me." If Zuo Xiaoyou couldn't even see such a shallow provocation, he wouldn't be Zuo Xiaoyou: "Even if you say it, I won't act with you."

"Why?" Yan Chixia didn't understand.

"Just you said, if you can't handle it, it's useless to come to me again." Zuo Xiaoyou whispered.

Yan Chixia was silent.

After a while, Zuo Xiaoyou stood up, patted the dust under his butt, and asked, "Yan Chixia, can you beat the old demon of Black Mountain?"

"The Old Demon of Black Mountain?" Yan Chixia couldn't keep up with Zuo Xiaoyou's jumping thinking, but she still replied subconsciously: "The Old Demon of Black Mountain is the leader of a bandit in the underworld who occupies the mountain and is the king. She has never fought against her, and I don't know who is more powerful? But I shouldn't be much worse than him."

"That's just that I can't beat it?" Zuo Xiaoyou said.

Yan Chixia shook her head: "I haven't beaten, so I can't speak nonsense."

Yan Chixia's answer somewhat disappointed Zuo Xiaoyou. If Yan Chixia is not sure about facing the Black Mountain Old Demon, then will it be difficult for him to kill the Black Mountain Old Demon when he reaches Yan Chixia's level one day in the future? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!