The cook didn't say anything, and Zhang Xiaoyu didn't plan to ask more.

It's not the first day he's met the cook, and the chef doesn't want to say anything, and no matter how much he asks, it's useless.

However, since the cook said that he could get the fruit of life for himself, it would not be fake.

As for the process, Zhang Xiaoyu didn't care very much.

I guess the chef has to do something like an assessment.

In the next few days, Zhang Xiaoyu did not rush to cultivate, and the recovery of qi and blood, because there was no calorie conversion, although it was slow, but the heaven and earth yuan power on the cook's side was also strong, and it took a few days to meditate and cultivate, and he could also recover to his peak state.

The cultivation of the Grandmaster Realm is also based on tempering.

In fact, tempering runs through almost the entire process of martial arts cultivation.

The martial arts quenched the limb bones, the warrior realm quenched the torso bones, the warrior realm tempered the flesh and blood, and the war emperor realm tempered the internal organs.

And what the Grandmaster Realm is rough is the spinal cord and bone marrow.

That's right, when a martial artist enters the Grandmaster Realm, in addition to continuing to refine the physical bones, he mainly tempers the spinal cord and bone marrow.

The role of bone marrow is self-evident.

The bone marrow and spinal cord of the human body are the main substances that produce qi and blood, and the main function of refining bone marrow is also to speed up the recovery and production of qi and blood.

Warriors absorb energy from the outside world and eventually store it in their bodies.

Flesh, marrow, and internal organs are all places where energy is stored.

And the refining of bone marrow, the most important thing is to speed up the recovery of qi and blood.

Yuan Li is only a mutated power of the power of qi and blood, and more precisely, it should be an upgraded version of the power of qi and blood.

Qi and blood are the foundation of a warrior.

The Grandmaster Realm is refining the bone marrow, mainly refining the limb bones, the bone marrow in the trunk bones, and the spinal cord.

However, Zhang Xiaoyu has no calories now, and tempering can only be put aside.

The matter of the fruit of life is even more important to him.

For the rest of the day, in addition to familiarizing himself with the divine soldiers, Zhang Xiaoyu studied the refining method of the Golden Jiao Sword every day.

The two divine weapons, the Spirit Slashing Sword have now been successfully refined, and the refining of the Golden Jiao Sword has no clue at all.

In addition, during this time, Zhang Xiaoyu also studied the system carefully.

For now, the main function of the system is to transform and evolve.

The changes brought about by several system upgrades are undoubtedly huge.

The calories collected by the system can be converted into Qi and Blood and Free Attribute Point 4, but other attributes cannot be converted for the time being.

Zhang Xiaoyu is now regarded as a three-cultivator martial artist.

Qi and blood, demonic energy, spiritual power.

Among them, qi and blood are still his main fighting methods, demonic qi is the main means to provide the flame demon to descend into the world, and spiritual power, after he refines this spirit slaying sword, is bound to become his main combat method in the future.

Among these three attributes, qi and blood can be restored indefinitely, as long as he has enough calories.

Demonic energy and spiritual power are different.

Demonic energy can only rely on slow recovery, or absorb the demon cores of some dark attribute demon beasts.

As for mental power, until now, it can only rely on slow recovery, and there is no other way.

However, according to the rules of system upgrades, the next system upgrade should also open a conversion attribute, as for whether it is the conversion of demonic energy or the conversion of spiritual power, it is unknown.

Of course, these are Zhang Xiaoyu's own conjectures.

Zhang Xiaoyu didn't know how to upgrade the system, when to upgrade and what new functions would be opened after the upgrade.

All he can do is try to absorb calories.

As for the ability to upgrade, in addition to using essence points, this thing also needs to devour more advanced monster cores of the same kind.

As of now, it seems that several abilities that Zhang Xiaoyu often uses have been upgraded to level three.

The only one-quality ability, Berserk, is a bit of a frustration.

This ability was obtained after he killed a bloodthirsty demon spider.

Dark attribute monsters are already rare, and it is not so easy to evolve.

In addition to these abilities, the system itself comes with an ability, camouflage.

Although this ability is practical, it consumes too much qi and blood, and Zhang Xiaoyu doesn't use it much.

And so, before I knew it, the time came to mid-January.

In the room, Zhang Xiaoyu, who was fiddling with the divine soldiers, suddenly put away the divine soldiers and walked out the door.

"Teacher, you're here. ”

Outside the door, the cook was not surprised at all.

He had only suspected that Zhang Xiaoyu was a psychic powerhouse, but Zhang Xiaoyu didn't admit it, and he wasn't sure.

Since the last time Zhang Xiaoyu personally told him that the divine weapon was successfully refined, the cook was finally confirmed.

"Are you ready?"

"Prepare what?"

Zhang Xiaoyu looked confused.

You didn't tell me to prepare.

"Didn't you want a life fruit last time? Now I'll give you this chance, you only need to defeat a few challengers from the Shi family, and the life fruit will naturally be given by someone with both hands. ”

The chef rarely looked solemn.

"Challenger?"

Zhang Xiaoyu paused for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Teacher, is it someone else who challenges me, or am I going to challenge someone else?"

The cook was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Is there a difference?"

"Of course, there is a difference, if someone else comes to challenge me, I have a valid reason to fight back, and if I challenge others, it is nothing to look for, and it belongs to the headache and hit with a stick.

The teacher asked me to challenge the people of the Shi family, and there must be a reason.

Of course, it doesn't matter to me, I'm for the fruit of life.

But what about the teacher's reason?"

The cook was a little surprised.

He understood, Zhang Xiaoyu was a general.

It's okay for you to let me fight, but you have to give me a reason.

"There are some things that I don't mind telling you if you want to know. ”

The cook chuckled lightly and continued to speak: "It's similar to what you think, it's my own meaning to let you challenge the Shi family, if you say it well, it's called proving yourself, and if you don't say it's good, it's called revenge." ”

"Revenge?"

Hearing this word, Zhang Xiaoyu suddenly thought of the cook's life experience.

The cook comes from the Shi family, which is from the six major families, and he has known this for a long time.

At the beginning of the secret realm trial, it can be seen from the chef's attitude towards the Shi family that the cook has hatred in his heart.

What does he hate?

Kicked out by the Shi family?

Violation of the clan order?

Or is it for some other reason?

Zhang Xiaoyu's heart was full of thoughts for a while.

The cook said that several of his students died tragically, whether this is also related to the Shi family.

Was it because of the challenge that he was killed?

"You don't have to think about it, what do you want to know, I can tell you directly. ”

The cook looked at Zhang Xiaoyu's thoughtful appearance, probably thinking a little funny.

At the beginning, he accepted Zhang Xiaoyu as a student, and he also fell in love with the other party's qualifications.

In the martial apprenticeship period, you can complete ten bone quenching, and there are not many such martial artists.

Quenching bones is not just about having resources to support it.

How difficult it is to quench the bones, how can the cook, as a martial artist, not know.

How many family disciples have sufficient resources and enough expert Dharma protection guidance, but they still can't complete the perfect bone quenching.

Is it because they are not talented?

Not.

The real reason is that they can't withstand the torment and loneliness caused by quenching their bones.

But Zhang Xiaoyu did it.

Such a young man from an ordinary family background, with no backstage, no resources, and even no high-level martial artist to guide him, still completed ten bone quenching.

Therefore, when the cook saw Zhang Xiaoyu for the first time, he decided to accept the other party as a disciple.

In less than a year, Zhang Xiaoyu gave him too many shocks and surprises.

Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and the cook began to talk slowly about his experience.

Zhang Xiaoyu listened carefully, and until the cook finished speaking, he couldn't help but sigh.

The cook, too, is a poor man.

Poor man hurt by love.

"So the teacher went this time to let me challenge all the Grandmaster Realm martial artists of the Shi family?"

"You don't have to do it all, just challenge a few symbolic ones.

Actually, according to my original plan, it was for you to challenge some of the geniuses of the Buddha.

But I didn't expect you to advance so quickly, and in less than a year, you have already advanced to the Grandmaster realm. ”

The cook said this, and smiled helplessly.

Indeed, his original plan was not like this.

Although he also took a fancy to Zhang Xiaoyu's qualifications at the beginning, according to his expected thoughts, Zhang Xiaoyu could only fight in the general realm at most.

Therefore, the chef's original idea was to let Zhang Xiaoyu challenge the warriors of the Shi family.

When Zhang Xiaoyu was first cultivated, the cook always emphasized a cultivation direction, and he was invincible at the same level.

He just wanted to let the Shi family see that the disciples he had cultivated were no worse than the geniuses of their Shi family.

However, what he didn't expect was that Zhang Xiaoyu not only completed his goal ahead of schedule, but now he has the same cultivation as him.

In this way, you can only challenge those old guys when the time comes.

"Teacher, I have a question. ”

Zhang Xiaoyu paused for a moment and continued to speak: "Let's go to the Shi family to challenge like this, we won't be killed." ”

Zhang Xiaoyu was really worried.

The six families are not as simple as they seem.

According to what Jiang Nan said at the beginning, among the six major families, there are no longer a few martial artists in the Grandmaster Realm, and there is more than one martial artist in the God of War Realm.

In case they challenge, the other party's ancestor was angry and slapped himself to death, and there was no place to reason.

He doesn't have a backstage.

The cook is also a member of the Shi family, and if the Shi family is really angry, there is a high probability that he will still take the knife himself.

And Wuda, whether there is a God of War realm martial artist, Zhang Xiaoyu doesn't know.

Even if there is, the probability of giving yourself a head is not great.

Life is your own, and if you lose it, you will be gone.

"Don't worry about this, the six major families still have the arrogance of the six major families, and this challenge is not for the two of us, you will know the details then." ”

"Since the teacher said so, I won't ask, when will we leave?"

"The day after tomorrow, I still have some things to deal with. ”

The challenge was finalized, and the cook didn't say anything more to Zhang Xiaoyu.

January 18th.

The two set off for Shi's house.

Zhang Xiaoyu thought that the six major families were all located in the Jiangnan area.

However, after flying with the cook for a day, he learned that the Shi family was not in the Jiangnan area, but in Songshan.

Songshan Shaolin Temple.

Zhang Xiaoyu thought of a name.

However, this is what he said in his previous life, and this world may be different.

The facts are the same as Zhang Xiaoyu thought.

When the two arrived at Songshan, the cook did not go up, but stood at the foot of the mountain and waited.

Zhang Xiaoyu took a look, I don't know if it was because of the weather or because of other reasons, the entire Songshan Mountain was wrapped in a layer of clouds and mist.

Through the clouds, there is hardly anything to see.

The cook didn't mean to go up, and Zhang Xiaoyu was not in a hurry, so he waited in place.

A moment later, Zhang Xiaoyu glanced at the clouds.

At this moment, two young men in cloth clothes walked out of the clouds.

"Uncle Shi. ”

The two of them came out, looked Zhang Xiaoyu up and down, quickly turned their gaze to the cook, and then bowed and called Uncle Shi.

"I have long been expelled from the family, and the name of my uncle is a little unworthy. ”

The cook opened his eyes with a look of indifference.

"Uncle Shi, don't say that, since you left, the patriarch has always been very guilty, and for so many years, he has often mentioned you.

Uncle Shi can come back at any time if he wants. ”

The two of them didn't know what to do with the cook, and although the cook was unusually indifferent, the two didn't care at all.

"When I was still in the clan in the past, you two were just children, and in a blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, and you have grown up.

For me, the Shijia family is in the past, and I am now a teacher at Jiangnan Wuhan University.

This time I didn't come to settle old grievances.

It's just that there are some things that have to be done.

By the way, this is my student, Zhang Xiaoyu. ”

The cook said, pointing at Zhang Xiaoyu.

The two nodded, but they seemed very indifferent to Zhang Xiaoyu.

"The purpose of Uncle Shi's visit this time, we naturally heard about it, and the patriarch specially arranged for the two of us to wait for Uncle Shi here. ”

"Are the people from the Martial Arts Alliance here?"

"It's coming. ”

"Alright, let's go. ”

The cook nodded, motioning for the two to lead the way.

The two of them wanted to say something, but seeing the chef's resolute attitude, they stopped being verbose, made a gesture of please, and walked forward.

A group of four people quickly disappeared into the clouds.

Walking into the clouds, what appeared in front of the four people was a plank road.

The plank road is winding, and there is no end in sight, and at the end, it is flooded by clouds and mist, and it is blurred.

Zhang Xiaoyu wanted to release his spiritual power to sense, but he felt that something was wrong, so he followed the cook and walked up the plank road.

Several of them are martial artists, so naturally the speed will not be slow.

Soon, at the end of the plank road, a huge mountain gate stood out.

In front of the mountain gate, there were several old men and dozens of young people.

At this moment, these people were also a little curious when they saw the cook and Zhang Xiaoyu walking up.

Zhang Xiaoyu's eyes swept across the crowd and couldn't help but be stunned.

In this group of people, he saw an acquaintance, it was really the martial artist of the Martial Arts Alliance known as Zhao Lao.

At this moment, this person obviously saw Zhang Xiaoyu as well, but there was no surprise, he just smiled faintly, which was regarded as a greeting.

"Senior brother, I haven't seen you for many years, don't come unharmed. ”

One of them, an old man dressed in a pale yellow cloth coat, stepped forward and spoke.

"I won't say much nonsense, the purpose of my coming today, I think everyone in the Martial Arts Alliance has already said it.

In the past, the grievances between me and the Shi family have been written off after today.

I'm not here today to ask for trouble, but to prove it to the Buddha.

This is my disciple, and my last disciple, today, he will challenge the Grandmaster Realm Martial Artist of the Buddha Family. ”

As soon as these words came out, the audience was in an uproar.