"You mean to say that if I progress faster than Miss Lingyan within the stipulated period, you will agree to take me as an apprentice?" Wang Yao confirmed.

Wang Li nodded.

Wang Yao secretly thought in his heart that now he at least has a foundation in swordsmanship, which should be stronger than Lingyan, but for the understanding of cultivation methods, Lingyan has obvious advantages. In the long run, the spirit smoke is more dominant, but if it is a time limit, it is really difficult to say.

Therefore, Wang Yao asked again: "How long is the deadline?" What is the criterion for judging? ”

"It's better to return the time Xie Danhua gave to the prince. After getting useful information from Xie Danhua, I will train everyone in a targeted manner. Xie Danhua lent out for a month, so we had a 20-day period. Twenty days later, it's time for you to compete. As for the standard ......," Wang Li thought for a while and said, "It's a simple competition to compete with the strength at that time." ”

"Twenty days?" Wang Yao thought to himself secretly, thinking that if there were only twenty days, the original foundation of the spirit smoke should not have a great advantage, but his own swordsmanship could still be used. So she simply agreed: "A word is a certainty!" ”

"Good!" Wang Li nodded with satisfaction.

"I don't want to compare myself to Miss Yao." Lingyan stood up and said.

Lingyan's reaction surprised Wang Li a little. But his plan couldn't be ruined because of this, so he persuaded Lingyan to say, "You didn't have this style before!" What's more, it's just a competition, so rest assured. ”

Lingyan said, "But I still don't want to compete with Miss Yao. Maybe it's the complete loss of spiritual power during this time, I think ordinary people are not bad, it's better if you can recover your spiritual power, it doesn't matter if you can't recover it. Most of all, I was reluctant to reach out to my companions. ”

Wang Yao was a little happy in his heart, since Lingyan had lost his fighting spirit, his chances of success were even greater. But if Lingyan stubbornly refuses to agree to this matter, Wang Li's promise may be in vain. How can this work?

Therefore, Wang Yao smiled and persuaded Lingyan: "Oh, Lingyan girl, Mr. Wei's purpose is just to let us motivate each other, if you want to open something, just treat it as a game." ”

"Mr. Wei?" Lingyan looked puzzled.

"It's Wang Li!" Wang Yao pointed at Wang Li and said.

Lingyan only then thought that Wang Li had been changed his name. She laughed a little, then said, "Okay, I'll just say yes." ”

"Okay, there's no problem for everyone." Wang Yao said happily, "What are we going to do to prepare?" Where to start practicing? Mr. Wei, hurry up and command. ”

"You don't need to prepare anything, you can start now." Wang Li said, took out a booklet and said, "This is the exercise I have prepared, you and Lingyan are familiar with it first, and then I will teach you how to do it." ”

Wang Yao took the booklet, took the spiritual smoke to find a soft grass, and the two sat together and looked at the exercises in the book.

Wang Li said to Dinkyong at this time: "Keyong, you come with me." ”

Dink said yes and followed Wang Li to the mountain. The mountain is getting steeper and steeper, but Wang Li's feet are getting faster and faster, and Dink Yong followed behind Wang Li, gradually feeling tired, and the steps under his feet gradually became messy.

Wang Li didn't wait for Dink's intention, he just blindly moved forward on his own. This aroused Dink's self-esteem, and he somewhat understood Wang Li's intentions, perhaps testing his strength. Therefore, Dink used his feet to exert force, no longer carefully choosing the place to land, no matter whether it was a protrusion or a shallow pit under his feet, he stepped down step by step, and every step firmly stepped out of a deep footprint, which barely caught up with Wang Li's pace.

The hill was not high, and the two soon reached the top of the mountain. Wang Li stood on the top of the mountain, looking into the distance, and said to Dink, who was standing respectfully behind him; "What's the environment like here?"

Dink replied honestly, "It's desolate." ”

Wang Li nodded, turned back to Dink, and stood. said: "There is no one in the wilderness. It's just the two of us here, so you can safely start doing your exercises and show me them. ”

"Oh." Dink said yes, and immediately stood still, his fists clenched, and his complexion began to change.

"Wait a minute." Wang Li couldn't cry or laugh a little, and he was really anxious about Dink, so he didn't ask anything, and began to demonstrate to himself. But this is also the reason why Wang Li values him.

"Tell me first, who you are learning from and how you learned this skill. The reason why I want you to demonstrate the exercises is because I want to find out how you can practice so that you can improve according to the situation. Wang Li explained.

"That's right." Dink smiled awkwardly and began to tell Wang Li.

Dink used to be a manual labor seller, and wherever someone recruited short-term workers, he would go to wherever he could. When I'm fine, I like to practice some boxing indiscriminately. However, the practice comes and goes, and it is all some ordinary fighting moves, but it has made a good body.

One year, a martial arts hall renovated the house, and Dink went to help. The martial arts master of the martial arts hall liked Dink's honest and honest character very much, and after knowing that Dink liked to practice boxing, he pointed out some mistakes and taught him a set of boxing techniques. After several years of practice, Dink was also successful in boxing, and ordinary martial artists were not his opponents at all, but that's all, there was no trace of progress.

Originally, Dink thought that he would be able to practice martial arts like this. But then an incident happened that opened his eyes.

At that time, although Dink's boxing skills were very powerful, he was reluctant to do the work of caring for others, so he still relied on selling his physical strength to live, working in different homes all day long. At that time, the family he worked for was quite wealthy, and the master made friends with some high-ranking officials.

One day, an old man in tattered clothes begged for water at the door of this house, and was impatiently driven away. Dink happened to see it, and he couldn't bear it, so he stepped forward to persuade him, hoping to give the old man a drink. Unexpectedly, Jia Ding disagreed, and even Ding Keyong was insulted.

Dink refused to be angry, so he brought out a bowl of water for the old man to drink, but was taken down by the family and wanted to take him to see the master. Dink felt that he had done nothing wrong, so he did not resist and went with the family to meet the head of the family.

Unexpectedly, because of the alms of a bowl of water, the head of the family was furious, not only asked the family to lock up Dink, but also ordered the family to take down the old man.

Seeing that the head of the house was a foolish old man, Dink beat up the master and the family members who were holding him violently and walked out of the door. At this time, he saw a magical scene.

The old man in tattered clothes, under the siege of five or six family members, after playing the family members in a hurry, not only did his face not red or panting, but the family members also had blue noses and swollen faces. Dink knew that he had met a strange man, so when the old man finished teasing the family and was about to leave, he hurriedly called out to the old man.

When Dink told the old man that he was going to learn from the old man, the old man laughed and walked away.

This kind of opportunity Dink is willing to give up casually, and he chases the old man, and wherever he goes, Dink will follow him. Afraid that the old man would sneak away, Dink didn't dare to close his eyes for three days, and after wandering with the old man for three days, the old man spoke for the first time.

He told Dink that he had no way to learn his own skills, but for the sake of a bowl of water, he promised Dink that if he could suffer with him for three months, he would teach Dink another skill.

Dink hurriedly promised the old man. The old man took Dink and used it deep into the mountains.

There was no food or clothing, and no tools in the mountains. The old man asked Dink to build a house for himself. Dink used his brute strength to smash small trees with thick bowls with his fists, and it took half a month to build a small cabin for the old man.

This surprised the old man a little. Dink told the old man about his boxing, and the old man asked Dink to play a punch, but he didn't say anything, so he didn't mention it again.

When Dink-yong said this, Wang Li asked Dink-yong with a smile: "Don't you think the old man was playing you at that time?" ”

Dink said embarrassedly: "Actually, I also thought about whether the old man deliberately teased me and wanted me to work for him for nothing." But then I thought that if the old man was testing me, I would have buried the opportunity to study with my own hands. ”

"Admire, admire!"

Wang Li was completely convinced by Dink's statement, and if he was himself, he would never think so. Wang Li still remembers that when he and the old guy were in the mountains, every time the old guy gave Wang Li a problem, Wang Li felt that the old guy was correcting himself, and he would never think that the old guy was exercising himself or testing himself. If it weren't for the fact that Wang Li was young at that time, couldn't beat the old guy, and couldn't run away, he would definitely not stay willingly.

"And what happened then?" Wang Li asked.

Dink went on.

After the hut was built, the old man changed his way every day to let Dink work. Dink was given three meals a day to hunt in the mountains, and he was told to go to the top of another mountain every day to bring back a plant from that mountaintop. There was no road between the two mountains, so Dink had to get up early every day to barely get back before noon to cook for the old man.

After cooking lunch, the old man asked Dink to wash him with a black and shiny stone that had been plated, saying that it was his own treasure, and warned Dink not to lose it. Locations are also designated, and only washes can be done under a waterfall far away.

Dink had no choice but to spend half a day every afternoon, standing under the waterfall, under the huge pressure of the waterfall, and vigorously washing the stone that could not be washed in vain.

What can make Dink difficult, the old man has to send Dink to do. Time passed day by day, and soon two months passed.

This morning, Dink planned to go to the hill again to pick the grass for the old man who did not know what it was for. The old man called out to Dink, telling him not to go.

Then he took out a life-size straw man that Dink had woven from the grass he collected every day, and took Dink to a clearing outside the hut.