chinese白袜调教篮球奴

Chapter 155

Even though the lowest-ranking Demoniacs were very expensive specimens, they could be easily obtained with the right amount of money. Meeting someone as powerful as Leonard, however, was not an every-day occurrence, so Meliora and Calantha were more interested in Leonard’s power.

With enthusiastic assistance from Meliora, Leonard was able to fight a few more Demoniacs.

Rrrrrip...! Leonard used the Demon Felling Divine Sword, a sword art he had found rotting in the archives of the Potala Palace. As it let out its light, it scorched the black, tar-like blood.

This was a blood Demoniac. Like the lump of flesh Leonard had killed before, it was the weakest of the Demoniacs. It was also amorphous, but the way it fought was even more fascinating than its counterpart. Each drop of blood was deadly poison, and even spread disease.

Who knew it would compress itself and spray out with such force? Someone facing it for the first time might be defeated in a futile attempt.

The spray that shot out with high pressure was as sharp as an aura, and it was also incredibly fast. An External Force Tier martial artist would have trouble dealing with it. If they were fighting an early-stage blood Demoniac, they could likely dodge and block somehow, but if they were fighting a middle-stage one and couldn’t predict its movements, they would die on the spot.

Because of the properties of blood, these creatures were weaker to cold and heat than the lumps of flesh were, but there were cases when they were notably more dangerous because they could disguise themselves as bloodstains and ambush someone.

A fully developed blood Demoniac can turn into mist like a vampire. If someone breathes it in, the monster can tear them apart from the inside.

Truly, there was no better name for their homeland than “Demonic Realm.” It was a world teeming with monsters who were natural killers. Considering their ferocity, it was the highest priority out of all of Cardenas’s battlegrounds.

The sword energy of the Demon Felling Divine Sword completely vaporized the Demoniac. Now that he’d tested out plenty of martial arts, Leonard closed his eyes.

“...As I thought, Buddhist martial arts are more effective than Daoist ones.” He didn’t have to test it to know this, but after killing a few Demoniacs, he confirmed his suspicions.

Now that he thought about it, it was obvious. Since the olden days, Na Han-Seung, the master martial artist who represented the Shaolin, as well as the Four Vajras, was famous for being the fated enemy of Horse-Face. Countless heroic tales were passed down that told of the abbot’s Arhat Divine Fist being overpowered by Horse-Face’s Bare-Handed Demon Art or of the demon’s White Bone Claws bending to the Bodhi Jade Dragon Seal.

Though Horse-Face was fearful of martial artists from Daoist sects, he wasn’t scared of the sects or the martial arts themselves. Rather, he mostly evaded them because they were the strongest martial artists of that time. In other words, the martial arts themselves weren’t the cause of the hostility between them.

Daoist martial arts should still be very effective on Demoniacs, but it’s a shame I won’t be able to teach them many Buddhist methods.

If the Cardenas family’s best fighters trained in hidden cultivation methods like the Dharma Three Swords Art, the Order of the Black Dragon would be able to not only defend their base but also go beyond that and perhaps attack the Demoniacs’ headquarters.

Though of course, Leonard never learned the Dharma Three Swords Art either, so it was just a pipe dream.

And most importantly, it would be too hard to teach them Buddhist martial arts.

Buddhism was different from Daoism, which was based on the principles regarding nature and the world. The goal of Buddhism was to overcome life’s sufferings and personal anguish, and it was centered on concepts such as emptiness and the Five Aggregates. On a fundamental level, the religious undertones of Buddhist teachings were too strong. They weren’t something that could be taught in a world where Buddha didn’t even exist, and Leonard himself wasn’t a Buddhist in the first place.

The most he could do was teach them a few sutras from cultivation methods and a few forms. Were he a superhuman with the talents of a Grandmaster, he would be able to come up with new martial arts on the spot, but while Leonard was a good learner, he didn’t have a knack for making new ones.

“Leonard!” Just then, Meliora called out to him. While he’d been going through several experiments, she’d gotten a little closer. “I’m going to release a bone Demoniac now. Are you sure you’ll be okay?”

Bone Demoniacs were considered a commoner class, not a slave one. They were on a different level from the ones born from blood and flesh, which were the ones he’d been fighting.

Unlike the weakest Demoniacs, which had to go through ten whole evolutions to overpower a Transcendence Tier martial artist, these only had to evolve three or four times from the lowest level to be a threat to them.

And yet Leonard nodded.

“It’s all right. Let’s get started.”

“...I swear, he’s not afraid of anything,” Meliora said, dumbfounded by his attitude.

She released the binds on the monster. Unlike the lowest-ranking ones, which had been locked inside glass cases, the bone Demoniac was being held with an extensive amount of restraints. As soon as Meliora dropped it from the ceiling of the testing chamber, it fell right to the ground.

Leonard made a visual estimation of its size as he drew his sword. Its entire body was made of bone as white as a tusk.

Slam. A heavy sound shook the room, and the monster immediately began to move. It had probably been confined for a long time. But Leonard could only focus on how aware it was.

Is it trying to assess its surroundings? It’s quite smart.

The blood and flesh Demoniacs moved based purely on instinct, but the bone Demoniac was thinking first.

The boy noted the sign of intelligence and swung his sword.

Five Elements Style

White Tiger First Form: Mountain Crusher

His blade flared with regular sword energy, not augmented energy, as it struck the bone Demoniac. Mountain Crusher was a heavy sword art meant to break instead of slash, crush instead of cut.

Claaaang—!

A shockwave exploded from the point where bone met sword, but the result was obvious. The Five Elements Sword Qi bounced off the surface and didn’t even leave a scratch, let alone a crack.

Leonard clicked his tongue when he felt the force rebound to his wrists. That was enough power to break steel, but it didn’t even have to try to block it. Its defensive capabilities are more like a Vajra Physique than an immunity to swords and sabers.

The only way to wound it was with augmented energy.

While Leonard was trying to process how resilient it was, the consciousness deep within the bone Demoniac began to awaken. A blood-red light blazed from a cavity resembling an eye socket.

Creak! A chilling, grating sound came from the monster, and the real fight began.

Though Leonard didn’t recognize the beast, the Demoniac had shifted into the form of a rhino and charged. It rammed into him. It weighed over a thousand pounds, and the only way to bear that much weight was through pure strength.

But the soft overcame the hard, and Leonard blocked the attack.

He caught the horns with the flat of his blade and took half a step back. The monster couldn’t control its force and tumbled to the ground.

Boooom—! The floor shook from its enormous weight. As soon as the bone Demoniac hit the ground, it shifted into a bipedal being similar to a troll.

It transformed so fast that it was hard to hit the opening. Not only did it have the defensive power of a Vajra Physique, but it also had the power to shapeshift and nimbly adapt to any situation. It was completely different from the weakest Demoniacs, who had obvious weaknesses.

Shing. The blue augmented energy enveloping Leonard’s sword blazed into cerulean.

Regular sword energy wouldn’t work.

He amplified the power by several times, and his sword shot out like a flash of lightning.

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Azure Dragon First Form: Thundershock

He carved a deep cut into the monster’s skull, so fast that it couldn’t even react. If there was a brain, it would have been crushed, but its form was only an imitation.

Kreeee! The monster rushed in, not even bothered by its fractured head.

Does it not have any kind of vital point? It doesn’t seem like it has a core either.

It seemed to have a lot of fighting experience, because it displayed impressive form as it went through a sequence of punches and kicks.

And it wasn’t just limited to hand-to-hand contact.

Whenever it saw an opening, it fought with the form of a four-legged predator, and it also shifted to a lengthy form that resembled a serpent and tried to body-slam him. Seeing how it only kept trying to attack, that meant it had faith in its own defenses.

I can’t cut through it with one swing of augmented sword energy, and it also heals fast.

The stab wound he’d made had healed before he knew it.

It was annoying.

Rather than being strong or dangerous, the Demoniac seemed more like a creature meant to keep its opponent engaged. One needed to use a proper technique to kill it, but on a battlefield, even though they were Demoniacs, these monsters were only considered common soldiers.

Leonard was starting to understand why the Order of the Black Dragon was so obsessed with “efficiency.”

“I should put an end to it soon.”

After a few minutes of studying the creature through combat, he shifted the movement of his sword and the flow of his mana.

Among the martial arts that he was learning, there was only one technique with sufficient amounts of both destructive and demon-felling power.

Skanda’s Demon Felling Sword.

It was a martial art that melded teachings from Buddhism and Daoism.

Kreee! Kree!

The skeleton stopped, feeling a strange sense of revulsion to Leonard’s sword. It felt fear for the first time as it froze in place.

But it didn’t even get the chance to run or react.

Skanda’s Demon Felling Sword

Severing Technique

Demon’s Death by a Thousand Cuts

The bluish, blazing sword accelerated several times in a single moment, cutting through the bone Demoniac and spraying its remains in all directions.

A swift sword art that killed in an instant.

This was one of Skanda’s Demon Felling Sword’s forms, and it would shred demons into tatters through a thousand cuts.

Srrrr...

Surprisingly, Skanda’s Demon Felling Sword easily cut through the bone Demoniac’s defenses, and it even seemed to nullify its shapeshifting abilities. The Demoniac crumbled to dust.

Even the Black Dragon’s veterans would be astonished if they saw. Unlike blood and flesh Demoniacs, which could be defeated with artifacts imbued with heat and cold, bone Demoniacs were exhausting to fight for multiple reasons, one of which was the fact that they didn’t even have any elemental weaknesses.

They were truly shocked.

“Ah. How interesting.”

As a voice suddenly came from behind him, Leonard’s instincts reacted before his reason did.

The tension of the battle hadn’t worn off yet, and the presence behind him was too staggeringly powerful. He used an Ultimate Secret Technique, unable to control himself.

One Origin Five Elements Sword Art

Five Elements Style

Ultimate Secret Technique: Azure Dragon’s Flash

The swift sword art came down on the person behind him with enough force to kill someone below the Demigod Tier with one blow.

He couldn’t stop himself if he wanted to.

“And your skill with the sword is very impressive.”

Azure Dragon’s Flash was stopped by a long, pale finger. The sword strike crackled with lightning, but it was no use.

Leonard’s dragon eyes finally saw the woman.

She’s at the Demigod Tier?!

Despite the woman appearing to be in her early to mid-twenties, the amount of power lurking inside her was terrifying.

Every part of her was alluring. She had a beautiful, elegant face like a noblewoman and a long, striking scar that ran down her face. Contrasting with the glaive strapped to her back, she had a lean, nimble build.

He immediately learned who she was.

“C-Commander?” Meliora squeaked in spite of herself. The commander of the Black Dragon Knights didn’t even glance at her as she flicked her finger.

Clang! As the sword stopped by her finger flew in the opposite direction, Leonard was thrown far back. He tried to stabilize his internal energy in the same instance.

If the woman had ill intentions, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if all his organs had been ruptured. If she could stop Azure Dragon’s Flash so easily, she’d basically already won.

“...I greet the Black Dragon Commander, Dame Audrey.”

She responded to his greeting with still eyes and was silent for a moment. The rest of her face was as expressionless as a statue, but her eyes were teeming with vitality.

“I understand now why Demian has been so unruly lately.” Her voice was neither high nor low.

She had been vexed by Leonard’s unprecedented admittance to the Order of the White Dragon, of course, but she was even more irked when she heard that Demian would bring the boy to this mission.

But after witnessing his skill, she forgot all that.

Glory and riches meant little to the Cardenas’ powerful commanders. There was only one thing they thirsted after.

Gifted people.

“Meliora,” she said.

“Yes? O-Oh, yes!”

“Contact the White Dragon Knights and summon Demian here. If he asks the reason, tell him my exact words: the boy shall be mine.”