The Unemployed Demon Lord

The next day, Alice was taken by Claudia to the top of a mountain near Wrexham.

Clodia turned her back to Alice, looking at the small town of Wrexham down the mountain.

Alice looked at the teacher's back and felt the icy cold wind.

I don't know if it's cold on the top of the mountain, or it's coming from the teacher?

Alice was a little timid, and shrank her neck, "Teacher! I have already learned all the swordsmanship of Daxue Mountain, so you don't need to teach me anymore. It's too cold here. I... went back?"

"It's all here, are you still thinking of retreating? What a useless student..." Clodia turned around and slowly pulled out her sword. It was about three feet long, and the whole body was like waves reflected in autumn water. Gloss, although I don't know the material, but it is definitely not below the rare quality from a distance.

"Come on, draw your sword, Alice."

"I want you to know how stupid it is to go down the mountain..."

Volume 19 Snow Mountain Sword Master and True Extreme Ice Sword Art [-] Mysterious Oriental Sword Art

Alice coughed up a mouthful of blood, was beaten upside down, and the rapier fell to the ground.

She looked behind her, and there was a cliff below. A few stones fell, and there was no echo? !

Alice's face paled for a while, and she turned her head and stared at the teacher Claudia in disbelief, wondering if this was training herself?This is wanting his own life every minute!

In just a few rounds, Alice was beaten all over by Claudia, talking about training, but the damage done to Alice was ten times more severe than that of Noah!

Alice must concentrate on it, and if she is a little distracted, she may die under the teacher's sword.

This made Alice feel more pressured, always feeling that the teacher didn't like her and wanted to kill herself.

"Teacher...that's enough! Are you...training me? How can there be a teacher like you!!"

"Relax to you? Hmph!" Clodia came up with a sword and said coldly, "I think I was too relaxed with you before, which caused you to neglect the sword skills of Daxueshan. You are no longer a child, I will not Be kind to you!"

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Alice stood up dragging her bruised body, not wanting to accept the teacher's special training at all.

But Alice had an idea, her eyes became serious, and she said righteously.

"It's getting late, Chris must be hungry, I'm going back to breastfeed, teacher, if you want to stay here by yourself, just stay here by yourself."

"Don't make me laugh, on your barren land, there is no milk in your dreams..." Clodia couldn't help splashing cold water on it.

"Teacher!!" Alice gritted her teeth angrily, feeling that this was the greatest insult to her mother!

"Are you angry? It's just a girl..." Clodia sarcastically picked up the bright chant on the ground and said meaningfully, "There are many hidden swords under my bed, but you chose this one ? I have to say, it is very destined for you..."

"Ah???" Alice frowned, not understanding what the teacher said.

Claudia threw the thin sword Bright Aria in front of Alice, and put on a stance again, "Pick up the sword Alice! It's just a little skin trauma and you can't stop complaining. You've been outside for two years, and that's all you can do?"

Alice was full of resentment at Claudia's "skin trauma", which is called skin trauma?I feel like my bones are almost broken!

She couldn't figure out why she couldn't beat Claudia even though she had surpassed the holy rank.

Alice picked up the sword, resisted the pressure, and said bravely.

"Teacher, I don't want to fight with you anymore, I can't fight anyway! Do you think it's funny to keep bullying me?"

"Ha, are you finally willing to admit the truth? My stupid student." Claudia said with a dry smile, "Didn't you feel that you are very powerful when we first met? You want to use force to bombard me..."

"Damn..." Alice gritted her silver teeth, feeling that the teacher not only destroyed her body, but also her spirit.

"Alice, do you know why you can't defeat me?" Claudia suddenly became more serious.

"You...you have been hiding your true strength from me, right? It's not as simple as a holy rank!" Alice said angrily.

"No...my strength is a genuine holy rank, and it is a fact that I am not as good as you." Clodia said with a half-smile.

"Ah?" Alice couldn't understand, so after surpassing the holy rank, she was no match for the holy rank?What's the point? ?

"You made a serious mistake in your practice, Alice, if you stay in Daxue Mountain honestly, I will definitely not let you break through the holy rank, but will keep you in this realm forever." Claudia sighed He said slowly, "But it's too late to say anything now, without me by your side, you still took that step and crossed the threshold of the sect without authorization."

"What do you mean? I'm constantly getting stronger. Is there something wrong with that?" Alice said incomprehensibly.

"The holy rank is the end point of many people's hard work in their lives, and the clan realm is a field that very few lucky people can step into. Many people call the process from the holy rank to the clan realm a shackle that restricts themselves. This is wrong." Loudia said softly with a teacher's attitude, hoping that Alice would know how big a mistake she had made.

"No...can't you?" Alice was surprised, feeling that the teacher was talking about an area she had never heard of.

"Although the process from the holy rank to the sect realm is extremely difficult, it is by no means a shackle. Think about it carefully, and make reasonable use of this will be a boost on the road of cultivation." Clodia paused, and gave an example seriously Said, "People's practice is a process of continuously accumulating strength, just like blowing up a balloon. The more strength you accumulate, the more the balloon will inflate, and it will explode after a certain level. This is a breakthrough in the limit of strength."

"...". Alice frowned, feeling as if she had heard a new interpretation of practice.

"The limit of strength is the balloon itself. If you break through without accumulating enough strength, it's like a deflated balloon. It won't make much noise." Clodia looked at Alice and said patiently, "You Think about it for yourself, if you suppress and continuously accumulate your own strength in the process of breaking through the holy rank, and finally let the balloon of the strength limit have to explode, will the power you have obtained now be comparable to breaking through the holy rank casually?"

"Uh!" Alice suddenly realized that a balloon that had collided countless times exploded in her mind, disrupting her understanding of practice.

"A person who has accumulated a huge amount of power and broke through to the sect realm has a solid foundation, his magic power is as solid as a rock, and he is stronger than ordinary people in the sect realm. You have wasted an opportunity to lay a good foundation, Alice." Claudie Arden paused, and said with a smile, "To be honest, I was able to break through the holy rank at the age of twenty-seven, not as good as the Zongjing realm, but I didn't break through rashly. Instead, I suppressed and accumulated strength to this day."

"So it's like this..." Alice finally understood and felt that she had made a mistake in her practice. Many people desperately wanted to break through the shackles of the holy rank and enter the sect realm, but they didn't expect that this shackle was to lay a solid foundation. Chance! "

"You should now understand that your sect's strength cannot defeat me, right? If I break the shackles of the holy rank and burst out the strength accumulated for decades, then you will be even more desperate." Clodia smiled Say.

"..." Alice was frustrated in her heart. She always felt that she had surpassed the teacher, and it was only at this moment that she barely recognized the reality.

"Alice, look up, don't be discouraged, even if you miss the opportunity to lay the foundation, you still have the opportunity to make up for it." Clodia looked at Alice and said slowly.

"The swordsmanship of Daxue Mountain has been passed down in the far and mysterious east."

"When I was a child, I met an old man with white hair and youthful face by chance, and learned a unique swordsmanship from there."

"The old man has a different knowledge about body training, which can lay a good foundation for people and integrate with the world."

"The two major power systems in the world, magic power and grudge, are not called by that name in the mouth of that gentleman, but called Qi and God."

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"Qi and God?" Alice heard this inexplicable name for the first time.

"Qi refines the body, spirit refines the soul, all things are strengthened by the power that can overwhelm the world, that old gentleman taught me this way, which overturned my understanding of cultivation when I was a child." Clodia paused and emphasized , "We usually keep breaking through the boundaries in order to improve our own strength, but we have thought about making good use of the strength boundaries to suppress ourselves. If I hadn't met that old gentleman, I'm afraid I would never know this secret, but someone is Discovering this secret without guidance, I have to say that is a genius..."

"That... what you said is true?" Alice asked suspiciously. After all, when I was a child, I always felt psychedelic when I met a mysterious old man or something?

"Of course, I will teach you the real Daxueshan extreme ice swordsmanship, and improve your foundation in the confrontation." Clodia raised the three-foot long sword in her hand and said seriously, "You are human, not Dragon, Alice, don't always rely on the power of the dragon clan to crush and win, it will make you lose yourself. The broad and profound swordsmanship is a killing skill shared by humans and gods since the beginning of the world. It is far more powerful than violent power. ..."

After listening to Claudia's teaching, Alice finally chose not to back away, but also raised her sword, "Please, teacher!"

In the mountains away from the dense towns, there is a large waterfall of Maghemer.

It is sparsely populated, with few towns around, and only a few small villages.

Most of the people who come here are hunting, and they rarely get close to the waterfalls in the mountains.

However, the old president Taylor, who has disappeared for a long time, and his son Carl are here to practice secretly.

Old Taylor got a sliver of inspiration from Merlin's drawing sword and slashing, and integrated it into his family's thunder fighting technique to improve it and create the thunder hand knife technique.

Relying on the power to kill everything, he made his debut in the battle against Merlin's subordinates. This made the old Taylor very proud, and decided to continue to study and teach it to his son Carl.

Originally, the Taylor family's thunderous fighting technique was known as "quick and violent", but after it evolved into the thunderous hand knife technique, its destructive power was ten times stronger, and its power even surpassed that of holy martial arts.

So old Taylor attaches great importance to this new martial skill, and the adventurer competition is coming soon. He hopes that after his son Karl learns it, he can defeat a strong enemy in the competition.

The water of the waterfall seemed to fall from the sky, falling violently, making a deafening sound of "rumbling"—Carl stood shirtless under the waterfall, bearing the huge pressure of the water "hitting" on his body, majestic and motionless.

He closed his eyes, and the blood all over his body was secretly agitated, making his skin flushed red, as if he had entered a certain state.

Old Taylor leaned on a cane and stood on the stone of the waterfall below, staring at Carl deeply, as if expecting something?

Suddenly, Karl opened his eyes angrily, his golden grudge was filled with anger, and he pointed at Cheng Li to slash the waterfall in front of him with all his strength, "Drink!"

With a loud shout, the waterfall seemed to be cut by a sharp blade, and it was directly divided into two and cut off at the middle!

This strange scene, seemingly spectacular, only lasted for a second, and it was fleeting.

Carl was overjoyed, rolled up his wet hair, and shouted triumphantly to his father, "How is it? I learned it! Doesn't it look so difficult?"

"Hmph, it's too far away..." Old Taylor shook his head, feeling that Karl hadn't practiced enough to cut off the waterfall. people hit?"

"It's not that exaggerated, is it? I know those old opponents very well, and my current strength is enough to defeat them!" Carl said confidently.

"Don't take it too easy, our goal is not the top [-], but the championship." Old Taylor paused, and whispered, "Four years ago, only you and Ralph competed. Although Ralph passed away, Our guild still welcomes two strong supporters, Merlin and Alice, we are stronger than last time, this time we only got the top [-], isn’t it a waste of strong support?”

"..." Carl hesitated to speak, thinking of Ralph as a comrade in arms, he still felt a little depressed.

"Carl, you are my son. It is up to you whether you can carry forward your family's martial arts in the future." Old Taylor said earnestly.

"I know, I've heard this sentence countless times." Carl said impatiently.

"I have personally experienced the power of Merlin. To be honest, it is too strong. I have never seen such a terrifying killing spirit in my life. I can hardly imagine anyone who can survive such an attack. There are many things in him. It's worth learning." Old Taylor said seriously.

"Yeah, I used to think that drawing a knife was a sword skill that was not useful, but Merlin subverted my three views. What method can I use to practice drawing a knife so proficiently?" Karl reluctantly said. I can't help but sigh.

"And Alice, she has made rapid progress in a very short period of time. I think...she has stepped into a field that I have never been able to reach in my life." Old Taylor sighed deeply.

"Really?" Carl was taken aback, and looked at his hand, "Actually, I also feel that I have encountered a bottleneck recently, as if something is blocking my improvement in strength?"

"Carl, you are not old yet. You still have a chance. Maybe in your lifetime, you can successfully surpass the holy rank. This is also the first person in our family's history." Old Taylor encouraged.

"Don't worry, old man, I will try my best." Carl smiled, and changed the subject, "Merlin and Alice are both so powerful, I can't fall behind. If I let them steal the limelight, my senior will have a bit of a face." Can't hang on?"

"Haha, Merlin is sure to be a blockbuster in this competition. Maybe the judges at the headquarters will be shocked and let them reflect on the current adventurer rating system. It is not in vain that I have hidden Merlin for so long. It is time Let everyone look at us in Wrexham with admiration." Old Taylor paused and continued, "It is indeed too one-sided to judge the strength of an adventurer based entirely on magic power and fighting spirit strength, and there will be an unfair situation like Merlin. In the past, I didn't believe that anyone would waste time on useless martial skills, but now it seems that there are still some, and they have been practiced to an unbelievable level."

"I always feel that if Merlin is here, the championship is already in the bag. There is no need for me to fight so hard now." Carl sighed silently.

"Don't have such thoughts. This competition is not as easy as imagined. To be on the safe side, we can't rely on Merlin and Alice." Old Taylor said with some worry.

"What? Could it be that there are still worrying opponents in this competition?" Karl asked in surprise.

"I'm an old acquaintance with the president of London, Gregory. He is very confident this time, and he will only send one ginseng..." Old Taylor raised his head and said slowly—"The mithril adventurer named Alia , is the successor of the guild carefully cultivated by Gregory."

"I heard."

"Like Alice, it is also a humanoid dragon, and its strength should not be underestimated."

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"Humanoid dragon?" Carl was stunned, and asked in surprise, "Could it be that he can become a ferocious dragon just like Alice?"

"Well, that's right, I heard that's the case, but I don't know how an old guy like Gregory was cultivated." Old Taylor lowered his head and said seriously, "That old bastard is very deep and full of confidence. Sending a rookie to the competition must be an opponent that cannot be dealt with, so we must be more careful."