The Archangel of Death - Chapter 314

314: Training 314: Training Chapter 314 “Wrong!” Tae Yong yelled as she fixed Asmara’s stance for a hundredth time.

She was good enough than a talented swordsman but even she couldn’t grasp the essence of the demonic sword.

“I ran out of mana,” Asmara replied, her power output decreased and her breath rattled.

“So you’re bound by your power?” Tae Yong remarked before she asked, “Is that a well-used excuse in your land?

Because it doesn’t work here.” “It-It is not an excuse.

I cannot convert mana to aura if I do not have any.” Asmara replied.

“So you mean to say everyone on your land has that problem?” Tae Yong asked.

“Yes,” Asmara replied.

“Mmmm…” Tae Yong pondered for a while before she said, “It seems like I know what to teach you.

Throw your sword away.” Asmara didn’t ask why.

She did as she was asked.

Tae Yong pulled out her own sword and threw it on the ground.

“Pick it up.” Asmara didn’t know what it was about but she did so.

She grabbed the sword and… “Argh!!” A massive pain assaulted her as she touched the sword.

As soon as she did, she was thrown back into the wall of the training room, her insides as if burning and completely rattled.

She hurriedly pulled out a red pill and ate it.

Her pain lessened in almost an instant and her injuries began to heal.

“Interesting elixir,” Tae Yong remarked before she added, “When you touched the sword, what did you feel?” “It rejected me,” Asmara replied after she was well enough to reply.

“It did.” Tae Yong replied before she asked, “Do you know why?” “Because it is bound to you,” Asmara replied.

“No, it isn’t,” Tae Yong said before she stepped forward and picked up the sword, swung it around before she added, “This sword has been in my sect for generations.

Every sect master inherits it once they take the throne.

And with that, they are taught a secret technique to wield the sword.

Anyone can do so.

They just don’t know how to.” Asmara remained quiet because she knew there was more to come.

Tae Yong wouldn’t be telling her that if it was something secret which meant it was something else.

“You’re thinking right.

I’m not going to teach you how to use this sword.

What I’m going to teach you is to communicate with the sword.

In my land, it is called the sword intent.” Tae Yong replied.

“Sword… intent…” Asmara muttered the words, as if not understanding their essence.

“That’s right.

Becoming one with the sword.

That is called sword intent.

Your actions, your thoughts, your entire being becomes so sharp that you can cut anything and everything with just a thought, a gaze, or even by doing a simple action of waving your hand.” Tae Yong waved her hand to her left while she said so, cutting a wooden rack with weapons in it in half.

Asmara stared at it with her mouth open.

She couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

She was sure Tae Yong didn’t use anything special in that move.

It was something else entirely.

“This is called sword intent.

Becoming one with the weapon and the becoming the weapon itself.

No matter how weak one is, as long as they understand the essence of this technique, their power never runs out.” Tae Yong said before she added, “With this technique in your arsenal, you’d be released from the ridiculous limit of your power.

Your sword would be endless and more devastating than it is now.” “Now stand up.

We have a grueling training session ahead of us.” Tae Yong as she threw the sword on the ground once again and said, “Pick it up.

But this time, don’t pick it up.

Ask it.

Ask it if you can pick it up.” ~~ “Do you know what water is?” Liu Kuang asked Sasha who was sitting in front of him, her expression as expressionless as always but determination could be seen in her eyes.

“…” She didn’t know.

Of course, she didn’t.

Water that she practiced came in the form of skills to her.

She could use it without understanding the essence behind it.

“As expected.

No wonder he asked me to teach you water, not my skills,” Liu Kuang said before he added, “You wield the power of water yet you do not understand what water is.” “What is… water?” Sasha asked.

“Patience,” Liu Kuang said.

“My apologies,” Sasha misunderstood.

She thought Liu Kuang was asking Sasha to not interrupt him and ask only when she was permitted to.

“Hohoho.” The old man laughed before he said, “You misunderstood, child.

I wasn’t scolding you, I was answering you.” “That’s what water is.

Patience.” The old man said before he asked his disciple to bring him a pot made of clay.

Once he had it, Liu Kuang put it into a bowl and then submerged the bottom of in water.

“You see, this much water is basically nothing to this gigantic pot.

Anyone would think that this much wouldn’t do anything to this pot but…” Liu Kuang waited for a moment before he brought the pot out of the bowl.

The base of the pot was wet, just a little bit but the rest of the pot was dry.

“Now if you want to break this pot from the dried side, it wouldn’t be easy to break it.

You’d most probably require some force but if you just poke it from the bottom,” the pot shattered, “It shatters.” “Now imagine this wasn’t a pot but a building.

A house so big and so strong that nothing could bring it down.

But all you have to do is submerge its foundation in a little amount of water and just wait, the stronghold would collapse on itself.” Liu Kuang explained.

“The most patient thing in this universe is water.

It takes hundreds of years for a lake to make a path between mountains, but it makes it in the end.

Fire gives up, lightning gives up, air gives up, the earth itself gives up but water doesn’t.

It doesn’t give up until it has made a path to the other side.

It waits, it waits until it accomplishes its objective.

It brings down structures, mountains, clifftops, and even the entire world just because it is patient.” Liu Kuang explained the base characteristic of water to Sasha.

“Your water lacks patience.

You attack your opponents with it while what you should be doing is infiltrating them.” Liu Kuang said before he asked his disciples to bring him a snake.

She brought one and once she did, Liu Kunag manipulated a small amount of water and brought it around the snake’s head.

The snake slithered and in the end, it managed to free itself.

“You see?

I attacked it from where it could see and it somehow managed to save itself.

But if I were to just…” Liu Kuang once again did it but this time, with just a drop of water, and brought it to the snake’s tail.

The snake didn’t notice it and remained still.

Liu Kunag manipulated the drop to enter the body of the snake and then told Sasha, “Half of the task is done.

Now you just wait for the water to find its way inside the body.

The body is a mysterious thing.

Although it is made of water, anything from the outside isn’t welcome even if it is water.” “But from here, if you were to just manipulate that drop of water from that point and bring it to the brain, or heart, or the lung…” The snake suddenly began to tremble and hiss.

The signs of pain were apparent in its hissing.

“The body cannot tolerate anything excess.

Unless, of course, it was carefully administered but in the places where there is no space, there is no space for even a speck of dust, let alone a giant drop of water.” Liu Kuang ended his speech with just this, “Make your water patient.

Make it so patient that your enemies ignore you.” “And only then, do you strike back.

Let them make the mistake of misunderstanding you.

Take advantage of that mistake and bring them down.

You possess the oldest and most dangerous element in creation.

You just have to be patient for it to show its true quality.” Sasha would be lying if she said she understood everything.

She didn’t.

To her, water was always a soft element.

Not good for defense and not good for offense.

Yet this man before her was telling her otherwise.

He depicted water as the most fearsome element in creation.

She just couldn’t imagine it to be so.

“We will begin by showing you what water is.

Understand water.

As long as you understood its true nature, you would understand what I have told you.

Deep down, you’re already water.

Your expression always remains calm and still, not letting anyone know of your intentions.

Now you just have to be like water.” Liu Kuang said.

“We will begin by,” Liu Kuang said before he manipulated a globe of water as big as Sasha and said, “By submerging you in water.” “Pardon…” It was too sudden for Sasha to understand before she was submerged in water before she could even ask something.

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