Chapter 766 - 696 Aerobics_1
Zhentai Continent.
News of the Lin Family’s attack had already spread far and wide.
Panic was rampant.
“The Lin Family has issued a massacre order—if those from Zhentai Continent do not defect in time… all will be doomed!”
“No, we’re innocent; the Desolate Heaven Alliance brought this upon themselves. What does this have to do with us?”
“With the Grey Mist God Emperor presiding over the Lin Family, the Desolate Heaven Alliance can’t hold them off… “
For a moment, many forces in Zhentai Continent panicked.
Overnight, eight out of ten cultivators from Zhentai Continent had vanished. The vast majority chose to align themselves with the Lin Family!
In the eyes of the world, the Lin Family was now an invincible emblem. With the Grey Mist God Emperor, they could shine gloriously for a million years.
No one wished to follow the Desolate Heaven Alliance to death.
Zhenming Holy Land.
Within the great hall, Yun Chen, Mu Wanqing, Honored Haoming, and others were discussing matters.
“Reporting to Venerable Haoming, of the three thousand sects big and small across the continent, only a mere two hundred and sixty or so sects are still willing to follow our command.”
“The rest of the forces have already left Zhentai Continent and are heading towards the Lin Family’s army… Clearly, they’re defecting to the Lin Family… “
Listening to the report, Venerable Haoming’s face grew somber.
He slammed his palm onto the chair with force.
His face was filled with anger as he said,
“To think that only about two hundred sects remain…”
How could he not be disappointed?
“Let things take their natural course, we mustn’t force it.”
Mu Wanqing spoke up,
“This is also a good thing; at least those who remain are firmly opposed to the Misty Great Path.”
Venerable Haoming nodded and said,
“The Lin Family is approaching fiercely… we must meet them in battle!”
“We must defeat the Lin Family!”
“I am willing to take the lead, command an army of four hundred thousand, and fight the Lin Family to the death!”
Yun Chen also nodded and said,
“This army of five hundred thousand from the Lin Family is mostly just the vanguard. Let’s observe the situation for now.”
Immediately, Haoming, Zhen Xuan, and others led the forces of the Zhenming Holy Land to form a large army in preparation to meet the enemy.
Zhentai Continent, Fengyue State.
This place was the farthest state on the periphery of Zhentai Continent.
Venerable Haoming was leading an army of three hundred thousand there, waiting in anticipation.
“Report! The enemy has stopped a thousand li away!”
The scouts came to report!
Venerable Haoming was puzzled. Why had they stopped? Shouldn’t they be pressing their attack?
And just at that moment, a succession of screams suddenly arose.
“Report! Disaster has struck, poison rain has begun to fall from the sky!”
“Anyone who comes into contact with the poison rain… falls…”
“Venerable, this is a dire situation!”
One leader after another came forward in urgency.
Venerable Haoming quickly went out to see, only to notice that a light drizzle had begun in the sky.
And within the camp, soldiers were falling by the droves.
“Ah…”
A cultivator was hit by just a few droplets of the light rain on his face, and his skin immediately began to fester and rot, contorting in agony on the ground!
“Use mana to block the poison rain!”
Someone shouted.
Many cultivators frantically mustered their divine power, constructing barriers of light around themselves for protection.
But it was already too late.
At the onset of the rain, most people had been unprepared and were now afflicted.
An army of four hundred thousand had lost over three hundred thousand soldiers.
“Is this… a poisonous scheme by the Lin Family?!”
Venerable Haoming’s face turned exceedingly grim, but he could only grit his teeth and ordered,
“Retreat, retreat immediately!”
Instantly, an army of four hundred thousand hastened their retreat from Fengyue County, routed!
Without any battle, the army was already defeated, without any doubt.
“No… the entire Fengyue County… has turned into a lifeless desert?!”
Upon boarding the warship, someone couldn’t help but speak with a trembling voice.
Looking down from above, one could see the entirety of Fengyue County had become barren, all vegetation appeared dead, wilted instantly.
Birds flying in the sky, soaked by the rain, fell to the ground, rotting into carcasses.
Fish in rivers and lakes surfaced by the thousands, all dead…
In cities and marketplaces, human corpses piled up like mountains, some were wailing, some were trembling…
The poison rain blanketed the sky!
It was a genocidal massacre!
“No!”
Seeing this scene, Venerable Haoming’s heart trembled, fueling his rage to the extreme.
“Lin Family… you have gone too far!”
He burst forth from the warship, and with a ferocious slap, he lashed out at the rolling clouds in the sky above.
Boom!
The sky ruptured with a great explosion, clouds burst apart, and vapor roiled violently in all directions.
“I want to see just how remarkable this poisoned water is!”
Haoming bellowed angrily, his huge hand sweeping across, gathering the immense vapor into a large mass, falling towards him.
Venerable Haoming swung out his palm!
At the same time, a few droplets of azure mist stuck to his hand.
His palm instantly corroded like it was doused in sulfuric acid, creating a bloody hole!
“This toxic mist… can even kill the one who acquired the White Mist Origin?!”
Haoming was shocked; this poison was beyond imagination.
“Go!”
Despite the agony, Haoming pushed the vapor back with a palm strike, then turned and returned to the warship, saying,
“Hurry, depart!”
…
Mu Wanqing and Yun Chen were leading the group in Zhenming Holy Land, waiting.
“The front lines have collapsed, completely collapsed…”
Upon hearing the battle report, all were shocked.
Countless warships had already returned, but many people on board had fallen into a state of death, a skeletal collection!
Out of an army of four hundred thousand, barely one in ten survived!
“Venerable Haoming, what exactly happened?”
Mu Wanqing was immensely alarmed.
Venerable Haoming descended from the warship, his face deathly pale with cold sweat streaming down, and he said,
“The Lin Family used poison; they spread poison rain throughout Fengyue County. The entire Fengyue County, all living things have been extinguished.”
“I… have also been harmed by the poison rain, I can’t hold on!”
Upon seeing this, Yun Chen and the others were somewhat horrified.
What kind of poison could this be?
Let it be known, the Venerable Haoming had already obtained the White Mist Origin in the little mountain village!
And yet, even he could not withstand it…
“There’s such an extraordinary poison in the world… If we can’t solve this poison, we have no chance of fighting this war!”
Yun Chen’s expression was stern.
“Let’s go find Senior Li first!”
Mu Wanqing immediately spoke up.
Yun Chen also nodded, facing this unheard-of poison, the only option was to seek help from Senior Li…
Immediately, they sped towards the Great Ruins Realm with Honored Haoming.
It didn’t take long.
Before long, they arrived before the small mountain village.
At this moment.
Within the small mountain village.
Li Fan was leading a group of disciples in performing a set of broadcast gymnastics entitled “Let Dreams Fly”!!
“One two three four, two two three four…”
“That’s right, Gong Ya, make your movements bigger, stretch further forward, Zi Ling is doing great, bend your waist a little more…”
As he instructed, Li Fan gave guidance to the disciples.
At the same time, he couldn’t help but glance towards Yun Xi.
Yun Xi was the least of his worries, having already mastered the nine sets of broadcast gymnastics.
Her movements were precise, and she had exceptional flexibility.
Watching her do the gymnastics, Li Fan suddenly thought that for girls, aerobics might be more suitable…
“Cough, cough, Yun Xi, Zi Ling, Nan Feng, Bai Qian, Gong Ya, Xinning, come here.”
He immediately called out.
Instantly, Yun Xi and the group of female disciples stepped forward.
“Great Demon King, what’s up?”
Yun Xi asked.
“Starting today, you lot will learn a different exercise. It will be more comfortable for you to learn and better suited for girls.”
With that, he immediately took out three or four aerobics textbooks.
Unquestionably, those were rewards from the System. Before, he had furiously cursed at the darn System, what kind of bizarre things was it rewarding him with.
He had not expected that it would come in handy today.
“Here, these are several sets of aerobics. There’s quite a variety, so learn whichever you like.”
He handed the books to Yun Xi and the others.
Hearing this, everyone, including Yun Xi, was utterly astonished.
“Aerobics… It must be some extraordinary magical arts!”
“Aerobics, gymnastics, they’re both exercises, they must be really good to learn!”
They were filled with anticipation as they took the books and started to read.
“Wait… this is… the Immortal Longevity Dance?”
“The Myriad Path Resonance Dance?”
“The Primordial Chaos Initial Dance?”
Nan Feng and the others were somewhat shocked.
These names, each one sounded more terrifying than the last.
Moreover, once they flipped through the pages, the content inside left them dumbfounded…
The Immortal Longevity Dance, mastering this dance allows the cultivation of undying material within the body, achieving eternity!
The Myriad Path Resonance Dance, melting the true meaning of Myriad Dao, as one dances, all Dao submit and transcend everything.
The Primordial Chaos Initial Dance, evolving the primordial chaos, reaching Mahayana and one could even create worlds!
“Is… is this really aerobics?”
Nan Feng murmured, “It would be difficult to master even one of these magical arts in a lifetime!”
Zi Ling was also shaking her head, “It’s too hard, these exercises are harder than gymnastics, it’s impossible for us to master them… They can only be taken as auxiliary arts, how much we learn depends on fate…”
Gong Ya and the others strongly agreed.
“This… doesn’t seem that hard.”
Yun Xi, having glanced through these dances, said with some confusion in her big eyes: “It feels… like a lot of the movements are familiar…”
“Come on, let me try first. Once I’ve learned it, I’ll teach you all!”
She volunteered eagerly.
Seeing this, Li Fan also nodded. Of course, there needed to be a lead when doing aerobics.
“Master… we also want to learn something else!”
At this moment, Qing Chen and the others also spoke up.
Wu Dade was even more direct, his eyes shining, “Master, can I learn to do aerobics as well?”
He thought that aerobics seemed stronger than gymnastics.
When Li Fan heard this, he was shocked. He imagined Wu Dade doing aerobics and felt…
It was too much for the eyes!
He didn’t dare to think more and quickly said:
“Let’s not, Da De, aerobics aren’t suitable for you.”
“So, I have another set of the Five Animal Frolics here, an ancient version of gymnastics which is somewhat better. Take it and learn it!”
At these words, a group of male disciples was also overjoyed.
Upon receiving the Five Animal Frolics, they were similarly astounded.
This set of “Five Animal Frolics” was actually based on mimicking the True Phoenix, Vermilion Bird, Celestial Peng, Ancient Luan, Peacock, and other five divine birds.
Each contained a powerful technique from these divine birds!
“This… is simply a supreme art!”
“Heaven-defying… absolutely heaven-defying!”
They all thought it was unbelievable.
As Li Fan looked at his disciples’ utterly astonished expressions, he knew they were definitely disappointed.
His heart also felt somewhat desolate. Damn it, how many times had he been swindled by this Dog System with all this nonsense…
Back then, toiling away on missions, only to be rewarded with things like aerobics, the Five Animal Frolics, and at one point, when he was about to start the so-called path of cultivation, he was even tricked with broadcast gymnastics.
It simply wasn’t doing any work at all.
Fortunately, the path of cultivation had eventually started, although the gap in the Qi Refinement layer was disappointing…
If he weren’t so optimistic, it would have been unbearable.
However, thinking about the progress in searching for rare animals and plants, he began to feel a bit of anticipation.
Now, with eight different rare animals found and six rare plants,
Nan Feng’s Little Wolf, who was raising the Divine Blood Herb.
Zi Ling’s little horse that was planting grapes.
Long Zixuan’s Little Black Fish.
Lu Rang’s Little Gold Bull.
Dugu Yuqing’s Little Red Bird, which was raising the Undying Tree.
Qing Chen’s Little Monkey.
Jiang Li’s Little Turtle, planting bamboo.
Lin Jiu Zheng’s Little Kirin, cultivating the Kirin Tree.
And Wu Dade’s Melting Gold Tree.
They were now only one animal shy, and three plants short of the full collection!
Once that was done, he could break through the Qi Refining Realm directly.
And become a Foundation Establishment Cultivator!
Li Fan had some understanding of cultivation!
Qi Refinement, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul… it was a journey with gradual progress, a long road.
Reaching Foundation Establishment would already be quite an accomplishment.
It would bring him one step closer to the Golden Core, one step closer to flying!
“Wanqing and others, here to pay respects to Senior Li!”
At this time, a voice emerged from outside the courtyard.
…
Goodnight