Heretic Trainer: The Gym Is My Cultivation Method

Agram looked at Arden and sneered.

"Do you seriously think that with your [Unique Physique] you can beat me? Don't make me laugh."

Arden kept walking to him, clenching his fists.

"I already beat Elder Avro."

Agram laughed loudly, slapping his thigh.

"Avro? He's just a second realm trash! I am a third realm cultivator. He's not even close to me!"

Arden didn't flinch.

"And I beat Avro in one hit, so that means I'm way stronger than this second realm peak. So beating you..."

Arden began to smile.

"It shouldn't be too impossible for me either."

Agram's smile faded, and his brow twitched for a moment.

"Young man... you really don't know your place, do you?"

He stretched out his arms, bursting them out of his body.

"Let me teach you what fear is."

Then the ground rumbled as thorny roots burst upward and carnivorous vines twisted like snakes, surrounding both of them.

Agrams' voice then echoed across the area as he introduced his domain.

"Welcome to my domain, the [Devouring Forest]."

The vines also began to emit green fog that spread around the domain, and when it touched Raviel, he quickly frowned, stumbling.

"What the hell is this? This fog... it's absorbing my stamina and mana."

Agram laughed louder.

"That's right! Inside my domain, everything feeds me. So no matter how strong you are, you'll eventually kneel."

Arden narrowed his eyes.

"I see... so that's how your domain works. It absorbs the surrounding people to make yourself stronger."

He glanced back, and thankfully, the dome only covered the arena itself.

And inside this arena, there were only Raviel, Aveline, and Agram beside him.

Arden took a deep breath and shouted.

"Patriarch Raviel! Take Aunt Aveline and get out of here!"

Raviel instantly reacted and grabbed the weakened Aveline, quickly rushing out the arena.

"Don't die, kid!"

Aveline, half conscious, still managed to turn her head.

"Arden... be careful..."

Arden nodded and turned back, smirking.

"Don't worry. I'm not the same Arden from before."

Agram cracked his neck, rising the vines like an army.

"Let me enjoy watching your confidence crumble under my domain."

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Kalzor frowned as he looked at Garion, who stood calmly in front of him.

"You'll regret calling me ugly."

Garion pointed at him casually.

"Ugly? Come on. That wasn't even an insult. It's just the truth. In fact, calling you ugly might even be a compliment."

Kalzor's eyes twitched.

"You... bastard... I'll make you suffer for that mouth of yours!"

He stretched out both arms and summoned his domain.

The area around him began to be filled with purplish mist, and not only that, but they began to slowly gather around him.

and in an instant, the mist began to harden into a set of armor that looked so ugly, just like this face.

Kalzor then spread his hands wide and grinned.

"Welcome to my domain, Garion. The place where you will die, the [Poison Mist]."

Kalzor spun his finger, pointing at numerous sides of his domain.

"In here, everything is poisoned, and today..."

He laughed darkly.

"I'll watch you scream as your organs melt... slowly!"

Garion blinked... then grinned.

"Ohh, so it's a poison domain, huh. No wonder your face turned out like that."

Kalzor frowned even more after hearing that.

"You! I'll make you regret it even more!"

Garion only snorted as he took off his top and tossed it aside, revealing his thick and solid muscular body.

Kalzor looked at his body and didn't feel intimidated at all.

"Do you think that with just your body you can defeat me in my own poison domain?!"

In an instant, the mist hardened, forming thousands of thin, sharp needles aimed at Garion from every direction.

Garion only snirked as he spread his arms, prompting Kalzor to attack him.

"Let's find out then, shall we?"

Kalzor roared in anger as he slammed down his hand hard.

"Take this, you bastard! [Poison Needles Rain]!!"

All the needles shot forward like a deadly storm toaward Garion

and Garion didn't even raise his arm to block the needle rain.

Instead, he just walked slowly toward Kalzor, grinning.

Kalzor smirked, thinking just how the arrogant Garion would fall after getting hit by his poison needles.

But contrary to his expectation, the situation was not the one that he had been thinking of.

The poison needles didn't even pierce him, or rather... they weren't even able to touch him.

Every single one of his poison needles stopped inches before touching his skin.

they then bent until they were snapped under an invisible pressure surrounding Garion's body.

"What the hell?! How can this be possible? Why the hell are my poison needles unable to touch you?!"

Gariob smiled calmly, tapping his chest while walking toward Kazlor slowly.

"Your domain is good, Kalzor. A poison domain like this could be a nightmare for most cultivators."

He lifted a finger and wagged it lightly.

"But for me…?"

He chuckled.

"I've got a layer of gravitational pressure around my body at all times thanks to my [Unique Physique]."

Garion leaned in a little, voice dropping playfully.

"So those tiny poison needles of yours? Never think in a million years that you can defeat me with those toys."

Then he paused, his expression turning into a teasing and almost pitying one.

"Well... unless you use brute force, but honestly..."

Garion's gaze shifted from Kalzor's bony shoulders to his thin arms and finally to his shaky legs, which were barely supporting him.

"With that stick body... that malnourished, noodle-looking body of yours... you expect to break through this?"

He flexed his lovely muscular body, indicating that it was impossible.

But aside from that, he also mocked him for another possibility.

"And even if you somehow managed to beat me and win..."

He gestured toward Aveline in the distance.

"Did you really think that you could handle someone like her with that weak body of yours?"

His smirk sharpened.

"Come on, Kalzor. Don't embarrass yourself. Think about reality, not whatever fantasy you cooked up in your head."

The poison mist around them trembled as Kalzor's face twisted with rage.

"I'LL KILL YOU, GARION!!!"

His domain flared violently, poison mist bursting outward like a storm ready to swallow everything.

Garion only rolled his shoulders once, relaxed.

"Finally, time to end this."