Xue Wu: "I-I'll take them, just don't... don't be mean to me..."

She was a well-known poor student at Heavenly Water Academy.

Likewise, she was the academy flower among the poor students.

Though she was somewhat malnourished and appeared a little underdeveloped (she was already an adult), it still could not conceal her youthful face.

And under these circumstances, if she took out gold soul coins, then... would her newly acknowledged teacher think she was...?

"Take them out if you have them!"

Chen Yue's sudden voice startled her. Feeling aggrieved, she thought, I-I'll take them, just don't... don't be mean to me...

Her mentality had yet to mature to the level it reached in the original story. On top of that, Chen Yue carried the title of "teacher," and his immense authority seemed to lend extra "damage" against her.

"Estimate it. How much does one gold soul coin weigh?"

Xue Wu froze for a moment, carefully weighed one in her hand, and answered, "A-about twenty grams..."

"Good. Then we'll count one gold soul coin as twenty grams!"

Chen Yue continued, "Say I have a pile of gold soul coins you can't see through. You can all take as many as you want, but you can't use Soul Power. The moment you use Soul Power, the gold soul coins will return to the mountain of coins."

"If it were you, how many would you take?"

Xue Wu thought about it. "P-probably thirty...?"

"No, one hundred... wait, maybe three hundred... Uh, it seems like even a thousand would work..."

Chen Yue smiled faintly. "Then how far could you run while carrying all those gold soul coins?"

Xue Wu blanked out.

The next moment, she abruptly shot to her feet in excitement. "Teacher, Teacher, I understand!"

Chen Yue, "?"

He was a little dumbfounded. He had merely been using some simple principles of physical strength to bluff this girl. How had she suddenly understood?

What Chen Yue had said was actually a very simple matter concerning stamina, somewhat like hauling bricks. Unfortunately, on Douluo Continent, there was no need to haul bricks—though there might be brick martial souls, right?—so he had used currency as an example instead.

But now... how had she understood the groundwork he had laid for the later evolution of her martial soul?

"I remember that the last time our instructors went to Elephant Armored Academy for a visit, they saw the gravity simulation training environment there. Their students had to strap countless pieces of metal to themselves and run laps within that gravity field..."

At this point, Xue Wu's expression turned somewhat strange. "But they all used Soul Power. Still, I heard that after a year of training like that, their Soul Power increased too, by around one to three percent..."

"They used Soul Power, so it couldn't train their physical stamina or endurance."

Modern people generally trained their physical fitness through weighted running and the like. In this sewer-world, this was probably the only method available.

So Monkey-faced Master Yu Xiaogang had a group of support-system soul masters run for a period of time. Could that possibly make them outrun agility attack-system soul masters?

Chen Yue felt that if that were the case, they might as well delete agility attacks altogether.

Training physical fitness this way was fine, but using it for escaping? How could that be possible?

"You're pregnant right now, so you can't undergo such intense training for the time being..."

Chen Yue paused there, leaving it at that. Then he changed the subject. "For the next two days, eat and drink properly, and don't join the group training. Say I said so!"

"On the third day, I happen to have no classes. I'll take you somewhere to train."

"When the time comes, I guarantee the results will be extremely noticeable!"