Shrek Academy.
"995, 996, 997... 1000!"
Dai Mubai stood bare-chested, a five-hundred-jin dumbbell plate resting on his back as he did push-ups. After finishing a thousand, he rolled to the side, and the dumbbell crashed heavily to the ground.
Fortunately, the training ground was covered in a thick layer of cotton wrapped in high-quality spirit beast hide, making it exceptionally sturdy.
"Xiaobai, hurry, hurry! Help me out—I can't get up!"
Flender was working out nearby as well. After hearing that training legs was good for men, he had started training them three times a week. At the moment, he was doing squats with a two-hundred-jin barbell on his shoulders, but he was having trouble standing back up.
"I told you once a week was enough. You train legs three times a week before your muscles have even recovered. Be careful it doesn't backfire." Dai Mubai lifted the two-hundred-jin barbell with one hand, looking helpless.
"That's because you haven't reached middle age. You don't know the pain of middle-aged men." Flender plopped down on a dumbbell bench beside him, panting heavily.
"You've been single for so long. Even if you get in shape, where are you going to use all that strength?" Dai Mubai flashed a wicked grin.
"Get lost!"
"Teacher, it's been almost half a month already. Why haven't Lang Ge and the others returned?" Dai Mubai looked toward the academy gates and could not help asking resentfully.
With all his peers suddenly gone, he really was not used to it.
"The Star Dou Great Forest is enormous. A round trip alone takes five or six days, not to mention finding a suitable spirit beast and Soul Ring. Didn't it take you more than ten days to obtain your last Soul Ring?" Flender said.
"Someone's here!"
As the two chatted,