A Thousand Meters Couldn't Be Escaped Even in Another World

Once they had grown familiar with one another, their conversations became far more uninhibited, though they were ultimately just trading a few jokes for fun.

More often, they exchanged knowledge and discussed various possibilities.

Dumbledore was quite interested in Chi Magic and struck up a conversation with Uncle.

Zephyr, Bang, Master Shifu, and the others also began discussing martial arts theory and combat techniques.

This left Flender and Professor Oak with no choice but to occasionally chime in, since their worldviews were still somewhat unusual.

[Flender: Excuse me, I have four children here. The oldest is seven, and the youngest is six. Is there anything they need to pay attention to when training in martial arts?]

[Dumbledore: I have a group of young wizards starting at eleven, with the oldest being seventeen or eighteen. I think they may need exercise as well.]

[Samuel Oak: Although the summer camp here has not been set up yet, I still need to make preparations. Just like Flender, I have a group of five- and six-year-old children. Please help.]

The three of them were not polite about it. In fact, they had asked Zephyr long ago, and Zephyr had explained it several times.

But as the Navy's chief instructor, his students all started in their teens. Among the Three Admirals, even Aokiji, the youngest, had joined the Navy at nineteen.

At that age, they would have graduated from Hogwarts two or three years ago, completed intermediate studies at a Soul Master Academy, and Pokémon trainers could set out at ten and win a championship within a year.

Once the differences between worlds were involved, Zephyr could not speak carelessly.

Now, however, there were Bang, Master Shifu, and Uncle. All of them had experience teaching children from childhood to adulthood. Combined with Zephyr's military training, they could work out a solid approach.

[Zephyr: Got it, stop rushing me. I'm also trying to figure out children's training, but Ace, Sabo, and Luffy can't all be treated the same way.]

Zephyr bluntly snapped back at them. Bang and Master Shifu, having only just joined and received pointers from the future, said that they would do their best to think of a solution.

As for Uncle, he likewise believed that teaching children a little kung fu would do them no harm, but teaching a whole group of children was simply too troublesome.

Before the Chat Group had unlocked the Group Livestream function, all communication had been limited to text. No matter how capable Zephyr was, he could not teach across worlds.

Now that the Chat Group had gained this ability, Flender fiddled with it for a while and quickly figured out how it worked.

Back in reality, Flender woke the children, who had already become absorbed in their training, and took them to the cafeteria for a hearty dinner.

Only sufficient nutrition could promote a person's growth. That principle held true everywhere.

Flender was not stingy with the school's meals. The ingredients were basically obtained from specially raised Ten-Year Soul Beasts, with plenty of meat, eggs, and milk.

Together with Shao Xin's cooking, even Chu He, a city boy, wolfed it down. The other three little brats nearly chewed up their bowls.

After lunch, he let the children rest for about an hour. They could take a short nap and recover their energy before the afternoon classes began.

There were few students now, so Flender could attend to every detail. In roughly a week, he could personally teach every student for an entire day and occasionally sit in on their lessons.

The training field was spacious, and beneath their feet was a specially commissioned rubberized surface that Flender had requested, suitable for running and exercise.

"As Spirit Masters, cultivating Soul Power is essential, but physical training is also indispensable. In battle, sometimes just a few more breaths can decide victory, or one extra step can let you evade an attack and escape alive."

"Today, we'll first test your physical fitness. Afterward, I'll find several professionals to draw up proper training plans for you.

Building strength and fitness is indispensable."

Strength, speed, endurance, flexibility.

Based on Flender's memories from his previous life, as well as Zephyr's instructions, the tests were weighted lifts, a fifty-meter sprint, a one-thousand-meter run, and the seated forward bend.

For children only a few years old, these tests were enough to reveal their physical condition.

As he explained the precautions to the children, Flender tentatively opened the Group Livestream.

Immediately, a new panel popped up within the Chat Group. It resembled an enlarged vertical phone screen, with several large words displayed on it.

[Enter "Chat Group member Flender's" Group Livestream? Yes/No]

Although quite some time had passed since everyone had last chatted online together, because it was Flender's first Group Livestream, nearly everyone wanted to take a look.

Zephyr clicked in immediately, and the screen instantly changed from black and white to color.

The first thing he saw was a middle-aged man in a black robe, with long hair falling over his shoulders and square glasses on his face. He looked ordinary enough, yet carried a hawk-like sharpness. Flender.

Zephyr nodded slightly. He was almost exactly the same as the Flender Zephyr had seen in the worldline, even down to that stylish beard.

When the Group Livestream was activated, the Chat Panel automatically shifted position and appeared within the livestream.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Flender greeted them through words formed from his thoughts, then looked toward the children. They were the main characters of this livestream.

The four children were very obedient. They did nearly everything Flender told them to do, gritting their teeth and giving it their all.

The results surprised Flender somewhat. The child with the strongest overall physical fitness was not Chu He, but the child with the sickle Martial Soul.

His name was Hal. He looked like a typical country child, with dark skin and a tall, thin frame. If Flender remembered correctly, he was also the leader of this generation of children.

His strength, speed, and endurance all nearly surpassed Chu He's. Only his flexibility was slightly worse than that of the girl with the handkerchief Martial Soul.

Perhaps it was due to gender differences, but the girl's flexibility shocked even Flender. At six years old, she could reach nearly twenty centimeters.

Flender remembered that girls in his previous life had not been this exaggerated. He could only attribute it to exceptional natural talent.

As for Chu He, Flender had thought that, as the eldest senior brother, he would remain first and lead everyone. Yet he had been pushed down in the very first test, and his lips were already pressed together.

When cultivation was still shallow, the amount of Soul Power one possessed did not mean everything.

It was perfectly normal for someone with innate divine strength and level-three Soul Power to defeat an ordinary person with level-nine Soul Power.

The final test was the one-thousand-meter run. Even modern college students needed a long time, sometimes even a day or two, to recover after it, and it left the children panting for breath.

After letting them walk around a little and rest, Flender shifted his attention.

[Flender: What do you think of these children? Be honest.]

[Zephyr: If we're being honest, the answer is simple. They have no talent whatsoever. They are almost no different from any ordinary child.]

[Bang: That really is a blunt answer, but mine is the same.]

[Flender: That's why I founded this school. Since their talent is lacking, they need to work harder in other areas.]

[Master Shifu: Diligence can make up for shortcomings. Although they lack talent, I can see that these children have the desire to strive and improve. They just look very strange.]

[Flender: ...]

[Zephyr: Then...]