At those words, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were both stunned.
"No Soul Power? Running laps with rocks on our backs?"
Ning Rongrong's delicate brows instantly knotted together, her face filled with disbelief.
"Teacher, you're joking, right?"
"We're Soul Masters, not laborers hauling bricks. How can this kind of purely physical lap-running possibly help us cultivate Soul Power?"
Ning Rongrong had grown up in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and received only the finest Soul Master education.
She knew very well that the core of a Soul Master's cultivation lay in meditation and the circulation of Soul Power. Physical conditioning was important too, but it definitely was not supposed to be trained through such crude, primitive, and downright foolish methods.
Zhu Zhuqing was equally suspicious.
Born into Star Luo Empire nobility, she had always cultivated diligently, but she had never heard of any high-level Soul Master Academy using such a low-class method to train its students.
What kind of assessment is this? It's practically a joke, Zhu Zhuqing thought coldly.
Seeing the doubt in the two girls' eyes, Qin Ming wore an expression that said, "I knew you'd think that."
He still stood with his hands behind his back as he said earnestly,
"You don't understand."
"This is the extreme training method that our academy's Grandmaster specifically designed for the students!"
"Do you think this is just simple lap-running?"
"Wrong! This is about squeezing out your body's potential and tempering your foundation!"
Imitating Yu Xiaogang's tone, Qin Ming continued to sweet-talk them.
"The hardship you endure now is all for the sweetness to come!"
"Every drop of sweat you shed now will become the foundation you need to break through bottlenecks in the future!"
"I'm doing this for your own good. If you can't even endure this much hardship,