You're Insanely Awesome

Shrek Square was not very large. One lap around it was roughly three hundred meters, so three hundred laps came to over ninety kilometers.

When they arrived at the field, Yao Shi and Wang Dong joined the runners, immediately drawing quite a few gloating remarks.

At that moment, Wang Dong suddenly asked Yao Shi, "Yao Shi, what exactly is your martial soul? When you fought me last time, you healed me. Your martial soul should be a healing type, which makes you an auxiliary-system soul master. So how did you defeat me?"

My martial soul?

Yao Shi considered Wang Dong's question. When his martial soul had awakened, it had been Jianmu. After he reached the second ring, Jianmu had merged into his body and become one with him, no longer manifesting as branches.

So now, his martial soul had become his own body. Should this martial soul be called abundance? No. Abundance was merely a concept describing the evolution of a thing.

If it had become his own body, didn't that mean it had become a body martial soul?

Only then did Yao Shi answer Wang Dong, "My body is my martial soul. It used to manifest as branches when it awakened, but then it mutated and became a body martial soul."

"How is that possible?!"

Wang Dong shouted in shock upon hearing Yao Shi's words.

"If a branch martial soul mutated, it should turn into a tree. How could it possibly become a body martial soul?"

"I know it's hard to believe, but that's the truth." Yao Shi spread his hands at her as he ran.

"Wait, if your branches really mutated into your body, then wouldn't that make you... a vegetable?"

Wang Dong suddenly seemed to understand, pointing at Yao Shi with her index finger.

"..."

Yao Shi's face darkened. "If you can't talk, keep your mouth shut. Listen to that honeyed mouth of yours. Looks like you're asking for another beating."

Wang Dong said, "Don't say that, don't say that. If you hit me again, I'm telling the teacher."

As she spoke, Wang Dong hurriedly put several steps of distance between herself and Yao Shi. The two fell silent again.

As they ran, Wang Dong suddenly moved closer to Yao Shi again and said resentfully, "Tell me, why did you have to provoke that old hag? Just looking at her face, you can tell she's not someone to mess with."

She sighed. "Now we're done for. We could've gritted our teeth and finished a hundred laps, but three hundred laps might kill us before we finish. Looks like you really might get expelled."

Yao Shi turned his head toward Wang Dong as he ran, glanced at her, and smiled. "I was telling the truth. Her teaching really is terrible. Besides, you don't want to spend the next year looking at that sour face of hers either, do you?"

"That's true."

Wang Dong agreed with that.

Then Yao Shi changed the subject. "Besides, who said I'm definitely getting expelled? Three hundred laps are easy for me. The one who should be worried is that old hag herself."

"Don't worry. You're only running this much because I dragged you into it. I'll definitely make sure you finish easily."

"Tch, keep bragging." Wang Dong felt uncomfortable under Yao Shi's gaze and immediately turned her head away, refusing to look at him again.

Yao Shi said nothing more. He merely curled his lips into a smile and released a pale green energy that enveloped them both.

Th-this...

What dense life energy!

"Yao Shi, what did you do? Why do I feel like all the energy I used up running has been restored? And it's still replenishing me nonstop?"

Feeling the sudden change in her body, Wang Dong looked at Yao Shi in shock.

"How is it? I wasn't lying, right? My ability doesn't just heal. It can even eliminate any side effects in the body. Pretty awesome, isn't it?"

Rather than directly answering Wang Dong's question, he spoke with a smug expression.

"Amazing! Your ability is insanely amazing! If it keeps restoring us without interruption, I feel like I could run a hundred laps in one breath. Three hundred laps wouldn't be a problem at all! No wonder you had the confidence to talk back to that old hag."

"Hehe, keep it low-key, keep it low-key. Just basic stuff."

With that, the two instantly picked up their pace. While others finished one lap, they had already run three. Then they only got faster and faster.

Some of the students who saw their speed were left dumbfounded.

"What the hell, did these two take drugs? They're running that fast?!"

"Huff... huff... Aren't they afraid they'll run out of stamina and be unable to move later if they go this fast already?"

"Ah, who cares about them? If it weren't for these two, we might not have been punished. If they can't keep running and get expelled, they deserve it."

"Don't say that. We're all classmates. We'll be seeing each other every day..."

By the window of the teaching building, Zhou Yi stared fixedly at the students running below, especially Yao Shi, who had contradicted her earlier.

When she saw the two suddenly accelerate, she could not help but sneer. "Young people really are impatient and impetuous. They don't even know how to distribute their stamina, yet they dare say my teaching is bad."

"Heh. At that speed, you probably won't even make fifty laps. Just wait for me to expel you directly."

Ten laps. Their speed still did not slow, and even their breathing remained steady.

Twenty laps... thirty laps... fifty laps. Their speed still had not slowed. Instead, they were getting faster and faster.

H-how is that possible?!

Why?

Why haven't they slowed down yet? At this speed, there's no way they should be able to keep running for this long!

Zhou Yi, who had been staring intently at the students, looked utterly incredulous at the two's performance. There was obvious anxiety on her face as well.

How can they last this long? This isn't scientific!

If Yao Shi had heard Zhou Yi's thoughts at that moment, he would have said without the slightest politeness, "Heh, people can cultivate, and you're talking to me about science?"

Finally, while the others had only run forty or fifty laps, the two had already completed a hundred.

"M-monsters! They're simply monsters!"

Some students exclaimed in shock when they saw the two finish a hundred laps at such incredible speed.

"Wait, haven't they finished? Why haven't they stopped?"

Other students also noticed that Yao Shi and Wang Dong had already finished a hundred laps, yet showed no intention of stopping.

Could they be planning to keep running? Are these two masochists? some wondered inwardly.

"The two of them have more fighting spirit, so their assessment standard is three hundred laps."

Just as the students were puzzled by the two's actions, Zhou Yi's cold voice came from upstairs.

At that moment, seeing the two complete a hundred laps so easily, she was beginning to panic inside. Still, she forcibly maintained her composure and comforted herself.

It's fine. There are still two hundred laps left. They're only two-ring soul masters. They definitely can't maintain this forever. In the end, I'll still be the winner.

"What?! Three hundred? Has this teacher gone insane? We're already exhausted after just a few dozen laps, and she wants them to run three hundred?!"

As the lap count increased, the other students' breathing gradually grew heavier, and their speed began to slow.

Wang Dong asked worriedly, "Yao Shi, won't you get tired using that restorative ability nonstop? Doesn't it consume a lot?"

"Theoretically, this ability has almost no consumption. As long as there's soul power in the surroundings, it can continue indefinitely."

"What about in practice?"

"In practice, even if there's no soul power around, it can still continue indefinitely."

Wang Dong said, "..."

"You bastard, you were messing with me!"

P.S.: A lot of people have said that what the protagonist does for Huo Yuhao makes him seem like a nanny, asking why he gives Tian Meng and Electrolux to Huo when he does not even want them himself. The author has something to say about that.

First, those things truly are useless to the protagonist. Rather than wasting them on himself, he might as well use them to cultivate his underlings. Huo Yuhao is destined to become the protagonist's right-hand man. It was mentioned earlier that anyone implanted with the mark would gradually become something like a believer of the protagonist, and Huo Yuhao will inevitably become the protagonist's subordinate in the future. This is merely the basic early-stage cultivation of an underling, so stop saying the protagonist is a nanny. That's all.