Chapter 71: First Come, First Served
The members of the Emperor Fighting Team could be considered a rare breath of fresh air within Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
Although they still carried the pride expected of noble students, they did not share the same indolence as the others. They completed their daily lessons and training with great care, and Qin Ming was quite satisfied with the performance of the students under his guidance.
Qin Ming and these students were the result of a mutual choice.
These exceptionally talented young people all had pride in their bones. Ordinary teachers simply could not keep them in line. Only a young powerhouse like Qin Ming, who was himself a top-tier genius, could truly win their respect and make this group of unruly youths willingly follow his arrangements.
The reason Qin Ming set running as the content of physical training class was simple. It allowed him to see, in the clearest way possible, the gap in each student's physical stamina and their individual limits.
Spirit power cultivation could hide many problems, but basic physical strength and endurance would be exposed completely during this kind of sustained running. That made it much easier for him to adjust his later teaching according to each person's actual condition.
Among everyone present, aside from Lin Mo and Ye Lingling, only Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng had currently reached Spirit Elder cultivation.
The cultivation of the other 4 was similar to Graphite and Ye Lingling, all hovering around Rank 28 or 29.
Yet the situation in today's physical training class left Qin Ming quite surprised.
According to past experience, physical stamina was undoubtedly tied closely to a Spirit Master's physical constitution.
At similar cultivation levels, the stamina of power attack system and defense system Battle Spirit Masters was naturally better than that of agility attack system and control system Spirit Masters. The stamina of those two was in turn better than that of support system Spirit Masters.
At the same time, because Martial Soul Possession directly enhanced the physical body, Beast Spirit Masters usually had better stamina than Tool Spirit Masters.
The cultivation gap among the students under him was not large, so under normal circumstances, the amount of time each person could endure should have more or less matched this theory.
But what happened today left Qin Ming staring in disbelief.
As a newly joined support system Tool Spirit Master, Ye Lingling was not the one at the bottom. The first to give out was actually the agility attack system Spirit Master with the Wind Chime Bird Spirit, Yu Feng.
Closely after him, another figure began to slow down. It was the Ghost Leopard Spirit Master, Osler.
Only after those two did Ye Lingling gradually slow and come to a stop.
Then came the twin brothers with the Black Tortoise Spirit, Shimo and Graphite.
Dugu Yan, as a control system Battle Spirit Master, relied on her higher spirit power and lasted quite a bit longer than the two of them.
In the end, only Lin Mo and Yu Tianheng were still running on the field.
But at that stage, the conditions of Yu Tianheng and Lin Mo were completely different.
Yu Tianheng's face was flushed red. His breathing had long since lost its original stability and had become heavy and disordered. Even his steps were beginning to falter slightly.
He had already reached his limit.
In contrast, Lin Mo's speed and rhythm remained exactly the same as they had been at the start, without the slightest disorder. It was as if everything that had happened before had only been a warmup for him.
After Yu Tianheng was finally forced to stop, Lin Mo was still moving forward on the track.
One lap, two laps...
Only after his lap count had reached nearly 3 times that of Yu Tianheng did his breathing finally become slightly hurried.
His always steady pace began to slow at last. He shifted from running to a fast walk, and after a while, he finally came to a gradual stop.
Lin Mo found a place to sit down and rest. Ye Lingling, who had already recovered nearby, handed him a bottle of water at just the right time.
The scene looked so natural that it was as if it should have been that way from the start.
A single physical training class could not prove everything, nor could it fully represent true combat ability, but it was enough for Qin Ming to see many things.
Judging from what had just happened, the physical condition of Ye Lingling, a support system Tool Spirit Master, was probably even better than that of the two agility attack system Spirit Masters, Yu Feng and Osler.
That made Qin Ming somewhat curious. Could the Nine Heart Begonia Spirit actually possess some hidden enhancement to physical constitution?
As for Lin Mo, his performance was even more outrageous. In terms of pure physical ability, he might even surpass Yu Tianheng, a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Spirit Elder.
This undoubtedly overturned Qin Ming's previous understanding.
First, Lin Mo's cultivation was lower than Yu Tianheng's. There was an entire third Spirit Ring worth of enhancement separating the two.
Second, under normal circumstances, Lin Mo's Charmander Spirit existed in an external form. The physical enhancement it could bring to its Spirit Master should, in theory, be similar to that of a Tool Spirit.
It should have been far inferior to a Beast Spirit capable of possession, much less comparable to a top-tier Beast Spirit like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
Qin Ming stroked his chin as he looked at Lin Mo, who was drinking water and resting, and slowly sank into thought.
It seemed the secrets Lin Mo carried were far more numerous than he had first imagined.
Not far away, the 3 Committee Members stood shoulder to shoulder, silently watching everything that had just happened on the training field.
The 3 councilors were not as surprised as Qin Ming.
They had long since known that Lin Mo's physical constitution was likely superior to Yu Tianheng's.
Seeing this, Spirit Douluo Zhi Lin sighed with emotion.
"That kid Xue Sheng truly sent the academy an incredible little fellow this time."
"Judging by my perception of Lin Mo's condition just now, his body is extremely resilient, his blood qi is astonishingly abundant, and his meridians are far wider and tougher than those of Spirit Masters at the same level."
He gave a helpless laugh.
"The surprise Lin Mo gave me that day was simply too great, and I lost my composure for a moment. That was why I did not dare continue the test."
"Otherwise, based on the performance that child showed, it would not have been difficult for him to endure pressure at the threshold of Rank 50 spirit power."
As soon as Zhi Lin's words fell, Meng Shenji and Bai Baoshan exchanged a glance.
From Lin Mo's performance in the physical training class just now, combined with what had happened in the pressure test before, many things had already become clear.
Being able to endure spirit power pressure at the threshold of a Rank 50 quasi Spirit King did not mean his physical body was equal to that of a quasi Spirit King.
But it did mean that Lin Mo's true physical constitution was extremely exaggerated and far beyond that of Spirit Masters at the same level.
And the benefits that such a powerful physical body brought to a Spirit Master were obvious.
The most direct one was this: when spirit power reached a Bottleneck and a Spirit Ring was needed to break through, he would be able to withstand the impact of a Spirit Ring with a much higher year limit than ordinary people.
That meant that when Lin Mo reached the 4 ring Spirit Ancestor stage, he would have a chance to attempt absorbing a ten thousand year Spirit Ring 1 full rank ahead of schedule.
Even if he ultimately failed to achieve that kind of leap, it would still not matter too much. A powerful constitution meant that every Spirit Ring he absorbed afterward would have a noticeably higher year limit than that of Spirit Masters of the same rank.
The benefits of high year limit Spirit Rings to a Spirit Master naturally needed no explanation.
At that thought, the 3 Committee Members felt both gratified and faintly bitter.
Meng Shenji let out a light snort.
"That old fellow Ye Linyuan moved far too quickly. His eyes are truly sharp."
Lin Mo had originally been a student of Heaven Dou Intermediate Spirit Master Academy. Logically speaking, Heaven Dou Royal Academy had been the nearest choice and should have had the best chance.
Yet who would have thought that, before long, Lin Mo would be coaxed away by Ye Linyuan to become an apprentice at the medical hall, and would eventually even take him as his Disciple, firmly tying this peerless genius to his side?
Moreover, judging from the way Ye Lingling and Lin Mo interacted just now...
Their manner with each other was natural and familiar. The relationship between them was clearly far closer than that of ordinary classmates.
The purpose behind Ye Linyuan striking first and taking Lin Mo as a Disciple could already be guessed by the three old men in front of the field.
With the talent Lin Mo had displayed, as long as he did not fall midway, he was certain to become a powerhouse in the future. Perhaps even Titled Douluo would not be his endpoint.
With such a bond established, Ye Linyuan would no longer need to fear a tragedy like the one that had once happened to Ye Lingling's parents from repeating itself upon her in the future.
At that thought, the 3 Committee Members sighed inwardly. This was the helplessness of support system Spirit Masters.
Meanwhile, after resting enough, Lin Mo stood up and walked over with Ye Lingling to Qin Ming's side.
"Teacher Qin, I'm done."
Lin Mo's breathing had mostly stabilized. Aside from the faint flush that still lingered on his face after exercise, it was difficult to tell that he had just gone through such intense training.
Qin Ming let out a quiet sigh and reached out to pat Lin Mo on the shoulder.
"Good. Very good."
"Go rest a little more and get ready for lunch."
After greeting Qin Ming, Lin Mo went together with Ye Lingling, bringing Charmander along, and headed straight for the student cafeteria of Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
Not far away, Dugu Yan stood in the shade and watched the two of them leave, a complex look flickering in her eyes.
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