Chapter 528: Accumulated Exhaustion into Ghost

Wu Xian reached his conclusion yesterday.

The courses at the immigration training center are not meaningless; all teachers are teaching things that help with survival when facing malevolent spirits.

The physical education exercises are the same.

The running drills are likely meant to train ordinary people in fleeing from malevolent spirits.

But building strength through exercise requires daily accumulation; with only four classes totaling four kilometers of running—even with added weight—it’s impossible to achieve any real improvement in physical fitness, and may even impair short-term mobility due to overexertion.

Yet Wu Banqing’s reality lay before Wu Xian.

Not just her, but many natives showed drastically different performance after just one day; yesterday’s fastest white-haired native now led by an enormous margin.

This is no coincidence.

Wu Xian wasted almost no time.

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Then Wu Xian ran to the first iron gate, which had a lockhole with a math problem above it.

Wu Xian actually stuck it out!

Wu Xian did not hesitate.

“Today’s second exercise is obstacle running. You need only untie the ropes on your legs, then pass through these three gates to complete the second exercise.”

And both the Juan people and newcomers mostly finished first.

Wu Xian stared strangely at the playground.

Amid the astonished gazes of Huo Shutong and Su Mi, he rapidly swung his arms.

“The next day, a wealthy merchant came here and found no slaves; the fields were drenched in blood, and the merchant’s skeleton hung from the flagpole…”

He clapped his hands.

“So, there really is something fishy!”

Seeing others had not yet reached the finish line.

Fourth-rank Dao cultivation only made Wu Xian healthier than ordinary people; it could not let him surpass professional athletes. The fact that Wu Xian achieved this means something happened during the process.

The second gate had a subtraction problem; the third gate had a 12 times 12 multiplication problem.

Wu Xian quickly turned away, pulled out his travel permit, squinted through dizziness, and soon found a new trait in the characteristics column.

His steps grew heavier, his lungs felt ready to burst, and the weight on his shoulders became impossible to ignore.

Today, Guo Xiaodong waited until the last person finished running, then had everyone stand and rest while he went to the sports warehouse near the playground and brought out a massive box.

With this hypothesis in mind.

Guo Xiaodong reached his hand into the ground and pulled out eleven thin iron chains, each ending in a malevolent spirit.

But for Juan people and newcomers, when they leave the blessed land, they are purified by the pure qi of Li Hen Tian, so the enhancement effect only leaves a small residue.

Doo~ The whistle blew, timing began.

Guo Xiaodong had the top eleven runners stand at one end of the iron gates, took out several keychains from the box, and distributed them to Wu Xian and others.

Ten of these spirits were yesterday’s PE teaching assistants; the eleventh was the long-faced student council member who had just been swallowed by the ground during the run! Guo Xiaodong said expressionlessly: “Between the north and south sides of the playground, there’s less than fifty meters. I give you two minutes. After two minutes, I’ll release the chains—what the assistants do next is beyond my control.”

“Though there are negative side effects, six short classes shouldn’t turn someone into a ghost. That Guo Xiaodong’s course can produce such results counts as a complete transformation.” Wu Xian tucked away his travel permit.

Unlike yesterday.

This entire playground might be Guo Xiaodong’s ability! Then he stood before the panting group and shouted: “Yesterday’s second exercise was meant to teach you to remain calm and find escape routes when danger strikes—but such training only works the first time. Today’s second exercise has changed.”

The people who had just been ahead of Wu Xian were overtaken one by one, but after only ten seconds of running like this, Wu Xian felt he had reached his limit.

Perhaps what appeared today still isn’t the full picture.

Yesterday, he’d already found it strange that there was an underground tunnel beneath the playground; today, even stranger things had emerged from within it.

Trait: Accumulated Exhaustion into Ghost ‘In old times, a wealthy merchant hoarded ten thousand mu of land but lacked laborers. To increase productivity, he used dark arts to bind spirits onto human bodies, forcing slaves to never rest.’

For natives, this is permanent enhancement.

Guo Xiaodong used the same dark art to make the little ghosts ride on everyone’s shoulders; thus, as long as one overexerts during PE, the spirit on the shoulder fuses partially with the body, granting a portion of ghostly power.

There were eleven rows of iron gates, each with three gates.

The playground began to transform drastically: iron gates sprouted from the grass.

Then.

“Because both human and ghost are bound, merging into one!”

They hadn’t intended to run this fast, but seeing Wu Xian suddenly surge ahead and sprint the entire course like his life depended on it, they assumed there might be benefits—and began accelerating.

They actually sprinted at maximum speed over a full kilometer!

“22+22=? ”

Wu Xian immediately bent down.

The little ghost’s knot wasn’t complicated; he glanced at it twice and untied the rope.

Wu Xian did not slow down; he clenched his neck, endured intense discomfort, and desperately pushed his limits.

The keychain had ten keys, each marked with a different number. Wu Xian quickly flipped through them and found the key labeled “44,” easily unlocking the gate.

Those behind him had gradually finished the course.

Even the world’s top athletes cannot sprint this far at maximum speed.

The human body has limits.

So what distinguishes Wu Xian and the others from these people?

But even so.

He actually ran the remaining five or six hundred meters at maximum speed, only collapsing after crossing the finish line, drenched in sweat, hands on his waist, walking slowly to ease his physical distress.

Then the little ghost climbed from his shoulder to his legs, fiddled for a while, and when it returned to his shoulder, Wu Xian noticed thick hemp ropes tied tightly around his legs.

“The slaves labored day and night, exhausted more than oxen and horses, tilling fields far beyond their capacity—yet one day, the merchant came at night to supervise and saw all slaves with blue-green faces, bared fangs, and bloodshot eyes glaring at him.”

That’s because their baseline was superior, so they didn’t feel pressure during running and merely went through the motions without truly pushing themselves! “Could the ‘transformation’ in the school’s name mean that if you take the class seriously, you truly transform?”

In less than a minute, he opened all three gates in succession and reached the other side, completing today’s second exercise.

This exercise wasn’t difficult.

The math problems weren’t hard; even ordinary people who’d attended elementary school could solve them easily if they stayed calm—two minutes was more than enough.

But the hardest part of this exercise was staying calm!

(End of Chapter)