I gained immortality in Full-Time Magician

Chapter 16 Thunderous Body Tempering

When Jiang Shang and his entourage arrived at the playground, there were already quite a few people lined up there.

"Joining the team"

After seeing Jiang Shang and the others, Zhang Dingtian waved for them to return to their ranks.

five minutes later

All the top students, along with the military mages, came to the playground.

Zhang Dingtian held a stopwatch in his hand and stopped the timer after everyone had arrived.

"Do you students know how long it took you to assemble this time?" Zhang Dingtian asked, looking at the line in front of him.

"This assembly took a full five minutes!"

Do you know what these 5 minutes mean?

"This means that when demons come in the wild, you will be completely unable to mount an effective resistance, and you won't even have the possibility of escaping."

"I won't demand the same things of you as I would of a military magistrate."

"But eventually you will be hunting monsters in the wild, so you must be extremely vigilant about the slightest disturbance."

After delivering a passionate and cautionary speech, Zhang Dingtian announced the start of the first day of military training.

"We'll have a 10-kilometer cross-country race this morning. After that, we can rest," Zhang Dingtian said with a smile.

"what!"

"It's ten kilometers right off the bat!"

"Instructor, you can't run even a little bit!"

"You'll die if you run like that!"

The students complained upon hearing this arrangement. It was an impossible task for them; were they really asking a group of students who usually only studied and occasionally played basketball to run ten kilometers?

It's impossible no matter how you look at it!

"I don't require you to finish the run within a certain timeframe; I don't set a time limit! I only have one requirement, and that is to run!"

"It doesn't matter if you're slow. It's 5:53 now. As long as you finish running within the morning, you can rest and eat lunch. Otherwise, you won't have any rest time!" Zhang Dingtian said sternly.

"Let's go," Jiang Shang said, patting Zhou Yuan on the shoulder before leading the way in a run.

Seeing that he had started running, Zhou Yuan and the others reluctantly followed.

The two military mages smiled and followed.

After all, a 10-kilometer run like this is a piece of cake for them; they usually have time limits!

Seeing that some students had already started running, the students stopped complaining and started running along with them.

That's how people are; once someone takes the lead, everyone else will follow suit.

Gradually, all of the more than one hundred students, including the top students and the military mages, started to move.

………………

"Hurry up, everyone keep up, make sure your arm swings are even."

Zhu Zhou and Zhou Yi led Jiang Shang and the other three people, one in front and one behind.

They continuously corrected their running posture.

"I can't go on anymore, I can't run anymore," Bao Benyi complained, panting.

"You're already complaining of being tired after only two minutes? It's not even two kilometers yet!" Zhu Zhou urged from the side.

"I really can't run anymore, how about I use ground wave?" Bao Ben said.

"No, physical training is physical training. It's about building your physical strength and willpower. Using magic will only add another kilometer."

After overhearing their conversation using sound magic in the center of the playground, Zhang Dingtian warned Bao Benyi.

"Ah!" Upon hearing this, Bao Benyi's nearly 200-pound body suddenly seemed to lose all its strength and he collapsed to the ground.

Zhu Zhou and Zhou Yi each lifted Bao Benyi up on either side and continued jogging with small steps.

The three people who had intended to stop and help Bao Benyi stopped and continued running.

"Brother Jiang, are you really planning to keep running like this?"

As Leng Ci ran closer to Jiang Shang, he spoke to him.

"If we don't run like this, how else can we run? Tell me," Zhou Yuan said honestly.

"Let's run! Didn't the instructor say this is how we train our physical fitness?" Jiang Shang said.

"Running like this is really tiring," Leng Ci said.

"Run, it'll do you good."

Jiang Shang didn't have much of a problem with the physical training. Lieutenant Zhang Dingtian was absolutely right. As novice mages, they only had physical strength and magic to rely on in the face of demons.

Although the original work did not describe the role of physical strength in much detail, it was because high-level mages had already enhanced their bodies!

That's a physical quality comparable to some low-level demons!

For now, I should just follow the instructor's training method obediently, since it's a training method summarized from experience.

However, while running, Jiang Shang suddenly thought of a way to train his body.

"Thunderous Body Tempering"

This is a well-known method of body tempering from novels of my past life!

A more fantastical interpretation is that lightning not only destroys all things, but also gives birth to all things! Therefore, lightning tempering can greatly enhance physical strength.

A more scientific explanation is that the human body is a small magnetic field, while the universe is a large magnetic field. Furthermore, because the human body possesses bioelectricity, electrical tempering not only stimulates rapid cell growth and transformation but also increases the body's magnetic field, transforming it into a body of steel, much like a superhero.

Although Jiang Shang had read about this in a science fiction novel, he remained skeptical about its scientific validity. After all, no one had actually tried this method; news reports of people getting electrocuted all died from it. The safe voltage for the human body is so low! Where would one go to train their body?

However, Jiang Shang still believed the fantastical explanations mentioned earlier. Firstly, he had transmigrated! Secondly...

The legacy given by the Antarctic Longevity Emperor truly contains methods for refining the body using thunder magic!

This method requires time to be at dusk, when the sun and moon are both in the same place.

It absorbs the power of the sun and moon into its body, combining them into lightning. This lightning is then channeled throughout the body to temper the muscles, bones, skin, and blood. Afterwards, the [Heavenly Divine Lightning] is used to further refine the body!

It was only during this physical training session today that Jiang Shang remembered the body-refining methods in his family's tradition.

It wasn't that he didn't examine it carefully beforehand, but the prerequisite for cultivating this technique was to fully visualize the divine essence of the Antarctic Longevity Emperor!

Jiang Shang is currently unable to complete the visualization step, so he subconsciously ignores this body-refining step.

"I wonder if using Thunder Magic to replace this Thunder will work?" Jiang Shang thought to himself.

Thunder magic originates from the stardust within a mage's spiritual universe, serving as the proof for a mage's cultivation and casting of spells. The thunder in a cultivation technique is a combination of the power of the moon and the sun, thus possessing the power to seize the very essence of heaven and earth!

"If I use thunder magic energy instead to run the technique, it probably won't have such a big effect, but the basic tempering effect should still be there."

"I've already circulated the Thunder Demon Energy within my body several times. Even if it has no effect after one run, it won't harm my body. If possible, I can temper my body in advance, greatly increasing my chances of surviving the demons!" Jiang Shang pondered.

Just do it!

Jiang Shang closed his eyes and began to guide the thunderous magic energy from his spiritual universe.

(End of this chapter)