Chapter 5: Body Refinement

——The Age of High Magic…

After the Sea Race ruled the continent for over nine thousand years, times changed. The seawater finally receded gradually, and the land was slowly exposed. The rule of the Sea Race came with the tides and departed with the tides, and the land races finally returned to the stage of the Amelia Continent.

However, perhaps because of being soaked and washed for nearly ten thousand years, although the seawater receded, the various energies between heaven and earth remained in chaos. Among them, various Magic Elements were especially active, and thus the “Age of High Magic” arrived.

This was an era of “magic.” Because of the extreme activity of Magic Elements, magic civilization naturally became the new mainstream. Various magic skills experienced explosive development; they either appeared in this era or were perfected in this era and passed down to the present. In such an environment, the Elves, known as the “natural magic race,” gradually became the third generation of protagonists of the Amelia Continent, beginning to write their own new glorious chapter following the Giants and the Sea Race.

“The Protagonist After One Hundred Thousand Years—Walking Under the Wheels of History”

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Early the next morning, Luo Yan slowly woke up from deep Meditation. He gently stretched his somewhat stiff limbs and then casually snapped his fingers.

As expected… nothing happened at all!

Gently rubbing his temples, Luo Yan did not feel discouraged. Instead, a faint smile appeared at the corners of his mouth. To be able to cast a first-level spell after only one night of Meditation? That was something even those super geniuses of the Elf era, who treated forbidden spells like common vegetables, could not do.

In fact, last night’s Meditation had brought significant results. After a night of deep Meditation, Luo Yan had opened seven Mana Vessels and stabilized four of them. The remaining three were already faintly visible and looked as if they could definitely be stabilized one by one within half a year.

Luo Yan had not expected such speed before he started practicing. Before his rebirth, the “Kill You 3000 General Tutorial Low-Level Meditation Technique” (Version 2.0) he used had only opened four Mana Vessels during the first practice, and only one of them had been stabilized. The reason it went so smoothly this time was partly because Luo Yan was now experienced and avoided many mistakes, but more importantly, it was because of the sub-legendary Meditation Technique, “Multicolored Earth.”

A high-level Meditation Technique could actually bring such a “terrifying” change…

Now Luo Yan finally understood why the gap between himself and the top performers among his peers had been so large before his rebirth. This cultivation efficiency was almost several times higher than it had been before his rebirth.

Shaking his head gently, Luo Yan pushed aside the strange emotions rising in his heart. He dressed himself, washed his face with cold water, and ran to the backyard.

The morning mist was thin and light, and there was a scent of fresh soil in the air. Closing his eyes and breathing deeply, he felt a cool sensation fill his heart and lungs, which instinctively refreshed his spirit.

The backyard of Luo Yan’s house was not very large. A few Xilai trees were planted there. These were large trees with lush leaves that provided very satisfying shade in the summer and produced sweet, delicious red fruits similar to mulberries in the autumn.

The ground under the Xilai trees was paved with pebbles. Walking barefoot on them on summer nights gave a cool feeling that chilled the soul, as refreshing as taking a bite of an iced Ster-melon.

Although the small yard was not big, it was enough to provide an activity space for a five-year-old child. Luo Yan now stood in the middle of the backyard, trying his best to jog for a warm-up. He wasn’t just running for fun; he was seriously exercising his body.

Yesterday’s Meditation had been very smooth, so what he needed to consider now was how to accelerate the speed of his mana cultivation. Luo Yan actually remembered several ways to do this, but most of these methods required preparation, basically needing magic tools or materials, which were undoubtedly unrealistic for the current Luo Yan.

Fortunately, he knew a very simple way to increase the speed of mana cultivation!!

He ran hard, leaped, and stretched his legs…

—Maintaining a strong physique. This was the simplest method Luo Yan knew to increase the speed of mana cultivation, and also the most convenient method to use in the current situation… Although this method seemed simple, it could increase Luo Yan’s mana cultivation speed by more than ten percent.

[Magic, after all, is a game of power confrontation. Wizards actually need a strong physique more.]

This was a sentence that Luo Yan’s disciple, Alan, loved to repeat before his rebirth. At first, Luo Yan had sneered at this sentence. Who had ever heard of a Wizard needing a “strong physique”? A Wizard’s power should come from the Mental Strength and Mana obtained through Meditation! Therefore, Wizards would meditate whenever they had time; who would waste precious time on crude things like “physical exercise”?

However, after a series of proofs, Luo Yan gradually realized that Alan’s words actually made sense. Whether it was Mental Strength or Mana, they always existed by relying on the body. Only with a strong body could one have more energy for cultivation. Furthermore, Luo Yan discovered through experiments that people with strong physiques increased their mana more than ten percent faster than ordinary people during Meditation.

This was only the minimum standard; Luo Yan did not even know what the maximum standard would be. When Luo Yan discovered this phenomenon before his rebirth, he was already over one hundred and thirty years old. Although his various bodily functions had not yet aged, years of lack of exercise had made his body very weak, making it impossible to perform intense exercise. Naturally, the results of his training were limited.

Even so, after persisting in exercise for five years, Luo Yan benefited greatly, and his mana growth speed accelerated by nearly ten percent. If he could have persisted in exercising since he was young, this increase would certainly have been larger, though no one knew exactly how much.

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Lap after lap, panting for breath. Although the yard was not large, running thirty laps around it would be tiring even for an adult, let alone for Luo Yan, who was only five years old.

After finally finishing the run, Luo Yan stood in place to rest for a bit. Then he struck a strange posture and, with a loud shout, instantly kicked out eight outward-swinging legs, followed by eight inward-closing legs. A current of heat rushed directly from his tailbone to the crown of his head, and sweat suddenly poured off his body, quickly soaking his clothes…

Luo Yan had learned this exercise method from his disciple Alan. He didn’t know where his disciple had learned these strange things. This way of training was completely different from the traditional methods on the Amelia Continent, but the effect was surprisingly good. At that time, after only a month of training, Luo Yan’s physique had improved greatly, and after half a year, he had a physique not inferior to that of a second-level apprentice Swordsman.

However, limited by his current age and conditions, Luo Yan could only do manageable items such as jogging, jumping, and cross-step kicks. He had to temporarily give up items like weighted training and equipment training because he lacked the necessary conditions. Even so, completing a full set of exercises took nearly three Magic Hours, and he only finished everything close to lunchtime.

Standing there gently wiping away sweat in the backyard, Luo Yan recalled some details from before his rebirth and began to calculate how to improve the exercise method. He also needed to find a way to manufacture some exercise equipment, but creating those things would require a lot of effort to explain, which was another troublesome matter.

Sigh~~ five years old~~ what an awkward age…

While he was conflicted, the sound of footsteps suddenly arrived. Sophie appeared in the backyard, looked at Luo Yan, and said with a smile, “Son, have you played enough? If you’re done, hurry up and bathe and eat… look at you covered in sweat, be careful not to catch a cold!” These words left Luo Yan speechless. Was he playing? He was seriously “exercising,” okay!

But Sophie, of course, did not know what he was thinking. When she woke up today, she found that her usually sleepy precious son had run to the backyard to mess around early in the morning. Although she didn’t understand what her strange precious son was doing, seeing him “play” so happily with such precise movements, she simply didn’t disturb him until he stopped, then came to call him for dinner.

Pouting his lips to show his dissatisfaction, Luo Yan tilted his head and said casually without thinking, “No rush, Mom… Dad will be back soon, let’s eat together with him!”

Sophie was stunned for a moment, then covered her mouth and laughed, “Son, what are you talking about! You miss your dad after only a few days? But they will be out for at least seven days this time; he definitely won’t be back today.”

Luo Yan rolled his eyes again at Sophie’s words. He then remembered that before his rebirth, his father was originally expected to return in seven days, but he returned early because of an accidental discovery on the road. But how could he dare to say such a thing out loud! That was too careless!!

Luo Yan immediately blamed himself in his heart. He must pay attention, and pay attention, and pay attention again to such details in the future. He should avoid saying predictive words as much as possible. Otherwise, if this happened a few more times and he was treated as some kind of “prophet” or “astrologer” charlatan, it would be terrible. After all, Luo Yan’s dream was to be a “great” Wizard, not a “comfortable” charlatan!

He quickly used his advantage as a child to give a silly smile and act spoiled, finally fooling his mother. Luo Yan hurried to take a bath. After another half Magic Hour of dawdling, he finally walked out, wiping water droplets from his hair and feeling refreshed, only to hear a hearty laugh coming from the yard.

Dad!! Dad is back!!