The Knight's Journey to the Empire

There is no castle to live in, and Sauron is no exception. He is even lucky!

Because this villa mansion is much more luxurious and complete than most of the mansions of small nobles.

There were also some minor nobles in the Kingdom of Midburg who were in miserable circumstances and lived in mud houses, black wooden houses or thatched houses.

At present, Soran has limited funds available, and they must be used to invest in territory construction projects, so he has temporarily given up the idea of ​​building a family castle.

The luxurious and magnificent castle, I’ll have to talk about it later!

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September 4877, 3 in the Knight Continent calendar.

That morning, the eastern sky was just beginning to show a hint of paleness, and in the backyard square of Baron Soran's mansion, some people had already begun exercising.

It turned out that after many days, Baron Sauron felt that although his life was good, he always felt empty and had nowhere to rest in his heart.

So he finally turned over a new leaf, picked up the habit of morning training again, and started to improve his physical fitness.

At the beginning of the morning exercise, Soran still did some simple warm-up exercises first.

The purpose is to activate the blood and joints in the body, so as to avoid unnecessary sports injuries or strains when performing various high-intensity exercises later.

Although his physical fitness is pretty good now, there is still a certain risk.

But as long as you pay attention, there shouldn't be any problem.

Then there are various high-intensity equipment-assisted exercises, such as lifting large stone hammers, strong weighted running, weighted push-ups, weighted frog jumps, weighted leg raises, etc.

This type of exercise is a high-difficulty action that consumes a lot of physical energy.

Soran's knight training has reached the peak of the entry-level knight profession.

Given his current physical condition, if he wants to get good exercise results from his daily practice, he will definitely need to use equipment of a certain weight to assist in the exercise.

For example, in the morning exercise now, Soran carries a certain amount of weight on his back and completes all these exercises in about an hour.

He was already visibly feeling out of breath, his muscles were sore, and he felt exhausted all over.

The effect is very obvious, it means you have exercised effectively!

But he did not give up and end his training.

Because although the effect of this physical exercise is achieved, it is still far from reaching the limit of the body.

A knight's training can only advance to a higher level in his profession by constantly pushing beyond the limits of his body.

If it ends here, it will just be maintaining the original physical condition. If you want to break through the limits of your body, it will be extremely difficult.

So half an hour later, Soran performed these difficult movements dozens of times again, until he was truly "so weak all over that his whole body was sore and his fingers couldn't move", and then he stopped and prepared to take a rest.

As the saying goes: If you exercise without stretching, you will feel pain in your body; if you stretch without stretching your legs, you will regret it for half your life!

So after taking a short rest and recovering some strength, Soran began to do some static stretching exercises similar to yoga, such as forward bend stretching, camel stretching, latissimus dorsi stretching, dragon spine opening, and back dayang.

These movements not only help stretch ligaments and relieve muscle soreness, but also enhance muscle flexibility, improve physical fitness, and enhance the body's overall coordination and balance.

It really is a win-win situation!

But... Soran's morning exercise has not yet come to an end...

After he finished the stretching exercises, he endured the muscle aches all over his body, quickly sat cross-legged, and began to meditate and concentrate.

Slowly, Sauron's mind sank into his body, and then he focused all his consciousness on the Dou Qi seed that stayed in his lower abdomen.

Driven by a wisp of consciousness, the soybean-sized Dou Qi seed began to slowly swim inside Sauron's body.

As the traces of the Dou Qi seed spread, a trace of gentle Dou Qi energy slowly emanated from the Dou Qi seed and floated in Sauron's body.

Suddenly, the muscles, cells, and bones that had been squeezed, torn, or had their energy consumed during morning exercises seemed to have turned into greedy starving ghosts!

He actually began to frantically absorb the free fighting energy to replenish his own losses or repair and strengthen himself!

And Sauron's overall physical fitness was also slowly strengthened bit by bit during this absorption change.

For the training of professional knights, the role of fighting spirit seeds is to act as a training accelerator without any side effects.

The fighting energy it releases along the way can slowly strengthen the knight's organs and tissue cells, or quickly repair various physical injuries.

This is like dripping water wearing away a stone, accumulating quantity, and then waiting for a critical value to achieve a qualitative breakthrough.

That is, the knight's professional level has achieved the final advancement.

As time passed, the Dou Qi seed consumed its Dou Qi energy, and the originally crystal-clear luster on its surface gradually became dim.

But Sauron couldn't see these now, because if he wanted to look inside the body's meridians, he needed to break through to the professional level of a high-ranking knight.

Now, he could only rely on his vague consciousness to sense and drive the fighting spirit seeds to move inside his body.

In the end, he didn't know how much time had passed. When Sauron suddenly felt that his control over the Dou Qi Seed began to weaken a little, he quickly stopped.

The fighting spirit seed now is not the same as when it was just condensed. It circulates freely in the body for a while and then its control weakens.

Now, the energy absorbed by this Dou Qi seed in daily life is very abundant, so the Dou Qi energy needs to be dispersed to a critical value before Sauron can feel that his control over it has weakened.

Whenever this feeling appeared, Soran knew very well that his training of strengthening his body with fighting spirit was coming to an end.

Because if it continues to operate, although it will not cause any damage to the origin of the fighting spirit seed in the short term.

But if a special situation suddenly occurs and Sauron needs to take action, he may not have enough fighting spirit to support the battle.

As the saying goes: A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall!

Therefore, the knight's training and exercise should be done in moderation.

We should maintain normal combat effectiveness at ordinary times. There is no need to cross the warning line and put ourselves in danger.

Besides, the Dou Qi energy in the Dou Qi seed is not a non-renewable energy source and can be replenished through a day's nourishing meals!

Moreover, the breakthrough in the knight's professional level cannot be achieved overnight!

So, why rush?

Knowing when to stop and being tense in moderation is the way of practice that Sauron is following now!

After all, now that he has a hereditary territory and has become a noble lord, there are naturally more things that need to be managed!

But he couldn't just leave all the work to his subordinates and then be content to be a hands-off boss and focus on practicing every day!

What kind of talk is that!