"Whether or not you can run five kilometers isn't important; how far you can run isn't important either. What is important is that you have a goal and are willing to work hard for that goal."
Ji Xinghe didn't demand that the children complete the five kilometers. Besides Ji Rongxinyue and a few others, even the eighteen-year-olds found this distance challenging.
It was indeed a life-threatening endeavor.
And his actions of undermining them did not stop there.
"Ji Rongxinyue, what you said was good, but you overlooked something very important. The people on the Alien Planet that you like, they all come from Azure Star. Before they went to the Alien Planet, they were no different from those you dislike.
But after they went to the Alien Planet, they underwent earth-shattering changes, simply because they found their goals and worked hard toward them.
Now, the only difference between you and them is that you have goals, and they temporarily do not."