“By the way, I need to remind you, during the strength test, you are not allowed to use any True Essence. Otherwise, it will be considered a failure.”
Yuan Qingcheng added leisurely. The strength test was meant to assess physical prowess, so using True Essence was naturally forbidden. Qi Yuntian had also not used True Essence earlier.
If Terra Su were to cheat by using True Essence, Yuan Qingcheng would immediately detect the fluctuation of True Essence on him.
“Terra Su.”
Gu Qianyin couldn’t help but call out. She knew Terra Su was formidable, but she had never seen him display any particular advantage in physical strength. At this moment, she couldn’t help but feel a bit worried.
However, this call made Qi Yuntian’s gaze suddenly turn cold, like a sharp arrow aimed at Terra Su.
Anyone with a bit of sense could tell from Gu Qianyin’s tone that her relationship with Terra Su was quite unusual.
This made Qi Yuntian’s heart fill with an indescribable disgust. From the moment he first saw Gu Qianyin, he naturally assumed that such a beautiful woman should belong to a top genius like him.
But now, seeing Gu Qianyin being close to someone else filled Qi Yuntian with hostility towards Terra Su.
Moreover, if Terra Su were a genius from a noble family, it would be understandable. But he was merely a child from a humble background, which made Qi Yuntian even more displeased.
Amidst the varied gazes of the crowd, Terra Su had already walked to the row of large cauldrons.
He first approached the one-thousand-pound cauldron. However, just when everyone thought he was going to lift it, Terra Su didn’t even glance at it and moved on to the next cauldron.
“What? Is he going to challenge the two-thousand-pound cauldron?” someone said in disbelief.
Yet, Terra Su walked past the two-thousand-pound cauldron without stopping and continued to the next one.
“Is this guy thinking of challenging the three-thousand-pound cauldron?”
Yuan Qingcheng looked incredulous. Just a genius from a humble background with not even high cultivation level, challenging the three-thousand-pound cauldron would be self-humiliation.
But what happened next made Yuan Qingcheng even more incredulous.
Terra Su walked past the three-thousand-pound cauldron and stopped in front of the five-thousand-pound cauldron.
At this moment, everyone present gasped.
“Am I seeing this right? Is he going to challenge the five-thousand-pound cauldron?”
“Is this guy out of his mind? How can an ordinary person challenge a five-thousand-pound cauldron?”
“I get it. He must have been provoked by Yuan Qingcheng’s words earlier. This guy wants to compete with Qi Yuntian in lifting cauldrons. It’s laughable. Qi Yuntian is a body refining Martial Practitioner. What is he?”
“Forget about the five-thousand-pound cauldron. This guy probably can’t even lift one leg of it.”
“That’s why I say, these kids from humble backgrounds don’t know their limits.”
The noble disciples laughed loudly, waiting to see Terra Su make a fool of himself.
But the next moment, their gloating smiles froze on their faces, their eyes wide open in disbelief.
Terra Su bent down, placed his hands under the cauldron, and with a slight lift of his arms, effortlessly raised the five-thousand-pound cauldron above his head.
Moments later, Terra Su put the cauldron down, his hands still steady without any sign of trembling.
At this, everyone’s mouths dropped open in astonishment, unable to close for a long time.
“How… how is this possible?”
Yuan Qingcheng was so shocked his jaw almost dropped. He had no idea that Terra Su had undergone a Tempering Bath and that the Chaotic Immortal Records he practiced also had body refining effects.
He just felt like his worldview had been turned upside down. “How can this guy lift a five-thousand-pound cauldron? Did he cheat by using True Essence?”
But Yuan Qingcheng knew this was impossible because he hadn’t seen any signs of True Essence fluctuation on Terra Su.
“Could he be a body refining Martial Practitioner? No, even at the Condensing Origin Realm seventh-level, a body refining Martial Practitioner couldn’t possibly have the strength to lift five thousand pounds.”
Not just Yuan Qingcheng, but all the noble disciples present looked as if they had seen a ghost, their mouths wide enough to fit a steamed bun.
Condensing Origin Realm seventh-level, five thousand pounds of strength!
Terra Su’s performance was like a hot slap in the face to those who had called kids from humble backgrounds trash, unworthy of being compared to noble geniuses.
“Cheating!”
“This guy must be cheating!”
Many noble disciples couldn’t handle the blow to their pride and shouted out.
Even though they were noble disciples, many of them could only lift five hundred or one thousand pounds. Yet, Terra Su, who wasn’t from a noble background, could lift five thousand pounds.
They had never experienced such a thing in their lives, being trampled by a genius from a humble background.
“Senior Brother Yuan, this guy must be cheating. You have to investigate thoroughly.”
A group of noble disciples shouted at Yuan Qingcheng.
Cheating?
Yuan Qingcheng’s face turned ugly. He wished Terra Su was cheating, but from the current situation, there was no sign of Terra Su cheating.
As for why Terra Su had such exaggerated physical strength, Yuan Qingcheng couldn’t figure it out. Could it be the legendary innate giant strength?
Thinking back to his earlier boastful bet with Terra Su, Yuan Qingcheng couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat. Luckily, he hadn’t really bet, or he would have to apologize to Terra Su on the spot.
“Enough!”
Yuan Qingcheng calmed himself and said to the agitated noble disciples, “Terra Su’s strength test results are valid. I’ve already recorded them.”
Since even Yuan Qingcheng said so, the noble disciples had to quiet down.
Gu Qianyin’s beautiful eyes sparkled as she looked at Terra Su. He had given her too many surprises.
Qi Yuntian’s eyes were dark, his face puzzled. Even as a Transforming Realm body refining Martial Practitioner, his physical strength barely reached five thousand pounds. How could Terra Su, at the Condensing Origin Realm seventh-level, have such strength?
No matter how hard Qi Yuntian thought, he couldn’t understand. But the fact that Terra Su, at the Condensing Origin Realm seventh-level, could lift the five-thousand-pound cauldron more easily than him filled Qi Yuntian with confusion and displeasure.
And this confusion and displeasure turned into a burning anger when he saw Gu Qianyin’s admiring gaze towards Terra Su.
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