The juices of the Golden Unicorn Beetles transformed into strands of pure, strange power. From the moment Zhang Tie swallowed them, they slowly spread throughout his body, merging into his muscles and bones, meridians and blood vessels, imperceptibly increasing his strength.
By the time the Liu brothers knocked on his door again, daylight had fully broken outside. Zhang Tie had already consumed and digested the power of three Golden Unicorn Beetles and one Fruit of Redemption from a Flower-Furred Clam in his room. His strength had increased by another two hundred kilograms or so, while his body's defenses and resistance to blows had been enhanced by another 1.6 percent. In that short time, Zhang Tie's overall strength had taken another small step forward.
This was the reason for Zhang Tie's power. In one or two hours, others might merely make a trip outside, but Zhang Tie, even while sitting quietly in his room, had unknowingly grown stronger again. Through the patient accumulation of dripping water piercing stone, day after day and year after year, the fruits of Little Tree flowed into Zhang Tie like a trickling stream, step by step bringing him to where he was today—able to contend with half-sages and saints, his power surging like the sea.
The moment he opened the door, the Liu brothers hurriedly squeezed inside. Their faces were slightly flushed, their hands rubbing together. No matter how they tried to hide it, they could not conceal their excitement.
"Did you bring them back?" Zhang Tie asked with a smile.
"We brought them back!" Liu Meng nodded and handed Zhang Tie the spatial ring Zhang Tie had given him, which he had been clutching tightly in his fist.
With the brothers' senses, naturally, there was no way they could discover that in this brief span