At the training grounds.
Mingxin walked straight up to the fifth cauldron.
He gripped one of its legs with one hand, and the muscles in his face suddenly tightened.
The great cauldron, which only one person had successfully lifted before, was instantly pulled from the ground by him.
"So strong!!" Yan Youjiao stood beside Jiang Ning, staring at the scene in shock.
Even after mobilizing every ounce of strength and stepping into the fifth rank of martial arts, he had still failed to lift the first great cauldron.
Yet Mingxin, standing in the training grounds, had directly lifted the fifth great cauldron with one hand gripping its leg.
The gap between them could no longer be measured by reason.
Elsewhere.
On the raised platform north of the training grounds.
"As expected of Vajra Temple's Buddhist Son. The strength in his body is enough to astonish the world!" the Third Prince exclaimed.
"Third Brother, just how heavy is the fifth Mountains-and-Rivers Cauldron?" one of the princesses, a pretty young woman, asked.
"It weighs as much as a mountain!" the Third Prince said.
"Third Brother, how much does a mountain weigh?" the princess asked again.
"However much a mountain weighs, that is how much this cauldron weighs!" the Third Prince replied.
Princess: "."
At the center of the training grounds.
A full five breaths passed before Mingxin slowly lowered the Mountains-and-Rivers Cauldron in his hand, still gripping one of its legs with a single hand.
As the great cauldron settled steadily onto the ground, this assessment came to an end.
The examiner nodded at the sight, then continued calling out the next martial student's name from the list.
A moment later.
"Next, Wan Jianyi." The examiner looked at the roster in his hand, his gaze falling upon the martial students' stands and