Power Bull had expected the doubts from both families.
"I can understand why you can't accept this," Power Bull sighed. "Actually, as the Examiner, I couldn't accept it at first either. Even after watching him pass with my own eyes, I still felt as if I were dreaming."
Sturgeon Crocodile said impatiently, "Power Bull, are you ever going to stop spouting nonsense?"
Power Bull said, "Why would I lie to you?"
"To trick our two families into making a huge bet with you, of course! Your own wallet can't shoulder much, but you still want to gamble big, so you're dragging the five of us along."
Red Carp said, "Now I'm wondering whether Power Bull made up the story about the Eighth Domain's Domain Master passing the second stage of his trial to fool us, too."
Seeing that the other creatures refused to believe the truth, Power Bull sighed helplessly. "You really don't trust me."
"We trusted you plenty. You're the one who hasn't been sincere! You're treating us like idiots!"
"Exactly. When you said he passed your second-stage trial, we could just barely accept that. But you're saying he passed your third-stage trial? Power Bull, forget a human at Domain Sequence Level Five-even we couldn't withstand it with our bodies at Domain Sequence Level Five!"
Faced with Sturgeon Crocodile's and Red Carp's accusations, Power Bull merely said calmly, "This time, he didn't withstand it with his body. You'd never guess how he passed the third-stage trial."
"He has an Intermediate Growth Artifact, and his raw strength has already surpassed Domain Sequence Level Three. Before I began the trial, he kept launching attacks in the direction my force would come from, building up countless strikes in an attempt to cancel out my power."
As he spoke, Power Bull uprooted a