Strength enough to lift nine bulls and two tigers?
Steward Xu froze at those words, his face filled with astonishment.
He naturally recognized Jiang Yi. The Green Zhi Pulp that had won Heshui Cave such widespread praise of late was this very man's creation.
He still remembered when Jiang Yi had been an inconspicuous Mortal Laborer of the Outer Sect, associating with no one beyond the likes of Wang Heng and Lu Yun.
Who could have imagined that in such a short time, he would rise so completely, sitting alongside Inner Peaks disciples, laughing and conversing with ease?
It truly proved the saying: after three days apart, one must look at a man with fresh eyes.
"J-Junior-Senior Brother Jiang!"
Steward Xu steadied himself and could not help offering earnest advice. "These Copper Bulls and Iron Tigers already possess ferocious strength. Once driven by copper essence and iron essence, their brute force becomes utterly unmatched!"
It was not that he doubted Jiang Yi's ability. He merely worried that Jiang Yi might insist on showing off and end up unable to extricate himself.
Failing the strength test was a small matter. Being injured by the brute strength of the Copper Bulls and Iron Tigers and making a spectacle of himself before everyone would be far too embarrassing.
Han Li also frowned and tried to dissuade him. "Junior Brother Jiang, I know you've just broken through to the sixth level of Qi Refining and endured the transformation of the body pass. Your physique and True Qi are no longer what they were.
"But nine Nine-Headed Copper Bulls exerting their strength together are absolutely beyond an ordinary cultivator's ability to resist."
His meaning could not have been clearer. Pitting one's strength against a single Copper Bull in a tug-of-war and testing oneself against nine