Eating bizarre things in public upgrades my status; the Special Affairs Bureau wants me to join them

"Testing strength?"

Situ Ji asked suspiciously, "The equipment for testing powers is available in the special bureaus of each region..."

"Those won't do!" He Li shook his head.

"I heard there's a laboratory nearby."

"It seems there's equipment capable of measuring forces of ten thousand tons?"

He pressed for an answer, and Situ Ji nodded.

"Yes, but that thing is a machine used to test other large equipment and is not suitable for testing individual strength..." Situ Ji paused slightly at this point.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "To test your strength, my Emei sect does have something you can use to test it."

"Oh?" He Li became interested.

Upon seeing this, Situ Ji gestured for him to enter.

Then, as he led the way, he said, "Behind the main hall of the Golden Summit of Mount Emei, there is a broken stele. If you hit that thing hard, it will show the corresponding force."

"My disciples often use it to test their strength..."

A broken stele? He Li's eyes lit up.

This thing sounds a bit like the kind of strength test that sects use in those cultivation novels.

"Where did that broken stele come from?"

"That kind of thing isn't from Earth, is it?"

He Li couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

Situ Ji nodded: "That's indeed not the case."

"It comes from Ryokawa... Three years ago, during the Ryokawa earthquake, an anomalous spatial point appeared there, but it's different from those spatial anomalies that appeared in other places..."

"The anomalous spatial region there existed briefly before suddenly recovering and disappearing."

Disappeared? He Li was somewhat surprised.

He had never heard of this before.

Yu Ji, who was following beside him, chimed in at this moment: "Although the Lengchuan spatial anomaly point exists for a short time, it covers a large area and has a very large impact."

"As you know, our Ba City Special Affairs Bureau is built on the foundation of the Ba Snake's stomach..."

"That Bashe snake is said to have appeared along with the abnormal area, causing considerable casualties."

"At that time, many people also came to support Lengchuan."

"Among them were martial artists from Emei..."

Yu Ji looked at Situ Ji as he spoke.

The latter nodded: "Yes, we were also responding to the call of the Great Xia to go to the rescue."

"Major sects such as Wudang, Shaolin, and Qingyang Palace, as well as many other forces such as the five divisions of Shuzhou, all went there, and we also obtained many things in that abnormal area."

"The broken stele came from there!"

At this point, Situ Ji still seemed a little helpless.

They weren't very lucky at the time.

Other factions reaped considerable gains, but they searched high and low without finding anything of value.

In the end, Situ Ji didn't want to leave empty-handed, so he brought back the broken stele, which seemed to be of little use except for testing strength. If there had been other good things to take...

He would never move that thing.

"So that's how it is..."

After hearing all this, He Li understood.

While everyone was talking, Situ Ji had already led them to the square behind the Golden Summit Hall, where a black stone tablet about three meters high and two meters wide stood.

The black stele was smooth as a mirror on both sides, reflecting a luster.

However, the top has an uneven fracture.

It looks like it's been broken.

And the instant he saw this broken, black monument...

He Li paused in his steps.

At that very moment, he vaguely saw the monster he had killed, as well as Liu Feng, the Grand Elder of Emei, and others, appearing inside the smooth, mirror-like surface of the monument.

But upon closer inspection, one discovers that there is nothing on the broken stone tablet.

"An illusion?" He Li frowned.

He didn't really believe it was an illusion.

After all, at his level, his mental strength had already surpassed the limits of humanity.

The possibility of hallucinations is extremely small.

But right now there's really nothing on that black monument...

"What's wrong?" Yu Ji looked at He Li with some suspicion and asked when she noticed that he was standing still. He Li shook his head and did not say anything more, but just moved closer to the black monument.

Seeing this, Situ Ji said, "Just hit it hard, and the stele will react."

"A hundred pounds of force will result in blank numbers."

"If it weighs 1000 jin, it will be displayed in green."

"Ten thousand catties, the word will appear in blue..."

He spoke with curiosity in his eyes.

After all, He Li was a national-level genius, and he didn't seem to care about him, a mere Void Realm martial artist. He really wanted to see just how powerful He Li was.

"Although strength cannot fully represent combat power, it can at least give a general idea of ​​his strength."

"I'd like to see..."

Just how amazing are you?

Situ Ji thought to himself.

He Li nodded and walked to the broken black stele. Staring at the dark stone, he closed his eyes slightly, focused his energy in his dantian, and then clenched his fist and struck the stele hard...

Boom! ! !

As the fist struck the stone tablet, ripples immediately appeared on the smooth, mirror-like surface.

The deep, melodious sound, like the tolling of an ancient bell, spread far and wide along with the ripples on the monument.

At the same time, blood-red characters appeared on the monument...

[Strength: 7.82 million jin!]

Ok? ? ?

Seven...more than seven million catties?!

Staring at the blood-red characters that appeared on the black stele, Situ Ji's eyes widened and his head buzzed.

More than seven million catties!

That's a whopping 3900 tons!

Is this even human?!

"Hiss~" Situ Ji gasped.

That's terrifying. No wonder this guy doesn't take me, a senior in the Void Realm, seriously at all. With his strength... even ten of me would be crushed to death.

"Luckily, I was humble and didn't fight him."

"Otherwise, I'll end up like the Grand Elder."

Situ Ji felt extremely fortunate.

Of course, it wasn't just Situ Ji who was frightened by this power.

Yu Ji, Zhao Hu, and Yang Jian were the same.

Especially people like Yang Jian.

Although they knew He Li was very strong, and had previously witnessed his amazing performance.

But they didn't know how powerful He Li was. Now, seeing the power He Li demonstrated in the test, they realized the incredible strength He Li had shown before...

It was a result of his restraint.

"Holy crap! Over 3,900 tons!!!"

"A humanoid hydraulic press, it's nothing special, isn't it?"

"His strength is this great... even disregarding his other abilities, he's enough to be considered a top genius. No wonder the higher-ups at the Kyoto Special Abilities Bureau value him so much!"

"No, is this normal?"

"Even a martial artist at their peak wouldn't have that much power, would they?"

"You don't understand, do you? I heard that Brother Li initially ate a Mountain-Shaking Ant. Even before he started cultivating, he already possessed the strength of a hundred tons."

"As you cultivate and strengthen your body, the power you can unleash will naturally increase proportionally..."

"Plus, he might have consumed all sorts of rare and precious herbs..."

"He is able to possess such power now..."

"Actually, I can understand!"

"Huh? Wait a minute, look... what's Li-ge doing now?"

As the group of Emei investigators were marveling at the sight, they suddenly noticed that He Li raised his hand again, as if preparing to strike the black monument for a second test.

But is further testing still necessary?

The test results are already... wait, could it be that he was just holding back his power to test his skills?

Are you only now preparing to unleash your full power to test your strength?

Just thinking about this possibility...

Not only were Yang Jian and the others' hearts pounding, but Situ Ji, who had also considered this possibility, was also staring intently at the black stele, breathing rapidly, somewhat unable to believe that He Li still had something to hold back.

At that moment, He Li unleashed his full power to smash the stone tablet as he was about to throw another punch...

Boom! ! !

Accompanied by a familiar sound...

New information emerges on the monument.

[Strength: 78,120,000 jin!]

Holy crap! Over 39,000 tons!!!

Upon seeing the information on the monument, Situ Ji and the others were so shocked that their eyes almost popped out of their sockets. Yang Jian couldn't help but exclaim "Holy crap!" which echoed around them.

However, at this very moment, an unexpected change occurred...

hum! ! !

Suddenly, a crimson light burst forth from the broken end of the black stele, shooting straight into the sky and scattering the white clouds, attracting the attention of countless people on the golden summit.

"What is that?"

"What exactly are Sect Leader Situ and He Li doing behind the Golden Roof Hall?"

"Could they have started fighting???"

"A fight? Unlikely. Sect Leader Situ knows He Li's identity and wouldn't willingly seek death. Perhaps... they've done something extraordinary behind the scenes!"

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go take a look!!!"

"Yes, let's go take a look and see!"

Gazing at the crimson pillar of light shooting into the sky, countless people from Golden Peak Mountain surged frantically toward the back of the main hall. The Emei disciples tried to stop them, but they couldn't stop them at all.

As countless people surged in, the black stone tablet behind the main hall was already covered with cracks...