Although Old Zhao and his men had borrowed some tools from the village and tried to straighten the bent steel bars and strips, the effect was minimal; the thicker ones remained bent as before.

"I really can't break it anymore. I might have to trouble you guys for a bit more later." Old Zhao scratched the back of his head, somewhat embarrassed to look at the people from Pinghe Village. After all, he had asked them to do something, but he wasn't prepared.

Yun Xun and the others looked at the batch of materials in front of them and found that they were no different from what they had seen before. Except for a few small ones that were arranged more neatly, there was no change at all.

If they hadn't overheard the nonsensical things the people around them were saying, Yun Xun and the others would have wanted to pull Si Cheng back to the village. They completely forgot that without the help of machinery, these thick iron tools were simply impossible to bend by manpower.

As soon as Si Cheng saw the pile of building materials, he knew that these jobs would fall to him sooner or later. He was prepared and took out a pair of white gloves from his back pocket. He said to Old Zhao, "Have the people over there disperse and clear a piece of land to pile up the straightened steel bars."

Before Old Zhao could even speak, the people who were originally standing by the pile of materials quickly moved to the side.

In order to see the show sooner, these people were quite cooperative and even stepped back a certain distance according to the size of the pile of materials.

Their actions caused many people in Pinghe Village to roll their eyes.

Since Sicheng wanted to demonstrate his strength, he didn't hold back.

He picked up the nearest bent rebar, which they must have knocked off the concrete slab. The rebars were roughly the same length and size, but they were bent in different directions due to the varying degrees of compression.

But these steel bars were like heated plastic in his hands; as he twisted them constantly, they quickly straightened out.

He had just shown off his skills when everyone around him was stunned.

Old Zhao and the others were practically speechless with astonishment, because they knew all too well that no matter how much effort they put into these building materials, they couldn't change them in the slightest. But now, in Village Chief Si's hands, they were as easily transformed as if they were made of clay.

Yun Xun and the others looked smugly at the people who had been gossiping earlier, until they saw the astonished expressions on their faces, then they turned back to look at their idol with pride.

The previously noisy scene seemed to have been paused. Everyone was focused on watching Si Cheng twist and turn the steel bars, whether thick or thin, they all obediently changed shape in his hands.

Huang Yun and Liu Xiaoli, standing at the back of the crowd, were also stunned by the scene before them. They only knew that Si Cheng was quite skilled in martial arts, and they had heard that he was very strong these days, but they just thought it was an exaggeration.

"Sister Yun, does your Si family have some extraordinary heritage? Or is it a hereditary strongman?" Liu Xiaoli immediately thought of the ancient martial arts families she had read about in books before. As long as you practice your skills to a certain level, your strength will naturally increase.

"This shouldn't have anything to do with the Si family. If there really was a lineage, wouldn't our old Si family have practiced it themselves?" Huang Yun felt a little uneasy, even wondering if Si Cheng had been pretending to be weak while actually wanting to get rid of their family.

"Oh, that must be from his biological mother's side of the family..." Liu Xiaoli immediately realized she had said something she shouldn't have and stopped.

Huang Yun didn't even notice what she had just said. She even imagined herself as the steel bar in Si Cheng's hand, and her face immediately turned pale.

Thinking back to how he had privately teased the other party more than once, Huang Yun felt increasingly guilty. He couldn't care less about his friends who had come with him and turned around to run back to his village.

Huang Yun's sudden departure caught Liu Xiaoli off guard. Only after seeing Huang Yun run far away did she quickly chase after him.

Their little incident went unnoticed, but after Si Cheng and the others' actions, those with ulterior motives should consider whether their bodies are as tough as steel plates before making any moves.

Now, no one was in the mood to watch the show anymore; instead, they looked at the young village chief with complicated expressions.

Everyone knows what power represents in this world, so it's no wonder that Pinghe Village is so envied by the surrounding villages. If time could turn back, they would definitely have settled in Pinghe Village long ago, so they could have a strong backing and wouldn't have to wander around.

Si Cheng had to change gloves twice before he finished pulling on the steel bars.

The others weren't idle either. Old Zhao led his men to tie four steel bars and two iron plates into a long pillar, and then fixed it in place with short steel bars one by one.

Everything is ready; now it's time to see how things go in the water.

Just then, Big Bear arrived in the village on a bamboo raft.

Several elderly villagers specifically instructed that this bamboo raft must be guarded here, because Monkey and Big Bear are the best swimmers and have the best physical strength among them, and it would be more reassuring to have them watching over it.

However, a single bamboo raft could not bear the weight of each pillar. Old Zhao pushed the bamboo raft they had built over the past few days onto the water. When Si Cheng carried the steel pillar onto the raft, the entire raft sank directly. Fortunately, it was just a test, and they immediately retreated.

"Place the two bamboo rafts side by side. Then get into the water." Si Cheng had no choice but to try another method.

But when he put the steel pillar back on, the bamboo raft tilted to one side, and the entire steel pillar sank directly into the water.

"What are we going to do now? That steel pillar is too heavy. Now that it's sunk to the bottom of the water, it will be even more difficult to handle." Old Zhao bit his lip, wondering if this plan would have to be shelved again.

"I'll try it out in the water, but that might cause the position I set beforehand to be a bit off, because it's hard to control the position in the water." Si Cheng also wanted to know how far he could go with the resistance of the water.

"Village Chief Si, you've already done us a great favor. If it really can't be done, we can just give up. Don't force it." Old Zhao knew how difficult this task was. Without oxygen or mechanical assistance, it was incredibly difficult to accomplish this entirely by manpower.

He didn't know how good Village Chief Si was at swimming, but even if he was a good swimmer, he might not be able to move such heavy items underwater. If it really didn't work, he would have to give up.

"Give it a try, and we'll give up if it really doesn't work." Si Cheng didn't dare to make any guarantees, after all, it was no easy task to erect and secure a pillar in the water.

When he went into the water, the monkey and the bear followed closely behind him.