Kingdom-Toppling Beauty

Leng San smiled, the corner of his mouth slightly tugged up.

“This is my trump card. I cannot show it to you just yet. The conditions needed to be met are even harder than the Ocean-Shifting Dragon. You'll see me use it when my life is on the line.”

“Tsk!! Now I really want to see it. From now on, I pray that you will always be in mortal danger.”

Freya said in a sarcastic tone. Leng San was quite amused by the sassiness of the Devas’ daughter.

Suddenly, indigo qi dimly glowed at Leng San’s dantian. It then orbited one round through his entire body before darting back to the dantian, turning from indigo to a darker violet. Leng San’s violet qi had reached level four!! Freya immediately noticed the change.

“Y...y...you!! You transformed Chun Jiangtu’s remaining qi into your own to strengthen your qi to level four of the violet stage.”

“This is another attribute of the Dragon Meridian technique. Right now, my qi is very weak, so the amount of absorption is as you can see.”

Leng San answered. His expression remained calm. On the other hand, if Freya had her own body, her eyes would have almost popped out.

“This is absurd!! So you’re telling me that you would be able to absorb qi from opponents to use as your own if you were stronger, right? Isn’t this the legendary qi absorption technique that has never been discovered amongst the three realms for thousands of years?”

“Freya, what you’ve said is an exaggeration. What I did was just absorbing the opponent’s qi when receiving their attack. I don’t possess the ability to directly absorb external qi without a qi-based attack. The legendary technique that you speak of enables the user to directly absorb qi from the opponent’s body coercively, it is only a legend.”

“Pfft!! But the thing that you did is exactly the basic step of the legendary technique.”

Leng San smirked, then slightly nodded.

“What you’ve said is true. If I could devote about ten more years to study this technique, I am ninety percent sure that I can resurrect this legendary technique that had been lost. But it is impossible for my current self to do so as I have to re-establish the Leng Clan and relieve myself from the duty before going back to my studies.”

After he spoke, he returned to water the plants until the position of the sun was directly above his head.

Since arriving at this place, Leng San had never taken a break. If his qi was stronger, ten days without sleep or even a month without food wouldn’t be much of a trouble. However, with his current level of qi, his body was almost at its limit. The sun was scorching hot, but fortunately, there were some occasional breezes. He lay down beneath a tree in the garden to the west, the one located in front of the village chief’s residence. After ten breaths of fresh air, Leng San dozed off…

“Who are you!! Why are you sleeping in my garden?”

The honey-sweet voice woke Leng San up. The boy opened his eyes and sat up straight. The owner of the question turned out to be a girl around the age of eighteen whose silky black hair perfectly complemented her oval-shaped face. Her eyes were shining brightly as same as a priceless gem. The bridge of her nose was as prominent as a sculpture made of jade. Her porcelain skin was white as winter snow. And like a flower in its first bloom, her lips were innocently seductive. Even a master artist wouldn’t be able to capture her beauty in its entirety. If Leng San was still sleeping, he was ready to believe that an angel from heaven had appeared in front of him!! The girl looked at Leng San and tilted her head in confusion.

‘The beauty of this girl could send the kingdom into chaos.’

The fifteen-year-old Leng San, who possessed the highest right to succeed the Leng Clan, had met countless girls who were beautiful by normal standards. However, even if he were to cherry-pick the best out of those girls just to compete in terms of beauty, the girl in front of him would still, without a doubt, come out victorious. Enchanted, the boy forgot to answer her question.

“Why don’t you answer me?”

The girl’s question brought Leng San back to reality. He returned to his old self and smirked. The identity of the girl was quite clear. He cupped his hand and humbly bowed as usual.

“I am the new gardener of this residence. I just arrived at the village yesterday. Today is my first day of work. If my guess is correct, you are the daughter of the village chief.”

“Your guess is correct. I am the daughter of the owner of this residence. You seem out of place. Your personality and appearance, no matter how I see it, aren’t those of a gardener. It would be far from an exaggeration if you told me you came from a big clan. Why did you become our gardener?”

Leng San’s skin tone wasn’t light, but it wasn’t sunburnt dark. His build was valiant and quite tall for his age due to the martial arts training that he started at the age of five. The boy’s face was like those of a thousand-year-old statue that had been masterfully chiseled, his long hair was tightly tied to the back like a scholar...