The Princess's Repayment

The Princess simply did not believe that Chu Qing could derive a new secret art—or even a secret art with two traits—just by reading several hundred top-tier secret arts.

If he could do it, then other prodigies could do the same.

Throughout history, dazzling and peerless geniuses had been countless.

Those stronger than Chu Qing were as numerous as carp crossing a river.

Yet at most, they only made slight alterations to existing secret arts in their old age, making them more powerful.

Only a small number of prodigies could modify secret arts at Chu Qing's age.

To create an entirely new secret art, however, was as difficult as ascending to Heaven.

In the Great Gan Empire's known history of several thousand years, there had only been a little over a dozen such people.

Chu Qing could not do it.

His background was ordinary, and his accumulation of knowledge was insufficient.

He simply could not do it.

But she still gave Chu Qing the secret arts.

Top-tier Skin Marrow Realm secret arts were precious.

But no matter how precious they were, she felt they could not compare to the importance of this reform.

This reform could be said to be one of the Reformists' trump cards.

Its success or failure concerned the Reformists' next moves.

It was already rare enough for Chu Qing to have settled part of the reforms in a provincial city.

She had to repay him.

Several hundred secret arts were enough to establish several hundred aristocratic families.

Yet she still sent them over without the slightest hesitation.

The first floor of the Library Pavilion blazed with lights.

Everyone knew that Chu Qing was reading secret arts, intending to deduce and create new ones.

Although everyone believed he could not do it, many people still gathered around