After ruling out every impossibility, only one possibility remained:
Dragon Tendons!
Back then, after he cultivated Dragon Tendons, he could speed up the limit-breaking progress of ordinary cultivation techniques.
It was only later that it could no longer accelerate the progress of the Four Great Realms' secret teachings.
For a time, Chu Qing had thought Dragon Tendons had reached the end of what they could do for him.
He had never expected the Heaven-Connecting Path to open up.
Then:
Cultivating secret teachings became easier and easier.
Given that, how could he not suspect Dragon Tendons?
He simply had not told the Princess Consort about this.
Because:
In the history of the Great Gan Empire—and even in the histories of other empires—he had never heard of anyone cultivating such strange Dragon Tendons.
As for what effects these strange Dragon Tendons possessed, no one knew.
Naturally, Chu Qing would not voluntarily tell an Outsider.
What if this Outsider was like Principal Shi Ji—mentally fractured—and treated him as research material, taking him apart to study? That would be a joke.
The Princess Consort did not believe Chu Qing's words.
One hour to bring a Four Great Realms secret teaching to Perfection.
She had never even heard of such a thing.
Was Chu Qing lying to her?
Did he want her support to enter the Imperial Capital?
The Princess Consort bit her nail, pondered for a moment, then called to the maids waiting eagerly by the lakeside. "Bring those four Four Great Realms secret teachings."
Upon hearing the Princess Consort's command, the maids by the lakeside were immediately delighted.
"So Chu Qing is just mooching off the Princess Consort too!"
Just four secret teachings were enough to satisfy him?
"This man was nothing special after all!"
"No ambition, nothing to fear!"
They happily brought