"What? You're saying you met Lord Changzheng!?"
Early the next morning, I told Rui Xin what had happened the night before. She looked like she'd seen a ghost, her mouth hanging wide open.
"Could you not get so worked up...? Who exactly is Si Nan Changzheng?"
"He's the strongest fighter in the Si Nan Family! The family's greatest combat force!"
"The strongest!?"
"That's right! Lord Changzheng has countless legends, but his greatest achievement was still the great battle forty years ago! Back then, for various reasons, the Si Nan Family and the Cleon Family broke into fierce conflict! At the end of the struggle, Lord Changzheng entered the fray and fought Victor Cleon, the strongest member of the Cleon Family at the time, for three days and three nights. More than half the Imperial Capital was razed to the ground! The battle finally ended when Lord Changzheng killed Victor in the outskirts of the capital. After that, the Cleon Family lost its greatest pillar of strength, and the Si Nan Family completely eclipsed them!"
So there was a history like that. Sure enough, a faction's foundation was still raw strength. The Cleon Family had been in decline ever since they lost their strongest fighter forty years ago. If the Si Nan Family lost Si Nan Changzheng, even with the most comprehensive intelligence network, they'd probably be at the mercy of anyone who came after them.
Just how strong was this man named Si Nan Changzheng? He'd only been standing there, yet I'd struggled to breathe and see or hear properly. What would happen if he actually fought? To be honest, I had no clear idea just how powerful the strongest people in this world could be. Could they really move mountains and fill seas with a single thought, like in