Chapter 6: Ling Qingyan's Worries

  Moyun City, Ling Family Armory.

  "Master, would you like me to have Little Fourth go out with you?"

  Ling Tian Ba looked at the young master in front of him, who seemed to be carrying a carefree and elegant aura, but somehow felt a bit hard to see through. His tone was somewhat hesitant.

  "Brother Ba, you don't know about my strength, but others do?" Ling Qingyan looked at the sturdy big man in front of him, and his heart couldn't help but feel a warm feeling.

  Ling Qingyan still remembered that when he was five years old, his uncle came back from a business trip and brought back a wooden puppet. However, he ignored the crying of his own children and gave the puppet to Ling Qingyan, who was extremely lonely in his eyes at that time. Although it has been many years since then, and perhaps the person involved has already forgotten, but in Ling Qingyan's heart, it is as if it were yesterday, still vividly remembered.

  His true strength as a yellow-grade warrior was known by few in the family, including the elders, parents, Fourth Uncle, and one other person - his tyrannical uncle.

  "Haha! It seems I overthought it..."

  Ling Tianba suddenly remembered that this young master was no longer the child who used to sit quietly in a corner, lost in thought, never crying or making a fuss. In fact, he was now a yellow-level warrior, only one level lower than himself.

  "Goodbye, Uncle Na... I'll be off then."

  Ling Qingyan bid farewell to Ling Tianba with a single word and slowly walked out of the store.

  Watching Ling Qingyan's figure disappear into the crowd, Ling Tianba came back to his senses and smiled as he shook his head. "This kid has been different from ordinary children since childhood, never crying or making a fuss, like an old man, always liking to sit alone in the corner and stare blankly. However, time flies, and more than ten years have passed... Hmph, that little scoundrel Xiao Si, I'll teach him a lesson when he comes back! The young master is now a yellow-level mid-tier martial artist, while he, who is one year older than the young master, is still lingering in the orange-level mid-tier."

  Yellow mid-grade...

  Ling Tianba didn't know, the master of the Ling family, Ling Nuo and his wife didn't know, nor did the many elders of the Ling family, including Ling Qingyan's fourth uncle, Ling Ran. What they didn't know was that Ling Qingyan had already broken through to the middle stage of the yellow rank half a year ago and advanced to the late stage of the yellow rank.

  Fifteen years old, post-meridian yellow rank warrior!

  This is a talent that goes against the heavens, and even if it were placed in the top families of the Chongwu continent, it would still be extremely rare.

  "Today is another day for Shui Gu Niang to take the stage..."

  Walking on the bustling street, Ling Qingyan, dressed in purple, narrowed his eyes slightly, then slowly opened them, and a ray of light flashed between his pupils.

  It had been nearly ten days since the day when Ling Qingyan discussed with Er Lao and Wu Lao, and he had also completely accepted the fact that a strong warrior really existed. His mood had calmed down and returned to his normal life.

  Shuǐ Gū Niáng, one of the three top courtesans in "Yí Xiāng Gé", the largest fireworks store in Moyun City, sells her art but not her body, and plays a zither with unparalleled skill.

  Her slender figure, her long hair flowing down like a waterfall, her pretty face half-hidden under a thin veil, and her delicate hands without bones, also made many foreign rich merchants and local wealthy young men in Moyun City infatuated with her.

  Ling Qingyan had been a frequent visitor to the Yixiang Pavilion for three months, ever since he was drawn in by the intermittent sound of the guqin coming from inside while passing by its entrance.

  However, Ling Qingyan would listen to the song and then directly throw down silver and leave, which made the girls in Yixiang Pavilion extremely regretful.

  After all, compared with those wealthy merchants and officials who are full of themselves, they would rather receive such elegant young men.

  "If it weren't for that Water Girl's special circumstances, I really wouldn't want to go to that Fragrant Pavilion," Ling Qingyan's mouth corners had unknowingly curled up into a bitter smile.

  Ling Qingyan's reason for always visiting Yixiang Pavilion whenever the Water Girl appears is not only to calm his restless mood with the soothing music, but also because he has developed a certain interest in this Water Girl.

  This interest is not that interest.

  Two months ago, when the water girl finished that song and was about to leave, Ling Qingyan's consciousness, which had been calm and quiet, suddenly moved strangely, unintentionally sweeping over the water girl's back... In the moment after his consciousness swept over her, Ling Qingyan's heart sank abruptly.

  Since the time he woke up from that coma two years ago, Ling Qingyan discovered that his expanded consciousness allowed him to see through to the true strength within someone's body without them having to reveal it, and even see the color of their true strength.

  However, there is a limit to this. The true strength of green-level warriors and below, he could see through two years ago... Two months ago, after being in a coma twice following the previous time two years ago, even the strength of his parents who were mid-stage cyan-level warriors, as well as the strength of several other elder cyan-level late-stage warriors, excluding the great elder, he was also able to easily see through.

  "Kanashi Mizu Kōjo...... My consciousness can clearly feel the flow of her true power, but I'm unable to perceive the color of her true power!"

  "So, there are only two possibilities! One is that the water girl's secret book has a special property that prevents her from seeing through it; Two is that the water girl's own strength has already surpassed the blue level!"

  "If it's the former, then there's nothing to worry about. After all, every family's martial arts manual is different, and some are special. But if it's the latter, this Water Girl's strength is above Blue Rank, and she can cultivate such a powerful warrior. The power behind her must be enormous. So why did she come to my Mo Yun City?"

  Ling Qing was at her wit's end.

  Mo Yun City, as a small city on the border of the Great Qin Kingdom, except for the three families that have been rooted here since their ancestors, the appearance of other high-level warriors from outside must be due to some reason.

  As one of the three major families in Moyun City, the Ling family monopolized the most profitable arms and mineral business in Moyun City. With the presence of the elder in the family, they had a subtle influence as the number one family in Moyun City... That's why Ling Qingyan was worried.

  After all, the bird that sticks its head out gets shot, and the snake that raises its head gets chopped!

  In the previous life, he was entangled in underground forces and conspiracies. Ling Qingyan knew this principle well. Once something happened in Moyun City, the first to suffer would be his own Ling family.

  And that young woman, barely twenty years old, if it was the former as I had guessed, then it would be normal, and my worries would also be unnecessary.

  But if it's just your own speculation...

  At the age of twenty, a blue-level warrior! What kind of concept is that?! What kind of power can cultivate such a person?!

  Ling Qingyan deeply knew that the city he was in, Moyun City, among the many cities of the Great Qin State, could only be considered a third-rate city. Many large families and middle-class families were unwilling to take up residence here, which is why the Ling family could barely stand firm on their feet.

  Ling family, within the entire Qin state, is not even worth mentioning, and can only be considered a small family.

  Even if it's a small family, since he was born in this life, he will not let anything happen to them, he must use all his strength to protect them. The Ling family may be small, but it has given him what he didn't have in his previous life, and the most important thing -

  Affectionate love.