Zhu Zhuqing

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Star Luo Family and Escape

Zhu Zhuqing was the second young lady of the Star Luo Zhu Family and the younger sister of Zhu Zhuyun. From her Martial Soul awakening at six, her family taught her that the Hell Spirit Cat depended on the White Tiger imperial family and its Martial Soul Fusion Skill to survive the succession struggle. Her betrothal to Dai Mubai tied her prospects to his contest against his elder brother, Dai Weisi 18 19.

After Dai Mubai fled to the Balak Kingdom, Zhu Zhuqing remained exposed to the family’s infighting and assassination attempts. Pursuers sent by Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun chased her toward Suotuo City. Near the Balak Kingdom’s border, two Agility Attack System Soul Elders above level thirty-five forced her to exhaust her Soul Power, and a palm strike injured her left ribs. The pressure from the sky splitting at midnight frightened the pursuers away, allowing her to escape 10 19.

At the Rose Hotel, she found Dai Mubai seeking a room with two women rather than preparing for their shared predicament. Disgusted, she watched Keqing defeat him with a single lightning strike before leaving without approaching him for help 10 11.

Rescue and Rejection of Her Betrothal

That night, five Star Luo assassins cornered her near an abandoned estate. Their leader was a level forty-four Soul Ancestor, accompanied by four Soul Elders. Zhu Zhuqing had deliberately fled away from Dai Mubai rather than ask for his protection. With her shoulder broken and her strength exhausted, she prepared a final attack, but could no longer dodge the commander’s killing blow 18.

Chu Yuan killed the commander, while Keqing eliminated the remaining assassins. After healing Zhu Zhuqing, Chu Yuan offered her work as an intelligence attendant on the condition that she sever her past and pledge loyalty to him 18.

Mona’s Hydromancy then showed Dai Mubai drinking with courtesans and revealed Zhu Zhuqing’s original possible fate: mastering the fusion skill at the cost of becoming a lifelong appendage to the White Tiger. Zhu Zhuqing crushed her jade tiger-claw betrothal pendant, renounced her former identity as Dai Mubai’s fiancée, and pledged her life to Chu Yuan. He appointed her the Divine Court’s first Night Scout and transformed her Martial Soul; Mona subsequently observed that her Star of Destiny had become independent 19 20.

Service to the Divine Court

Zhu Zhuqing began gathering intelligence at dawn, reporting that no new Star Luo pursuers had entered Suotuo City and that the Rare Treasures Auction House was selling objects from beyond the heavens. At the auction, she bid on Chu Yuan’s behalf and delivered his final payment for the Teyvat relics. When Ning Rongrong confronted him afterward, Zhu Zhuqing intervened with her killing aura, withdrawing it immediately on his command 21 22 23.

When Dai Mubai and Shrek Academy confronted the group in the street, Zhu Zhuqing publicly reaffirmed that the betrothal was over. She rejected his claims over her and exposed the contrast between his professed training and his indulgence in women. Tang San restrained Dai Mubai when he attempted to attack her, then proposed an arena match three nights later 26 28 29.

Great Soul Arena Victory

Zhu Zhuqing and Keqing represented Chu Yuan’s side against Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Xiao Wu. Taking Dai Mubai as her own opponent, Zhu Zhuqing defeated the level thirty-seven Soul Elder in fewer than three breaths despite his simultaneous use of White Tiger Protection Barrier and White Tiger Vajra Transformation 30 31.

After Shrek’s defeat, Flender offered five thousand Gold Soul Coins in place of the wager’s requirement that Dai Mubai cripple both arms. Zhu Zhuqing told Chu Yuan that publicly defeating Dai Mubai had resolved the knot in her heart, but that she intended to kill him herself upon returning to the Star Luo Empire. Chu Yuan accepted her wish and took the compensation 33.

Appearance

Zhu Zhuqing is introduced with short black hair, snow-white skin, dark eyes, and delicate, cold features. Her build combines a curvaceous figure with a slender waist and long, powerful legs 10.

• Clothing: Usually wears a close-fitting black leather combat outfit. Keqing gives her a dark-patterned black cloak after her clothes are torn during the assassination attempt 18 20.
• Original Martial Soul possession: Produces green vertical pupils and inch-long claws extending from her fingertips 20.
• Evolved Martial Soul possession: Produces dark-purple slit pupils, purple-black lightning-edged claws, and cat ears wreathed in electricity 20 31.

Personality

Zhu Zhuqing is reserved, proud, and fiercely unwilling to beg for help from someone she despises. Even while gravely wounded, she insists that her life has nothing to do with Dai Mubai and prepares to take an assassin down with her rather than surrender 18.

Her resolve extends to enduring pain: during her Martial Soul transformation, she clenches her teeth and refuses to cry out, earning Keqing’s approval. Once she chooses to serve Chu Yuan, she follows his orders without hesitation, including immediately suppressing her killing aura when told to stand down 20 23.

Her rejection of the betrothal is deliberate rather than an attempt to provoke Dai Mubai. She states that she no longer cares for his explanations, and after defeating him, reserves the right to settle their conflict personally in the Star Luo Empire 28 33.

Abilities & Skills

Hell Thunder Shadow Cat

Her evolved Martial Soul combines Violet Firmament lightning’s speed with the spatial laws of the dark night 20.

• Shadow concealment: Allows her to suppress her presence and accompany Chu Yuan’s group from the shadows 20.
• Extreme speed: Leaves purple-black lightning afterimages; Dai Mubai cannot track her movements even while empowered by his third Soul Skill 31.
• Lightning-shadow claws: Capable of tearing through refined-iron heavy armor. In combat, they penetrate Dai Mubai’s layered defenses 20 31.
• Electrical paralysis: Lightning entering Dai Mubai’s wounds scorches and paralyzes his left arm, preventing an effective counterattack 31.

First Soul Skill: Hell Stab

A rapid claw attack used to strike an opponent’s vulnerable flank 18 31.

• Following her evolution, she uses it to attack beneath Dai Mubai’s left ribs before he can block 31.
• The lightning-coated strike breaks through both White Tiger Protection Barrier and White Tiger Vajra Transformation 31.

Second Soul Skill: Netherworld Hundred Claws

A rapid barrage of claw strikes, strengthened by lightning after her Martial Soul’s evolution 31.

• Overwhelms the partially paralyzed Dai Mubai with dozens of lightning-shadow claw attacks 31.
• Shatters his remaining protective Soul Power, leaving him unable to resist her finishing kick 31.

Perception and Intelligence Gathering

As an Agility Attack System specialist, Zhu Zhuqing is unusually sensitive to others’ presences 10.

• Recognizes the danger posed by Chu Yuan and Keqing despite being unable to determine their Soul Power levels 10.
• Conducts street inquiries to monitor Star Luo pursuit activity and identify matters relevant to Chu Yuan 21.
• Uses her killing intent to intimidate Ning Rongrong, a level twenty-six auxiliary Soul Master without practical combat experience 22.

Equipment / Items

• Black leather combat outfit — Her usual attire during travel, reconnaissance, and arena combat 10 21 30.
• Dark-patterned black cloak — Given to her by Keqing to cover her damaged clothing after the rescue 20.
• White jade tiger-claw pendant — destroyed — A red-corded token of her betrothal to Dai Mubai. She crushes it into powder when rejecting the arranged marriage 19.

Relationships

• Chu Yuan — Master and rescuer. He heals her, recruits her as his first Night Scout, and evolves her Martial Soul. She pledges lifelong loyalty to him 18 19 20.
• Dai Mubai — Former fiancé and later enemy. She rejects his claim over her, defeats him publicly, and intends to kill him upon returning to Star Luo 19 26 31 33.
• Zhu Zhuyun — Elder sister whose killing intent forms part of the family threat Zhu Zhuqing escapes. She helps direct the pursuit against her 10 18 19.
• Dai Weisi — Star Luo’s eldest prince and Dai Mubai’s elder brother. His orders authorize the assassins pursuing Zhu Zhuqing 10 18 19.
• Keqing — Rescuer and fellow member of Chu Yuan’s group. Approves of Zhu Zhuqing’s endurance and leaves Dai Mubai to her during their joint arena match 18 20 30.
• Mona — Helps locate her during the assassination attempt and uses Hydromancy to expose the fate attached to her betrothal 18 19.
• Ning Rongrong — Initially intimidated by Zhu Zhuqing at the auction house; later joins Chu Yuan’s service alongside her 22 25.

Notable Quotes

“The second young lady of the Star Luo Zhu Family is dead. Dai Mubai’s fiancée no longer exists in this world.” 19

“Wherever my lord’s sword points, my claws shall strike. Even if I am ground to dust, I shall never waver in my loyalty!” 19