The Only Chance in This Lifetime

Get stronger?

A flicker of disappointment crossed Tang Feng's eyes. He had thought Zhu Zhuqing was coveting his good looks.

Just kidding.

Tang Feng put away his smile and asked, though he already knew the answer:

"Get stronger?"

"You can get stronger by following me?"

"No! That's not what I meant, either," Zhu Zhuqing said calmly.

"You're about the same age as me, but you're at least Level 35 and invincible among your peers."

"I hope to learn from you and improve my strength!"

Clap, clap, clap!

Tang Feng clapped his hands and said narcissistically:

"Good eye. You actually knew I was invincible among my peers and even wanted to learn from me."

"But..." Tang Feng paused, then asked:

"Why should I teach you?"

"We don't really know each other, do we?"

Zhu Zhuqing fell silent.

Tang Feng was right. They barely knew each other, and he had no obligation to teach her.

Seeing that his words had stirred Zhu Zhuqing's heart, Tang Feng continued:

"Let me put it this way. You were right about me, and I do have the ability to greatly improve both your Soul Power Level and your overall strength in a short time."

"For instance, I could get your Soul Power Level to at least Level 35 in half a month."

"Not only that, but this method wouldn't damage your body's foundation in any way or affect your future cultivation."

"I could even make you a Titled Douluo before you turn twenty-five, as long as I'm willing."

"But in return, what can you give me?"

Tang Feng walked over to Zhu Zhuqing, patted her on the shoulder, and said:

"Think it over carefully. This will be the only chance you get in this lifetime."

"Oh, and a reminder. You don't really think my three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings are fake too, like that Dai Mubai from Shrek yesterday, do you?"

Zhu Zhuqing's body trembled slightly.

She stared fixedly at the ground ahead, though it was unclear what she was looking at.

"I'll be in Red Ocean, room 333 at the Rose Hotel, all day tomorrow."

Tang Feng left without a sound.

Zhu Zhuqing hadn't seen when he left, either. By the time she wanted to call out to him, she found he was already gone.

She turned to look for him, but couldn't find Tang Feng. All she saw were passersby raising their heads one after another to look at the sky.

In the air, Tang Feng walked forward one step at a time as if he were strolling down a main road. But each step carried him not one meter, but forty or fifty.

Watching Tang Feng vanish from sight in just a few steps, Zhu Zhuqing's mind went blank.

Flight was an ability exclusive to Titled Douluo, yet he already possessed it.

And he hadn't used his Martial Soul, so it wasn't an ability that came with it.

That left only one possibility: a Soul Bone ability. Wasn't a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone the only kind that could grant both flight and Teleportation?

If he had a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, how could he not have Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings?

So... could those three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings be real?

At that thought, Zhu Zhuqing was shocked, but she had already more or less accepted that everything Tang Feng had said was true.

He really could help her break through to Level 35 in half a month and become a Titled Douluo before she turned twenty-five.

But what would she have to pay for it?

Just her body?

Zhu Zhuqing looked down at herself. Her curves were a given, and when she lowered her head, she couldn't even see her toes.

There was no question about her figure. Perhaps it wasn't the finest in the world, but it was still top-tier.

As a member of the nobility, especially a family that had intermarried with the imperial family for generations, Zhu Zhuqing knew very well what the room number Tang Feng had left her meant.

But would that alone be enough to make him help her break through to Level 35 in half a month?

Was she really worth that much?

Zhu Zhuqing found it hard to believe.

It wasn't that Zhu Zhuqing was belittling herself. The fact was that, in anyone's eyes, the terms Tang Feng had offered were enough to buy the lives of everyone in the Star Luo Imperial Family.

Especially becoming a Titled Douluo before the age of twenty-five.

At that moment, Zhu Zhuqing even felt a little happy, because she was actually worth more than the lives of everyone in the Star Luo Imperial Family.

After returning to the Cloudside Hotel, Zhu Zhuqing had nothing else to do, so she began cultivating as usual.

But she stopped after only a short while.

The words Tang Feng had said to her that afternoon kept echoing in her mind, refusing to fade.

She couldn't calm her mind enough to cultivate.

"Think it over carefully. This will be the only chance you get in this lifetime."

Recalling what Tang Feng had said to her before leaving, Zhu Zhuqing felt she had to give it serious thought.

Now that a chance to grow stronger, a chance to stay alive, lay before her, she had to consider whether it would be the only chance she got in this lifetime.

Looking back, her family had drilled into her from childhood that everything she had belonged to the family.

And the fate she had been born to was to become a bargaining chip in a political marriage.

To become the fiancée of Dai Mubai, the third prince of the Star Luo Empire.

Then to put as much pressure as possible on the eldest prince, Dai Weisi, and her own elder sister, so the two of them could progress faster and become heirs to the throne sooner.

In order to stay alive, she had cultivated diligently day and night ever since awakening her Martial Soul at the age of six.

She had hoped to defeat his elder brother and her elder sister together with Dai Mubai, so they could all live.

But things hadn't gone as she wished. He ran away!

That coward ran away!

He abandoned her and fled.

He fled the Star Luo Empire, indulging in wine and women abroad, leaving her alone to face the pressure from Dai Weisi and her elder sister.

In the very end, her fate would be to die at the hands of Dai Weisi and her elder sister. Of course, she might also survive in disgrace, but only after having all her cultivation crippled and being imprisoned, never to see the light of day again.

That was an outcome Zhu Zhuqing couldn't accept.

So she had left the Star Luo Empire to seek a way to grow stronger and find hope of staying alive.

Fortunately, she had found it. Although there had been a little episode involving Shrek's false advertising along the way, she had found it nonetheless.

And all she needed to pay to change her destined fate was her body.

Compared with what she might gain in the end, Zhu Zhuqing felt it wasn't out of the question.

She even felt she was getting the better end of the deal.

After all, Tang Feng was quite handsome. Rather than potentially being forced to give herself to Dai Mubai, the coward she hated and found disgusting, Zhu Zhuqing would rather choose Tang Feng.

The only chance she would ever have in this lifetime lay before her. She decided to stake everything and seize it!

Early the next morning, Zhu Zhuqing left the Cloudside Hotel and headed resolutely toward the Rose Hotel.

Before coming, she had made every preparation. She had skipped both dinner and breakfast, emptied her bowels, and taken a hot bath to wash herself clean.

All to prepare for every position and place she knew of.

Once Zhu Zhuqing had entered the Rose Hotel and made her way up the stairs, step by step,

she realized she had overestimated herself after all.

Her heart was pounding at a tremendous speed. She was terribly nervous, and panic filled her heart.

There were fewer than a hundred ordinary steps, yet Zhu Zhuqing felt as though she had spent years walking up them.

At last, she reached the third floor. There weren't many rooms on the third floor, fewer than ten.

Zhu Zhuqing came to the first room. Its name was Blue Enchantress.

The second room was called Pink Tenderness.

The third room was called Yellow Sincerity.

What the hell are these names? None of them sound as good as Red Ocean.

Grumbling inwardly about the rooms' abstract names, Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the door of the last room.

Four magnificent characters were written on the doorplate: Red Ocean.

It was hundreds of times better than the sign at Shrek Academy.

After once again disparaging Shrek Academy for deceiving her, Zhu Zhuqing took a deep breath and was just about to raise her hand to knock.

The door opened by itself, and a tremendous force gripped her arm, pulling Zhu Zhuqing into the room.

Oh ho ho ho...

Oh, woo! Woo woo woo woo...