Star Luo Zhu Family

"Sure enough, she still left?"

In a small courtyard within the Duke's Mansion of the Netherworld Zhu Family in the Star Luo Empire of Douluo Continent.

Zhu Zhuqing listened to the report delivered by her maid, her calm eyes showing not the slightest ripple.

It was as though she had known this would happen all along.

Zhu Zhuqing was a transmigrator from Blue Star.

Before transmigrating, she had been female and liked women.

And Zhu Zhuqing, one of the goddesses of Chinese animation, had been one of her favorite characters.

Yet an accident had caused her, while she was playing on her phone at home, to be run over and killed by a dump truck that fell from the sky.

And she had transmigrated into her favorite female character, Zhu Zhuqing!

When she had first discovered that, Zhu Zhuqing had been in despair.

Who the hell wanted to be this unlucky third female lead?!

But after living in this body for several years, she had gradually accepted her fate.

(Damn it, I was never good at writing romance anyway, so I might as well crush the protagonist beneath the heel of a powerful woman. Done. She doesn't even need a girlfriend anymore—let's see what you guys can say now!

Oh yeah, now I don't have to collect female leads!

You can treat this as a man transmigrating into a woman or a woman transmigrating. The point is: no female lead, one person becoming strong alone, loving only herself, unaffected by romance.)

She had only been around three years old when she transmigrated.

Although she had despaired for a time after learning her identity.

As an ambitious young woman of the new era, however, bowing her head to fate was not her style.

As a transmigrator, she knew very well that if she followed the original plot, her Innate Soul Power would probably only be Level 7.

As for her martial soul, it would likely be nothing more than a Hell Spirit Cat.

She could not place her hopes on some Transmigrator's Benefit. That was no different from putting her life on the gambling table!

So from that time onward, Zhu Zhuqing began laying her plans.

As a homebody girl, she had once loved nothing more than reading novels and watching anime.

So having an active imagination was fine, right?

Although people on Douluo Continent could only cultivate Soul Power after Martial Soul Awakening.

There were exceptions!

Tang San was one of them!

Because he possessed a cultivation method, Tang San had begun cultivating before his martial soul awakened.

That proved one thing: Soul Power could actually be cultivated in advance.

But the prerequisite was being able to sense the existence of Soul Power before Martial Soul Awakening at the age of six.

For ordinary people, that was absolutely impossible.

But Zhu Zhuqing was different.

She did not place her hopes on a Transmigrator's Benefit.

But that did not mean there was no Transmigrator's Benefit!

That was, her Spiritual Power was exceptionally powerful.

Relying on that powerful Spiritual Power, even before awakening her martial soul, Zhu Zhuqing could vaguely sense the Soul Power Light Spots drifting through the air.

From then on, Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing Soul Power every day.

As a seasoned novel reader, she knew the human body supposedly had something called a Dantian.

But dear heavens, who understood that?!

As an ordinary office worker, how was she supposed to know where the Dantian was actually located?

And cultivation was a serious matter. One careless mistake could cost someone their life.

Compared to those male compatriots who dared to gamble and fight, this female comrade could only tremble and choose the safe route.

Thus, Zhu Zhuqing did not casually guide Soul Power into some spot three inches below her navel. Instead, she fused all the Soul Power she absorbed into her body.

Since she could not find the Dantian's proper location, spreading Soul Power throughout her entire body surely could not be a problem.

After all, compared to raising Soul Power, having a strong body was not a bad thing sometimes, was it?

Zhu Zhuqing continued this method for two full years!

Finally, two years later, Zhu Zhuqing sensed some dense pathways within her body.

Those pathways spread into every corner of her body.

And within those pathways, Zhu Zhuqing sensed the flow of Soul Power.

She had only been five years old then!

Though she was only five, in terms of physical strength, she felt as though she could suppress even her Second Sister with one hand.

Of course, that was assuming Zhu Zhuyu did not use Soul Power.

The Zhu Family had three young misses in total.

The eldest, Zhu Zhuyun, possessed Level 7 Innate Soul Power and had been betrothed to the First Prince!

When Zhu Zhuqing was five, Zhu Zhuyun was exactly twelve years old, and her Soul Power had reached Level 25. She could be considered somewhat talented!

The second, Zhu Zhuyu, possessed Level 5 Innate Soul Power. Her talent was too poor, so she had not been assigned anywhere!

When Zhu Zhuqing was five, Zhu Zhuyu was only ten years old, with Soul Power at Level 15.

Yet even against Level 15 Zhu Zhuyu, Zhu Zhuqing felt she could take her down!

She even felt that if Zhu Zhuyun did not use Soul Power, Zhu Zhuyun probably would not be her match either.

She had no idea what was going on.

But after she became able to sense her Meridians, Zhu Zhuqing continued nourishing her body while also remembering to nourish her Meridians.

Meridians were part of the body too, so naturally they should be nourished together!

Though she had merely stumbled onto it by blind luck, Zhu Zhuqing unknowingly strengthened her frail Meridians.

If her Meridians had originally only been able to bear the strength of Level 7 Innate Soul Power.

Then after another year passed, the strength of her Meridians had reached the level of Level 9 Innate Soul Power.

Soul masters and martial souls were like vacuum cleaners and blowers.

The size and sturdiness of a soul master were like a vacuum cleaner, determining how large and how quickly the blower could suck things in.

Meanwhile, the blower's power determined how quickly the vacuum cleaner could suck.

When a soul master's Meridians were strong enough and their martial soul outstanding enough, congratulations—your Cultivation Speed would become unimaginably fast.

And if there was a huge difference between the two, then congratulations again, you could still barely have a decent future.

But if both were poor, then regrettably, you would not get far on the path of a soul master.

Although she felt she had not yet reached her limit, Zhu Zhuqing had no chance to continue strengthening herself. At six years old, it was time for her Martial Soul Awakening, and the family had already notified her.

To avoid standing out too much, Zhu Zhuqing forced part of the Soul Power in her Meridians out before her Martial Soul Awakening.

She knew what she would face after awakening her martial soul.

And compared to being abandoned like in the original story, Zhu Zhuqing did not want to become that kind of person!

Thus, during Martial Soul Awakening, the talent she displayed under her own manipulation was revealed.

Martial soul: Hell Spirit Cat!

Level 5 Innate Soul Power!

Exactly the same talent as her Second Sister.

It could not be called trash, but it could only be called utterly ordinary.

If she followed her Second Sister's path, she would probably have to wait until adulthood and bring a talented genius into the Zhu Family by marrying upward.

Though that was not a good path either, it was already far better than the path Zhu Zhuqing had taken in the original story!

At the very least, Zhu Zhuqing no longer needed to worry about persecution from Zhu Zhuyun.

Among the three sisters, only Zhu Zhuyun had turned out to be a genius.

Naturally, Zhu Zhuyun had no reason to target Zhu Zhuqing.

So Zhu Zhuqing, like Zhu Zhuyu, became an idler.

No, she could not exactly be called an idler!

Even now, she was still assigned many cultivation tasks every day, but compared to the person who had taken her place as Dai Mubai's foil, she was living an unimaginably happier life!

Because Zhu Zhuqing's aptitude was insufficient, they could only select a genius from a branch family whose Innate Soul Power was also as "high as" Level 7 to replace her.

That girl's martial soul was also a Hell Spirit Cat, and she was two years older than Zhu Zhuqing.

She had originally been chosen to take Zhu Zhuqing's place.

So it could not really be called a scam.

Besides, after becoming Dai Mubai's fiancée, her treatment was far better than Zhu Zhuqing's, all right?

What was wrong with enjoying Zhu Zhuqing's treatment while sharing some of her pressure for her?