Zhu Lu

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Zhu Lu (朱露)
Alias(es)	Xiao Lu 302 455
Gender	Female
Age	Twelve during the New Student Assessment period 108
Affiliation	Zhu Family / Spirit Cat Family, formerly; Shrek Academy, later its Inner Court; Huo Yuhao’s group 117 136 304 314
Occupation/Role	Agility Attack Soul Master; Huo Yuhao’s contracted subordinate and later girlfriend; chosen candidate for the Rakshasa Divine Position 136 190 256 456
Martial Soul	Hell Spirit Cat, an inherently Dark Attribute martial soul 190 456
Highest Confirmed Realm	Soul Emperor 386
Status	Alive in her latest documented appearance 534
First Appearance	First mentioned in Chapter 10 as Dai Huabin’s compatible Martial Soul Fusion partner 10

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Two-ring soul master	114 190	Initially possesses two Hundred-Year Soul Rings; uses her Second Soul Skill during the assessment final.
Level 30 → Soul Elder	190	Reaches Level 30 through the Golden Ancient Tree’s gift, then absorbs a Thousand-Year Nether Concealment Beast’s ring. Her configuration becomes two yellow rings and one purple ring.
Level 45 / Soul Ancestor	202	Advances with an Immortal Herb and Huo Yuhao’s treatment. The herb is subsequently identified as Narcissus Jade Bone.
Fourth Soul Ring documented	203	Displays a black, Ten-Thousand-Year fourth ring granting Netherworld Shadow Clone. Combined with her third skill, it enables concealed attacks through combat-capable duplicates.
Soul King	254	Returns with five Soul Rings and credits Huo Yuhao for helping her reach the realm. Intervenes against Dai Huabin to protect him.
Soul Emperor	386	Reveals six Soul Rings while attacking the Heavenly Armor Sect’s Han brothers with Tang Ya’s support.

Background / History

Zhu Family upbringing and arranged engagement

Zhu Lu is an orphan from a collateral branch of the Zhu Family. Her low standing leaves her without the support enjoyed by direct descendants such as the Duchess. The author’s background note establishes that she lived in poverty and received family care and help obtaining Soul Rings because her bloodline could eventually secure benefits through a White Tiger Family marriage 116 117 122 175.

Among more than ten girls tested for bloodline compatibility with Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu is the only successful match. This earns her an engagement and a place in Duke White Tiger’s Mansion, where she is sent to develop their relationship. Their potential Hell White Tiger fusion skill also strengthens Dai Huabin’s position in the struggle for the duke’s title 10 15 117.

New Student Assessment

Zhu Lu participates in the assessment final alongside Dai Huabin and Cui Yajie. Assigned to fight Huo Yuhao, she repeatedly fails to locate his real body through his Spiritual Interference and Simulation. Her subsequent attack on Wang Dong is disrupted by Spiritual Shock and blocked by Wang Dong’s wings 114.

When she attempts to join Dai Huabin for their fusion skill, Huo Yuhao uses Mind Control to make her embrace him instead. She later wakes beneath the competition stage, confused about what happened. Learning the explanation does not remove her fear that Dai Huabin might blame her and cancel their engagement 114 115 116.

Dai Huabin’s continuing behavior makes her reconsider her future. She recognizes that fusion compatibility is not enough reason to remain attached to someone who may bring disaster upon himself 117.

Leaving the family’s chosen path

After Dai Huabin’s expulsion, his family takes him home without notifying or collecting Zhu Lu. Huo Yuhao offers her a choice between remaining a fusion-skill pawn and becoming a Soul Master who can stand independently 121.

Her family later orders her to withdraw from Shrek and follow Dai Huabin to Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy. Zhu Lu refuses: she wants strength, travel, and a life of her own rather than existence as Dai Huabin’s accessory. The families begin looking for another compatible girl, and her engagement is subsequently dissolved 122 130 178.

Having cut ties with her family, she accepts Huo Yuhao’s magical bondservant contract. He introduces her to Ma Xiaotao for special training and supplies cultivation pills. When Dai Huabin later requests a meeting, Zhu Lu declines, considering their former obligations finished 136 178.

Training and relationship with Huo Yuhao

Huo Yuhao helps select the Nether Concealment Beast for Zhu Lu’s third ring rather than allowing her to settle for any suitably aged beast. After absorbing it, she kisses his cheek in thanks, openly revealing her affection 190.

Under Ma Xiaotao, Zhu Lu develops a fighting style built around invisibility, deceptive positioning, and attacking clones. As a Soul Ancestor, she eventually forces Ma Xiaotao, a Soul Saint, to use a Soul Skill during a controlled training match. This completes the first stage of her special training; the next stage is intended to expose her to Soul Masters of different types 203.

In Mingdu, Zhu Lu asks Huo Yuhao whether he sees her only as a subordinate. Their exchange leads to mutual acknowledgment of romantic feelings and a confirmed relationship. Both agree to respect Ma Xiaotao’s place in his life 255 256.

Patrol duties and the Abyss threat

As an Inner Court student stationed around Tianhe City, Zhu Lu delivers Ma Xiaotao’s Elemental Storm records to Han Ruoruo and participates in patrol missions 304 312.

During one patrol, her hearing detects distant screams. She helps organize the rescue of Soul Masters attacked by unfamiliar monsters, protects weaker companions, and fights through an encirclement. She also notices that her Fifth Soul Skill is not receiving its normal energy feedback from defeated enemies 313.

A massive Rat Monster attacks her near the forest’s edge. Zhu Lu activates an Invincible Shield, and Huo Yuhao arrives to freeze the battlefield. Afterward, she supports his decision to prioritize investigating the newly identified Abyss Plane over spending time with her and Ma Xiaotao 313 314.

Rakshasa inheritance and later service

Huo Yuhao repeatedly nourishes Zhu Lu’s body with the Power of the Sun to resist erosion by the Rakshasa God’s evil thoughts. She also moves into the pavilion shared with him and Ma Xiaotao, occupying a renovated storage room. Her relationship with him becomes intimate during this period 354.

Huo Yuhao later presents her to Bibi Dong as his chosen inheritor of the Rakshasa Divine Position. Although Bibi Dong would ordinarily reject a candidate below Soul Saint, she finds the power circulating through Zhu Lu sufficient to compensate. The provided account does not document Zhu Lu completing the inheritance 456.

During the defense of Lingdou City, Zhu Lu uses self-created Netherworld Beads to trigger explosive Abyss creatures before they reach the defenders. Her latest documented appearance shows her preparing breakfast at home; Huo Yuhao asks her to notify the others of his departure for Evil Spirit Forest 515 534.

Appearance

• Hair and eyes: Shoulder-length wavy hair and dark-purple eyes with vertical pupils 304.
• Build: A slender waist and an increasingly tall, graceful physique as she grows 136 203.
• Complexion: Her skin takes on a healthy wheat tone after intensive training, while later descriptions present it as fair and translucent. Narcissus Jade Bone also improves its softness and elasticity 136 203 304.
• Clothing: Commonly wears fitted fighting suits, including black and dark-purple outfits 159 254.
• Bearing: Often appears cool and distant, with a shadowy presence compared to her Hell Spirit Cat martial soul 136 255.

Personality

Zhu Lu’s early eagerness to act on Dai Huabin’s displeasure comes from insecurity rather than secure family authority. Huo Yuhao and Zhang Lexuan later recognize that she was trying to gain approval because her noble birth offered little genuine protection. Fear of becoming a discarded pawn initially makes her dependent on the engagement 116 302.

Her decision to remain at Shrek marks a deliberate rejection of that dependence. She trains intensely after leaving her family, accepts demanding instruction, and wants to become strong enough to choose her own future. Even while developing feelings for Huo Yuhao, she remains focused on cultivation 122 136 203.

Although usually composed, she becomes openly affectionate with Huo Yuhao, including kissing him in public. She values explicit acknowledgment of their relationship and respects Ma Xiaotao’s feelings. Her support during the Abyss investigation also shows that she expects him to put urgent responsibilities before romance 256 314 338.

Abilities & Skills

Hell Spirit Cat

• An inherently Dark Attribute martial soul used for Agility Attack combat 190 456.
• Supports rapid movement, close-range strikes, and assassination-oriented tactics 114 203 412.
• Martial Soul Possession gives her slight resistance to Spiritual Shock, though Huo Yuhao’s attack still interrupts her movement 114.
• Her offense is strong but her defense is comparatively weak; invisibility and clones reduce the danger of direct counterattacks 203.

Offensive Soul Skills

• Hell Stab — First Soul Skill: A close-range thrust with powerful single-target destructive force. She targets the Fire Element Soul Master Zhu Hao with it during a team battle 412.
• Netherworld Hundred Claws — Second Soul Skill: Produces more than a hundred attacking afterimages in a sweeping assault. Wang Dong blocks it during the assessment final 114.
• Nether Shadow Thrust: A strike with extremely faint Soul Power fluctuations, used against Ma Xiaotao in training. Its ring number is not specified in the supplied passage 203.

Nether Concealment — Third Soul Skill

• Obtained from a Thousand-Year Nether Concealment Beast 190.
• Grants invisibility and Nether Concealment Power, reducing Soul Power consumption when using Soul Skills 203.
• Interacts especially well with Hell Spirit Cat, improving her concealed attacks 203.
• Does not guarantee undetectability: sufficiently perceptive opponents can sense hidden Soul Power fluctuations 203.

Netherworld Shadow Clone — Fourth Soul Skill

• Creates duplicates that can use Soul Skills rather than merely confuse opponents 203.
• Combines with invisibility to obscure her real position while clones attack from multiple directions 203.
• Huo Yuhao advises her to control the clones as a coordinated team, using them for advancing attacks and defensive retreats rather than only expendable bait 203.
• Large-area attacks can destroy multiple clones at once, as demonstrated by Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Bathed in Fire 203.

Fifth Soul Skill

• Normally provides energy feedback from defeated enemies 313.
• Fails to provide that feedback when she kills the unfamiliar monsters later identified as Abyss creatures. Its name and full effects are not supplied 313 314.

Netherworld Beads

• A self-created technique inspired by watching Huo Yuhao manufacture timed high-explosive bombs 515.
• Compresses Soul Power into unstable beads that explode within three seconds after she stops controlling them 515.
• Their individual explosive power is modest, but they can trigger Banelings already approaching self-destruction 515.

Combat Training and Perception

• Learns Tang Sect Secret Techniques rapidly, demonstrating exceptional aptitude 206.
• Uses enhanced hearing to detect distant cries during patrol and helps direct formations and protect weaker team members 313.
• Her concealed, step-by-step attacks are especially effective outside arenas. Ma Xiaotao judges that they could trouble a Soul Emperor, while Zhu Lu gains confidence in ambushing an ordinary Soul Emperor in the wilderness 203.
• Benefits from allied support: Tang Ya clears defensive obstacles from her path, while Ning Tian’s enhancements greatly increase her speed and combat effectiveness 386 412.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Soul Ascension Pill and Tiger Body Pill — Supplied by Huo Yuhao to support her cultivation after she joins his side 136.
• Narcissus Jade Bone — An Immortal Herb that strengthens her cultivation foundation and improves her physique 202 203.
• 30,000-Year Soul Bone — A gift from Huo Yuhao in Mingdu; its body location and abilities are not specified 255.
• Invincible Shield — Given through Ning Tian and consumed during the Rat Monster attack. Huo Yuhao promises to make her another 313 314.
• Magical bondservant contract — Established through a rune placed in her mind by Huo Yuhao to ensure loyalty 136.
• Power of the Sun nourishment — Repeated treatment intended to create lasting protection against the Rakshasa God’s evil thoughts 354 456.

Relationships

• Huo Yuhao — Initially an assessment opponent, then her benefactor and contractual superior, and eventually her romantic partner. He supports her training, cultivation, and proposed divine inheritance 114 136 255 256 456.
• Dai Huabin — Former fiancé and Hell White Tiger fusion partner. His conduct and departure from Shrek prompt her to leave the engagement; she later refuses to meet him and intervenes against him to protect Huo Yuhao 117 121 178 254.
• Ma Xiaotao — Special-training mentor and close companion. Zhu Lu respects her place in Huo Yuhao’s life and later shares their pavilion 136 203 256 354.
• Zhu Family — Birth clan and former patron. Its support centers on her value as a marriage and fusion partner; she cuts ties rather than follow its transfer order 117 122 136 175.
• Cui Yajie — Assessment teammate who shows concern for her after the final’s humiliating outcome 114 115 116.
• Han Ruoruo — Fellow Inner Court student with whom she exchanges patrol information and discusses her feelings for Huo Yuhao 304.
• Ning Tian — Companion who supplies defensive equipment and enhances her in team combat 314 412.
• Bibi Dong — Evaluates Zhu Lu as a prospective successor to the Rakshasa Divine Position and accepts that her Sun-nourished body can compensate for her lower cultivation 456.

Notable Quotes

“I don't want to be Dai Huabin's accessory. I have my own life too. I want to become strong too.” 122

“Or rather, can I only ever be a qualified subordinate to you?” 255

“The Huo Yuhao I like has always known what matters most.” 314