The Great Stage of Douluo, My Name is Qian Xunji

As a Soul Douluo, in the Star Luo Empire where the strong are respected, she should have at least held the title of a marchioness, along with corresponding territory and privileges.

However, as the empress, she had lost these rights. The Star Luo Emperor was strong-willed and overbearing; to him, the women in the inner palace were merely vases and tools for bearing children, forced to remain within the palace walls without permission to leave.

Her children were also forced to fight and kill one another to secure the throne.

This empress had racked her brains to finally change the fate of her own biological brothers killing each other, choosing a half-brother six years younger than the eldest prince, Dai Weisi, to be his opponent.

Zhu Zhuyun knew that this might also be her own future.

To help her fiancé seize the throne, become a member of Dai Weisi's harem, give birth to child after child, and then watch her own children slaughter one another.

The fact that the Hell White Tiger had never been discovered to have a dual-wing form already spoke volumes. The Zhu Family and the Dai Family were only able to perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill due to the high compatibility of their martial souls; in reality, the feelings between the soul masters of the two sides were very ordinary, or even hostile.

Just like in the original story, where Dai Mubai abandoned Zhu Zhuyun and ran away, Zhu Zhuyun was certainly dissatisfied, perhaps even hateful toward him, but for the sake of survival, she had to perform the Martial Soul Fusion Skill with him.

The relationship between the two was terrible, yet the Martial Soul Fusion Skill could still be used. This would be impossible between normal soul masters, but the Hell Spirit Cat and the Evil Eye White Tiger forced it to succeed simply by relying on the compatibility of their martial souls.

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Zhu Zhuyun looked at A Ke, nodded with a smile, and greeted her, but when she saw Zhu Zhuqing, her smile immediately turned cold.

Their gazes crossed, and the young Zhu Zhuqing was at a disadvantage, unable to help but take a step back. The people around them also knew the current situation and relationship between the two sisters, tacitly acting as if they had seen nothing.

Zhu Zhuyun was seven years older than Zhu Zhuqing and had long since graduated from the junior soul master academy.

However, the Star Luo Royal Junior Academy was right next to the Star Luo Royal Intermediate Academy, so meeting was perfectly normal, with students from both schools coming and going.

The schools for the two sisters of the Zhu Family were also fixed; they had to follow their fiancés to make it convenient to assist them in performing their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

In short, everything had to revolve around their fiancés.

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Chapter 34: A Ke and Pei Qinhu

This was also one of the reasons why Zhu Zhuqing would go to Shrek Academy in the original story, aside from the suppression by Zhu Zhuyun, there were also the demands of the royal family and her own family.

If you don't go find Dai Mubai, then go die!

Dai Mubai was four years older than Zhu Zhuqing and was already ten years old, a fourth-year student at the academy.

He had long since broken through level 20 to become a Soul Grand Master, and logically, he should have graduated early to enter the intermediate academy.

However, this guy was a coward. His older brother, Dai Weisi, was also at the intermediate academy, and since his brother wasn't skipping grades, he wouldn't skip them either, choosing to hide from him.

Which of the two princes was stronger and which was weaker was clear at a glance.

Meanwhile, A Ke also met her partner and fiancé, Pei Qinhu, in the first-year honors class of the junior academy.

Well, it is said that this guy was almost renamed Dai Qinhu a while ago.

Seeing A Ke from far away, this guy waved and greeted her, shouting A Ke's name at the top of his lungs, afraid that she wouldn't hear him.

Prosperous Fortune—Pei Qinhu!

A skin with extremely gorgeous special effects, which looked even more extraordinary when it appeared in reality. His soul beast prototype was the ancient divine beast Lu Wu, with multiple tails that were semi-immortal, full of divinity and majesty. Flames and auspicious clouds adorned his body, burning flame energy circled him, and every time his toes touched the ground, auspicious clouds bloomed...

Well... here, it was considered a benign mutation of the Evil Eye White Tiger martial soul.

Anyone who had seen it would find it hard not to be shocked.

In terms of strength, this should be considered a god-level martial soul, it just lacked the innate level 20 soul power.

The royal family wanted to pass down Pei Qinhu's martial soul.

A Ke's martial soul was not bad either, but in this world that judged by appearance, compared to the small black cat with average effects, Pei Qinhu's Blazing Divine Tiger was naturally more popular.

Pei Qinhu's hairstyle was even more flamboyant, with black and red hair designed uniquely; from a distance, it looked like a raging divine fire, and a pair of golden eyes burned like the sun.

Standing there, he was the focus of the crowd, impossible to ignore. His own personality was straightforward and enthusiastic, lacking the reserve expected of a noble, which made him appear more approachable.

His shout also brought quite a bit of attention to A Ke.

This made A Ke, who was used to being low-key as an assassin, very uncomfortable, but she didn't hate it; he was a good teammate who always charged to the front in a fight.

On the side, Zhu Zhuqing watched with a bit of envy. Although her fiancé was only ten years old, he was quite famous in the academy, though it was a reputation for being lecherous.

Those minor nobles were happy to send their daughters to him; as long as they could give birth to a powerful child, it would be worth it, and it wasn't a dream for their families to turn their fortunes around through this.

But this also made the situation for Zhu Zhuqing, who had recently become Dai Mubai's fiancée, awkward.

Many beautiful senior students in the academy had some ambiguity with her fiancé; what could she do?

However, after learning recently that he had a fiancée, Dai Mubai had restrained himself a little.

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Meanwhile, in the Heaven Dou Empire, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

Sikong Zhen successfully entered the Yu Clan, but his progress in improving his status was not smooth.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect was a sect built upon bloodlines.

The distribution of resources and treatment within it, apart from talent, depended more importantly on the closeness of one's bloodline and the intimacy of one's relationships.

Only the direct descendants of the family could receive key training...

Sikong Zhen's bloodline relationship could be said to be a branch of a branch.

It was not the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul that the Yu Clan took such pride in.

So...

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Chapter 35: Bloodline Questioning

So, Sikong Zhen was subjected to brainwashing.

Those direct descendants of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan hoped that Sikong Zhen, a child from an outside branch, would loyally assist the brothers Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin, acting as a perfect tool and enforcer.

This was unexpected, yet entirely within reason.

People naturally favor those closer to them.

The Thunder Douluo and Yu Luomian could not possibly set aside their own direct grandsons to cultivate a child of the same clan whose bloodline was separated by who knows how many generations.

Especially when their own children were talented and hardworking.

They would never go out of their way to support an "outsider."

Even if Sikong Zhen's talent was superior to their own children's.

Back in the day, Yu Xiaogang only had half a level of Innate Soul Power, yet with a "little bit" of help from his Douluo father.

He was still forcibly raised to level 29.

The resources consumed in that process could have cultivated countless other soul masters.

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Of course, such a reason could not be made public. The final official explanation was that Sikong Zhen's Martial Soul was not the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, casting doubt on his bloodline, which was why he received fewer resources than direct descendants like Yu Tianxin.

The elders of the branch families were nearly laughed to anger. When Yu Xiaogang awakened such a freakish thing back then, the Thunder Douluo never questioned his bloodline, claiming it was a Martial Soul mutation.

Now that a genius with a mutated Martial Soul had appeared in a branch, they suddenly claimed his bloodline was questionable. But there was nothing they could do; they couldn't win, so they had to accept it.

Moreover, this excuse regarding the Martial Soul was actually accepted by many in the clan. Everyone in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan took pride in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, and the clan valued pure-blooded direct descendants above all else. Even the Thunder Martial Soul, which could not achieve Dragon Transformation, was looked down upon by these clan disciples.

Although Sikong Zhen's Thunder Martial Soul successfully "passed" as a dragon-type, he was still ostracized by the "locals."

When Qian Xunji found out, he chuckled. Heh, a blind cat found a dead mouse; he actually guessed the truth!

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The most important resource in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was the Soul Ring resource.

Because the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan specialized in hunting dragon-type Soul Beasts, and because dragon-type Soul Beasts took a long time to reproduce, the number of these beasts had been decreasing year by year.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had even begun to farm dragon-type Soul Beasts to ensure that the younger generation of the clan had dragon-type beasts to hunt.

Every year, they also continuously purchased information on dragon-type Soul Beasts from exploration teams and mercenaries.

Among the Yu Clan members, there were incidents every year of people fighting tooth and nail over a good Soul Ring.

Of course, for direct descendants like Yu Tianheng, their Soul Rings were already prepared, and no one dared to snatch them.

However, this type of resource did not suit Sikong Zhen.

He specialized in the thunder element and did not need dragon-type Soul Beasts; he only needed thunder-attribute Soul Beasts. The two did not conflict.

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Yuan Zhao Shan He Ding — Sikong Zhen!

In this skin state, Sikong Zhen's Martial Soul was a brilliant golden thunderbolt, extremely rigid and masculine, with astonishing destructive power.

While other children were still obediently listening to their elders and hunting dragon-type Soul Beasts, Sikong Zhen was already planning his own development path.

He had practiced demonic arts and possessed Self-Created Soul Skills, and he was clear about his own shortcomings: his body was too fragile for close combat, and his reach was too short for long-range combat.

When fighting ordinary soul masters in this world, these were naturally not considered flaws.

But if he were to fight heroes of the same level, Sikong Zhen knew his weaknesses were too obvious and too fatal.

Therefore, Sikong Zhen currently had two development routes. First, strengthen his physique, turn himself into a tank, and become a true warrior.

Second, increase his attack range.

Of course, if possible, Sikong Zhen wanted an elementalization soul skill to become untargetable or immune to physical damage—that would be even better.

He needed to patch the mechanical flaws.

Unfortunately, the Thunder Martial Soul was the first of its kind, and the soul skills obtained after acquiring a Soul Ring were like a lottery. Sikong Zhen could only try his best to hunt beasts with similar abilities, hoping to obtain similar soul skills.

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Chapter 36: Twin Martial Souls Cultivation Method

Heaven Dou Empire, Nuoding Academy.

After sending Tang San away, Yu Xiaogang encountered another round of threats and intimidation from Tang Hao.