Shattering Soul Rings, Transforming Bloodline Power-Zhu Zhuqing Emerges from the Pool, Leaving Bibi Dong Green with Envy

After speaking, the wet nurse turned around and led Zhu Zhuqing out of the Spirit Beast Garden.

The scenery along the way opened Zhu Zhuqing's eyes—and those of the country bumpkins from the Douluo World watching before the Sky Screen.

Beyond the Spirit Beast Garden stretched a long corridor of white jade.

It floated in midair, with clouds and mist swirling on either side.

As Zhu Zhuqing walked along the corridor and glanced down, she saw that the ten-thousand-foot abyss below was not dark. Instead, it was a dazzling river of stars!

Countless tiny stars drifted through the abyss, giving off a hazy glow.

"Are those stars?" Zhu Zhuqing couldn't help exclaiming at the sight.

"Mm. They're dead stars the Immortal Lord captured from beyond the domain, used as the formation anchors for the Mountain Protection Array," Wet Nurse Wang said casually, as if she were talking about stones by the roadside.

As they continued forward, a series of suspended immortal islands came into view.

Immortal cranes soared through the clouds. Their wings stretched a full thousand meters wide, and every feather seemed carved from white jade, radiating a sacred aura.

"That's an Immortal Crane. It carries the bloodline of a True Immortal. A single cry from one of them could shatter a whole region of the Lower Realm."

Wet Nurse Wang pointed to the crane as she explained.

Hearing this, Zhu Zhuqing hurriedly looked up. But after only a glance, a sharp pain stabbed through her eyes, as if needles were pricking them. Frightened, she quickly lowered her head.

Along the way, Zhu Zhuqing also saw waterfalls of Spiritual Energy flowing with golden liquid, lingzhi growing on sheer cliffs and shining like little suns, and enormous palaces appearing and disappearing among the clouds...

Every scene exuded an aura of boundless antiquity, ancientness, and almost unimaginable nobility.

Every blade of grass and every tree, every brick and every tile here displayed how utterly different it was from the Douluo World. This was truly a higher-dimensional world!

Compared to this place, the Spirit Hall and the Star Luo Empire were nothing. Even the Divine Realm was trash by comparison.

At last, after passing through layer upon layer of immortal scenery, the wet nurse finally brought Zhu Zhuqing to a secluded mountain valley.

At the center of the valley was a small pool.

The water was a strange shade of Chaos. No steam rose from its surface, yet it gave off a bone-chilling cold that made one's heart tremble.

But on closer inspection, countless tiny runes seemed to swim through the pool. Each ripple appeared to unfold the mysteries of life.

"This is the Spirit Cleansing Pool."

Wet Nurse Wang pointed to the pool, then spoke solemnly:

"Go in."

"Remember, the process will be agonizing. It'll be like having every bone in your body smashed and reset, and every meridian pulled out and washed one by one."

"After the transformation, your current cultivation may vanish completely. You may have to start over from the beginning."

"Do you... dare?"

Hearing the wet nurse's words, Zhu Zhuqing clenched her delicate fists beside the pool. She looked at the Chaos-colored water, took a deep breath, and closed her eyes.

In a daze, she thought of her fiancé, who knew only how to run away.

She thought of the rigidly stratified Star Luo Imperial Family, which felt suffocating.

And she thought of the peerless sights she had seen along the way.

"I... am willing!"

Having made up her mind, Zhu Zhuqing suddenly opened her eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, she leaped straight into the Spirit Cleansing Pool.

"Ah!"

The moment she entered the water, Zhu Zhuqing's anguished scream rang through the entire valley.

At the same time, the people in the Douluo World watched the scene on the Sky Screen in terror.

In the hazy Spirit Cleansing Pool, the Soul Rings around Zhu Zhuqing had appeared on their own and were now shattering one by one!

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple!

In an instant, all four Soul Rings shattered like glass and exploded into nothingness.

As Zhu Zhuqing's Soul Rings broke apart one after another, her hard-won Soul Power Level rapidly plummeted.

"They're gone. They're all gone..."

Douluo Continent, Shrek Academy.

The Evil-Eyed White Tiger, Dai Mubai, lay collapsed in a mud pit, staring blankly at the scene. His lips trembled as he muttered, "She really did cripple herself. For that so-called cultivation of immortality, she really turned herself into a useless cripple..."

"Why? Is that kind of power really so important to her? Important enough to destroy the strength we shared?"

"Hmph, utterly foolish!"

Nearby, Yu Xiaogang stood with his hands behind his back. He pointed at the Sky Screen and turned to Tang San, launching straight into a lesson.

"Did you see that, Little San? This is what happens when you betray your Martial Soul!"

"Soul Power is the foundation of a Soul Master. Without Soul Rings and Soul Power, Zhu Zhuqing is now weaker than a farmer who can't even lift a finger!"

"I told you from the start: never mind whether a person can truly start over after cultivating something else—the old woman is harming her. But Zhu Zhuqing never had my keen eye. She's been completely ruined."

Yet just as Yu Xiaogang shook his head and sighed, treating Zhu Zhuqing as a cautionary example, the Sky Screen—which had fallen silent for a brief moment—suddenly changed again.

After seeing what happened, the smiles on Yu Xiaogang and the others' faces vanished at once, and they were left speechless.

Meanwhile, in Perfect World.

In the Spirit Cleansing Pool of the Primordial Immortal Court.

"Rumble!"

The Soul Power motes that had been fading inside the pool did not disappear completely. Instead, drawn by a mysterious force, they surged toward Zhu Zhuqing's back!

At the same time, the Martial Soul that had appeared beyond her control did not shatter like her Soul Rings.

On the contrary, as the Chaos-colored liquid washed over it, the Spirit Cat phantom—which had nearly become corporeal—threw back its head and let out a cry. Its form then shrank rapidly, before transforming into a streak of dark, purple-gold light.

"Whoosh!"

The streak fell and imprinted itself directly on Zhu Zhuqing's smooth, fair back!

It became a lifelike black-cat totem, full of wildness!

In the next instant, terrifying Bloodline Power, as if from the primordial wilderness, erupted from Zhu Zhuqing's seemingly delicate body!

There wasn't the slightest trace of Soul Power, yet her pure physical Bloodline Power formed a blood-red column of smoke several dozen feet high above the Spirit Cleansing Pool!

It shot straight into the heavens!

"W-what is that?!"

Inside the Pope Palace, Bibi Dong shot to her feet at the sight. The scepter in her hand slipped free and clattered to the ground.

She stared fixedly at the blood-red column of smoke. Even as a Peerless Douluo, she felt crushed by the pure Bloodline Power, as if by a higher level of life.

"No Soul Power—she can cause a heavenly phenomenon with nothing but the blood and qi of her physical body?"

"H-how is that possible?!"

But the most shocking sight was still to come.

As the cleansing ended, the Chaos liquid in the Spirit Cleansing Pool gradually settled.

Zhu Zhuqing's figure slowly floated up from the water.

By then, her clothes had already been reduced to ashes in the energy storm.

Her flawless, perfect body now hovered in midair, completely bare.