Zhu Zhuqing Joins the Xiao Clan, Dai Mubai's Defense Shatters: "I'm Your Fiancé!"

At this moment, Xiao Yan's aura instantly leaped from a one-star Dou Zhe to a nine-star Dou Zhe!

But this was merely the beginning!

The Chaos Burning Heaven Technique bestowed by the Heavenly Palace was far too overbearing, and when combined with the medicinal power of that sugar bean, Xiao Yan's aura began to soar at a speed that made Dai Mubai doubt his own life!

Ten minutes later, crack!

Dou Shi!

Half an hour later, crack!

Three-star Dou Shi!

One hour later, crack!

Seven-star Dou Shi!

At this time, Dai Mubai could be seen lying in the cage, his eyes widened like copper bells, his mouth hanging open so wide that he forgot to close it even after his jaw dislocated.

"He, he broke through again?"

"How long has it been? Not even an hour, right?"

"Back in the day, it took me a full half-year to cultivate from level thirty-seven to thirty-eight! And I was even praised by my teacher as a peerless genius!"

"This kid just sits there without moving, and he levels up this much in an hour?!"

"Is this the power of a Heavenly Palace technique? Is this what it means to have no bottlenecks?!"

For a moment, an unprecedented sense of frustration flooded Dai Mubai like a tide.

His talent as an Evil-Eyed White Tiger, which he had always been so proud of, was not even worth as much as trash in the face of Xiao Yan's breakthrough speed, which was as easy as drinking water!

"Am I a piece of trash? Am I really just a piece of trash? Wuwu."

Meanwhile, on the Douluo Continent.

Shrek Academy.

Clang!

The teacup in Tang San's hand fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.

He stared fixedly at Xiao Yan in the light screen, who was surrounded by energy and breaking through as easily as drinking water. His face was as pale as paper, and his body could not stop trembling.

"Impossible, this absolutely defies the common logic of cultivation!"

Tang San's voice was hoarse, his eyes bloodshot.

"The path of cultivation is an act of defying the heavens; every step is like walking on thin ice!"

"How could anyone break through so many levels in a row without their foundation becoming unstable?!"

"Are his meridians made of iron? Is his Dantian a bottomless pit?!"

Even the others nearby were stunned into silence.

"Brother San—" Oscar swallowed hard, his voice laced with a sob. "We work our tails off cultivating for a month, and we might not even gain a single bit of soul power."

"He eats a sugar bean and takes a nap, and it's worth several years of our effort—"

"What's the point of cultivating anymore! I want to go be a dog for the Heavenly Palace too!!"

After a night passed, when the first rays of dawn spilled onto Xiao Yan.

Boom!

A tyrannical aura erupted violently, shattering the surrounding fallen leaves into powder!

Xiao Yan slowly opened his eyes, two flashes of sharp light flickering and vanishing.

He felt the Dou Qi within his body, but his brows furrowed slightly, and he curled his lips in dissatisfaction. "Tsk, only reached nine-star Dou Shi?"

"Isn't this too slow?"

"Sigh, as expected, I still have to rely on actual combat. Relying solely on taking medicine to level up is still too slow."

Pfft!!!

In the cage, Dai Mubai, who had stayed up all night watching Xiao Yan jump through so many levels, sprayed a mouthful of blood directly onto the bars after hearing that "too slow."

Listen to that—is that even human language?

Rising so many levels in one night, and he calls that slow?!

If this is called slow, then what is the cultivation speed he was so proud of at Shrek Academy?

Xiao Yan paid no mind to the yapping of that mad dog.

He glanced at his storage ring, a confident arc curling at the corner of his mouth. "Although it was a bit slow, it should be more than enough to handle that so-called Three Year Agreement."

"Next—"

Xiao Yan looked into the distance, toward the direction of the Magical Beast Mountain Range. "It's time to go test the power of that Eternal Ruler."

"Bring this dog along as well."

"The Palace Master said that a meat shield must have the self-awareness of a meat shield."

Having said that, Xiao Yan walked up to the cage, kicked the door, and said coldly, "Come out."

"You're coming with me to the Magical Beast Mountain Range."

"If you perform well, I'll reward you with some of the leftovers from last night."

Sure enough, Dai Mubai, who had been coughing up blood just moments before, saw his eyes light up instantly upon hearing those words!

"Woof!!"

Dai Mubai immediately cast aside his dignity and his status as a prince, scrambling out of the cage and wagging his tail as he followed behind Xiao Yan.

He looked even more loyal than Big Yellow, the dog Xiao Yan's family had kept for ten years.

Meanwhile, in the Douluo world on the other side.

Everyone had been watching the Sky Screen when, unexpectedly, the cold notification sound rang out from above once again.

[Ding! In view of the fact that the Douluo Plane explorer "Dai Mubai" has successfully survived for over 72 hours in an extremely harsh environment through astonishing perseverance!]

[Hidden reward mechanism triggered!]

[Reward: One additional deployment slot for the Douluo Plane!]

[Deployment location: Locked within a hundred-meter radius of Dai Mubai!]

[Random selection initiated, target locked: Nether Civet Zhu Zhuqing!]

Hum!!!

At the same time, in a corner of the Shrek Academy playground, the black-clad girl who had been silent and training desperately ever since Dai Mubai turned into a dog suddenly lifted her head.

Before Tang San and the others could react, a ghostly light instantly swallowed Zhu Zhuqing!

"Zhuqing!!"

Xiao Wu cried out in alarm, reaching out to grab her, but she grasped only empty air.

Battle Through the Heavens Plane, Wutan City, Xiao Clan.

The Xiao Clan was currently in a state of high excitement due to Xiao Yan's powerful return and the blessings of the Heavenly Palace.

Inside the Xiao Clan hall, Xiao Zhan was beaming with joy as he arranged for his clansmen to train, when suddenly, a loud boom echoed out.

A streak of ghostly light crashed into the center of the hall without warning, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Who goes there?!"

The Xiao Clan guards instantly drew their blades, their battle qi erupting as they surrounded the center of the dust cloud.

As the dust settled, it revealed Zhu Zhuqing's curvaceous, cold, and peerless figure.

She crouched on the ground in a defensive stance, her Nether Civet martial soul instantly manifesting. Two yellow and one purple spirit rings pulsed beneath her feet as she prepared for a life-or-death struggle.

"Hmm? Three energy rings?"

Just then, Xiao Yan, who had returned from the backyard carrying the pitch-black Eternal Ruler, looked at Zhu Zhuqing with great interest. "It seems someone else from that world has arrived."

Zhu Zhuqing looked at the guards surrounding her; the aura emanating from each of them made her feel stifled, especially the youth with the giant ruler on his back, who gave her a terrifying pressure akin to facing a Titled Douluo.

She was a smart woman.

She immediately retracted her martial soul, stood up straight, and bowed slightly to Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan, performing a standard junior's salute. "Junior Zhuqing, from the Douluo Continent."

"I mean no offense. If I have caused any disturbance, please forgive me."

Cold, rational, and neither servile nor overbearing.

This attitude was a world of difference from Dai Mubai, who had tried to lecture them like a piece of trash the moment he arrived.

Seeing this, Xiao Yan nodded.

"Not bad. You're much more sensible than that idiot at the gate who only knows how to bark."

"Since you're here, it's fate."

"My Xiao Clan happens to be short on hands. If you are willing to stay, I can ensure your safety."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Zhuqing did not hesitate in the slightest, immediately dropping to one knee. "Zhuqing is willing to serve the Xiao Clan! I only ask for a place to stay!"

She had seen the Sky Screen and knew the cruelty of this world.

Clinging to the Xiao Clan was her only path to survival.

"Good!"

Xiao Yan nodded and casually flicked a pill emitting a cyan halo from his storage ring. "That spirit power you cultivate is too low-level; it's full of impurities."

"This is a Tier 2 Marrow Cleansing Pill, along with this scroll of Yellow-tier high-grade cultivation technique, the Wind Shadow Art."

"Eat it and convert your cultivation system."

"With your aptitude, switching to wind-attribute battle qi should allow your strength to double."

A Tier 2 medicinal pill?!

A Huang-tier high-level cultivation technique?!

Zhu Zhuqing's hands trembled as she accepted these two items. On the Douluo Continent, these were supreme treasures that even Titled Douluo might not be able to produce.

Yet here, they were merely a greeting gift?

"Thank you for your bounty, Young Master!!"

Zhu Zhuqing swallowed the medicinal pill in one gulp.

BOOM!!!

The next second, the violent medicinal power instantly scoured her meridians, purging all the floating soul power within her body and converting it into incomparably pure Dou Qi!

In just a moment, her aura stabilized at the Dou Zhe realm.

Not only that, but her martial soul, the Nether Civet, also seemed to have mutated; its fur became more crystalline, and her speed was three times faster than before!

Is, is this the power of Dou Qi?

Zhu Zhuqing felt the surging power within her body, her eyes filled with shock.

The speed she had once been so proud of now seemed like a tortoise crawling.

She felt that she could now easily kill ten of her former self in an instant!

"Thank you, Young Master, for this grace of rebirth!"

Zhu Zhuqing bowed deeply once more. This time, it was a surrender from the bottom of her heart.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Douluo Continent, Star Luo Imperial Palace.

The head of the Zhu Clan watched his daughter's strength skyrocket on the light screen, his beard trembling with excitement: "Good! Very good!!"

"Zhuqing has been clever since she was a child! She knows how to assess the situation!"

"Unlike that idiot Dai Mubai, who insisted on acting arrogant and ended up like a dog."

"Now that Zhuqing has become a person of the Xiao Clan, she is a subordinate of a Heavenly Palace disciple! Her future is limitless!"

Battle Through the Heavens World.

Outside the Xiao Clan's main hall.

Xiao Yan waved his hand: "Alright, go and rest."

Hearing this, Zhu Zhuqing took a deep breath, then turned and followed others toward the main gate.

At this moment, at the entrance of the Xiao Clan.

That specially made iron cage was still sitting there.

Dai Mubai was lying inside, holding the discarded pill Xiao Yan hadn't finished last night, licking it like a precious treasure.

Suddenly, a familiar sound of footsteps approached.

Dai Mubai raised his head, his cloudy heterochromatic eyes widening instantly!

"Zhu—Zhuqing?!"

What was he seeing?

The young girl in black tight-fitting clothes, radiating a powerful aura and looking glowing with health—was that actually his fiancée, Zhu Zhuqing?!

She hadn't been locked in a cage?

She hadn't been treated as a slave?

She was actually walking out of the main hall?!

"Zhuqing!! Is it you, Zhuqing!!"

Dai Mubai lunged at the side of the cage like he had grabbed a life-saving straw, gripping the bars with both hands and shaking them desperately: "Save me! Quickly, save me!!"

"I am Dai Mubai! I am your fiancé!!"

"Quickly, plead with that Xiao Yan—no, plead with Young Master Xiao, and ask him to let me out too!"

"I want to be a human too! I don't want to be a dog anymore, Zhuqing!!"

"Even if you let me be your follower, that's fine too!!"

Looking at the man covered in filth, with scraps of the discarded pill still lingering at the corners of his mouth, fawning and wagging his tail, Zhu Zhuqing stopped in her tracks.

She looked down at Dai Mubai from above, her cold eyes devoid of any pity, filled only with disgust.

"Fiancé?"

Zhu Zhuqing spoke coldly, her voice icy.

"My fiancé is a man who stands tall between heaven and earth."

"Not a dog that wags its tail at others for half a discarded pill."

"You—"

Hearing this, Dai Mubai was stunned, his face instantly flushing the color of a pig's liver.

"Furthermore."

Zhu Zhuqing turned around, bowed slightly toward the main gate of the Xiao Mansion, and raised her voice, as if intentionally speaking for everyone to hear: "I am now a guard of the Xiao Clan, a subordinate of Young Master Xiao Yan."

"Young Master Xiao said that you are a dog that watches the gate."

"Since you are a dog, you must have the awareness of a dog."

"If you dare to bark again and disturb the Young Master's cultivation—"

Sizzle!

Zhu Zhuqing suddenly condensed a cyan blade of wind-attribute Dou Qi in her hand and slashed it fiercely into the ground in front of Dai Mubai, leaving behind a bottomless trench!

"Don't blame me for cleaning house!"

This wind blade did not just sever the ground; it completely severed the last shred of fantasy in Dai Mubai's heart.

He slumped in the cage, staring blankly at that resolute, departing back.

The woman he once looked down upon had now become a powerhouse who held his life and death in her hands.

The fiancée he had been so proud of was now willing to clean house for another man.

"Woof, woooo—"

Dai Mubai buried his head in the pile of hay, letting out a desperate whimper.

Battle Through the Heavens Plane, Wutan City, Xiao Clan training grounds.

The next day.

The morning sun spilled over the training grounds, and the air was permeated with a faint medicinal fragrance.

"Hoo—"

Zhu Zhuqing wore a black, tight-fitting training suit specially made by the Xiao Clan, which outlined her already explosive figure in an even more breathtaking manner.

After the marrow-cleansing effects of the Marrow Cleansing Pill, her skin glowed with whiteness, and her entire being radiated an aura that was both sharp and noble.

At this moment, she was sitting cross-legged in the center of a Spirit Gathering Array, and a table of breakfast was laid out before her.

Yes, just a breakfast.

But when Dai Mubai in the cage saw what was on the table, his eyes went wide.

Tenderloin steaks from a second-tier Magical Beast, the Red Flame Pig!

Spirit tea brewed with a first-grade Energy Recovery Powder!

And a bowl of Purple Ginseng Spirit Porridge that radiated intense energy fluctuations!

"Gulp—"

Dai Mubai gripped that withered bone tightly, watching as Zhu Zhuqing elegantly sliced off a piece of steak and placed it into her mouth. The overflowing juices and the luster of the energy made his stomach churn with jealousy.

In the Star Luo Imperial Palace, he had eaten delicacies from land and sea, but the meat of this second-tier Magical Beast was equivalent to the essence of a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast!

Who in the Douluo Continent ate ten-thousand-year Soul Beast meat for breakfast?

That wasn't luxury; that was insanity!

"How does it taste?"

At this moment, Xiao Yan walked over with a smile.

"Reporting to Young Master, the energy contained in this meat is too vast."

Zhu Zhuqing hurriedly set down her utensils, stood up, and said respectfully: "I feel that with every bite I take, the Dou Qi within my body grows."

"This one meal is worth a month of bitter cultivation at Shrek Academy!"

"Hehe, if you like it, eat more."

Xiao Yan waved his hand casually, as if speaking of a trivial matter: "There is plenty of this Red Flame Pig meat in the Magical Beast Mountain Range; you'll have all you can eat from now on."

All you can eat?!

Hearing these words, Dai Mubai's mentality in the cage completely collapsed.

"Right."

Xiao Yan seemed to remember something; he casually took a cyan scroll from his storage ring and tossed it to Zhu Zhuqing. "I see your Martial Soul is a cat, and you specialize in speed."

"That soul skill you used before was too crude; it was straightforward and full of openings."

"This is a scroll for a high-level Xuan-tier Dou Technique: Nether Ghost Shadow Steps."

"Although the grade isn't considered very high, when combined with your wind-attribute Dou Qi, practicing it to perfection will allow you to manifest nine afterimages, killing invisibly."

"Take it and practice. Don't embarrass my Xiao Clan."

A Profound-tier high-grade Dou Technique?!

Zhu Zhuqing scrambled to catch the scroll, her hands trembling.

Although she had only arrived recently, she had already learned from the servants of the Xiao Clan just how precious Dou Techniques were.

A Profound-tier high-grade technique was a treasure worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins, enough to make countless experts across the Jia Ma Empire fight until their heads broke!

"Young Master, this, this is too valuable—"