I Want Both You Sisters

Zhu Zhuyun's little tricks would have amounted to nothing in a workplace from his previous life. He almost felt embarrassed to expose her.

Still, something felt strange. In the original story, hadn't Zhu Zhuqing fled to the Heaven Dou Empire because her sister, Zhu Zhuyun, had been hunting her down?

But now, why was Zhu Zhuyun carrying the unconscious Zhu Zhuqing on her back?

Jiang Li directly pointed at Zhu Zhuqing on Zhu Zhuyun's back. "She's your younger sister?"

Although Zhu Zhuyun had no idea why Jiang Li had suddenly asked that, she could only nod in confirmation.

After all, there was no point denying it. Zhu Zhuqing looked at least seventy percent similar to her. If they were not sisters, they could not possibly be mother and daughter, could they?

"You just said you're the future empress of the Star Luo Empire. That means your Martial Soul is the Netherworld Civet, right?" Jiang Li continued.

"Yes." Zhu Zhuyun immediately sensed that something was wrong, but she could only nod and admit it.

"If I remember correctly, every generation of the Star Luo Empire's royal family was raised like venomous insects in a jar, fighting until only one remained. The most outstanding one became the heir, right?"

Having heard what he wanted, Jiang Li immediately voiced the doubt in his heart. "Then you and your younger sister should be enemies, shouldn't you? Why didn't you take the chance to kill her? Why have you kept carrying her on your back?"

Indeed, ever since Jiang Li had first seen the two of them, Zhu Zhuyun had kept the unconscious Zhu Zhuqing on her back without putting her down even once.

Even when she had fallen out of the water bubble just now, she had carefully protected Zhu Zhuqing the entire time.

At those words, Zhu Zhuyun's heart skipped a beat.

Since the other party knew about the Star Luo Empire's rules for selecting royal heirs,

she could not let him learn that she did not actually want to kill Zhu Zhuqing and had deliberately allowed her to escape.

Otherwise, if this matter were ever spread back to the Star Luo Empire, even as the future crown princess, she would not get off lightly.

Thus, she could only stubbornly say, "Although Zhuqing is my enemy, I would not take advantage of her while she is unconscious."

"So, I will wait until she wakes up and fight her head-on. Then I will defeat her with absolute strength and kill her."

That sounded good, but she had omitted part of the truth.

For example, Zhu Zhuqing had been knocked unconscious by her, not while the two Soul Beast overlords, the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, had captured them.

Jiang Li nodded.

He understood. She was all tough words and a soft heart.

No wonder Zhu Zhuqing, a Soul Master in her twenties, had managed to escape from Zhu Zhuyun, a Soul Master in her thirties, despite Zhu Zhuyun having several subordinates who were no weaker than Soul Masters in their thirties.

She had even traveled all the way from the Star Luo Empire through the Star Dou Great Forest, crossing nearly half of the Douluo Continent before reaching Soto City on the border of the Heaven Dou Empire.

Even now, before obtaining his third Soul Ring, Jiang Li felt that traveling from this border to Heaven Dou City, the Heaven Dou Empire's capital, would be somewhat dangerous. Let alone Zhu Zhuqing crossing half the Douluo Continent?

So Zhu Zhuyun, as the elder sister, had worried about her safety. An assassination on the surface, but an escort in reality?

Thinking of this, Jiang Li could not help developing a bit of interest in this tough-talking, soft-hearted "well-endowed" elder sister, Zhu Zhuyun.

"My lord..." Seeing him look at her with such a strange expression, Zhu Zhuyun feared that Jiang Li did not believe her and wanted to say more.

"Enough. We'll talk after your younger sister wakes up. I'll deal with that Soul Beast first."

Jiang Li waved his hand, cutting off what Zhu Zhuyun had intended to say.

He was rather curious. Once Zhu Zhuqing woke up and he told her the truth, how would these two sisters, who loved and fought each other, get along?

But before that, he still had to deal with that Three-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and absorb his third Soul Ring to advance.

Honestly, this Soul Beast had exceeded his expectations. He had thought Er Ming and the others would bring back an ordinary Three-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

After all, the time he had given them had been tight, and his requirements had been demanding.

Yet the Soul Beast they had caught was actually a Golden Dreadclaw Bear, one with some relation to the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear.

If Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bears were born kings, then Golden Dreadclaw Bears were born as the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bears' subjects. Though their strength was not as terrifying as that of Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bears, they were still exceptionally powerful among bear-type Soul Beasts.

Unfortunately, using such a Soul Beast for him to absorb a Soul Ring was somewhat wasteful.

That was because Jiang Li's Martial Soul, the Summoning Grimoire, did not place much demand on a Soul Beast's quality when absorbing Soul Rings.

The source of his Soul Skills depended entirely on the objects he contracted with. The quality of the Soul Beast would not affect the power of his Soul Skills either. At most, he only needed Soul Rings with as high an age as possible to strengthen his physique.

Still, he was not so pretentious as to let this Golden Dreadclaw Bear go.

Jiang Li turned his gaze toward the Golden Dreadclaw Bear in the distance.

Golden Dreadclaw Bear: Danger!!!

Inside the water bubble just now, the Golden Dreadclaw Bear's Soul Power had already been dissolved by the Azure Bull Python's special ability.

And now that Jiang Li had transported it into the Summoning Space, as long as Jiang Li did not permit it, not only could it not recover its Soul Power in this space, it could not harm Jiang Li either.

Thus, Jiang Li easily dealt with it, and no battle took place.

The moment a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring rose from the Golden Dreadclaw Bear's corpse,

Jiang Li sat cross-legged beside the body, summoned the Summoning Grimoire, and guided the Soul Ring into his body.

The instant the Soul Ring entered his body, Jiang Li immediately knew that the money he had painstakingly saved over the past few years from his Soul Master subsidies to buy Whale Glue had not been wasted.

For ordinary Soul Masters, absorbing a third Soul Ring beyond seventeen hundred years was extremely dangerous. Yet when he absorbed this Three-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, he did not find it very difficult.

The moment the Soul Power within his body began circulating, the originally violent energy of the Soul Ring gradually calmed down.

An hour later, Jiang Li suddenly opened his eyes.

His third Soul Ring had been absorbed!

"Phew..."

Jiang Li stood up and gently exhaled a breath of stale air.

He clenched his fist and felt as though his entire body had undergone a subtle change.

Moreover, the bottleneck at level thirty, where he had been stuck because he had not absorbed a Soul Ring, had been broken through.

He had grown noticeably taller, reaching around one meter eighty in one go.

His appearance, however, had not changed much. He simply seemed more pleasing to the eye than before.

Most importantly, he had become stronger.

With a thought from Jiang Li, three Soul Rings in the optimal configuration—two yellow and one purple—rose from beneath his feet.

If someone could inspect the Soul Power within Jiang Li's body at that moment, they would discover that his Soul Power level had actually leaped directly from level thirty to level thirty-seven!

Retracting his Martial Soul and Soul Rings, Jiang Li looked toward Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing in the distance.

He discovered that Zhu Zhuqing had awakened at some point. She was no longer on Zhu Zhuyun's back, but stood opposite her, maintaining a wary distance.

"My lord, have you finally finished absorbing your Soul Ring?"

Seeing Jiang Li awaken, Zhu Zhuyun hurriedly walked over and asked.

Although she was somewhat surprised that Jiang Li, who could communicate with Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, was merely a Soul Master who had just broken through to three Soul Rings, she had chosen not to make any move while he was absorbing the Soul Ring.

Partly because the Soul Power within her body was completely drained, but also because her instincts had been warning her that if she dared do anything to Jiang Li while he was absorbing the Soul Ring, something terrifying would definitely happen.

Jiang Li nodded, then swept his gaze back and forth between Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing.

"My lord, could you send me back to the Star Luo Empire? Whatever you desire, I will do my utmost to satisfy you," Zhu Zhuyun continued.

Zhu Zhuqing did not speak. She merely watched the man before her with some curiosity, wondering how he had made her proud and arrogant elder sister lower her head.

Jiang Li's lips curved into a teasing smile. "Do my utmost to satisfy me? What if what I want is both you sisters?"