An Encounter with Zhu Zhuqing

Meeting Zhu Zhuqing at the Start

In the Star Dou Forest, Lu Chuan rolled his dead fish eyes and searched everywhere for a way out.

Four or five century-old dire wolves closely trailed behind him, each robustly built with exposed fangs and an extremely ferocious nature.

This group of soul beasts locked onto Lu Chuan as their target, launching mad attacks with one fierce lunge, bite, and charge after another, their offensive exceptionally vicious.

Yet bizarrely, every attack landing on Lu Chuan had completely zero effect.

The four or five dire wolves attacked with increasing urgency, constantly howling and roaring, yet consistently failing to harm Lu Chuan in the least, able only to futilely follow behind in relentless pursuit.

From start to finish, Lu Chuan couldn't even be bothered to lift an eyelid, nor did his pace change, completely treating the wolf pack behind him like air.

He had time-traveled over half a month ago, and as for the reason for the crossing...

The captain took off too many times, the aviation fuel ran out, and he snapped and died in bed.

Opening his eyes again, he arrived in a forest, originally thinking he had been human-trafficked deep into the mountains and intending to run for it right away.

It wasn't until he saw a man with three spirit rings floating around him get bitten to death in one gulp by a tiger that he finally realized he had time-traveled to Douluo Continent.

Fortunately, he awakened the Super Middleman System.

As long as he completed transactions, he could obtain rewards from them.

System, open the panel.

"Ding, host: Lu Chuan

Current world: Douluo Continent

Dual-crossing world: Battle Through the Heavens (unlocked)

Middleman perks: Super Defense (host will not suffer any attacks, any restraints, any seals)"

When Lu Chuan first looked at it, he was so angry he laughed, as it only gave a super defense and nothing else at all.

That meant he had acquired a super tortoise shell, while his attack power, speed, and so on were merely at the level of an ordinary person.

The condition to unlock the Battle Through the Heavens world was very simple, which was just to complete the first transaction.

Yet the most speechless part was that this Star Dou Forest was far too vast and lacked signposts.

He got lost straight away, and after wandering for half a month, he hadn't walked out, nor had he even seen the shadow of a person, let alone completed a transaction. On the contrary, the soul beasts wanting to eat him came in wave after wave behind him.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he grew.

Lu Chuan suddenly stopped in his tracks and delivered a solid backhanded slap to the dire wolf behind him.

As a result, the dire wolf didn't even tilt its head, continuing to bite frantically at Lu Chuan.

"Damn it!"

Muttering curses, Lu Chuan continued walking forward.

Not knowing how long he had walked, a sound of pursuit suddenly rang out ahead.

"Don't run! Second Miss, you might as well obediently accept your death!"

"Hehehe, run! Keep running! Don't you ever think about turning right; do you think you'll be safe and sound just by entering the Heaven Dou Empire?"

"Fourth spirit skill, Wind Blade Assault!"

Lu Chuan's eyes instantly lit up, and his whole person immediately perked up!

People! He had finally bumped into living people! Furthermore, the sound of the pursuit was getting closer and closer!

He no longer had his previous slacking demeanor, raising his foot to kick fiercely at the dire wolf right behind him that had been clinging to him the whole time.

Having finished this action, Lu Chuan immediately stepped out and strode rapidly toward the direction from which the sounds of combat were coming.

Passing through a dense patch of tall grass in a few steps, his vision suddenly cleared.

The next second, the figure of a voluptuous young girl wearing neat leather armor unsuspectingly pounced straight toward his direction!

"Thump!"

"Ugh, ah!"

The two of them crashed into each other; Lu Chuan was completely fine, but the leather-clad girl was sent tumbling and falling to the ground by her own buffers.

Lu Chuan looked up and down at this young girl, instantly stunned into speechlessness.

Good grief, this figure, this looks, coupled with those cat ears and cat tail, this must be Zhu Zhuqing?!

"Ding, detected a customer meeting the criteria.

Customer name: Zhu Zhuqing

Affiliated region: Douluo Continent

Current soul power level: 27

Transaction details:

1. Travel to the Battle Through the Heavens world for a limited time. (Transaction conditions pending review)

2. Consigned transaction (cultivation methods, skills, and the like obtained by the host through transactions will all be successfully learned automatically)."

Oh, wow! Gold dropped!!

Lu Chuan looked at Zhu Zhuqing with burning eyes. This was his early-stage capital for rising to prominence!

Zhu Zhuqing on the ground came to her senses and, the moment she saw Lu Chuan clearly, her pupils constricted. No Soul Power? A normal person! How could a normal person be here?

Damn it, those inhumane bastards definitely wouldn't let him go.

Zhu Zhuqing quickly stood up, shielded Lu Chuan behind her, turned her face slightly, and said in a low voice.

"Their target is me. I'll hold them off in a moment, you run."

Immediately, Zhu Zhuqing lowered her stance slightly, and two yellow spirit rings emerged beneath her feet as she vigilantly watched those pursuers.

The pursuers were also somewhat at a loss, but facing the eldest miss's mission, they could only bite the bullet and step forward.

"Second Miss, you chose to stop for a normal person? How truly stupid. Perhaps if you had run straight away, you might have gotten away?"

"That's right. Is the life of a mere normal person worth trading your own reputation for? Didn't you run away from the Star Luo Empire just to save your own life?"

Those pursuers chimed in one after another, all but explicitly telling Zhu Zhuqing to ditch Lu Chuan and run straight away.

Zhu Zhuqing's expression was grave and unmoved, yet her heart remained somewhat fearful and unwilling.

"He was implicated by me. It's only right that I save him, even if I die because of it."

Lu Chuan felt his heartstrings get plucked. What a great girl~ That trash Dai Mubai didn't deserve her love.

Next, leave it to me. I will rescue you from the depths of misery.

He pressed Zhu Zhuqing's shoulder, pulling her behind him.

"Don't worry, they still can't hurt me."

Then, amidst Zhu Zhuqing's bewildered gaze, he walked forward with his head held high and chest puffed out, looking at them with the gaze of someone looking at ants.

"You few men bullying a little girl, aren't you ashamed? I only have one thought right now: beat you all to death, or be beaten to death by you all."

Lu Chuan stuck out his neck right up to the leader's face, his tone reaching the absolute limit of arrogance.

The leader's face darkened instantly. Damn it, a normal person actually kept provoking me!

Without wasting words, he popped out the sharp claws on his right hand and slashed toward Lu Chuan's neck.

"Die!!"

Zhu Zhuqing closed her eyes in unbearable pity.

"Clang!"

With a single claw strike, the savage grin on the leader's face instantly froze.

"Impossible! How could you be fine! Third Spirit Skill, Shadow Demon Claw!"

"Clang!"

"Clang!"

"Clang!"

Another several strikes in succession, such as trying to rip his head off, failed to even scratch the skin on his neck.

He swallowed hard in terror. With such terrifying defensive power, and without sensing any Soul Power fluctuations, this person's level was probably far above his own! He must be some old monster who had regained his youth!

It was over; he had kicked a steel plate!

"Crack!"

A crisp, resounding slap suddenly rang out.

Seeing the leader frozen in place, Lu Chuan directly raised his hand and heavily slapped him across the face.

"Done hitting? Then it's my turn now."

"Thud!"

The leader's legs went soft, and he directly and heavily knelt onto the ground.

Scared out of his wits, he forced out an extremely stiff smile, his entire body trembling uncontrollably.

How many Gold Soul Coins did he even make a month? Who was going to risk their life for this?

"Sen... Senior! I was wrong! I beg you to be magnanimous and just let me go like a fart!"

The remaining few pursuing subordinates were all scared stupid and froze in place, none daring to take another step forward, with some even taking a few steps back, ready to sell out their teammates and run at any moment.