Zhu Zhuqing

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Zhu Zhuqing (朱竹清)
Gender	Female
Age	Nearly fourteen 144
Origin	Zhu Family of the Star Luo Empire’s Duke’s Mansion 44
Affiliation	Heaven Dou Royal Academy; Imperial Fighting Team; formerly Shrek Academy 44 55 124
Occupation/Role	Soul Master; Sunday’s student; initially a reserve member, later a core member of the Imperial Fighting Team 55 124
Martial Soul	Hell Spirit Cat, a shadow-type martial soul 142 145
Innate Soul Power	Rank seven 143
Highest Individually Confirmed Rank	Rank forty-five, Soul Ancestor 148
Status	Alive; remains Sunday’s student 207

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Innate soul power: rank seven	143	Recalled as her starting point at martial soul awakening. Her family considered this ordinary talent among the great families.
Soul Elder	56	Her documented rank when Sunday gives her a soul-power-enhancing potion; no immediate post-potion rank is stated.
Level forty; awaiting fourth soul ring	121 142	Breaks through before Ning Rongrong and waits for her. Both subsequently seek fourth soul rings with Sunday.
Soul Ancestor; fourth soul ring acquired	148	Kills and absorbs the ring of a roughly six-thousand-year-old Ghost Shadow Eagle subdued by Sunday. Her Immortal Herb-enhanced constitution allows rapid absorption.
Rank forty-five	148	Reaches this rank after also absorbing the Ghost Shadow Eagle’s two External Soul Bones.

Background / History

Star Luo Family Competition

Zhu Zhuqing grew up amid the Zhu and Dai families’ brutal succession competition. The Zhu Family’s prestige depended on its connection to the imperial Dai Family, which restricted its marriages and bloodline development to preserve their martial soul fusion compatibility. Secret attacks at home led Zhu Zhuqing to learn to prepare her own food for safety 37 142 145.

She endured a difficult journey to Shrek Academy to find Dai Mubai. Her original plan was to become stronger alongside him, defeat Zhu Zhuyun and Dai Weisi, and survive the Star Luo Imperial Family’s traditional competition 37 38.

Seeking Sunday’s Help

After learning that Ning Rongrong had advanced from level twenty-seven to thirty in about ten days, Zhu Zhuqing pleaded to learn how she had done it. Sunday disclosed that he had prepared a soul-power-enhancing potion from rare medicinal herbs 36.

Unable to afford the potion, Zhu Zhuqing asked to become his disciple. Sunday refused after she explained that she intended to help Dai Mubai compete for the throne: he regarded her plan as continued submission to the rules she claimed to oppose. She initially mistook his rejection for a judgment of her talent 37 38.

When she approached him again, Sunday questioned why she needed to return to the deathmatch when she was already alive and free in the Heaven Dou Empire. His advice to live for herself unsettled her longstanding dependence on Dai Mubai 42 43.

Departure from Shrek

Dai Mubai accused Zhu Zhuqing of cheating with Sunday after learning of their meetings. She had sought the potion to improve their chances against their family rivals, making his accusations particularly painful. Both released their martial souls before Flender intervened 43.

Zhu Zhuqing refused to reveal Sunday’s potion secret to explain herself and announced that she was leaving. When Yu Xiaogang invoked the academy’s interests to pressure her into staying, she recognized his attempt at moral coercion, challenged him, and walked away 43 44.

She went to Ning Rongrong, and an attempt to bring her back ended with the Imperial Fighting Team beating Dai Mubai after he lost his temper. By Sunday’s next visit, she had enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and become a reserve team member 48 55.

Life at Heaven Dou Royal Academy

Zhu Zhuqing trained with the Imperial Fighting Team under Dugu Yan and joined Sunday’s next stage of training at the Charity Hall, where the students helped distribute supplies and assist residents 55.

During a private conversation, she confirmed that she had broken things off with Dai Mubai and recognized that carefree freedom—not victory under her family’s rules—was what she wanted. Sunday then gave her the potion she had sought. She also asked whether Zhu Zhuyun had deliberately allowed her escape, admitting that repeated betrayals made it difficult to trust her sister 56.

Against Elephant Armor Academy, Zhu Zhuqing worked with Yu Feng and Osler to exploit the formation broken by Dugu Yan. When Huyan Li targeted her as the lowest-ranked member, she withdrew rather than jeopardize the team’s position 96 97.

Reconciliation in Spirit City

Zhu Zhuqing accompanied Sunday’s group to Spirit City after reaching the threshold for her fourth soul ring. During the journey, she quietly enjoyed the freedom of traveling and reassured Ning Rongrong about her family’s complicated affairs 121 122 123.

Zhu Zhuyun visited her at midnight, disguising warnings as threats. Zhu Zhuqing recognized her sister’s concern, called her “Sister,” and embraced her. Zhu Zhuyun admitted that the family lacked the strength to resist the Dai Family and urged her to live safely in Heaven Dou. Zhu Zhuqing instead vowed to become a Titled Douluo and change their circumstances 124.

Fourth Soul Ring Hunt

In the Star Dou Great Forest, an encounter with Lin Mianmian renewed Zhu Zhuqing’s doubts about her talent. Sunday used Veritas Ratio’s example to challenge the idea that her starting point determined her future. Despite her outward composure, he recognized that years of fear and family pressure still burdened her 142 143 144.

During the hunt, Zhu Zhuqing cooked for the group and grew closer to Ning Rongrong. She resolved to reach the continent’s summit, change the Zhu Family’s fate, and protect her friend. Sunday eventually found a suitable Ghost Shadow Eagle, whose ring and two External Soul Bones brought her to rank forty-five 145 147 148.

On returning to Heaven Dou City, she saw Dai Mubai leaving a Pleasure House with Yu Tianheng. Rather than regretting their separation, she felt relieved that she had avoided sharing his dead-end path 148 149.

Confrontation with Shrek

When Heaven Dou Royal Academy drew Shrek Academy as its opening opponent, Zhu Zhuqing requested permission to fight and settle matters with Dai Mubai. Her teammates explicitly wanted to avenge the treatment she and Ning Rongrong had received 194.

During the match, she escaped an entrapment by melting into shadows and splitting into avatars. She defeated Tai Long and Jing Ling, threw them off the platform, and later joined Yu Feng’s attack on Tang San. The Imperial Fighting Team won after Tang San conceded 196.

Encounters with Otherworldly Visitors

• Misha / the Clockmaker: Zhu Zhuqing found Ning Rongrong unconscious at the haunted hotel and entered the ensuing dreamscape with her teammates. She was the first to ask why Misha and Sunday had come from their more powerful universe to the Douluo Continent 160 161.
• Gallagher: Ning Rongrong introduced her to Sunday’s old acquaintance. Despite finding his appearance strikingly different from Sunday’s, Zhu Zhuqing greeted him politely and identified herself as Sunday’s student 207.

Appearance

• Dark eyes: Her dark pupils are explicitly described during her confrontation with Yu Xiaogang 43.
• Pronounced figure: Both Sunday and Gallagher notice her unusually exaggerated proportions 36 207.
• Family resemblance: Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin recognize Zhu Zhuyun’s resemblance to her 124.
• Black pajamas: Worn when she visits Sunday for their private conversation at the Charity Hall 56.

Personality

Zhu Zhuqing presents herself as calm, cold, and aloof, but remains cautious and deeply in need of emotional security. Family persecution leaves her distrustful of affection and afraid that renewed hope will invite another betrayal. Her insecurity also extends to her cultivation talent, which she measures against the stronger students around her 56 143 144 147.

Her defining strength is tenacity. Once she accepts that her old goals do not represent freedom, she leaves Shrek and ends her relationship with Dai Mubai. She can also recognize manipulation: Yu Xiaogang’s appeal to the academy’s future fails because she understands the pressure behind his words 44 56.

With trusted companions, she becomes affectionate and playful. She smiles at Ning Rongrong’s antics, teases her after reaching rank forty-five, and increasingly treats her own strength as a means to protect others rather than merely survive 145 147 148.

Abilities & Skills

Hell Spirit Cat

A shadow-type beast martial soul that Zhu Zhuqing develops toward speed and explosive attack power 142 145.

• Possession: She can release the martial soul to possess her body for combat 43.
• Mobility and flanking: She attacks from the edges of enemy formations and rapidly withdraws from unfavorable confrontations 96 97.
• Documented rings: Two yellow and one purple before her fourth-ring hunt; a purple Ghost Shadow Eagle ring is subsequently added 142 148.
• Enhanced constitution: Immortal Herb treatment improves her physique enough to raise her intended fourth-ring age above the usual roughly five-thousand-year target 142.

Soul Skills

Soul Skill	Slot	Documented Use
Hell Stab	First	Used while attacking Elephant Armor Academy’s disrupted formation 97.
Netherworld Slash	Third	Used alongside Hell Stab during the same coordinated assault 97.
Unnamed shadow-avatar skill	Fourth	Melts her body into shadows and creates multiple avatars that scatter, surround opponents, and deliver rushing strikes 196.

Combat Judgment

• Team coordination: Exploits openings created by Dugu Yan and works with fellow mobile attackers to divide enemy formations 96 97.
• Risk assessment: Abandons an attack when Huyan Li targets her, recognizing that an unnecessary engagement could burden her teammates 97.
• Counterattack: Uses her fourth skill to evade Tai Long and Jing Ling, surround them, and eliminate both from the platform 196.

Cooking and Self-Reliance

• Learned to cook because secret attacks at home made preparing her own meals safer 145.
• Roasts rabbits for the forest expedition and prepares breakfast before Ning Rongrong wakes 145 148.
• Modestly describes her cooking as merely filling, although Ning Rongrong repeatedly praises it 145 148.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Soul-power-enhancing potion: Given by Sunday after she recognizes her desire for freedom and confirms her separation from Dai Mubai 56.
• Two Ghost Shadow Eagle External Soul Bones: Found in the eagle’s claws by Sunday and absorbed by Zhu Zhuqing after its soul ring. Her power reaches rank forty-five afterward; no specific bone abilities are described 148.

Relationships

• Sunday — Teacher and mentor. Initially refuses her discipleship request, then helps her reject the family deathmatch, supplies her potion, and supervises her fourth-ring hunt 37 42 56 148.
• Ning Rongrong — Closest friend and source of emotional support. Zhu Zhuqing was the only Shrek student who did not ostracize her; Rongrong’s willingness to defend her later helped her leave Shrek. Zhu Zhuqing resolves to protect her 7 145 147 148.
• Dai Mubai — Former fiancé and intended partner in the Star Luo succession struggle. His accusations destroy her remaining trust, and she breaks things off with him 37 43 56 124.
• Zhu Zhuyun — Elder sister and former apparent rival. Her concealed attempts to protect Zhu Zhuqing are finally acknowledged when the sisters reconcile in Spirit City 56 124.
• Dugu Yan — Imperial Fighting Team captain and training leader. Conducts combat training and approves Zhu Zhuqing’s request to fight Shrek 55 194.
• Yu Xiaogang — Former Shrek teacher. Attempts to pressure her into remaining at the academy; she rejects his authority over her departure 43 44.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu — Former classmates whose failure to intervene against Dai Mubai contrasts, in her memory, with Ning Rongrong’s willingness to defend her 147.

Notable Quotes

“That wasn't the fate I wanted. What I wanted was carefree freedom.” 56

“I'll become a Titled Douluo, and I'll change all of this! Wait for me.” 124

“Compared to a scholar, you really are more like a doctor.” — To Sunday 147