Attribute Panel

While everyone was still reeling in surprise, Zhu Zhuqing spoke again. "9,256 gold soul coins for both houses sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Tang San, Xiao Wu, what do you think?"

Xiao Wu's eyes lit up, and she immediately nodded in agreement. "Great! That way, Little San and Grandmaster can move out together."

Tang San swallowed excitedly and cast a meaningful little glance at his master.

Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang naturally understood his disciple's look. Resting his chin on his hand, he turned to Xiao Chenyu. "Ahem, ahem. I think that's quite reasonable. 18,888 plus 13,000, discounted to 9,256 gold soul coins. An excellent bargain."

"Impossible! Both houses for 9,256 gold soul coins? My father would beat me to death!"

Xiao Chenyu cried out. These people actually wanted to buy two houses on busy downtown streets for so few gold soul coins. They could dream on! If he agreed today, his father would definitely break his legs when he got home. Who was going to fill a hole that big?

"Hmm?"

Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Yu Xiaogang all fixed Xiao Chenyu with unfriendly looks.

Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu had already picked up the iron clubs beside them, while Tang San's little eyes took on a vicious gleam.

Yu Xiaogang, meanwhile, pulled out that thick book.

Under all that invisible pressure, Xiao Chenyu was on the verge of breaking down. "You-fine, I'll agree! Happy now?"

A short while later, the four left with two property deeds and two sets of keys, thoroughly satisfied. Inside the Real Estate Exchange, Xiao Chenyu clung to a chair and sobbed on the floor.

At the street corner, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang was leading Tang San back toward the academy when Zhu Zhuqing stopped them, holding out a property deed and a set of keys in her left hand.

"Grandmaster, Tang San, this house is for you," Zhu Zhuqing said with a smile.

Tang San froze, and so did Grandmaster. Neither had ever imagined Zhu Zhuqing would be so generous.

"No. You paid for the houses, so by rights, they belong to you," Grandmaster refused firmly. He was not the sort of person who liked taking advantage of others.

Zhu Zhuqing covered her mouth and laughed. "Grandmaster, without your help today, the little money I had wouldn't have bought even one house, much less two."

Then Zhu Zhuqing smiled at Tang San. "Would you really let two frail girls like Xiao Wu and me live somewhere so dangerous? Aren't you afraid Xiao Wu will turn into a little chubby girl?"

Xiao Wu came over from behind them and wrapped her arms around Zhu Zhuqing's arm. Pouting at Tang San, she said, "Hmph! From now on, I'm sticking with my rich lady. I'll get to eat so, so many delicious things!"

Tang San was not afraid of Xiao Wu getting fat. He was afraid she would borrow money from Zhu Zhuqing. If she borrowed a huge sum, how would he ever pay it back? All he could do was look expectantly at his teacher.

After weighing the pros and cons, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang stopped standing on ceremony. He had come from a great clan himself, after all. At worst, he could teach Zhu Zhuqing a little more whenever he taught Tang San, as repayment.

"All right. Tang San and I will take the smaller house, then. One room each-just right." Yu Xiaogang took the deed, looked it over, and handed it back to Zhu Zhuqing.

With a faint smile, Zhu Zhuqing switched it for the other deed and set of keys and handed those to Grandmaster. This worked out well. She, Third Sister, and Xiao Wu could live in the house with three bedrooms, two living rooms, and two bathrooms, with a bedroom each, while Tang San and Grandmaster stayed in the smaller house.

"Yay!" Xiao Wu bounced up and down with delight.

And so the four set off again, splitting into two groups. Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing headed to the fruit shop, while Tang San and Grandmaster returned to the academy. They agreed to visit their new houses tomorrow, buy some daily necessities, and then move in.

Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, work-study student dormitory, Dorm Seven, eleven at night.

As an exhausted Tang San opened the dormitory door and entered, several miserable screams rang out from inside, startling awake quite a few students who had long since fallen asleep in the other dormitories.

Wang Sheng grabbed Tang San's arm and cried out anxiously, "Tang San, are Sister Xiao Wu and Sister Zhu Zhuqing really not going to live here anymore?"

Several other boys immediately crowded forward again, eager for a definite answer. They had thoroughly cleaned the dormitory today, and a few of the boys had even spent their pocket money on plenty of treats, planning to celebrate Zhu Zhuqing moving in that evening.

Tang San looked around the dormitory and was very satisfied. It was the first time he had ever seen it so clean. But when he saw the enormous bed made by pushing seven or eight beds together, he was instantly speechless. These people could dream on!

He slowly walked to his bedside and put some of Xiao Wu's personal belongings into the Twenty-Four Bridge Bright Moon Night. Then he lay down and closed his eyes. "Starting tomorrow, I'll be living off campus too. Teacher has rented a house."

"Nooo-you're kidding!" Another round of anguished cries immediately swept through the dormitory.

Meanwhile, on the third floor of the fruit shop downtown, Zhu Zhuqing hugged her Third Sister, and Xiao Wu hugged Zhu Zhuqing. All three slept peacefully.

In truth, Zhu Zhuqing had not fallen asleep at all. She was secretly examining her attribute panel, her reward for completing today's mission.

A clear panel appeared in her mind.

Host: Zhu Zhuqing

Age: 7

Current world: Douluo Continent

Soul power level: 26

First martial soul: Chaos White Tiger (bloodline 20% activated), domain sealed, (innate martial soul skill: Thunderlight Wings)

First soul ring age: 600 years (enhanced twice), (Soul skill: Tiger's Roar in the Mountain Forest)

Second soul ring age: 959 years (enhanced twice), (Soul skill: Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell)

Second martial soul: Sun-Shooting Bow (no soul rings equipped)

Owned soul bones: Century-Old Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger Right Arm Soul Bone, (Soul skill: Summon Spirit-Summoned Azure Sky Tiger)

Movement technique: Spirit Cat Footwork (incomplete intermediate-level technique)

Spiritual power: Nine Transformations of the Soul Spirit (incomplete divine-level technique; this technique can only be cultivated to the third transformation), currently in the middle stage of the first transformation, "Soul Awakening Realm"

Destiny points: 6

Gold soul coins: 151, silver soul coins: 89, copper soul coins: 421

One storage warehouse: Storage capacity of 100 cubic meters.

Main mission: Defeat Dai Mubai and cancel your engagement to him. Successfully changing your destiny will award 50 destiny points. Subsequent missions will be released one after another upon completion of this mission.

Curious, Zhu Zhuqing asked in her mind, "Destiny System, can that storage warehouse hold living things?"

The destiny system gave no answer. Only the panel changed.

One storage warehouse: Storage capacity of 100 cubic meters. (Storing living things is prohibited)

Well, fine. Zhu Zhuqing was speechless. There was nothing she could do about this system. She had tried asking questions and talking to it many times before, but had never received a useful response.

In the blink of an eye, the next day arrived.

Tang San came over early that morning to pick up Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing for school. He had also brought three portions of breakfast, including Xiao Wu's favorite radish buns.

Xiao Wu happily took the radish buns and began taking huge bites. Giving Tang San a thumbs-up, she praised him. "Third Brother, you're the best!"

"Thanks!" Zhu Zhuqing called to Tang San, raising the breakfast in her hand.

Zhu Zhulin also waved her thanks. Eating as she hurried along, she went to help several aunties set up the breakfast stall.

Honestly, Tang San felt terribly awkward. All he had done was buy breakfast. Did all three beauties really need to thank him?

Eating their breakfast, Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu slowly followed Tang San toward the Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy.