The second round, upper bracket arena.
A girl of twelve or thirteen stood in the arena, wielding a Nine-Toothed Rake that shimmered with a faint glow and was covered in mysterious runes, trading blows with Chen Feng.
Chen Feng had run into the little fatty's second elder sister, Zhu Wuxin.
People on the Douluo Continent grew and matured quickly. Zhu Wuxin was already delicate and pretty, her radiant features complemented by a figure beginning to show graceful curves.
Over the past two years, Zhu Wuxin had taken Chen Yanwu's place as the village boys' "goddess."
Fortunately, Zhu Wuxin had inherited her mother Ding Dang's looks. Had she looked like Zhu Tianhao instead, the Ding Family probably would have beaten him until he could not get out of bed.
When it came to fierce, explosive tempers, the Ding Family ranked first in the village.
Martial souls influenced people's personalities to some extent. How good could someone's temper be when they spent every day smashing people with a rake?
Logically, since Zhu Wuxin had awakened the Nine-Toothed Rake martial soul, she should have changed her surname to Ding under the agreement governing martial soul inheritance.
Oh, right-the Ding Family themselves used the more elegant name Supreme Treasure Gold-Inlaid Rake, describing their martial soul with the verse, "Nine teeth of jade hang like fangs; twin rings of gold dangle like leaves." A Zhu Family ancestor had asked someone from the main family to compose it.
Unlike women who married away, both families lived in the village, not even two or three hundred meters apart. Zhu Tianhao and Ding Dang generally raised their children themselves.
Moreover, Zhu Tianhao's second uncle, Zhu Yanfeng, shared a friendship forged through life and death with the Ding Family patriarch, Ding Bingyuan.
He had saved Old Master Ding several