"Then go ahead!"
Lin Yan did not believe this fellow could afford the astronomical cultivation fee. The admission fee might be within his reach.
But no matter how he looked at him, the fellow did not seem rich. Besides, if he really was a top expert, how could that mere small fry have suppressed him just now?
If he had been pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, then he really was a pig.
"Awaken her martial souls first. I'm in no hurry.
"By the way, boss, you look pretty young. How old are you?"
"None of your business."
Still, the fellow had made a good point. The martial souls had not been awakened yet.
Lin Yan snapped his fingers. The next instant, a pillar of light enveloped the girl in Zhu Zhuqing's arms, and a martial soul awakening array appeared instantly.
The reason he had asked others to help with the awakenings before was that he feared people might think he was playing tricks.
Was there any stronger proof than demonstrating it through someone else's hands?
No.
But now he no longer needed to prove anything, so naturally, he chose whatever was most efficient.
The little girl's body slowly floated into the air. Frightened, she instantly shut her eyes, then abruptly opened them again in midair. An intense black radiance suddenly burst from her clear black-and-white eyes.
Along with it came terrifying, pitch-black lightning.
Rumble!
Rolling thunder abruptly exploded behind her, intertwining with the netherworld's black mist, while several dragon cries suddenly rang out in the sky.
Faced with this terrifying presence, even the middle-aged man who had worn such a playful expression just now looked shocked.
"Another dragon martial soul, and such a terrifying lightning dragon at that?"
This was the simultaneous awakening of twin martial souls.
The first martial soul was Zhu Zhuqing's Nether Civet martial soul, but it had undergone a complete transformation. A jet-black civet phantom appeared, its fur as deep as an abyss. Like a ghost, it seemed illusory and without substance.
And now, its form no longer resembled a cat at all. Twin dragon horns grew from its head, and its body bore both long fur as black as an abyss and scales as black as ink. Its feline paws had completely transformed into sharp dragon claws.
The Nether Civet martial soul had fully mutated into a Nether Dragon Cat.
The aura she radiated at that moment was like that of a god of death, as though every darting movement could take a life.
If the first martial soul merely inspired wonder,
then the second martial soul struck terror into everyone present.
A terrifying ferocious beast with a tiger's head and a dragon's body appeared, treading on empty air, and instantly suppressed everyone present.
Its head was that of a tiger, its eyes wide and round, its fangs exposed. A pair of short dragon horns stood on its forehead, lending it an inherent ferocity.
Its torso was the broad, powerful body of a true dragon, covered entirely in fine, pitch-black dragon scales, with the strong, thick musculature of a tiger. Its four tiger claws were heavy and sharp, and it seemed to clutch a bolt of lightning in its grasp-pitch-black lightning.
Its dragon tail was thick and powerful, tipped with a short tuft of tiger fur, its savage might unrivaled.
The moment Lin Yan saw this martial soul, he could no longer remain calm. He immediately used the system to appraise it, and the result told him exactly what he had suspected.
This was none other than Bi'an, the dragon's seventh son.
Holy freaking beans.
Ning Rongrong's mutated martial soul was Fuxi, and Zhu Zhuqing's mutated martial soul was Bi'an, another of the dragon's nine sons.
So all the offspring that mutated through me had divine beast martial souls like the dragon's nine sons!
My genes were way too powerful!
I was fucking amazing.
Wouldn't that make me invincible?
He knew Bi'an well. Born of a dragon and a black tiger, it innately governed punishment and prisons and commanded black lightning. It bore the darkness of the netherworld and the restraints of law, yet also possessed vast righteous energy capable of suppressing all the savage, baleful energy in the world. It was a true god of thunder prisons, a beast of justice.
Twin martial souls, two mutated martial souls, had fully awakened, with innate soul power at level 9.
At the same time, bloodline feedback activated instantly. Pure soul power feedback appeared out of nowhere within Zhu Zhuqing. Accompanied by a faint humming tremor, her aura began to strengthen, instantly breaking through from level 27 to level 28 before stabilizing.
Innate level 9 soul power provided 0.9 levels of feedback. It was perfectly normal for Zhu Zhuqing to gain a level instantly.
Feeling this soul power feedback, Zhu Zhuqing trembled slightly. Irrepressible excitement appeared in her eyes, and even her breathing grew rapid.
Just now, she had felt envious merely watching Ning Rongrong, but now she could experience that feeling herself.
This utterly domineering way of leveling up, requiring neither arduous cultivation nor reliance on talent, felt far too good.
As long as her precious daughter could cultivate to the Soul King level before reaching adulthood, she could make up the five-level soul power gap between herself and her older sister. At last, she had hope of surviving.
At that moment, Zhu Zhuqing instead felt very fortunate.
She did not worry about her father, mother, or older sister finding this place, nor did she worry about them being able to muster tens of millions, because her older sister could never come here for cultivation, not even in secret.
Her older sister was already the designated crown princess, the future empress of the Star Luo Empire.
This boss had said that although it was only a drop of blood, the father's bloodline truly existed. The Star Luo Imperial Family would not tolerate the future empress having a child with someone else, even through a special method without any physical contact.
But she did not need to care about any of that, because she was already universally acknowledged as a discarded pawn!
As for the Star Luo Imperial Family holding her accountable if she managed to defeat her older sister and survive, that could wait until she actually survived.
Zhu Zhuqing was growing ever fonder of her precious daughter. Once her daughter finished awakening her martial souls, she immediately gathered her into her arms, unwilling to let her go for even a moment. Moreover, the bond between their bloodlines instantly gave her someone to lean on.
At last, she was no longer alone. Nor did she need to seek out that scumbag, that coward who had given up on himself, refused to make one final effort, and even abandoned her to secretly come here and indulge in wine and women.
Now, she could live well by relying on herself.
"Sweetheart, how about Mommy names you Zhu Zhuyou? Do you like that name?"
"I do!"
Huh?
Upon hearing this, Lin Yan immediately wanted to complain. Who gave a daughter a name from the same generation as her mother?
The Zhu generation? Zhu Zhuqing was called Zhu Zhuqing, and her daughter was called Zhu Zhuyou? What kind of lousy naming was that?
But only Zhu Zhuqing herself knew that she and her daughter were just six years apart.
Although she had accepted her identity as a mother, their everyday interactions would still be a little awkward. Giving her daughter this name was also meant to help them get along better in the future.
Besides, Ning Rongrong had named her own daughter Supreme Empress Ning. Her choice of name could not have been more normal.
And Lin Yan thought the same thing:
Although Zhu Zhuyou was a little odd as a name, it was far more normal compared to the one Ning Rongrong had chosen.
Zhu Zhuqing now had sufficient confidence. Her precious daughter, Zhu Zhuyou, was her greatest source of confidence.
Now she needed to help her daughter level up properly.
With innate level 9 soul power and the cultivation speed of twin martial souls, she should be able to break through to level 10 in a few days at most. Then they could go to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts.
A wonderful life awaited her.
But just as Zhu Zhuqing took Zhu Zhuyou's hand and prepared to leave the Cultivation Room, Lin Yan immediately called out to stop her:
"Miss Zhu Zhuqing, please wait."
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