Hu Liena

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Hu Liena (胡列娜)
Alias(es)	Nana; Senior Sister Nana 30 49
Gender	Female 9 111
Affiliation	Spirit Hall; Spirit Academy; Origin Team 21 68 98
Occupation/Role	Spirit master; Bibi Dong’s disciple; Origin Team vice-captain 21 55 98
Martial Soul	Demon Fox 30 55
Combat Path	Assault/power attack system, chosen after initially favoring the control system 30 31 55
Highest Documented Realm	Six-ring Soul Emperor 94 100
Status	Alive in the latest provided appearance 111
First Appearance	Chapter 9, “Roommate Hu Liena, First Day of School” 9

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level 30; awaiting third spirit ring	28	Announces her breakthrough and prepares to obtain a ring in the Star Dou Forest.
Three-ring Soul Elder	31	Absorbs a thousand-year Nine-Tailed Sky Fox ring with Gui Mei’s protection, gaining Nine Tails. Also obtains a spirit bone.
Level 45 assault-system Soul Ancestor	55	Confirmed with two yellow and two purple rings. Her fourth skill, Heavenly Fox, strengthens her speed and attacks.
Soul Emperor breakthrough; awaiting sixth ring	94	Advances during a month and a half of Holy Pool cultivation, then leaves with the team to obtain a new ring.
Six-ring Soul Emperor	100	Absorbs the approximately fifty-thousand-year Rending Claw Bear ring in less than two hours, demonstrating a strong cultivation foundation.

Background / History

Hu Liena’s parents died long before her introduction. She subsequently relied on her brother, Xie Yue, and developed her cooking skills through regularly preparing meals during those years 49 52.

At Spirit Academy, she shares Dormitory 404 with Xu Yuan, whose placement there was arranged by Yue Guan. She initially resents having a male roommate and attacks Xu Yuan during their first encounter; he evades her kick and summons the Elemental Canon to defend himself 9 15 19.

Appearance

Hu Liena has a beautiful face, fair skin, and expressive, alluring eyes. Absorbing the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox ring adds a sense of holiness to her existing charm, with the two qualities appearing naturally together 9 17 31.

• Fox features: Martial Soul Possession produces a large, bushy tail; Nine Tails transforms it into nine white tails 31 55.
• Presentation: Wears light makeup after morning exercise during the academy exchange 52.
• Maturation: Becomes more charming during the five-year time skip 50.

Personality

Hu Liena is proud, competitive, and reluctant to surrender her authority as Xu Yuan’s senior sister. His teasing often irritates her, particularly when he downplays her accomplishments. Nevertheless, she accepts experienced advice: Gui Mei’s support for Xu Yuan’s reasoning persuades her to abandon her intended control-system path 28 30 31.

Her playful side emerges during shopping trips and street games, where she enthusiastically pulls Xu Yuan from stall to stall. She values beauty and is immediately delighted by the skin-nourishing effects attributed to the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone herb 32 33 76.

She is protective of Xu Yuan and repeatedly worries about his safety. Small gestures of care mean a great deal to her—a warmed cup of milk tea quickly lifts her mood. Her later jealousy centers less on the possibility of another partner than on believing Xu Yuan has concealed that relationship from her 28 85 89 99 111.

She also shows moral hesitation. Before exploring an exposed grave, she objects to disturbing someone’s burial and imagines how angry she would be if future generations did the same to her 36.

Abilities & Skills

Demon Fox Martial Soul

• A beast martial soul with innate charm, attacking claws, and tails 30 37.
• Hu Liena adopts an assault-oriented approach that combines mental disruption with physical attacks 30 31 55.
• Gui Mei advises against specializing in control, arguing that doing so would sacrifice attack strength without matching the control abilities of suitable tool martial souls 30.

First Spirit Skill: Charm

• Disrupts an opponent’s actions through a faint glow in her eyes 55.
• Holds Dugu Yan in hard crowd control for two seconds, preventing her from beginning her poison-based offense 55.
• Also contributes to Hu Liena’s victory over Xie Yue in the Spirit Fighting Arena 68.

Second Spirit Skill: Tail Hammer

• Swings her tails like heavy mallets, increasing attack power by 80% 55.
• Combines with Nine Tails to deliver a multi-tail strike 55.

Third Spirit Skill: Nine Tails

• Obtained from the thousand-year Nine-Tailed Sky Fox 31.
• Splits her tail into nine and makes the tails larger, thicker, and longer 31 55.
• Functions as an amplification skill rather than the dedicated control skill she originally intended to acquire 30 31 55.

Fourth Spirit Skill: Heavenly Fox

• Amplification skill that greatly increases movement speed, attack speed, and attack power 55.
• Used with Charm, Nine Tails, and Tail Hammer against Dugu Yan. Qin Ming is surprised that Hu Liena’s attack can shake him despite his six-ring Soul Emperor cultivation 55.

Combat Timing

• Attacks before opponents finish preparing their abilities rather than allowing them to establish their preferred conditions 55.
• Her immediate use of Charm against Dugu Yan reflects several years of Xu Yuan’s influence and training 55.

Spirit Awakening

• Trained to conduct martial soul awakenings at the academy 39.
• Performs her first real-world awakening for Yu Xian without mistakes despite initial nervousness, then tests his spirit power 39.

Cooking

• Prepares more than a dozen dishes during the visit to Holy Soul Village, including ingredients brought from Spirit City 49.
• Receives praise from Old Jack for skills developed through years of cooking while living with her brother 49.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Nine-Tailed Sky Fox spirit bone — Obtained alongside her third spirit ring; its specific type and ability are not identified in the provided account 31.
• Ten-thousand-year arm spirit bone — Chooses the arm bone from the discovered grave to complement her claw attacks. Takes leave to begin absorbing it after returning to the academy 37 41.
• Additional leg spirit bone — Gifted by Xu Yuan after the Tang Hao confrontation 105.
• Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone — Immortal herb received from Xu Yuan, described as strengthening tendons and bones, clearing meridians and vessels, and nourishing the skin 76.
• Storage Bracelet — Carries supplies, cooking ingredients, and a spirit power testing crystal ball 39 49.
• Awakening stones and testing crystal ball — Used to awaken and assess Yu Xian’s martial soul 39.
• Spirit Hall identity token — Presented during the Tianxing City dispute, prompting the Hall Protection Knights to salute 34.

Relationships

• Xu Yuan — Roommate, junior fellow disciple, team captain, and eventually boyfriend. His rescue turns her initial hostility into curiosity and affection; the relationship is explicitly confirmed when he gifts her a leg spirit bone 19 21 89 105.
• Bibi Dong — Teacher. Accepts Hu Liena as a disciple following the kidnapping incident and provides a week of personal instruction 20 21.
• Xie Yue — Brother and teammate. Hu Liena relied on him after their parents’ deaths; their later arena match ends in her victory 49 52 68.
• Yan — Childhood friend and teammate with unrequited feelings for her. He remains jealous of Xu Yuan’s closeness to Hu Liena even years later 24 53 100.
• Gui Mei — Elder, protector, and cultivation adviser, addressed affectionately as “Grandpa Gui” or “Grandpa Ghost.” Helps redirect her combat path and guards her third-ring absorption 30 31 49.
• Old Jack — Xu Yuan’s grandfather. She greets him as “Grandpa Xu,” cooks for him, and later visits him to share stories of Xu Yuan’s experiences 49 87.
• Qian Renxue — A source of insecurity and jealousy when she visits Xu Yuan’s dormitory in her true appearance. Hu Liena assumes there is an undisclosed romance, but that assumption is not established as fact 111.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Kidnapping and Papal Discipleship

Evil Spirit Masters abduct Hu Liena and Xu Yuan within Spirit City. Hu Liena accepts Xu Yuan’s help escaping her restraints but refuses his attempt to turn the favor into unrestricted obedience. After he kills their captors, they return to the academy and report the hideout 17 18 19.

The incident exposes a serious security failure at Spirit Hall’s headquarters. Bibi Dong recognizes both victims’ talent and bravery, takes them as disciples, and personally instructs them before they return to school. Hu Liena subsequently places second in the third-year monthly examination, behind Xie Yue and ahead of Yan 20 21 24.

Third-Ring Expedition and Tianxing City

During her third-ring expedition, Xu Yuan and Gui Mei persuade Hu Liena to pursue assault rather than control. After obtaining her ring, she takes Xu Yuan shopping in Tianxing City. Their outing leads to a dispute involving Xue Celou and a storage ring, then to the discovery of an exposed grave containing spirit bones 30 31 32 34 36 37.

She also conducts Yu Xian’s martial soul awakening during this journey. Later, she accompanies Xu Yuan and Gui Mei to Holy Soul Village for the New Year; the group returns to Spirit City after three months 39 46 49 50.

Academy Exchange and Arena Battles

As part of Spirit Academy’s exchange delegation, Hu Liena defeats Dugu Yan through an immediate charm-and-tail combination. During subsequent Spirit Fighting Arena matches, she becomes one of the team’s dependable winners and defeats her brother, Xie Yue 55 65 68.

Her outings with Xu Yuan include the Moonlight Pavilion and Gengxin City. She also witnesses his proposal to create weapons that could give ordinary people power comparable to spirit masters, initially finding the idea difficult to believe 59 60 85 89.

Holy Pool and Elite Tournament

Hu Liena cultivates with Origin Team in the Holy Pool before the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. After her Soul Emperor breakthrough, she rejects a Snow Sable Fox as her sixth-ring target in favor of the more attack-oriented Rending Claw Bear 93 94 99.

She absorbs the bear’s ring shortly before Tang Hao ambushes the returning party. Origin Team later reaches the tournament’s final four and is scheduled to face Great Xia Royal Academy in the semifinals 100 111.