Ice Jade Scorpion

Biodata

Characteristics

Ice Jade Scorpions are crystalline soul beasts marked by ice-blue and emerald-green coloration. A ten-thousand-year specimen is described as a massive scorpion with a gleaming carapace and a raised, soul-chilling tail hook; the Ice Empress's vastly older form is similarly sculpted from cold crystal and surrounded by extreme frost 19 25.

• Their carapaces are crystalline and jade-like, commonly reflecting ice-blue and emerald-green light 19 25.
• They fight with heavy pincers and bladed, hooked scorpion tails 19 25.
• The Ice Empress specimen has six armored legs, crystal-yellow compound eyes, silver mouthparts, and an emerald tail made of five tapering segments 19.
• Ice Jade Scorpions are regarded as Far North overlords; even a ten-thousand-year individual posed a lethal threat to a group whose strongest member was a level 36 Soul Elder 25.

Attributes and Abilities

Ultimate Ice Evolution

Ice Jade Scorpions are born with both ice and poison attributes. As they evolve, they discard the poison attribute to specialize in ice, ultimately producing the Ultimate Ice attribute 31.

• Ultimate Ice is presented as the “emperor” of ordinary ice and snow attributes, exerting rank-based suppression over ordinary ice-attribute Spirit Masters 31.
• An Ice Jade Scorpion possessing Ultimate Ice can overwhelm opponents of the same level and hunt stronger prey 31.
• Their extreme cold can impair the circulation of an opponent's soul power and suppress ice-based abilities 37.

Physical Hunting Ability

Ice Jade Scorpions are formidable close-range predators, using their pincers, speed, armored bodies, and tail hooks to dominate opponents 25 37.

• A fifty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion's combat instincts, strength, speed, and agility could be reproduced through Xiao Bing's control of Su Hui's Ice Jade Scorpion avatar 32 37.
• The tail hook can carry Ultimate Ice pressure capable of freezing soul power through defensive armor 37.
• The Ice Empress's authority can force lesser Ice Jade Scorpions into absolute submission through bloodline hierarchy 25.

Cold Poison

Although the lineage abandoned conventional venom in favor of ice, the Ice Jade Stinger External Soul Bone left by Xiao Bing carries a specialized Cold Poison 31 33.

• Cold Poison is compressed liquid Ultimate Ice energy rather than ordinary toxin 33.
• When injected through the tail needle, it freezes soul-power pathways and damages the target's meridians 33.
• The Ice Jade Stinger can also compress Ultimate Ice into pellets or beams for ranged attacks, while its needle possesses “Absolute Piercing” against most defensive soul skills 33.

Soul Bone Restrictions

Ice Jade Scorpion soul bones contain powerful ice-attribute energy but are dangerous for ordinary Spirit Masters to absorb 21 22.

• Absorbing an Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone requires an Ultimate Ice martial soul or physique 22.
• Failure to meet this requirement can damage the meridians, freeze the user into a cripple, or cause a life-threatening soul-power backlash 22.
• A ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone possessed the Ice Explosion Technique and was deemed unsuitable for most auction bidders once its absorption restriction was exposed 21 22.
• A fifty-thousand-year voluntary sacrifice can produce the Ice Jade Stinger, an evolving External Soul Bone formed from the scorpion's tail 26 33.

Known Individuals

• Ice Empress — A 390,000-year Ice Jade Empress Scorpion and one of the Far North's Three Great Heavenly Kings. She accepted Su Hui's proposal to preserve her consciousness through sacrifice, becoming his second soul ring and torso bone 16 18 20.
• Xiao Bing — A fifty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion that voluntarily sacrificed itself to Su Hui under the Ice Empress's condition that it be resurrected if he reaches godhood. Its consciousness resides in Su Hui's Sea of Consciousness 26 32.
• Unnamed ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion — The source of an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone auctioned in Shrek City; the bone retained the Ice Explosion Technique 21 22.

Story Role

• Su Hui first intrudes into the Ice Empress's Far North territory, where Electrolux subdues her and enables their eventual covenant 16 18.
• The Ice Empress sacrifices herself to Su Hui, granting him a sealed soul ring, an Ultimate Ice-aligned torso bone, and Ice Jade Scorpion-derived abilities 19 20.
• A ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone appears at a Shrek City auction. Su Hui reveals its Ultimate Ice absorption requirement, causing the auction house to give the bone to him rather than continue the sale 21 22.
• Su Hui and the Ice Empress encounter an Ice Jade Scorpion pursuing the Skywater Academy students. After Su Hui freezes it with Eternal Frozen Domain, the Ice Empress takes control of his body and commands the scorpion to submit 25.
• The subdued fifty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion voluntarily sacrifices itself to Su Hui, becoming Xiao Bing and leaving behind the Ice Jade Stinger 26 33.
• Xiao Bing later controls Su Hui's Extreme Ice Differentiation avatar, allowing the Ultimate Ice construct to fight with the instincts and abilities of a living fifty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion 32 37.