Ice Empress

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ice Empress (冰帝)
Alias(es)	Bingbing; Bing'er 37 59
Species/Race	Ice Jade Empress Scorpion; later transformed into a human-bodied Soul Spirit 20 24
Gender	Female 20
Affiliation	Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North; Ice Jade Empress Scorpion clan; later Jiang Che's Soul Spirit partner 20 24 25
Occupation/Role	Far North sovereign and clan head; later Jiang Che's companion 20 25
Cultivation Age	399,900 years at her first battle with Jiang Che; subsequently reaches the 400,000-year threshold 21 23 25
Ranking	Eighth among the Ten Great Beast Kings 87
Residence	Initially an Ice Peak lair in the Far North; later the first floor of Jiang Che's residence on Sea God Island 23 39
Status	Alive as a Soul Spirit under an equal contract with Jiang Che 24 25
First Appearance	Chapter 20 20

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
300,000-year threshold	23 24	A previous heavenly tribulation left lasting injuries and damaged her origin, making survival of the next tribulation impossible without another solution.
399,900-year fierce beast	21 22	Her documented cultivation when fighting Jiang Che. She possesses Ultimate Ice, the Eternal Frozen Domain, and formidable physical strength.
400,000-year threshold	23 25	Breaks through during their battle, unexpectedly summoning her next heavenly tribulation. Her discarded body later retains the pressure of this threshold.
Advanced Soul Spirit transformation	24 25	Signs an equal contract with Jiang Che. Her consciousness leaves her original body, a new human body forms, and the tribulation loses its target and disperses.

Appearance

Soul Beast Form

Despite being a fierce beast approaching 400,000 years of cultivation, the Ice Empress is only about 1.5 meters long. Jiang Che describes her as breathtakingly beautiful, with a body resembling a sculpture made from ice and precious gemstones 20.

• Coloration: Glistening ice-white and emerald jade-green 20.
• Carapace: Four layered sections covered in diamond-like hexagonal protrusions that refract light 20.
• Limbs: Six slender, powerful legs and two meter-long front pincers; the pincer tips and mouthparts are smooth silver-white 20.
• Eyes: Bright yellow, gemstone-like eyes with hexagonal pupils 20.
• Tail: Five transparent emerald segments narrowing toward a raised hook, whose tip is sharp and silver-white 20.

Human Form

Her reshaped body initially resembles a petite girl of twelve or thirteen, while retaining the cold bearing of a Far North ruler 24 25.

• Hair: Waist-length emerald-green hair, sometimes surrounded by fine ice mist 24 25.
• Eyes: Topaz or yellow-diamond eyes 24 25.
• Clothing: A short ice-white and emerald-green skirt with diamond-shaped scale decorations at the shoulders 24.
• Distinctive features: A small ice-jade crown and an emerald scorpion tail 24.

Personality

The Ice Empress is proud, territorial, and unwilling to compromise her dignity. Even after recognizing Jiang Che's strength, she fears that backing down would damage the reputation of the Far North's sovereigns. Faced with annihilation, she initially declares that she would rather die than become a human's subordinate 20 21 24.

Her decisiveness also governs her attachments. She refuses to return to her clan after signing the contract, arguing that farewells would invite complications. Nevertheless, she later privately misses the Far North and wonders about the Snow Empress, revealing that her indifference is not complete 25 38.

Once she accepts Jiang Che, her trust becomes practical and substantial: she gives him her torso bone, watches over its absorption, and intervenes when Di Tian injures him. Her cold manner gradually softens enough that she addresses him by name rather than “Human” 26 48 59.

She develops an intense interest in soul tools while unable to cultivate. After Jiang Che explains an array's circulation nodes, she reads a basic theory book three times in three days and begins seeking advanced texts 40 59.

Abilities & Skills

Ultimate Ice

Her innate ice power underlies both her physical attacks and her control of the battlefield. Her released aura freezes surrounding snow and arrests the wind; an auction description identifies her ice as the lowest-temperature ice then known in the world 21 87.

• Channels Ultimate Ice through her pincers in an unnamed, life-bound attack that slows Jiang Che and disrupts his protective cold energy 21.
• Condenses thick, diamond-patterned ice shields 21.
• Protects herself and Huo Yuhao from the Scarlet King's battle with an Ultimate Ice barrier 45.
• Creates an ice wall in front of the injured Jiang Che when confronting Di Tian 48.

Eternal Frozen Domain

An origin-powered domain that freezes the battlefield and strengthens her Ultimate Ice 22.

• Immobilizes wind, airborne debris, and ice fragments 22.
• Sends dense ice needles into an opponent's flesh and soul power, attempting to freeze them completely 22.
• Enhances her speed and supports coordinated pincer-and-tail attacks 22.
• Rapidly erodes Jiang Che's Winter Guardian, forcing him to deploy his own Ultimate Ice domain 22.

Wrath of the Ice Emperor

A powerful attack released as a giant emerald-green, ring-shaped shockwave 22.

• Gathers cold energy from the Eternal Frozen Domain before release 22.
• Clashes with Jiang Che's combined Ice Dragon Bow and Wrath of the Ice Dragon King, remaining in a stalemate until her tribulation interrupts the battle 22 23.

Physical Combat

Her pincers, armored body, and hooked tail allow her to fight Jiang Che at close range 21 22.

• Moves quickly enough to leave afterimages 21.
• Uses her pincers to crack his conjured Ice Dragon spear 22.
• Uses her tail to intercept weapons, entangle limbs, and strike at vulnerable areas 21 22.
• Her carapace deflects ice shards and withstands repeated blows, although powerful impacts can hurt her and crack her pincer tips 21 22.

Spiritual Perception

She recognizes significant soul-beast auras and notices concealed activity 35 36 43.

• Detects a familiar trace of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's mental power during Huo Yuhao's embryo fusion 35 36.
• Identifies the Emperor Auspicious Beast's aura in the Star Dou Great Forest 43.
• Warns that the activated God-Sealing Platform's energy fluctuations may attract other powers 36.

Advanced Soul Spirit Contract

Her contract with Jiang Che preserves her consciousness and control over her power rather than making her a puppet or subordinate 24.

• Equal partnership: They share life and prosperity; harm to Jiang Che also threatens her 24 25.
• Tribulation avoidance: Detaching from her original body causes the heavenly tribulation to lose its target 24.
• Movement restriction: Her activity is limited to an unspecified radius around Jiang Che 24.
• Human-bodied existence: After transformation, she finds herself indistinguishable from a normal soul master except for lacking soul rings 25.
• Concealment limits: The Three-Eyed Golden Lion recognizes her, while Di Tian suspects her identity after seeing her familiar human appearance 44 48.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ice-jade crown — Worn in human form and associated with her sovereign bearing 24 25.
• Ice Jade Torso Bone — Created from her discarded scorpion body and its 400,000 years of cultivation. She gives it to Jiang Che to strengthen his foundation and improve their prospects of attaining godhood 25 26.
• Soul tool theory books — Studies basic and advanced texts after developing an interest in array structures; no completed soul tool of her own is documented 40 59.

Relationships

• Jiang Che — Initially an intruder and opponent, then her equal Soul Spirit partner. She entrusts her future to him and later risks confronting Di Tian to protect him 20 24 26 48.
• Ice Jade Empress Scorpion clan — Her former clan, which she led. She declares her ties severed after becoming a Soul Spirit, though an auctioned Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone later provokes resentment from her 25 87.
• Snow Empress — A fellow Far North sovereign whose welfare remains on her mind after leaving their homeland 20 38.
• Huo Yuhao — Jiang Che's junior, whom she intimidates but also protects. She shelters him during battles and warns him about the dangers of his Nightmare soul skill 31 37 43 45.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm — A familiar soul beast whose aura she recognizes on Huo Yuhao. It had planned to make her Huo Yuhao's second martial soul, but abandons that plan after discovering her partnership with Jiang Che 35 36.
• Mu En — Authorizes Jiang Che to arrange an identity for her at Shrek Academy 39.
• Di Tian — Recognizes her former human appearance from an earlier visit to the Far North. She attempts to defend Jiang Che against him before reluctantly standing aside 48.
• Ling Luochen — Privately regards Bingbing as a possible romantic rival because of her closeness to Jiang Che; the Ice Empress notices Ling Luochen's feelings 59.

History

Far North Confrontation

The Ice Empress is awakened when Jiang Che tests his Ice Dragon Bow against an ice mountain. The resulting shockwave cracks the ice around her sleeping place. She rejects his apology and demands his life for disturbing her territory 19 20.

Their battle escalates from physical combat to opposing Ultimate Ice domains and a clash between their strongest ranged attacks. Before either wins, she reaches the 400,000-year threshold and retreats to her lair as heavenly tribulation light gathers overhead 21 22 23.

A New Life as a Soul Spirit

With her old tribulation injuries still unhealed, she has no prospect of surviving the new calamity. Jiang Che offers an advanced Soul Spirit contract that preserves her identity and establishes an equal partnership. She accepts after demanding that he keep his promise, and the transformation saves her from annihilation 24.

She declines a farewell visit to her clan and instead gives Jiang Che her torso bone, reasoning that his growing strength offers her the best chance of eternal rebirth. After he absorbs it, they leave the Far North's core and encounter Huo Yuhao 25 26.

Identity at Shrek Academy

On the journey to Shrek, Jiang Che proposes presenting her as his sixteen-year-old younger sister from abroad, with a mutated Ice Jade Scorpion martial soul. The initial cover describes her as a Soul Emperor; he later asks her to display Soul Saint-level fluctuations instead 37 38.

Mu En permits Jiang Che to arrange her identity, and she moves into the first floor of his Sea God Island residence. Known publicly as Bingbing, she begins adapting to human life and studying soul tool theory 39 40 59.

Star Dou Great Forest and Afterward

She accompanies Jiang Che and Huo Yuhao on a soul-ring hunt, identifies the Emperor Auspicious Beast's aura, and shields Huo Yuhao during Jiang Che's fight with the Scarlet King. When Di Tian gravely injures Jiang Che, she immediately erects an ice wall to protect him, but withdraws at his insistence 42 43 45 48.

After returning to Shrek, she continues her studies during Jiang Che's recovery and questions him eagerly about divine tools and a possible god's inheritance. Later, while in his Sea of Consciousness at an auction, she reacts resentfully to the introduction of an Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone 59 87.

Notable Quotes

“Even if I am to be annihilated, I, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, will never bow my head to a human, nor will I become your subordinate!” 24

“Since I have chosen to trust you, I will spare no effort.” 26