Ice Empress

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ice Empress (冰帝)
Alias(es)	Bing'er; Ice Jade Empress Scorpion 3 5
Species/Race	Ice Jade Empress Scorpion; soul beast capable of taking human form 3 4
Gender	Female 5 17
Affiliation	Rulers of the Far North; Ice and Snow Palace 3
Occupation/Role	Ruler of the Far North; Yu Tianjue's caregiver, cultivation supporter, and hidden protector 3 4 16
Cultivation	380,000 years in the real world 12 16
Status	Alive in the real world; dies by sacrificing herself in Yu Tianjue's first life simulation 5 24
First Appearance	Chapter 3, during Yu Tianjue's first life simulation 3

Background / History

Raising Tianjue in the First Simulation

The Ice Empress first encounters Yu Tianjue when the Snow Empress brings the abandoned infant to the Ice and Snow Palace. Believing humans and soul beasts to be enemies, she initially thinks the Snow Empress should have left him to die. Nevertheless, she respects the decision and helps raise him—even traveling to the nearest town to buy milk powder while complaining about the task 3.

Her hostility gradually gives way to affection. She protects Tianjue, finds rare treasures for his cultivation, and comes to celebrate his growth and combat talent. Together with the Snow Empress, she supports the plan to cultivate him into a god so that both empresses can escape their approaching heavenly tribulations 3 5.

The two empresses select soul beasts beyond normal soul-ring age limits to sacrifice themselves for Tianjue. When he leaves the Far North to seek a divine inheritance, the Ice Empress follows secretly in human form. Throughout his two-year search, she intercepts threats from Titled Douluos and hundred-thousand-year ocean soul beasts before they can endanger him. She later enters the newly revealed Ice God inheritance cave alongside Tianjue and the Snow Empress 4.

Sacrifice During the Ice God's Trials

Tianjue's seventh trial requires him to extract the Ice God Scepter, but his martial soul lacks the final step needed to attain Ultimate Ice. The Ice Empress concludes that her sacrifice is the only way to close that gap. With Tianjue already at level eighty-nine, she judges that his foundation is strong enough to receive her power safely 5.

Before sacrificing herself, she gently touches the Snow Empress's face—something she had long wanted to do but never dared. She then calls Tianjue out under the pretext that they have found a solution. He discovers her intentions only after the sacrifice begins and cannot stop it. Her life becomes his ninth soul ring, aged nearly four hundred thousand years, and his martial soul gains Ultimate Ice 5.

Tianjue subsequently seeks godhood partly to find a way to resurrect her. However, the final trial demands that he kill the Snow Empress. He refuses, instead sacrificing himself to transfer divine power to the Snow Empress and free her from heavenly tribulations. The simulation ends without the Ice Empress's resurrection 5 6.

Dreams and the Real-World Reunion

In the real world, the Ice Empress experiences recurring dreams of the simulated life, including her sacrifice. Though she initially considers sacrificing herself for a human unthinkable, the dreams begin affecting her emotions. She searches the Far North's outer perimeter for the dying infant she remembers 12.

Instead, she encounters six-year-old Yu Tianjue traveling with Yu Yuanzhen. His name, appearance, and dragon-type martial soul convince her that he is connected to the child from her dreams. She immobilizes Yu Yuanzhen with her Eternal Frozen Domain and carries Tianjue to the Ice and Snow Palace. There, both empresses recognize their own auras in his Ice Crystal Necklace 12 13.

The Ice Empress notices that Tianjue's externalized martial soul differs from his dream counterpart, although its Ultimate Ice aura feels familiar. She describes him as the same Tianjue, yet not entirely the same person. Using her dream memories, she retrieves the critically injured thousand-year Mystic Ice Earth-Splitting Dragon, whose sacrifice supplies his first soul ring 14 15.

Protecting Tianjue in Human Society

The Ice Empress wants to keep Tianjue at the palace, but accepts the Snow Empress's decision to let him live his own life in human society. After returning him to his grandfather, she secretly follows him to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect because she cannot feel assured of his safety 15 16.

Over the following year, she watches his training and daily life while repeatedly dreaming of their shared past. Her affection becomes at least as strong as that of her simulated self, and she comes to understand why that version of her sacrificed everything for him. She continues guarding him after he obtains the Asura Demon Sword, although its threatening aura and his unexpected second martial soul leave her increasingly puzzled 17 24.

Appearance

• Human form: Has an exquisitely beautiful face and fair, delicate hands. In the simulation, she usually appears human around Tianjue to spare his feelings, rarely revealing her true form 5 12 17.
• True form: An Ice Jade Empress Scorpion 3.

Personality

The Ice Empress initially treats humans as enemies; before her dreams, she would kill humans hunting soul beasts in the Far North without hesitation. Her early care for Tianjue is accompanied by complaints and cold looks, but her actions consistently protect him 3 5 12.

Her attachment develops into pride in his achievements and deep concern for his safety. She remains outwardly cold during their real-world reunion, yet shows anticipation, reluctance to part with him, and tenderness when watching him sleep. Her simulated sacrifice places Tianjue's future and the Snow Empress's survival above her own life 5 14 15 17.

Abilities & Skills

Ultimate Ice

Her power supplies the missing element needed to evolve Tianjue's martial soul into Ultimate Ice 5.

• Her simulated sacrifice produces his nearly four-hundred-thousand-year ninth soul ring 5.
• The resulting evolution allows him to extract the Ice God Scepter and fully use the Snow Empress's Three Absolutes 5 6.
• Her soul ring grants additional combat skills, which Tianjue uses against the Snow Empress; those skills are not named in the supplied passages 6.

Eternal Frozen Domain

The Ice Empress envelops an area of several dozen meters in extreme ice and emerald-green crystalline radiance 12.

• Freezes the surrounding air and forms green-tinged ten-thousand-year black ice across the ground 12.
• Immobilizes Yu Yuanzhen and makes his soul-power circulation sluggish before he can activate his Martial Soul Avatar 12.
• Directs its pressure at Yu Yuanzhen rather than Tianjue 12.
• Dissipates when she departs with Tianjue 13.

Concealment and Movement

She combines deliberate concealment with exceptional speed to operate as Tianjue's unseen guardian 12 13 16.

• Hides from Yu Yuanzhen, who has not yet reached Super Douluo rank 12.
• Carries Tianjue to the Ice and Snow Palace so quickly that he struggles to keep his eyes open 13.
• Follows him and his grandfather without either noticing 16.
• Is confident that her 380,000-year cultivation allows her to escape unharmed even if discovered 16.

Cultivation Support

She helps Tianjue obtain resources and soul rings suited to his martial soul 3 4 14.

• Finds rare treasures for him to consume during the simulation 3.
• Works with the Snow Empress to select sacrificial soul beasts exceeding ordinary absorption limits 4.
• Locates the Mystic Ice Earth-Splitting Dragon through her dream memories, enabling a thousand-year first soul ring in the real world 14 15.

Items

• Ice Crystal Necklace — Jointly crafted with the Snow Empress in the simulated life and described as never melting. Tianjue selects it as a simulation reward and keeps it as a memento. Its preservation of both empresses' auras becomes evidence connecting him to their dreams 6 7 13.

Relationships

• Snow Empress / Xue'er — Fellow ruler and partner in raising Tianjue. The Ice Empress respects her decisions but questions whether their real-world reunion might repeat the dream's tragedy. Her final simulated sacrifice is intended to help Tianjue take Xue'er to the God Realm 3 5 14 15.
• Yu Tianjue — Initially an unwelcome human infant, later someone she raises, nurtures, and sacrifices herself for. In the real world, dream-borne affection leads her to protect him secretly rather than remain in the Far North 3 5 16 17.
• Yu Yuanzhen — Tianjue's grandfather, whom she overpowers during the abduction. She later returns Tianjue to him and follows them without revealing herself 12 15 16.

Notable Quotes

“In the entire Far North, only by me sacrificing myself to Yu Tianjue can his martial soul bridge that final gap, allowing him to cross that threshold and become a master with the Ultimate Ice attribute.” 5

“Xue'er, all signs indicate that he is the Tianjue from our dreams, yet he is not entirely him.” 14

“Are we really going to let him leave? Can't we take him in, just like in the dream?” 15