Snow Empress

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Snow Empress (雪帝)
Alias(es)	Xue’er; Extreme North King 19 30
Species/Race	Ice Sky Snow Maiden, born of heaven and earth 10
Gender	Female 17
Affiliation	Extreme North; worshipped and served by the Ice Clan 50 99
Occupation/Role	Ruler of the Extreme North; foremost of its Three Heavenly Kings 17 18
Rank	Third among the Ten Great Savage Beasts 25
Bloodline	Ice God Bloodline 20 102
Status	Alive; possesses the incomplete Ice God Pearl. Her spiritual sea still requires treatment 122 137
First Appearance	Mentioned in Yan Hongchen’s recollections 10; appears before the Hongchen family 17

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Six-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation — prior milestone	50	Origin power dispersed during this tribulation eventually gave rise to the family that worships her, later named the Ice Clan.
Partial spiritual-sea recovery	52	Yan Hongchen’s treatment produces signs of improvement, but does not completely resolve her condition.
Incomplete Ice God Pearl acquired	104	Uses Yan Hongchen’s map and the mutated Ice Extremity Divine Crystal to locate the artifact. Its incomplete state initially makes its power difficult to invoke.
Divine artifact power demonstrated	137	With the Ice God Pearl and her authority over the Extreme North, breaks Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual prison and prevents his escape method from succeeding.

Her seven-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation is approaching, but the provided chapters do not document her passing it. She cannot form yin-yang complementary dual soul cores and therefore seeks alternative means of survival 18.

Background / History

Snow Empress is a heaven-and-earth-born Ice Sky Snow Maiden who rules the Extreme North. During her six-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, some of her origin power scattered beyond her reach. Over time, that power gave rise to a human family whose members worshipped her; their faith later began gathering around her as a distinct power 10 50.

Before meeting Yan Hongchen, she had frozen part of her own spiritual sea. Although she can control the ice, thawing it risks shattering her spiritual barrier and allowing her spiritual power to leak away. Her long lifespan and precise ice control offer a slow means of adjustment, but the approaching tribulation leaves her short of time. She considers using a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus to suppress her cultivation, house herself within it, and undergo transformation 18 25 26.

Appearance

• Hair: Long, silver-white hair, described as cascading like a waterfall 25 119.
• Eyes: Ice-blue, usually carrying a cold or indifferent expression 18 20.
• Face and hands: Peerlessly beautiful features and slender, jade-like hands 18 19.
• Clothing: A long white dress whose hem moves in the wind 17.
• Presence: Visible frigid mist surrounds her body; her arrival brings overwhelming pressure and a drop in temperature 17 119.

Personality

Snow Empress is imperious, guarded, and accustomed to unquestioned authority. At their first meeting, she treats the Hongchen family as intruders and makes their release conditional on verifying Yan Hongchen’s information. Nevertheless, she prefers a beneficial agreement to mutual destruction, swears the Ice God Oath, and follows through on her promise 18 19 21.

Her responsibility toward the Extreme North shapes both her generosity and her restrictions. She selects soul beasts for the humans specifically to prevent indiscriminate harm, invests resources in other beasts’ tribulations, and records the species living under her jurisdiction. She is also willing to reconsider her hostility toward humans when Soul Spirits offer a possible future for soul beasts 21 26 51 119 121.

Her warmer side appears selectively. She protects Yan Hongchen during cultivation, patiently evaluates Su Tong’s progress, and occasionally teases Yan Hongchen. These bonds grow beyond their initial transactions, though her concern does not automatically extend to everyone accompanying him 22 99 119 123.

Abilities & Skills

Ultimate Ice and Environmental Control

Snow Empress’s control is powerful enough for the Extreme North Icefield to respond directly to her will 18.

• Freezes the water beneath Jing Hongchen’s feet and immobilizes him despite his active flight equipment 18.
• Suppresses Liu Yueming’s ice-and-snow martial soul at the attribute level 18.
• Disperses Yi Hongchen’s golden fist force before it reaches her 18.
• Releases or withdraws battlefield pressure with a gesture 19.
• Separates frozen soul beasts from ice without damaging the surrounding block indiscriminately 52.

Snow Empress Three Absolutes

Art	Properties and Applications	Teaching / Limits
Emperor Sword	One of her signature ultimate arts. She also uses it to open a small storage space after comprehending a gemstone’s spatial power 21 50.	Can be taught. Su Tong comprehends more than seventy percent of the technique while incorporating her own understanding 99.
Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow	Combines soul-power circulation, force generation, spiritual coordination, and the ultimate condensation of ice 100.	Her strongest offensive Absolute, but it must hit the target to take effect. She transmits its cultivation method directly to Su Tong 100 104.
Emperor’s Chill Heaven	Her personal domain and the domain component of the Three Absolutes 50 99.	Cannot be passed down through instruction or replicated merely by learning its method 99.

Snow Dance Radiant Sun Domain

• Isolates outside interference while protecting Yan Hongchen during his hundred-thousand-year head spirit bone absorption 22.
• Allows her to supervise the process without the surrounding blizzard disturbing him 22 23.

Movement, Communication, and Concealment

• Travels through the air at extraordinary speed, with temporary icy stairs forming beneath her steps 20.
• Carries Yan Hongchen between the Extreme North and Dragon City while shielding him from the cold 20 21.
• Uses an enormous ice-flower signal to summon Ice Empress 19.
• Sends messages through wind and snow, including instructions to Ice Empress and Xiaobai 21 51.
• Infiltrates and leaves the Earth Dragon Sect without anyone detecting her 20 21.

Ice Runes and Resource Handling

• Creates snowflake-like runes that gather forty-five pillars of Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow into ice-flower bracelets 20.
• Condenses a palm-sized Snow Empress Token from pure ice-and-snow power 27.
• Provides cultivated snow lotuses and ice marrow for Yan Hongchen’s later spiritual-healing work 104.

Limitations

• Cannot safely thaw the frozen boundary of her spiritual sea without risking catastrophic spiritual leakage 26.
• Cannot directly resolve Liu Yueming’s comparable spiritual condition; she instead encourages Yan Hongchen to develop a healing method 25.
• Still requires Yan Hongchen to reach Soul Sage before he expects to fully treat her. He proposes a future soul core combining spiritual and water attributes 122.
• Experiences bloodline suppression when the Ice Goddess manifests through Yan Hongchen and Su Tong’s fusion 102.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Starlight sapphire storage ring — A midnight-blue gemstone containing spatial power. She turns it into a storage item by opening a small space with Emperor Sword 21.
• Ice-flower bracelets — Contain the mysterious ice marrow collected in Dragon City. She later passes a string of them to Ice Empress 20 24.
• Mutated Ice Extremity Divine Crystal — An ice-blue crystal with a flowing golden core, connected to her Ice God Bloodline. It helps her locate the Ice God Pearl 20 104.
• Incomplete Ice God Pearl / Ice God Heart — A teardrop-shaped divine artifact. It was originally one with the snow lotus known as the Heart of Compassion 104.
• Soul-beast records — An ice tome cataloguing the species within her territory, commissioned after she took control of the Extreme North 51.
• Snow Empress Tokens — Issued to Yan Hongchen and Su Tong. Yan Hongchen’s token guides him toward her and is later used to contact her 27 49 98 119.

Relationships

• Yan Hongchen — Initially a bargaining partner who trades the location of an ice-marrows cave for his family’s safety. She becomes his cultivation benefactor and prospective patient, supplying resources in exchange for his efforts toward spiritual healing 18 25 52 122.
• Ice Empress / Bing’er — A close, trusted companion. Snow Empress entrusts her with guarding the Hongchen family, shares ice-marrows resources with her, and once raised a Golden-Pattern Ice Silkworm partly to make her happier 19 22 24.
• Ice Bear King Xiaobai — Calls her “Mom,” while she refers to herself as his mother. He obediently gathers soul beasts and transports her visitors 24 52 98.
• Su Tong — Candidate to inherit her ultimate arts. Snow Empress tests her understanding of Emperor Sword, later teaches Emperor Palm, and plans around her future soul-bone combinations 50 99 100.
• Su Jin and the Ice Clan — Human worshippers connected to her dispersed origin power. Su Jin agrees to send regular information about the outside world, making the clan her eyes and ears 50 99 121.
• Rain Crane — A loyal subordinate whose impending tribulation she agrees to assist. By their next meeting, Rain Crane has reached two hundred thousand years and become a ferocious beast 26 27 51.
• Liu Yueming — Recognizes her acceptance by Extreme North soul beasts and her potential for an ultimate attribute. Her spiritual injury helps establish Snow Empress’s healing agreement with Yan Hongchen 18 25.
• Bi Ji — A respected fellow soul beast whom she approaches concerning her tribulation and the Soul Spirit method. Snow Empress introduces Yan Hongchen’s group to her 122 123 124.
• Ling Yuan — A captured Rank 9 Soul Engineer held frozen in her castle. She permits Yan Hongchen to extract his memories and dispose of him, insisting that his blood not contaminate her territory 98 99.

Story Role / Major Arcs

First Encounter and the Ice-Marrows Bargain

• Interrupts Jing Hongchen’s attempt to retrieve a roughly 110,000-year snow lotus, attacking with sword qi and overpowering the entire party 17.
• Accepts Yan Hongchen’s offer to reveal a cave of ice-marrows pillars, but requires verification before releasing the family 18 19.
• Swears the Ice God Oath, leaves the other humans under Ice Empress’s supervision, and takes Yan Hongchen to Dragon City 19 20.
• Retrieves the cave’s forty-five ice-marrows pillars and a mutated Ice Extremity Divine Crystal before returning him safely 20 21.

Cultivation Patron and Prospective Patient

• Gives Yan Hongchen a hundred-thousand-year Golden-Pattern Ice Silkworm head spirit bone and protects its absorption 22 23.
• Arranges willing soul-beast sacrifices for Yan Hongchen and Yi Hongchen rather than permitting indiscriminate hunting 24.
• Promises to provide soul rings for Yan Hongchen’s first martial soul in exchange for his help with her spiritual sea 25.
• Secures an Emeraldsong Rain Crane suited to healing, then gives him a token and snow lotus seeds before his departure 26 27.
• Supplies further soul beasts, soul bones, and Ice Extremity Divine Crystals; receives an initial treatment that improves her spiritual sea 51 52 56.

Su Tong and the Ice Clan

• Seeks Su Tong after learning of her Ice Sky Snow Maiden martial soul, protects her fourth-ring condensation, and sets inheritance trials 49 50.
• Warns Su Tong against revealing Yan Hongchen’s existence to her family 50.
• Accepts the Ice Clan’s information service and recognizes Su Tong’s progress with Emperor Sword 98 99.
• Teaches Emperor Palm after Su Tong obtains her fifth ring and Ice Bear Left Palm Bone 100.

Recovery of the Ice God Pearl

• Provides the snow lotus that triggers Yan Hongchen’s Heart martial soul’s second awakening 100 101.
• Receives a map after Yan Hongchen and Su Tong briefly manifest the Ice Goddess through martial soul fusion 102.
• Finds the incomplete Ice God Pearl and openly thanks both of them for making its recovery possible 104.

Soul Spirits and Human–Beast Coexistence

• Finds an injured Icefire Mystic Phoenix for Meng Hongchen’s Soul Spirit experiment and accepts its new form of existence 119 120.
• Reconsiders human–beast relations after Yan Hongchen discusses the consequences of continued conflict 121.
• Takes his group to Emerald Valley and speaks on their behalf to Bi Ji, surprising her with this departure from Snow Empress’s usual attitude toward humans 122.
• Remains with Bi Ji for further discussion after Yan Hongchen’s group leaves 124.

Intervention Against Sky Dream Ice Silkworm

• Breaks Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual prison, takes his silkworm garment, and blocks his intended escape with Huo Yuhao 137.
• Forces Huo Yuhao to choose between a ten-year Lone Bamboo and a hundred-year Blue Silver Grass for his second martial soul. His choice of Blue Silver Grass produces the Profound Ice Grass martial soul 137.

Notable Quotes

“I am not one to break my word. However, since you came to obtain soul rings, I will choose soul beasts for you so that you do not harm innocents.” 21

“For the sake of the far north, and for my own sake, I am willing to take responsibility for every soul ring of your first martial soul.” 25

“There are gains and losses; thank you for telling me.” 104