Ye Shunguang

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ye Shunguang (叶瞬光) 217
Alias(es)	Xiaoguang; Senior Sister Xiaoguang 224
Gender	Female, as recorded in her adoption file 217
Affiliation	Yunkui Mountain 217 224
Occupation/Role	Yunkui Mountain disciple and Azure Nether Swordmaster 216 224
Status	Alive during her trial in the Azure Nether Secret Realm 289 291
First Appearance	Chapter 224, following earlier mentions 178 224

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Azure Nether Swordmaster	217	Resonated with the sword at age seven, less than half a year after entering Yunkui Mountain. The encounter was secretly arranged by Elder Lu Hengzhou 217.
Purifying sword power	260	Her white-haired personality used the sword to purify a field of Black Flowers, but collapsed from the effort 260.
Cooperation between personalities	262 273	Her two selves began sharing the burden of purification, then worked together to release the sword’s power on a much larger scale. She collapsed afterward 262 273.
Reconciled identity	285	Accepted both selves, recovered her memories, and severed the Dreamscape with Supreme Emotion Severing, Shaking Mortal Dust. Griseo awarded her the [The Stars] and [Daybreak] Signets 285.
Mortal World	286	Learned to draw on the sword’s hidden power in the Azure Nether Secret Realm, allowing her to destroy dreamlike Ethereal Husk Dragons that ordinary attacks could not harm 286.
Azure Nether Sword Art: A Single Sword Strike	286	Achieved a deeper synchronization with the sword at an ancient sword platform, aided by Griseo’s [The Stars] domain 286.
Harmonized sword backlash	287	Demonstrated a temporary balance with the sword’s power rather than eliminating its backlash. Wise and Belle supported the balance through the Taiji formation outside the realm 287.
First special Sword Intent	291	Received a sword formed from Da Pan’s experience after helping defeat Avarus. Yijiang explained that making such Sword Intent her own would unlock further stages of the realm 291.

Background / History

Ye Shunguang grew up in Weifei Land’s Radiant Porcelain mining district with her parents and older brother, Ye Shiyuan. During a Corruptive Breath disaster, their parents died and Ban Yue rescued the siblings. He entrusted them to Yixuan, who took both as Yunkui Mountain disciples. Shunguang was six years old at the time 217 223 227.

Within half a year, Shunguang became master of the Azure Nether Sword. Yixuan believed the child had wandered into the forbidden grounds by accident; Elder Lu Hengzhou had actually arranged for disaster orphans to be tested for compatibility and concealed his intervention for ten years. As swordmaster, Shunguang was taught to regard protecting others as her duty, while the weapon’s backlash gradually eroded her memories 217 219 260.

Shunguang later slipped away from Yunkui Mountain to revisit her childhood home. There, she met Belle, Griseo, and Liuyin while investigating the old mine. The visit brought back memories of her father’s stories about the miners and their lives—memories she feared the sword would take from her 224 227.

During the Lemnian Hollow operation, Shunguang repeatedly used the sword to purify Black Flowers despite the strain. After a major purification left her collapsing, her consciousness entered a Dreamscape offering the ordinary family and school life she had lost. She stayed in it for a year despite recognizing its perfection as false, then chose to awaken. Her next trial took her into the Azure Nether Secret Realm to seek the sword’s history and her own Sword Intent 273 281 284 285 286 289.

Appearance

Shunguang has light-brown hair, a red ribbon, a fluffy tail, and robes embroidered with Yunkui Mountain patterns. When her other personality takes control, her hair turns silver-white 224 260.

• Brown-haired self — usually gentle and composed in manner 224 260.
• White-haired self — colder and more provocative in manner 260.

Personality

Shunguang tries to be a proper senior sister and protector, but her composure gives way to open excitement when she learns that Belle and Wise are her junior disciples. She is protective in danger, shielding Belle during the mine crisis even while deprived of the Azure Nether Sword 224 227.

Her white-haired personality expresses feelings she had suppressed: fear, selfishness, and the wish to survive. After Griseo challenges the idea that she must sacrifice herself for others, Shunguang says she wants to be a hero by choice. She later reconciles with her other self rather than rejecting it 260 261 285.

Abilities & Skills

Azure Nether Swordsmanship

Shunguang fights with sword intent and Yunkui Mountain techniques. She can ride a sword, cut through groups of Ethereals, and coordinate attacks with another swordsman 224 227 291.

• Three-Foot Azure Edge, Sever — destroyed the Ethereals threatening Liuyin in the mine 224.
• Stagnant Tide — briefly halted Avarus, creating an opening to attack its core 291.
• Three-Foot Frost Moonlight — cleaved Avarus in half while Shunguang was in her white-haired form 291.

Purification

The Azure Nether Sword can disperse Black Flowers and their abnormal Corruptive Breath. Larger-scale use severely exhausts Shunguang and can bring her close to collapse 260 262 273.

Sword Synchronization and Intent

In the Azure Nether Secret Realm, Shunguang learns to perceive power and memory fragments within the sword rather than relying on physical strikes alone 286.

• Mortal World — destroys dreamlike Ethereals within the realm 286.
• A Single Sword Strike — developed after deeper synchronization at the sword platform 286.
• Sword Intent inheritance — begins acquiring the experiences of other swordsmen through the realm’s special swords; the first comes from Da Pan’s trial 289 291.

Limits

• The sword’s opposing powers cause backlash that can consume its master’s memories and life 219 266.
• Shunguang’s imitation of Hua’s Taixu Swordsmanship destroyed a newly formed Ethereal horde, but its incomplete technique left her exhausted 257.
• Harmonizing the backlash is not the same as permanently removing it 287.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Azure Nether Sword — Shunguang’s weapon and the source of both her exceptional power and dangerous backlash. Griseo has sealed or held it for her safety at different points 224 231 266.
• Azure Nether Sword Case — carries the weapon; Griseo took control of it when she first met Shunguang 224.
• [The Stars] and [Daybreak] Signets — given to Shunguang after she passed the Dreamscape trial; they later helped trap [Primus]’s consciousness when it targeted her 280 285.

Relationships

• Ye Shiyuan — older brother and fellow Yunkui Mountain disciple; searched for a way to dissolve her contract with the sword 217 227.
• Yixuan — master and guardian; sought a cure for the backlash and later confronted the sect members who had manipulated Shunguang’s selection 178 217 219.
• Belle — junior sister who comforts Shunguang over her threatened memories and supports her after repeated collapses 224 227 257 273.
• Wise — junior brother who accompanies the Hollow expedition and helps stabilize the sword’s power through the Taiji formation 224 257 287.
• Griseo — guide who controls and seals the sword when necessary, helps Shunguang survive its effects, and leads her through the Dreamscape and Secret Realm trials 224 231 285 286.
• Liuyin — Shunguang saved her from Ethereals in the old mine; they later fought together 224 225.
• Yijiang — former Azure Nether Swordmaster who guides Shunguang toward discovering her own Sword Intent within the Secret Realm 287 289.
• Da Pan — swordsman encountered in a Secret Realm trial; Shunguang helps him face his fear, and they defeat Avarus together 290 291.

Notable Quotes

“Griseo, I want to become a hero. I won't regret the path I've chosen.” 261

“Your courage was something you possessed all along; it wasn't something I gave you!” 291