Nana

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Hu Liena 4
Alias(es)	Nana (娜娜); Sister Nana 3 5
Gender	Female 4
Age	Appears thirteen or fourteen at her introduction 4
Affiliation	Spirit Hall; Nian’s Team; Spirit City Senior Soul Master Academy 4 18 25
Occupation/Role	Bibi Dong’s personal disciple; Xu Xiaonian’s assigned caretaker and cultivation guide 4 6
First Appearance	Mentioned when Bibi Dong summons “Nana”; appears in person in the following chapter 3 4

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Rank 30 threshold	4 5	Has reached rank thirty and consolidated her cultivation while awaiting her third soul ring.
Soul Elder; third soul ring	12 13 14 16	Finishes off a thousand-year Jade-Faced Fox and absorbs its ring, obtaining Pink Mist Miasma. Her advancement qualifies the team for direct entry into the graduation exam’s semifinals.
Retainer Mark received	26	Xu Xiaonian grants her a dark-purple fox-head mark. She immediately measures a 20% increase in soul-power circulation speed; no new soul-power rank is specified.

Background / History

Hu Liena grew up as an orphan, a hardship she initially felt she shared with Yan. She became Bibi Dong’s personal disciple and understood herself to be her teacher’s intended successor. This belief led her to mistakenly suspect that protecting her position was the reason Bibi Dong had not accepted Xu Xiaonian as another disciple 6 9.

She enjoyed unusually close access to Bibi Dong, visiting her privately every week to keep her company—a privilege not extended to her brother, Xie Yue. After graduating from the junior academy, she attended the Spirit City Senior Soul Master Academy 11 20 25.

Appearance

Hu Liena is introduced as a youthful girl with a naturally captivating allure 4.

• Pink eyes, which brighten when she speaks enthusiastically about Xu Xiaonian 11.
• Dark-purple fox-head Retainer Mark at the center of her chest; its placement embarrasses her when she first receives it 26.

Personality

Hu Liena takes her teacher’s instructions seriously, but her care for Xu Xiaonian soon becomes more personal than the assignment requires. She visits him repeatedly to offer cultivation advice, respects his preferences when forming a team, and worries that granting her a blessing might harm his own cultivation 5 6 25.

She is capable of firm resistance to harassment. Although she initially sympathized with Yan’s orphaned background, his continued pursuit after rejection and his attempt to manipulate her into spending time with him destroy that sympathy. She threatens Li Kai and Sun Chuantao to make clear that helping others harass her has consequences 9.

Her admiration for Xu Xiaonian coexists with insecurity. His ten-thousand-year first ring leaves her genuinely happy for him but disheartened about her own talent. Learning that Xu Xiaotang is not his biological sister also makes her uneasy about their closeness 15 20 25.

Abilities & Skills

Pink Mist Miasma

Obtained from her third soul ring, this skill weakens opponents through mist 12 14.

• Reduces enemies’ soul power, stamina, and spiritual power 12.
• Helps Nian’s Team withstand Yan’s stronger overall lineup during the graduation examination 19.
• Was chosen specifically to support her Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Xie Yue 12.

Martial Soul Fusion Skill

Hu Liena can perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with her brother, Xie Yue 12.

• She plans her third-ring acquisition around improving their combined technique 12.
• The provided chapters do not name the fusion skill or show the siblings using it together.

Cultivation Guidance and Tactical Analysis

Hu Liena helps Xu Xiaonian understand soul-power circulation shortly after his awakening 5.

• Identifies the graduation team’s lack of coordinated offensive power and proposes a strategy against Yan’s team 16.
• Connects Xu Xiaotang’s accelerated advancement with the similar marks on Xiaotang and Bibi Dong, correctly tracing them to Xu Xiaonian 25.

Retainer Mark

Xu Xiaonian grants Hu Liena a mark at Bibi Dong’s request, presenting it as a cultivation-enhancing blessing 25 26.

• Increases her soul-power circulation speed by 20% immediately 26.
• Its location is not chosen by Xu Xiaonian; he explains that the mark selects its own placement 26.
• No sacrifice or mark-level upgrade by Hu Liena is documented in the provided chapters.

Relationships

• Bibi Dong — Teacher and trusted mentor. Hu Liena visits her weekly, follows her instructions to care for Xu Xiaonian, and is entrusted with winning him over to their side. Bibi Dong trades the Angel Holy Spear for Hu Liena’s blessing mark 4 11 26.
• Xu Xiaonian — Initially her assigned charge, later someone she trusts and openly favors. His reassurance during the strength-test wager makes her feel protected; after receiving his mark, she embraces and kisses him in gratitude 8 9 26.
• Xie Yue — Brother and Martial Soul Fusion Skill partner. She complains that he rarely checks on her, despite their combat partnership 11 12.
• Yan — Rejected suitor. His persistent advances and coercive wager turn her former sympathy into disgust 9.
• Xu Xiaotang — Teammate and fellow senior-academy student. Hu Liena becomes jealous of her closeness to Xu Xiaonian and later investigates her cultivation-enhancing mark 20 25.
• Zhang Ping — Close friend and teammate. When Xu Xiaonian beats Zhang Ping during an argument, Hu Liena asks him to apologize rather than retaliating on her friend’s behalf, prompting an accusation of choosing “boys before friends” 6 17.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Welcoming Xu Xiaonian

• Arranges his accommodation and looks after him following Bibi Dong’s orders 4.
• Offers cultivation lessons and helps him approach academy enrollment after learning he has innate full soul power 5 6.
• Defers to his wishes when Zhang Ping proposes forming a graduation-exam team 6.

Strength-Test Wager

• Trusts Xu Xiaonian’s promise that he can win a contest whose stakes include an unwanted dinner date 8.
• Learns that Yan supplied Li Kai with a century-old spirit herb to pressure her into spending a day with him 9.
• After Xu Xiaonian wins, warns the defeated boys to honor their wager 9.

Star Dou Great Forest Hunt

• Selects the Jade-Faced Fox after researching suitable soul beasts and secures her third ring with the hunting party’s assistance 11 12 14.
• Panics when she learns Xu Xiaonian is attempting to absorb a ten-thousand-year ring, then feels relief and diminished confidence when he succeeds 14 15.

Graduation Examination

• Helps develop the semifinal strategy and uses Pink Mist Miasma against Yan’s team 16 19.
• Shares in Nian’s Team’s victory, which grants graduating members tuition-free admission to the advanced academy 20.

The Blessing Exchange

• Investigates the marks on Xu Xiaotang and Bibi Dong, learning that Xu Xiaonian can accelerate cultivation 25.
• Asks her teacher not to force him to grant a blessing if doing so would cost him. Bibi Dong instead offers compensation, exchanging the Angel Holy Spear for Hu Liena’s mark 25 26.

Notable Quotes

“All right. I trust you.” 8

“Teacher, please don't force Xiaonian. Giving someone a mark might affect his own cultivation.” 25