Vina

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Vina (维娜)
Alias(es)	Princess Vina; Her Highness 2
Gender	Female 2
Age	Twelve at the time of her first Far North expedition 3
Affiliation	Heaven Dou Empire’s royal family, also referred to as the Heavenly Soul Royal Family 2
Occupation/Role	Imperial princess; healing-type Soul Master; recruiter for the imperial academy 2 3
Martial Souls	Snow Lotus and Brain; a twin-martial-soul genius 2 19
Innate Soul Power	Full innate soul power 3
Last Documented Cultivation	Three-ring Soul Elder; exact post-breakthrough level unspecified 5
Status	Alive; believes Yu Tianjun died in Death Canyon 36
First Appearance	Arrival outside Dragon City with Mu Xue and the royal soul-hunting party 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Rank 30 — prospective Soul Elder	2	Introduces herself as a healing-type Soul Master seeking a thousand-year ice-attribute plant beast, preferably a snow lotus.
Three-ring Soul Elder	5	Obtains her third soul ring from the nearly two-thousand-year snow lotus recovered during the Far North expedition. She considers the ring better than expected.
Ten-thousand-year left-arm soul bone absorbed	5	Acquires the Condensing Water Cold Luan King’s soul bone from Yu Tianjun in exchange for cultivation resources and absorbs it at the Heavenly Dragon Sect. No resulting soul-power level or named skill is given.

Background / History

Vina grows up within the imperial palace and participates in court banquets and recruitment efforts. She is acutely aware of Heaven Dou’s difficulty retaining talented Soul Masters: many of its promising students attend Shrek rather than the empire’s own academy 2 14.

Her Brain martial soul also makes her important to a proposed alliance with the Body Sect. Her father considers her a bridge between the royal family and a sect whose loyalty cannot be secured by contracts alone. Before Yu Tianjun’s appearance, he intended to send her to cultivate in the Body Sect two years later, allow a relationship with Long Aotian to develop, and then arrange their engagement. This is a proposed marriage, not a confirmed betrothal 15.

Appearance

Vina first appears in a fitted yellow outfit, with loose black hair, a delicate-looking face, and a smile that contrasts with Dragon City’s snowy surroundings 2.

• Hair: Black, worn loose behind her at her introduction 2.
• Eyes: Bright and expressive; her smiling eyes are described as becoming crescents 2 14.
• Bearing: Gracious and refined in public, though she readily adopts exaggerated expressions during private banter 14.
• Accessories: Wears a Five-Colored Necklace to a court banquet after losing interest in choosing elaborate jewelry 14.

Personality

Vina combines diplomatic courtesy with persistent recruitment. She greets local officials warmly, offers Yu Tianjun increasingly generous teaching arrangements, and adjusts her approach when she discovers that his sect already provides comparable resources. His talent also unsettles her: learning that a ten-year-old has surpassed her soul-power level leaves her visibly discouraged despite her own exceptional gifts 2 3.

With trusted company, she is playful and theatrical. Her conversations with Tianjun shift between mock imperiousness and exaggerated helplessness, but she understands that teasing must remain reciprocal and respectful. She values him as someone around whom she can drop her courtly mask, unlike the flatterers and hypocrites she encounters in palace life 14.

Her attachment can make her impulsive. News of Tianjun’s closeness to Ling Luochen prompts an urgent attempt to leave for Dragon City, driven by fear that Shrek will take away both an important imperial talent and a rare friend. She privately acknowledges that she probably likes him, but has not decided to choose him as a romantic partner 15.

After hearing of his supposed death, her usual gentleness gives way to grief and hatred. She asks what her father intends to do, then withdraws from imperial banquets when he admits that the empire cannot retaliate against Shrek 36.

Abilities & Skills

Snow Lotus Martial Soul

Vina’s active martial soul is the Snow Lotus, and she identifies herself as a healing-type Soul Master 2.

• Seeks an ice-attribute plant soul beast with healing abilities for her third ring 2.
• States that she can absorb the expedition’s snow lotus provided it is no older than two thousand years 3.
• Her access to body-strengthening imperial treasures allows her to exceed the usual ring-age limit by several hundred years 3.
• No named healing soul skill is documented in the provided chapters.

Brain Martial Soul

Her second martial soul is her Brain, a high-quality body martial soul with major significance to the Body Sect 15 19.

• In the Far North, she speaks of its awakening as a future opportunity to narrow the gap between herself and Tianjun 4.
• Her father believes the Body Sect is the institution capable of properly developing its potential 15.
• Tianjun identifies the brain as a top-tier body martial soul whose second awakening would be at least silver rank; this is an assessment of potential, not a documented advancement 19.
• No named Brain soul skill or completed second awakening is shown.

Soul Master Knowledge

Vina draws on her education to interpret unusual techniques 4.

• Explains Martial Soul Mimicry as a technique that can allow a martial soul to leave its owner’s body and fight.
• Notes that it chiefly changes fighting methods rather than greatly strengthening the Soul Master.
• Offers Mimicry as an explanation for Tianjun’s detached qilin form; she is not shown using the technique herself.

Recruitment and Imperial Influence

Vina uses access to resources, institutions, and personal favors to cultivate relationships 3 15 21.

• Offers to arrange Soul Douluo instructors covering all five elemental attributes for Tianjun 3.
• Promotes his bounty-hunting reputation through paid positive reviews and personally advances his standing after returning to the capital 14 15.
• Issues a personal token intended to help him resolve difficulties within the empire 21.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Condensing Water Cold Luan King left-arm soul bone — A ten-thousand-year bone with phoenix bloodline traces and alternating blue-and-white coloring. Vina trades cultivation resources for it and absorbs it at the Heavenly Dragon Sect 4 5.
• Storage ring — Holds the brocade box and personal token she later presents to Tianjun 21.
• Five-Colored Necklace — Worn during a palace banquet 14.

Relationships

• Yu Tianjun — Guide, rescuer, trading partner, and valued friend. Vina develops possible romantic feelings, but Tianjun explicitly regards her as a friend and does not reciprocate romantically 5 14 15 19 43.
• Mu Xue — Best friend and soul-hunting companion. They tease each other about Tianjun, share the oath protecting his combat secrets, and support one another during the expedition and its aftermath 4 36.
• Heaven Soul Emperor — Father and sovereign. He protects her reputation while treating her cultivation and potential marriage as instruments of national policy 15.
• Mo Feiyun — Royal Soul Saint accompanying her expedition and recruitment efforts. He brings her news about Tianjun and attempts to restrain her rushed departure from the palace 2 15.
• Xu Jiujiu — Rival princess behind an outwardly affectionate “sisterly” relationship. Their Dragon City visits become a competition over Tianjun’s attention and recruitment 15 20 21.
• Long Aotian — Prospective political match selected by her father. Vina says she has not met him during the Far North expedition; no engagement or personal relationship is established 4 15.
• Yu Yuanjue — Tianjun’s grandfather. His intervention helps conceal Tianjun’s victory, and his sect provides the grounds where she absorbs her new soul bone 5.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Far North Expedition

• Arrives in Dragon City with Mu Xue and royal guards to obtain a third soul ring. Seeing Tianjun’s rank-thirty-five Five-Element Qilin transforms her opinion of their young guide 2.
• Accepts a nearly two-thousand-year snow lotus rather than endanger the party searching for a better specimen 3.
• Offers Tianjun an additional one million Gold Soul Coins to secure their safety during the Luan King’s pursuit. She and Mu Xue swear on their martial souls not to reveal what they witness 4.
• Watches him kill the ten-thousand-year beast, then returns with an unusually valuable third ring and acquires its soul bone 4 5.

Friendship and Recruitment

• Helps make Tianjun a highly regarded bounty hunter, but agrees to stop paying for reviews when he explains that excessive publicity could attract dangerous clients 6 14.
• Asks him to contact her for reasons other than business, revealing how much she enjoys their conversations 14.
• Attempts an immediate visit after learning that Ling Luochen has joined his bounty-hunter registration. Her father postpones the journey and creates an official survey delegation to protect her reputation 15 19.

Dragon City Survey

• Encounters Xu Jiujiu while waiting for Tianjun to leave meditation, producing a courteous but increasingly competitive standoff 19 20.
• Hears Tianjun reject deeper royal cooperation because he will not risk his sect’s disciples in imperial conflicts. His confidence and leadership impress her despite the failed negotiation 21.
• Gives him an Ink Jade Qilin inner core and her first personal token as thanks for saving her life. The core later strengthens his martial soul and helps awaken Ruinous Devour 21 22.
• Her token briefly helps Tianjun deter Shrek graduates demanding to inspect his powers, though it does not prevent their subsequent pursuit 24.

Grief over Tianjun’s Supposed Death

• Sends several letters after Tianjun disappears; Yu Yuanjue later recounts these efforts to him 43.
• Her father reports that Yan Shaozhe and three Shrek disciples killed Tianjun and his uncle in Death Canyon, based on investigations through multiple channels 36.
• The report is mistaken: the pair escaped and received Long Xiaoyao’s help. Vina is not shown learning of their survival 26 36.
• Devastated by the news and Heaven Dou’s inability to retaliate, she refuses further invitations to imperial banquets 36.

Notable Quotes

“But could you stop only contacting me when you need something?” 14

“And that bridge is me.” 15

“Father, don’t invite me to any more imperial banquets.” 36