Su Ying

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Su Ying (苏荧)
Species/Race	Human cultivator; her body is identified by the system as the reincarnation of the Heavenly Lotus Goddess 32
Gender	Female
Age	Approximately 100 in her cultivation-world body; two years younger than Ling Xian 4
Origin	A modern-world woman occupying the role of a novel’s villainous supporting female character 1 8 26
Affiliation	Cultivation Sect, under Xiao Muchen; originally from the Lower Realm’s Sword Sect 15
Occupation/Role	Xiao Muchen’s disciple; Chu Yu’s senior mentor; later forced to serve as Feng Moyuan’s personal cook and review Demon Realm memorials 12 32 35
Spiritual Root	Initial test result of level seven 15
Residence	Firefly Fragrance Court at the Cultivation Sect; later confined in the Demon Palace 12 31
Status	Alive but badly burned, coughing black blood, and suffering cultivation loss after the original Zhitu’s attack 50
First Appearance	Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Spirit Tranquility Stage	37 38	Her first advancement during the mission attempts. She circulates energy to heal serious internal injuries, apparently benefiting from the Demon Realm’s energy. The breakthrough heals her injuries, strengthens her spells, manifests a lotus in the sky, and earns 1,000 system points.
Cultivation loss; resulting realm unspecified	50	The original Zhitu strikes her after the Step-Separation Curse pulls her into the battle. She suffers severe burns and loses cultivation; no new realm is named.

Background / History

Modern-world life

Before transmigrating, Su Ying dated once during college. The relationship hurt her deeply enough that she subsequently rejected emotional commitment, distinguishing her attraction to handsome men from a desire for their love. She expects to return to modern society after completing her missions and hopes her accumulated rewards will spare her a return to ordinary nine-to-five work 2 8.

Cultivation-world identity

The original Su Ying was the daughter of the Sword Sect’s second elder in the Lower Realm. Gifted from childhood, she entered the Cultivation Sect at ten years old with a level-seven Spiritual Root. Her original characterization centered on obsessive devotion to Xiao Muchen and cultivation, leaving her with poor social connections 15 16.

In the novel’s intended plot, Su Ying is Ling Xian’s vicious senior sister and romantic rival. She attempts to damage Ling Xian’s Spiritual Root, offers her poisoned wine, and later obstructs Xiao Muchen’s search for the abducted heroine. The transmigrated Su Ying performs these acts to satisfy missions rather than because she genuinely loves Xiao Muchen 1 23.

The system later reveals that her body is the reincarnation of the Heavenly Lotus Goddess. Its unusual fragrance attracts Feng Moyuan’s attention, while the full implications of her background remain unexplained 32 38.

Appearance

Su Ying has delicate brows and exceptionally fair, smooth skin. Feng Moyuan initially considers her face unremarkable or unattractive, but these judgments come from a man who cannot distinguish most women’s faces 2 4 8 15.

• Lotus-like fragrance: Her distinctive scent allows Feng Moyuan to track her even when he cannot recognize her face 2 4 32.
• Recognizable lips: Feng Moyuan eventually learns to distinguish her from other female cultivators by her lips 30.
• Disheveled presentation: She frequently sleeps with little concern for decorum; loose clothing and untidy hair recur during her encounters with Chu Yu 8 15 23.

Personality

Su Ying is pragmatic, irreverent, and quick to improvise. She regards scripted encounters as tasks to complete with minimal effort, accepting punishment without arguing when resistance would be troublesome and skipping plot scenes she considers unnecessary. Her outwardly composed supporting-character persona contrasts with a sarcastic inner monologue full of modern expressions 1 3 9 13.

Money, food, and attractive men are her most openly acknowledged interests. She collects treasures, exploits a betting organizer’s profits, and treats stolen palace decorations as compensation for her injuries. Although she claims to want Chu Yu’s body rather than his heart, she becomes jealous of Ling Xian’s attention and repeatedly puts effort into protecting him 8 13 25 26 38.

Her attraction also leads her to cross boundaries. She enters Chu Yu’s room with a Sleep Talisman and later uses soporific powder before touching him, then attempts to excuse her behavior as sleepwalking when caught 14 27.

Survival remains her overriding concern when facing Feng Moyuan’s true identity. She uses flattery, submission, cooking, and bargaining to avoid punishment, while privately seeking escape. Despite this self-preservation, she protects Ling Xian when compelled by missions and devises an elaborate shelter for the supposedly vulnerable Chu Yu 18 26 32 33.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation and Spellwork

• Sword Flight: Travels independently and carries Chu Yu on her flying sword 3 4 16 26.
• Construction magic: Creates a separate small courtyard for Chu Yu beside her own residence 12.
• Utility spells: Clears a dining table with a sleeve sweep, produces flame from her fingertips, and magically fills and heats a bathtub 22 38.
• Combat: Kills a high-tier level-three Mist Beast by stabbing its neck, though protecting Ling Xian leaves her injured and poisoned 17 18.
• Limits: Her power is insufficient to overcome Feng Moyuan’s confinement measures or independently remove his Step-Separation Curse 39 49.

System Access and Plot Knowledge

• Communicates mentally with a system that supplies missions, rewards, scans, recipes, purchasable items, and navigation assistance 2 17 21 38.
• Uses knowledge of the novel to anticipate the Demon Realm’s attack and identify future dangers 22 26 28.
• Earns points through tasks that include matchmaking, rescuing Chu Yu, protecting Ling Xian, and provoking staged romantic conflict 3 4 11 18 36.
• Unreliable guidance: The system cannot freely reset the world, lacks omniscience, and can be disabled by Feng Moyuan’s Sleeping Curse 2 7 38 48.
• Hidden vulnerability: Feng Moyuan hears both her thoughts and her conversations with the system. Su Ying remains unaware that she is supplying him with information about the world and its intended future 2 3 23.
• Real-world stakes: The system warns that quest failure may mean death in the real world and that suicide may not grant another restart 34.

Cooking

• Prepares pastries, hot pot, barbecue, grilled poultry, and hawthorn water 5 6 13 26.
• Uses system-provided recipes when planning meals 21.
• Her cooking repeatedly softens Chu Yu’s hostility and becomes a reason Feng Moyuan keeps her alive 6 15 32.
• Bargains for her safety by promising Feng Moyuan a satisfying dinner 46.

Alchemy and Mentoring

• Guides Chu Yu through ingredient preparation and pill refinement, encouraging him to remain focused despite Ping Qingyun’s taunts 25.
• Believes she could personally compete against Ping Qingyun, although the system requires Chu Yu to participate instead 24.
• Chu Yu’s winning batch consists of five sixth-tier Miasma-Breaking Pills; the exceptional refinement is his achievement, not a demonstrated pill grade of Su Ying’s 25.

Beast Identification and Tactics

• Uses the system to identify the Mist Beast responsible for poisonous forest miasma 17.
• Recognizes the Zhitu and explains that their fire can permanently damage flesh, hair, Spiritual Roots, and souls 46 49.
• Discovers that water extinguishes ordinary Zhitu flames, enabling the group to defeat the flock 50.
• Warns that the original Zhitu, born from a fire vein, cannot be defeated with ordinary water and may reproduce more beasts if it survives 50.

Cultivation Resonance

• Her circulating energy benefits Feng Moyuan’s cultivation, contributing to his simultaneous breakthrough into the Soul-Severing Realm 38.
• Feng Moyuan later suspects her continued presence is responsible for his steadily increasing cultivation 48.
• The mechanism remains unexplained; the system also cannot account for her unusually smooth cultivation in the Demon Realm 38.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Flying sword — Used for travel, rescue, and combat; Chu Yu also uses her sword to extract the Mist Beast’s core 4 16 18.
• Spatial Ring — Stores food, furnishings, tools, and treasures. Su Ying states that it can duplicate items endlessly, but the system says it cannot store people 5 24 25 38.
• Millennium mystic ice — Keeps hawthorn water chilled inside her Spatial Ring 6.
• Talismans — Include a Voice-Transmitting Talisman, a locating talisman, a Sleep Talisman, and Water-Type Talismans 4 14 17 50.
• Medicinal pills — Uses Pain-Relief and Detoxification Pills; pain suppression can leave her unaware of how badly she is injured 2 16 17.
• Copied Pinduoduo-Brand Alchemy Furnace — Resembles the Fifth Elder’s treasured furnace, prompting Ping Qingyun to accuse her of theft 24.
• Invisibility Cloak — Purchased for her palace escape; Feng Moyuan tracks her despite it and tears it apart 38 39.
• Wish-Granting Wish Talisman and Demon Realm map — Used while planning an escape that ultimately fails 38 39.
• Soporific powder — Used unsuccessfully against Chu Yu and successfully to incapacitate palace guards 27 39.

Relationships

• Feng Moyuan / Chu Yu — The Demon Venerable first investigates her because he can hear her thoughts. Disguised as Chu Yu, he becomes her junior disciple and the focus of her attraction. In his true identity, he abducts, confines, threatens, and seriously injures her, while also protecting her and benefiting from her cultivation. She continues worrying about “Chu Yu” without realizing he is her captor 2 12 30 36 38 48.
• The system — Her mission administrator, supplier, and sarcastic conversational partner. She relies on its information while frequently insulting its limitations and resisting its instructions 2 5 17 34 39.
• Xiao Muchen — Her master and the novel’s male lead. Her scripted persona adores him, but she privately rejects romantic pursuit of him. He occasionally intervenes in her disputes, yet later suspects her of being a Demon Realm spy 11 21 23 30.
• Ling Xian — Her junior sister, the heroine, and a rival for Chu Yu’s attention. Su Ying resents missions that require harming or protecting her, but saves her from the Mist Beast at considerable personal cost 1 13 18 36.
• Ping Qingyun — Her eldest senior brother and a frequent antagonist. His defense of Ling Xian leads to repeated accusations against Su Ying; learning about her sacrifice briefly makes him feel guilty 3 17 19 22.
• Bai Mang — Initially escorts her in chains, but later praises her cooking and supports her assessment of the Zhitu 34 47 49 50.
• Black Shadow — An antagonistic Demon Realm subordinate who forcibly transports her and repeatedly doubts her judgment. Su Ying retaliates by denying him dinner and enjoying his punishment of washing dishes without magic 43 44 47 50.
• Sword Sect’s second elder — Father of the original Su Ying; his daughter’s talent led to her training in the Cultivation Sect from childhood 15.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Repeated Missions and the Cave Encounter

• Her poisoned-wine performance fails when Ling Xian, rather than Xiao Muchen, makes her drink it. The main system rejects the altered scene and restarts the mission 1 2.
• Returned to Feng Moyuan’s cave, she unknowingly reveals the world’s fictional nature through her mental conversation with the system. When confronted, she claims to be Ling Xian 2.
• Her task to arrange the heroine’s meeting with the supporting male character is marked complete for twenty points. Blamed for her team’s competition loss, she accepts solitary seal duty 3.

Chu Yu and Sect Life

• Rescues the disguised Feng Moyuan from a cliff, earning 100 points and beginning her attachment to “Chu Yu” 4.
• Brings him to Firefly Fragrance Court after the disciple selection and becomes his senior mentor 12.
• During the Unbounded Forest expedition, bears dangers intended for Ling Xian, kills the Mist Beast, and collapses from injury and poison. Chu Yu carries her out and explains her sacrifice to the sect 16 18 19.
• Guides Chu Yu to victory in an alchemy wager, securing Ping Qingyun’s Seven-Tailed Fox for him and extracting half the betting organizer’s winnings 24 25.
• Anticipating the Demon Realm’s attack, prepares a shelter at Repentance Cliff and leaves Chu Yu there with food, unaware that he commands the approaching forces 26 27.

Abduction and Demon Palace Captivity

• Attempts to intercept a strike aimed at Xiao Muchen, but Feng Moyuan redirects it. Xiao Muchen accuses her of collusion, and Feng abducts her 30.
• Bargains for survival by becoming Feng Moyuan’s personal cook and is subsequently forced to review state memorials 32 35.
• Completes a fifty-point punishment quest by staging an attack on Ling Xian, receiving severe internal injuries from Feng Moyuan 36.
• Reaches the Spirit Tranquility Stage while healing, then spends her new rewards on escape tools. Feng catches her at the palace barrier and sends her to the dungeon 37 38 39.

Flame Mountain Expedition

• Is forcibly brought along to investigate the spirit-beast crisis near Flame Mountain and remains confined by barriers and the Step-Separation Curse 43 46 49.
• Provides the water-based strategy that defeats the ordinary Zhitu flock, despite initially hoping Feng Moyuan’s injuries might allow her to escape 50.
• The curse pulls her toward Feng Moyuan during his attack on the original Zhitu. The beast strikes her, leaving her badly burned and reducing her cultivation as Feng catches her 50.

Notable Quotes

“The wise never plunge into the river of love, understand? No matter how handsome a guy is, I only crave his looks and his body, never his heart.” 8

“We're both being forced, Junior Sister. Why must you slander me like this?” 35

“Cultivation has so many benefits. Why do these male and female leads have to chase romance? Isn't cultivation far more appealing?” 38