Ye Hua

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ye Hua (叶婳)
Alias(es)	Heartless Fairy; Junior Sister Ye; Senior Sister Ye 296 643 915
Species/Race	Human 597
Gender	Female 296
Affiliation	Misty Sect, South Sea Continent; Ye Family; Breeding Farm 421 643 915
Occupation/Role	Personal disciple, sword cultivator, and Breeding Farm co-founder 643 915
Cultivation Path	Heartless Dao 297 574
Last Documented Cultivation	Quasi-Saint Realm Great Perfection 888
Constitution	Treasure body, with its potential brought to its limit 756
Status	Alive 955
First Appearance	Chapter 296, “Ye Hua, Junior Sister Ye” 296

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Unspecified cultivation advancement	420	Confirms another breakthrough after meditation; the coldness associated with her Heartless Dao becomes more pronounced.
Void Insight Realm Great Perfection	566	Reached while cultivating in the Earth Marrow Cold Spring; begins gathering strength to enter the Great Vehicle Realm.
Great Vehicle Realm, Third Level	566	Reached by the tenth day in the spring. Her injuries heal, and her foundation remains stable despite the rapid advancement.
Great Vehicle Realm Great Perfection	569	Reached after a full month of cultivation in the spring; pauses to consolidate and master her increased power.
Human Immortal Realm, First Level	598	Successfully overcomes the ninefold heart demon tribulation. A heavenly energy pillar heals and transforms her body, divine soul, and cultivation.
Human Immortal Realm, Third Level	598	The tribulation’s rewards continue raising her cultivation while she battles the surrounding demonic beasts.
Human Immortal Realm, Sixth Level	598	Her post-tribulation ascent reaches the sixth level during several hours of slaughter.
Golden Immortal Realm	781	Documented as the foremost fighter on the Misty Sect’s Golden Immortal Realm Combat Power Rankings; the intervening breakthroughs are not specified.
Quasi-Saint Realm Great Perfection	888	Listed among the highest-cultivation members of her group. Further breakthroughs have become increasingly difficult.

Background / History

Ye Hua grew up neglected within the Ye Family. Her ordinary aptitude left her overshadowed by more talented relatives, and both her clansmen and parents treated her with contempt. Betrothed to Li Chengfu before birth, she grew up with him, but their relationship deteriorated as the gap between their talents widened 431 594 703.

She entered the Misty Sect at the lowest ranks of its outer disciples, while Li Chengfu became a personal disciple. Heavy workloads, meager benefits, and fellow disciples seizing resources made cultivation difficult. Her family supplied little support, leaving her dependent on her small sect stipend and the resources her fiancé occasionally provided 297 594.

After discovering Li Chengfu with another woman, Ye Hua fought his lover, only for him to defend the woman and blame Ye Hua. She ended their engagement and adopted a Heartless Dao method obtained by chance. Its enormous resource demands exhausted her remaining spirit stones, leaving her unable to afford adequate cultivation supplies or decent meals 297 594.

Appearance

• Complexion and build: Fair, jade-like skin and a slender figure 296 594.
• Hair: Originally glossy black; every strand turns white overnight after Ying Ming Hao’s apparent death. The white hair remains after their reunion 425 591 645.
• Clothing: Frequently depicted in white, including during her departure from Ying Ming Hao’s grave and later ranking competitions 599 781.
• Bearing: An aloof, ice-cold beauty whose chilling aura makes her seem unapproachable 670 781.
• Visible effects of grief: During her mourning, she becomes haggard, pale, and hollow-eyed. She later claims her white hair is a cultivation side effect rather than admitting its emotional cause 591 645.

Personality

Ye Hua is proud, guarded, and intolerant of disrespect. Ying Ming Hao’s intrusive behavior repeatedly provokes her into retaliation, especially during their early encounters. Her reserve does not eliminate her curiosity: she longs to visit Ascension City and experience the beautiful things she has been denied 296 298 421.

Her pursuit of strength begins as a desire to control her own destiny and prove her worth without her parents’ help. Although she cultivates the Heartless Dao, she remains capable of affection, jealousy, embarrassment, and devastating grief. Her cold public reputation contrasts sharply with the tenderness she shows Ying Ming Hao 547 589 643 649.

She becomes increasingly ruthless toward enemies, killing a surrendered bandit despite Ying Ming Hao’s implied promise of release and later participating in indiscriminate revenge against Sandwind Stronghold. That severity coexists with loyalty to her companions: when surrounded by Scavengers, she offers to remain behind so others can escape 571 597 836.

By the later tournament, fame and rank hold little attraction for her. Despite possessing the talent to become a true disciple and receiving offers from important sect figures, she rejects them; remaining beside Ying Ming Hao matters more to her 915.

Abilities & Skills

Heartless Dao

A cultivation path centered on severing emotions and desires. Ye Hua’s practice produces an icy, detached aura and can sharply increase her combat strength 420 574.

• Rapid cultivation: Her progress becomes unusually fast after adopting the method, transforming her formerly unremarkable aptitude 420 756.
• Grief-driven awakening: Ying Ming Hao’s apparent death awakens her long-dormant Heartless Dao and accelerates her cultivation even while she is unable to train deliberately 593.
• Emotional suppression: After her Human Immortal tribulation, the method increasingly suppresses her sorrow and other feelings 598.
• Shared cultivation resonance: Her aura resonates with Ying Ming Hao’s Emotion-Forgetting practice. In the Earth Marrow Cold Spring, her method is particularly suited to absorbing its energy 423 566.
• Dangerous principle: The path’s first principle demands cutting down the person one loves once its goal is reached 593.

Swordsmanship

Ye Hua combines precise close-range attacks with sustained long-range Sword Qi. She can defeat opponents above her cultivation level 548 908 915.

• Misty Sword Art: Reaches major accomplishment in the Misty Sect’s common sword technique. Ying Ming Hao helps her improve it by coating the blade with spiritual power, increasing both its strength and energy consumption 574.
• Sword Qi barrages: Creates dense, continuous attacks capable of trapping an opponent in a net of blades 901.
• Psychological pressure: Her attacks against Ning Huai stir sorrow and disrupt his concentration 908.
• Tactical restraint: Maintains distance when an enemy weapon threatens to break her sword, combining ranged attacks, retreat, and recovery pills 915.

Ice-Based Techniques

Her freezing techniques can immobilize powerful opponents and control a large fighting area 781 908 915.

• Winter Has Come: Forms a massive ice-blue sword that breaks Ning Huai’s spear projection and defenses before freezing him solid 908.
• Area control: Another use of Winter Has Come fills the platform with ice crystals that become cutting swords. She also shapes the crystals into ice dragons to harry Hengxiudong 915.
• Profound Ice Earth-Splitting Slash: Releases a huge blast of cold Sword Qi capable of contesting Hengxiudong’s mace projection 915.
• Energy cost: Sustaining her large-scale ice attacks consumes substantial power, requiring recovery pills during prolonged combat 915.
• Dragon immobilization: Uses her signature Heartless Dao skill to freeze Long Chen even in his True Dragon form 781.

Movement and Disguise

• Ethereal Steps: Supports fast repositioning and precise attacks during her victory over Ning Huai 908.
• Appearance-altering method: Can completely change her appearance, aura, and voice. One disguise makes her look ordinary and replaces her cold aura with a gentle one, initially confusing Ying Ming Hao 437.

Treasure Body and Physical Limits

Her constitution is a treasure body rather than a holy body. Disciplined Heartless Dao cultivation brings its potential to its utmost limit 756.

• Possible evolution: A rare opportunity or a breakthrough to the Saint Realm could elevate it into a holy body; no such transformation is confirmed in the supplied account 756.
• Limited bodily cultivation: Her earlier neglect of physical training leaves her body vulnerable during the final tribulation strike. The Heaven Mountain Snow Lotus’s healing energy keeps repairing the damage 595.

Basic Artificing

• Sword upgrades: Adds ores to the Glazed Sword and smelts them into its blade, raising it to upper-tier third grade 915.
• Skill ceiling: Cannot perform the advanced reforging needed for an upper-tier second-grade weapon; that would require a master artificer 915.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Glazed Sword — A treasured gift from Ying Ming Hao and her principal weapon. By her match with Hengxiudong, her own upgrades have raised it to upper-tier third grade. She avoids direct clashes with his supreme-grade Kanglong Mace to protect it 548 915.
• Jasmine Jade Pin — Chosen during her Ascension City outing. During her final heart-demon illusion, it releases mysterious light and an apparition of Ying Ming Hao, whose touch helps awaken her 596 597.
• Second-grade Heaven Mountain Snow Lotus — Given by Ying Ming Hao. A small piece supplies the healing energy necessary to withstand the black lightning phoenix of her final tribulation wave 595.
• Storage Rings — Entrusted with tens of thousands of Ying Ming Hao’s rings before his incarnation dies. She promises to safeguard them and return them when they reunite 589.
• Recovery pills — Used to sustain her through tribulation lightning and demanding tournament techniques 594 915.

Relationships

• Ying Ming Hao — Lover, cultivation partner, and traveling companion. Their hostile first encounters develop into shared domestic life, mutual encouragement, and romantic intimacy. They confess their feelings as his incarnation dies and reunite after three years 296 423 547 589 644.
• Huang Rong — Protector and eventual companion. Ye Hua initially blames and hates her over Ying Ming Hao’s apparent death, but accepts her survival advice during the tribulation. Huang Rong protects her throughout the subsequent journey, and their relationship improves after the reunion 589 593 643 646 693.
• Li Chengfu — Former fiancé, childhood companion, and enemy. His betrayal, defense of Wang Fanghui, and slap leave Ye Hua seeking revenge. He resents her rejection and relationship with Ying Ming Hao 431 703.
• Wang Fanghui — Li Chengfu’s girlfriend and Ye Hua’s rival. Their hostility stems from the broken engagement and mutual humiliation; Wang Fanghui fears Ye Hua might reclaim Li Chengfu 703.
• Little Chicken Kun — Close companion who shares her grief and follows her after she leaves Ying Ming Hao’s grave. He fears losing her during the tribulation 591 593 599.
• Gu Yanchen, Wang Xie, Gu Sen, and their companions — Followers taken into her service during her travels. She later transfers them to Ying Ming Hao’s command to support his growing forces 643 645.
• Shui Furong — Ally who refuses to abandon her during the Scavenger encirclement, insisting that they survive or die together 836.
• Long Chen — Competitive rival with admiration, jealousy, and a faint romantic interest in her. Her freezing techniques repeatedly defeat him 781 908.
• Zhou Duoduo — Ascension City companion and collaborator; they share adventures and divide the gathering’s resources with Ying Ming Hao 596 597.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Breeding Farm and Ascension City

Ye Hua first confronts Ying Ming Hao after his voyeurism in the Gravity Tower. He interrupts her with forced hospitality, provoking a cafeteria scuffle. Their next encounter becomes a sword chase after he takes both sets of mission materials, eventually involving the unfortunate assignment officer Li Yin 296 297 298 299.

Their beast-raising assignment places them together at a small cottage. Farm work, shared meals, and neighboring cultivation rooms gradually turn hostility into familiarity. Their consistently exceeded quotas earn recognition, while Ye Hua’s interest in the Mid-Autumn Festival eventually draws them to Ascension City 300 420 423 424.

In the city, Ye Hua joins Ying Ming Hao and Zhou Duoduo in adventures and schemes, receives a share of an unprecedented fortune, chooses the jasmine hairpin, and shares a quiet sunrise holding Ying Ming Hao’s hand at Purple Mist Shore 596 597.

Boundary Balance Mountains and Sandwind Stronghold

After discussing their dreams, Ye Hua and Ying Ming Hao are ambushed by Sandwind Stronghold bandits. She offers to cover his retreat, but he refuses to leave her. Their coordinated counterattack opens an escape route, with Ye Hua killing a stronger Great Vehicle Realm bandit 547 548.

The pursuit leaves them gravely wounded before they discover the Earth Marrow Cold Spring. A month of cultivation transforms their strength, allowing them to reverse the situation against their pursuers. Later sparring improves Ye Hua’s sword techniques and combat decisiveness 566 569 570 574.

Their companionship is also tested by Ying Ming Hao’s selfishness: he leaves her as bait while fleeing Centipede Demons. They subsequently attack Sandwind Stronghold’s depleted defenses and slaughter more than ten thousand people, sparing neither age nor sex 597.

Apparent Death and Ninefold Heart Demon Tribulation

When Ying Ming Hao’s incarnation dies, Ye Hua does not believe his explanation that he will return to his original body. They make a pinky promise to reunite, and his final confession receives her tearful reply. She then remains beside his grave for ten days, refusing food and water; her hair turns white overnight 589 591.

Her grief accelerates her cultivation into the ninefold heart demon tribulation. Its illusions force her to confront family rejection, the broken engagement, and her cherished memories of Ying Ming Hao. The final lightning phoenix nearly destroys her body, while the heart-demon illusion threatens to consume her mind 593 594 595 596.

The Jasmine Jade Pin’s apparition helps awaken her at the brink of death. After surviving, she rises rapidly through the Human Immortal Realm and kills nearly a thousand surrounding demonic beasts before returning to the grave 597 598.

Three-Year Journey and Reunion

Ye Hua vows revenge and leaves to follow the route she and Ying Ming Hao planned. Finding Sandwind Stronghold abandoned and unable to locate its forces, she resumes her journey of training, deliberately seeking powerful demonic beasts as opponents 599 600.

Over the next three years, her ruthless conduct earns the name Heartless Fairy and attracts powerful enemies. Huang Rong repeatedly protects the traveling party, though even she narrowly escapes death several times 643.

At the Misty Sect, Ye Hua recognizes the returned Ying Ming Hao despite his changed appearance and breaks down in his arms. She reproaches him for leaving her to grieve, then accepts his reassurance and white flowers. She transfers her followers to his command and becomes noticeably more talkative and affectionate 643 644 645 646.

Competitions and Later Conflicts

Event	Outcome
Sect Grand Competition	Places in the top hundred 693.
Match against a Plain Maiden Sect opponent	Wins without using her treasure body’s power 756.
Combat-power ranking competition	Defeats Long Chen in True Dragon form by freezing him and claims the championship 781.
Quasi-Saint elimination-zone encirclement	Offers to hold off over a hundred thousand Scavengers so her companions can escape; they refuse to abandon her 836.
Match against a Central Saint Palace prodigy	Wins overwhelmingly with sustained Sword Qi attacks and advances to the top fifty 901.
Match against Su Yan	Advances after he surrenders; suspects Ying Ming Hao influenced his decision 903.
Match against Ning Huai	Counters his strongest spear technique with Winter Has Come and freezes him solid 908.
Match against Hengxiudong	Protects her weaker sword through ranged combat, exhausts him with ice attacks, and forces his surrender 915.
Challenges from the three great worlds	Achieves a lengthy winning streak, including victories over higher-level opponents, before stronger fresh challengers wear her down 945.

Notable Quotes

“My dream is simple. I want to reach the pinnacle of immortal cultivation and take control of my own destiny!” 547

“Hmph. I never said I'd let you go. My Junior Brother said that. What does it have to do with me?” 571

“Ying Ming Hao, I like you too...” 589