Su Jiu

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Su Jiu (苏玖)
Alias(es)	A Jiu; Jiu — familiar names used by her family 1 2 6. Heroine Su — title used during the martial-world experience of her Nascent Soul Dao questioning 476 477. True Lord Su — cultivation honorific 1512. “My Little Nine” — Silver Snow’s familiar address for her 625.
Gender	Female 2 5.
Age	Six at the beginning of her second life; her previous life lasted approximately a hundred years 1 2 10. Ten at the eighth Qi Refining layer and thirteen before entering the sect’s secret realm 66 78. By her Nascent Soul tribulation, she counts more than a hundred and thirty years across both lives; much later, she describes her adoption as having occurred a hundred years earlier 479 1450.
Family	Adopted daughter of the Su Family Head and Madam Su of Peace City; adoptive sister of Su Mianmian and Su Qingqing 2.
Affiliation	Su Family; Azure Tide Sect; Ice Veil Peak. Initially reserved as a prospective disciple, she later becomes Chu Mojin’s disciple 2 9 18 59 65 720.
Occupation/Role	Personal Disciple of Chu Mojin; talisman master and formation arts artist. Formerly an Outer Gate disciple in her second life and a Personal Disciple of Sect Leader Ning Hai in her previous life 10 43 49 65 218 720.
Identity	Revealed to be a god rather than an ordinary human cultivator; Xia Jue’s side story contrasts her nature with his human-demon identity 1959.
Spiritual Root	One-hundred-percent-purity mutated ice spiritual root in her second life; water spiritual root in her previous life 5 7. The later account attributes her previous-life limitations to the sealing of her innate gifts at birth 1959.
Cultivation	Spirit Transformation, the latest explicitly identified realm in the supplied developments 1497 1621.
Status	Alive; last shown exploring the Heaven-Connecting Tower with Chu Luohen and discussing a future return to Heaven Beyond Heaven 1953.
First Appearance	1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Foundation Establishment — previous life	12	After reaching this realm, she spent much of her time away gaining experience and saw Su Mianmian less frequently.
Golden Core — previous life	1 7	Reached Golden Core in approximately a hundred years. She had only recently formed her core when the Nascent Soul demonic cultivator Gong Hao killed her.
Uncultivated — following rebirth	5 10	Returned to childhood with a pure ice spiritual root. Her old approach to absorbing water essence failed because her body could not retain it unchanged.
Successful qi induction	13	Converted incoming water elements into ice essence. Her conversion rate rose until she could retain all the absorbed elements.
Second Qi Refining Layer	16	Broke through while studying at the Library Pavilion and learning minor ice spells.
Fourth Qi Refining Layer	19	An epiphany in Ice Veil Peak’s spirit garden carried her directly past the third layer to the fourth. She also relinquished her resentment over entering the Outer Gate.
Fifth Qi Refining Layer	20	Advanced over the following year while meditating, watering Ice Veil Peak’s garden, and practicing spells and sword techniques.
Sixth Qi Refining Layer	37	Advanced on the night after killing the Two-Headed Python. She had suppressed a possible breakthrough for three months, leaving her new cultivation exceptionally stable.
Seventh and Eighth Qi Refining Layers	53	Advances through the seventh layer and into the eighth during an influx of ice spiritual qi. After regaining consciousness, she deliberately regulates the circulation of her energy.
Formal cultivation method and foundation refinement	59 60 63	Receives suitable arts from Chu Mojin. Her cultivation method gentles her ice spiritual qi while sharpening its effects; a year of spiritual-energy control under Chu Luohen makes her foundations substantially firmer.
Tenth Qi Refining Layer	77	Advances after another year, while her cultivation method reaches a bottleneck.
Qi Refining — Great Perfection	78	Reaches great perfection by thirteen and suppresses advancement for a year to remain eligible for the sect’s secret realm.
Foundation Establishment — second life	86 95	Has established her foundation by her return to Peace City, seven years after leaving home. Her combat strength exceeds that of an ordinary cultivator in the realm.
Sword Intent Harmonization	172	Enters a state in which her sword’s blue light and her own aura become increasingly harmonious during a prolonged, bloody duel.
Golden Core — Early Stage	204 210	Overcomes a heart-demon tribulation connected to Millet Village, endures all nine bolts of the one-nine lightning tribulation, and forms a nine-pattern silver golden core. Flower Bud absorbs the lightning’s power.
Golden Core — Late Stage	363	Advances after dangerously suppressing her cultivation. Her qi remains exceptionally stable, Qi Condensation into Form becomes faster, and the Jade Moisture Chapter of her cultivation method reaches its third level.
Nascent Soul — Early Stage	477 479 480 481 574	Shatters her golden core after affirming the way of chivalry during Dao questioning. The tribulation is accompanied by visions of her adoption and a celestial flower resembling the six-petal mark on her face. She is later explicitly identified as an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
Domain formation	504 505	Uses her prior comprehension of spatial power during Gong Hao’s assault to establish a domain and reverse the restrictions imposed by his domain.
Nascent Soul — Middle Stage	705	Advances naturally upon completing a spatial formation disk, with Jade Moisture, Ice Clarity circulating while she engraves it.
Spirit Severing	1103	Awakens after completing her advancement. Chu Luohen has also reached the same stage.
Further minor-stage advancement	1496	Her cultivation rises rapidly during an upheaval of Jade Moisture, Ice Clarity and a deeper understanding of innate origin qi. The passage uses both “Late Out-of-Body” and “Spirit Severing,” leaving the precise minor-stage terminology unclear.
Spirit Transformation	1497 1621	Advances spontaneously during a three-year period of unconsciousness. On awakening, she recognizes that her former nascent soul has become a ring of golden light in her dantian. Her realm is subsequently reaffirmed as Spirit Transformation.

Background / History

Su Jiu was found as an infant in the woods, wrapped in cotton leaves, by the Su Family Head and Madam Su during a hunting trip. Madam Su, reminded of her own newborn daughter, brought her home. She grew up as another young miss of the Su Family alongside Su Mianmian and Su Qingqing 2.

In her previous life, Su Jiu became Ning Hai’s Personal Disciple and cultivated primarily water arts, with swordsmanship as a secondary pursuit. Shortly after reaching Golden Core, she was intercepted on her way to the Heavenly Music Pavilion by Gong Hao, who demanded her life-bound Frostlight Sword for his beloved. Su Jiu refused and fought, but he killed her and tore the sword from her dantian. Bai Su subsequently collected the discarded weapon 1 10 22 49.

After death, Su Jiu’s soul entered a white space containing an illusory book, Keeping Handsome Men in the Azure Realm. It revealed Bai Su as the heroine of the story governing her world and explained how Bai Su’s fortune, lovers, and treasure acquisitions had contributed to Su Jiu’s losses and the deaths of her companions. She then awoke in her six-year-old body after an incident in which she had nearly died saving Qingqing 1 2.

Her second sect admission differed sharply from the first. Despite revealing an exceptionally pure ice spiritual root and completing the Heavenly Ladder, she was assigned to the Outer Gate rather than selected by a high-level master. Chu Mojin later explained that other peak masters had passed her over because Ice Veil Peak had already reserved her 5 8 9 18.

She subsequently enters Ice Veil Peak as Chu Mojin’s disciple. He provides cultivation arts, sword techniques, defensive equipment, and other resources, while Chu Luohen guides her spiritual-energy control and practical training. By thirteen, she has reached Qi Refining great perfection and prepares to enter the sect’s secret realm before establishing her foundation 59 60 63 65 78.

Upon returning to Peace City as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, she finds attackers assaulting the Su Family for rewards offered by Bai Su. She drives them away, reunites with her adoptive parents, and supplies the family with treasures, talismans, medicinal pills, and Foundation Establishment Pills 86. Her and Su Mianmian’s continuing support later helps make the family Peace City’s foremost lineage 720 1450.

Her origins become a recurring unresolved concern. During her Nascent Soul tribulation, she sees a younger Madam Su holding an infant, but the details fade afterward. A later vision places her earliest appearance on Great March Mountain: lightning strikes, and a baby appears in the fork of a tree. Attempts to look further back are blocked by white mist 480 481 994.

The later account distinguishes the true Heavenly Dao from the false Heavenly Dao controlling the world. The false Heavenly Dao detected her birth in her first life and sealed her mark. After her death, the true Heavenly Dao awakened and expended its accumulated strength to send her back through time and space, place the book in her sea of consciousness, and conceal her from heavenly divination until her mark activated 1911.

Xia Jue’s side story ultimately identifies Su Jiu as a god. It also reveals that his previous-life planning contributed to her fate and that Li had sealed her innate gifts at birth, leaving her with a water root and without the activated mark or petals of her second life 1959.

In the Heaven-Connecting Tower, Su Jiu and Chu Luohen investigate Yun Chong’s ancient inscription and infer that he had returned to the Azure Realm to assist its true Heavenly Dao against Li and the false Heavenly Dao. Su Jiu speaks of returning to Heaven Beyond Heaven and deleting some things from the Memory Mirror 1953.

Appearance

Su Jiu has delicate features with a naturally cool, aloof quality. As a child, she retains baby fat, which softens that reserve 3 5 24.

• Eyes: Beautiful peach-blossom eyes, described as clear and pure, as though holding a starry sky 3 16.
• Tear mole and flower mark: Initially described as a blue-green, teardrop-shaped mole near the outer corner of one eye. Most descriptions place it beneath her left eye; her awakening scene instead mentions the right 1 3 24. By Chapter 59, the inverted teardrop has become a warm silver petal; at thirteen, it is again described as blue-green and petal-shaped 59 78. Following her Nascent Soul tribulation, it is a six-petal flower and later becomes a widely recognized identifying feature 481 715. Her early recollection says the mole never changed in her previous life, whereas the later revelation states that her first-life mark was sealed and that she lacked the visible mole and petals 59 1911 1959.
• Skin: Delicate, luminous white skin, noticeably more radiant after a night of cultivation 20.
• Sect clothing: Her Outer Gate uniform is moon-white with black cuff patterns. Her previous Personal Disciple uniform had gold-edged embroidery at the collar and cuffs 10.
• Adolescent appearance: At thirteen, she is a graceful young lady with a cool bearing reminiscent of Chu Luohen. Her peach-blossom eyes soften an otherwise icy demeanor 78.
• Disguises: Uses Lily-of-the-Valley Warm Jade to make her features plainer. During later travel, she wears ordinary brown clothing, a dark bamboo hat, and a refined concealment stone to avoid attention 78 229.
• Ordinary hair: Described with long black locks during the dream in which she encounters Silver Snow’s fading spirit 1585.
• Snow Sprite attunement: Gains loose silver hair, long pointed ears, silver-gray eyes, and a snowlike pallor. Her outward expression becomes especially emotionless 1296.
• Purple Ultimate attunement: Sword engravings appear as markings along her arm, her hair becomes a high white ponytail with wispy bangs, and her features take on a more heroic, masculine appearance, resembling a beautiful young man. Ending attunement restores her original appearance 1296 1308.
• Modern clothing and bearing: In a later consciousness-related sequence, she wears a hoodie and jeans that reveal her slender waist and proportionate long legs. Despite modern clothing, her upright posture, elegant speech, and ethereal warrior-like bearing make her seem out of place 1759 1784.

Personality

Su Jiu is self-reliant and unwilling to make her prospects depend on receiving a master’s help. She responds to cultivation problems through research and persistent practice, even when her previous-life knowledge proves insufficient. Her initial resentment over her Outer Gate placement eventually gives way to acceptance of her new starting point 11 19 40.

She is protective without being indiscriminately trusting. She risks herself to rescue fellow disciples, but warns friends about dangerous missions and refuses to excuse betrayal as a necessary pursuit of resources. Her disagreement with Han Jia over Yu Yin’s actions ends their former closeness 23 26 34 36 37.

Her growing strength does not make her dismissive of others. She continues calling Han Jia “Senior Sister” after surpassing her cultivation, deliberately avoids humiliating Lie Changfeng during their test fight, and refuses payment beyond her agreed mission share. She also recognizes that friendship cannot be forced when people choose different paths 20 25 30 36.

Her defining principle develops into the way of chivalry: understanding reason, distinguishing right from wrong, retaining her true heart, and refusing to slaughter the innocent. During her Nascent Soul Dao questioning, she accepts that she cannot save every living being but resolves to act with a clear conscience 477 500. Her loyalty to her master and sect is an explicit moral boundary she refuses to cross, even under threats and inducements 136 453.

She is capable of recognizing her own faults. After a period of rashness and overconfidence, she admits that relying on her sect’s backing to provoke a Nascent Soul cultivator had made her resemble the behavior she condemned in others 189. Later dangers remind her not to underestimate opponents because of her talents or rely exclusively on auras and her otherworldly eyes 1329 1610.

Her heart-demon tribulation forces her to confront the consequences of intervening in Millet Village. She accepts a share of responsibility for the resulting deaths without accepting the heart demon’s claim that she should have tolerated evil, declaring that she would enter the village and act again 204.

She remains fiercely loyal to her adoptive family regardless of bloodline, identity, or cultivation level. She rejects attempts to portray her support as exploitation, viewing the Su Family’s prosperity as a deserved consequence of the kindness that saved and raised her 729 1441 1450.

Her emotional life includes familial affection, friendship, compassion, grief, and attachment, but she is repeatedly portrayed as lacking romantic affection. This remains true despite Chu Luohen’s care, Xia Jue’s attention, and Yun Huanling’s openly affectionate behavior 182 1722. She nevertheless grieves broken bonds, including the Painting Spirit’s departure and Silver Snow’s death 1389 1585.

In combat, she is persistent, tactically adaptable, and unwilling to submit to fate. Although she often uses offense as defense, she also avoids matching her weaknesses against an enemy’s strengths and employs indirect tactics to conserve energy 623 708 987 1793.

Abilities & Skills

Ice Spiritual Root and Cultivation

Her one-hundred-percent-purity mutated ice spiritual root replaces the water root she possessed before rebirth 5 7.

• Achieves qi induction by converting water essence into ice essence within her body 13.
• Benefits greatly from Ice Veil Peak’s dense, exclusively ice-aspected spiritual energy 18 20.
• Does not rely on Spirit-Gathering Pills to raise her cultivation, despite others attributing her rapid progress to pills or hidden treasures 17 19 43.
• Initially lacks a suitable formal cultivation method at the time of Yi Xiu’s inheritance trial, advancing through meditation alone 49.
• Later receives suitable arts from Chu Mojin and practices Jade Moisture, Ice Clarity. Its circulation makes her ice spiritual qi gentler within her body while improving the sharpness and persistence of her sword attacks 59 60 143.
• Reaches the third level of the Jade Moisture Chapter by late Golden Core; the Ice Clarity Chapter becomes accessible upon reaching Nascent Soul 363.
• Refines spiritual-energy control under Chu Luohen, learning to shape energy through will rather than merely reproduce familiar ice spells 63.
• Possesses exceptionally large reserves and rapid replenishment. At Spirit Transformation, her cultivation method, constitution, and fusion with the Ice-Origin Spirit Pearl jointly sustain vast stores of spiritual qi 313 532 1621.

Ice Spells

Her experience with water arts accelerates her mastery of ice techniques. After a year of practice, her hand seals and incantations flow smoothly and rapidly 20.

• Ice Spike: Used to kill beasts, strike vital areas, and attack a demonic cultivator. She can conjure five spikes with a wave of her hand 26 30 31 34. Later unleashes dozens with each strike, dispersing demon shadows permanently 500.
• Ice Blades: Fires four blades almost instantly, powerful enough to pierce a courtyard wall 20. Later controls dozens simultaneously through divine sense, directing each accurately against a separate mist blade 279.
• Precision: Stops five Ice Spikes directly before Lie Changfeng, then disperses them without injuring him 30.
• Limit: Direct attacks cannot overcome the demonic cultivator’s regeneration; she wins by destroying his gourd after Yun Qiqi identifies it as his weakness 34.
• Thousand-Mile Ice Seal: Freezes a broad arena and temporarily immobilizes Tang Wuchen, at the cost of substantial spiritual energy 167.
• Ice Wall: Used defensively and to subdue a Fire Banner Bird. She later shatters an innate-origin-powered wall into suspended fragments that become attacking blades 1152 1491.
• Snowfall Domain and Ice-Colored Rotation: Named among arts she can potentially power entirely with innate origin qi rather than ordinary spiritual qi 1491.
• Explosive frost flowers: Conjures frost petals that explode on contact and damage a powerful puppet more effectively than her low-tier Ice Spikes 1473.
• Spiritual-qi suppression: Her ice spiritual qi disperses the energy controlling Duan Song’s water dragons and freezes them beyond his control 788.
• Persistent cold: Wounds caused by her ice spiritual qi are difficult to heal; her attacks slow beasts, transform surroundings into ice and snow, and later impair high-ranking cultivators through accumulated cold 246 623 1939.

Swordsmanship and Sword Qi

Su Jiu retains the Water-Wisdom Sword Art taught to Ning Hai’s Personal Disciples. Her ice spiritual energy gradually changes its originally yielding movements into a sharper style 22.

• Suppresses seventh-layer Qi Refining cultivator Lie Changfeng despite having lower cultivation 30.
• Reworks the Water-Wisdom Sword Art into an ice-based form better suited to her spiritual energy 40.
• Condenses Sword Qi at the sixth Qi Refining layer, accidentally slicing away part of the courtyard eaves 40.
• Defeats Jin Chen in a swordsmanship-only spar, while acknowledging that her higher cultivation still gives her an advantage 45 46.
• Her shallow cultivation initially prevents her from unleashing the original sword art’s full power 22.
• Glazed Moon Sword Formula: Receives this element-independent sword art from Chu Mojin. She initially struggles with its principle of overcoming hardness with softness but later grasps its essence while killing a Nascent Soul Heavenly Demon Sect cultivator 59 500.
• Ice Soul Sword Formula / Swordsmanship: Finds it better suited to her after reaching Golden Core. During a sixth-tier illusion array, she modifies it further and uses blood-enhanced strikes to defeat a duplicate of herself 450 500.
• Sword intent: Enters Sword Intent Harmonization during a prolonged duel; later incorporates her distinctive intent into repeated sword-qi attacks 172 246.
• Righteousness in sword intent: Her sword carries an unusually righteous quality that is especially oppressive to demonic cultivators 500.
• Blood reinforcement: Her blood adds silver light and increases the power of her sword attacks. Its higher concentration of innate origin qi strengthens suppression of magic beasts 450 987.
• Formation-breaking strike: Merges her intent with Frostbound Purple Ultimate to shatter the eye of a sixth-tier Killing Array in one strike, though escaping leaves her grievously wounded 708 709.
• Cross-stage combat: As an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, immediately wounds a late-stage opponent with concentrated sword intent 574.
• Coordination with Chu Luohen: Their alternating offense and defense become seamless enough to deny demonized opponents openings, while she still retains unused strength 1941.

Movement Techniques

• Lightfoot Step: Used for evasive movement, sudden attacks, and pursuing fast beasts. By the Verdant Mountain mission, she has trained it nearly to the limit possible in Qi Refining 26 27 31.
• Speed limit: Even at that proficiency, she can only match the speed of a Windfang Rabbit, described as the fastest first-tier demonic beast 31.
• Shadow Veil Step: Another available evasive technique, though she chooses direct retaliation instead when Yu Yin attacks her 21.
• Movement talent: Counts movement techniques among the five talents associated with the opening petals of her facial mark 363.
• Unaided flight: At Nascent Soul, can fly without a flying sword or other implement, finding direct control of her body easier than controlling an object beneath her 546.
• Wind-Welcoming Snow-Returning: Functions underwater and allows her to evade repeated attacks from the Black Water Snake 1003.

Talisman Arts

Su Jiu begins learning under Xiang Li after initially hesitating to take up the craft. Her first attempts encounter an obstruction in the flow of her spiritual energy, but she later becomes a productive talisman maker 29 40 43.

• Draws Ice Spike, Ice Binding, and Ice Wall talismans 43.
• Produces superior-grade talismans using ordinary cinnabar and an ungraded brush 48.
• Creates an ice-element supreme-grade talisman on her first attempt with graded supplies; Xiang Li buys it for two hundred spirit stones 48.
• Uses talisman drawing to exhaust her spiritual energy, then discovers that meditation replenishes it almost twice as quickly and modestly raises her cultivation 43.
• Sells through Xiang Li, turning talisman production into a source of equipment funding 43 48.
• Learns to draw second-tier talismans smoothly within a month while concentrating on array talismans 149.
• Studies Dust-Cleansing, Message, Tracking, Immobilizing, and Concealment talismans from a jade slip supplied by Ning Hai. Their comparatively simple drawing methods and her pure spiritual energy make them inexpensive for her to produce 149.
• Later carries and deploys large quantities of talismans, almost all at least fifth tier, alongside swordsmanship and spells 1423.

Formation Arts and Spatial Power

Her formation knowledge develops from retained previous-life experience into an independent specialty. She is explicitly recognized as a formation arts artist and eventually possesses spatial-formation expertise that Chu Luohen cannot fully match 49 218 705.

• Formation identification: Recognizes natural formation arts that channel villagers’ life force toward a formation eye 218.
• Infiltration: Leads the Yun brothers through numerous formations and Golden Core patrols in the Zheng Household 374.
• Teleportation analysis: Identifies a concealed one-way array and explains that it will remain active for only ten breaths after its concealment is removed 374.
• Cross-space teleportation arrays: Tells Silver Snow she can construct an array between spaces to escape the Lifeless Ice Cavern 406.
• Spatial formation inscription: Incorporates spatial power directly while engraving formation disks. Finding a usable spatial opening does not by itself guarantee escape; one cavern confinement lasts five years while she works on the required formation 702 705.
• Domain: Uses spatial comprehension to establish her own domain during Gong Hao’s attack. Within it, she can bring an object such as his Demon Halberd directly into her hand 504 505.
• Composite and sealing formations: Works with Chu Luohen to unravel a four-layer composite formation and break the Palace’s seals on the Hongsheng Heavenly Road, recognizing a seal related to Little Pearl’s former imprisonment 1183.
• Protective Residence Grand Formation: Lays the Su Family’s defensive grand formation and later reinforces it. Its value attracts attempts by members of the main household to seize the residence 1441 1447 1451.
• Flow-Redirecting Formations: Intercepts fire spiritual qi and redirects Cloudborn Beasts’ flames into one of their own, using multiple formation disks in a real-image illusion realm 1742.

Purification, Innate Origin Qi, and Attunement

After her fusion, Su Jiu notices that her spiritual qi and vision differ markedly from those of ordinary cultivators. Her arts can dispel resentful qi that most Dao cultivators cannot handle 222.

• Innate purification: Demonic, sinister, and ghost qi disperse upon entering her body. Against Heavenly Demon Sect elders, this neutralizes sinister magic treasures and makes her resemble an innate purifying treasure 500.
• Spirit-Cleansing Technique and Pool Water: Uses purification arts and Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water, which can strip disguises. Blood-bearing pool water destroys the curse script controlling underwater nets 449 475 978.
• Innate origin qi: Present in her spiritual qi and in higher concentration in her blood. It suppresses magic beasts and can replace ordinary spiritual qi as the power source for her arts and equipment 987 1491 1741.
• Independent energy source: Learns that innate origin qi is not merely an attribute-less supplement. A small quantity can substitute for an enormous amount of spiritual qi 1496.
• Demon Halberd purification: Purifies all demonic qi in Gong Hao’s Life-Bound Treasure, injuring him through the resulting backlash 505.
• Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl: Uses the sacred artifact to weaken painting-summoned beasts, remove demon seeds, and purify the remains of dead Nine-Tailed Foxes 1389 1570 1688.
• Origin-qi expenditure: Large-scale purification can exhaust her innate origin qi. Little Pearl and Little Green warn that using two sacred artifacts together may dangerously drain it 1570 1688.
• Curse limitations: Neither she nor Little Pearl can remove the curse from her meridians. The spirit vein spirit offers to remove it, but the Heavenly Dao gathers thunderclouds to prevent interference 978 1103.
• Snow Sprite attunement: Dramatically increases her combat power and changes her body and appearance. Her first true attunement allows her to kill a previously troublesome demonic beast in one strike but is followed by unconsciousness 1296.
• Purple Ultimate attunement: Takes on the sword spirit’s markings, hairstyle, and heroic appearance. Ending it conserves spiritual qi and noticeably reduces her strength 1296 1308.
• Ice-Origin Spirit Pearl fusion: Contributes to her immense spiritual-qi reserves at Spirit Transformation 1621.

Divine Sense, Memory, and Practical Knowledge

• Divine sense: Stronger than that of ordinary Qi Refining cultivators; detects faint demonic energy and traces an aura her companions cannot perceive 29 33.
• Memory and comprehension: Can read ten lines at a glance, remember what she reads, and grasp the substance of the material 11 16.
• Formation knowledge: Uses knowledge retained from her previous life to escape the third-tier Rocky Wasteland Formation before the other trial participants 49.
• Wound treatment: Experienced enough to tend Han Jia’s injuries calmly and efficiently 12.
• Foreknowledge: Remembers events from her previous life and the mysterious book, but the book’s unclear timeline prevents her from knowing precisely when future incidents will occur 3 25.
• Otherworldly eyes: Sees things ordinary cultivators cannot and identifies Soulguiding Sect cultivators through their divine souls 222 493.
• Petal-linked talents: By late Golden Core, associates five opened petals with talents in talismans, formation arts, fusion, otherworldly eyes, and movement techniques 363.
• Soul-art resistance: Is unaffected by the Soulguiding Sect opponents’ soul arts during one confrontation 493.
• Divine-sense limits: Repeatedly anticipating the gray-clothed man’s position exhausts her divine sense and causes a headache 1581.
• Control over another’s body: Temporarily prevents Shu Man from controlling her own speech, then restores her control with a snap of her fingers. Shu Man suspects an innate art, but its precise mechanism is not established there 783.
• Deduction and persuasion: Persuades a ghost king to let her group pass by reasoning that his master intends to exhaust the cultivators and eventually kill him as well; she subsequently admits that much of the argument was conjecture 1337.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Frostlight Sword: Her previous life’s Life-Bound Treasure. Gong Hao forcibly extracts it after killing her, and Bai Su takes it away 1.
• Mid-grade Flying Sword: Gift from Elder Sun for two months of Library Pavilion work. She binds it with blood and uses it as her principal weapon during her early cultivation 16 41.
• Tassel Sword Pendant: Treasure-artifact-grade gift left by the Fourth Elder; increases her flying sword’s attack power 42 43.
• Low-grade Storage Bag: Purchased with contribution points; holds approximately one cubic meter of belongings 21.
• Wooden Hairpin: Damaged defensive artifact whose remaining protection saves her from a Ya Beast’s blow before breaking beyond repair 24 27.
• Robe of Protection: Part of her defensive equipment by the mountain patrol 43. Later receives a superior-grade Spirit Artifact robe with five formations and adjustable sizing 85.
• Defensive Handkerchief: Middle-grade magical artifact purchased for 4,500 spirit stones with her talisman earnings 43.
• Talismans: Uses Binding and Thunderbolt Talismans against the Ya Beast and a Golden Bell Shield against the poisonous Mushroom Beast. Later purchases two second-tier talismans for emergencies 27 36 48. Chu Mojin gives her two special talismans containing his and Chu Luohen’s divine-sense attacks, which can also alert them to her danger 78.
• Medicinal supplies: Carries Returning Spirit and Hemostatic Pills for field missions. Uses superior-grade Blood-Coagulating Pills to heal the injuries inflicted by Yi Xiu 23 27 50. Later administers Great Restoration Pills to Qiao Zirong and Mu Ran and a Clear-Mind Pill to Mu Ran 238 867.
• Storage Ring: Holds the abundant equipment and supplies accumulated by Chu Mojin and Chu Luohen; by thirteen, its contents could rival a peak master’s possessions 78.
• Cultivation and sword-art jade slips: Supplied by Chu Mojin, including the Glazed Moon Sword Formula and suitable cultivation arts 59.
• Formation Disks: Initially receives predominantly supportive disks and defensive treasures. Later engraves spatial formation disks herself and deploys Flow-Redirecting Formation Disks in combat 59 705 1742.
• Lily-of-the-Valley Warm Jade: Gift from Chu Mojin that conceals her beauty by making her features plainer 78.
• Purple Ultimate Sword: Initially introduced as a superior-grade Spirit Sword with three enhancing formations, sufficient until she obtains a Life-Bound Treasure 85. Later wielded as Frostbound Purple Ultimate, also rendered Frost-Cold Purple Ultimate, and explicitly identified as her sacred-artifact Life-Bound Treasure with a sword spirit 450 500 1003 1276.
• Superior-grade spirit shoes: Received alongside the Purple Ultimate Sword and protective robe 85.
• Concealable ring: Gift from Chu Luohen, apparently made from a warm-jade-like material; can become invisible under her divine-sense control 159.
• Refined concealment stone: Helps conceal her presence while traveling in ordinary clothing 229.
• Buddhist Prayer Beads: Sacred artifact that willingly settles into her hand. Contains an ancient inheritance, though her cultivation initially permits access to only part of it 439 475.
• Sound-Mixing Bell: Worn at her waist during the sixth-tier illusion-array confrontation 449.
• Jade Bead Bracelet: Reflects a Heavenly Demon Sect elder’s divine-sense attack 501.
• Ice Silk Net: Used to kill a concealed Heavenly Demon Sect elder and later deployed against Cloudborn Beasts 501 1741.
• Ice Cloud Hairpin: Surprise-attack treasure that divides into hundreds of copies when powered with innate origin qi 1741.
• Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl: Sacred purification artifact associated with Little Pearl; used against conjured beasts, demon seeds, and corrupted remains 1389 1570 1688.
• Original Yang Purifying Demonic Pearl: Silver Snow’s sacred artifact, summoned by Su Jiu while treating the Grand Elder despite warnings about the cost of using two sacred artifacts together 1570.
• Spirit-Cleansing Pool Water: Purification resource that strips disguises and, when carrying her blood, destroys the underwater nets’ controlling curse script 475 978.
• Unbounded Silk: Guides her toward the stairs inside the Heaven-Connecting Tower 1953.
• Memory Mirror: Names it as the means by which she intends to delete some things after returning to Heaven Beyond Heaven 1953.

Relationships

• Su Family Head and Madam Su — Adoptive parents. Their care gives her a home, and her insistence on additional protection helps the family during the Great March Mountain hunt 2 3 4. She later rescues them from Bai Su’s hired attackers, supplies cultivation resources, and defends their household against resource-seizing relatives. She insists that neither her identity nor her cultivation diminishes her responsibility as their daughter 86 1441 1450 1451.
• Su Mianmian — Adoptive sister and cherished friend. Su Jiu destroys the demon-containing Jade Pendant associated with Mianmian’s death and urges her to avoid Bai Su 1 25. Their support strengthens the Su Family over the years; during Su Jiu’s fifty-year absence, Mianmian alone replenishes its treasure and pill stores. Su Jiu returns for Mianmian’s Dao Companion Ceremony and later receives a visit from her after awakening from severe injuries 720 1441 1585.
• Su Qingqing — Younger adoptive sister. Su Jiu nearly dies saving her and promises to do her best to fetch her for sect admission in ten years 1 6. She later identifies Bai Ran as responsible for Qingqing’s suffering 231.
• Ning Hai — Master in her previous life. Personally teaches her qi induction, the Water-Wisdom Cultivation Method, and its paired sword art 10 22 49. In her second life, supplies support-talisman instruction and assigns her the Liu Household Village mission 149 213.
• Chu Mojin and Chu Luohen — Ice Veil Peak figures who permit her to cultivate in the spirit garden. Chu Mojin repeatedly observes her progress and privately refers to her as his disciple 18 20 40. He later becomes her master, providing arts, treasures, and extensive protection, while Chu Luohen, her Junior Granduncle, trains her foundations and repeatedly accompanies her through dangerous investigations 59 63 65 78 906. Chu Luohen’s attachment deepens, and he tends her after her three-year unconsciousness; she values his safety and warns him not to damage his foundation trying to rescue her. He ultimately follows her into the vortex that swallows her 516 625 1585 1872.
• Elder Sun — Entrusts her with the Library Pavilion, protects her from harassment, and rewards her with a flying sword 15 16.
• Xiang Li — Talisman teacher and sales intermediary. Encourages her to protect her cultivation foundation and helps her recognize the extent of her talisman talent 29 40 48.
• Shu Bai, Zhou Xing, Mo Yan, and Lie Changfeng — Mission teammates who become trusted companions. She earns their acceptance through combat ability, rescues Mo Yan, and joins their patrol as Team seventy-four 30 34 38 46.
• Han Jia — Former roommate and early adviser. Their friendship breaks down when Han Jia tries to explain away Yu Yin’s betrayal as a consequence of unequal resources 12 20 36 37 41.
• Xia Meng and Mu Zihan — Fellow newcomers and courtyard companions. Their closer ties to Bai Su lead them to avoid taking sides in the marketplace dispute 11 25.
• Yu Yin — Hostile courtyard resident who attacks her and later lures her into a demonic cultivator’s cave. Su Jiu does not blame Yu Ying for her sister’s actions 21 22 34 36.
• Bai Su — Fellow disciple and heroine of the mysterious book. Su Jiu distrusts her fortune and influence, and becomes increasingly wary when Bai Su shows hostility toward her 1 25 43. Bai Su later offers rewards for attacks on the Su Family 86. Much later, Bai Su reflects that her former antagonism felt driven by a strange force and no longer feels resentment merely upon hearing Su Jiu’s name 598.
• Gong Hao — Her previous-life killer, responsible for plundering her Frostlight Sword and slaughtering fellow disciples for their Life-Bound Treasures 1. In the second life, confronts her with power beyond Nascent Soul. She develops a domain under his pressure and purifies his Demon Halberd 501 504 505.
• Jin Chen — Friend in her previous life and swordsmanship rival in her second. After losing their spar, he recognizes her as a worthy opponent 37 45 46. Visits her with Mianmian after she wakes from three years of unconsciousness 1585.
• Xia Jue — Eldest senior brother from her previous life, whom she deeply respects. Advises her after Yi Xiu injures her 50. Becomes unusually attentive to her and is later entrusted with her account of the book and her former life 494 1440. His side story reveals his human-demon identity, their opposed natures, and his involvement in planning her previous-life fate; his second-life plans increasingly revolve around her 1959.
• True Person Yi Xiu — Injures her after rejecting her inheritance-trial approach. Later apologizes; Su Jiu has already relinquished her desire to hold the incident against her 49 50 206.
• Yun Huanling — Long-term companion in investigations, formation puzzles, and mirror-related affairs. She considers him exceptionally talented despite being slow and fearful in some situations, and repeatedly acts to protect him 374 778 850 909. He tries to comfort her after the Painting Spirit’s betrayal and openly shows affection, but her feelings are not portrayed as romantic 1389 1722.
• Yun Chao — Works with her and Yun Huanling during the Zheng Household investigation and later joins efforts to break defensive barriers 374 382 1423.
• Silver Snow — Nine-Tailed Fox demon cultivator encountered in the Lifeless Ice Cavern. She offers a spatial-array escape, later recognizes him while he is disguised as a small fox, and works with him to treat the Grand Elder 406 625 1570. After his death, his fading primordial spirit says goodbye in her dream and helps awaken her. His body is returned in an Ice Coffin 1585.
• Qiao Zirong and Mo Qi — Companions during the Frostglaze Beast encounter. Su Jiu gives the gravely injured Qiao Zirong a Great Restoration Pill and carries him out with Mo Qi 238.
• Yu Jin — Provides useful information and cooperates with her, though she suspects that his friendship overtures are motivated by her sect and powerful supporters 389. Later announces that the Yu Household will become the Su Family’s neighbor and offers help against its unwanted main-household guests 1448.
• Shu Wugui — Calculating cultivator whose relative Shu Yi she saves. His manipulation of the Lu Chuchu affair makes her reluctant to associate with him, although her opinion softens somewhat during a later journey 383 554 564 676.
• Gu Ningyun — Fellow cultivator whom she assists against a divine-sense specialist. Later expresses gratitude for Su Jiu’s role in uncovering the truth about the Gu Household massacre and enabling a reunion with her family 500 676.
• Su Shi — Member of the Su Family’s Vast Heaven Continent main line. She rejects his pressure concerning the branch family’s relocation but helps him resist the Nightmare Demon 725 729 731. After later events, he promises that his life will belong to her once he has taken revenge 1451.
• Lan Fang Ziyi — Companion in the mirror investigation. Insists on accompanying her when she searches for missing allies; Su Jiu later demands his release from the Red Maple Immortal Lord 850 1471.
• Mu Ran — Wounded informant whom Su Jiu treats. Reveals Water Moon School experiments and warns that Ming Yun and a ritual are targeting Su Jiu 867.
• Ming Yun and the Water Moon School — Threats linked to stolen talents, stolen spirit roots, soul-made mirrors, and a ritual involving Su Jiu 867. Water Moon School disciples later attack despite owing their lives to her 890.
• Painting Spirit — One of the first spirits to follow her, toward whom she is especially tolerant. Their bond breaks when the spirit chooses her painter master and attempts to use Su Jiu’s life force to revive him 1389. The spirit later acknowledges her debt and vanishes after offering Su Jiu a final gift 1527.
• Flower Bud — Assists her return from a trapped Soul Body state and absorbs the lightning of her Golden Core tribulation 143 204.
• Snow Sprite, Little Pearl, Purple Ultimate, and Wind Spirit — Spiritual companions who support combat, purification, attunement, and reconnaissance 1152 1296 1389 1471.
• Little Green — Clone of the spirit vein spirit that accompanies her in the form of a small green snake around her wrist. Offers to remove her curse, but is checked by the Heavenly Dao, and later warns her about sacred-artifact expenditure 1103 1570.
• Dao Lord Qing Ci — Encountered by her consciousness within the Demonic Sword. His promise that they would meet again becomes part of her reassurance to Chu Luohen during the vortex trap 1872.
• True and false Heavenly Dao; Li — Central forces behind her rebirth and suppressed first-life gifts. The true Heavenly Dao enables her return, whereas the false Heavenly Dao seals her mark and attempts to preserve its intended course of events 1911 1953 1959.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Events
Changing the family’s fate	Uses her memory of the disastrous Great March Mountain hunt to urge the Su Family Head to stay home. Although she cannot stop the expedition, she secures additional preparations 3 4.
Starting again in the Outer Gate	Completes the Heavenly Ladder, confronts her death-related obsession, and adjusts to crowded lodging, scarce resources, and learning without a master’s direct instruction 7 8 9 10 11.
Ice Veil Peak training	Takes the spirit-garden watering assignment, learns why the peak masters passed her over, and gains an epiphany that changes both her cultivation and attitude 17 18 19 20.
Protecting Mianmian	Shatters the Jade Pendant containing the great demon linked to Mianmian’s death. The intervention draws threats from Bai Su’s companions and becomes a possible source of later plot changes 25 43.
Field missions and the Ya Beast	Completes herb-gathering and Civet Beast hunts, then rescues fleeing disciples. Survives the Ya Beast’s innate water spell and kills it with wounds, a Binding Talisman, and a Thunderbolt Talisman 26 27.
Verdant Mountain and the demonic lair	Joins Shu Bai’s team, helps kill the Two-Headed Python, and follows Yu Yin’s suspicious rescue story. With Mo Yan, frees captured disciples by destroying the demonic cultivator’s gourd 30 31 33 34 36.
Mountain patrol	Joins Team seventy-four around Golden Guard Peak, recognizes Bai Su’s growing hostility, and defeats Jin Chen’s swordsmanship challenge. The patrol itself is an event absent from the book she remembers 38 43 45 46.
Talisman livelihood	Spends six months concentrating on meditation and talisman production, accumulates savings, and discovers she can produce supreme-grade talismans 48.
Yi Xiu’s inheritance trial	Escapes the Rocky Wasteland Formation first, but Yi Xiu rejects her approach as a shortcut and strikes her out of the hall. Su Jiu returns injured, receives advice from Xia Jue, and begins healing her damaged meridians 49 50.
Becoming Chu Mojin’s disciple	Advances to the eighth Qi Refining layer, receives suitable arts and equipment, and undergoes intensive foundation training with Chu Luohen. By thirteen, holds back her breakthrough to enter the sect’s secret realm 53 59 60 63 78.
Returning to Peace City	Returns as a Foundation Establishment cultivator, rescues the Su Family from attackers paid by Bai Su, and strengthens the family with treasures and pills. After visiting the Bai Lineage, departs and returns to Great March Mountain 86 88.
Li City and the Zhao Household	Investigates the suspicious Zhao Residence, battles a demonic cultivator despite severe injuries and destroyed defenses, and kills hostile Foundation Establishment cultivators 90 94 95.
Loyalty under captivity	Refuses to betray her master and sect despite a stronger cultivator’s inducements. During a later awakening, returns from Soul Body training as Jade Moisture, Ice Clarity circulates intensely 136 143.
Competition and self-correction	Demonstrates large-scale ice spellcasting and enters Sword Intent Harmonization during fierce duels. Later recognizes and corrects a period of rashness and excessive reliance on her sect’s backing 167 172 189.
Golden Core tribulation	Confronts her responsibility for Millet Village’s deaths without renouncing her opposition to evil. Endures nine lightning bolts and forms a nine-pattern silver golden core 204.
Liu Household Village	Accepts Ning Hai’s mission, identifies natural formation arts channeling life force, and discovers that her post-fusion arts can dispel resentful qi unusually effectively 213 218 222.
Tomorrow City and the Ice Cavern	Fights the Frostglaze Beast, rescues the gravely injured Qiao Zirong, and subsequently treats her own injuries 238.
Zheng Household investigation	Advances to late Golden Core, infiltrates the household with the Yun brothers, analyzes its one-way teleportation array, and discovers imprisoned pill refiners 363 374 382.
Lifeless Ice Cavern and Silver Snow	Meets the imprisoned Nine-Tailed Fox demon cultivator and offers to build a teleportation array between spaces to escape 406.
Illusion arrays and Nascent Soul formation	Defeats a duplicate that copies her ordinary abilities but cannot reproduce her blood-enhanced sword. During Dao questioning, experiences a martial life, affirms the way of chivalry, and advances to Nascent Soul amid visions of her origins 449 450 476 477 479 480 481.
Heavenly Demon Sect and Gong Hao	Purifies demon shadows and defeats Nascent Soul elders, then faces Gong Hao’s superior cultivation and domain. Uses spatial comprehension to form her own domain and purifies his Demon Halberd 500 501 504 505.
Medicine Gate ordeal	Resolves to try every possible means rather than repeat her previous-life regrets. Drives a dagger into her own chest during the Medicine Gate affair, leaving her life force critically depleted 514 516.
Shangyin Continent investigations	Travels with Chu Luohen, avoids Shu Wugui’s overtures, investigates the Zhu Household’s connection to the Wuyi Tribe, and demonstrates combat power against a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator 554 555 574.
Nine-Tailed Tribe and prolonged confinement	Recognizes Silver Snow’s small-fox disguise near the tribe’s sealed dwelling. Later spends five years with Chu Luohen constructing a spatial escape formation, advances to mid-stage Nascent Soul, and survives a sixth-tier Killing Array 625 702 705 708 709.
Su Family origins and Su Shi	Investigates the family’s connection to the Vast Heaven Continent main line, reaffirms her place in the Azure Mist branch regardless of blood relation, and helps Su Shi resist the Nightmare Demon 720 725 729 731.
Mirrors and Water Moon School	Investigates evil spirits within mirrors with Yun Huanling, learns of stolen talents and spirit roots from Mu Ran, and uncovers warnings about a ritual targeting her. Water Moon School disciples later turn on the group 778 850 867 890.
Curse and suppressed destiny	Destroys the underwater nets’ curse script but cannot remove the curse in her own meridians. Deduces that an unknown powerful conspirator used Hong Ming as a pawn and reflects on how her changed spirit root and Heart Discernment diverted her ordained destiny 978 980.
Spirit Severing and Little Green	Advances alongside Chu Luohen, meets the spirit vein spirit, and receives its clone as a companion. The Heavenly Dao prevents the clone from intervening in her curse 1103.
Hongsheng Heavenly Road	Subdues and releases a Fire Banner Bird, then works with Chu Luohen to unravel the Palace’s composite and sealing formations 1152 1183.
Attunement and illusion-image nodes	Demonstrates Snow Sprite and Purple Ultimate attunement, later conserves energy by ending it, and helps lead companions through dangerous nodes and mist after persuading a ghost king to let them pass 1296 1308 1337.
Painting Spirit’s betrayal	Exposes the plan to drain her life force to revive the painter and fights his painting-summoned beasts. The spirit escapes with him, breaking their bond, and later vanishes after offering Su Jiu a final gift 1389 1527.
Family reunion and main-household conflict	Returns after fifty years for Mianmian’s Dao Companion Ceremony, learns that main-household cultivators are trying to seize the Su Family’s protected residence and resources, and rejects their attempts to sow distrust. Leaves further resources and reinforces the defensive formation 1441 1448 1449 1450 1451.
Red Maple Temple and Spirit Transformation	Discovers surveillance by the temple’s trees, identifies the Red Maple Immortal Lord’s possession of a disciple, and demands Lan Fang Ziyi’s release. Learns to power arts directly with innate origin qi and advances to Spirit Transformation during three years of unconsciousness 1471 1491 1496 1497.
Grand Elder treatment and Silver Snow’s death	Attempts to remove a high-rank demon seed occupying most of the frozen Grand Elder’s body, despite dangerous sacred-artifact costs. Later survives ambushes with Silver Snow and awakens after a separate three-year unconsciousness to learn of his death, while suffering severe bodily, primordial-spirit, and meridian damage 1570 1581 1585.
Purifying the Nine-Tailed Foxes	Recognizes that corrupted foxes are beyond saving and spends innate origin qi to cleanse their remains and demon seeds while her companions guard against the Nightmare Demon 1688.
Cloudborn Beast illusion realm	Uses the Ice Cloud Hairpin, Ice Silk Net, and Flow-Redirecting Formations against the beasts. Their disappearance confirms the realm’s real-image nature 1741 1742.
Consciousness sequence and independent combat	Appears in a modern setting while retaining an unmistakably cultivation-world bearing. Later battles an ancient-seeming artifact spirit with spells, talismans, and formations while her own artifact spirits remain asleep 1759 1784 1792 1793 1794.
Demon-seed confrontations	Leads the fight against the demon-seed-controlled Jiao Yue, directing innate origin qi toward him, and later becomes the particular focus of a gray-clothed opponent 1803 1810.
Targeted vortex trap	Warns Chu Luohen not to ruin his foundation trying to rescue her and invokes Dao Lord Qing Ci’s promise. A collapsing barrier allows the vortex to swallow her; Chu Luohen follows and realizes the trap specifically targeted her 1872.
True Heavenly Dao and divine identity	The narrative reveals the true Heavenly Dao’s role in her rebirth and the false Heavenly Dao’s sealing of her mark. She investigates ancient preparations in the Heaven-Connecting Tower, while Xia Jue’s side story identifies her as a god and reveals his involvement in her previous-life fate 1911 1953 1959.

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