Qingtan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Childhood and family

Lin Dong’s parents found Qingtan in the snow and raised her as part of their family. As a child, she experienced outbreaks of cold energy and was believed to possess a fiendish demon body. Her earliest abilities and martial arts were ice-related 279.

After losing her family, Qingtan continued living primarily to care for Lin Jing, whom she raised from childhood. Although they were nominally aunt and niece, Qingtan already regarded Lin Jing as her daughter long before formalizing the adoption 254 280.

Mine ownership

Qingtan became the owner of the Yang Origin Vein and managed other veins as well, giving her considerable regional authority. Lin Jing estimated that she possessed several hundred million Profound Origin Pills 254.

Her first recorded appearance involves investigating the newly arrived Xuan Heavy Ruler. She lifts it despite its weight and suppression of Origin Power, but cannot wield it freely or store it in her Heaven and Earth Bag 250.

Ice Master connection

Qingtan’s ice abilities mysteriously disappeared, along with her awareness that she had possessed them, before returning during her fight with Third King Hall. He recognized the restored power as resembling the Ice Master’s abilities 266.

The Plane Spirit later confirmed that a strange, destiny-altering fluctuation had affected Qingtan. Drawing on this, her childhood discovery in the snow, and the Ice Ancestor Symbol’s affinity for her, Xiao Yan conjectured that Qingtan might originally have been the true Ice Master, with Ying Huanhuan placed into that role through altered destiny. This remains Xiao Yan’s conjecture, not a confirmed identity 274 279.

Appearance

Qingtan appears as an exceptionally beautiful, slender young woman whose youthful looks contrast with her cold demeanor 254.

• Clothing: Black or dark-colored dresses 250 254.
• Apparent age: Looks approximately the same age as Lin Jing, leading Xiao Yan to mistake her for Lin Jing’s older sister 254.
• Bearing: Maintains a frost-cold expression and the composure of an established regional ruler 254 255.

Personality

Qingtan is fiercely protective of Lin Jing. Even when Xiao Yan takes her niece hostage, she regains her composure, assesses whether Lin Jing is in immediate danger, and warns him against harming her. Her concern also extends to Lin Jing’s future marriage, prompting her initial scrutiny of Xiao Yan as a possible husband 254 255.

Her attachment to her lost family makes her vulnerable to the Eternal Illusion Demon Flower: she knowingly prefers a false home to the painful reality outside it. She later plans to die after securing Lin Jing’s future, but her time on the Dou Qi Continent and new friendships eventually lead her to choose continued life and exploration 262 280 305.

Qingtan is determined to improve rather than remain dependent on Xiao Yan. Despite the Ice Spirit Clan’s earlier persecution, she pursues its legacy because of its expertise in ice cultivation. She also contributes practical ideas to faction management, including reducing pill sales to mislead the Endless Fire Domain’s economic opponents 389 438.

Abilities & Skills

Ice and Yin Power

Qingtan possesses powerful cold, yin-attribute energy, first expressed through Origin Power and later through ice-attribute Spiritual Power 266 306 314 317.

• Black Ice Lotus: An instinctively manifested defense that disperses Third King Hall’s attack and releases a chill strong enough to affect him 266.
• Ice sword: Condenses cold energy into a runic longsword resembling the former Ice Ancestor Symbol 266.
• Energy compatibility: Benefits especially strongly from the Ice-Bone Spirit Pythons’ energy and the second trial’s frigid seawater 321 323.
• Early limitation: Her restored ice power strengthens her without immediately bringing her to the Ancestral Realm 305.

Fiendish Demon Body

During her childhood cultivation, Qingtan absorbed sinister and baleful energies through the ability identified as her fiendish demon body 266.

• The ability vanished mysteriously, and she forgot having possessed it 266.
• Its cold power returned when Third King Hall threatened her life 266.
• Its relationship to the Ice Master and altered destiny is unresolved 279.

Ancestral Symbol Affinity

Qingtan formerly controlled the Darkness Ancestral Symbol, while the Ice Ancestor Symbol also shows a strong affinity for her 279.

• Xiao Yan later describes both symbols as former possessions associated with her stronger techniques 438.
• He gives her artificial versions of the Ice and Darkness Ancestral Symbols, rather than surrendering his originals 439.
• He estimates that, after reaching Lower-Rank Earth Supreme, these symbols and her other methods could let her rival an Upper-Rank Earth Supreme; this is a projection rather than a demonstrated victory 438.

Ice Crystal Divine Art

Qingtan purchases the Ice Crystal Divine Art from the Nine Nether Hall and first successfully uses it during the final assault of the second Nine Nether Secret Realm trial 315 323.

• Classified as a Great Perfection Divine Art 317.
• Her first successful use represents only a basic grasp of the technique 323.
• She initially lacks enough training time to turn its purchase into an immediate combat advantage 317.

Profound Ice Dharma Body

Qingtan selects the Profound Ice Dharma Body because it suits her cold, yin-attribute power 314 315.

• Requires more than twenty costly materials, including mysterious spirit ice crystal, heavenly ice jade marrow, and extreme cold nether stone; gathering them is estimated to cost nearly one million drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid 317.
• Xiao Yan helps obtain the materials after the secret-realm trials and lends her another hundred thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid 333.
• An ice-blue phantom appears behind her during subsequent seclusion, showing cultivation progress; the passage does not explicitly confirm full completion 335.
• Its ranking is inconsistent in the supplied passages: forty-ninth when first considered, but forty-second when its requirements are discussed 314 317.

Physical Tempering

The Nine Nether Secret Realm substantially improves Qingtan’s previously undertrained body 322.

• Mountain pressure consolidates her unstable Second-Rank Spiritual Power 320.
• Relentless waves raise her physical strength beyond that of many ordinary Second-Rank Supremes 322.
• Fifteen days of fighting and seawater exposure make her meridians several times tougher 323.

Administration

Qingtan has experience managing both mines and a growing cultivation faction 254 379 387.

• Oversees multiple mineral veins and their associated affairs 254.
• Reports the Southern Region factions’ medicinal-herb price blockade to Xiao Yan 387.
• Proposes reducing pill sales to conceal the Endless Fire Domain’s reserves and reinforce its appearance of financial distress 389.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Black scythe: Her regular weapon against Third King Hall. Xiao Yan later offers to reinforce it to Quasi-Peerless Sacred Artifact level, explaining that she cannot yet use a Peerless Sacred Artifact 264 267 439.
• Nine Nether Token: Identity token issued upon joining the Nine Nether Enforcement Team; also provides access to the Nine Nether Hall’s offerings 312 313.
• Heaven-reaching Pill: Bought with fifty thousand drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid borrowed from Xiao Yan, with repayment set at one hundred thousand; enables her Second-Rank breakthrough 315 317.
• Blood Jade Heaven-Mending Pills: Supplied by Xiao Yan to treat her injuries while she is hiding from the Ice Spirit Clan 373.
• Dou Zun-Breaking Pill: Given to improve her chances of reaching Earth Supreme before pursuing clan leadership 438.
• Artificial Ice and Darkness Ancestral Symbols: Created by Xiao Yan from his own Spiritual Power using the originals as templates; comparable to the original symbols as Qingtan remembers them 438 439.
• Emergency Jade Fragment: Can be shattered to summon Xiao Yan, who can tear through space to reach her 440.
• Emperor Flame wisp: Placed inside her as protection before she leaves for the Ice Spirit Clan; once triggered, it can force even a Heavenly Sovereign to evade it temporarily 440.

Relationships

• Lin Jing — Niece, ward, and later adopted daughter. Qingtan raises her from childhood, formally adopts her at a banquet, and repeatedly prioritizes her safety and future 254 280.
• Lin Dong — Adoptive brother and a central figure in her grief. His death occurred more than a decade before her conversation with Xiao Yan; she initially wishes to join him and her other lost loved ones in death 261 279 280.
• Lin Xiao and his wife — Adoptive parents who found her in the snow. Their reconstructed selves protect her within the Qingyang Town illusion 262 279.
• Xiao Yan — Initially Lin Jing’s supposed servant, then her kidnapper, Qingtan’s rescuer, traveling companion, cultivation partner, and intimate partner. Their relationship remains marked by distrust, threats, and coercion; he later refuses her attempt to end it after becoming involved with Lin Jing 255 264 280 305 384 440.
• Mandala — Ally in the Endless Fire Domain. Protects Qingtan during her recovery, works alongside her in faction affairs, and briefly attempts to mediate her dispute with Xiao Yan 373 387 440.
• Zi Yan, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Yan’s other companions — Welcome Qingtan through an oath of sisterhood after mistakenly assuming she is already another of Xiao Yan’s partners. These friendships help her build a life beyond her earlier losses 282 283 305.
• Tianling — Commander and trainer in the Nine Nether Enforcement Team; oversees Qingtan’s secret-realm trials 312 320 323.
• Qin Wan’er — Fellow ice cultivator who offers nine nether profound ice after the secret-realm trial in exchange for a future favor 317.
• Ice Spirit Clan leadership — The incumbent leader secretly orders her death because her royal bloodline threatens his position. Another faction later invites her to compete for leadership; its motives remain suspect to Xiao Yan 373 438.

Story Role / Major Arcs

The Mine and the Eternal Illusion

• Qingtan initially evaluates Xiao Yan as a possible match for Lin Jing, then realizes that his imperceptible aura means he is stronger than her. Returning to Lin Jing’s room, she discovers him holding her niece hostage for money 254 255.
• The Eternal Illusion Demon Flower traps her in a reconstruction of Qingyang Town, where her family is still alive. She refuses to leave even after Xiao Yan explains that the world is false 261 262.
• Xiao Yan breaks the illusion after slaughtering the reconstructed town hundreds of times. Although little time passes outside, Qingtan retains the emotional consequences of those repeated cycles 264 279.
• Upon waking, she protects the unconscious Xiao Yan from Third King Hall. Her forgotten ice power reappears during the battle 264 266.

Saving the Heavenly Profound Continent

• Qingtan gives Xiao Yan Profound Origin Pills for his breakthrough and contacts the continent’s remaining sanctuaries to gather defenders around him 269.
• After the Alien Demon calamity ends, she is described as the strongest person on the Heavenly Profound Continent 271 279.
• She plans to die once Lin Jing can leave with Xiao Yan. He stops the immediate plan by threatening Lin Jing and makes Qingtan’s accompaniment a condition of taking the girl with him 280.
• Qingtan formally adopts Lin Jing and secretly tries to arrange her relationship with Xiao Yan, believing that becoming his mother-in-law will discourage him from pursuing her 280.

Ascension and Nine Nether Training

• Qingtan travels to Starfall Pavilion and forms friendships with Xiao Yan’s companions. By the time he prepares to ascend, she has decided to continue living and see new worlds 282 283 305.
• She accompanies him to the Great Thousand World, converts her Origin Power, and joins the Nine Nether Enforcement Team 306 307 312.
• She passes the secret realm’s mountain-pressure trial, fifteen-day ocean trial, and final trial, reaching Third-Rank Supreme along the way 320 323 333.
• Afterward, she begins cultivating her Profound Ice Dharma Body with materials obtained through Xiao Yan’s assistance 333 335.

Ice Spirit Clan Pursuit and the Endless Fire Domain

• While carrying out an enforcement-team mission, Qingtan is attacked by Ice Spirit Clan members. Increasingly powerful pursuers force her to flee to the Nether God Abyss on the Sky Luo Continent 373.
• Xiao Yan locates her through a previously placed soul imprint, supplies healing pills, and discovers that the pursuit is motivated by her royal bloodline 373.
• She and Mandala watch as Xiao Yan engineers a conflict between the Ice Spirit Clan’s force and the Saint Demon Palace. He subsequently claims the palace’s resources as the foundation for his own faction 375 379.
• Qingtan helps administer the Endless Fire Domain and participates in its response to the Southern Region’s medicinal-herb blockade 387 389.

Bid for Ice Spirit Clan Leadership

• A separate Ice Spirit Clan faction invites Qingtan to compete for leadership. She accepts the opportunity to seek the clan’s ice-cultivation legacy, despite distrusting its members 438.
• Xiao Yan provides a breakthrough pill, artificial Ancestral Symbols, cultivation resources, and further training 438 439.
• Learning that Lin Jing has become Xiao Yan’s partner, Qingtan tries to end her own relationship with him. He refuses and repeatedly overrides her objections until she grows accustomed to the arrangement 440.
• After reaching Earth Supreme, she departs for the Ice Spirit Clan with emergency protection. The supplied passages do not establish the outcome of her leadership bid 440.

Later Life

• Qingtan later appears with Xiao Yan’s family on his blue home planet, arguing with Lin Jing over the latter’s novel, A Few Things About Hun Tiandi and My Father 479.

Notable Quotes

“That world in my dreams is too painful. I don't want to go back. So, I'm very sorry, but I choose to stay here. At least here, I still have a home.” 262

“If I want to advance further, I need to find a way to obtain their legacy. Now that I've finally been given this opportunity, I don't want to shut it out.” 438