Meng Hongchen

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Hair and eyes: White hair and blue eyes; her eyes turn clear, ruby-like red when she releases her Martial Soul in battle 20 89.
• Build and features: Tall and gracefully poised, with an oval face and long eyelashes 20 28.
• Everyday clothing: Wears the academy uniform and, on an outing with Huo Yuhao, a simple white dress 72 119.
• Assassin attire: Uses a custom-made, fitted black outfit and black mask for stealth practice 69 118.

Background / History

Meng Hongchen is Jing Hongchen’s granddaughter and Xiao Hongchen’s sister. Star Luo intelligence identifies the siblings as children of the same parents and records them at the same age. By the tournament, the Hongchen family consists of only Meng, Xiao, and their grandfather; Meng explicitly calls Xiao one of her only two family members 88 94 96.

She studies under Jing Hongchen and is already a fourth-year academy student when Huo Yuhao joins their circle. Although she once wanted to apply to Shrek Academy, she instead develops as a close-combat soul engineer at the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy 20 38 48.

Personality

Meng Hongchen is warm and playful with people she trusts, but can adopt a deliberately icy manner around others. She frequently punctures Xiao Hongchen’s theatrical boasting, whether by teasing him about Huo Yuhao’s examination score or telling him to act normally before a match 20 25 35 87.

Her curiosity has an investigative streak. She secretly checks Huo Yuhao’s borrowing records and correctly deduces that he possesses an ice-attribute second Martial Soul. Nevertheless, she considers spreading someone else’s secrets an unacceptable intrusion and later respects his reluctance to explain more sensitive matters 35 56.

She values the mutual obligations of fellow disciples, describing that bond as even stronger than biological siblinghood within the soul-engineering world. Her loyalty does not eliminate insecurity: during team training, she worries that her dependence on Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice enhancement makes her a burden 45 56.

Her romantic enthusiasm coexists with technical rigor. She understands the appeal of Huo Yuhao’s continent-wide Soul Tool network while also recognizing its material, engineering, and political obstacles 118.

Abilities & Skills

Vermilion Clear Ice Toad

Her Martial Soul combines ice, fire, and poison. Its unusual properties, supported by close-combat Soul Tools, allow her to contend with Soul Emperors even before receiving the Assassin potion 39 56.

• Poison: The Vermilion Clear Ice Toad’s deadly poison forces tournament opponents to prepare dedicated countermeasures. Star Luo’s precautions reduce its effectiveness during their chaotic team battle 101 105.
• First Soul Skill: Releases a pale, mist-like current with a faint blue-green tint. It substantially weakens Qin Xiao’s lightning spear 89.
• Ice mirrors and Ice Refraction: Her third Soul Ring accompanies the creation of an expanding ice-mirror surface. Ice Refraction allows rapid repositioning during close combat 89 119.
• Fifth Soul Skill: Can be combined with the Assassin’s all-out strike for a decisive attack; its name is not given in the supplied passages 119.

Temporary Ultimate Ice Enhancement

Huo Yuhao can channel his Ultimate Ice Soul Power into Meng Hongchen, temporarily elevating her ice attribute to Ultimate Ice 39.

• Suppresses her Martial Soul’s fire and poison attributes while the enhancement is active 39.
• Enables overwhelming attribute suppression against weaker ice- and water-related abilities 89 100.
• Initially requires Huo Yuhao’s direct assistance, a dependence that troubles her during training 45.
• Does not establish that she naturally possesses Ultimate Ice. The Eternal Frozen Domain and Ice Emperor’s Wrath apparently used by her against Tang Yin are Huo Yuhao’s abilities concealed through Simulation 109.

Sequence 9: Assassin

The potion strengthens the physical qualities central to her close-combat fighting style rather than granting a broad set of mystical attacks 48 56.

• Enhanced movement: Improves bodily control, agility, flexibility, and the range of movements she can execute 56.
• Explosive strike: Allows her to concentrate her strength into a sudden all-out attack 56 119.
• Stealth: Lets her conceal herself in shadows. Against Xiao Hongchen, she first destroys the lighting Soul Tools, then uses darkness to evade his fire and close the distance 70.
• Combat increase: After taking the potion, she is assessed as having the raw strength to defeat a Soul Emperor on paper 56.
• Digestion: Uses the Acting Method and seeks Huo Yuhao’s advice. Dressing as an assassin is not itself necessary for acting 69 118.
• Risk: Potions introduce mental corruption and the possibility of losing control. Huo Yuhao’s Psychiatrist abilities offer some mitigation, not an unconditional guarantee of safety 69.

Swordsmanship and Combat Tactics

Meng Hongchen combines precise rapier work, evasive movement, ice-based positioning, and sudden attacks 42 77 119.

• Defeats three coordinated Agility Attack System Soul Ancestors with the combined support of Assassin enhancements and Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection 77.
• Uses harassment rather than reckless commitment against Ma Rulong and Mi Jia, immediately activating an Invincible Shield when they isolate her 42.
• Retains substantial fighting ability without Soul Tools because her Martial Soul, Soul Skills, and potion-enhanced body remain effective 101.
• Coordinates a killing thrust against an Evil Soul Master Soul King with Huo Yuhao’s Soul Shock and Intimidation 119.

Soul Engineering and Technical Knowledge

Her work includes fine engraving, weapons development, and evaluation of new Soul Tool concepts 29 35 40 118.

• Uses shared Spiritual Detection to engrave Spirit-Nourishing Cast Iron into a figurine 29.
• Assists Huo Yuhao’s research and tests their Level 4 Live Ammunition Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle 35 40.
• Explains ranking engraving knives and the wider industrial foundations behind the Sun Moon Empire’s technological advantage 79 96.
• Identifies civilian and military applications for Huo Yuhao’s Soul Power relay device, including its potential contribution to linked Soul Tools 118.

Martial Soul Backlash

At sufficiently high cultivation, her Martial Soul’s ice and fire poisons can become unbalanced and turn against her 124.

• The Ice Empress relates the problem to the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad’s natural limit of approximately fifty thousand years 124.
• Ultimate Ice-assisted dual cultivation is proposed as a future workaround at eight or nine rings, suppressing the fire attribute at the cost of some strength without stopping cultivation 124.
• Huo Yuhao instead hopes to find a more complete remedy at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. No successful cure is documented in the supplied context 124.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Paired Level 6 Ice-Attribute Rapiers — Her principal documented melee weapons during the tournament and Ye Guyi’s rescue 77 89 119.
• Level 5 ice-crystal melee Soul Tool — A weapon from her four-ring period, made from pure ice-attribute rare crystal; becomes useful against Li Jie’s metal-countering abilities 101.
• Level 6 Melee Soul Guidance Suit — Custom-made by Jing Hongchen from rare crystals to counter Li Jie. Includes an Ice Marrow Spirit Jade Rapier; her rank-fifty-two cultivation limits its operating time 103.
• Level 5 Soul Tool set — Used during the finals’ individual elimination matches against Shrek Academy 110.
• Invincible Shield — Used to withstand Ma Rulong and Mi Jia’s coordinated melee assault 42.
• Level 7 information-access Soul Tool — An Illustrious Virtue Hall device used to access Huo Yuhao’s library borrowing records 35.
• Silent Camera Soul Tool — Used to secretly photograph Huo Yuhao engraving a core array 34.
• Storage gemstone bracelet and Storage Ring — Used to carry Soul Tools and other possessions 20 79.
• Ice Edge, gifted to Huo Yuhao — A Class 6 engraving knife given as a welcoming present. Its complex core-array construction permits use below rank sixty Soul Power 20.

Relationships

• Huo Yuhao — Junior fellow disciple, research partner, and romantic partner. Her initial attraction to his eyes grows through admiration, joint research, and companionship. She confesses her feelings and promises to support his dream; he returns her embrace 20 118.
• Xiao Hongchen — Brother and frequent sparring partner. She mocks his grandstanding but is deeply frightened when he comes under concentrated fire during the tournament 20 70 94.
• Jing Hongchen — Grandfather and teacher. He builds specialized equipment for her, protects her from Xuan Zi’s recruitment attempt, and joins the search for a remedy to her Martial Soul’s drawback 103 109 124.
• Feng Tingting — Friend connected to the academy’s publicity work. Meng helps provide photographs for Soul Engineer Genius and later asks her to restrain publications that encourage disruptive pursuit of Huo Yuhao 34 48.
• Wang Dong — Soul Tool customer who admires Meng’s appearance and swordsmanship. Wang Dong’s belief that she shares Martial Soul resonance with Meng arises from an encounter with Huo Yuhao disguised as her 38 72 78.
• Tang Yin — Opponent who identifies her as the “Child of Destiny” and schemes to connect her with Xiao Qi. This is Tang Yin’s conclusion, not an independently established identity 38.
• Ye Guyi — Rescued alongside Huo Yuhao. Meng subsequently supports recruiting her into the academy, emphasizing its ability to protect her from the underground factions 119 120.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Welcoming Huo Yuhao and Joint Research

• Welcomes Huo Yuhao at Quiet Heart Studio with Ice Edge and experiences his shared Spiritual Detection firsthand 20.
• Investigates his unusual abilities, deduces his second Martial Soul’s ice attribute, and becomes involved in his research 29 35.
• Receives the Assassin potion as Huo Yuhao’s reciprocal first-meeting gift, then begins testing its abilities and learning potion digestion 56 69.

Soul Fighting Tournament

Confession and Ye Guyi’s Rescue

• Supports Huo Yuhao’s ambition to build a continent-wide Soul Tool network despite recognizing its dangers, and openly tells him she likes him 118.
• During their subsequent outing, helps track Ye Guyi after her bookstall is burned and fights the Evil Soul Master Soul King threatening her 119.
• Is excused from the Shrek Academy Exchange Student Program by Jing Hongchen, to her evident relief 121.

Search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well

• Continues cultivation until her Assassin potion is nearly digested 123.
• Accompanies Huo Yuhao and Jing Hongchen to Sunset Forest after the well is identified as a possible solution to her Martial Soul backlash. The group travels in a Level 9 Flying Soul Tool and evades a Heaven Dou aerial patrol 124.

Notable Quotes

“No handsome guy is going to make me earn less. That’s one of my principles.” 38

“If Yuhao gets it, that’s the same as me getting it.” 96

Trivia

• Makes figurines privately and asks Huo Yuhao to keep the hobby secret; she refuses to show him the cast-iron figurine they work on together 29 35.
• Her favorite drink is sweet iced tea 119.
• Researches historical accounts of Shrek Academy’s three Ultimate Martial Soul wielders after learning about Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice 123.