Ji Yaoguang

Biodata

Power Progression

• Previous-life attainment: Empress Yaoguang reached Immortal Emperor in less than two thousand years with substantial assistance from Lin Fei. This is her former incarnation’s achievement, not an established rank for Ji Yaoguang’s ordinary present-life cultivation 112.

Background and History

Childhood and First Encounter with Lin Fei

Ji Yaoguang is Ji Chongwei’s only daughter and works as president of the Ji Group. At nine years old, she was kidnapped by a criminal who knew her reincarnated identity and coveted her dormant Yaoguang Divine Power. His intended exploitation of her through an evil dual-cultivation method left her with a concealed, mild fear of men 7 13 20 51.

She first appears unconscious and gravely poisoned, carried by Wu Moling. Lin Fei recognizes her as the reincarnation of the woman he has sought for three thousand years and calls her his wife. Upon waking, Ji Yaoguang’s immediate concern is whether Wu Moling survived the assassins’ attack 1 2.

Initially, she regards Lin Fei’s accounts of his ancient connections as extravagant boasting. Her skepticism is shaken when her family confirms that he cured Ji Zhongjin’s terminal liver cancer 8.

The Song Family’s Coercion

The Ji Group’s dependence on new chips gives the Song Family leverage over its business. Song Hao exploits this vulnerability to pursue Ji Yaoguang, withholding cooperation and proposing marriage as the price of securing the project. She and her father reject the use of business interests to force a marriage 18 19 20.

Song Hao subsequently tries to make their supposed relationship public. Ji Yaoguang agrees to attend the Qing family’s banquet but refuses to accompany him as his date; at the banquet, she openly challenges his claim that she has agreed to marry him. She does not yet know that Lin Fei and her father have already resolved the Ji Family’s immediate crisis 22 34.

She later negotiates a partnership with Yao Zhicheng. When he offers exceptionally favorable terms, she insists that the Ji Family add another two hundred million to the payment rather than take advantage of him 50.

Choosing Her Own Identity

Ji Yaoguang refuses Lin Fei’s offer to show her their former life together. She insists that reincarnation should allow her to live as a new person and initially rejects his romantic interest, unwilling to mistake gratitude for love 49 50.

Her refusal also has practical grounds: she fears that Empress Yaoguang’s immense store of memories would overwhelm her own experiences and change her personality. Lin Fei accepts this boundary, and she instead agrees to begin cultivation under his guidance 112 113.

After Bai Pojun attacks the Ji villa with the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders, Yao Xinyi places herself between Ji Yaoguang and danger. Ji Yaoguang later recognizes that being held by Lin Fei after surviving the attack stirred feelings she can no longer easily dismiss 123 124 125 149.

Cultivation and Romance

With Lin Fei’s resources and instruction, Ji Yaoguang rapidly reaches the Grandmaster Realm. Her newfound strength does not immediately provide fighting experience, so he transmits scenes of expert combat directly into her mind, including the duel between Wangliang and Qiongchan 140 141.

After moving to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa, she becomes a target for cultivators seeking to exploit her reincarnated status. Douque Palace attempts to recruit her and then use force when she refuses. She initially trusts its celebrated head disciple, Hong Xiaowei, but later apologizes to Lin Fei after learning that Hong slaughtered fellow disciples and stole the palace’s resources 149 187 188 199 308.

Her growing love for Lin Fei is complicated by the belief that he loves Empress Yaoguang rather than her. During a drunken confession, she asks whether he could love her independently of that connection. She later declares her willingness to compete with her former incarnation for him, and the two kiss before spending a playful day together in the snow 228 239.

As their intimacy deepens, Ji Yaoguang also learns more about Lin Fei’s own past. After spending a night watching memories of his prehistoric losses, she arranges for two dinosaur models to be placed on his desk in remembrance of Little Black and Little Dragon Mama 519 533.

Awakening Empress Yaoguang

Despite outpacing her contemporaries, Ji Yaoguang becomes frustrated by her inability to help Lin Fei against increasingly powerful enemies. She recalls that she was once an independent, capable executive rather than someone who could only wait to be protected 682.

During the Blue Sea Race’s assault on Earth, Cronus’s severe injuries convince her to activate the Spirit-Birthing Art. Within an illusory immortal pool, she meets Empress Yaoguang’s consciousness and knowingly accepts its continued presence within her. Ji Yaoguang’s primary consciousness then falls asleep as Empress Yaoguang awakens through her body 720.

The awakened empress disperses the enemy’s space-annihilating beams and destroys its fleet. The exertion causes a potentially irreversible collapse of Ji Yaoguang’s body, soul, and origin, forcing her to reseal the power with a formation stored in her spatial ring 720 721.

The Primordial Continent

Ji Yaoguang accompanies Lin Fei through later campaigns, including the assault on Eternal Night Hall. There, she hesitates when mind-controlled children and elders attack her. Her protective qi begins to crack before Ye Wudi intervenes, confronting her with the battlefield consequences of sparing unwilling enemies 873.

On the Primordial Continent, she continues cultivating and participates in affairs at the city lord’s manor. She approves the recruitment of maidservants, while Lin Fei instructs her to reject petitions asking him to take concubines. When uncertain about a document, she can allow Empress Yaoguang’s consciousness to take over and offer its judgment 914 936 938.

During the exploration of the Thirty-Three Heavens, she cultivates with immortal spirit stones rather than attempt pill refinement, an area in which she lacks expertise. Her subsequent rapid progress draws primarily on blood-colored fortune acquired from Water Blue Star’s cosmic plane 1008 1013.

Cai Beiyu and the Finale

Ji Yaoguang’s feelings of helplessness intensify when she sees how much Cai Beiyu can do for Lin Fei. Later, Marquis Yongye targets her for capture during the battle against Lin Yuan’s forces, and Cai Beiyu saves her. Afterward, Cai Beiyu explains that she acted because Ji Yaoguang’s death would have saddened Lin Fei 1025 1131 1133.

Moved by this answer, Ji Yaoguang asks to call Cai Beiyu “Big Sister,” noting the sisterhood between Cai Beiyu and Empress Yaoguang. The two subsequently appear together holding hands and conversing warmly 1134.

By the confrontation with Great Emperor Yuntian, Ji Yaoguang displays a more openly defiant resolve, mocking him despite the danger. In the finale, she and Empress Yaoguang appear as separate brides at Lin Fei’s wedding 1369 1376.

Appearance

• Features: Bright eyes, gracefully arched brows, pearly teeth, a delicate oval face, and fair skin 34.
• Hair and build: Long, cascading black hair and a tall, graceful figure; she frequently wears her hair pinned up 34 374.
• Clothing: Appears in modern business and casual clothing, a white evening gown, and a champagne-colored qipao. While traveling in disguise, she wears a white ruqun with lotus-embroidered shoes 34 374 409 720.
• Awakened appearance: Empress Yaoguang’s emergence produces a red lotus mark between her brows, a robe and footwear formed from light, and white lotuses beneath her steps. Her face and figure remain unchanged, but her bearing becomes markedly different 720.

Personality

Ji Yaoguang strongly values self-determination. She rejects both Song Hao’s coercive marriage proposal and the assumption that her former life should dictate her present identity. Even when grateful to Lin Fei, she refuses to claim romantic feelings she does not yet possess 20 49 50.

She is conscientious in business and attentive to obligations. She plans to arrive early for negotiations with Yao Zhicheng and insists on increasing the payment when his terms seem unfairly generous. Her upbringing also makes her restrained: when she initially believes Lin Fei is joking about her grandfather’s terminal illness, she suppresses her displeasure rather than insult him 8 50.

Compassion repeatedly puts her at odds with Lin Fei’s ruthlessness. She questions whether everyone in an opposing family deserves punishment and remains disturbed by the destruction of entire lineages. Her reluctance to kill controlled civilians at Eternal Night Hall becomes a direct combat liability 159 379 873.

Though reserved and easily embarrassed in romance, she becomes increasingly affectionate and playful with Lin Fei. Her jealousy gradually gives way to a broader concern about what she can contribute to his life, while her response to his painful memories shows her attentiveness to wounds that power alone cannot heal 239 259 374 533 1025.

Abilities and Skills

Business Management

• Serves as the Ji Group’s president and participates directly in negotiations affecting its survival 7 18 20.
• Finalizes a major partnership with Yao Zhicheng and recognizes when the offered terms are excessively favorable 50.
• Later handles petitions within the city lord’s manor 936 938.

Cultivation and Protective Gang Qi

• Cultivates with the Yaoguang Immortal Art, an Immortal Emperor-level method suited to her reincarnated identity. The Spirit Mountain Immortal Art is also explicitly used during her Qi Gathering Pill breakthrough 140 141.
• Possesses true essence and white Protective Gang Qi after reaching the Grandmaster Realm 141.
• Can punch through a tree thick enough for two people to encircle despite initially lacking proper striking technique 141.
• Her protection withstands ordinary werewolves, but the Heavenly Wolf’s innate breath attack would overwhelm it without an additional defensive technique 471 472.

Sword Arts and Movement Techniques

• Lotus in Full Bloom: Releases layered, jade-white sword qi around her, shredding surrounding attackers 471.
• Lotuses Bloom with Every Step: Allows her to step through the air as phantom lotuses form beneath her feet 471.
• Phoenix Wings Flutter amid Rosy Clouds: Manifests fiery phoenix wings for a high-speed assault combining flame and sword attacks 471.
• Wild Dance Under the Moon: Surrounds an opponent with six sword-qi figures; destroying a figure exposes the sword qi composing it 471 472.
• Unnamed water-curtain defense: Creates a clear pool-like barrier that neutralizes the Heavenly Wolf’s Innate Grand Void Gang Qi, collapsing into rain as it absorbs the attack 472.
• Limitation: Knowledge and power initially exceed her practical experience. She repeatedly leaves openings and relies on Lin Fei’s instructions during the werewolf battle 141 471.

Divine Sense and Mental Techniques

• Uses mental imprints to transmit memories directly to Lin Fei, considering this faster than verbal explanation 661.
• Can use the Illusory Appearance Technique to alter her face and figure while traveling incognito 409.
• Can deliberately yield control to Empress Yaoguang’s consciousness by letting her own consciousness enter sleep 936.

Spirit-Birthing Art and Immortal Awakening

• Releases the seal on her dormant immortal essence and gives her previous incarnation’s thoughts an active consciousness within her 720.
• In the awakened state, dissolves hundreds of converging space-annihilating beams with a spoken command 720.
• Myriad Illusions Tribulate the World: Produces countless manifestations of her primordial spirit that cut through the Blue Sea Race’s warships and shields 720.
• Limitation: The awakening is not initially sustainable. Its aftermath threatens the destruction of her flesh, soul, and origin, requiring immediate resealing 721.

Equipment and Items

• Immortal-Slaying Sword — Lent to her by Lin Fei against the werewolves. The weapon recognizes her as Empress Yaoguang despite reincarnation, allowing her to wield it when ordinary people cannot 471.
• Barrier Talisman — Lin Fei’s protection causes an attacker’s blade to snap without harming her, even when she does not activate Protective Gang Qi 187.
• Spatial ring — Stores the Four Symbols Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation used to reseal her awakened power. Later also holds Lin Fei’s physical body while he controls the Heavenly Demon Body 721 873.
• Frost-Snow Flowing Cloud Robe — A fire-warding garment purchased for her at a cultivation market 410.
• Embroidered round fan — Releases wind blades when supplied with true essence 410.
• Phoenix hairpin and other gifts — Lin Fei buys her jewelry, spirit-based cosmetics, clothing, and magical items during their market outing 410.

Relationships

• Lin Fei — Protector, cultivation mentor, lover, and eventual husband. Their relationship develops from her rejection of an inherited romance into affection she chooses for herself 49 50 112 239 1376.
• Empress Yaoguang — Her previous incarnation and, after awakening, a consciousness residing within her. Ji Yaoguang initially fears losing her identity to the empress’s memories but later accepts her presence willingly 112 720 936.
• Ji Chongwei — Father. Tries to negotiate the Ji Group’s business crisis without forcing her to marry Song Hao 19 20.
• Ji Zhongjin — Grandfather. Lin Fei’s cure of his liver cancer changes Ji Yaoguang’s understanding of Lin Fei’s abilities 8.
• Wu Moling — Bodyguard and close companion. Encourages her move to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa and helps her express her affection for Lin Fei 50 149 370 374.
• Yao Xinyi — Assigned by Lin Fei to protect her. Despite joking that they are romantic rivals, Yao Xinyi shields her during Bai Pojun’s attack 123 125.
• Yao Zhicheng — Business partner whose unusually generous terms reflect his respect for Lin Fei and recognition of Ji Yaoguang’s identity 50.
• Jiang Qingyue — Addresses her as “Grandmother-Master.” She asks Lin Fei to grant him guidance, but later suspects his involvement in the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace’s scheme 335 410.
• Ye Wudi — Traveling and fighting companion whose ruthless battlefield judgment clashes with her compassion toward controlled civilians 873 909.
• Cai Beiyu — Saves her during the battle against Lin Yuan’s forces. Ji Yaoguang subsequently asks to call her “Big Sister,” and they develop a warm bond 1131 1133 1134.
• Song Hao — Unwanted suitor who uses business pressure and false public claims of engagement to try to force her into marriage 20 22 34.
• Hong Xiaowei — Douque Palace’s head disciple, whom she initially believes to be honorable. She regrets defending him after his betrayal is exposed 199 308.

Notable Quotes

“I'm an ordinary woman, but why can't I live for myself? Why must I become Empress Yaoguang?” 49

“I want to be of some help too.” 682

“No regrets.” — Her answer when Empress Yaoguang asks whether she accepts sharing her body with her former incarnation’s consciousness 720.