Ling Ling

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Build and height: Small and slight; approximately 1.4 metres tall during her outing with Lu Ling 223.
• Hair: Originally dark tea-brown, long enough to hang below her bottom, and usually worn in twin ponytails 65 270.
• White streak: Develops at the centre of her crown during her constitutional transformation. She refuses to dye it because it reminds her of Lu Ling 270.
• Eyes: Dark, described as black or obsidian-like 250 427.
• Clothing: Initially prioritizes practical clothing over appearance. Later outfits include princess-style dresses and a cream-white dress with white stockings and ribbon-tied ponytails 111 428.

Personality

Ling Ling is analytical, blunt, and unusually mature in conversation. She gathers information, devises countermeasures, and readily criticizes distractions during dangerous missions. Her professional confidence is well established before she gains magic: she is already a licensed Hunter Master while still a non-mage 9 28 81.

Her composure breaks when people close to her are threatened. Her father’s death leaves her deeply afraid of losing Lu Ling, particularly after his near-death experiences. She also becomes openly jealous when she feels neglected or excluded, while remaining diligent enough to continue researching Totems years after his original request 65 111 205 270 276.

Her pursuit of strength is tied to two concrete goals: fighting beside Lu Ling rather than waiting behind him, and uncovering the truth about her father’s death 263 337.

Abilities & Skills

Investigation and Monster Research

• Collects intelligence and develops countermeasures for the agency’s commissions 9.
• Helps locate the Scale-Skin Demon Mother during the stadium infestation 33.
• Maintains research on Totem Beasts long after Lu Ling first asks for her assistance 9 270.
• Obtains information about the Black Vatican despite Leng Qing’s attempts to keep her away from its dangers 180.
• Explains the experimental origins of Chaos Duplication and identifies its failure against Long Zhanye’s noble bloodline 379.

Serum and Antidote Research

• Prepares to investigate an antidote when sudden death poison remains inside the manor’s occupants after the Black Vatican operation 183.
• Develops the serum during the Drowning Curse investigation after Lu Ling kills the Vile Maggot that transforms into the Black Sea Pseudo-Dragon 250.

Elemental Magic

• Shadow: One of her three simultaneous awakenings and her first documented element to reach Intermediate Level 263 295.
• Light: Initially manifests as golden light capable of scorching a wall 262.
• Ice: Initially lowers the surrounding temperature; later used to freeze Lu Kun’s preserved blood 262 428.
• Cultivation limit: Mental strength is essential to her spirit-body cultivation. Lu Ling warns that insufficient spiritual development could make her multiple elements a burden 263.
• Further awakenings: None are documented by her Advanced Level breakthrough. Lu Ling’s suggestion that she may have used future awakenings in advance remains speculation 392.

Spirit-Body Physique

• Develops greatly enhanced strength and durability alongside her magical cultivation 280 281 337.
• Her physical advancement is separate from her mage rank: she possesses Servant-level physical strength while her elements are still at Basic Level 280 281.
• Her changing constitution also affects her hair pigmentation 270.

Inherited Supernatural Powers

• Blood blade: Controls her blood and vitality to form an attack she estimates can kill some Servant Level Demon Beasts at full strength 262.
• Red spider lily power: Learns to use Netherworld’s distinctive power under Netherworld’s direct guidance 305 317.
• White rose power: Trains with Shen Xi to control the power associated with white roses 305 317.
• Red Lotus Purgatory: Envelops a target in petals burning with hellfire. Its destructive power is assessed as comparable to Super Level magic even without Lu Ling’s blessing 427.
• Lu Kun’s execution: Uses Red Lotus Purgatory while strengthened by the Power of the Radiant Seal, which enhances her abilities by nearly sixty percent. Lu Ling keeps Lu Kun immobilized with Time Stop throughout the attack 427.

Equipment & Items

• Hunter Master license — Establishes her professional rank despite her young appearance and initial lack of magic 81.
• Binoculars — Used to inspect the distant castle in the Other Shore Flower fields 28.
• Red spider lily — Keeps it while Netherworld is absent and insists that Netherworld will awaken 111 205.
• White rose — Given alongside the returned spider lily by Shen Xi, who says the flowers preserve life. An unidentified blonde girl later sends a golden thread into Ling Ling, making the rose inside her tremble 205 224.
• Thought Stone — A cultivation aid Lu Ling retrieves from the Treasure Hunt Competition’s death zone and gives to her for meditation 337.
• Lu Kun’s blood sample — Freezes and retains it to compare with evidence connected to her father’s final battle 428.

Relationships

• Lu Ling — Hunting partner and later romantic partner. Their working arrangement develops into a close emotional bond; he supports her cultivation, helps expose her father’s murderer, and eventually resurrects Qin Zhan 7 223 224 260 337 427 477.
• Leng Qing — Older sister. Tries to shield Ling Ling from the Black Vatican and is shocked to discover her hidden combat abilities during Lu Kun’s execution 9 180 427.
• Qin Zhan — Father. His death motivates her investigation and cultivation; she embraces him after Lu Ling brings him back to life 337 477.
• Old Man Bao — Grandfather and the person who pairs her with Lu Ling. She openly objects to his smoking, even confiscating his pipe 7.
• Netherworld — Frequent teasing companion who later becomes one of her teachers. Despite their arguments, Ling Ling worries about her absence and tearfully welcomes her return 35 85 111 305.
• Shen Xi — Gives her the white rose and teaches her to control its associated power, emphasizing practical spell training as well as cultivation 205 305 317.
• Yaoyao — Mermaid acquaintance encountered during the coastal investigation; later stays with Ling Ling at their hotel 250 270.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Azure Sky Hunter Agency and Early Expeditions

Old Man Bao assigns Ling Ling as Lu Ling’s partner when he joins the Azure Sky Hunter Agency. Their commissions establish a division of labour: she handles information and planning, while he supplies overwhelming combat strength. One early investigation takes her to the North Country Club during their proposed vampire hunt 7 9.

During an expedition with Asharuiya, Ling Ling enters a castle in the Other Shore Flower fields. A mechanism targets her, and her companions block the attack, but a surviving fragment subsequently pierces Lu Ling’s chest. His injury throws the normally rational Ling Ling into panic 28.

She later accompanies the Scorching Plains expedition, survives the Heavenly Calamity Fire under Lu Ling’s protection, and reminds him to prioritize their search for the Flame Belle over treasure gathering 70.

Ancient Capital and Tianshan

Knowing Lu Ling’s whereabouts and the danger he faces, Ling Ling travels to the Ancient Capital to wait for him. When he finally returns, she breaks down, admitting that she thought he had died 111.

His later near-death experience in the ice crystal palace intensifies that fear. After leaving Tianshan, she remains unwilling to separate from him and eventually explains that she wants him alive, not apologetic. Ding Yumian subsequently uses Psychic Soothe to help her rest 205 206.

Black Vatican and Coastal Investigations

Ling Ling joins the Chongming Island investigation under arrangements made by Leng Qing. After the Black Vatican stronghold falls, she turns her attention to the poison still affecting its occupants 180 182 183.

She later joins the Drowning Curse case, develops a serum, and encounters Yaoyao with Lu Ling. Yaoyao identifies herself as a member of the Mermaid Clan and asks them to save her people 248 250.

Awakening and Training

After gaining Shadow, Light, and Ice, Ling Ling resolves to become someone who can fight beside Lu Ling. Netherworld and Shen Xi teach her to control their inherited powers, while a Thought Stone supports her spiritual cultivation. Throughout this period, she continues privately investigating Qin Zhan’s death 263 305 317 337.

Revenge and Family Reunion

Lu Ling identifies the Red Demon Lu Kun as Qin Zhan’s murderer and takes both sisters to confront him. Ling Ling personally destroys Lu Kun with Red Lotus Purgatory, but the execution does not dispel her grief: killing him cannot bring her father back 427.

She keeps a frozen blood sample to verify Lu Kun’s identity against evidence associated with Qin Zhan’s posthumous Hunter Union commission. Later, after successfully resurrecting Yulai, Lu Ling resurrects Qin Zhan and reunites him with Ling Ling and Leng Qing 428 477.

Notable Quotes

“It also means I can fight alongside you. I won't have to stand behind you waiting for you to return anymore. I can stand beside you instead.” 263

“I don't want an apology! I want you alive! Don't scare me again...” 205