Ice Empress

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Alliance with Ye Xiao

The Ice Empress first learns of her future connection to Ye Xiao through the Heavenly Screen, which shows her and the Snow Empress as his Sword Spirits. Although the revelation gives her a favorable impression of him, she later insists that neither she nor the Snow Empress will follow that future by becoming his Sword Spirits 10 25.

When a pillar of light appears near the Far North’s entrance, she accompanies the Snow Empress and four hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpions to investigate. Finding humans threatening Ye Xiao, she urges the Snow Empress to punish them. When told that the intruders are technically outside their territory, she orders a scorpion to move the boundary sign past them. Lin Huiqun, Yan Shaozhe, and Ye Yulin flee, after which the Snow Empress restores the sign 23 24.

Ye Xiao subsequently secures the Far North’s protection and requests help rescuing prisoners held by the Sun Moon Empire. In exchange, he offers the Sword Heart method and the first layer of the Indestructible Sword Body. The Ice Empress accepts the mission, particularly interested in eventually learning to transform her body into Sword Qi 25 26.

Sun Moon Empire Mission

Before traveling to Mingdu, the Ice Empress kills Ye Yulin. Using a strand of Ye Xiao’s Sword Qi, she triggers a hidden weakness in Ye Yulin’s Cloud Sword Art, briefly slowing his Soul Power. She impales him with an ice pincer before he can deploy his Soul Tools, then disposes of his body and collects his belongings 27.

The encounter changes her view of humans. Ye Xiao’s techniques demonstrate their ingenuity, while Ye Yulin’s inactive Soul Tools still feel threatening enough that she recognizes a direct fight could have injured her. She abandons her earlier idea of sightseeing in a human city and prioritizes the rescue 27.

With a map and guard-duty manual supplied by the Plane Consciousness, she infiltrates Mingdu Prison. There, she overhears that the remains advertised as leverage against Ye Xiao are fake. She plans to escape during a shift change but instead takes advantage of the fighting between Di Tian and Kong Deming 27 38 39.

After she seizes Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, a blood-red attack released through Jing Ziyan corrodes her chest. Ye Xishui intercepts her escape and threatens to refine her into a blood slave. The Myriad Demon King joins her, but the two are driven back; Gu Yuena intervenes and removes the prisoners through a spatial rift 39.

The Ice Empress survives with lingering pain and reunites with the Snow Empress after Ye Xishui’s capture. Still resentful of her injuries, she asks permission to strike the captive, but Gu Yuena reserves Ye Xishui’s fate for Ye Xiao 42.

Heavenly Screen Future

The projected Ice Empress is both Ye Xiao’s Sword Spirit and an intimate companion of the Snow Empress. She frequently quarrels with Ye Xiao, objects to his advances toward the Snow Empress, and nevertheless asks him to examine her form so that a reconstructed Sword Qi body will fit perfectly 10 29 30.

These revelations do not establish the present relationship. The present-day Ice Empress angrily denies Ye Xiao’s interpretation that she wants both him and the Snow Empress, declares that her heart belongs to “Xue’er,” and explicitly warns him not to assume that the screen’s intimate future will happen 29 44.

Appearance

• Humanoid form: A small, young-looking girl with emerald-green hair. At their first present-day meeting, Ye Xiao is approximately her height 10 25.
• True form: An Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion 10.
• Miniature form: Can shrink into a tiny scorpion with pincers and a curling tail, which she uses while hiding in Mingdu Prison 39.

Personality

The Ice Empress is proud, outspoken, and quick-tempered. Her territorial protectiveness readily becomes aggression, as shown when she tries to turn a boundary technicality into grounds for attacking Ye Xiao’s pursuers. She disagrees with the Snow Empress’s restraint but does not continue arguing after being corrected 24.

Her attachment to the Snow Empress is openly romantic and possessive. She treats Ye Xiao as a rival for the Snow Empress’s affection, reacts strongly to the Heavenly Screen’s romantic implications, and becomes visibly smug when the Snow Empress embraces and reassures her 29 30 44.

Despite her impulsiveness, she keeps her promises. Even while furious with Ye Xiao and the Heavenly Screen, she continues the rescue mission she accepted. In combat, she can also recognize an unfavorable situation: after being struck through Jing Ziyan, she immediately prioritizes escape rather than confronting the stronger source of the attack 29 39.

Abilities & Skills

Ultimate Ice

• Possesses the Ultimate Ice attribute 27.
• Forms a giant ice pincer capable of piercing Ye Yulin’s body, then dissolves it afterward 27.
• Neither she nor the Snow Empress cultivates the Heavenly Screen’s Cloud Sword Art, because its added attribute offers no benefit to their Ultimate Ice 27.

Transformation and Infiltration

• Changes between her humanoid appearance and a miniature scorpion form 39.
• Suppresses her Soul Power while concealed and observes a nearby battle through the prison walls 39.
• Studies guard rotations and uses outside intelligence to plan a prisoner extraction 27 39.
• Travels toward the Sun Moon Empire by flight 35.

Combat Strength and Limits

• Is stronger than the Myriad Demon King, according to the account of their joint battle with Ye Xishui 42.
• Can potentially escape an encounter with Kong Deming if she avoids a full-scale fight, according to the Snow Empress 26.
• Cannot overcome Ye Xishui even with the Myriad Demon King’s assistance 39.
• Doubts she could match the Heavenly Screen’s True Sting Swarm without her Soul Core, even before accounting for the universal level reset 47.

Proposed Ice–Snow Fusion Skill

• Shares a faint, special connection with the Snow Empress that may allow them to develop a Soul Beast Fusion Skill 38.
• The Snow Empress asks Ye Xiao to help develop it, and he agrees to try after the Ice Empress returns. Its successful creation is not shown 38.

Sword Dao Authorization

• Receives second-level authorization in Ye Xiao’s newly established Sword Dao, alongside Xiao Bai and Wu Qingyao 41.
• This authorization is distinct from becoming his Sword Spirit; she remains independent in the present timeline 25 41.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ye Xiao’s Sword Qi strand — A single-use aid used to activate the weakness in Ye Yulin’s Cloud Sword Art. It is expended during his assassination 26 27.
• Mingdu map and guard-duty manual — Supplied by the Plane Consciousness to support the prison infiltration 27 38.
• Ye Yulin’s belongings — Documents, treasures, and Soul Tools collected after his death. She intends to give the documents to Ye Xiao and recognizes the danger posed by the Soul Tools 27.

Relationships

• Snow Empress — Longstanding companion and the focus of her romantic affection. She calls her “Xue’er,” jealously guards her attention, and seeks comfort in her arms after the Mingdu battle 24 29 42 44.
• Ye Xiao — Present-day ally and frequent target of her teasing and anger; her Sword Spirit host in the Heavenly Screen future. He explicitly prioritizes her safety over completing the rescue mission 10 25 26.
• Ice Jade Scorpions — Far North subordinates who address her as “Your Majesty” and follow her orders, including moving the territorial boundary sign 23 24.
• Plane Consciousness — Provides the intelligence needed for her Mingdu mission, prompting her to wonder about its interest in Ye Xiao 27.
• Myriad Demon King — Initially encountered as Star Dou’s envoy; later fights beside her against Ye Xishui. His intervention moves her as an act of solidarity between Soul Beasts 24 39.
• Gu Yuena — Soul Beast sovereign who agrees to protect her at Ye Xiao’s request and intervenes during the rescue operation 36 39.
• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan — Prisoners she is tasked with rescuing. She continues carrying them away even after the attack released through Jing Ziyan injures her 26 39.
• Ye Xishui — Enemy who injures and corners her during the prison escape, then threatens to turn her into a blood slave 39 42.