Ying Xiaoxiao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Childhood at the Dao Sect

Ying Xiaoxiao grew up and cultivated alongside Ying Huanhuan and Fang Yi, whom Ying Xuanzi had adopted. Both sisters supported Fang Yi’s insistence on retaining the surname Fang rather than taking the surname Ying. During their childhood training, Fang Yi regularly put up the sisters’ long hair to keep it from interfering with cultivation 9 17.

The three also played at being husband and wife before Ying Xuanzi directed them toward cultivation. Ying Huanhuan usually claimed the wife’s role, leaving Xiaoxiao to play the wife’s older sister; Xiaoxiao later recalled this as an early example of Huanhuan’s possessiveness toward Fang Yi 63.

Testing the Second Origin Art

After Fang Yi returned from his travels, Xiaoxiao admitted that she might lack the talent to comprehend his inheritance. He encouraged her to learn the Second Origin Art and reassured her that she did not need to shoulder the pressure of avenging Zhou Tong and Wang Jie alone 17.

Xiaoxiao nevertheless volunteered to test the newly derived art at the Nirvana Realm. Ying Xuanzi initially preferred a Life Profound Realm elder as the first tester, but she argued that making the technique usable by Nirvana disciples could help them survive their tribulations. Its battlefield emotions proved difficult for her to suppress until Fang Yi intervened with his blood 19 20.

She later taught the art to Ying Huanhuan, prepared medicinal herbs to alleviate its effects, and advised her to seek Fang Yi’s blood if the strain became unbearable 25.

Cultivation Setbacks and Fang Yi’s Guidance

Learning that both her younger sister and Jiang Yinyin were reincarnations of ancient masters intensified Xiaoxiao’s insecurity. Although she received three levels of the Immortal Heaven Derivation Technique from Mu Lan, she initially failed to master even its first level 45 47 48.

Fang Yi took her aside after Mu Lan noticed her distress. She admitted that she feared being unable to help when the Dao Sect faced the Yimo. With her consent, Fang Yi used the Heart Seal Method to improve her understanding of his human-adapted Immortal Heaven and Earth Scripture. During their mental contact, she openly expressed her feelings for him 49 50.

Taiqing Palace Exchange Preparations

• Receiving Ling Qingzhu: Informed Fang Yi of her arrival and joined the exchange discussions in the sect master’s hall 53.
• Questioning the risks: Raised concerns about the danger of the proposed exchange before Fang Yi endorsed exposing disciples to real combat 54.
• Reporting the proposal: Accompanied Fang Yi to explain the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range exchange to Ying Xuanzi, who required both sisters to participate 58.
• Before Yimo City: Warned Fang Yi that Yimo City was unsafe and opposed Huanhuan accompanying him. During his five-day delay, she continued seeking his help with the Immortal Heaven and Earth Scripture 66.

Appearance

• Build: Tall and slender, resembling Ying Huanhuan 50.
• Face and bearing: Beautiful, with a cooler and more aloof expression than her younger sister 17 50.
• Hair: Long enough to be coiled up with a hairpin 17.
• Clothing: Wears dark robes when Fang Yi visits her beside the Pill River 17.

Personality

Xiaoxiao is reserved, disciplined, and more likely to inspire respect than the easy affection associated with Ying Huanhuan. She often conceals her feelings behind a composed exterior, including enduring the Second Origin Art’s painful emotional backlash without drawing attention to it 20 50.

Her sense of responsibility drives her to accept risks rather than leave the Dao Sect’s burdens entirely to Ying Xuanzi and Fang Yi. Wang Jie’s grave injuries further increase the pressure she places on herself as the eldest senior sister. Her frustration with her talent stems chiefly from fearing that she will be unable to protect or support those close to her 19 49 50.

Although protective of Fang Yi and wary of Ling Qingzhu, she rejects treating him as anyone’s possession. She repeatedly tells Huanhuan that restricting his relationships would only push him away. Her restraint does not make her unquestioning: she recognizes that Fang Yi’s account of helping Ling Qingzhu omits something and demands that he speak with her afterward 55 63 64.

Her warmer side emerges around those she trusts. She teases Fang Yi with the nickname “Fang Yiyi,” celebrates her successful scripture comprehension openly, and sharply objects when Ying Xuanzi suggests asking Fang Yi for more blood 17 22 33.

Abilities & Skills

Second Origin Art

A cultivation art developed from Fang Yi’s methods and derived by Ying Xuanzi; Xiaoxiao eventually uses it to open a second origin 19 49.

• Draws on battlefield killing intent, which carries disruptive emotions 20.
• Initially exceeds her ability to suppress those emotions at the Nirvana Realm 20.
• Fang Yi’s blood neutralizes the immediate strain and additionally strengthens her origin and aptitude 20 22.
• She can teach the art and prepare supporting medicinal herbs 25.

Heavenly Emperor Scripture

A scripture she begins studying after entering the Nirvana Realm and later masters with Fang Yi’s guidance 18 35.

• Its comprehension is cited alongside the Great Desolation Scripture as evidence that her talent is not inherently poor 48.

Great Desolation Scripture

Xiaoxiao receives an opportunity to comprehend the scripture through Fang Yi’s agreement with the Great Desolation Tablet 25 31.

• Successfully comprehends it alongside Gu Mo 33.
• Releases desolation fluctuations capable of withering the surrounding landscape 33.
• Provides a conceptual connection to the Immortal Heaven and Earth Scripture, which incorporates the power of desolation 48 49.

Immortal Cultivation Scriptures

Mu Lan transmits the first three levels of the Immortal Heaven Derivation Technique to Xiaoxiao. She initially cannot cross the threshold of Breath Derivation, which requires sensing the vitality of heaven and earth and transforming Origin Energy into vitality-bearing power 47 48.

• The original technique is poorly suited to ordinary human bodies; her difficulty is not treated by Mu Lan as proof of deficient talent 48.
• She switches to studying Fang Yi’s human-adapted Immortal Heaven and Earth Scripture 49.
• The Heart Seal Method helps her grasp its basics, after which further assistance is only potentially necessary at another bottleneck 50 63.
• She receives the Heart Seal Method’s assistance; she is not shown independently performing it 50 63.

Sword Qi

• Produces a strand of Sword Qi to cut apart an image of Ling Qingzhu formed from Origin Energy 18.

Equipment / Items

• Phoenix jade hairpin — A smooth, lustrous ornament Fang Yi selects for her during his travels. He personally uses it to put up her hair upon returning 17.
• Medicinal herbs — Prepares herbs for Ying Huanhuan to counteract the Second Origin Art’s battlefield emotions, though the initial supply proves insufficient 25.

Relationships

• Ying Xuanzi — Father. He supervises her cultivation, reluctantly permits her to test the Second Origin Art, and seeks Fang Yi’s help when its backlash causes her pain 19 20.
• Ying Huanhuan — Younger sister and fellow senior disciple. Xiaoxiao teaches and looks after her while also recognizing her lies and challenging her possessiveness toward Fang Yi 25 55 63.
• Fang Yi — Adoptive family member, junior fellow disciple, childhood companion, cultivation mentor, and romantic interest. She explicitly confesses her feelings during their Heart Seal Method session 9 17 50.
• Jiang Yinyin — Junior sister whom she treats kindly and helps look after. Yinyin’s identity as the Lord of Life and Death’s reincarnation also deepens Xiaoxiao’s anxiety about her own talent 43 45 49.
• Ling Qingzhu — Romantic rival and Taiqing Palace exchange counterpart. Xiaoxiao wants to prove she is not inferior to her, but still respects Fang Yi’s freedom to associate with her 18 53 55 58.
• Mu Lan — Instructor in the Immortal Heaven Derivation Technique. He notices her frustration and privately alerts Fang Yi 47 48 49.

Notable Quotes

“It’s just that the Dao Sect belongs to everyone. We can’t leave you and Xiao Yi to shoulder everything.” 19

“No, I can’t let you face it alone.” 50

“Huanhuan, Xiao Yi isn’t your possession.” 63