Xiao Ye

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Build and face: Petite and youthful, with large, clear eyes, delicate features, slightly protruding ears, and a round face. Qi Ling compares her appearance to a character from a comic 125.
• Usual clothing: Favors a cute style of dress 522.
• Secret-art appearance: Wears black clothing and develops eerie facial markings during the attack on Qian Xunji. Later techniques produce markings across her body, sometimes glowing red 334 1010 1011.
• Winged form: Can manifest a pair of black wings after drawing patterns on her face 395.

Personality

Xiao Ye is mischievous, flirtatious, and persistent. At their first meeting, she blames Qi Ling for failing to catch her fall, demands compensation for her ruined mood, and treats his answering her question as agreement to form a team. She repeatedly calls their encounters fate and readily embraces him, climbs onto his back, or kisses his cheek 125 313 385.

Her playful behavior conceals a calculating leader. She recruits Qian Renxue’s help while hiding that she is the person Qian Renxue has been ordered to arrest, arguing that even enemies can cooperate through shared interests. She also rebukes Ye Lan for allowing personal feelings to distort his assessment of an opponent 314 384 385.

Her commitment to Qi Ling extends to the Night Clan’s future: she tells Uncle Li that strengthening Qi Ling is equivalent to strengthening their own people. Although she can be merciless toward enemies, deliberately choosing a painful way to lift Qian Xunji’s curse, she is willing to sacrifice her abilities to save Qi Ling 529 597 1013.

Abilities & Skills

Night Clan Secret Arts

Xiao Ye masters secret techniques inherited from the Night Dynasty, including methods that greatly increase her combat strength 1010.

• Strength amplification: Her marked transformation temporarily raises her from Soul Emperor to Titled Douluo-level strength 334.
• Flight: By biting her tongue and drawing patterns on her face, she manifests black wings and flies faster than the Law Enforcement Team’s giant bats 395.
• Rapid intervention: Emerges from distorted space to intercept Chu Ling’s attack on Cang Yue. Despite blocking the initial strike, she loses the ensuing clash and is knocked away 891.
• Limitations: Disruption of her sacrificial ritual exhausts her strength, removes her battle markings, and temporarily prevents her from using the Night Clan’s various secret arts 1013.

Assassination, Phantoms, and Spatial Concealment

Her fighting style combines hidden positioning, deceptive images, and lethal dagger attacks 1010 1011.

• Creates an illusory substitute while her real body withdraws into concealment, avoiding Qi Ling’s Nine Heavens Dragon Roar 1010.
• Hides in another space rather than merely concealing herself from sight 1011.
• Can quickly subdue Hu Liena by placing a dagger against her neck 386.
• Countermeasures: Qi Ling recognizes her phantom and uses Space Tremor to force her out of spatial concealment 1010 1011.
• Combat weakness: Against Qi Ling’s fully guarded Divine Dragon Emperor form, she finds no safe opening and recognizes that one successful hit from him could leave her unable to continue 1010.

Restraining Array and Sacrificial Strike

Xiao Ye can immobilize an opponent before preparing a defense-ignoring attack 1011 1012.

• A spiderweb-shaped magic array prevents Qi Ling from moving or activating skills, including abilities that would strengthen his defenses 1011.
• Merges her two daggers into one marked blade while her battle markings glow red and a phantom figure appears behind her 1011.
• Her dagger passes through Qi Ling’s chest without resistance. He identifies the effect as genuinely ignoring defense, rather than simply weakening or penetrating it 1012.
• Stops the blade just short of his heart and releases the restraining array, warning that continuing would kill him 1012.
• Qi Ling’s undying Dragon Soul counters the technique. The disrupted ritual leaves Xiao Ye temporarily unable to use her clan’s secret arts 1013.

Disguise and Perception

• Physical transformation: Disguises herself as a burly man, altering both her body size and facial features before returning to her usual appearance 522.
• Recognition: Recognizes Qi Ling despite a transformation he believes should conceal his identity completely 522.
• Soul Power sensing: Immediately notices that Qian Renxue has lost both her Soul Power and Martial Soul 529.
• Obscured vision: Xiao Ye and Xiao Ming can see the tournament battle clearly through dense smoke 325.

Treasure Hunting and Ruins Exploration

Xiao Ye identifies treasure hunting as Sleepless City’s other specialty alongside assassination, explaining that many Night Clan secret arts were created for recovering treasures from ruins and ancient tombs 874.

• Uses Sleepless City’s discovery of island ruins to pursue rewards comparable to those of an SSS-rank monster 874.
• Performs a complicated sequence at the ruins’ entrance to reveal and open a previously invisible golden gate 876.
• Enters the ruins with Qi Ling and Xiao Ming, keeping the exploration party small to reduce mistakes 876.
• Later seeks Qi Ling’s help—and his providence—to explore deeper layers of the Night Clan’s own ruins 994 995.

Curse Removal

• Removes Qian Xunji’s curse using black flames 597.
• Deliberately chooses the most painful available method, burning away his usable Soul Power for a year 597.

Piloting

• Pilots Qi Ling’s Vimana through Hell Road, maneuvering through a swarm of more than a thousand bats 391.
• Later uses a flying craft to rescue Tang San and Hu Liena from the collapsing Hell Road 399.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Night Owl and Night Kite: Twin assassin daggers that change form and color to match their surroundings. One can disappear and produce an unexplained cut in Qi Ling’s clothing; he senses that their attacks could injure his body despite its defenses 1010.
• Merged dagger: Combines both weapons into a single blade bearing markings similar to those on her body for her sacrificial strike 1011.
• Soul Tool: Stores and transports the crystal coffin containing Qi Ling when she returns him to Shrek Academy 529.
• Angel’s Key: Takes possession of it during the ambush on Qian Xunji 334.
• Recovery potions: Exchanges for dozens of bottles to restore Qi Ling’s stamina, then force-feeds them to him while complaining about his concealed identity 874.

Relationships

• Qi Ling — Trusted ally and romantic pursuer. She calls him her destined partner and “my king,” believes he will fulfill her clan’s dream, and ultimately prioritizes helping him win over winning herself 323 529 1013.
• Ye Jiangming / Xiao Ming — Deeply trusted subordinate and powerful assassin who accompanies Xiao Ye in the attack on Qian Xunji, ruins exploration, and later competitions 334 836 864 876.
• Uncle Li — Senior subordinate and adviser. He assists her operations and challenges her decision to strengthen Qi Ling’s forces, but accepts her judgment 334 529.
• Ye Mingzhu and Ye Mingyue — Twin subordinates who accompany her, carry out covert tasks, and scout around the island ruins 385 389 876.
• Ye Lan — Trusted subordinate with unreturned romantic feelings. Xiao Ye repeatedly rejects the possibility of a relationship and reprimands his jealousy-driven hostility toward Qi Ling 314 336.
• Qian Renxue — Initially an enemy tasked with arresting her, later a trusted friend and ally. Xiao Ye first wins her cooperation without revealing her identity; their shared opposition to the Divine Court later removes the conflict 385 395 529.
• Xiao Wu — Helps her escape Qian Xunji and jokingly calls her a little sister-in-law after learning that she is Qi Ling’s adopted sister 334 335.
• Qian Xunji — Enemy tied to Sleepless City’s longstanding grudge. Xiao Ye helps ambush him, takes the Angel’s Key, and later painfully removes his curse while leaving him without usable Soul Power for a year 334 336 597.
• Xiaoyu — Treats her warmly and defends her when Hao Long dismisses her ability based on her appearance 864 867.
• Kurumi — Regards her with caution, recognizing that her pleasure-driven approach to the competition makes her especially dangerous 864 874.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Meeting Qi Ling and the Wolf Walk Mercenary Group

Xiao Ye meets Qi Ling by falling from above him, then persistently follows him until they form a team to search for the Twin-Tailed Money Rat. He agrees to keep any Soul Bone they find and pays her one Gold Soul Coin 125 126.

Their search brings them into conflict with the Wolf Walk Mercenary Group. Xiao Ye eventually admits that she has a major grudge against the mercenaries, and Qi Ling agrees to help. They split up to divide their pursuers; when he finds her again, she is waiting leisurely with fresh blood on her shoes, claiming she merely shook off her opponent 131 132.

After receiving news of Meng Jie’s death, Xiao Ye remains temporarily with the Twin-Tailed Money Rat while Qi Ling returns to investigate the forest. She decides to follow him 133.

Soul Master Tournament and the Ambush on Qian Xunji

Xiao Ye reappears as the Night Raid Team’s captain and reveals her Six-Ring Soul Emperor cultivation. Before her team faces Qi Ling’s Qilin Team, she withdraws, saying that he cannot yet defeat her but must not lose—even to her—because he is her king 313 323.

She later joins Xiao Ming and Uncle Li in a prepared ambush on Qian Xunji. While Uncle Li’s ninth Soul Skill, Great Dark Heaven, conceals the battle, the group injures and seals Qian Xunji, and Xiao Ye emerges holding the Angel’s Key. They also help Xiao Wu escape 334.

At their forest hideout, Xiao Ye confirms that her organization is Sleepless City. When Ye Lan urges her to kill Qi Ling, she instead orders him outside to patrol 336.

Slaughter City and Hell Road

Xiao Ye persuades Qian Renxue and Jian Lan to assist her investigation while concealing her identity from Qian Renxue. Under the name Night Demoness, she earns seventy-eight Hell Slaughter Arena victories over the following year, ahead of Qi Ling’s seventy-two 385.

She stalls the King of Slaughter until the Ye sisters signal that their task is complete, then refuses his offer to remain. During the escape through Hell Road, she pilots Vimana, fights the Law Enforcement Team in her winged form, and eventually rescues Tang San and Hu Liena as the road collapses 389 391 395 399.

Supporting Qi Ling Against the Divine Court

Disguised as a burly man, Xiao Ye guides Qi Ling to a Sleepless City hideout. Although she warns that entering the Divine Temple is a trap, she supports his attempt to rescue Bibi Dong with a detailed map and information about a hidden room on the third underground level that could save him 522 523.

She subsequently brings Qi Ling back to Shrek Academy in a crystal coffin and gathers his most trusted companions before revealing him. Rejecting Uncle Li’s concern about strengthening another faction, she declares that their clan’s future is bound to Qi Ling’s success 529.

Xiao Ye also introduces him to Yu Tianyi after Sleepless City secretly rescues fewer than a hundred Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members. Later, she returns with Uncle Li and Bei Na to reinforce Dragon’s Glory City, then fulfills the agreement to remove Qian Xunji’s curse 545 569 597.

Island Competition and Ancient Ruins

During the island competition, Xiao Ye invites Qi Ling, then using the name Bai Di, to join Qian Jiyin’s hunt for an SSS-rank monster. She and Xiao Ming take two places in the eight-person lineup against the Sword Demon 864 867.

After Qi Ling’s identity is exposed, she restores his stamina and proposes exploring ruins located by Sleepless City. She enters with Qi Ling and Xiao Ming; in the ninth trial, she drinks tea that diminishes her sense of existence, facing the possibility of disappearing if she cannot endure it 874 876 882.

She later intercepts Chu Ling’s attack on Cang Yue and joins the group surrounding him before he escapes 891 892.

Night Clan Ruins and the Duel with Qi Ling

Returning to Dragon’s Glory City, Xiao Ye explains that the Night Clan has opened only the outermost layer of its ancient ruins. She asks Qi Ling to help explore deeper, hoping to borrow his providence 994 995.

In their later duel, she combines disappearing daggers, a phantom, spatial concealment, and a restraining array before using her defense-ignoring sacrificial strike. Qi Ling’s Dragon Soul counters her technique, and the disrupted ritual leaves her exhausted and temporarily unable to use her clan’s secret arts 1010 1011 1012 1013.

Xiao Ye concedes, explaining that her true objective was to help Qi Ling win and confirm his growth. Despite having lost two matches, she subsequently qualifies for the next round through the substitute contest 1013.

Notable Quotes

“Even if I'm not a good person, I absolutely won't hurt you!” 131

“But Qi Ling, you can't lose. Not even to me, because you're my king.” 323

“That's because our clan's dream will be fulfilled through Qi Ling! So the stronger he becomes, the stronger we become!” 529

“My only goal was to help you win!” 1013