Xu Jintang

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Xu Jintang is a transmigrator who arrived in an interstellar world after finishing her postgraduate entrance examinations. She took over the body of a fifteen-year-old girl who had died from an acute illness caused by malnutrition. Her initial confusion resulted in a blank examination paper and an unprecedented schoolwide score of zero 1.

She then applied her previous study habits to learning about interstellar society and trained her body daily. Within one semester, she rose to first place in her class’s theory examinations and became both class monitor and practical combat class representative. Jiang Lu attributed her changed temperament to her recovery from serious illness, unaware of the transmigration 1 7.

Her awakening appeared disappointing: despite being a rare domain-type ability, Domain Slow was considered useful mainly for support. Her encounter with the Ice Soul Dragon changed its prospects. In exchange for shelter in her sea of consciousness, the dragon helped strengthen her, bestowed an ice attribute, and awakened her second ability 1 4.

Appearance

• Natural appearance: A delicate-looking young girl; her youthful appearance sometimes leads merchants and adventurers to underestimate her 4 49 273.
• Disguised appearance: Her disguise mask can change her face, skeletal frame, and voice, allowing her to appear as a tall, striking, mature woman 49.
• During dragon possession: An ice-blue dragon phantom appears behind her, blue light flickers in her pupils, and scales cover her arm 337.

Personality

Xu Jintang is disciplined and persistent. She rebuilds her academic standing through intensive study, exercises daily, and continues cultivating after gaining recognition. During the bamboo-cottage trial, she refuses to accept that an opponent copying her abilities is unbeatable, instead maintaining a measured attack rhythm until differences in judgment expose the disguise 1 196 276.

Her combat pragmatism extends to deception, misdirection, and exploiting weaknesses. She targets Xu Bohan’s unprotected head, feeds an opposing team misleading information through a released prisoner, and openly rejects Yang Tuo’s demand for an honorable one-on-one fight. Provocations do not always distract her, however: against the Prosperous Age Women’s Team, she follows the planned fighting order rather than entering early 24 44 61 121.

She is protective of her companions but sometimes takes risks beyond her strength. Seeing Song Duoduo injured drives her to burn dragon blood power against Xu Bohan, while secretly remaining with the military earns reprimands from Miao Ruijia, Luo Yingtong, and Zhuang Silin. When confronted by her teachers, she often admits fault immediately 25 91 97.

Abilities & Skills

Domain of Ice

Originally awakened as Domain Slow, her domain acquires its ice attribute from the Ice Soul Dragon rather than through an unexplained natural evolution. Xu Jintang presents it publicly as ability evolution to conceal the dragon’s existence 4 21.

• Domain perception: Detects detailed changes throughout the affected area without relying on eyesight, including people behind solid pillars. She also uses it to scout for danger and retrace an escape route 1 37 96.
• Slowing and freezing: Initially impedes movement. After its development, enemies at her tier or below freeze immediately upon entering the domain; she can deliberately thaw them afterward 6 92.
• Ice construction: Creates shields, walls, platforms, and glaciers for defense, movement, and disrupting an opponent’s footing 149 182 319.
• Large-area cooling: Freezes the ground within a ten-li radius to counter extreme heat during a military assessment 217.
• Limits: Early forced activation consumes substantial mental power and risks exposing the dragon’s aura. Stronger enemies can break her restraints, overpower her techniques, or melt her ice 8 21 150 186 279.

Named Techniques

Tilting Scales

A star-attribute artifact-type ability manifested as silvery-white scales surrounded by starlight. Its artifact spirit, Jin Xiaobao, states that he appeared with the ability at her birth 4 147.

• Group enhancement: Raises affected allies’ mental power by one tier for twenty minutes 155.
• Group suppression: Forcibly lowers affected enemies’ mental power by one tier for twenty minutes 155.
• Inscription affinity: Its star attribute qualifies Xu Jintang to become an inscriptionist 4.
• Early activation: Jin Xiaobao enables her to summon it before the fifth tier, which she would otherwise need to reach first 147.
• Limits: Before reaching the fifth tier, she reports being able to use it only once before waiting. Jin Xiaobao can also exhaust his available energy through repeated assistance 154 279.

Dragon Bone and Blood Power

The Ice Soul Dragon’s transformation strengthens Xu Jintang’s entire body. Her speed and strength increase severalfold early on, and later infusions continue improving her close-combat capabilities 6 73 278.

• Enhanced physique: Reaches third-tier physical strength while still at first-tier peak, then sixth-tier toughness after her fifth-tier breakthrough 73 278.
• Power release: Burns dragon blood energy to increase striking force and destructive power 25 150 276.
• Ranged physical force: After her fifth-tier breakthrough, a punch through the air breaks a thick tree trunk without direct contact 278.
• Dragon pressure: Uses the Ice Soul Dragon’s aura to intimidate Ji Nanqing’s Frost Demon Bear 169.
• Sealed reserves: The dragon initially seals ninety percent of the dragon bone’s power because she cannot safely absorb it 278.
• Possession limit: The Ice Soul Dragon can take over her body, but she senses that her body cannot sustain the resulting high-energy state indefinitely 337.

Ability Trait Assimilation

Xu Jintang learns to circulate her ice power inward, filling her body with the attribute rather than directing it solely outside herself 159.

• Strengthens her released ice power and enlarges Ice Blade Storm’s coverage 159.
• Later produces denser mist alongside ice lotuses and an expanded Ice Blade Storm 182.

Inscription Crafting

Xu Jintang begins with basic inscriptions and develops an independent professional identity as Qian Duoduo 5 154.

• Known products: Defensive, healing, attack, teleportation, and Tracking Inscriptions 5 8 65 154.
• Crafting requirements: Engraving requires uninterrupted mental-power flow, concentration, and error-free formation lines 5.
• Ability development: Inscription-making strengthens her Scales Ability 5.
• Instruction: Corrects Xue Zhongqi’s work and provides paid advice on Tracking Inscriptions 80 102.
• Commercial contract: Agrees to deliver sixty Tracking Inscriptions to the Federation Ordnance and Equipment Depot within three months for four million star coins 154.
• Documented gap: Admits she has never taken a class in inscription repair during the Inscription Master Competition 130.

Close Combat and Tactical Leadership

• Weak-point targeting: Applies the Ice Soul Dragon’s beast-hunting instruction to human opponents, notably exploiting the uncovered head left by Xu Bohan’s Metal Hardening 24.
• Rear-line disruption: Defeats Wei Zixuan, Qin Shuxue, Yan Zitao, and Mu Guang in a training fight without using her ice ability, demonstrating how melee fighters can eliminate vulnerable teammates 102.
• Resource coordination: Splits teammates into supply-gathering groups and helps recruit neighboring cabin teams into a defensive coalition 65 200.
• Illusion analysis: Recognizes that identical techniques do not imply identical thought processes, allowing her to pass the bamboo-cottage test 276.

Equipment & Items

• Spatial bracelet — Stores weapons, inscriptions, identification, disguises, and supplies 8 22 92.
• Disguise mask — Alters her appearance, build, and voice. Ability users below the sixth tier cannot see through its effect 49.
• Ruby sleeve crossbow — Concealed ranged weapon firing flame-wrapped bolts. She later crafts living spirit alloy arrowheads that penetrate more than five centimeters into a reinforced villa wall 44 64 114.
• Heaven and Earth Token — Secretly retrieved from a crystal coffin and bound to herself. It offers protection in the Tongbao Spirit Realm and can open that realm early 96.
• Phantom Darts — Concealed weapons used to intercept incoming projectiles 285.
• Lucky Bamboo — Shattered by the Giant Mammoth during his attack on her 337.
• Snow Crystal Jujube — Acquired as a sealed thousand-year Snow Jujube; the Ice Soul Dragon reveals its mutated identity after removing the seal 249.

Relationships

• Ice Soul Dragon (“Brother Long”) — Resident of her sea of consciousness, mentor, and source of her ice attribute and dragon-enhanced physique. His pursuers make concealing his presence essential to her safety 1 4 7 337.
• Jin Xiaobao — Artifact spirit of Tilting Scales. His argumentative manner contrasts with his willingness to help her activate the ability 147 154.
• Thunder Dragon King — Later companion within her sea of consciousness; contributes dragon bones and blood and assists when she faces an overwhelmingly stronger attacker 278 279 337.
• Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx — Companion used for reconnaissance and assistance. Disguises himself as a parrot while staying with her 174 249 273.
• Jiang Lu — Dawn Academy homeroom teacher who continues supporting her after her disappointing awakening. Remains in contact during her military-academy competitions 5 13 307 325.
• Zhuang Silin — Leikedasi teacher, early recruiter, and supervising mentor. Encourages her development while reprimanding dangerous unauthorized actions 21 22 48 97 140.
• Xue Zhongqi — Experimental-class teammate and fellow inscriptionist. Hires the disguised Qian Duoduo without realizing she is Xu Jintang, then learns the truth with their classmates 79 80 154.
• Jiang Shiyi — Teammate and sparring partner. Helps prepare the way for Xu Jintang’s victory over Jiang Yingying; their later sixth-tier spar ends in a draw 123 307.
• Song Tianqi and Yan Yuting — Experimental-class teammates and Mask Squad companions. Xu Jintang helps restore cooperation among the five teammates before the Military Academy League 98 188 265.
• Song Duoduo — Dawn Academy teammate and friend. Her injury provokes Xu Jintang’s fierce retaliation against Xu Bohan 13 25 265.
• Wei Zixuan — Joint-examination ally who calls her “Sis.” Their partnership later becomes a friendly rivalry, and she helps train his team 35 44 100 102.
• Xu Bohan — Rival for practical combat class representative. Repeated defeats and their violent assessment clash turn the rivalry into open enmity 5 6 24 25.
• Yu Wanyao — Examination rival and later training partner. Defends Xu Jintang against Yang Tuo’s unsupported accusations before subsequently competing against her 43 65 102.
• Gu Xiuwen — Military acquaintance who helps expel the Giant Mammoth’s energy from her body and amplifies her during the Ice Soul Dragon’s possession 289 294 337.
• Lin Qinglang — Government contact to whom she reveals her real identity and both abilities to establish legitimate inscription-supply cooperation 154.

Story Role / Major Arcs