Jiang Shiyi

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Jiang Shiyi comes from the family that owns Myriad Treasures Pavilion. Her wealth gives her ready access to its goods: Song Tianqi explains that she can simply take what she needs, and Xu Jintang recalls her previously producing a free-purchase card 73.

Leikedasi admitted her through special recruitment. She had skipped a grade and entered one intake before Xu Jintang’s group, despite being the same age as them. When Zhuang Silin established the experimental class, Jiang Shiyi agreed to delay advancing to the second year so she could participate in the Military Academy League with the new class 71 72.

Her temporary placement at Dawn Star Academy was a disciplinary measure. Two months before Zhuang Silin’s visit there, Jiang Shiyi had broken another student’s bones in an unauthorized campus fight, reportedly after verbal provocation. The academy punished her for knowingly violating its rules, although the transfer was widely understood as lenient treatment of a gifted student 19.

At Dawn, she lived beside Xu Jintang and attended classes as a visiting student, exempt from the academy’s assessments. Because its lessons offered little benefit at her level, the administration did not strictly regulate her attendance; she preferred cultivating independently to attending its practical combat class 9 12.

Appearance

• Hair: Long, sleek, jet-black hair, usually falling over her shoulders; she later wears it in a high ponytail 9 164 193.
• Face and expression: Fair complexion, a slender face, and a typically cool, composed expression 122 193.
• Clothing: Introduced wearing black clothes that visually blend with her dark hair 9.
• Competition disguise: Wears a ghost mask as a member of the Mask Squad 122.
• Combat silhouette: Her enormous shoulder-mounted rocket launcher makes her figure appear especially petite 76.

Personality

Jiang Shiyi is reserved, direct, and economical with words. Her first exchanges with Xu Jintang and Song Duoduo are brief, and she shows little interest in sustaining Xu Bohan’s cafeteria conversation. Her refusal to attend an unhelpful lesson comes without an attempt to soften the explanation: she does not want to waste time 9 12.

She treats demanding training matter-of-factly. She describes hundred-kilogram cross-country runs, battles against higher-tier demonic beasts until mental-power exhaustion, and nightly beatings from a peak sixth-tier physical-training teacher as “that’s all.” She also maintains a regular morning exercise routine 71 79 193.

Her composure does not mean indifference to her teammates. Moved by Yan Yuting’s willingness to risk injury, she volunteers for the next tournament match. Against Jiang Yingying, she spends her remaining mental power weakening the opponent for Xu Jintang rather than revealing her ability and breaking the team’s concealment rule 122 123.

She dislikes hypocrisy, openly condemning people who claim to hunt the Ice Soul Dragon for humanity’s protection while pursuing its flesh and blood for personal advancement. Defeat can also trouble her: being eliminated by the weaker Liao Ruyi leaves her unusually conflicted 17 321.

Abilities & Skills

Superpower Rocket Launcher

Jiang Shiyi’s ability manifests as a large shoulder-mounted launcher powered by mental energy. Its explosive firepower can force several opponents to scatter and sustain pressure across an arena 76 295 296.

• Area suppression: Uses successive explosions and their smoke to restrict movement and disrupt enemy formations 76.
• Sustained pursuit: Bombards mobile opponents without needing to chase them physically, as demonstrated against Jiang Baimu’s spatial movement 182.
• Mental-power cost: Prolonged barrages and combination attacks can exhaust her reserves, particularly across consecutive matches 123 167.

Hail of Bullets

Fires twenty superpower shells in succession, each producing a small-area explosion upon striking an obstacle 76.

• Forces multiple enemies to evade simultaneously 76.
• Destroys Jing Lei’s approaching Stasis Card Command before it can immobilize her 165.
• Forms one component of her Superpower Rocket Launcher Combination Skill 165.

Charged Cannon / Energy-Concentrating Cannon

Her Charged Cannon loads the launcher with energy and fires three explosive charged shells in succession, with power exceeding the peak of the fourth tier 148.

• Blasts shallow craters into a refined-iron arena 148.
• Uses Energy-Concentrating Cannon shots to destroy incoming tracking sleeve arrows 165.
• Turns cannon recoil into emergency movement, launching herself clear of Jiang Yun’s converging attacks 167.

Superpower Rocket Launcher Combination Skill

Combines Hail of Bullets, Energy-Concentrating Cannon, and Superconducting Rocket Launcher, multiplying their explosive destructive power 165.

• Unleashes an arena-wide barrage that forces referee Li Xiang to shield Jing Lei, securing Jiang Shiyi’s victory 165.
• Was still unfinished during her fight with Jiang Yun; using it completely exhausted her mental power 167.
• Provides a precedent for Xu Jintang’s own technique combining Ice Lotus and Ice Blade Storm 182.

Single-Gun Soul-Seizing Cannon

Her sixth-tier skill delivers a precise, concentrated-energy strike. After hitting, it can briefly strip the target of soul consciousness and leave them unable to fight 296.

• Its charging energy makes nearby Yan Yuting and Xue Zhongqi feel as though their souls are being pulled away 296.
• Xu Jintang’s consciousness remains unaffected during their test, puzzling Jiang Shiyi 296.
• Clashes with Xu Jintang’s sixth-tier Frost Blast in a sparring draw; both acknowledge that the other held back 307.

Physical Strength and Mental-Power Control

• Strength test: Records a punch of 2,000 jin while at the fourth tier 74.
• Barehanded combat: At the sixth tier, punches Glacier Military Academy’s three competitors out of the arena in under two seconds, with Song Tianqi assisting 311.
• Rank-based suppression: Defeats the third-tier Wen Ruyue without using her innate ability, relying on superior mental power and a magical launcher 122.
• Technical understanding: Distinguishes a pure domain ability from a later-developed domain skill and offers to explain Ability Trait Assimilation to Song Tianqi 123 159.

Limitations and Counters

• Consecutive matches: Mental-power depletion contributes to her concessions against Jiang Yingying and Jiang Yun 123 167.
• Immobilization: Jing Lei’s concealed Stasis Card Commands present a serious threat because even a brief restraint could create a decisive opening 165.
• Hidden attackers: Liao Ruyi repeatedly ambushes her through shadows. His Night of Shadows prevents her from seeing and extinguishes the light she produces with her launcher, leading to her elimination 318 321.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Magical rocket launcher — A separate weapon chosen because it resembles her innate ability and feels natural to use. It allows her to fight while the Mask Squad conceals its abilities 116 122.
• Critical-hit and explosion inscriptions — Fitted to the magical launcher to enhance its attacks and explosive coverage 123.
• Ghost mask — Conceals her identity during the Ability User Competition 122.
• Myriad Treasures Pavilion free-purchase card — Produced before her teammates learn that her family owns the business 73.
• Fire Spirit Rabbit cub — Purchases the timid, first-tier cub for 150,000 star coins at the underground black market; it has not yet bonded with an owner when offered for sale 125.

Relationships

• Xu Jintang — Neighbor at Dawn Star Academy, later classmate, captain, and frequent combat partner. Jiang Shiyi recommends her talent to Zhuang Silin, helps prepare tournament victories, and eventually spars with her at the sixth tier 9 19 123 182 307.
• Song Tianqi — Teammate who addresses her as “Sister Shiyi” and becomes noticeably more obedient around her. She bluntly corrects his overconfidence, trains alongside him, and offers to explain difficult ability theory 12 71 159.
• Yan Yuting — Classmate and teammate whose risky tournament performance moves Jiang Shiyi to volunteer for the next match. They also shop together, and Yan Yuting seeks her advice on formal clothing 122 193 263.
• Xue Zhongqi — Experimental-class teammate. His grappling hook helps pull her clear of a coordinated attack during the championship 71 184.
• Zhuang Silin — Instructor and experimental-class homeroom teacher. Jiang Shiyi accepts her proposal to remain a first-year student for the class and the Military Academy League 71 72.
• Liao Ruyi — Military Academy League opponent whose shadow techniques overcome her despite her greater raw strength; the loss bothers her afterward 318 321.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Experimental Class

Ability User Competition

The experimental-class team enters under masks, initially using magical treasures and inscriptions instead of its recognizable abilities. Jiang Shiyi competes under the name Ruthless Killer, though an earlier introduction uses Aloof Killer 107 115 122.

Her cold stage presence and explosive combat style make Ruthless Killer one of the Star Network’s top five most popular competitors during the tournament 164.

Factory Investigation

• Investigates Alice Pharmaceutical Factory with Xu Jintang’s group to trace substandard drugs 238.
• Accompanies Xu Jintang to investigate Wang Xiaohong’s private lounge, where their universal access card fails 238.
• Cautions that suspicious circumstances do not yet prove Wang Xiaohong is responsible for replacing the drugs 238.

Military Academy League