Meng Hongchen

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Hongchen Household and Early Training

Meng grows up in Jing Hongchen’s household alongside her older brother, Xiao. When Bao Liang joins them, she enthusiastically shows him around the residence and tells him that his courtyard is next to hers. Before academy enrollment, Jing prioritizes the children’s cultivation and foundational Soul Tool theory over practical research 5 6 9.

The three begin cultivating together under Bao Liang’s Ultimate Flame tempering and shared spiritual-power training. Meng willingly continues the latter despite its embarrassing side effects: overheating, smoke rising from the head, and temporary incoherent babbling 14 15.

After gaining her Second Soul Skill, she undertakes months of hazardous work on a self-created defensive technique. Jing supplies a cushioned training room and healing supervision, Xiao researches Soul Power control for her, and Bao Liang supplies the initial concept and practical advice. Her eighth birthday falls during this development period 23.

Cold Poison

Meng carries a life-threatening cold-poison condition associated with her Martial Soul’s backlash. Jing initially conceals his distress behind assurances that she is healthy; Bao Liang and Xiao subsequently learn how serious her condition is 15 16.

Bao Liang regularly uses Hot Core to treat the backlash. By the tournament finals, her Martial Soul’s ice attribute is approaching Ultimate Ice, while its diminishing fire attribute has become increasingly concentrated rather than simply disappearing 105.

After returning from three months of seclusion, Bao Liang tells her that his master will use the Power of Creation to eradicate the cold poison. He also reports that the Snow Empress has agreed to sacrifice herself to Meng. These are announced arrangements; the supplied account does not show their completion 131.

Apprenticeship and Academy Life

Initially uncertain about her Soul Engineering specialty, Meng receives Bao Liang’s suggestion to seek Ye Yulin’s guidance. She later asks Ye directly to teach her, and he accepts with Jing’s approval 19 39.

Meng, Xiao, and Bao Liang enter the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy through special admission. They share a detached three-story villa with a basement laboratory and gym; Meng takes the top floor and insists that Bao Liang occupy the floor directly beneath hers 45.

Her enrollment emphasizes combat over Soul Tool study, placing her in Class B with Bao Liang. During the academy’s practical rankings, she freezes opponents before they can approach her 52.

Appearance

• Hair: Long silver-white hair, described as cascading like a waterfall 106 117.
• Eyes: Normally icy or ice-blue; blood-red eyes are described during her confrontation with Ma Xiaotao 5 52 118.
• Bearing: Recognized as Class B’s foremost beauty, with an unearthly appearance 52.
• Tournament clothing: Wears a white dress during her individual match against Ma Xiaotao 117.

Personality

Meng is openly affectionate and playful with her family and Bao Liang. She welcomes him into the household, joins him in teasing Xiao, and readily expresses excitement through hugs. Her warmth also appears in small acts of care, such as preparing chilled watermelon for Xiao and peeling fruit for Bao Liang 5 17 105.

She takes training seriously despite initial uncertainty about Soul Engineering. She persists through months of dangerous self-created-skill practice and later teaches an opposing Sun Moon student her temperature-control principles without withholding her methods 19 23 96.

Her attachment to Bao Liang has a possessive edge. She quietly admits wanting to lock him up, becomes furious when he conceals dangerous actions, and is deeply shaken by his prolonged disappearance. Much later, she uses a harmless sleep-inducing drug on him, places a collar on him, and carries him to her room 45 52 131 164.

Against people who threaten him, her protectiveness becomes deliberate cruelty. She targets Ma Xiaotao for involving Xuan Zi in Bao Liang’s attempted capture, using cold and poison to damage her foundations rather than seeking an immediate victory 105 111 112.

Abilities & Skills

Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad

Her Martial Soul combines ice poison and fire poison. Their continual collision and backlash within her body produces its poison attribute 105.

• Poison delivery: Can spread poison as mist, expanding rings, or through wounds inflicted with her weapon 23 111 117.
• Cold control: Freezes terrain, restricts movement, and freezes an opponent’s joints 52 111.
• Temperature precision: Attributes successful penetration of defenses to her understanding and control of cold, not merely superior Soul Power 96.
• Evolution: Its ice quality advances toward Ultimate Ice through compatible Soul Rings; Ultimate Ice itself is not confirmed in the supplied account 105.

Documented Soul Skills

Ice Mirror Projections

Combining Ice Mirror Magic with Glacial Illusory Dream lets Meng mentally trace a person’s appearance and imprint it onto an ice mirror. The resulting projection obeys her commands and can use that person’s Soul Skills which she has mastered 105.

• Capacity: Her spiritual power during the tournament supports at least twenty simultaneous targets at her limit 105.
• Duration and quantity: Both depend on her spiritual strength 105.
• Restrictions: Cannot project Soul Bones; a large spiritual-power disparity can cause imprinting to fail 105.
• Cooperative subjects: Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, Ye Yulin, Bao Liang, and Xiao willingly permit her imprinting. Bao Liang’s cooperation allows her to create multiple projections using his Instant Explosion 105.

Self-Created Repelling Rings

Developed from Ice and Fire Poison Ring, her repelling techniques turn an expanding ring into a defensive force that pushes away threats 23 24.

• Repelling Ice Ring: Wide-Area Diffusion: Emits omnidirectional repulsion and extreme cold; scatters Ma Xiaotao’s combined three-skill phoenix attack 117.
• Repelling Fire Ring: Pushes Ma Xiaotao back and clears her planted Phoenix Roaring Sky Strike, evaporating standing water in its path 117.
• Control: Can adjust the ring’s direction and force 24.
• Development risks: Early failures repeatedly freeze Meng into an ice sculpture, requiring a healer’s intervention 23.

Eighteen Black Dragon Forms

Meng studies Long Xiaoyao’s manual with Bao Liang and Xiao, recognizing combat applications concealed within massage-like movements 66.

• Identifies methods for disrupting surface Soul Power defenses, transmitting force into the body, and controlling joints 66.
• Uses a gentle touch to divert Bao Liang’s Ultimate Flame from its circulation path 66.
• Helps recognize the techniques’ potential to channel Soul Power and treat hidden injuries caused by Ultimate powers 66.

Soul Engineering and Forging

Meng studies under Ye Yulin and explores combining Soul Tools with her ice and fire poisons 37 39.

• Forges the Thousand Refined cold jade metal used in her Battle Armor 69.
• Combines close-combat Soul Tools with freezing and poison to wear down opponents 110 111 112.
• Creates a harmless sleep-inducing drug effective enough to knock Bao Liang unconscious upon inhalation 164.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Crown-shaped head External Soul Bone — Obtained from a mutated Ice Illusion Dream Butterfly with ice, poison, and spiritual attributes. Grants the domain-type skill Glacial Illusory Dream 45.
• Battle Armor — Converted by Jing Hongchen from her full-body Soul Tool set, using cold jade metal she personally Thousand Refined 69.
• Class 8 rapier — A close-combat Soul Tool personally made by Jing. Its cold can suppress Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire; the lack of better ice-attribute materials prevents a higher-class weapon 110.
• Ice-blue Soul Tool hair ornaments — Polished and given to her by Xiao for her eighth birthday 23.

Relationships

• Bao Liang — Childhood companion, cultivation partner, and openly acknowledged fiancé. He helps accelerate her cultivation, treats her Martial Soul backlash, and seeks a permanent cure for her cold poison 15 20 105 123 131.
• Xiao Hongchen — Older brother and frequent target of her teasing. He secretly compiles Soul Power-control notes for her and shields her when Ma Xiaotao unleashes Ultimate Fire 17 23 119.
• Jing Hongchen — Grandfather and principal provider. Funds her training, supervises her health, supports her self-created skill, and personally makes her equipment 21 23 69 110.
• Ye Yulin — Soul Engineering master; accepts her request for apprenticeship and arranges the ceremony 39 40.
• Kong Deming — Senior mentor figure who checks on her health and exposes the children to advanced Soul Tool concepts 35 37.
• Ma Xiaotao — Tournament opponent and personal enemy because of her role in Xuan Zi’s attempt to capture Bao Liang. Meng deliberately attacks her with freezing, poison, and psychological pressure 105 111 117.
• Snow Empress — Intended future power source for Meng. Bao Liang acquires her embryo and later reports securing her agreement to sacrifice herself to Meng 88 131.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament

• Core team member: Joins Bao Liang and Xiao as the Sun Moon Team’s core. The trio handles most round-robin appearances while other members largely remain in reserve 69 81.
• Match against Mingdu Academy: Holds back to teach an ice-attribute opponent, explaining temperature control and demonstrating how her cold poison penetrates defenses 96.
• Final team battle: Intercepts Ma Xiaotao’s attack on Xiao, then repeatedly wounds her with the rapier while cold and poison suppress her Evil Fire 110 111 112.
• Individual match: Controls Ma Xiaotao with repelling rings, Ice Toad Poison, and copied techniques. She later deliberately reduces her output to bait Ma Xiaotao into attacking 117 118.
• Black Phoenix crisis: Surrenders when Ma Xiaotao evolves into a Black Phoenix and launches an Ultimate Fire attack. Xiao shields Meng while Bao Liang destroys the attack and subdues Ma Xiaotao 119.
• Return home: Leaves with the victorious Sun Moon team after the academy’s breakthrough championship over Shrek 121.

Notable Quotes

“The key for an ice-attribute Soul Master isn't how much Soul Power you have, but how precisely you control temperature.” 96

“Do you think I was more worried or more angry after I learned the truth?” 52