Miao Xin

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Miao Xin trained in competitive gymnastics for ten years and showed considerable talent. A torn ligament ended that path just as she was beginning to achieve recognition. Returning to ordinary schooling proved difficult, and her poor grades limited her further education 188.

Her family initially lived comfortably enough to employ a nanny despite her parents’ frequent work-related travel. A car accident killed her mother, He Yixiang, and seriously injured her father, Miao Mu. Compensation exceeding their insurance coverage consumed their home, savings, and her mother’s death benefit, leaving the family in debt. Miao Xin took warehouse and food-delivery jobs to help support them 127 148.

She was killed while gathering wild chestnut roses beside a highway. Her last memory was a streak of blue light. Su Ming later concluded that Galio had summoned her soul along with Little Spiky Head, but that he himself had initially lacked the ability to inherit the relevant Ghost Mark 25.

The circumstances of her murder remained unclear until Ling Wen’s investigation linked it to the Jackal Organization’s suspected supernatural lightning killings. Su Ming suggested that she might have been targeted for something she would eventually do, rather than anything in her ordinary working life 255.

Appearance

Ghost and Vessels

• Spirit form: A translucent, girl-shaped figure with long hair formed from cyan, ethereal psionic power. Her hair lengthens and spreads when negative emotions rise 158 159 300.
• Little Spiky Head: Her usual Earth-side vessel, capable of human, hunting-dog, and combat configurations. Its combat form has elongated limbs and protruding bone blades 68 82.
• Public disguises: Uses clothing, masks, glasses, makeup, and uniforms to pass as an ordinary person or authorized worker 123 140 204 609.
• Taya vessel: Initially projects into a skeleton pig with soul-fire-filled eye sockets; a forehoof is modified into a five-clawed hand for operating controls 447.
• Manifestation against Xiyu: Appears as a pale, quiet girl whose hair remains motionless in the hurricane and whose clothing allows rain to pass through 646.

Emerald Dream

• Has a delicate, clean-lined face, clear bright eyes, healthy light-tan skin, and short hair close to her ears 647.
• Wears a mechanical right hand, initially concealed beneath a glove; Su Ming later repairs it 647 811.
• Appears in civilian clothing without visible rank insignia when visiting He Ran’s camp, accompanied by heavily armed soldiers 647.

Personality

Miao Xin’s ordinary behavior is unusually warm and independent for a vengeful spirit. Su Ming notices her lack of the coldness and destructiveness normally associated with such undead. Her early obedience gradually develops into open conversation, personal requests, teasing, and disagreement 65 77 83.

Her apparent amnesia is partly an act. After awakening as a dead person bound to another’s commands, she pretends not to remember her life as a form of emotional self-protection. She fears that human authorities will regard her as equipment or a research subject rather than a person 121.

Family attachment and the desire to keep existing are central to her struggle with Nether Sea. She refuses to treat another loss of control as a harmless training failure: to her, it means dying again. Although grief and resentment can destabilize her, she develops enough discipline to recover independently and eventually resist deliberate negative-emotion attacks 158 611.

She is playful, nosy, and particularly enthusiastic about romantic gossip. She enjoys teasing Su Ming about his love life and is perceptive enough to notice implications he would rather leave unexplained. In combat and experimentation, that liveliness becomes confidence and occasional recklessness, including unauthorized modifications and dangerous weapon tests 134 300 447 621.

Abilities & Skills

Nether Sea

An exceptionally deep reservoir of power responsive to Miao Xin’s emotions and understanding. She ultimately distinguishes it from her identity as a vengeful spirit: she is a wraith, but Nether Sea itself is not 158 646.

• Amplifies psionic output, movement, physical attacks, and resistance to damage 122 611.
• Produces sensory tendrils capable of distinguishing Xiyu’s real body from illusions that defeat conventional targeting systems 645.
• Can obstruct another being’s attempt to absorb souls 646.
• Absorbs Alituo’s soul after his death but shows no interest in Aisaikena’s 612.
• Initially threatens indiscriminate slaughter and self-destruction if it overwhelms her reason 122.
• Responds strongly to her sense of personal existence, not merely to momentary emotion 607.

Resentment Marks and Calamity

Her study begins with the incomplete, poorly translated In a Quiet Place. Traces left by Jackal’s Calamity power later provide much of her practical understanding 540.

• Perceives resentment marks and the more common ripples generated by human interactions 183 192.
• Severs unseen nodes to disrupt electrical systems 255.
• Projects misfortune across distance, directly contesting Alituo’s power on the level of rules 612.
• Turns lightning against Xiyu during their battle 646.
• May interfere with radioactive decay and nuclear reactions through quantum fluctuations. This remains theoretical in the supplied account; Sangzi notes that no actual experiment has yet established it 540.
• Precise targeting and control are difficult, limiting scientific testing and selective application 540.

Spirit Manipulation and Mental Interference

• Uses an interference ability while conducting business and passing casual scrutiny 140.
• Suppresses a shopkeeper’s emotions, intellect, and thoughts through Nether Sea, making him answer questions directly 219.
• Uses Resentment Power to incapacitate security personnel 192.
• Reshapes a hippo soul into a decoy and binds it to a pendant using Spirit Binding Technique 227.
• The decoy requires maintenance; without it, its altered form and signature begin reverting after one or two hours 227.

Vessel Control and Physical Combat

Her gymnastic background complements an exceptional aptitude for controlling undead bodies. Su Ming repeatedly finds her physical coordination superior to his own 77 84 188.

• Learns irregular evasive movement quickly, adding changes in speed to defeat machine-gun tracking 68.
• Uses bone blades, thrown weapons, grappling, and acrobatic movement with considerable precision 68 82 84.
• Employs Psionic Power Vision to locate soldiers through smoke and behind cover 68.
• Benefits from an undead vessel’s resistance to tear gas and flashbangs, and can travel along the seabed 68 69.
• Spars with Ruixiuli and other combatants on Taya, gaining experience later used against Alituo and Aisaikena 496 611.
• Can suppress Alituo on Earth while he is restricted by its magic-poor environment; Aisaikena nevertheless retains an advantage in professional blade technique 611.

Cross-World Projection

The modified Vengeful Spirit Mark allows Miao Xin to project her consciousness into a summoned undead vessel on Taya 447.

• Can return to her original Earth-side vessel safely 447.
• Does not bring Nether Sea’s power with her; her available strength depends on the summoned body 447 464.
• Initially relies on translation equipment because she does not know Taya’s language 447.
• Separately serves as the Earth-side anchor for Su Ming’s extraction of material “order.” This does not let her send objects from Taya back to Earth 227.

Piloting and Gunnery

• Trains in real fighter aircraft and becomes formidable enough to defeat flight instructors in simulated air combat 294 447.
• Flies Rainbow Drones through low-altitude reconnaissance and attack missions, including accurately delivering a three-ton bomb into a cliff opening 447 449.
• Operates the Vermilion Bow against the Crystal Dragon, timing shots to its movement and striking its vulnerable abdomen 483.
• Controls Zijin’s upgraded bone dragon against Augustus’s Divine Puppet 557 559.
• Pilots the Yinglong through a supersonic reversal with peak acceleration of 32.3 G, completing a 180-degree turn in just over four seconds 645.

Procurement and Logistics

• Applies her warehouse experience to tracking deliveries, coordinating suppliers, receiving manufactured parts, and managing payments 158.
• Memorizes Vietnam’s train schedules to reduce dependence on internet access during covert travel 116.
• Studies technical material for assignments, while acknowledging difficulty with complex equipment configurations 148.
• Identifies nascent Thought Entities within steam locomotives 159.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Little Spiky Head — Principal Earth-side skeletal vessel, used for movement, infiltration, combat, and disguises 68 123.
• Myriad Phenomena Prism — Gem in the vessel’s eye socket that amplifies range by projecting power and establishing distant connections; it is not itself the source of her detection ability 214 612.
• Skeleton pig — Taya-side body used for reconnaissance support, drone operation, sparring, and everyday interaction 447 496.
• Rainbow Drones and Rainbow Heavy UAVs — Reconnaissance and strike aircraft; she is also assigned a proposed four-aircraft wingtip-towing formation calculated to carry a six-ton long-range combat payload 447 523.
• Type 59 Modified and Vermilion Bow — Platform and weapon used during the attack on the Crystal Dragon 483.
• Upgraded bone dragon — Heavy combat vessel used against the Divine Puppet, equipped with powerful defenses and giant melee weapons 557 559.
• Yinglong mech — Tested and piloted on Earth, then used to intercept Xiyu 607 645.
• Mechanical right hand — Prosthesis belonging to her Emerald Dream incarnation 647 811.

Relationships

• Su Ming — Initially her summoner and “Master,” later her trusted partner, confidant, and frequent target of teasing. He asks her to use his name instead of “Master.” Their Emerald Dream counterparts become lovers and discuss marriage after the war 25 122 300 811.
• Miao Mu — Father. She secretly reconnects with him through a small board-and-card-game platform; his advice immediately improves her covert methods 127.
• He Yixiang — Mother, killed in the family’s car accident. Miao Xin’s deepest wish is to see her alive again, and she later confronts Alituo about responsibility for her death 127 159 611.
• He Ran — Younger sister. Especially protective of her in the Emerald Dream, Miao Xin repeatedly seeks a safer rear-area assignment for her 127 647 809.
• Zijin — Studies Miao Xin’s unusual nature, encourages her developing abilities, and guides the mark modification that enables cross-world projection. Miao Xin affectionately calls her “Sister Zijin” 122 192 447 558.
• Ling Wen — Investigative and operational ally. Shares evidence about Jackal, works with her against supernatural threats, and reluctantly accepts her participation in the Orchid City operation 204 255 609.
• Jin Rongjia — Earth-side official who attempts to supervise and restrict her movements. Often forced to compromise with her determination to act independently 447 608 619.
• Alituo — Enemy she pursues for revenge. His negative-emotion attack fails against her improved control, and Nether Sea consumes his soul after his death 611 612.
• Xiyu — Destiny Level opponent intercepted to prevent mass casualties. Miao Xin uses No Return against him after conventional combat proves insufficient 645 646.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Recovery and Overseas Operations

• Su Ming recovers her near-dissipating ghost at the crash site, reads her final memories, and retrieves her hidden belongings 25.
• She scouts Naval Station Everett, raids a storeroom, survives heavy fire, and escapes by sea 61 68 69.
• Her growing independence and combat skill make her central to infiltrating the test center and obtaining the Mark 71’s records and equipment 77 82 83.

Vietnam Escape and Reclaiming Autonomy

• Survives a space-based strike before an electromagnetic blast precipitates her first catastrophic Nether Sea eruption 122.
• Su Ming repairs their connection, talks her away from attacking the perimeter force, and directs her home to reconnect with her family 122.
• An emotionally provocative control test damages her trust in him. After she explains that losing control means dying again, he apologizes and supports a more careful exploration of Resentment Marks 158 159.

Jackal Investigation and Earth Support

• Becomes an essential procurement and manufacturing intermediary between Earth and Su Ming’s projects 158 204 294.
• Helps identify Diodos during a planned interception and develops Calamity interference after learning of Jackal’s suspected role in her murder 230 255.
• Escapes supervision to assist Ling Wen in Orchid City, then fights Alituo and Aisaikena. Their deaths end her pursuit of Alituo without giving her the personal interrogation she had imagined 608 609 611 612.
• Attends funerals for Orchid City’s fallen personnel and civilians, reflecting that she remains fortunate compared with those who died 619.

Taya Campaigns

• Cross-world projection allows her to join operations directly through a summoned vessel 447.
• Her drone piloting strengthens reconnaissance during the goblin campaign; Katharine’s front destroys thirty percent of nearby supply depots in one day 447.
• Serves as gunner against the Crystal Dragon and controls the bone dragon against Augustus’s Divine Puppet 483 557 559.

Interception of Xiyu

• Takes the Yinglong to intercept Xiyu before he can exploit Typhoon Lupit to cause mass casualties in Qing City 645.
• Identifies his true body among illusions and helps coordinate missile strikes, but his Wind Domain destroys supporting weapons and wrecks the mech 645 646.
• Refuses withdrawal, obstructs soul absorption, manifests Vengeful Spirit Form, and discards the gem linking her to Su Ming before invoking No Return 646.

Emerald Dream

• Appears as a living combatant with a mechanical right hand in an Earth already invaded by Eden. Her initial visit centers on securing He Ran’s safety, rather than showing recognition of the waking-world Miao Xin’s experiences 647.
• Becomes romantically involved with Su Ming after he repairs her hand. They agree to pursue marriage after the war 811.
• Pilots the aging Chilong 002 as bait, deliberately presenting herself as an inexperienced operator to support a plan targeting Nitelai 811 812.

Notable Quotes

“Compared to consciousness, the body really isn't the most important thing.” 540

“I am a vengeful spirit. But Nether Sea isn't.” 646

“I've long since gotten used to soaking in them!”
— Rejecting Alituo’s attempt to overwhelm her with negative emotions 611

Trivia

• Both Miao Xin and Su Ming experience an unexplained shared impression of having been lovers before their Emerald Dream relationship. Su Ming later recalls that moment when the dream depicts them together 466 811.
• In the end-of-volume note, the author describes her as the novel’s second female lead “by a somewhat loose definition” and promises a happy ending in which she does not become undead. This is an authorial preview, not a completed resolution shown in the supplied narrative 649.