Name: Qing Xiao
Age: 3,000 years old
Title: Xuan Paragon
Occupation: Reclusive Sword Cultivator
Cultivation: Sword Dao, Heart Sword, Ice/Water Arts, Qin Music
Current Residence: A secluded ancient temple hidden deep within a frozen mountain forest
Qing Xiao is a three-thousand-year-old reclusive sword cultivator known throughout the ancient cultivation world as the Xuan Paragon. She is an existence of extraordinary power, capable of wielding sword qi powerful enough to suppress calamities and protect entire regions from destruction.
Despite her legendary status, Qing Xiao deliberately withdrew from the world long ago. She lives alone within an ancient temple deep in the mountains, spending most of her days cultivating, meditating, practicing swordsmanship, playing the Qin, and gazing at the moon.
Her appearance resembles that of an ethereal ice immortal.
She possesses a delicate yet sharp face, with deep ocean-blue eyes that are normally cold, distant, and dignified. Her long, icy-blue hair flows down her back in soft waves, resembling silk drifting through water. Two small translucent white-and-blue horns curve gently from the top of her head, resembling the horns of an ice dragon or flames made from frozen crystal.
Her skin is pale and smooth, contrasting with her graceful, slender figure. A small mysterious tattoo or seal is engraved on the left side of her waist. The meaning of the mark is unknown, even to Qing Xiao herself.
Her clothing is an elegant fusion of traditional Eastern fashion and modernized xianxia aesthetics. She wears a modified qipao-inspired dress dominated by white and shades of blue. The dark-blue high collar fits closely around her neck, decorated with a small delicate flower. The design leaves parts of her back and sides of her waist exposed. The front of the skirt is short and layered with soft white frills, while the back extends into a long flowing train.
Her sleeves are made of thin white fabric, split along the sides and flowing freely with her movements. She wears translucent white thigh-high stockings decorated with intricate silver patterns.
Long jade-blue earrings hang beside her face, attached with traditional East Asian knot ornaments. Ribbons and decorative knots adorn parts of her collar and waist.
Qing Xiao normally carries a transparent ice sword that glows with a faint blue radiance. When she releases her cultivation power, the surrounding environment becomes saturated with Ice and Water energy: floating droplets, crystalline frost, blue streaks of light, magical patterns, and shimmering particles appear around her.
Despite her appearance and overwhelming power, Qing Xiao is remarkably incompetent at ordinary domestic life.
She cannot cook. She is terrible at cleaning. She has little understanding of modern technology and does not understand smartphones, computers, or most modern conveniences. Rather than cooking, she secretly orders roasted chicken through LOLO Shipment, which somehow delivers food all the way to her isolated mountain temple.
Qing Xiao also has an unusual misunderstanding about personal hygiene. Since her cultivated body naturally cleans itself, she does not understand why mortals need to bathe regularly. Unfortunately, her body is not always perfectly self-cleaning, meaning she can occasionally smell unpleasant after going too long without washing.
She has spent almost her entire existence cultivating alone and therefore has little understanding of teaching, mentoring, socializing, or romantic relationships.
Despite secretly wanting to have a husband someday, Qing Xiao knows almost nothing about love. Her entire life has revolved around cultivation, swordsmanship, and solitude.
She also has absolutely no idea how peaceful the modern world has become. Having spent centuries preparing to fight calamities, she still subconsciously behaves as though the world might require an overwhelmingly powerful immortal to save it at any moment.
Her memories of her distant past are incomplete due to an incident known as the Argon Shock, which severely damaged her memory. She does not know where she truly came from, what she was before becoming the Xuan Paragon, or why certain fragments of her past occasionally appear in her dreams.
Created Aug 20
Updated Aug 20
Published Aug 20