Jin Ling’er — Divine Throne of Primordial Blood

Jin Ling’er, known as the Bewitching Butterfly, is a Bloodline Nobility Clan student whose inherited illusion arts let her charm and control people or beasts. She begins as one of the most feared candidates in the Hidden Dragon Institute entrance examination, becomes Su Chen's friend and consciousness-technique collaborator, and eventually takes an official post suited to her mental abilities.

Biography

Rivalry in the entrance examination

Jin Ling’er is named among the four strongest candidates in the first examination region before appearing in person with a controlled, silver-armored youth. She stops fleeing candidates with a command, converts Pan Yue into a second puppet, and tests Su Chen by making both men attack while she uses consciousness illusions from behind them. The arrangement exploits her specialty: rather than contest an opponent directly, she turns other capable cultivators into weapons and reserves her own attention for disrupting the target's perception. (Chapters 119 and 141–143)

Su Chen identifies willpower as the control technique's decisive limit and refuses to let her keep the initiative. Jade Dew Fragrance strengthens her puppets and fills his senses with false images, but pressure and inexperience make Jin abandon patience and enter his prepared blast zone. Su Chen knocks her unconscious after a delayed explosion. The loss does not become a lasting grudge. Once they enter the Institute, she and Wang Doushan bring him into their social circle, defend him from classmates belittling his absence from competitions, and remain his closest friends among the bloodline students. (Chapters 143–157 and 179)

The Thousand Ashes Gorge and its aftermath

Years later, Jin accepts an invitation to the Thousand Ashes Gorge because the team promises to help her control a high-tier Vicious Beast, a prize that could compensate for her poor arena results. She asks to bring Su Chen and Wang Doushan but ultimately joins without them when the others object to Su's supposed weakness. During the expedition, her desire to secure and control the Giant Adamantine Ape contributes to a conflict that turns deadly. The survivors agree to conceal the human causes of the disaster, but Jin returns believing that her decision may have enabled the deaths and the fracture among their classmates. (Chapters 195–228)

Su Chen later asks Jin to help with a plan against the clans pressuring him and reassures her that he does not blame her for the Ape or the violence that followed. She accepts the assignment and admits how heavily the guilt has affected her. Their conversation also exposes the personal burden of bloodline inheritance: she can imagine marrying a reliable man like Su Chen without romantic love, yet says her status requires her to pass on the clan bloodline and that many nobility clans punish marriage to commoners with death. Her warning helps Su Chen reinterpret Gu Qingluo's earlier rejection as possible protection rather than indifference. (Chapters 234–235)

Institute development and public service

Jin contributes her knowledge as well as her bloodline. She teaches Su Chen a non-bloodline bewitching method and Confusion Technique in exchange for meals, giving him tools he later adapts for interrogation and deception. Su Chen in turn modifies Golden Cicada Shedding into an escape skill suited to a controller whose own direct defenses are limited. Jin is the first student to volunteer blood for his research and steadily improves with the new technique, eventually returning to the Dragon Transformation List and reaching ninety-eighth place despite the arena's poor fit for her style. (Chapters 187, 193, 260, and 264–265)

At graduation, Jin chooses the Mirror Department, which adjudicates cases and can directly use her consciousness expertise. Her later appearances are mostly references to the quality of her control arts rather than scenes of her official work. When Iron Cliff calls Su Chen's old companions together years later, she still answers and joins the gathering, confirming that the friendship survives their separate careers. The corpus does not describe her subsequent mission, cultivation realm, marriage, retirement, or death. (Chapters 341, 396, 426, and 630)

Appearance and personality

Jin is initially a short young woman with a round face, crystal-bright eyes, and dazzling clothing, carrying a small horsewhip. At an Institute celebration she wears a short rose-colored skirt, a red gown with long sleeves embroidered with golden carp, a golden waist cord tied like a rose, and rosy gilded flats that expose her long, pale legs. Her hair is arranged in two ponytails, and her large eyes and slightly upturned nose give her a notably cute appearance. (Chapters 142 and 194)

In combat, colorful clothing, floating movement, and fragrant wind make her resemble the butterfly of her nickname. Her light presentation contrasts with how frightening other candidates find her ability to erase independent action. Early Jin is proud, imperious, and willing to use controlled people as shields, but she is also perceptive enough to identify techniques from other clans and honest enough to acknowledge Su Chen's ability after he defeats her. (Chapters 142–144)

Friendship reveals a more sociable and emotionally vulnerable side. Jin enjoys food, celebrations, and teasing, worries about her competitive standing, and feels genuine remorse when her choices may have harmed others. She can accept an uncomfortable covert role to repair that harm and speaks candidly about the constraints nobility women face. Her later willingness to share techniques and blood with Su Chen shows that the examination rivalry develops into trust rather than remaining a contest for status. (Chapters 157, 187, 194–195, 234, and 264–265)

Abilities and cultivation

Jin specializes in consciousness control rather than direct offense. Her Bewitching Butterfly bloodline supports illusion, charm, command, and a versatile fragrance, while her later escape technique compensates for the danger of being personally targeted.

Bewitching control

Jin can suppress a target's independent will and issue direct commands. At the entrance examination, a touch to Pan Yue's forehead leaves his gaze dull and makes him attack Su Chen without fear; she maintains an already controlled spear user at the same time. The puppets retain their cultivation and Bloodline Origin Skills but lose initiative and adaptability, so they become less flexible than the same fighters acting freely. Jin's style is consequently strongest when she can acquire capable servants before confronting the main opponent. (Chapters 142–144)

Control depends more on willpower than physical strength. Su Chen deduces that Jin cannot simply enslave the strongest candidates because their wills resist her, and the source later describes her techniques as selective compared with the Slyheart bloodline. Maintaining control also occupies a large share of her consciousness energy and hinders cultivation, especially when the target is a Vicious Beast. She can affect beasts, but Zhou Juanjia's more forceful enslavement is better at retaining them long term and can reach stronger targets under favorable conditions. (Chapters 143, 233, 301, and 417)

Jade Dew Fragrance and illusion

Jade Dew Fragrance is a Bewitching Butterfly Bloodline Origin Skill carried on scented wind. Jin can use it to invigorate controlled allies, strengthen their combat performance, and produce false figures or altered sensory scenes around an enemy. At full potential it could influence an entire battlefield, but the young Jin cannot yet draw out that scale. Su Chen initially keeps it away with turbulent force and later survives the illusions by analyzing their limits rather than trying to overpower every image. (Chapter 143)

Her gaze, voice, and surrounding fragrance can also directly disturb consciousness, causing dizziness and making false laughter or images linger even when a target looks away. Strong will, mental techniques, or disrupting Jin before control settles are practical counters. She is vulnerable when an opponent reaches her body: her personal barrier breaks under Su Chen's explosion, and she relies on a puppet to intercept a fatal attack. The corpus does not show her later develop a stronger direct defense. (Chapters 143–144)

Confusion and transmitted techniques

Jin knows a teachable bewitching method and Confusion Technique that do not require the full power of her bloodline. Su Chen learns them from her and uses them to make already restrained targets act on altered perceptions. These versions require extensive setup, continued influence, and sometimes a focusing object; they cannot reproduce Jin's rapid battlefield command. Their later use nevertheless demonstrates that her technical knowledge can be separated from her inherited power to a limited degree. (Chapters 187, 193, 260, and 396)

The corpus does not show Jin personally applying those lower-grade methods after teaching them, nor does it state whether she develops them while working for the Mirror Department. Her established expertise in controlling people makes her well suited to investigation and adjudication, but official uses remain an inference from her appointment rather than narrated feats. (Chapters 341 and 396)

Modified Golden Cicada Shedding

Su Chen gives Jin a modified version of Golden Cicada Shedding because an escape art is more useful to a controller than another direct attack. The original technique leaves clothing behind, while his revision avoids that effect at the cost of a shorter displacement. It is intended to let Jin escape when enemies bypass her puppets and also to improve her performance in formal contests where control options are restricted. (Chapter 264)

Her rankings improve after receiving the technique, moving from outside the Dragon Transformation List to approximately 186th, then 154th, 125th, and finally 98th over successive years. The improvement is shared with continued cultivation and cannot be attributed to the escape art alone. No chapter shows its exact activation, distance, energy cost, or a latest combat use, so those mechanics remain unknown. (Chapters 265 and 267)

Cultivation and battlefield limits

The text consistently treats Jin as a talented Origin Qi Scholar comparable to other elite Institute students, but it does not state her realm at first appearance or her final realm. Her power is much greater in unrestricted encounters than on an arena stage because formal competition does not permit her to arrive with controlled combatants. Even after improvement, rankings therefore understate the threat she poses with preparation and suitable targets. (Chapters 119, 179, 265, and 267)

Her latest direct status is that of a consciousness specialist entering government service. Later comparisons still use her as a standard for strong human control arts but do not document a new bloodline stage, additional controlled servant, or realm breakthrough. Any cultivation after graduation is unresolved in the supplied corpus. (Chapters 341, 396, 417, 426, and 630)

Relationships

Su Chen: Jin begins as Su Chen's strongest early control-oriented opponent, but his victory produces respect rather than resentment. She becomes one of the bloodline classmates who actively includes him, teaches him bewitching techniques, supports his research, and volunteers her blood. He relieves her guilt over the Thousand Ashes Gorge, gives her an escape skill, and uses her warning about marriage rules to understand Gu Qingluo's situation. (Chapters 142–265 and 630)
Wang Doushan: Wang and Jin are fellow bloodline students who repeatedly visit Su Chen together, socialize with him, and defend his reputation. Jin tries to bring both friends into the Thousand Ashes Gorge expedition and later remains part of the same old-student network. Their relationship is close friendship rather than romance in the supplied text. (Chapters 156–195, 264–265, and 630)
Zhang Sheng’an: Zhang recruits Jin for her ability to control a high-tier Vicious Beast and exploits her frustration with arena rankings. She accepts after he refuses to include Su Chen, then becomes burdened by guilt when the Giant Adamantine Ape and Zhang's ruthless decisions contribute to the expedition's collapse. Their alliance ends in distrust and trauma rather than the advancement she sought. (Chapters 195–234)
Ji Hanyan: Ji and Jin are both listed among the entrance region's strongest candidates, but Jin openly treats Ji's resolute will as something her control cannot easily overcome. Ji later freezes Jin during the final examination battle, and coordinated outside attacks are required to free her. They become Institute contemporaries rather than sustained enemies. (Chapters 119, 142–149, and 265)
Gu Qingluo: Jin's relationship with Gu is mostly indirect. By explaining that bloodline clans may require death for marriages that dilute inherited power, she gives Su Chen the missing social context behind Gu's rejection. That disclosure materially affects his decision to pursue Gu again, even though Jin does not participate in their later courtship. (Chapters 234–235)
Zhou Juanjia: Another control specialist whose direct battle of wills contrasts with Jin's charm-based method. Zhou can retain beasts more conveniently and reach stronger creatures under formation support, while Jin's control occupies more consciousness and hinders cultivation. Their comparison defines the practical limits of Jin's bloodline rather than showing a personal rivalry. (Chapters 301 and 417)

Items

The finalized item inventory for Jin Ling’er contains no entries. Her horsewhip and later formal clothing are visual details, while the jade slip carrying modified Golden Cicada Shedding transmits a technique rather than functioning as a persistent signature possession.