Leng'Er

Leng’Er is the damaged spirit whom Ling Chen meets in the Forest of Bones and names after she binds their lives through a Soul Sacrifice Contract. The Underworld Blood Lake later reveals that she is Ming Xiao Chan, or Chan’Er, the Underworld King’s daughter and sole royal successor, though her missing soul fragments prevent her from recovering most of that identity by Chapter 850. (Chapters 199–200, 636–670, and 843–844)

Biography

Heart’s Dream and the First Guild

Leng’Er survives the destruction of the Warring Palace Skeleton by using her second and final Soul Sacrifice Contract on Ling Chen. The involuntary bond makes her level follow his, transfers damage inflicted on her to him, and ties her continued existence to his life, but it does not compel obedience. She initially watches him with fear, hatred, and distrust, unable or unwilling to supply a name, so he calls the cold-eyed half-spirit “Leng’Er” and accepts that protecting her is now necessary for both of them. (Chapters 199–200)

Ling Chen discovers that dolls reach Leng’Er more effectively than commands. New toys overcome enough of her fear for her to enter his Pet Dimension voluntarily, and repeated visits to the toy store teach her to follow him without being summoned or threatened. Stories then become a second source of security: she rests on a bed of dolls while he reads, gradually associating the person who killed her former guardian with warmth, attention, and the outside world rather than the isolation of the Eerie Castle. (Chapters 199–204)

The Road South and the Fairy Realm

During the journey south, Leng’Er becomes Ling Chen’s constant audience and companion. He tells stories until his voice is exhausted, while she rides with a doll and listens closely enough that stopping becomes difficult. This routine raises her trust, but the underlying relationship mechanic makes later gains increasingly slow; affection is not automatically produced by the contract. Her repeated requests can distract him from combat, and at this stage she still may decline to help even while watching him fight. (Chapters 222, 229, and 232)

Reaching a new level strengthens Darkness Spike, Darkness Lock, and Underworld Lock and unlocks Sin Lock, while sufficient trust finally makes Leng’Er more willing to follow battle instructions. The Fairy Forest also reveals development outside statistics: she marvels at its beauty, speaks in longer phrases, and directly asks for another story. Listening and conversation are therefore rebuilding verbal ability that her damaged soul had lost, even though her past, real name, and family remain inaccessible. (Chapters 241–242)

Calamity in the East Ocean Continent

Leng’Er’s later growth unlocks Summon Undead, allowing her to use corpses as media for Skeleton Soldiers. The ability potentially turns one defeated wave into the force that defeats the next, and it places no stated cap on how many summoned soldiers may coexist if corpses and magic are available. Its immediate practical limit is personal rather than numerical: Ling Chen recognizes that an army is useless unless Leng’Er chooses to listen, and he continues building cooperation through kindness instead of assuming ownership grants control. (Chapters 403–404)

As Leng’Er’s level continues to rise, her original darkness skills regain strength alongside Ling Chen’s progression. Her daily life nevertheless remains centered on simple pleasures, including dolls and newly discovered sweets, rather than ambition or conquest. That contrast defines her combat role: she possesses unusually dangerous control and instant-death tools without the temperament of a commander, so most tactical direction comes from Ling Chen and her participation depends on trust, attention, and a situation she understands. (Chapters 437–453)

The Defense and Founding of Ling Tian City

Leng’Er reaches another major threshold during the defense of the unfinished city, unlocking Soul Lock and improving Summon Undead. Soul Lock can seize one target’s mind and soul for a short period, while the upgraded summoning skill creates stronger skeletons that inherit the corpse’s profession and match Leng’Er’s level. Even then, Ling Chen doubts that the doll-obsessed and gentle Leng’Er would exploit complete mental control aggressively without explicit guidance, making capability and likely use very different questions. (Chapters 522, 582, and 584)

Her growth during this phase is also domestic. She remains close enough to Sha Sha for Ling Chen to notice that Sha Sha looks at her with the same intense fondness that Leng’Er directs toward dolls, and storybooks continue to shape Ling Chen’s routine even amid city crises. Leng’Er is not a planner in the defense or founding; her significance lies in becoming part of the household and combat team whose safety and emotional stability Ling Chen treats as inseparable from the city he protects. (Chapters 605, 607, and 630)

The Underworld and the Forgotten City

At the Underworld Door, Leng’Er asks to emerge without prompting and feels a familiar warmth beyond the threshold. Her presence opens the sealed entrance, cancels the region’s harmful environmental effects for Ling Chen and his other companions, and masks his living aura from ordinary Undead. She then guides him deeper through instinct rather than recovered knowledge, remaining immune to the Underworld Soul-Reaping Formation and other deathly miasma that would drain living and undead intruders alike. (Chapters 636–641)

The Underworld Blood Lake awakens Leng’Er’s royal power and reveals her as Chan’Er, the daughter lost during the Shura’s Devastation. The lake would consume almost any other being, but the Underworld Royal Clan can enter it and absorb its energy. The Underworld King reads her memories, confirms that her body was destroyed and most of her soul damaged, and explains that Warring Palace used the first Soul Sacrifice Contract to keep her from vanishing; her contract with Ling Chen is the last bond sustaining her. (Chapters 663–665)

Although Leng’Er does not remember her father or understand his claim, the reunion changes her legal and political identity. The Underworld King formally names her Ming Xiao Chan, recognizes Ling Chen as family through an abrupt Underworld wedding, and allows her to leave with him after she retrieves two Lunar Scourge orbs from the Blood Lake. Her access also makes regular travel and later trade with the Underworld possible, but she chooses the familiar life with Ling Chen rather than remaining as the heir her father expected to recover. (Chapters 666–670)

The Moon God Palace and the Shura’s Return

After leaving the Underworld, Leng’Er becomes sweeter, more expressive, and more dependent on Ling Chen, but the promised recovery of her full soul and memories does not occur quickly. Her Underworld royal awakening improves her body and emotional range without restoring the life of Chan’Er as a continuous recollection. The result is an identity that others can verify through bloodline, power, and history while Leng’Er herself still experiences primarily the relationships and habits formed after the Forest of Bones. (Chapters 668–670 and 727)

When Ling Chen is imprisoned in the Lunar Sky Hell, the sealed space drops Leng’Er’s level to zero and prevents her from contacting the Underworld King despite their shared royal power. She still participates as soon as Ling Chen rebuilds the group’s levels, using control effects against ancient creatures while Xi Ling attacks and Cai'Er supports them with songs. Her crowd control becomes part of the team that keeps Ling Chen alive and calms his increasingly unstable mind, but it cannot by itself break the prison’s spatial isolation. (Chapters 743–748)

Xiya and the Perfect Moon

After Earth’s restoration, Leng’Er resumes active combat during Ling Chen’s retaliation against the invading regions, producing Skeleton Soldiers from battlefield corpses while Xi Ling supplies overwhelming area attacks. This demonstrates the mature use of the necromancy first unlocked much earlier: with abundant corpses and magic, she can continuously add expendable troops. It remains a context-dependent force, since she cannot begin the chain without bodies and the summons disappear rather than becoming permanent citizens or companions. (Chapter 842)

Three years later, Ling Chen finally brings Leng’Er back to the Underworld for a family visit. She still loves dolls and stories, looks and speaks much as before, and has recovered little of Chan’Er’s memory, disproving the Underworld King’s confident timetable. She is no longer frightened by him and begins to feel closer to him, but succession remains unresolved; the King considers her the next Underworld Queen, while her current life and loyalties remain with Ling Chen outside the Underworld. (Chapters 843–844 and 847–848)

Appearance and personality

Leng’Er appears as a petite, exceptionally beautiful girl with flawless pale features and pitch-black eyes that initially carry fear, hatred, and coldness. Her early body is half-spiritual and illusory rather than fully corporeal. Ling Chen can choose whether others see and hear her, and only he can normally touch her because of the Soul Sacrifice Contract; when invisible, only beings with exceptional magic or spiritual perception can detect her. (Chapters 199–200)

She begins nearly mute, distrustful, and emotionally constricted, but she is never simply cold. Dolls immediately inspire wonder and contentment, stories become a daily need, and patient conversation improves her speech. As her soul develops, she grows obedient, affectionate, curious, and timid rather than ambitious. Her most consistent limitation is incomplete identity: even after the Underworld recognizes her as Chan’Er, her own memories and adult responsibilities do not return at the pace others expect. (Chapters 199–204, 222–242, 663–670, and 843–844)

Abilities and powers

Leng’Er is primarily a darkness-based control and support combatant rather than a direct damage specialist. Her level remains equal to Ling Chen’s under the Soul Sacrifice Contract, and early reductions in level suppress skills she previously possessed; increasing it restores statistics and unlocks abilities in stages. Damage dealt to her transfers to Ling Chen, which protects her spirit form but exposes him, while his death also causes hers because this is her second and final contract. (Chapters 199–200, 241, and 663–665)

Darkness locks and Doll Grenade

Darkness Spike creates a stealthy spike near a target within twenty metres and deals damage based on Leng’Er’s magic attack, with a small instant-death chance. Darkness Lock reduces the movement speed, attack speed, jumping, accuracy, and evasion of targets within its range. Underworld Lock prevents affected targets from using active skills, and Sin Lock attacks one target’s spirit to expose its hidden evil and force a brief berserk state in which it attacks nearby beings indiscriminately. (Chapters 200 and 241)

Doll Grenade converts one of Leng’Er’s dolls into an area attack whose radius scales with level. It deals no ordinary damage but carries a high instant-death chance, affects allies and enemies without distinction, consumes all current magic, destroys the chosen doll, has a cooldown, and is limited to five uses per day. Its power therefore comes with emotional, resource, and targeting costs: every shot sacrifices something she treasures and can kill companions caught inside the blast. (Chapter 200)

Soul control and necromancy

Soul Lock targets one being within thirty metres and attempts to control its mind and soul for ten seconds. At its initial level, the base success rate is thirty percent, it costs two hundred magic points, and it has a sixty-second cooldown. Success is not guaranteed, especially against resistant targets, and Leng’Er’s temperament makes sophisticated coercive use unlikely unless another person gives clear tactical direction. (Chapter 584)

At its second recorded level, Summon Undead spends fifty magic points and one corpse to create a medium-grade Skeleton Soldier. The soldier has the corpse’s profession, Leng’Er’s level, and elite-grade strength, obeys her commands, lasts ten minutes, and disappears immediately if killed. Multiple corpses can be processed together and no coexistence cap is stated, but every soldier still requires a body, magic, and Leng’Er’s willingness to command it. (Chapters 404 and 584)

Underworld royal power

Leng’Er’s Underworld royal blood makes deathly environments protective rather than corrosive. While she is summoned, the Underworld’s miasma and related environmental penalties cease affecting her party, its sealed door opens, and ordinary Undead have difficulty detecting Ling Chen’s living aura. She can enter the Underworld Blood Lake safely, draw power from it, and recover items submerged there; even the Underworld Soul-Reaping Formation does not drain her. These advantages are specific to death-aligned spaces and do not provide general immunity to all hazards. (Chapters 636–641 and 663–670)

The Blood Lake awakens her Underworld King power, Underworld King soul, and the secret skill Underworld Blood Moon Samsara, but the corpus does not describe that skill’s activation, range, cost, or demonstrated effect. Her bloodline also does not overcome every barrier: the Lunar Sky Hell blocks communication with her father and resets her level with the rest of the party. Her greatest continuing impairment is soul damage, which leaves most royal memories unrecovered even years after awakening. (Chapters 663–665, 743–748, and 843–844)

Power progression

Relationships

• Ling Chen: Their relationship begins with an involuntary life-sharing contract and mutual danger, then develops through dolls, stories, travel, and repeated protection. Leng’Er increasingly relies on him as her safest person, while he accepts responsibility for her survival and refuses to treat the Underworld’s claim on her as more important than her current freedom. (Chapters 199–204, 222–242, 663–670, and 843–844)
• Underworld King: He recognizes Leng’Er as his lost daughter Chan’Er through her royal aura and the Blood Lake’s response. She cannot initially remember what a father is, but later visits without fear and begins rebuilding an emotional connection, even though his hope that she will inherit the Underworld remains unresolved. (Chapters 663–670 and 843–844)
• Xi Ling: Xi Ling and Leng’Er fight as complementary members of Ling Chen’s companion team. Xi Ling produces large-scale damage and corpses, while Leng’Er restrains survivors or turns bodies into Skeleton Soldiers; together with Cai’Er, they also help stabilize Ling Chen inside the Lunar Sky Hell. (Chapters 404, 743–748, and 842)
• Cai'Er: Cai’Er sometimes resents the stories and attention Ling Chen gives Leng’Er, but the two cooperate in dangerous areas. Cai’Er’s songs supply healing and emotional control while Leng’Er provides darkness-based restraint, particularly during the group’s imprisonment. (Chapters 641 and 743–748)
• Sha Sha: Sha Sha joins the household after Leng’Er has already become part of Ling Chen’s daily life. Their connection is quiet and playful, with Sha Sha displaying an unusually strong fondness for Leng’Er and the two sharing the protected domestic space around Ling Chen. (Chapters 605, 630, and 655–656)

Items

• Dolls: Leng’Er carries and collects dolls as her most valued possessions. They are the first means through which Ling Chen earns her trust and remain central to her comfort, but each Doll Grenade permanently consumes one doll, giving the combat resource an emotional cost. (Chapters 199–204 and 404)