Su Xiaosu

Su Xiaosu is the true name of the former Moonfiend Empress, a pirate ruler who was originally the Pontiff's Citadel's six-winged Morning Star. Lan Jue calls her Little Yue before her true name is disclosed. Later narration occasionally substitutes Bloodfiend Empress or Bloodfiend clan for the Moonfiend name; the chapters apply these terms to Su Xiaosu and the organization she built, not to a second woman. “Morning Star” and “Morningstar” are likewise spelling variants of the same angelic title. Her identities form one chronology: Citadel angel, independent pirate queen, rescued prisoner, self-declared fifth Amazon, and finally Star Division's chief officer. (Chapters 58–80, 329, 370, 386–389, 492, 532)

Xiaosu's story is less about exchanging one master for another than about finding a structure she chooses to serve. She first rules through overwhelming force and ambition, but the Citadel exploits her remaining ties to it, forces her into a trap, and later takes her organization from her. Lan Jue's rescue gives her a refuge, while Star Division gives her command responsibility that uses the strategic skill she developed as a pirate. Her last direct scene preserves that pattern: she tells her soldiers that the coming attack is likely fatal and leads those who volunteer rather than concealing the danger from them. The novel does not show whether she survives the battle. (Chapters 80–91, 383–386, 532–539, 892)

Biography

The Moonfiend throne and a coerced betrayal

The Moonfiend Empress first enters the narrative at a distance. When her subordinate Gao Yong causes trouble on Skyfire Avenue, she speaks through communications and orders him to accept Lan Jue's punishment. Her reputation is already extreme: she is described as the greatest pirate king in the Shattered Starfields, a city destroyer who controls life and death among the Moonfiend Pirates. Yet she recognizes Lan Jue's strength and treats him as an old friend. The contrast establishes that her cruelty is neither mindless nor proof that she believes herself beyond consequence. (Chapters 58–63, 72)

Lan Jue visits Planet Moonfiend for a star map and calls its ruler Little Yue. In person she is majestic, flirtatious, and absolute in her authority. Her golden Holy Light and continued belief in the Lord expose her earlier Citadel identity even before the title Morning Star is explained. She has left the Western organization and created an independent pirate realm, but retains personal and spiritual connections to its people. Her confrontation with Mika, another powerful woman who escaped a Western Adept institution, underscores their parallel histories while also showing their hostility: Mika distrusts the Citadel's former angel, and Xiaosu resents the protection Mika receives from Lan Jue. (Chapters 77–80)

The Citadel exploits those connections to force Xiaosu into arranging the Clash of the Seven Stars. Lan Jue understands that the trap is hers but also concludes that she was offered something she could not refuse. Xiaosu warns him as far as she can and watches in tears when the ambush turns into a battle over Mika. This does not make her uninvolved—the trap nearly kills Lan Jue and places Mika at risk—but it distinguishes coercion from a freely chosen attempt to hand them over. Her later relationship with the Amazons begins under the weight of that responsibility. (Chapters 80–91)

Captivity reported, rescue witnessed, and a name reclaimed

For much of Xiaosu's next crisis she is not directly present. Gao Yong reaches Lan Jue and reports that the Pontiff's Citadel has found and captured its former angel. The ensuing planning chapters discuss her imprisonment, trial, and intended “renewal” through other characters. Sariel, who is described as practically her sister, provides the location: the Inquisition is sealing Xiaosu's Discipline and intends to erase her former life so the Citadel can create a compliant new Morning Star. These are reports about Xiaosu rather than scenes in which she acts, but they establish what Lan Jue is trying to prevent. (Chapters 315, 329–333, 369–375)

Lan Jue and Zhou Qianlin infiltrate the Citadel without committing Skyfire Avenue to an institutional war. They remove Xiaosu from the Tribunal and hide her while Qianlin clears the seals from her meridians. The ritual has nearly drained her Core, though it has not destroyed its source. When Xiaosu wakes, her light-based Discipline and ninth-level body begin repairing the physical damage; her full cultivation returns more slowly. At this point she is a rescued prisoner with limited capacity, not a participant in most of the infiltration that freed her. (Chapters 370–385)

Once able to speak for herself, she refuses to return to a Moonfiend organization now controlled by the Citadel. She declares the Moonfiend Empress dead and claims Morning Star anew, but no longer as the Pontiff's angel. She then gives Lan Jue her true name, Su Xiaosu, and calls herself Zeus' fifth Amazon. Lan Jue initially refuses the oath and offers temporary shelter instead, recognizing that torment, isolation, and the loss of her people have left her without a safe alternative. Her eventual service grows from that refuge; the scene does not depict a formal transfer of ownership or a command that she must serve him. (Chapters 386–388)

Xiaosu spends the tournament period recovering rather than competing. Her power reaches about eighty percent, which Lan Jue estimates as ninth level fifth rank, while she says her Core still needs nourishment. When she arrives at Zeus' Jewelry Store, the original Amazons remain openly hostile because of the earlier trap. Xiaosu answers with restraint and warmth instead of asserting her stronger Discipline. She is hopeful simply to inhabit a lively place where she does not need to anticipate death. The household does not instantly forget her past; acceptance begins through her conduct after rescue. (Chapters 391, 396, 410, 490–496)

From displaced pirates to Star Division command

Lan Jue lends Xiaosu Zeus-1 so she can recover the Moonfiend people still loyal to her. Her first progress is modest: she retrieves only part of her old core, while others have scattered or died, and returns with one battleship and limited resources. Later prose calls her former organization the Bloodfiend clan and calls her the Bloodfiend Empress, but it continues the same operation and same personal history. Twenty-six veterans ultimately leave the Starfields with her. They undergo Eastern military training, and Xiaosu receives a colonel's commission while her followers become drillmasters. (Chapters 495–496, 532–535)

Her value to Star Division is not ceremonial. She becomes chief military instructor and then second-in-command because she devises its tactics, integration plans, and operational strategy. When Lan Jue is present, many of her decisions are relayed through him, but the narration explicitly identifies her as the planning mind behind the unit. Her pirate experience teaches her how to use small, independently capable teams, deception, raids, and mobility without reducing the Division to undisciplined marauders. The soldiers provide strength her old clan lacked; she provides a command system suited to unusual Adepts. (Chapters 534–540)

The campaign back into the Starfields forces her to dismantle what she once built. Xiaosu directs objectives, scouts Planet Moonfiend from memory, chooses to command on the ground, and lays out the seizure of the palace, defense network, and hangars. She expresses grief for the city and the independent realm she hoped would become stable and self-sufficient, but concludes that the pirate structure under Citadel control must end. Her knowledge allows the Division to free prisoners and seize key defenses while avoiding unnecessary civilian harm. The loss is therefore both strategic victory and the end of her original political project. (Chapters 536–539, 564–578)

The operation also shows the limits of her power. Xiaosu can plan around battleships because even a ninth-level mecha pilot cannot withstand a main-gun strike. When a mysterious enhanced woman uses a death ray, Lan Jue has to divert it before it hits Xiaosu; Holy Light alone does not make her invulnerable. After alien planets destroy the old system, she pilots Zeus-1 deeper into the Starfields so Lan Jue can continue reconnaissance, then helps bring the mission back toward Eastern space. Planet Moonfiend and the throne attached to her former title pass into memory rather than remaining a territory she secretly controls. (Chapters 569, 584, 590, 689–690)

Pilot, chief officer, and guardian of the Division

During the alien invasion Xiaosu alternates between field combat, piloting, and independent command. She keeps Zeus-1 in support while Lan Jue captures a progenitor, reports the enemy's withdrawal, and later joins the small reconnaissance party because no one knows the Starfields better. She can guide Zeus-1 largely alone, monitor the tactical picture, and respond to contacts under pressure. On other occasions Lan Jue leaves Star Division under her command so he can undertake missions with the Paragons and other Amazons. Direct scenes support both roles; broader statements that Star Division remains ready under her authority describe commands she has been assigned even when the chapter follows Lan Jue elsewhere. (Chapters 658–674)

Her spar with Ling Ya demonstrates the Morning Star's combat form. Xiaosu's Holy Light creates a golden whip, Holy Fire, and eventually six wings and a blade of divine light. Ling Ya has slightly higher stated cultivation, but Xiaosu's experience from more than a hundred battles gradually gives her the advantage. The contest does not establish that Xiaosu becomes a Paragon. Later she remains a ninth-level Adept whose judgment and practiced technique can overcome a nominal rank disadvantage. (Chapters 670–671)

As the human counteroffensive expands, Xiaosu continues handling Zeus-1 and overseeing Star Division's training. Lan Jue returns to find the troops drilling in upgraded DreamNet pods under a program that has built unit tactics into habit. She even arranges an ambush-style evaluation that forces him to recognize how much the soldiers have improved. When he departs again, she remains with the Division rather than appearing in every scouting party; those absences are command assignments, not evidence that she has left the war. (Chapters 736–778)

The last defense and an unresolved fate

On Angel, Xiaosu commands Star Division as a whole while Paragons lead its individual companies. After a costly battle she conducts the vigil for the dead, promises that honors and benefits will reach their families, and admits exhaustion without abandoning her post. The surviving Pontiff's forces know where the former Morning Star is but recognize that, as Star Division's chief, she is beyond their ability to reclaim. Her final institutional identity is therefore neither pirate sovereign nor Citadel angel: it is the chosen commander of Skyfire Avenue's military arm. (Chapters 819, 834–843)

Xiaosu's last direct appearance comes while the Banishing Strategy is under assault. She arrives in a six-winged mecha and calls Star Division, the Bloodiron Khans, and Northern converts into a mission she has already told them may be suicidal. Volunteers follow with the aim of buying the Paragons even one more minute. The chapter shows her leading the charge and forming the defense, but it does not single out her death, survival, or postwar location. Later victory and the epilogue do not resolve her individual outcome, so she should not be listed as confirmed dead or confirmed alive after the battle. (Chapter 892)

Appearance and personality

Xiaosu has thick black curling hair, red-tinted eyes, and a curvaceous figure. After her rescue she often dresses in black and white and can pass as a professional assistant, a striking contrast with the seductive grandeur of the Moonfiend throne. Her angelic manifestation replaces that restrained image with golden light, six radiant wings, and an atmosphere of holiness. The visual continuity between ruler and Morning Star helps confirm that the titles belong to one woman rather than separate identities. (Chapters 79, 388, 670)

She is ambitious, self-reliant, and capable of ruthlessness, but also unusually candid about strategic costs. Early pride makes her believe she can stabilize the Starfields through personal rule. Captivity and the collapse of that project make her more willing to depend on others without erasing her command instincts. With Lan Jue she is deferential and emotionally attached; with enemies and soldiers she becomes decisive, intimidating, and precise. Her final volunteer call combines both sides: devotion to Lan Jue's cause and a commander's obligation to disclose likely death. (Chapters 58–80, 386, 532–539, 568, 892)

Disciplines and abilities

Holy Light and the six-winged Morning Star

Xiaosu's Discipline is light-based and takes the form associated with the Citadel's Morning Star. She produces golden Holy Light and Holy Fire, shapes energy as a whip or blade, multiplies whip strikes, flies, and manifests six wings. The power also aids bodily recovery, but severe sealing still drains her Core and requires prolonged cultivation. Her exact late-war subrank is not stated, and no scene shows her crossing into Paragon. (Chapters 79, 370, 374, 385–386, 410, 584, 670)

Command, infiltration, and piloting

Her larger advantage is accumulated experience. She designs raids, recognizes how pirate cells respond, conducts interrogation, plans planetary seizures, and integrates Adepts whose individual Disciplines do not fit ordinary military doctrine. She is also an accomplished spacecraft pilot capable of guiding Zeus-1 through the Starfields while monitoring threats. Disguise and deceptive movement are recurring tactics, but the corpus does not identify a separate illusion Discipline belonging to her; her named combat power is Holy Light. (Chapters 533–540, 567–578, 590, 668–690)

Relationships

• Lan Jue: Lan Jue knows Xiaosu as Little Yue, recognizes coercion behind her first betrayal, and later extracts her from the Citadel. She loves him without receiving romantic commitment and converts that attachment into chosen service and command responsibility.
• Mika: Mika and Xiaosu share histories of escaping powerful Western Adept institutions but begin as enemies because Xiaosu's trap targeted Mika. Their later work as Amazons requires coexistence and operational trust rather than an assertion that the original grievance never mattered.
• Gao Yong: Gao Yong serves the Moonfiend Empress and later brings Lan Jue news of her capture. His loyalty initiates the rescue, although Xiaosu's direct experience of imprisonment is not narrated through him.
• Sariel: Sariel is described as nearly a sister to Xiaosu and covertly gives Lan Jue the information needed to reach her. Their later relationship is not shown.
• Zhou Qianlin: Qianlin heals Xiaosu after the rescue and initially views her closeness to Lan Jue with suspicion. Xiaosu recognizes Lan Jue's commitment to Qianlin and does not obtain the romantic place she desires.

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