Elder Brightscent) or Ming Xin is an Elder of the Ancient Sword Sect. She practices the Hundredbloom Yangspring Arts, an intangible technique that can subdue enemies with inconceivable might. few people knew of its true abilities and scarcely anyone was able to cultivate it.
While she is not the central protagonist, she appears during significant events in the Dreamcloud Mountains region:
- Sect Competition: She accompanied Grand Elder Jin Wuhuan and another elder to the Hundred Possibilities Sect for a master recognition ceremony.
- Witness to Han Li’s Rise: She was present when Jin Wuhuan challenged the protagonist, Han Li, to a ranking contest to determine the dominant sect in the region.
- Shift in Power: Following the defeat of her sect’s Grand Elder by Han Li’s Celestial Ice Flames, the Drifting Cloud Sect (Han Li’s sect at the time) became the number one sect in the Dreamcloud Mountains. Fairy brightscent is a proud and competitive Genius and crave the feeling of being one of the most talented younger generation to rise within the Heavenly South. She first encountered Han Li during the ceremony at the Hundred Possibilities Sect she attempted to use a rather profound secret technique on him, but completely failed to assess the limits of his abilities. However, it did leave Han Li with a rather deep impression of this woman.
She possessed a treasure that allowed her to cultivate at several times the speed of a normal cultivator. Through the use of this treasure, she had made several breakthroughs in a short period of time, thereby allowing her to reach the Nascent Soul Stage at such a young age, and she was lauded as an exceptional prodigy in the Ancient Sword Sect.
In just one century when Han Li returned from the Great Jin as an Late Nascent Soul shocking everyone, she refused to believe that he progressed so fast because she always thought she would be one step ahead of him, it was until Han Li assessed cultivation by stating how she had reached the early-Nascent Soul Stage bottleneck and she should be able to progress to the mid-Nascent Soul Stage in about a decade, made her finally gave in and admitted defeat in her race to stay one step ahead.