Zaiyu

Zhao Zaiyu (兆宰玉) is an infamous figure, to put it lightly. A charming fairy, with a kind face and a kind personality to make even the staunchest enemies her friends. And yet it is so that even the prettiest flowers may be deadly. With flowing white tresses, ice blue eyes and a pure face seemingly carved from jade, Zaiyu is beautiful, bewitchingly so. Statuesque but lithe and voluptuous, every aspect of her form is perfectly alluring and distinct, somehow managing to radiate a paradoxically pure, yet sensuous innocence. Her voice is crooning and gentle, the kind that lulls people to sleep. The Devil Queen wears a set of elegant blue-and-red armored robes, gilded and embroidered. Form-fitted, Zaiyu's attire shows off her figure and can be made outright skimpy with relative ease. On her left index finger lies a spatial ring, looking as if it was made from black onyx, and on her hip is an ornate jian with four characters etched into the blade. She is a proper lady in every aspect imaginable. Indeed, butter wouldn't even melt in her mouth. Kind-hearted and compassionate with unerring patience. Modest, soft-spoken and demure, every bit the refined, ideal woman. Zaiyu is unceasingly polite and serene, no matter the situation. The world could be ending and she'd merely quirk an eyebrow. And yet while these traits are indeed truly part of her personality, they have been exaggerated on the surface. For just as so as she may be kind; Zaiyu too is mischievous and chaotic. A deeply passionate woman, ice hiding fire, refinement obscuring impulsivity, she is possessed of a cunning, manipulative mind and a capacity for great cruelty and ruthlessness, able to commit utterly malicious atrocities when she needs to. Not to mention her own seductive, possessive and obsessive tendencies. She is a serpent with a long memory and remembers kindnesses and grudges alike. Zaiyu is a master of the Profane Demon Sovereign Sutra, an enigmatic cultivation method proclaimed to be the "Heretic Art of all Heretic Arts," as of yet known only to her. And indeed, the proclamation of its supremacy among demonic methods seems to be the truth, as it directly cultivates the forbidden qi of the Demonic Dao itself. She is a middle True Immortal stage cultivator, but frequently suppresses her cultivation to Dao Seeking or lower. She delights in pretending to be far weaker than she actually is; especially since such ploys make it easy to separate the intelligent from the idiotic. She is the Sect Leader of the Azure Devil Palace. Similarly, Zaiyu prefers not to flaunt this; often instead acting as if she's from a different sect or is a (very skilled) rogue cultivator. This provides her various opportunities, one the more common being to scout potential talents and...abscond with them, so to speak. Their potential is much better suited in her sect than in some rundown orthodox "sect" far more akin to a gang if anything. It's saddening, really. Righteousness has no point if it prioritizes morality over practicality, it's hypocritical and idiotic at that point. Ultimately, Zaiyu wishes to establish a dynasty over all the continents of the world. She views her title as "Devil Queen" as no mere title, for she wishes to stand atop the great mountains as their master, not below them as their supplicant. Thus, no Devil Queen does she wish to be, but an Infernal God-Empress of Eight Mountains World, she wishes for the Zhao clan to prove itself above all others, for her sect and their way to prove themselves similarly exalted. And then, only then, can she rest. Only once the realm has submitted to her enlightened rule.

Xianxia setting in Eight Mountains World.