Owner of Precious Jade

"For every business in this world, there is an offer and a payment. Can you pay with what I want?"

- — Owner of Precious Jade making a deal with Xu Xuan

The Owner of Precious Jade Workshop is a fox demon. She also addressed herself as "Old Fox" in the movie.

Slouchy and seductive, the Owner of Precious Jade appeared to be a loosely dressed young girl, hanging around in her magic shop. However, she has two different faces: a young girl and a fox on the back of her head.

Appearance
Owner of Precious jade takes on the form of a girl in her young teens, with a human face on one side of her head and a fox face on the other. She has blue-black hair that is twisted into two buns on the sides of her head, and her bangs are flat. On the right side of her hair is a cluster of four coral pink roses. She has pale skin and brown eyes with dark eyelashes. She is barefooted. She has a loose green shirt-like robe with gold lining for the collar, and a red robe with black cuffs and gold embroidery. Her nails are painted dark red, and she usually carries around her pipe, which she uses to stamp her goods. The pipe is dark brown with a dark jade mouthpiece.

Personality
Owner of Precious Jade is a cunning and sophisticated businesswoman. She knows people well, and is good at using her advantage to make deals. Judging from the human essences she collected, she probably made a lot of deals with humans over years.

When Xu Xuan visited her and asked for help, she briefly became sentimental and said that she had been young and self-indulgent which revealed she may had a complicated past with a human, but it is also possible that she was playing with Xu Xuan.

Abilities
Owner of Precious Jade runs her small boutique outside Yongzhou City, and had lots of minions under her command. She is also in charge of supervising the production of Precious Jade, and displays a very good insight on magic weapons. She possesses the method to turn a human into a demon and was interested in all kinds of "Heaven-defying" things.

As a demon, she is able to use the fox face at the back of her head. She could turn her head 180 degrees to use the other face. When she uses it, she would speak with a much older female voice, and tends to crawl instead of walk, like a fox. In White Snake 2: The Tribulation of the Green Snake, she fully transforms into a collossal fox with eight tails.

In the first movie, she did show some sort of magic. For example, she drained some magic from Jade Hairpin, however, their functions were not clear.

Trivia

 * In Chinese mythology, fox demons were called huli jing, or 狐狸精.
 * A fox demon is famous for seducing young boys and girls.
 * Her name wasn't revealed in the movie, and in an interview of Light Chaser Animation, she was simply called "宝青坊主" (Owner of Precious Jade), so it's likely that Light Chaser Animation didn't give her a name after all.
 * Tobacco was first brought to China in the 17th century. Hence, smoking pipes actually didn't exist in China during Tang dynasty.
 * She uses her pipe to brand her products with the “Precious Jade” trade mark.
 * The song she sang during the mid credit scene is actually a poem written in Song dynasty (the same era of the mid credit scene).
 * Precious Jade was born March 18, making her Pisces.