In the modern era's Year of the Monkey, Doctor Omen of the Ministry of Self-Reliance discovered a means to restore Xiaoqing to life, giving her the new legal name and human identity of Peng Deilan. In return, Deilan agreed to act as the Wonder-Woman of China, continuing to pretect the animals and people of her homeland in a highly visible public role. Training and fighting alongside Super-Man and Bat-Man, she began to strike up a romance with the latter that was badly shaken when Fahai was restored to life with an infusion of the Doomsday Virus, leading to Deilan sustaining injuries that revealed her true form.

Struggling with what she had hidden from her teammates, Deilan soon found amidst battles against a rampaging Superman clone that the truth forged a closer bond, as she and Bat-Man confessed their shared feelings of attraction, putting her qi back in balance and restoring her ability to take human form. Her connections to humanity reaffirmed, she reached out to her sworn sister and brother-in-law, both of whom had attained immortality through cultivation. Reconnecting with a family that had thought her lost to the ages, Deilan was shocked to learn that not only had Suzhen and Xian had a child, but that several generations of family remembered her as their lost heroic "Aunt Qing".

Learning from Xian of one particular descendant who was deeply troubled by where his life had gone in pursuit of romance, Deilan contacted her great-grandnephew Musi and asked him to come home to China and family....

• Flight: Deilan is capable of flying at speeds in excess of 194 km/h.
• Immortality: While she can still be injured by exceptional force or magic, Deilan is not affected by aging, starvation, or illness.
• Linguistics: a native speaker of the language of snakes, Deilan is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English, Korean, Amdo Tibetan, Mongolian, and possibly other languages.
• Magic Lasso: a length of special material that Deilan can control as readily as her own body, moving it psychokinetically.
• Magic Shield: capable of deflecting even weapons forged by the gods, its origins are uncertain.
• Martial Arts: Deilan is highly trained in the martial arts, particularly the use of polearms including her favored guandao.
• Superhuman Durability: Deilan can shrug off extreme harm with ease, being unharmed by automatic weapons fire.
• Superhuman Strength
• Transformation: due to the depth of her cultivation, Deilan's natural form is approximately twenty meters long, and she can shrink or grow by focusing her qi correctly, or take on a partially or totally human-appearing form.
  • Telepathy: when remaining in forms that lack a humanoid mouth, Deilan is capable of communicating telepathically at a range equivalent to normal human speech.