Xuan Zi

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Xuan Zi (玄子)
Alias(es)	Elder Xuan; Taotie Douluo 54
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; Sea God Pavilion; Shrek Supervisory Group
Occupation/Role	Sea God Pavilion Master; academy elder and instructor; supervisory-mission leader 56 168
Martial Soul	Godly Taotie Bull 71
First Appearance	28

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Rank 98 — Super Douluo	54	Identifies himself as a Rank 98 Taotie Douluo while assessing Wang Dong'er and offering to guarantee her safety.
Rank 99 — Limit Douluo	177	Tang San grants him Rank 99 power and orders him to monitor Wang Dong'er's movements. His later Limit Douluo state is described as prematurely forced through co-resonance and Sea God's Light. 186

Appearance

Xuan Zi ordinarily resembles a disheveled, beggar-like old man, often barefoot, drinking from a wine gourd, and eating meat by Sea God Lake. 28 81

• Unkempt hair and filthy, ragged clothing. 28 60
• Habitually carries wine and food because of his Martial Soul's hunger. 28 71
• His Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul Avatar is over thirty meters long, with a goat-like body, tiger teeth, human-like claws, huge bull horns, and eyes beneath its armpits. 99

Personality

Xuan Zi is a harsh, battlefield-minded instructor. He rejects the idea that students should expect fair conditions, using chaotic melees and dangerous supervisory work to test whether they can survive real combat. 53 58 He is also dismissive of theories he considers impractical; when Wang Yan suggests that hair-based Martial Souls may have Body Martial Soul potential, Xuan Zi bluntly argues that a Body Martial Soul's value depends on the importance of the body part involved. 28

His confidence in his strength is offset by poor restraint and impulsive decisions. He prioritizes immediate intervention, such as charging into the Death's Hand cavern and later infiltrating a Sun Moon Empire warehouse alone, without fully considering the consequences. 60 168 169 Repeated student casualties weigh heavily on him: after the Death's Hand mission, he attempts to resign, and later fears that every team he leads is doomed to suffer deaths or grievous injuries. 62 132 168

Xuan Zi remains fiercely devoted to Shrek Academy and reveres Tang San as the Sea God Ancestor. This loyalty drives him to accept Tang San's divine empowerment and the task of watching Wang Dong'er. 176 177

Abilities & Skills

Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul

Xuan Zi's Martial Soul grants immense physical strength, earth-related perception, and a powerful Avatar form.

• Releases nine Soul Rings: two yellow, two purple, four black, and one hundred-thousand-year red ring. 60
• Can transform into his Martial Soul Avatar for direct combat, defense, transport, and rescue operations. 60 99 176
• Uses the power of the earth to sense underground activity, conceal himself, tunnel through the ground, and infiltrate fortified areas. 168 169
• His Martial Soul carries a major flaw: he must constantly eat and drink. Consumption also functions as a form of cultivation for him. 71 157

Super Douluo Combat Power

At Rank 98, Xuan Zi possesses overwhelming pressure and close-quarters strength.

• His released pressure can crush surviving Death's Hand bandits into pulp. 60
• Sends Heavenly Fiend Douluo flying with an elbow strike, inadvertently shattering the Absolute Defense Soul Tool holding Ma Xiaotao. 88
• Stood against Niu Tian to defend Shrek Academy, reinforcing his strongest defensive skill with a Rank Eight Defense Soul Tool. 100
• Even after reaching the Limit Douluo realm, he is decisively outmatched by Di Tian, whose sword strike destroys Xuan Zi's horns and leaves him grievously wounded. 186

Sea God's Light and Divine Empowerment

Xuan Zi can call upon Tang San's authority through his devotion to the Sea God.

• Tang San grants him the power of Rank 99 and assigns him to observe Wang Dong'er. 177
• During Shrek City's fall, he kneels in his Godly Taotie Bull form and invokes the Sea God Ancestor. 185
• Sea God's Light manifests from his body and resonates with the Golden Ancient Tree, allowing Tang San's Divine Consciousness Clone to descend. 185 186

Field Leadership and Emergency Transport

Xuan Zi routinely commands Shrek teams during assessments, missions, and emergencies.

• Oversees Inner Court selection through large-scale chaotic melees intended to simulate battlefield conditions. 53
• Uses a Flying Soul Tool and formation rope to tow students over long distances at extreme speed. 58
• Breaks weakened barriers inside Qiankun Love-Seeking Valley and carries the trapped students on his back during the cannonball assault. 176

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wine gourd and food — Necessary provisions due to the Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul's hunger flaw. 28 71
• Flying Soul Tool — Used to transport linked students during supervisory missions. 58
• Rank Eight Defense Soul Tool — Added to his strongest defensive skill when facing Niu Tian. 100
• Mask — Worn while covertly accompanying Shrek's team during the Soul Fighting Tournament. 134

Relationships

• Mu En — Superior within Shrek Academy who refuses Xuan Zi's resignation after the Death's Hand casualties, insisting that he remain and help reform the academy's approach to Soul Tools. 62
• Wang Yan — Academy theorist and frequent subordinate who brings promising students to Xuan Zi's attention, advises him during missions, and reports incidents to the Sea God Pavilion. 28 62 173
• Wang Dong'er — Initially offered Xuan Zi's personal protection and was asked to assist Ma Xiaotao; after her departure from Shrek, Xuan Zi identifies her to Tang San as a betrayer and receives orders to monitor her. 54 176 177
• Ma Xiaotao — Xuan Zi seeks Wang Dong'er's cooperation to manage her evil fire, rescues her during the tournament crisis, and takes her away after her fire erupts. 54 88
• Tang San — Revered by Xuan Zi as the Sea God Ancestor; Tang San grants him Rank 99 power and entrusts him with observing Wang Dong'er. 176 177
• Di Tian — Enemy who intervenes to protect Gu Yuena and Wang Dong'er; Di Tian defeats Xuan Zi with a single devastating sword strike. 186

Story Role / Major Arcs

Shrek Selection and the Death's Hand Mission

Xuan Zi supervises the selection of Shrek's preparatory team through a chaotic melee, emphasizing that real battlefields do not offer fair conditions. 53 He introduces the Shrek Supervisory Group's duty to uphold peace and justice, including the requirement that Inner Court students complete thirty missions before graduation. 56 57

He leads students toward the Death's Hand bandit encampment, using a Flying Soul Tool to accelerate the group's journey. 58 After the Death Messenger's Corpse Explosion Technique devastates the mission, Xuan Zi enters the collapsed cave, retrieves the injured students, and is consumed by guilt over the casualties. 59 60 62

Tournament Intervention and Shrek's Conflicts

During the Soul Fighting Tournament, Xuan Zi rescues Dai Yueheng from Heavenly Fiend Douluo and breaks the Absolute Defense Soul Tool imprisoning Ma Xiaotao. The latter action allows Ma Xiaotao's evil fire to erupt uncontrollably. 88 He later drives away Body Sect members attempting to recruit Huo Yuhao. 89 90

Mingdu Infiltration and Qiankun Love-Seeking Valley

Obsessed with locating a Sun Moon Empire Soul Tool rumored to threaten a Limit Douluo, Xuan Zi secretly tunnels beneath Mingdu and triggers the alarm of a guarded underground warehouse. 168 He kills the warehouse keeper Xu Guozhong after being exposed as a Shrek infiltrator, then searches the facility without understanding the dangerous Soul Tools stored there. 169

After the Mingdu explosion, Xuan Zi leads the surviving Shrek group toward Western Mountain. He feels guilt over the civilian deaths but remains focused on protecting the students. 173 The group becomes trapped in Qiankun Love-Seeking Valley, where Xuan Zi is repeatedly punished by its mysterious voice before freeing students as the valley's defenses weaken under Rank Nine Fixed Soul Cannonball fire. 174 176

Tang San's Agent and the Fall of Shrek

Tang San grants Xuan Zi Rank 99 power after learning of Wang Dong'er's break with Shrek and tasks him with tracking her movements. 177 During Wang Dong'er's assault on Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi invokes Tang San's descent through Sea God's Light as a final attempt to save the academy. 185

Tang San's Divine Consciousness Clone is destroyed before it can turn the battle, leaving Xuan Zi without divine support. Di Tian subsequently inflicts catastrophic injuries on him, exposing the gap between Xuan Zi's forcibly elevated Limit Douluo power and Di Tian's true strength. 186