Xuan Zi

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Xuan Zi; also written as Xuanzi 58 68
Alias(es)	Elder Xuan (玄老), Taotie Douluo, Gluttonous Douluo, Sloppy Elder 85 249 298
Gender	Male 58
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; Sea God Pavilion; Shrek Inspection Team 58 249
Occupation/Role	Sea God Pavilion elder, Vice Captain of the Shrek Inspection Team, teacher and student protector 58 137 198
Status	Alive at his latest documented appearance 323
First Appearance	Chapter 58, in the supplied context 58

History

Zheng Li’s disappearance and the Xingluo disaster

When Zheng Li failed to return to Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi visited Wang Xian’er’s mansion in Xingluo City to investigate. The inquiry helped uncover Zheng Li’s purchase of the Spirit-Devouring Engraving Knife, prompting concern within Shrek that he had either met with misfortune or become an Evil Soul Master 58 60.

After Zheng Li rejoined Shrek’s tournament team, Xuan Zi instructed everyone not to disturb his absorption of the Illusory Prismatic Beast skull bone. During the Snow Empress crisis, he released his Martial Soul Avatar and shattered the ice covering his body. Following her self-destruction, he brought the severely injured students back to Shrek for Elder Zhuang’s treatment 63 68 71.

Xuan Zi personally selected the eight Spirit Bones presented to the students after the tournament. Mu En subsequently assigned Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan to cultivate under his guidance 73.

Star Dou Great Forest search

While supervising a soul-ring hunt, Xuan Zi agreed to Zheng Li’s choice of a mutated Moon Shadow Lion because its sunlight-based amplification could greatly benefit him. He nevertheless stopped to question whether Zheng Li’s body could withstand its six-thousand-year soul ring 79.

Xuan Zi later took Huo Yuhao to obtain a spiritual-type Spirit Beast, leaving Wang Dong to keep watch. During his absence, a Scent-Seeking Earth Dragon swallowed Zheng Li, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Xin’er. Its ability to burrow deep underground frustrated his search despite his powerful control over the earth 81 82 83.

In desperation, Xuan Zi overturned the surrounding terrain and demanded that Scarlet King mobilize Spirit Beasts to find the students. When Scarlet King resisted, he pinned him beneath a gigantic earthen hand. Di Tian then confronted Xuan Zi over the destruction; Xuan Zi protected Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong from the aftermath of their clash 83 85.

Student missions and the Ming Capital operation

Xuan Zi secretly accompanied the students investigating the Holy Spirit Cult near Star Sea City. He warned Zheng Li that Shrek had received false intelligence, advised him against premature accusations, and instructed him not to reveal his presence. After the students exposed him, he maintained that he would intervene only if their lives were endangered 136 137.

When Shrek assembled its next tournament team, Xuan Zi announced Zheng Li as captain. To students unaware of Zheng Li’s rebirth, he explained the earlier reported death as a disguise. He also accompanied the expedition to the Valley of Love and Emotion 152 158.

At Ming Capital, Xuan Zi briefed Zheng Li on the Sun Moon Empire’s dangerous Soul Tool deployments and the planned assassination of Xu Tianran. Shrek’s operation also aimed to exploit the resulting distraction to evacuate participating teams through an underground tunnel. Xuan Zi openly acknowledged that he did not expect the assassination to succeed, but considered it worth attempting 179.

Heavenly Water Clan and deep-sea training

Xuan Zi participated in Shrek’s negotiations with Shui Lilan and organized the expedition to the Heavenly Water Clan’s island. During the conflict there, he overwhelmed the level-95 Tian Qinghua, then confined Tian Qinghua and Tian Xin in barriers that would disappear after half a day. He helped lead the departing Water Lineage away and assigned Yan Shaozhe and Cai Mei’er to escort its members back 189 190 195 196.

On Heavy Water Island, Xuan Zi subjected the students to repeated deep-sea training. He required them to cultivate under water pressure, descend farther as they adapted, and fight sea Spirit Beasts he released. Between sessions, he supplied food made from refined Spirit Beast parts to support their recovery and growth 197.

Border war and the Death God Soul Tool

After returning from the three-month expedition, Xuan Zi learned that the Sun Moon Empire had breached the Star Luo border. He was shocked by the speed of the collapse but recognized the difficulty of committing Shrek’s leadership to one allied empire without provoking equivalent demands from another 206.

Mu En assigned him to lead the investigation of a powerful Soul Tool that had injured him. During Zheng Li and Huo Yuhao’s reconnaissance, Xuan Zi repeatedly protected them from a higher altitude, even before they invited him to accompany their most dangerous investigation 207 215.

When Zheng Li attacked Swiftwind Douluo over the treatment of Zi Ji and Ni Liya, Xuan Zi interrupted the illusion before Swiftwind’s consciousness collapsed. He warned the Star Luo experts against pursuing the two Spirit Beasts, citing their rescue of Shrek’s students. He later confronted Ye Xishui, arguing that their deaths would provoke a beast tide, but she held him back during the ensuing attack 216 217.

Recovering the reborn Zheng Li

Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Cai Mei’er withdrew from the front lines after Huo Yuhao reported that Zheng Li was in danger in Sunset Forest. Following the forest’s destruction, Xuan Zi agreed to arrange a search for Zheng Li’s reborn infant form 243.

Nearly three years later, the search located Zheng Li, living as Lin Ning within the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Xuan Zi traveled there with Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong. He presented Sect Master Ning Liheng with a fabricated account that Lin Ning was the orphaned child of fallen Shrek disciples; the sect ultimately accepted three special Class 8 fixed-installation Soul Tool shells in exchange for allowing him to leave 247 248 249 250.

Xuan Zi separately told Lin Ning about Zheng Li’s rebirth ability. When the child refused to believe him, he did not force the issue, instead agreeing to wait until his memories returned. He later escorted Zheng Li and the Lin family away from the sect 250 253.

Overseeing Shrek

While Mu En led Shrek’s counterattack against the Sun Moon Empire, Xuan Zi remained responsible for overseeing the academy. He predicted that Zheng Li’s extended seclusion would bring him to Super Douluo, then was astonished when Zheng Li emerged at level 98 298 299.

Xuan Zi questioned Zheng Li about his position on the war. After hearing that Zheng Li was not originally from the Douluo Continent, he accepted the explanation without anger and considered either divine ancestry or another world as possible origins. Later, he and Mu En were visibly excited after meeting Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, members of the first-generation Shrek Seven Monsters 300 323.

Appearance

• Disheveled presentation: Described as a shabby or sloppy old man with messy hair 58 249 298.
• Association with alcohol: Carries a wine gourd; the young Lin Ning notices that he reeks of alcohol 248 249.
• Martial Soul Avatar: A monstrous form with a goat’s body, eyes beneath its armpits, tiger fangs, human claws, and enormous bull horns 68.
• Expanded combat form: During the forest search, his body grows to more than fifty meters in length 83.

Personality

Xuan Zi is fiercely protective of Shrek’s students, but his concern can become destructive when they disappear. His search for Zheng Li’s group drives him to devastate forest terrain and threaten Scarlet King. In less desperate circumstances, he favors allowing students to solve problems themselves while remaining close enough to prevent fatal consequences 83 137 215.

His teaching combines demanding training with practical support. He pushes students through exhausting deep-sea exercises, provides nourishing Spirit Beast food, and offers to fund Xiao Xiao’s Spirit Bone exchange. He is also proud and easily drawn into teasing exchanges: Xiao Xiao challenges his claims that overseeing Shrek is entirely relaxing, while Zheng Li remarks on his tendency to hold a grudge 197 198 253 298.

Xuan Zi can lie convincingly to protect sensitive information, but he is not invariably coercive. He conceals Zheng Li’s rebirth from students and invents an origin story for Lin Ning, yet respects the child’s refusal to leave. When Zheng Li later explains his outsider perspective on the war, Xuan Zi listens rather than taking offense 152 249 250 300.

Abilities & Skills

Cultivation and combat mastery

• High-level cultivation: Chapter 79 calls him an Ultimate Douluo, while Chapter 216 describes him as having “one foot” in that realm. The supplied material does not document a breakthrough resolving these differing descriptions 79 216.
• Simplified skill use: Snow Empress cites him as an example of a master who has reduced complexity to simplicity, wielding his abilities without visibly lighting his soul rings even outside his Martial Soul Avatar 286.
• Overwhelming force: Forces the level-95 Tian Qinghua out of his Martial Soul Avatar with a crystal-yellow giant palm 195.
• Clash with Di Tian: Meets an enormous black dragon claw with crystalline-yellow power; the collision tears cracks through the surrounding space 85.

Earth control and barriers

• Underground searching: Churns and overturns layers of soil to search for buried Spirit Beasts 83 85.
• Giant earthen hand: Gathers soil into a massive hand capable of pinning Scarlet King to the ground 83.
• Confinement: Creates crystalline-yellow barriers around Tian Qinghua and Tian Xin, specifying that they will dissipate after half a day 196.
• Limit: His earth-searching method does not quickly locate the deeply burrowing Scent-Seeking Earth Dragon 82 83.

Spiritual power and communication

• Mental intervention: Uses spiritual power to forcibly interrupt Zheng Li’s Nether Phantom Dream and save Swiftwind Douluo’s consciousness 216.
• Voice transmission: Communicates privately with students, city officials, and training groups without ordinary speech 137 150 192 197.
• Concealed protection: Follows students from the shadows or at high altitude, though Zheng Li and Huo Yuhao can detect his presence 136 137 215.

Flight and emergency transport

• Rapid evacuation: Returns the injured tournament team to Shrek in just over three hours using his flying speed and a Class 8 Flying Spirit Guidance Device 71.
• Transport advantage: Explains that a Titled Douluo carrying Zheng Li and Huo Yuhao could still fly faster than the students could escape independently 215.

Equipment / Items

• Wine gourd: A Soul Tool whose contents cannot flow or spill unless Soul Power is supplied 300.
• Class 8 Flying Spirit Guidance Device: Supplements his flight during the evacuation from Xingluo City 71.
• Communication screen Soul Tool: Used by Zheng Li to contact Huo Yuhao under Xuan Zi’s displayed identity 255.
• Spirit Beast food: Provides refined meals during deep-sea training to aid cultivation and physical strengthening 197.

Relationships

• Zheng Li — Student under his protection and a frequent source of worry. Xuan Zi investigates his disappearances, oversees dangerous cultivation choices, and arranges his recovery after rebirth 58 79 243 247.
• Xiao Xiao — His disciple. He critiques her combat awareness, helps finance her Spirit Bone acquisition, and shares affectionate, teasing exchanges with her 118 198 298.
• Mu En — Fellow Shrek elder whose assignments Xuan Zi carries out, including recovering Zheng Li and overseeing the academy. Mu En’s declining health visibly saddens him 247 298.
• Huo Yuhao — Student he guides through soul-ring selection and secretly protects during reconnaissance 81 196 215.
• Xiao Nai — Trusts her assurance that Zheng Li’s unexpected power fluctuation is a safe fusion process rather than an emergency 166.
• Du Busi — Collaborates with him during the Ming Capital operation and later discusses the Body Sect leader’s wartime decisions 184 185 270.
• Shui Lilan — Negotiating partner and expedition associate; helps her Water Lineage leave Tianshui Island 189 196.
• Ning Liheng — Negotiates with him for Lin Ning’s departure from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect 249 250.
• Scarlet King and Di Tian — Clash with him over his destructive search within the Star Dou Great Forest 83 85.

Notable Quotes

“Complete your mission properly. Although you discovered me, this old man will not intervene unless your lives are in danger.” 137

“I'm not protecting them. I'm preventing a disaster!” 217

“Being able to oversee Shrek Academy is this old man's honor.” 298