Xuan Zi

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Xuan Zi (玄子)
Alias(es)	Taotie Douluo; Nation-Protecting Douluo; Holy Spirit Cult Grand Elder; Blackened Xuan Zi 77 102 121
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Shrek Academy (formerly); Holy Spirit Cult (after corruption and defection) 73 103
Occupation/Role	Shrek Academy elder; leader of the academy’s tournament expedition; Nation-Protecting Douluo 73 102
Status	Deceased; killed by Mu En after losing the Golden Tree’s support 121
First Appearance	Chapter 57

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level 98 — Super Douluo	61	Led Yan Shaozhe in an attempted assault on the sleeping Silver Dragon; used his hundred-thousand-year ninth soul skill, Divine Ox Horn Strike.
Level 88	62	Di Tian’s Dragon God Claw severed an arm, destroyed his first soul ring, and caused a ten-level drop.
Level 95 — Super Douluo	77	Had partially recovered after reattaching his arm, though he remained below his former strength.
Level 98 — Super Douluo	103 107	Evil power restored his lost strength after his corruption by the Holy Spirit Cult.
Level 99 — Limit Douluo	121	Broke Mu En’s seal and absorbed the Golden Tree, temporarily reaching the Limit Douluo realm.

History

Silver Dragon expedition

Xuan Zi secretly removed a captured Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and the God Sealing Platform from Gong Changlong without Mu En’s knowledge, claiming that he intended to interrogate the beast 59. Accompanied by Yan Shaozhe and guided by Zhu Xiaoshuai, he entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s Land of Great Evil in search of the Silver Dragon 60.

Finding the Silver Dragon apparently wounded and dormant, Xuan Zi targeted its head with Divine Ox Horn Strike while Yan Shaozhe followed with his strongest attacks. The assault failed completely when a silver barrier blocked both strikes without disturbance 61. Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe subsequently chose to confront Di Tian and the fierce beasts rather than flee 62.

Di Tian’s counterattack devastated Xuan Zi: his arm was severed, his first soul ring was destroyed, and his cultivation fell from level 98 to level 88 62. While fleeing, he and Yan Shaozhe encountered the dying Golden Hawksbill Turtle. Xuan Zi initially coveted its soul ring and soul bone, but accepted its bargain to conceal them from Di Tian in exchange for taking it to the human world and extracting the fragment of the Lake of Life’s spring eye within it 63. The expedition ultimately returned with the spring-eye fragment, which Mu En used to create a smaller Lake of Life for Shrek Academy 64.

Tournament expedition and accountability

Xuan Zi served as the true leader of Shrek Academy’s main and reserve teams during their journey, while Wang Yan acted as the public-facing leader 73. He warned the reserve team that Inner Court life was harsh and that Shrek’s low number of Inner Court disciples reflected the dangers they would face 73.

The expedition was attacked by the Death Messenger. Dai Yueheng and Yao Haoxuan were killed in corpse explosions, while several other students were seriously injured 77 78. Xuan Zi blamed himself in part because he had opposed providing Martial Soul Department students with protective Soul Tools and Invincible Barriers before the mission 77. Mu En later condemned his increasingly radical behavior, comparing his methods to those of the Holy Spirit Cult 79.

Corruption and downfall

Despite his failures, Xuan Zi continued to protect Huo Yuhao against powerful enemies. When five Holy Spirit Cult Title Douluo targeted Huo Yuhao, he used his Taotie Avatar and fought alongside Star Luo Empire reinforcements 101. He again defended Huo Yuhao during a later Holy Spirit Cult ambush, despite the heavy consumption of maintaining his Martial Soul Avatar 102.

Xuan Zi later defected to the Holy Spirit Cult and joined five Title Douluo in hunting Huo Yuhao 103. The evil power within his body restored him to level 98, but Mu En discovered that this same power could eventually consume Xuan Zi completely and turn him into a slaughter-driven madman 107. Mu En’s Radiant Holy Dragon could not purify the corruption, so Xuan Zi proposed severing his previously injured arm to weaken himself enough to be sealed 107.

The seal did not hold permanently. Xuan Zi broke free, absorbed the Golden Tree, and became a temporary level 99 Limit Douluo 121. When the Golden Tree instead flew to Huo Yuhao, his borrowed power destabilized. Xuan Zi asked whether it was too late to turn back, but Huo Yuhao rejected the possibility of redemption; Mu En then killed him with his ninth soul skill 121.

Personality

Xuan Zi was ambitious, calculating, and willing to gamble heavily for greater strength. He viewed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast as an acceptable price for a possible breakthrough to the Limit Douluo realm, and he carefully searched the Silver Dragon’s body for a vulnerable point before attacking 60 61.

He was also cautious when personally endangered. After Di Tian crippled him, he immediately used Yan Shaozhe as a shield while scanning for threats, and he initially sought to capture the Golden Hawksbill Turtle for its soul ring and soul bone 63. His self-preservation became even more pronounced after his corruption, when he prioritized Holy Spirit Cult interests over the lives of his allies 105.

His remorse over the Death Messenger incident was genuine. He was devastated by the deaths of the students under his leadership and recognized that rejecting Soul Tool protection had worsened the disaster 77. However, guilt and desperation did not stop his later descent into corruption.

Abilities & Skills

Taotie Divine Ox Martial Soul

Xuan Zi’s martial soul is the Taotie Divine Ox, a monstrous creature with ox horns, a sheep-like body, tiger teeth, human-like claws, and eyes beneath its armpits 62.

• His Martial Soul Avatar manifests the Taotie Divine Ox at over thirty meters in length. 62
• He possesses nine soul rings, including a hundred-thousand-year red ninth ring. 61 101
• He had a complete set of six soul bones before Di Tian’s attack. 62

Divine Ox Horn Strike

Xuan Zi’s ninth soul skill is Divine Ox Horn Strike.

• He used it against the Silver Dragon during the Star Dou Great Forest expedition. 61
• He used it again as Blackened Xuan Zi after breaking Mu En’s seal. 121
• Its original attack against the Silver Dragon was completely stopped by a silver barrier. 61

High-Level Defensive Combat

Xuan Zi could withstand or mitigate attacks that threatened lesser Title Douluo.

• He used all nine burning soul rings to block much of Cheng Gang’s self-detonation. 96
• He forcibly cleared ice from his wounds to avoid being destroyed by Huo Yuhao’s Ice Explosion Technique. 106
• His diminished level 95 strength was still insufficient to comfortably withstand a Title Douluo’s self-destruction. 96

Evil Power

The Holy Spirit Cult’s evil power restored Xuan Zi’s weakened cultivation, but it also corrupted him.

• It returned him from level 95 to level 98. 103 107
• Mu En’s Radiant Holy Dragon was unable to damage or purge the corruption. 107
• Excessive use risked reducing him to a madman driven solely by slaughter. 107
• The corruption ultimately enabled his escape from sealing and his temporary absorption of the Golden Tree. 121

Equipment / Items

• God Sealing Platform — Taken from Gong Changlong alongside the captured Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast; Xuan Zi used it to transport and awaken the captive beast. 59 60
• Soul bones — Originally possessed a complete six-piece set, though Di Tian’s attack and later battles caused major losses. 62 63

Relationships

• Mu En — Fellow Shrek Academy elder with a brotherly bond. Mu En tried to purify and later seal Xuan Zi, but ultimately killed him to protect Shrek Academy. 107 121
• Yan Shaozhe — Expedition partner during the Silver Dragon incident; fought beside Xuan Zi against Di Tian and the fierce beasts. 60 62
• Huo Yuhao — Initially protected him from outside threats, then defected and pursued him as the Holy Spirit Cult’s target. Huo Yuhao later advised Mu En to kill Blackened Xuan Zi. 101 103 121
• Di Tian — Enemy responsible for Xuan Zi’s crippling defeat, severed arm, destroyed soul ring, and ten-level loss. 62
• Golden Hawksbill Turtle — Made a mutual-survival bargain with Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, allowing them to hide from Di Tian in exchange for extraction of its Lake of Life fragment. 63
• Wang Yan — His grandmaster; Wang Yan openly rebuked Xuan Zi for failing to pursue the Death Messenger quickly enough. 73 77

Notable Quotes

“Let’s go all out!” 62

“Mu En, do you think it’s too late for me to turn back now?” 121