Xiao Hongchen

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Xiao Hongchen (笑红尘)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy
Occupation/Role	Captain of the academy's reserve team 49
First Appearance	Chapter 49

Appearance

Xiao Hongchen is a silver-white-haired youth with delicate features and a habitual faint, enigmatic smile. His eyes are heterochromatic—one blue and one red—and become notably intense when facing Lin Shuo. 49 61

• Short silver-white hair with a metallic sheen. 49
• Blue-and-red heterochromatic eyes. 61
• Usually carries himself with a lazy, relaxed air. 49 70
• His expression becomes grave and focused when assessing Lin Shuo. 53 66

Personality

Xiao Hongchen is perceptive, proud, and intensely competitive. He correctly reasons that Shrek Academy's unusually small tournament roster signals a problem rather than arrogance, showing greater strategic judgment than his initial casual demeanor suggests. 49

Lin Shuo's strength repeatedly shakes his self-confidence, but does not break his resolve. Xiao Hongchen acknowledges the gap between them, considers Lin Shuo a lifelong rival, and continues seeking a rematch despite repeated defeats. 50 63 75

He is also protective of his younger sister, Meng Hongchen, though he becomes exasperated by her open admiration of Lin Shuo. 50 62

Abilities & Skills

Three-Legged Golden Toad Martial Soul

Xiao Hongchen possesses the Three-Legged Golden Toad martial soul, which carries the bloodline of a divine beast. Even so, its instinctive fear of Lin Shuo's aura leaves Xiao Hongchen struggling to resist the pressure. 52

• Reached the Soul King realm by age fourteen. 50
• Possesses at least five soul skills. 73
• His martial soul grants him a metallic, gold-based combat style. 73 75

Blessing of Gold

His fifth soul skill transforms his body into dark-golden liquid metal, allowing him to evade attacks at extreme speed. 73

• Negates up to 80% of physical damage. 73
• Does not adequately protect against elemental attacks. Lin Shuo's tri-colored elemental spheres injure him despite the transformation. 73
• Used as his strongest life-preserving skill during the tournament final. 73

Soul Tool Artillery

Xiao Hongchen can deploy over one hundred metal spheres from his storage rings and convert them into cannon barrels through his soul skills. 75

• Uses his first through fourth soul skills to transform and operate the cannon array. 75
• Can fire the entire array simultaneously as an all-out barrage. 75
• His final barrage is destroyed outright by Lin Shuo's Seven-Element Dragon Breath. 75

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Fortitude Wall — A reusable Class 6 Soul Tool that creates a golden defensive barrier. Lin Shuo's dragon claw drains 70% of Xiao Hongchen's soul power through a single impact against it. 72
• Metal spheres — Stored in rings and transformed into cannon barrels for his large-scale artillery attack. 75
• Milk Bottle — Used to restore soul power after his defeat in the team battle. 74

Relationships

• Meng Hongchen — His younger sister. He is protective of her and is visibly frustrated when she becomes distracted by Lin Shuo. 50 62 73
• Lin Shuo — His principal rival. Xiao Hongchen fears and respects Lin Shuo's overwhelming power, considers him a lifelong opponent, and vows to surpass him. 52 63 75
• Ma Rulong — Teammate and captain of the Sun Moon team during the tournament. Ma Rulong questions Xiao Hongchen's high regard for Lin Shuo. 61 63
• Jing Hongchen — His grandfather, whose name Xiao Hongchen invokes to force Elder Ma to let him continue fighting after being injured. 74

Story Role / Major Arcs

Tournament Assessment

Xiao Hongchen first appears as the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy reserve captain, where he deduces that Shrek's limited roster likely reflects an internal problem rather than overconfidence. 49

After watching Lin Shuo defeat seven opponents alone, Xiao Hongchen admits that he could not have won so easily against the same group. 50 When Lin Shuo later directs a trace of his martial-soul aura at him, Xiao Hongchen withstands it but recognizes that his own martial soul is afraid. 52

Rivalry with Lin Shuo

Xiao Hongchen's concern develops into fixation after watching Lin Shuo easily defeat powerful opponents in the 2-2-3 battle. He reacts in despair to Lin Shuo's elemental versatility, spatial power, and physical strength. 57

At the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo auction, he raises his bid to 180 million Gold Soul Coins after Lin Shuo counters him. 61 Before the anticipated final, he declares that he will defeat Lin Shuo personally, while later naming Lin Shuo his potential lifelong rival. 61 63

Tournament Final

In the team battle, Xu Sanshi's Black Tortoise Displacement places Xiao Hongchen directly before Lin Shuo. Xiao Hongchen's Fortitude Wall barely withstands Lin Shuo's initial dragon-claw strike, which consumes most of his soul power. 72

He activates Blessing of Gold to escape, but Lin Shuo's tri-colored elemental attack injures him. Xiao Hongchen concedes Lin Shuo's strength before collapsing from exhausted soul power and minor internal injuries. 73

After recovering enough to fight again, he challenges Lin Shuo to settle their first one-on-one match with a single move. His full-power cannon barrage is annihilated by Seven-Element Dragon Breath; although Dai Hao saves him, Xiao Hongchen survives and vows to return stronger. 75

Notable Quotes

“That man may be my lifelong rival.” 63

“The next time we meet, I'll definitely be stronger than I was this time.” 75