Ma Xiaotao

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Ma Xiaotao (马小桃)
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; Shrek Academy’s official Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament team
Occupation/Role	Assault-type Battle Soul Master; official team captain
Martial Soul	Redflame Phoenix; evolved into an Ultimate Fire phoenix 60 74
Cultivation	Level 69 Soul Emperor 74 75
Status	Active
Alias(es)	“Xiaotao”; addressed Yun Yi as her “Junior Martial Granduncle”

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Evil Fire Redflame Phoenix	59	Her martial soul carried Evil Fire impurities that caused increasingly frequent backlash and threatened to affect her mind.
Ultimate Fire Redflame Phoenix	60	Yun Yi purged the Evil Fire with Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, then tempered her martial soul with Sun True Fire; her phoenix became pure crimson-gold Ultimate Fire.
Level 69 Soul Emperor	74, 75	Introduced as Shrek’s level-69 assault-type Battle Soul Emperor and official team captain.

Background

Ma Xiaotao was Yan Shaozhe’s treasured disciple at Shrek Academy. Before her transformation, the Evil Fire within her martial soul repeatedly flared up; its escalating backlash endangered both her cultivation and mental state. She had previously relied on Yun Yi to suppress it and used those visits as opportunities to tease him. 59

After Yun Yi and Mu En obtained Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, Yun Yi offered to permanently remove the Evil Fire rather than merely suppress it. Ma Xiaotao accepted the painful procedure without hesitation, enduring the clash between Ultimate Ice and her flames so Yun Yi could cleanse the impurities from her meridians. 59

The purification temporarily weakened her Soul Power, but Yun Yi followed it by tempering her martial soul with Sun True Fire. The process completed her phoenix’s origin and transformed her former Evil Fire into pure Ultimate Fire, freeing her from its long-standing backlash. 60

Appearance

Ma Xiaotao is a tall, glamorous young woman with a forceful, mature presence that matches her phoenix martial soul. She commonly wears a fitted crimson combat outfit. 59 74

• Flame-like red hair.
• Pale-pink eyes.
• Tall, well-proportioned build.
• Usually surrounded by intense fire-attributed Soul Power or phoenix flames in battle. 59 77

Personality

Ma Xiaotao is proud, direct, hot-tempered, and intensely competitive. She hates evil deeply; when the Shrek team discovered the Death’s Messengers’ victims, she nearly lost control and attacked immediately. 84

Around Yun Yi, her normally assertive demeanor often gives way to teasing, bashfulness, or jealousy. She is conscious of her feelings for him and resents circumstances that keep them on opposing sides or allow other girls to get close to him. 59 75 92

Despite her impulsiveness, she can set aside pride when necessary. She accepted the agony of her martial soul transformation, followed Yun Yi’s tactical instructions during the Death’s Messengers operation, and conceded a spar once further resistance would only endanger her team. 59 78 84

Abilities & Skills

Ultimate Fire Redflame Phoenix

Ma Xiaotao’s Redflame Phoenix was purified and evolved into an Ultimate Fire martial soul. Its crimson-gold flames are destructive enough to dominate conventional fire-attribute combatants. 60 74

• Removes the former instability and backlash of her Evil Fire. 60
• Enables her to serve as Shrek’s primary frontal assault fighter. 74
• Can evaporate poisonous blood, acid, and undead toxins from a distance. 84
• Is still suppressed by Yun Yi’s higher-order Sun True Fire and by Ultimate Ice empowered directly by Yun Yi. 77 79

Phoenix Fireline

A ranged flame attack used for battlefield denial and precision burning.

• Assigned to incinerate suspicious corpses during the Death’s Messengers operation, preventing chained corpse explosions. 84
• Used in the tournament to restrict two agility-attack Soul Kings’ movement. 100

Phoenix Bathing in Flame

A mobility-oriented soul skill that turns Ma Xiaotao into a streak of fire for rapid assault. 77

• Used to close distance against Yun Yi during the official-versus-reserve spar. 77
• Its effectiveness was reduced inside Yun Yi’s Great Sun Radiant Light Domain. 77

Phoenix Meteor Shower

A wide-area bombardment skill.

• Blanketed half the tournament stage with fire, limiting opponents’ escape routes. 100
• Paired effectively with Wang Dong’s aerial Butterfly God’s Light to defeat two Soul Kings. 100

Frostflame Annihilation Lotus

A combined attack created under Yun Yi’s control using Ma Xiaotao’s Ultimate Fire and Ling Luocheng’s Ultimate Ice.

• Combined opposing extreme attributes into a single destructive lotus. 106
• Destroyed Star Luo National Academy’s defensive barrier and engulfed its team. 106

Relationships

• Yun Yi — Her Junior Martial Granduncle and the person who permanently cured her Evil Fire and evolved her phoenix into Ultimate Fire. She openly teases him, becomes bashful around him, and is jealous of Wang Dong’s closeness with him. 59 60 74 92
• Yan Shaozhe — Her master; he was deeply concerned by her Evil Fire backlash and anxiously observed her transformation. 59 60
• Dai Yueheng — Shrek’s vice-captain and her fellow frontline attacker. They frequently operate as twin spearheads, including during the Death’s Messengers mission. 74 84
• Gongyang Mo — Official-team support member and familiar acquaintance who recognizes and teases Ma Xiaotao over her feelings for Yun Yi. 74
• Ling Luocheng — Teammate and fellow extreme-attribute combatant. Ling Luocheng’s Yun Yi-empowered Ultimate Ice suppressed Ma Xiaotao in a training match; both later joined Yun Yi in forming the Frostflame Annihilation Lotus. 79 106
• Wang Dong — Teammate viewed by Ma Xiaotao as a romantic rival for Yun Yi’s attention. 92

Story Role / Major Arcs

Evil Fire Purification

Ma Xiaotao returns to Sea God Island expecting Yun Yi’s usual help suppressing her Evil Fire, only to learn that he intends to eliminate it completely. She endures the purification and divine-fire tempering, awakening as an Ultimate Fire Soul Master. 59 60

Shrek Team Training

As the official team captain, Ma Xiaotao leads one side of Elder Xuan’s internal training match. Yun Yi’s Great Sun Radiant Light Domain suppresses her Ultimate Fire by twenty percent, and his fifth soul skill forces her team to concede. 75 77 78

In the rematch, Ling Luocheng’s Yun Yi-empowered Ultimate Ice overwhelms Ma Xiaotao’s flames. Recognizing that her side cannot recover, Ma Xiaotao personally surrenders. 79

Death’s Messengers Operation

Ma Xiaotao is assigned to advance with Dai Yueheng and use Phoenix Fireline to neutralize explosive, toxin-filled corpses. She is enraged by the group’s atrocities but is restrained by Yun Yi’s command to preserve the infiltration plan. 84

Continental Tournament

Ma Xiaotao competes for Shrek Academy throughout the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament. She and Wang Dong defeat two agility-attack Soul Kings through coordinated battlefield control and aerial firepower. 100

In the semifinals against Star Luo National Academy, she lends her Ultimate Fire to Yun Yi’s Frostflame Annihilation Lotus alongside Ling Luocheng’s Ultimate Ice, breaking the enemy barrier and overwhelming the opposing team. 106