Xu Sanshi

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Xu Sanshi (徐三石)
Alias(es)	“Sword Saint” — a self-proclaimed ambition after acquiring a Soul Tool sword 123
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Xuanming Sect; Shrek Academy; Tang Sect 99 261 295 303
Occupation/Role	Young master of the Xuanming Sect; defense-type Soul Master; member of Shrek’s tournament Reserve Team 95 99 295
Title	Lifetime Shrek Seven Devils 162
Martial Soul	Water-attributed Xuanming Shield, which can temporarily awaken into the Black Tortoise Shield 122 156
Documented cultivation	Soul Ancestor 94 95

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Soul Ancestor — established rank	94 95	One of the Reserve Team’s three Soul Ancestors, alongside Bei Bei and Jiang Nannan. All three are selected unanimously during the team-composition vote.
Black Tortoise Power awakening	130	Under pressure against Zhengtian Academy, his Martial Soul transforms. A three-ring combined technique overwhelms the opposing Angel Martial Soul Soul King, enabling Jiang Nannan to eliminate her.
Temporary Black Tortoise Shield reawakening	156	Distress over Jiang Nannan’s poisoning triggers another temporary transformation. His defense and penetrating Black Tortoise Power increase, while Xuanming Displacement becomes Black Tortoise Displacement. No cultivation-rank increase is stated.

Background / History

Xu Sanshi is a direct descendant and young master of the Xuanming Sect. He grew up with abundant cultivation resources, eating Mystic Water Pills so frequently that the narration compares them to sugar beans. By the Reserve Team’s training period, his body had already been thoroughly purged of impurities 99 295.

At Shrek Academy, he became one of the seven students selected for the tournament Reserve Team. Dai Yueheng subsequently chose him during joint training as the strongest reserve member, although the senior team’s tactical briefing gave the reserves only generic assignments 95 100.

After the tournament championship, Shrek awarded him the Lifetime Shrek Seven Devils title and three additional Soul Bones. He, Bei Bei, and Jiang Nannan also received permission to take the Inner Court entrance examination early after the academic year, with personal instruction until then 162.

During Mu En’s final instructions, Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan agreed to join the Tang Sect and help Bei Bei rebuild it. Later passages identify him as a Tang Sect member and show him visiting Shrek’s Inner Court 261 295 303.

Appearance

• Burly build: His physique makes the strenuous run alongside the Inner Court seniors particularly difficult for him 107.
• Good looks: He regards his appearance, family standing, and talent as top-tier, making his unsuccessful pursuit of Jiang Nannan especially frustrating to him 295.

Personality

Xu Sanshi is boastful, flirtatious, and easily drawn into teasing exchanges. He openly ogles women, makes crude jokes, and becomes especially determined to look capable when Jiang Nannan is present. Her rebuffs rarely discourage him; he repeatedly interprets even unfavorable reactions as encouragement 106 120 123 124.

His pride does not prevent practical adaptation. Initially resistant to Soul Tools, he accepts a defensive shield after Lu Yi repeatedly disarms him during training. By the tournament auction, those experiences have made him an advocate of defensive equipment 99 122.

Beneath his frivolity, he can become resolute in dangerous matches. Before facing Zhengtian Academy, he solemnly promises Jiang Nannan that he will win. Her later poisoning provokes genuine anguish and anger, bringing out his awakened Martial Soul’s strength 129 156.

He also enjoys theatrical deception and opportunistic rule-bending. After defeating Zhengtian’s opening pair, he exaggerates his weakness and pretends to faint so Jiang Nannan will support him. During the Finals, he retracts an unfinished appeal to the referee as soon as the danger passes, allowing him to remain in the match 130 151 152.

Abilities & Skills

Xuanming Shield

His water-attributed Martial Soul provides top-tier defense and supports a close-range, frontline fighting style 99 118 122 123.

• Shield attacks: Before adding a sword, his principal offensive method is bashing opponents with the shield, which requires considerable force to be effective 123.
• Water-attribute suppression: Its attribute partially suppresses the painful effects of Lu Yi’s boil-producing curse. Ma Xiaotao had also previously asked him to suppress her Evil Fire 99 122.
• Disarming vulnerability: Lu Yi’s Disarming Charm can sever his connection to the shield, leaving him helpless against close-range attackers such as Bei Bei and Jiang Nannan 99.
• Limited ranged offense: Against Xiao Hongchen’s cannon barrage, he has no ranged attack with which to retaliate 156.

Xuanming Displacement

Xuanming Displacement exchanges Xu Sanshi’s position with a target, allowing him to break formations and expose opponents to his teammates 120 139 151.

• Ring-out setup: He jumps off the tournament stage and swaps with Situ Yu, leaving Lu Yi to force the displaced captain to the ground 120.
• Formation disruption: He swaps with Dou Ling’s captain while the latter holds the Thunder Cannon’s core, interrupting the weapon’s assembly 139.
• Target isolation: He brings the disarmed Ma Rulong into Shrek’s formation, where Dai Yueheng immediately pressures him 151.
• Attack redirection: By swapping with an enemy after shots have been fired, he makes the Sun Moon Team attack its own member 152.
• Shield counter: Protective barriers can deny him a viable target. The Sun Moon Team deliberately prepares its formation around this limitation 150 151.

Xuanming Shock

Xuanming Shock briefly stuns nearby opponents. Xu Sanshi uses it immediately after exchanging places with Ma Rulong during the Finals 151.

• He plans to combine further stunning with another displacement to bring Dai Yueheng into the enemy formation, but abandons that plan to attack Xiao Hongchen 151.

Black Tortoise Power

The awakened form greatly strengthens his shield and upgrades his displacement skill. The transformation shown in the individual Finals is explicitly temporary 130 156.

• Combined technique: During the Zhengtian match, a three-ring combination leaves the opposing Soul King unable to resist Jiang Nannan’s finishing throw 130.
• Penetrating power: Waterlike Black Tortoise Power seeps into gaps in Lin Xi’s Soul Tool defenses, forcing him to release his shield 156.
• Black Tortoise Displacement: His enhanced fourth Soul Skill can exchange positions or teleport a living being within 100 meters to him 156.
• Durable but not immovable: His awakened shield remains uncracked under more than a hundred Level 5 Soul Cannons, but their sustained impact pushes him out of the arena 156.
• Displacement remains counterable: Xiao Hongchen anticipates his attempt to close the distance and nullifies it with a golden shield before firing 156.

Shield-and-Sword Combat

Lu Yi recommends putting a weapon in Xu Sanshi’s free hand to supplement his shield-based offense. Wang Yan then acquires a Soul-Breaking Sword for him to practice with 123.

• Xu Sanshi initially has no sword experience 123.
• During the Finals, he holds his own against Meng Hongchen’s sword attacks by combining his own sword with his shield, though he is still no master swordsman 152.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Defensive Soul Tool shield — adopted during training to block Lu Yi’s Disarming Charm; successfully stops the spell’s red projectile, but not the subsequent boil curse 99.
• Level 4 Soul-Breaking Sword — a Sun Moon Empire close-combat Soul Tool purchased by Wang Yan for 30,000 Gold Soul Coins. A small Soul Power infusion sharpens it and allows it to penetrate some Soul Power defenses 123.
• Mystic Water Pills — a resource readily available through his sect. He promises Lu Yi two pills as payment for using a weakening ability against Bei Bei; Lu Yi later asks him about purchasing pills in bulk 99 103 295.
• Soul Bone rewards — awarded three additional Soul Bones after the championship; the supplied passages do not identify his selections or document their fusion 162.

Relationships

• Jiang Nannan — the focus of his persistent romantic pursuit. She usually rejects his advances, but rushes to support him after his apparent collapse and worries during his fight with Xiao Hongchen. Her distress is closely tied to his Black Tortoise awakenings 103 129 130 156.
• Bei Bei — teammate and teasing rival. They exchange insults such as “electric eel” and “turtle”; Xu Sanshi hires Lu Yi to hinder Bei Bei during training, while Bei Bei later offers to help collect the promised payment 103 117.
• Lu Yi — sparring rival, tournament partner, and occasional accomplice. Repeated magical defeats drive Xu Sanshi to adopt Soul Tools, while their displacement-and-spell combination proves effective against Yunluo Academy. Their friendship continues through later exchanges between Tang Sect members and Lu Yi’s core group 99 118 120 152 303.
• Ning Tian — support teammate whose enhancements he values highly. When she threatens to withhold support after his teasing, he immediately switches to flattery 94 126.
• Xuan Zi — Reserve Team selector and combat instructor. He rebukes Xu Sanshi’s objections to Lu Yi’s exceptional selection and supervises the training that exposes his defensive weaknesses 95 99.
• Wang Yan — tournament teacher who equips him with the Soul-Breaking Sword and encourages him to experiment without forcing a complete change in fighting style 123.
• Mu En — academy elder who rewards his tournament contribution and asks him to help restore the Tang Sect 162 261.
• Xiao Hongchen — tournament opponent with a personal grudge against him. Their encounters include Xu Sanshi’s failed surprise attack in the team battle and his eventual defeat under Xiao’s cannon barrage 151 156.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Reserve Team Selection and Training

• Selected unanimously alongside Bei Bei and Jiang Nannan as the team’s three Soul Ancestors 95.
• Questions Lu Yi’s reinstatement after elimination, then backs down when Xuan Zi declares it an exception 95.
• Becomes Lu Yi’s preferred Disarming Charm target, adopts a Soul Tool shield, and then suffers a painful curse that Jiang Nannan exploits to knock him out 99.
• Recruits Lu Yi to retaliate against Bei Bei, turning their training rivalry into a two-pill bargain 100 103.

Tournament Qualifying Matches

• Yunluo Academy: Partners with Lu Yi to eliminate Situ Yu in under five seconds, then quickly defeats Shang Yue 120 121.
• Zhengtian Academy: Awakens Black Tortoise Power alongside Jiang Nannan and wins the opening two-on-two match against a pair containing a Soul King 129 130.
• Dou Ling Academy: Disrupts the Thunder Cannon plan by displacing its captain, helping Shrek defeat a team with five Soul Kings 139.

Finals Against the Sun Moon Team

• Supports Dai Yueheng’s shield-led advance, then uses displacement to isolate Ma Rulong after Lu Yi strips away his offensive equipment 150 151.
• Avoids removal by changing his unfinished call for rescue into “I’m fine!” and receives a warning from the referee 151 152.
• Redirects enemy fire through displacement and holds off Meng Hongchen with shield-and-sword combat during Shrek’s team-battle victory 152.
• In the individual event, temporarily reawakens the Black Tortoise Shield and decisively defeats Lin Xi, despite being ten cultivation levels below him 156.
• Loses to Xiao Hongchen after his displacement is countered. His stubborn defense forces Xiao to spend about 50% of his Soul Power, rather than the planned 40% 156.

Tang Sect and Later Appearances

• Agrees to Mu En’s request to join the Tang Sect and help Bei Bei restore it 261.
• Meets Lu Yi nearly five months later; their conversation covers Jiang Nannan, the Ministry of Magic’s expenses, and a proposed bulk purchase of Mystic Water Pills 295 296.
• Joins Bei Bei in occasional sparring exchanges with Lu Yi’s core members. Both dislike facing Lu Yi’s silent casting and repeatedly usable teleportation 303.

Notable Quotes

“I’ll win. I promise!”
— To Jiang Nannan before facing Zhengtian Academy 129

“I’m fine!”
— Retracting his unfinished appeal to the referee after Xiao Hongchen’s weapons are disabled 151

“Next.”
— After defeating Lin Xi with the awakened Black Tortoise Shield 156