Xuan Zi

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Xuan Zi
Alias(es)	Elder Xuan (玄老); Taotie Douluo 18
Gender	Male 18
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; Sea God Pavilion 18
Occupation/Role	Sea God Pavilion Elder; Shrek Academy’s second-in-command; temporarily oversees the Pavilion during Mu En’s seclusion 18 22 52
Cultivation	Peak level 98 Super Douluo; Shrek Academy’s second-strongest expert 18 20
Martial Soul	Godly Taotie Bull, with the earth attribute 18 37
Soul Rings	Two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red 30 33
Status	Alive; suffers minor arm injuries from Yun Chen’s self-detonation 52
First Appearance	Appears unnamed at the end of Chapter 17; identified in Chapter 18 17 18

Background

Xuan Zi is Mu En’s martial nephew and the grand-disciple of the previous Sea God Pavilion Master. His senior position gives him access to Shrek Academy’s secrets, including knowledge of the Golden Tree’s power 22.

With Mu En largely absent from public view, Xuan Zi is Shrek’s most prominent publicly known expert. He is described as one of the continent’s five strongest experts, though Du Busi is considered stronger 18.

Appearance

Xuan Zi is an elderly, disheveled man whose shabby clothing contrasts with his exceptionally bright crimson eyes 18.

• Clothing: A formerly white robe, stained grayish brown and torn in several places 18.
• Hair and footwear: Tangled hair and bare feet 18.
• Accessories: An enormous purplish-red wine gourd hanging at his waist 18.
• Habitual appearance: Frequently eats chicken drumsticks and drinks wine, leaving his hands greasy 18 21.

Personality

Xuan Zi treats weaker opponents with casual mockery and overwhelming confidence. He initially spares the Body Sect disciples out of consideration for Du Busi and because he disdains bullying juniors. When the Pavilion elders explain that the survivors will report Chen An’s talent, however, he regrets letting them leave 18 21.

He is deeply invested in Shrek’s future. Discovering Chen An’s potential to become a Limit Douluo fills him with excitement because the academy has struggled to find a successor to the aging Mu En. His guilt over provoking the Body Sect crisis later drives him to fight Du Busi first, hoping to reduce the burden on Mu En and the Golden Tree 18 22 30.

His drinking can interfere with his responsibilities: he sleeps through the beginning of Yun Chen’s intrusion after drinking heavily. Once he believes Chen An is in danger, his response becomes furious and brutal, culminating in threats of torture and the tearing off of Yun Chen’s remaining arm 48.

Abilities & Skills

Godly Taotie Bull

His transformed body is an enormous creature over thirty meters long, surrounded by intense yellow radiance 30.

• Has a sheep’s body, eyes beneath its armpits, tiger’s teeth, human claws, and enormous bull horns 30.
• Its nine soul rings appear as halos between the horns 30.
• Uses Martial Soul Avatar against Jinpeng, concentrating earthen-yellow energy on its horns to fire a beam 33.

Earth Manipulation

Xuan Zi’s earth-element control is precise enough to rebuild Shrek Academy after its battle with the Body Sect 37.

• Reduces shattered buildings to dust and reshapes the ground like modeling clay 37.
• Raises replacement classrooms, dormitories, and the Soul Fighting Arena directly from the earth 37.
• Leaves basic finishing work and furnishings to complete the reconstruction 37.
• Uses a meteor attack against Du Busi, though Du Busi absorbs it with a dark-green vortex 30.

Overwhelming Force and Restraint

His cultivation allows him to disable much weaker Soul Masters without activating his martial soul 18.

• Immobilizes Sun Menghan before breaking his exceptionally tough left leg with a thrown chicken bone 18.
• Suppresses Sun Menghan and his companions with overwhelming pressure 18.
• Creates an ocher vortex in his transformed mouth that drags Yun Chen backward despite the latter burning life force to triple his escape speed 48.

Spiritual Perception

His mental power stands at the peak of formless substance, allowing detailed examination of another Soul Master’s physique and martial soul 18.

• Identifies the physical and mental attributes of Chen An’s True Self martial soul 18.
• Fails to detect Chen An’s actual Soul King-level mental power because the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm conceals it 18.
• Has not reached formed substance, the mental threshold the text identifies as necessary for becoming a Limit Douluo 18.

Combat Limits

• Du Busi: Overwhelms him in a direct exchange and sends him flying more than a thousand meters, badly battered 30.
• Jinpeng: Possesses a superior soul-ring configuration, prompting Xuan Zi to fight cautiously; Xuan Zi nevertheless has substantially greater soul power 33.
• Elder Song: Is faster in movement, though Xuan Zi’s suction ability lets him stop an escaping enemy without pursuing them 48.
• Point-blank explosions: Yun Chen’s self-detonation causes minor arm injuries through carelessness, despite the assembled elders preventing casualties 52.

Equipment / Items

• Wine gourd — An enormous purplish-red container made from an unidentified material, carried at his waist 18.
• Storage Soul Tool — Stores food, including the chicken leg he produces during a Sea God Pavilion meeting 21.
• Chicken bone — Uses the remains of a drumstick as an improvised projectile against Sun Menghan 18.

Relationships

• Mu En — Martial uncle and superior. Xuan Zi behaves unusually formally in his presence and worries about failing the responsibilities entrusted to him 20 22 48 52.
• Chen An — A prospective future guardian of Shrek. Xuan Zi brings him to the academy and arranges for Zhang Lexuan to teach him Shrek’s meditation method 18 20.
• Zhang Lexuan — Responds to her emergency request and protects her from the Body Sect disciples attempting to take Chen An 18.
• Du Busi — Rival and Body Sect master. Their dispute over Chen An escalates into a direct duel 18 29 30.
• Jinpeng — Body Sect opponent whom he confronts with Martial Soul Avatar during the battle for Chen An 33.
• Lin Huiqun — Fellow Pavilion elder who trades insults with him and questions whether Chen An has Body Sect connections 20 21.
• Qian Renxue / Ren Xue — Accepts her disguised Holy Swan martial soul without uncovering her identity; gives her much less attention than Chen An 18.
• Yun Chen — Intruder whom he helps corner and grievously injures after accepting the mistaken belief that Yun Chen knows Chen An’s whereabouts 48.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Rescue in the Star Dou Great Forest

Xuan Zi arrives after Zhang Lexuan activates Shrek’s emergency soul tool. He interrupts the Body Sect disciples’ attempt to take Chen An, injures Sun Menghan, and orders the group to leave 17 18.

After hearing Zhang Lexuan’s account, he examines Chen An and concludes that the child’s True Self martial soul offers a path to Limit Douluo. Unaware that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm is concealing part of Chen An’s abilities, he takes the boy back to Shrek 18.

The Body Sect Conflict

At the Sea God Pavilion meeting, Xuan Zi’s report prompts the Martial Soul and Soul Tool departments to compete over Chen An’s education. His admission that he spared the Body Sect disciples also alerts the elders that Du Busi will likely come for the child 20 21.

When Du Busi arrives with more than twenty elite disciples, Xuan Zi rejects his claim that a body martial soul makes Chen An the Body Sect’s property. He fights to weaken Du Busi before Mu En intervenes, but loses their exchange 29 30.

He subsequently fights Jinpeng during the broader confrontation. Afterward, his earth manipulation restores the academy’s ruined buildings 33 37.

Yun Chen’s Intrusion and Chen An’s Disappearance

Xuan Zi enters the confrontation late because he has been drinking and sleeping. His suction ability prevents Yun Chen from escaping, enabling Shrek’s experts to surround him 48.

Yun Chen genuinely does not know where Chen An is, but falsely claims to have sent him away through a spatial soul skill. Xuan Zi reacts violently, and Yun Chen detonates his soul core rather than submit 48.

The elders contain the explosion without casualties, but find no trace of Chen An. Still temporarily overseeing the Pavilion, Xuan Zi orders them to expand the search beyond Shrek Academy just as Mu En emerges from seclusion 52.

Notable Quotes

“You brats from the Body Sect, for the sake of that old monster Du Busi, I won't hold today's matter against you. Otherwise, that old monster will accuse me of bullying the younger generation.” 18

“Find him, of course! If he isn't in Shrek Academy, widen the search and send people outside to look!” 52