Xu Xiaoyan

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Eastsea City and Lu Guan’s Invitation

Xu Xiaoyan belongs to the Xu family, whose hereditary martial soul is the Ice Staff. She and her older brother, Xu Xiaoyu, inherit it from their father. Their mother, Ms. Yang, initially expects both children to become ordinary Soul Masters because their innate soul power is low 24.

She meets Lu Guan and Na’er through her mother’s friendship with Xu Ran. While helping Lu Guan prepare lunch, she reveals her martial soul’s nighttime transformation. Lu Guan suggests the Heavenly Starry Sky Academy, which researches star-attributed martial souls, and offers to help her pursue training there. Xiaoyan hesitates because of the distance and the prospect of daily training 24 25.

After she mentions the invitation at home, Xu Xiaoyu strongly advocates accepting it, knowing Lu Guan’s connections to Leng Yaozhu. He persuades their parents to let Xiaoyan accompany Lu Guan to Heaven Dou City 30.

Evolution and Mu Ye’s Training

At Lu Guan’s request, Mu Ye arranges a visit to the Dome Star Observatory. Its stellar power causes Xiaoyan’s martial soul to summon itself and undergo a beneficial mutation. Her demonstration of Star Wheel Chain immobilizes Li Zhilong, who immediately wants the academy to recruit her 30 31.

Mu Ye instead decides to teach her personally. When Lu Guan questions the Body Sect’s restriction to body martial souls, Mu Ye distinguishes teaching Xiaoyan from admitting her into the sect. Her subsequent training includes unleashing soul skills beneath the waterfall behind the mountain 31.

Skysea Alliance Exhibition Match

Mu Ye brings Xiaoyan and Lu Guan to Tianhai Academy to obtain places on its exhibition team against Shrek Academy. During the qualifying strength test, Xiaoyan catches the fast-moving Zhou Ming with Star Wheel Chain 34 35.

In the exhibition match, she initially crouches at the edge of Lu Guan’s Battle Mist, frightened by Yu Chenxiao’s attacks. Seeing Lu Guan wounded and remembering his trust in her, she commits her soul power to Star Wheel Chain and pins Yu Chenxiao in place. This creates an opening for Lu Guan’s counterattack. Tianhai Academy wins, and Lu Guan praises her contribution 40 41.

Seclusion, Shrek, and the Star Luo Spirit Pearl

After discovering that Lu Guan and Mu Ye have entered secluded cultivation, Xiaoyan follows suit rather than be left behind. With no bottleneck to overcome, however, she finds prolonged seclusion tedious. When Lu Guan emerges, she persuades him to visit Heaven Dou City’s food street. They eat at Yuhao Grilled Fish, where Zhen Hua joins them and treats them to the meal 60 61 62.

She later insists on accompanying Mu Ye, Lu Guan, and A Ruheng to Shrek Academy to broaden her horizons. During the Holy Spirit Cult crisis, Lu Guan leaves her at Spirit Ice Plaza under Ya Li’s protection while he and A Ruheng enter Sea God Island. She reunites with them afterward 64 68 74.

Concerned that everyone else is advancing faster, Xiaoyan complains that she is still “treading water.” Lu Guan gives her the ten-thousand-year Star Luo Spirit Pearl and asks Mu Ye to devise an absorption plan. Mu Ye provides a medicinal prescription; no completed absorption or resulting breakthrough is documented in the supplied chapters 76.

Appearance

Xu Xiaoyan is petite and fair-skinned, with a shy expression when first introduced 24.

• Hair: Long and blue; later worn in a ponytail at Spirit Ice Plaza 24 74.
• Eyes: Large and initially clear blue. After her martial soul evolves, they appear deep enough to contain an entire galaxy 24 31.
• Smile: Reveals two small pointed canines 25.
• Clothing: Initially wears Eastsea Academy’s junior-division uniform 24.

Personality

Xiaoyan is soft-spoken, polite, and timid, especially around powerful Soul Masters. Leng Yaozhu’s presence makes her cling to Lu Guan’s clothes, and Mu Ye’s forceful manner initially frightens her. Lu Guan’s Demon Body also gives her nightmares when she first moves into the Body Sect compound, but familiarity turns that fear into a sense of security 25 30 31 40.

She is easygoing and easily bored by repetitive cultivation, yet dislikes falling behind her companions. Her loyalty can overcome her fear: during the Shrek match, concern for Lu Guan’s injuries drives her to act despite wanting to hide. She also enjoys food and outings, teases Lu Guan about his extraordinary physique, and responds playfully to Na’er’s jealousy 25 40 54 60 61 76.

Abilities & Skills

Star Wheel Ice Staff

• Original forms: An ordinary Ice Staff during the day and a star-attributed Star Wheel Ice Staff at night 25.
• Stellar resonance: Responds strongly to concentrated stellar power, which triggers its evolution at the observatory 30.
• Evolved form: A dark-gold shaft bearing three vertically arranged star wheels 31.
• Cold: The evolving star wheels radiate absolute-zero cold, freezing moisture in the observatory’s air into tiny crystals 31.
• Daytime manifestation: Golden star wheels appear on her normally ordinary daytime staff during the mutation 30.

Star Wheel Chain

Her first soul skill produces dark-gold chains with an unconditionally guaranteed control effect 31.

• Rapid activation: Her first post-evolution demonstration requires no windup and displays no flashing soul ring 31.
• Superior opponents: Briefly immobilizes Li Zhilong, a Soul Douluo, despite his attempt to break free with soul power 31.
• Fast targets: Catches Zhou Ming while he is moving at high speed 35.
• Empowered targets: Pins Yu Chenxiao while his ten-thousand-year soul skill, Body-Burning Tyrant Thunder, is active 40.
• Team coordination: Uses perception shared by Lu Guan’s Battle Mist to track the exhibition battle; this perception is supplied by him, not an independent ability of hers 40.
• Demonstrated duration: Li Zhilong is held for an instant; the supplied passages do not establish a fixed duration or cooldown 31.

Cooking

• Regularly helps her mother cook at home 25.
• Assists Lu Guan with lunch preparation and expresses interest in learning his dishes for her mother 25.

Equipment / Items

• Star Luo Spirit Pearl — A fist-sized, blue-white spiritual herb from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, classified as a ten-thousand-year heavenly treasure. Its pure stellar power draws an instinctive response from her martial soul. Her cultivation is too shallow for straightforward absorption, prompting Mu Ye’s medicinal prescription 76.
• Portable soul tool — Uses it to show Lu Guan the news of Bi Ji’s Federal Councilor candidacy 31.

Relationships

• Lu Guan — Friend, fellow disciple, and combat partner whom she calls “Brother Lu Guan.” He arranges the opportunity that triggers her evolution, encourages her in battle, and gives her the Star Luo Spirit Pearl 25 30 40 76.
• Mu Ye — Master. Takes her as a student after witnessing Star Wheel Chain, trains her beneath a waterfall, and plans her pearl absorption 31 76.
• Xu Xiaoyu — Older brother. Strongly supports sending her with Lu Guan and persuades their parents to agree 26 30.
• Ms. Yang / Auntie Yang — Mother. Her friendship with Xu Ran introduces Xiaoyan to Lu Guan and Na’er 24 25.
• Father — Passes down the family’s Ice Staff martial soul and has previously mentioned the Heavenly Starry Sky Academy 24 25.
• Na’er — Initially treats Xiaoyan as a rival for Lu Guan’s attention. Xiaoyan first ignores her provocations, then later deliberately leans close to Lu Guan after noticing her jealous glare 25 54.
• A Ruheng — Fellow disciple whom she addresses as “eldest senior brother”; accompanies her on the Shrek trip 64 74.
• Li Zhilong — Recognizes her beneficial mutation and attempts to recruit her after experiencing Star Wheel Chain firsthand 30 31.