Xiao Xiao

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Xiao Xiao (萧萧)
Gender	Female 12
Age	Nine at enrollment; eleven by the time she reaches rank 30 12 40
Origin	Star Luo Empire; member of the declining Xiao noble family 11 13
Affiliation	Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Practical Control Department; Mo Yu Xiao Team 13 28
Occupation/Role	Student; ranged support and control Soul Master 10 13
Martial Souls	Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron; Nine Phoenix Ceremonial Flute 16
Innate Soul Power	Level 9 12
First Appearance	Pursued by a Demon Wind Wolf near the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest 6

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Rank 17 — one-ring Soul Master	12 16	Recorded during admission testing at age nine. Her cauldron martial soul has one yellow soul ring.
Rank 20	18	Reaches the second-ring threshold after Lin Mo shares his sun-and-moon cultivation method; she is the first of the trio to break through.
Rank 21 — two-ring Soul Grandmaster	18	Obtains a nearly thousand-year second soul ring with two Soul Douluos assigned by Jing Hongchen. Unlocks Cauldron's Surge at nine and a half.
Rank 25	30	Begins practicing the Soul Power Compression Method because her previous soul power was thin and mixed. Competes in the Freshman Assessment at age ten.
Rank 30 — third-ring threshold	40	Reaches rank 30 at age eleven; Jing Hongchen plans a Star Dou Great Forest expedition to obtain her third ring.
Third soul ring obtained	45	Secures a soul ring during the forest expedition. Its age, resulting skill, and her post-absorption rank are not specified.

Background / History

Xiao Family

The Xiao family was a powerful Star Luo clan roughly a century before Xiao Xiao's enrollment. Repeated suppression by successive emperors reduced it to nominal nobility without most noble privileges or landholdings. Her father's business ability nevertheless provided her with a stable upbringing 10 11 13.

Rescue and Maple Leaf City

Xiao Xiao first encounters Lin Mo and Huo Yuyao while fleeing a two-thousand-year Demon Wind Wolf with injuries to her arms and legs. Lin Mo uses a clone to divert the wolf and push her clear, then catches her himself. Her father, Xiao Sheng, strikes the wolf with his cauldrons, and the children help Xiao Xiao reunite with her parents 6 7.

In gratitude, her mother, Xiao Xia, invites the homeless Lin Mo and Huo Yuyao to accompany them to Maple Leaf City and gives them a house to use. Xiao Xiao becomes close to both children during the week-long journey, particularly helping the initially shy Huo Yuyao relax 7 8.

Over the following month, Xiao Xiao regularly teams up with Huo Yuyao to spar against Lin Mo, with her parents refereeing. Their recorded score reaches three wins apiece. She initially suggests attending Shrek Academy together after experiencing Huo Yuyao's Spiritual Detection Sharing 9 10.

Enrollment in the Sun Moon Empire

After learning that Lin Mo and Huo Yuyao intend to study in the Sun Moon Empire, Xiao Sheng offers to send Xiao Xiao with them. She eagerly accepts, despite her mother's concern about the political consequences for a Star Luo noble family. This is her first long journey away from her parents with friends 11.

Her admission test reveals twin martial souls, level-nine innate soul power, and rank-seventeen cultivation, prompting the teachers to report her talent to the academy's leadership. Jing Hongchen welcomes all three children and provides cultivation resources and individual dormitory rooms 12 13.

Xiao Xiao chooses the Practical Control Department rather than Soul Tool studies, since she is not interested in crafting or its theory. Although disappointed to attend a different teaching building from her friends, she arranges to travel with them in the morning and meet for lunch 13 14.

Freshman Assessment

Xiao Xiao proposes entering the Freshman Assessment together and names their group the Mo Yu Xiao Team, taking one character from each member's name 28.

Lin Mo handles their opening match while the girls remain in reserve. In the finals against Nana, Liu Cheng, and Chen Hao, Xiao Xiao protects Huo Yuyao with her cauldrons and contests the opposing ranged attacks. After Lin Mo defeats Nana, he helps the girls overcome the remaining opponents, securing the championship 30 31 32 33.

Later Academy Life

Xiao Xiao accompanies Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin to the aftermath of the Holy Spirit Cult branch's destruction. Jing Hongchen scolds her for delaying her report of the incident, then tells her that her parents have arrived in Mingdu. They subsequently visit the children and explain that their business has established itself in the city 38 39.

After reaching rank 30, Xiao Xiao joins the expedition to the Star Dou Great Forest and obtains her third soul ring 40 45.

Appearance

Xiao Xiao is initially described as petite, with long dark-green hair tied in a distinctive ponytail. Lin Mo observes that she resembles her mother while sharing her father's hair color 6 7.

• Hair: Dark green, usually gathered into a ponytail 6.
• Height after her second ring: 170 centimeters, eighteen centimeters taller than Huo Yuyao at that time 20.

Personality

Xiao Xiao is cheerful, talkative, and quick to become familiar with others. Once recovered from her rescue, she openly discusses her martial souls, soul-ring experience, and recent ordeal with her new friends. Her enthusiasm for traveling abroad outweighs her sadness at leaving her parents 8 11.

She is playful and competitive, teasing Lin Mo during sparring and protesting when his praise of Huo Yuyao makes her own performance sound weak. She also repeatedly teases Huo Yuyao about her closeness to Lin Mo 10 31 34.

Her confidence does not always translate into patience in combat: Xiao Sheng identifies rushing and neglecting her own safety as the decisive mistakes in one sparring loss. Outside battle, she shows strong concern for her friends, embracing both after their Far North journey and checking Huo Yuyao for injuries 10 27.

Abilities & Skills

Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron

Her cauldron martial soul manifests as an archaic bronze vessel with a solemn presence. Its summoning produces a perceptible increase in gravity around her 16.

• Three-cauldron control: Splits the martial soul into three independently directed cauldrons for attacks from multiple directions 10 32.
• Protection: Keeps cauldrons beside herself and her teammates to intercept attacks; in the finals, she retains two for defense while sending one toward the opposing team 32.
• Mobility: Grips a moving cauldron and uses its momentum to carry herself away from an attacker 10.
• Cauldron's Tremor — first soul skill: Activates by colliding cauldrons and can stun an opponent. Keeping too few cauldrons nearby can prevent her from using it defensively 10.
• Cauldron's Surge — second soul skill: Granted by her nearly thousand-year second ring. The older ring makes it more powerful than its original-story counterpart, though its precise effect is not described in the supplied passage 18.

Nine Phoenix Ceremonial Flute

Her second martial soul appears as a verdant-green long flute. When she replaces the cauldron with it during her introduction, a gentle force envelops those present 16.

• Xiao Xiao describes both martial souls as leaning toward auxiliary abilities 16.
• No named flute soul skill is documented in the provided chapters.

Cultivation and Battle Coordination

• Sun-and-moon cultivation: Learns Lin Mo's cultivation method before her second-ring breakthrough 18.
• Soul Power Compression: Practices compression to address thin, mixed soul power 30.
• Team tactics: Uses Huo Yuyao's Spiritual Detection Sharing for battlefield awareness and silent coordination 10 32.
• Combat limitation: Her early support-oriented abilities leave her disadvantaged in close combat against Lin Mo if she fails to maintain distance or reserve adequate protection 10.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wrist-worn Storage Soul Tool: Given by Xiao Xia before departure, containing money and prepared food 11.
• Academy resource package: A Storage Soul Tool containing money, rare metals, and medicinal herbs, supplied by Jing Hongchen upon enrollment 13.
• Freshman Assessment rewards: Receives a soul storage ring containing her championship prizes, an increased academy stipend, and the right to collect a Class 6 soul tool 33.

Relationships

• Xiao Sheng — Father, business provider, and sparring referee. He supports her decision to study with Lin Mo and Huo Yuyao and offers practical criticism of her combat mistakes 10 11 13.
• Xiao Xia — Mother. Treats her injuries after the wolf attack, prepares her supplies for departure, and worries about her safety and the consequences of studying abroad 7 11.
• Lin Mo — Rescuer, friend, sparring opponent, and teammate. Teaches her his cultivation method and promises her parents that he will look after her 7 10 11 18 28.
• Huo Yuyao — Close friend and teammate. They become comfortable with one another during the journey to Maple Leaf City, regularly spar together, and coordinate defense during the assessment finals 8 9 10 32.
• Jing Hongchen — Academy headmaster and benefactor. Provides enrollment resources, arranges protection for her second-ring hunt, and plans the later forest expedition 13 18 40.
• Meng Hongchen — Friendly senior who praises Xiao Xiao's appearance and talent; Xiao Xiao readily accepts her affectionate embrace 16.

Trivia

• A visit to a Mingdu cherry blossom forest for Xiao Xiao's tenth birthday inspires Lin Mo's flower-themed sword technique 30 31.
• Although she addresses Lin Mo as an older brother, her assessment introduction establishes that she is ten while he is still nine 30.
• Lin Mo recognizes her immediately from her dark-green hair and signature ponytail, noting that she looks smaller than her comic counterpart 6.