Ma Xiaotao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Ma Xiaotao grew up at Shrek Academy and considers it her home. She became the personal disciple of Yan Shaozhe, dean of its Martial Soul Department, and was recognized as the Inner Court’s second-greatest genius after Zhang Lexuan 12 27 98.

Her Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul is inherited from the lineage associated with Ma Hongjun, the Evil Fire Phoenix of the original Shrek Seven Devils. Its incomplete evolution leaves her with severe side effects: she must restrain her evil fire, and its backlash can rob her of control. Zhang Lexuan states that, without this burden, Ma Xiaotao’s talent and accomplishments would be no less than her own 26 27 64 67.

Jiang Hai’s coffins provide the first effective relief shown in the supplied chapters. Their suppression weakens the evil nature of her flames and allows her cultivation to accelerate. The later Star Dou Great Forest expedition completes that process: divine-fire purification transforms her martial soul into the Divine Fire Phoenix, ending the backlash permanently 26 28 67.

Appearance

Ma Xiaotao is tall, youthful, and strikingly beautiful, with a slender, curvaceous figure. Her martial soul’s evolution gives her an unusually sacred bearing 27 45 67.

• Red clothing: Appears in red when confronting accusations that Jiang Hai possesses an evil martial soul 45.
• Phoenix manifestations: Produces enormous crimson wings and thirteen trailing flame-tail feathers during the Sea God’s Fate gathering 350.
• Divine-fire aura: Her evolved flames are pure fiery red, radiate divinity, and can inspire an instinctive urge to worship 67.
• Phoenix armor: Her second-state Martial Soul Avatar encases her human form in fiery phoenix armor; a later battle depicts it as light phoenix armor 351 590.

Personality

Ma Xiaotao is casual, straightforward, and approachable, but also impatient and intensely combative. Her enthusiasm for testing Jiang Hai’s unusual abilities earns her the nickname Flame Maniac. Despite her pride and playful threats, she concentrates completely once a serious fight begins 59 98 99 118.

She is protective of people she values. She defends Jiang Hai against accusations, conceals evidence that could cause him trouble, and invokes Yan Shaozhe’s authority to discourage retaliation against him. Her affection eventually becomes explicit when she confesses her love and accepts the apparent loss of her divine fire rather than jeopardize his chance at godhood 45 124 171 456.

Her loyalty to Shrek strongly shapes her judgment. She initially urges Jiang Hai to prioritize martial soul cultivation over soul tools and wants him to remain at the academy. However, East Cang Academy’s close-combat soul-tool performance challenges her assumptions, and she later distinguishes Jiang Hai himself from the hostile faction he publicly represents 90 98 166 420.

Abilities & Skills

Divine Fire Phoenix

Her evolved martial soul is a completed fire phoenix with the Ultimate Fire attribute. Unlike the Divine Fire Demon Apes, she can genuinely command the divine flame associated with the Ancient Fire God 67.

• Overwhelming heat: Her flames defeat Tianling Academy’s entire formation before any opponent can withstand a single move 150.
• Attribute resistance: As an Ultimate Fire wielder, she can face Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice at the same rank without ordinary attribute suppression 107.
• Integrated amplification: Her fire-attributed martial soul, soul skills, and soul bones all amplify her phoenix divine fire, allowing her to suppress Jiang Hai’s civilization divine fire during their tournament clash 197.
• Cultivation trade-off: Acquiring Ultimate Fire slows her cultivation, but she describes herself as facing virtually no bottlenecks 90.
• No recurring evil-fire backlash: The completed evolution permanently removes her original martial soul’s torment 67.

Divinity and Faith

Her phoenix divine fire carries an influence beyond temperature: it can draw upon faith and affect those who witness it 67 201 428.

• Worship-inducing presence: Zhang Lexuan recognizes that, if Ma Xiaotao wished, the divine flame’s influence could turn an ordinary observer into a fanatical worshipper 67.
• Faith absorption: Her flames can grow stronger by absorbing the faith of living beings, an ability she confirms through later research 428.
• Combat enhancement: Even before reaching Limit Douluo, she draws on scattered phoenix faith to strengthen her Martial Soul Avatar’s fire 201.
• Potential route to godhood: The narration identifies establishing phoenix faith as a possible path to godhood if she reaches level 99. This is a prospective route, not an ascension shown at that point 201.

Soul Skills

Advanced Martial Soul Avatar

Ma Xiaotao can maintain her human body while manifesting her avatar as phoenix armor. She demonstrates this second state as a Soul Douluo, despite the technique normally being mastered only by Titled Douluos above level 95 351.

• Preserves the body shape best suited to close combat while retaining the avatar’s enhancement 351.
• Supports freely adapted skill use, including an arm-mounted Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike 351.
• Contributes to Xuan Zi’s assessment that her combat strength already rivals a level 92 Titled Douluo’s 351.
• Carries a significant expenditure: during the earlier tournament, she avoids activating her avatar in the team battle to preserve strength for subsequent rounds 197.

Phoenix Descends to the Mortal World

A self-created technique derived from Mu En’s Sovereign’s Descent, inherited through Yan Shaozhe and modified with Ma Xiaotao’s own insights 351.

• Unites her essence, energy, and spirit 351.
• Manifests the prayers of countless beings alongside her phoenix power 351.
• Overwhelms Jiang Hai with phoenix flames during their Sea God’s Fate spar, though his Lifebound Soul Tool helps him survive 351.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Divine Fire Demon Ape King’s Head Soul Bone — Absorbed alongside her seventh soul ring; contributes to her martial soul’s evolution and increased strength 67 69.
• Ruby Soul Tool Ring — Stores objects including her close-combat saber and the red fruit she offers Jiang Hai 66 67.
• Class 6 close-combat saber — Used to decapitate the dying Divine Fire Demon Ape King, whose attribute surpasses her pre-evolution flames 66.
• Soul Guidance Flying Vehicle — A blue-green vehicle given to her by Jiang Hai when he reveals that he is its inventor, Ji Bronze Coffin 122.
• Divine Fire Golden Pearl — Swallowed during Tang San’s love test. It qualifies her to inherit the Fire God’s position and is later fully merged into her body 456 565.
• Flame-condensed divine saber — Wielded against Abyss powerhouses when her combat strength approaches the quasi-god level 632.

Relationships

• Jiang Hai — Junior schoolmate, treatment partner, sparring opponent, and love interest. Their arrangement begins with her offering protection in exchange for cultivating inside his martial soul. She later protects his inventor identity and explicitly confesses her love for him 27 122 456.
• Yan Shaozhe — Teacher. She is his personal disciple, receives his guidance, and inherits a Sovereign’s Descent-derived technique through him 27 118 351.
• Zhang Lexuan — Eldest Inner Court senior sister and frequent sparring opponent. Helps secure her seventh soul ring; continues winning their later challenges despite finding Ultimate Fire difficult to handle. Rescues her after Phoenix Nirvana leaves her vulnerable 67 336 590.
• Ma Hongjun — Ancestor associated with her inherited Evil Fire Phoenix. Ma Xiaotao distinguishes her Divine Fire Phoenix evolution from his Ten-Headed Fire Phoenix 64 67 118.
• Xuan Zi — Academy elder who recognizes her level 70 breakthrough, offers assistance with her seventh ring, and later assesses her Titled Douluo-level combat strength 38 351.
• Dai Yueheng — Shrek teammate and fellow frontline fighter. Although she dislikes him, she intervenes to stop Jiang Hai from inflicting further severe injury during the finals 195 197.
• Huo Yuhao and He Caitou — Junior academy associates. She allows Tang Sect members to support Huo Yuhao’s risky intervention and later stays behind with Zhang Lexuan to wait for both men during the Mingdu retreat 420 438.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Freshman Assessment and Evil-Fire Treatment

• Serves as Jiang Hai’s final-stage freshman assessment examiner. She rejects a failed applicant’s challenge and tells Le Qianqian that knowing her mother will not earn special treatment 12 13.
• Runs amok across Sea God Lake during an evil-fire outbreak. Jiang Hai contains her inside his Golden Coffin and borrows her strength to suppress the evil energy 26.
• Proposes a protection-for-treatment arrangement after testing his coffins. Jiang Hai warns that frequent treatment could kill him without Mystic Water Pills 27.
• Defends him when others question whether his related fire makes him an Evil Soul Master, pointing to her own martial soul and Yan Shaozhe’s judgment 45.

Star Dou Great Forest Expedition

• Accompanies Jiang Hai and Zhang Lexuan on a joint soul-ring hunt. After Jiang Hai obtains his second ring, they search for a fire-attributed soul beast over fifty thousand years old for her seventh ring 50 63.
• Jiang Hai’s Glazed Heart Mirror leads them to a secluded, intensely hot valley containing Divine Fire Demon Apes and a Divine Fire Spirit Fruit 63 64.
• Absorbs the ape king’s soul ring and head soul bone, evolves into the Divine Fire Phoenix, and searches for Jiang Hai once the absorption is complete 67.
• Finds him unharmed, apologizes for placing him in danger, and gives him the red fruit. After returning, she enters more demanding Inner Court training 67 69.

Soul Fighting Tournament

• Joins Shrek’s official team as its exceptionally powerful seven-ring Ultimate Fire combatant 132 133.
• Remains the only official team member without serious injury after an evil soul master’s corpse-explosion attack. She asks Jiang Hai to reinforce Shrek, but he is already East Cang Academy’s vice-captain 150.
• Sweeps Tianling Academy in the opening match and anchors Shrek while its reserve members gain experience in later rounds 150 158.
• Faces Jiang Hai and East Cang in the finals. In the team battle, she suppresses his flames and protects Dai Yueheng; in individual combat, she activates Phoenix True Body against Jiang Hai’s borrowed Soul Douluo-level power 197 201.
• Later explains to Shrek’s elders that Jiang Hai’s apparent evil-soul-master identity is intended to infiltrate and destroy an evil soul master sect 209.

Return to Shrek and Sea God’s Fate

• Intervenes when Chen Yong is restrained before his Inner Court assessment, then leaves to rest before the matchmaking gathering 335 336.
• Challenges Jiang Hai during the bride-stealing stage. Their Ultimate Fire clash ends in a draw after he uses the Fate-Reversing Blade against Phoenix Dances Across the Nine Heavens 350 351.
• Her performance prompts Sea God Pavilion elders to discuss admitting her to the pavilion; the supplied scene records the proposal rather than a completed admission 351.

Mingdu and Qiankun Asking Love Valley

• Supports the decision to aid Huo Yuhao against Jiang Hai while warning that Jiang Hai is not truly their enemy 420.
• Strikes Xu Tianran with a hundred-thousand-year Ultimate Fire skill during the failed assassination attempt. His protective soul tools keep him safe, and she later stays behind to await Huo Yuhao and He Caitou 438.
• Confesses her love in Tang San’s test and swallows the Divine Fire Golden Pearl rather than let Jiang Hai lose his chance at godhood. She passes, and Tang San reveals the pearl’s connection to the Fire God inheritance 456.

War Against the Abyss

• Relieves a veteran Super Douluo and bombards the Abyss army with Phoenix Meteor Shower, helping stabilize the allied defensive line 587 588.
• Melts the white-bone city’s shield, then uses Phoenix Nirvana against the Bone Emperor. The attack melts much of his body and kills thousands of Bone Demons; Zhang Lexuan carries her away before he can retaliate 590.
• Later vaporizes successive groups of Abyss powerhouses while wielding a flame-condensed divine saber, displaying near quasi-god combat strength 632.

Notable Quotes

“I do, but Shrek Academy's rules come first. Even if I know your mother, I would never bend the rules for personal favors, so don't expect any help from me.” 13

“Junior brother, you'd better work hard. I'll be waiting for you in the Inner Court!” 69

“But don't let it happen again. He isn't our enemy. In truth, he has suffered more than any of us!” 420