Xiao Xiao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Xiao Xiao is the daughter of the head of a small merchant family. Although celebrated for her innate full soul power, she grew slowly enough that other clan members questioned whether her father had falsified her talent. She initially responded by cultivating diligently, but eventually accepted that she might be ordinary despite her strong starting point 15 16.

After graduating from a junior soul master academy, she prepared to enter Shrek Academy at rank 19. Worried that she would be expelled, her family planned to give her second martial soul a hundred-year ring. Lu Yu opposed the decision and explained that her slow progress came from poor temperamental compatibility, not inadequate talent. Her father paid him thirty thousand gold soul coins and entrusted him with her guidance and future ring choices 14 15.

Appearance

• Build: Extremely short and petite; at her introduction, she stood only as high as her father’s stomach and was hidden behind the adults accompanying him 14.
• Hair: Green, worn in a large ponytail 14.
• Expressions: Frequently puffs out her cheeks when offended and uses exaggeratedly smug or mocking expressions when confident 14 17 19.

Personality

Xiao Xiao’s lively, mischievous behavior initially conceals deep insecurity about her talent. Her family’s praise clashes with years of mediocre progress, leaving her afraid of challenges that might expose her limitations. She nevertheless chooses to risk her place at Shrek when Lu Yu offers her a chance to prove herself 15 16.

Success quickly brings out her competitive and provocative side. After her first victories, she begins calling opponents “small fry” without prompting and takes increasing pleasure in overwhelming them. This confidence is not initially consistent: she remains reluctant to face Jiang Nannan and dislikes sparring with Lu Yu because of his painful, evasive tactics 17 19 36 39.

She is loyal to her companions, choosing to stand with Lu Yu rather than submit to Zhou Yi’s teaching and promising to help Huo Yutong take revenge against the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion. She is also sensitive about her height, recording perceived insults in a Book of Grudges 28 41 44.

Abilities & Skills

Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron

Her primary martial soul manifests as a massive golden cauldron carved with three golden dragon heads. It can divide into three independently controlled cauldrons or merge into one stronger form 15 19.

• Remote operation: Each cauldron can move and release soul skills independently 19.
• Close-range combat: Keeping the cauldrons near her increases their movement speed, allowing them to orbit her as shields and repeatedly strike an opponent 19.
• Three Cauldrons as One: Merging improves raw strength and amplifies soul-skill effects 19 36.
• Combat classification: Xiao Xiao originally intended to pursue the Control System, but Lu Yu directed her toward the Power Attack System. Her fighting style retains substantial immobilization and area-control capabilities 17.
• Range limitation: Her control becomes weaker at greater distances, making evasive opponents difficult to hit 39.

Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute

Her second martial soul is an emerald-green jade flute carved with phoenixes. Its manifestation produces peaceful, all-embracing music accompanied by a gentle breeze 15.

• Temperamental affinity: Lu Yu associates it with an empress acting as the mother of the realm; kindness, acceptance, and a maternal disposition improve compatibility 15.
• Training method: Xiao Xiao practices treating her companions as her children and uses Jiang Nannan’s strict maternal behavior as a model 37.
• Improved resonance: Her insight into Mu En’s technique strengthens her connection to the flute as well as the cauldron 50.
• Documented limits: No named flute soul skill or completed flute soul-ring acquisition is shown in the supplied chapters 14 15 50.

Temperament-Based Cultivation

Lu Yu identifies her cauldron with a conqueror suppressing all beneath them, while her flute embodies an inclusive, maternal ruler. Her original girlish temperament resonates poorly with either ideal 15.

• Cauldron path: Repeated victories and an increasingly unshakable resolve can improve cultivation; fear of defeat or shattered confidence can make it slower 15.
• Flute path: Developing kindness and acceptance offers an alternative to pursuing overwhelming battle confidence 15.
• Natural confidence: After her tournament victory over Wang Dong, Lu Yu suggests that genuine confidence is helping more than her earlier deliberate attempts to imitate it 42.
• Unrealized potential: Lu Yu believes both martial souls could draw on national fortune or faith and become super martial souls. This is his assessment of their potential, not an evolution Xiao Xiao has achieved 15.

Cultivation Training and Support

• Soul-power fusion: Cultivating with Lu Yu doubles her soul-power circulation speed 26.
• Mysterious Heaven Skill: Lu Yu arranges to teach her and Jiang Nannan this cultivation method before expanding their group sessions 26.
• Gold of Life enhancement: Her strengthened body and spiritual power improve her combat foundation and enable her unusually old second-ring absorption 29 36.
• Battle analysis: Lu Yu teaches her to conceal soul skills, combine abilities decisively, and avoid underestimating opponents 25.

Equipment / Items

• Book of Grudges — Records people who mock her height, with revenge intended to settle each entry. She later adds Huo Yutong after realizing that her friend had been treating her as a child during her maternal-disposition training 41 43 50.
• Soul-Shocking Scattered Sand arena — A temporary battlefield prepared for her entrance challenge. Its sand conducts soul power and vibrations, extending the effectiveness of her ground-based tremors; it was an external advantage rather than an innate cauldron ability 17.

Relationships

• Lu Yu — Mentor and cultivation partner, whom she usually calls “Grandmaster Lu.” He redirects her development, plans her soul rings, and helps rebuild her confidence. During the entrance challenge, he first guides her through hypnosis-assisted reactions and later directly controls her body against Wu Feng 15 17 19 36.
• Huo Yutong — Close friend and teammate. Her Spiritual Detection Sharing helps Xiao Xiao intercept attacks and position her cauldrons. Xiao Xiao promises to protect her and support her revenge; Huo Yutong’s motherly treatment also becomes a source of comic friction 38 42 44 50.
• Xiao Clan Chief — Father and principal family supporter. He initially opposes risking her admission to Shrek, but finances Lu Yu’s guidance and helps capture the beast for her second ring 15 16 36.
• Jiang Nannan — Senior cultivation companion and model for a strict maternal disposition. Xiao Xiao acknowledges that her teleportation and soul tools are beyond her current ability to counter 36 37.
• Tang Ya — Companion who offers to teach her Tang Sect techniques; Xiao Xiao accepts 23.
• Wang Dong — Repeated opponent and height-related antagonist. Xiao Xiao defeats her in a dorm-bed dispute and again during the Freshman Assessment, despite Wang Dong’s advancement to Soul Elder 29 41 42.
• Wang Yan — Teacher who supervises the assessment preparations and grants leave for her second-ring acquisition 36 37.
• Mu En — Senior whose demonstration of Ruling the World gives her an important breakthrough in martial-soul compatibility 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Shrek Entrance Challenge

After swearing that defeat would permanently bar her from Shrek, Xiao Xiao breaks through to rank 20 and establishes an arena outside the admissions office. She challenges incoming students while possessing only one soul ring 16 17.

• Defeats Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng together, prompting Zhao Haochen to surrender 17.
• Defeats another trio using ground-transmitted tremors amplified by the prepared arena 17.
• Wins against further Soul Grandmasters as her confidence and soul-power circulation improve 19.
• Defeats rank-24 Wu Feng while Lu Yu controls her body and demonstrates Triangle Kill 19.
• Registers at Shrek after the challenge and is assigned to Freshman Class One with Lu Yu and Huo Yutong 19 20.

Early Academy Training

• Joins Lu Yu’s cultivation group and receives physical and spiritual strengthening 26 29.
• Refuses to return to Zhou Yi’s class merely to avoid expulsion, choosing to stand with Lu Yu 28.
• Defeats Wang Dong over the group’s dorm bed using close-range cauldron pressure and alternating split and merged forms 29.
• Gains her second ring, then begins maternal-disposition training when Lu Yu finds that confidence alone has not fully restored her cultivation potential 36 37.

Freshman Assessment

• Forms a three-person team with Lu Yu and Huo Yutong and handles much of its offensive fighting 37 38.
• Forces her original entrance-challenge opponents to surrender upon seeing her thousand-year second ring 38.
• Defeats Wang Dong’s three-ring Soul Elder form, blocking Butterfly God Slash with Cauldron’s Weight Tremor 42.
• Helps defeat Ning Tian’s team and subsequent opponents on the way to the championship match 44.
• Blocks Dai Huabin’s initial attack against Huo Yutong in the final, then knocks him unconscious after Lu Yu prevents his martial-soul fusion with Zhu Lu, securing the team’s victory 46 47.

Insight from Ruling the World

Mu En’s emotion-infused technique gives Xiao Xiao a deeper understanding of her martial souls. A kingly presence emerges from her small frame, and her compatibility with both souls reaches the standard expected of innate full soul power. Her improved understanding of the flute also makes her recognize Huo Yutong’s attempts to take the motherly role in their friendship 50.

Notable Quotes

“I swear a Martial Soul Oath: if I lose the pre-enrollment arena battle, I will never enter Shrek for the rest of my life.” 16

“Those I defeat are never rivals in my eyes. I'll give you time to catch up, until you can no longer even glimpse me in the distance.” 42

“Don't worry, Yutong. From now on, leave both of your protection to me.” 42