Xiao Xiao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

The Xiao Family’s Hope

Xiao Xiao comes from a family with its own businesses but little standing as a powerful soul-master clan. Earlier family members had unremarkable martial souls and innate soul power; her twin martial souls and full innate soul power gave the family hope of producing a strong cultivator. The patriarch openly declared that she had the potential to become a Titled master 16.

Before entering Shrek Academy, she accompanied Xiao Shan and other family elders into the Star Dou Great Forest. They intended to strengthen her second martial soul with a soul ring so she could establish herself at the academy. During an attack by three hundred-year Wind Demon Sparrows, Huo Yuhao rescued her from a charging bird by carrying her into a tree 16.

Huo Yuhao then explained that delaying rings for a second martial soul would allow her to obtain much older rings later. Xiao Shan accepted the advice and abandoned the immediate hunt for her flute’s first ring. Xiao Xiao was delighted to learn that her rescuer also intended to attend Shrek, but realized only after his departure that she had forgotten to ask his name 16 17.

Shrek Academy and Training

After entering Shrek, Xiao Xiao searched unsuccessfully for the boy from the forest before spotting him with Wang Dong. Their apparent intimacy made her fear that they were romantically involved, although she refused to give up without confirmation. She subsequently obtained Zhou Yi’s approval to transfer to the Soul Tool Experimental Class 36 37 39.

She formally introduced herself to Huo Yuhao during their reunion and questioned Wang Dong directly about her feelings for him. Wang Dong’s insistence that they were merely roommates reassured her. Later, Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao played a flute-and-guqin duet together 45.

On advice from Huo Yuhao and Xian Lin’er, Xiao Xiao reduced her focus on soul-tool manufacture because her martial-soul aptitude was much stronger. She remained in the Experimental Class, which still provided Martial Soul Department courses, and sought individual training from Huo Yuhao before the Freshman Assessment 54 56.

Freshman Assessment

Xiao Xiao competed alongside Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong. In the early rounds, she took the offensive against Wang Yi’s team, using shared spiritual detection to fight with her eyes closed. Her cauldron shock waves expelled two opponents immediately, and she knocked Wang Yi out of the arena to secure the victory 63.

Against Xie Huanyue, her ordinary attacks lacked the force to defeat his Rubber Elephant defenses. She instead merged her cauldrons and immobilized him, creating an opening for her teammates to kick him away. The technique left her briefly unsteady from excessive soul-power expenditure 66 67.

In the semifinal, she restricted Zhou Sichen’s team while Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong completed a coordinated elimination. During the final, she held Zhu Lu back with her cauldrons until Zhu Lu withdrew to fuse with Dai Huabin. Huo Yuhao defeated their Hell White Tiger, securing the championship for all three teammates 68 70.

Courtyard Life and Department Return

After the championship, Yan Shaozhe promised each teammate an additional compatible soul bone, potentially as old as ten thousand years. His recruitment offer to Huo Yuhao also included future Inner Court places and increased resources for Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong. Xian Lin’er later confirmed that the promises concerning them would stand despite Huo Yuhao remaining with the Soul Tool Department 71 74.

Xiao Xiao persuaded Huo Yuhao to let her share his new lakeside courtyard, citing both their team bond and the Inner Court’s denser soul power. She chose a ground-floor bedroom. By the eve of Huo Yuhao’s departure from Shrek, she and Wang Dong had returned to the Martial Soul Department and become Core Disciples while continuing to live with him 74 81.

She joined Wang Dong in seeing Huo Yuhao off with a grilled-fish meal beside Sea God Lake, reaffirming that they were a team 82.

Appearance

• Build: Petite, with a small, round face and fair skin 16 36.
• Hair: Long and dark green 16.
• Eyes: Bright emerald green 16.
• Expressions: Frequently blushes around Huo Yuhao, especially when conscious of her attraction to him 16 57.

Personality

Xiao Xiao is openly susceptible to good looks: her first response to being rescued is delight at Huo Yuhao’s appearance. Her attraction develops into persistent efforts to spend time with him, from testing Wang Dong’s relationship with him to seeking private training. Despite that initiative, she loses her nerve when close to confessing her feelings 16 45 56 57.

She is playful and competitive, particularly with Wang Dong. They argue over gifts and turns in battle, but cooperate effectively in combat, including a feigned-collapse trick intended to catch Huo Yuhao off guard. She also questions Wang Dong’s overly simple assessment tactics rather than assuming strength alone will settle every match 55 61 62 63.

Her concern for Huo Yuhao is not limited to romance. On learning about his childhood suffering, she tearfully embraces him because she wants to comfort him and keep him from remaining consumed by hatred. She also remembers his help with sincere gratitude and hopes to repay it 62 64.

Abilities & Skills

Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron

A top-tier tool martial soul that manifests three independently controlled cauldrons. Xiao Xiao uses them to attack, obstruct movement, and create openings for teammates 16 61 70.

• First Soul Skill — Cauldron’s Tremor: Releases shock waves from the cauldrons; capable of knocking opponents out of the arena 61 63.
• Second Soul Skill — Cauldron’s Swing: Drives the cauldrons into direct attacks, including close-range ambushes 62 66.
• Great Vessel of the Nation—Cauldron’s Tremor Oscillation: Activates both soul rings and merges the three vessels into a giant cauldron twice their previous size. It immobilizes Xie Huanyue and releases black rings of light that suppress his soul power 66.
• Limitations: Ordinary cauldron attacks are insufficient against Xie Huanyue’s defenses. The combined technique consumes enough soul power to leave her staggering afterward 66 67.

Nine-Phoenix Comes-to-Instrument Flute

Her second top-tier tool martial soul is an emerald-green jade flute decorated with nine intricately carved phoenix reliefs. It remains without a soul ring during her private training with Huo Yuhao 16 45 56.

• Musical performance: Produces clear, melodious sound and blends harmoniously with Huo Yuhao’s Ancient Guqin 45.
• Spiritual attacks: Carries spiritual power through invisible sound waves, following Huo Yuhao’s instruction 56 62.
• Limitations: Her early spiritual attack has no appreciable effect on Huo Yuhao because her spiritual power is far below his 62.

Spiritual Cultivation and Assisted Perception

Xiao Xiao quickly learns to sense ambient spiritual power when Huo Yuhao guides her through palm-to-palm contact 57.

• Absorbing even a small amount sharpens her senses and clears her mind 57.
• Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing gives her a panoramic mental view within one hundred meters during training and greatly improves her cauldron control 56.
• She later fights with her eyes closed while receiving that shared perception; this is Huo Yuhao’s support ability, not an independent skill of hers 63 64.

Equipment / Items

• Detection-type Level 2 Soul Tool — Made and gifted by Huo Yuhao after he became a Level 2 Soul Engineer 54.
• Mystic Water Pill — Originally offered by Xu Sanshi as an apology, then passed to Xiao Xiao by Huo Yuhao to help strengthen her foundation. Its consumption is not shown in the provided passages 64.
• Promised compatible soul bone — Yan Shaozhe pledges an additional soul bone of up to ten thousand years for each champion-team member; its delivery is not shown 71 74.

Relationships

• Huo Yuhao — Rescuer, teammate, training partner, housemate, and romantic interest. He protects her cultivation prospects, helps develop her control and spiritual power, and accepts her comfort after discussing his past. No mutual romantic commitment is established 16 56 57 62 74.
• Wang Dong — Teammate, housemate, and friendly rival for Huo Yuhao’s attention. Their teasing and jealousy coexist with coordinated combat and concern for one another. Xiao Xiao continues to regard Wang Dong as a boy; Wang Dong specifically asks Huo Yuhao to keep her disguise secret from her 55 62 67 74 79.
• Xiao Shan — Family elder who protects her during the Wind Demon Sparrow attack and oversees the attempt to obtain a ring for her second martial soul. He accepts Huo Yuhao’s correction of the family’s cultivation plan 16.
• Xian Lin’er — Experimental Class instructor who helps steer her toward martial-soul development rather than intensive soul-tool manufacture 49 54.
• Ma Xiaotao — Senior student whose habit of carrying Huo Yuhao away interrupts Xiao Xiao’s attempts to grow closer to him. Xiao Xiao initially treats her approach warily, though Ma Xiaotao later appreciates her tact in redirecting a conversation 50 57 75.