Xu Shanshi

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Netherworld Sect upbringing

As the Netherworld Sect’s young mistress, Xu Shanshi had access to its secret cultivation method and rare Black Tortoise Divine Pills. Her martial soul possessed an atavistic Black Tortoise bloodline, but fully awakening it required intimate contact with someone of the opposite sex 30 95.

Before Jiang Nan entered Shrek Academy, the sect selected him as a prospective husband who would marry into the sect. He had rank-eight innate soul power and accepted the arrangement out of desperation over his gravely ill mother. Xu Shanshi stopped the encounter, told him to put his clothes back on, and gave him a Black Tortoise Divine Pill without demanding anything in return 31 95.

Duel with Gu Xingyue

Xu Shanshi’s first encounter with Gu Xingyue began after Huo Yutong’s grilled fish sold out. Her attendant berated Huo Yutong, prompting Gu Xingyue to strike him with five vine lashes. Xu Shanshi acknowledged her failure to discipline the attendant but condemned Gu Xingyue’s response as excessive. Their argument became a challenge, with a Xuanwu Pill at stake 30.

Confident in her reputation as “Eternal Defense,” she accepted the duel in the Soul Arena. Gu Xingyue overwhelmed her with lightning-enhanced strikes, a lightning saber, successive Ball Lightning attacks, and a final concentrated blast that shattered her shield. She lost decisively before a crowd that included Jiang Nan 31.

Three days later, she personally delivered the promised Black Tortoise Divine Pill in a jade box. After Gu Xingyue inspected it, she left without prolonging the encounter 32.

Reserve Team and Inner Court training

Xu Shanshi participated in Xuan Zi’s selection test for Shrek’s tournament Reserve Team. She charged alongside Bei Bei but was driven back by Xuan Zi’s palm strike. During the continued test, she exchanged positions with Jiang Nan and blocked a meteor-hammer attack, benefiting from Huo Yutong’s shared Spiritual Detection 53 54.

Selected for the seven-member Reserve Team, she joined its training visits to the Inner Court. There, Gongsun Mo teased her with apparent romantic interest before revealing that she was joking. Xu Shanshi subsequently took part in the scheduled match against seven Inner Court disciples, only to watch Gu Xingyue defeat all seven with his Battle Armor-enhanced Thunder Prison Storm 55 56 57.

Tournament and divine-trial opportunities

Xu Shanshi fought with Shrek’s team against Skywind Academy at the Continental Soul Master Tournament 65.

During the later Heavenly Soul Empire delegation, she watched Bei Bei encourage Gu Xingyue and Huo Yutong’s romance. The scene prompted her to reflect on her own refusal to awaken her martial soul through intimacy and on her lack of romantic feelings for Jiang Nan 95.

At Jialing Pass, Xuan Zi encouraged her, Bei Bei, Wang Dong, and Jiang Nan to visit the Original Sin Gods’ Divine Halls and seek trials. Xu Shanshi silently clenched her fists at the prospect; no trial result for her is documented in the supplied chapters 104.

Appearance

Xu Shanshi has black hair in a neatly maintained hime, or princess, cut 31 32.

• Hair: Extends behind her shoulders, with its ends swaying as she walks 31.
• Bearing: Usually composed and unhurried; her presence makes spectators clear a path for her 31 32.

Personality

Xu Shanshi is proud of her strength and social standing. Initially, she treats Gu Xingyue as an inexperienced junior and finds his challenge almost laughable. Her confidence extends to declaring that her defense can suppress every opponent in the Outer Court 30 31.

Despite that arrogance, she keeps her promises. After losing, she delivers the wagered pill herself and allows Gu Xingyue to inspect it without disputing the result 32.

She refuses to secure power through an unwanted intimate relationship. She rejected the sect’s arrangement with Jiang Nan, helped him without extracting a price, and continued to resist the requirements for permanently awakening her Black Tortoise bloodline. She explicitly feels no romantic attraction toward him, although she considers surpassing her strength a prerequisite for any possibility between them 95.

Her usual composure falters under Gongsun Mo’s teasing. She seeks help from her teammates, politely rejects the apparent advance, and later steps behind Bei Bei to avoid further attention 55.

Abilities & Skills

Netherworld Shield

A top-tier defensive martial soul manifested through dark radiance and the phantom of an ancient tortoise shell covered in intricate patterns 31.

• Soul-power reinforcement: She pours additional soul power into the shield to strengthen its surface and close its tortoise-shell patterns 31.
• Mobile defense: She shifts the shield overhead to intercept a descending lightning saber 31.
• Shield charge: She uses it offensively, ramming toward Xuan Zi during the selection test 53.
• Team protection: After swapping places with Jiang Nan, she expands the shield and withstands Xuan Zi’s meteor hammer, though cracks form and the impact pushes her backward 54.
• Limits: Gu Xingyue’s concentrated lightning assault breaks through and completely shatters it 31.

Darkness and Frost Swap

A position-exchange ability used to replace Jiang Nan on the battlefield 54.

• Places Xu Shanshi directly in front of Xuan Zi so she can intercept an attack with her shield 54.
• The supplied account does not specify its range, cost, or soul-ring assignment.

Black Tortoise Bloodline

The Netherworld Shield can awaken into a complete Black Tortoise form through the Netherworld Sect’s special secret method 95.

• Temporary activation: Requires practicing the method and kissing someone of the opposite sex 95.
• Permanent awakening: Requires sexual intimacy; Xu Shanshi refuses to meet that condition 95.
• Naming distinction: Combat passages already call her shield the “Black Tortoise Shield,” but the later explanation explicitly distinguishes it from the complete awakened form 31 53 95.

Equipment / Items

• Black Tortoise Divine Pill: A rare pill also called a Xuanwu Pill in the duel’s terms. She gives one to Jiang Nan during their earlier arranged encounter and another to Gu Xingyue after losing their wager 30 32 95.
• Jade box: The palm-sized container used to deliver Gu Xingyue’s pill 32.
• Action-Type Defensive Soul Guidance Devices: Offers several to her teammates before their match against the Inner Court disciples 56.

Relationships

• Jiang Nan — Former prospective husband selected by her sect and later a Shrek teammate. He has loved her since before entering the academy; she does not reciprocate. She previously spared him an unwanted intimate arrangement and gave him a pill 31 54 95.
• Bei Bei — Friend, teammate, and archrival. Xu Shanshi closely follows her achievements but remains the “eternal runner-up,” partly because Bei Bei’s martial soul is fully evolved while her own is not 55 95.
• Gu Xingyue — Initially an adversary who defeats her for a pill; later her Reserve Team teammate. His Battle Armor leaves her so astonished that she pinches herself to verify she is not dreaming 30 31 32 56 57.
• Huo Yutong — Teammate whose shared Spiritual Detection helps her follow Xuan Zi’s movements during combat 54.
• Gongsun Mo — Inner Court senior and training partner who flusters her with teasing advances, then says she was joking 55.
• Xuan Zi — Reserve Team selector and instructor; later directs her toward the Divine Halls to seek a trial 53 55 104.
• Xiaotao — Gongsun Mo recalls that Xu Shanshi previously helped suppress Xiaotao’s evil fire; the method and reason she stopped are not explained 55.