Xiao Xiao

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Family and Early Academy Life

Xiao Xiao comes from a comfortable, low-ranking noble household in the Dou Ling Empire. Her father holds the title of baron, and both parents are musicians of some renown. Her family’s standing provides material security without the influence of the Duke’s Mansion 18 102.

At Shrek Academy, she becomes Huo Yuhao’s classmate and quickly grows attached to him. Believing his eye-type Martial Soul and apparent ten-year Soul Ring leave him vulnerable, she offers to protect him. When Dai Huabin confronts him, she and Wang Dong intervene, then seek Zhou Yi’s help after he is taken to the Soul Fighting Zone 13 14 15.

Freshman Assessment and Romance

Xiao Xiao joins Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er’s freshman assessment team, using her cauldrons to control opponents and protect Huo Yuhao while Wang Dong’er attacks. Huo Yuhao publicly introduces her as his girlfriend during a grilled-fish gathering, intensifying her rivalry with Wang Dong’er 36 40 55.

When Huo Yuhao appears badly injured while saving her during the assessment, Xiao Xiao undergoes a dramatic temporary transformation and overwhelms their opponents. Afterward, she considers withdrawing from both the competition and Shrek Academy if that would let them live safely together. She nevertheless returns for the final stages, and the team wins the assessment 56 57 58 59 67.

Their relationship develops through an exchange of treasured possessions: Xiao Xiao gives him a storage belt containing her family’s jade flute pendant and Gold of Life, while he entrusts her with his tiger-head short sword. She privately interprets the sword as a pledge of their future together 47 48.

Dou Ling Festival and Tournament

During the school break, Xiao Xiao hosts Huo Yuhao at her family home and takes him to the Dou Ling Festival. On its stairway trial, she avoids an unnecessary fight with a five-ring opponent by temporarily conceding a step, then returning after the opponent advances. Her gains from the festival help her reach the third-ring threshold 102 105 112 118.

Later, she and Wang Dong’er are held captive in the Hand of Death Bandit Group’s cave. Yan Shaozhe reaches the hideout and destroys the Death Messenger 145.

At the tournament, hearing Huo Yuhao addressed as “prince consort” prompts Xiao Xiao to demand an explanation. His disclosure leaves her devastated, and she asks for time apart. She stops reacting to Wang Dong’er’s provocations as she normally would. Xu Jiujiu subsequently approaches her sincerely rather than treating her as an enemy, while Zhou Yi encourages her to follow her heart 156 170 171.

Her affection for Huo Yuhao continues. She repeatedly tries to visit him during his two-month recovery and embraces him when he returns. Later, she openly expresses her love and helps care for the injured Zhou Yi 196 236.

Exchange Years and Reunion

During Huo Yuhao’s exchange-student years, Xiao Xiao follows a demanding regimen arranged by Xuan Zi. Training begins before dawn and combines physical conditioning with expensive medicinal baths, preparing her body for the energy absorbed through her cauldrons 343.

After Huo Yuhao returns, Xiao Xiao initially attacks him because dust obscures his identity. Once she recognizes him, she rushes toward him, only for Ji Juechen to mistakenly strike him into Sea God Lake while attempting to help. Xiao Xiao retaliates and breaks Ji Juechen’s domain before Jing Ziyan explains the misunderstanding 327.

The Deity and Ma Xiaotao

During a later expedition, Xiao Xiao helps protect her companions from danger at sea. Huo Yuhao, acting as Shadow, rescues her after her Flying Soul Tool is destroyed. She finds Shadow vaguely familiar but continues searching anxiously for Huo Yuhao as a separate person 333 334 335.

A Sea Princess subsequently brings her to a Deity’s refuge, where the missing Ma Xiaotao is in Deep Meditation. The Deity prevents Xiao Xiao from leaving and indicates that someone will come looking for her. Xiao Xiao suspects he intends to draw out Shadow 342 343.

When Ma Xiaotao awakens without recognizing her, she attacks Xiao Xiao and confines her in a cage of flames. Xiao Xiao tries to reason with her, insisting that her former companions are her family. She survives the escape from the collapsing fire island, but Ma Xiaotao later burns her hand and departs. Jiang Nannan, Ling Luochen, and Xi Xi find her, and Ling Luochen treats the lingering Ultimate Fire poison 348 349 351 352.

Training Under Qian Renxue

At rank 69, Xiao Xiao joins instruction under Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong. She volunteers to fight Ye Guyi alone despite Qian Renxue offering to make the match two-against-one. Their spar demonstrates her use of layered control, physical redirection, and successive cauldron techniques against a seven-ring opponent 383 385 386.

Appearance

• Early appearance: Petite, with a rounded, baby-faced appearance, large eyes, and long emerald-green hair 13 36 56.
• Empowered transformation: Temporarily takes on the appearance of a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old, with sharper phoenix-like eyes, green flashes in her pupils, and a cold, commanding bearing 56.
• Later growth: By the outer-courtyard tour with Vina, she reaches Huo Yuhao’s chest in height and has lost much of her earlier childish appearance 217.
• Recognizable accessory: Wears a golden pendant shaped like an angel’s longsword, given to her by Huo Yuhao 113 383.

Personality

Xiao Xiao is affectionate and easily embarrassed, particularly when Huo Yuhao teases her or makes their relationship public. She enjoys his attention but strongly dislikes others using his nickname for her 14 31 36.

Her concern for him repeatedly outweighs her competitive ambitions. After his apparent assessment injury, she is willing to abandon the competition and even academy life for his safety. His repeated injuries and disappearances make her increasingly anxious about losing him 58 211.

She is also possessive and confrontational toward Wang Dong’er, sometimes using her abilities to prevent her from taking Huo Yuhao away. Their rivalry does not entirely override her sense of companionship: Xiao Xiao invites Wang Dong’er to their end-of-term meal because they are teammates 68 71 114 124.

In combat, she combines caution with confidence. She avoids a needless festival duel, warns friends against recklessly absorbing dangerous Soul Rings, and later chooses to test herself alone against Ye Guyi 105 201 385.

Abilities and Skills

Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron

Her primary Martial Soul combines offense, defense, and control. It can divide into three independently moving cauldrons, block attacks, trap enemies, and affect souls to a degree 15 39 40 200.

• Defensive use: Blocks energy beasts, ice attacks, and environmental danger; she also shelters inside a cauldron during the fire-island escape 60 105 349.
• Team coordination: Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection Sharing allows precise interception and targeting 55 199.
• Combined control: After two months of sparring with Ma Xiaotao, she can instantly release her first two Soul Skills together 199.

Ninephoenix Worshipping Flute

Her second Martial Soul is an emerald-green jade flute whose first Soul Skill, Slowing, hinders enemies 39 199 327.

• Its sound waves carry a trace of Spiritual Power and briefly disrupt the Sea Princess’s spiritual attack 338.
• The Sea Princess can disperse the skill directly, demonstrating its limits against a much stronger opponent 338.
• At the Six-Ring Soul Emperor stage, Xiao Xiao has not added any further Soul Rings to this Martial Soul 338.

Devour Heaven and Earth

Originally obtained from her left-arm Soul Bone, this ability is released through a Martial Soul and changes its manifestation accordingly 68.

• Initial range: Draws in everything within five meters ahead 68.
• Soul Power absorption: Can drain one hundred percent of another person’s Soul Power and convert it into a fifty-percent Soul Power boost for herself 68.
• Initial restriction: Soul Power absorption is stated to be usable once every seven days 68.
• Initial safety limit: Absorbing from a Soul Master whose Soul Power exceeds hers risks severe backlash, potentially destroying her arm and body 68.
• Documented combat use: Drains Wang Dong’er until she cannot manifest her Martial Soul; later swallows Ji Juechen’s sword light, domain, and Soul Power 114 327.

Accelerated Cultivation

Xiao Xiao discovers that Devour Heaven and Earth can also absorb ambient Heaven and Earth Yuan Power 343.

• Using all three cauldrons triples the absorption efficiency 343.
• Without sufficient bodily strength, the incoming energy can rupture her meridians and permanently end her cultivation 343.
• Xuan Zi’s conditioning regimen and her External Soul Bone allow her to sustain the method. Her established foundation prevents the rapid intake from destabilizing her strength 343.

Reinforced Physique and Hidden Support

Her physical development benefits from both deliberate training and Huo Yuhao’s concealed assistance 128 343 385.

• Huo Yuhao secretly improves her physique and leaves Soul Power within her as an emergency safeguard 128 217.
• That reserve causes her temporary freshman-assessment transformation; she cannot consciously reproduce it afterward 217.
• Qian Renxue later observes his Soul Power continuously widening Xiao Xiao’s meridians and tempering her muscles and bones 385.
• Her External Soul Bone raises her physical strength to nearly that of an ordinary Titled Douluo 343.
• She can manifest a dark-gold claw, though it cannot cut through the mermaid princess’s protective sphere 327 341.

Equipment and Soul Bones

• Bright Devouring Pelican Sparrow Left Arm Bone — A fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone awarded to the freshman assessment champions; also called the Radiant Devouring Pelican Soul Bone in later passages. It grants Devour Heaven and Earth 67 68.
• Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear External Soul Bone — A five-hundred-thousand-year bone absorbed at the Soul Emperor stage through Xuan Zi’s repeated compression and sealing. Greatly strengthens her physique 343.
• Crystal Mammoth Right Leg Bone — Selects a ninety-thousand-year specimen at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion. Its description suggests a likely control-domain skill; she plans to absorb it after her third Soul Ring, but absorption is not documented in the supplied passages 137.
• Tiger-head short sword — Huo Yuhao’s treasured weapon, given to her in their exchange of love tokens 47 48.
• Golden angel-sword pendant — Huo Yuhao tells her to crush it in danger for immediate protection. Originally a token Qian Renxue gave him; it appears dulled after Xiao Xiao survives the fire-island disaster 113 351 383.
• Family jade flute pendant, Gold of Life, and storage belt — Gives these to Huo Yuhao; he refuses Electrolux’s request to take the gemstone 47.
• Utility Soul Tools — Uses storage equipment, Flying Soul Tools, a Soul Tool Thruster, a tracking device, and a Milk Bottle for replenishing Soul Power 200 333 334 352.

Relationships

• Huo Yuhao — Boyfriend and teammate. Their bond includes exchanged treasures, repeated rescues, and a painful period of distance after his relationship disclosures. She later resumes openly expressing her love 36 47 156 236.
• Wang Dong’er — Teammate and persistent romantic rival. Their arguments sometimes escalate into fights, although they cooperate in battle and show concern for one another in danger 60 70 71 334.
• Zhou Yi — Teacher. Oversees her training, intervenes in her conflicts with Wang Dong’er, and advises her to follow her heart. Xiao Xiao later helps nurse her through recovery 35 70 171 236.
• Xuan Zi — Cultivation mentor during Huo Yuhao’s exchange years. Designs her conditioning program and enables her to absorb the powerful External Soul Bone 343.
• Wu Feng — Classmate and combat partner. Together they defeat Xu Sanshi in the selection maze; Xiao Xiao later cautions her against unsafe Soul Ring absorption 128 201.
• Xu Jiujiu — Huo Yuhao’s other romantic connection. Treats Xiao Xiao affectionately, asks permission to borrow his company, and invites her to visit the palace 170 171.
• Ma Xiaotao — Senior and former sparring partner. Xiao Xiao continues to regard her as family after her memory loss, despite being attacked and injured by her 196 348 352.
• Qian Renxue — Later instructor and original owner of Xiao Xiao’s protective pendant. Recognizes Huo Yuhao’s hidden influence on her development 383 385.
• Ye Guyi — Sparring opponent against whom Xiao Xiao tests her full combat strength 385 386.

Notable Quotes

“I’m not Little Potato! I have a name! I’m Xiao Xiao!” 13

“Sister Xiaotao, whether you’ve lost your memory or whatever else has happened... but you have to know, we’re the ones who are family!” 348

“No need. I’ll go alone. That way, it’ll be fair to everyone.” 385