Ma Xiaotao

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Build: Tall, with long legs and slender hands 135 146 160.
• Eyes: Pink or pale pink; during her hostile awakening, her pupils resemble leaping flames 135 347 352.
• Clothing: Wears a black Shrek uniform during the tournament and a black robe while traveling independently 160 233.
• Footwear: Wears high heels, including a fiery-red pair during the island battle 160 349.
• Martial Soul manifestations: Fiery-red phoenix wings, intense surrounding flames, and a phoenix cry accompany her power 22 146.

Personality

Ma Xiaotao is proud, combative, and confident enough to dismiss counter-strategies as irrelevant against overwhelming strength. Her confidence does not prevent her from respecting weaker opponents: when Tianling Academy’s team resolves to fight despite the disparity, she orders her teammates not to fool around and to give them a serious match 160 161. She is also forceful in negotiations, refusing to return the Sword of Judgment without an apology for Ma Rulong’s attack 182.

Her manner toward Huo Yuhao is affectionate and markedly softer. She welcomes him with tenderness, clings to his arm, and complains that he did not visit her sooner 135. Her loyalty becomes fierce when she believes Mu En has killed him, prompting an immediate, furious counterattack 27.

After losing her memories, she becomes hostile toward former companions and repeatedly threatens Xiao Xiao. Her behavior is not uniformly indifferent, however: she takes Xiao Xiao with her when escaping the divine battle and attempts to shield them both from its shockwave 348 349.

History

Shadow Garden and the Fall of Sea God Island

Ma Xiaotao fights beside Huo Yuhao as Nu, one of the four women accompanying him against Shrek’s leadership. When Mu En uses the Golden Ancient Tree to reconstruct the dead Sea God Pavilion Elders, she confronts the controlled Xuan Zi with an Ultimate Fire-coated sword. Tang Ya restrains him while Jiang Nannan teleports past him and ignites a puppet with an Ultimate Fire seed 22 23.

During Mu En’s revival, Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan initially focus on checking the inner court students. Ma Xiaotao notices that Mu En is alive, then watches his dragon claw apparently pierce Huo Yuhao’s head. Believing her lord has been killed, she launches herself at Mu En in a pillar of Ultimate Fire. Huo Yuhao subsequently reveals that he is unharmed and unleashes the attack that devastates Sea God Island 27.

She continues participating in Shadow Garden’s operations afterward, accompanying Zhang Lexuan and Huo Yuhao when he departs disguised as Xuan Zi 32.

Shrek Successor and Treasure Gathering Pavilion

By the expedition to the Ming Dou Mountain Range, Shrek is grooming Ma Xiaotao as a future Sea God Pavilion successor for the generation after next. Her advancement to Soul Saint before twenty and possession of Ultimate Fire make her an exceptional prospect within the academy 140.

She also handles business at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion. When Huo Yuhao visits, she presents its recent sales and revenue, introduces Xi Xi as his contact, and guides them through a concealed entrance toward the pavilion’s hidden collection 135.

Hand of Death Expedition

Ma Xiaotao’s Ultimate Fire devastates the Hand of Death bandits’ outer forces. Wu Feng discovers that the flames of her Red Dragon Martial Soul instinctively submit to Ma Xiaotao’s power; Ma Xiaotao withdraws her Martial Soul after realizing its effect on her junior 146.

Against Long Xiaoyao, she checks Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong’er’s injuries, saves Dai Yueheng from an unseen attack, and orders the others to evacuate. Remaining behind with Tang Ya, she helps form Ice Crystal Spark, a fusion seal that immobilizes the Limit Douluo 150. The pair later coordinate Blue Silver Entanglement and Phoenix Meteor Shower against him 151.

She emerges from the expedition with minor injuries and disrupted internal circulation. Medication and recuperation bring her close to full recovery before the tournament 152 156.

Continental Tournament and Auction

As Shrek’s main-team captain, Ma Xiaotao becomes the academy’s decisive tournament advantage. She eliminates Tianling Academy’s entire team in a single attack and leads Shrek through repeated near-instant victories, earning the audience’s nickname Flame Maniac 160 178.

During the auction, she supplies the funds for Shrek’s purchase of the final lot. Her black card covers the sky lantern’s maximum price of fifty billion Gold Soul Coins, astonishing the students 177.

In the finals against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, she withstands Meng Hongchen’s poison and overwhelms the opposing team’s Soul Tools with an arena-wide sea of flames. Six controlled vortices shelter her own teammates within the attack. Ma Rulong’s subsequent use of the Sword of Judgment fails to secure victory, and she takes the weapon as compensation. Sun Moon concedes the remaining matches, securing Shrek’s championship 180 181.

Afterward, she negotiates Meng Hongchen’s transfer into Shrek’s care and arranges treatment with Huo Yuhao. She later privately informs Ling Luochen, Xi Xi, and Jiang Nannan that Shadow intends to recruit Meng Hongchen, urging them to prepare for an approaching threat rather than leave their lord to fight alone 182 184.

Departure and Ma Hongjun

Following Huo Yuhao’s apparent injury, Ma Xiaotao helps bring him into the Sea God Pavilion for treatment. Privately, she reports that arrangements have been made to deepen Shadow Garden’s infiltration of the Body Sect and Holy Spirit Cult 191 192.

She then confides that she feels an unexplained pull toward an unknown destination. Zhang Lexuan encourages her to follow it. During the two months before her departure, she repeatedly spars with Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong’er, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian, substantially improving their practical combat skills 192 196.

The pull eventually leads her to a red-haired traveler. She follows him from a frontier-town restaurant to the ruins of his former home, where he is revealed to be Ma Hongjun. Once discovered, she attacks with Phoenix True Body and her longsword, but he stops her effortlessly. Recognizing her as his descendant, he promises that she will never suffer again; she inexplicably begins crying and loses consciousness in his arms 233 234.

Lost Memories and the Island Battle

Xiao Xiao eventually finds the long-missing Ma Xiaotao in Deep Meditation beneath a tree in Ma Hongjun’s island refuge. Ma Hongjun prevents Xiao Xiao from contacting her and later asks Xiao Xiao to take Ma Xiaotao away if his battle goes badly 342 347.

When Ma Xiaotao awakens, she no longer recognizes Xiao Xiao. She seizes her by the throat and imprisons her in a flame cage. Xiao Xiao suspects the deity is responsible for her memory loss, but its exact cause is not established 347 348.

Ma Xiaotao carries Xiao Xiao away from the expanding divine battle, though both lose consciousness after their shield fails and Xiao Xiao’s pendant intervenes. Later, grieving over a feather, she strikes Xiao Xiao’s hand and flies toward Flame Island 349 352.

She attacks the magic circle protecting Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit fusion ritual, refusing to recognize Shrek’s arriving teachers. Qian Duoduo approaches her and is blasted into the sea; Yan Shaozhe concludes that none of the teachers present can subdue her without Xuan Zi 358 359 360.

Nirvana and Divine Inheritance

The Ice Empress confronts Ma Xiaotao and gradually weakens her Soul Power with Eternal Frozen Domain. After freezing her completely, she sends the resulting ice sculpture into the sea and triggers Ice Explosion 361 362.

Ma Xiaotao survives through nirvana, reappearing with abundant life energy and a stronger presence. She absorbs the surrounding ice energy and renews the battle 363.

After the fighting stops, Tang Hao and Ah Yin identify her as Ma Hongjun’s chosen successor. Tang Hao forces the Phoenix God inheritance into her through the charred feather, enclosing her within an egg of Ultimate Fire. Ah Yin objects that the sudden Divine Power could overwhelm someone so young, while Tang Hao trusts her strength and nirvana ability to sustain her. Ah Yin protects her as Tang Hao begins fighting Huo Yuhao 364 365.

Abilities & Skills

Ultimate Fire Phoenix

Her Martial Soul is a Fire Phoenix evolved from an Evil Fire Phoenix, possessing genuine Ultimate Fire rather than merely approaching that attribute 146 234.

• Elemental suppression: Wu Feng’s Red Dragon flames instinctively bow to her power; Xiao Hongchen also experiences a sense of submission from his Martial Soul 146 161.
• Poison immunity: She explicitly attributes her immunity to Meng Hongchen’s cold poison to Ultimate Fire 181.
• Flight and transport: Her phoenix wings enable flight, while her flames can form a barrier around a traveling group 140 349.
• Precision control: Maintains six safe vortices for her teammates inside an arena-engulfing fire attack 181.
• Limit: Ultimate Fire does not prevent the Ice Empress’s domain from infiltrating and freezing her Soul Power 362.

Phoenix Soul Skills

Nirvana

Her Phoenix Martial Soul contains a nirvana ability that allows rapid recovery by absorbing surrounding energy 363.

• Restores her after the Ice Empress’s freezing attack and Ice Explosion 362 363.
• Absorbs energy of an opposing attribute, including surrounding ice 363.
• Can quickly recover even fatal wounds while the effect remains active; indefinite immortality is not established 363.

Ice Crystal Spark

A fusion seal formed by combining Ma Xiaotao’s and Tang Ya’s Soul Skills 150.

• Encloses the target in a flower of ice and fire.
• Immobilizes Long Xiaoyao despite his Limit Douluo cultivation.
• Requires their coordinated powers rather than Ma Xiaotao acting alone 150.

Swordsmanship and Combat Instruction

She combines sword attacks with Ultimate Fire and her phoenix abilities 23 234.

• Cuts through Xuan Zi’s obstructing red line with a flame-coated sword 23.
• Coordinates effectively with Tang Ya’s binding techniques 23 151.
• Shares extensive practical experience through sparring, accelerating four younger students’ combat development over two months 196.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Slime Bodysuit — Protective equipment that can form a robe. It retracts into her body when Ma Hongjun nullifies her attack 196 234.
• Pitch-black longsword — Appears in her grasp and accepts an Ultimate Fire coating; vanishes alongside her Slime Bodysuit during the encounter with Ma Hongjun 234.
• Black payment card — Used to pay fifty billion Gold Soul Coins for Shrek’s final auction purchase 177.
• Sword of Judgment — Confiscated from Ma Rulong after his attack. She conditions its return on an apology at Shrek 181 182.
• Charred phoenix feather — Holds Ma Hongjun’s Phoenix God inheritance; Tang Hao forcibly inserts it into her body 364.

Relationships

• Huo Yuhao / Shadow — Her lord and an intimate companion. She knows his secret identity, assists his operations, and responds furiously to his apparent death 27 135 164 192.
• Zhang Lexuan — Fellow Shadow Garden operative and trusted colleague. They help care for Huo Yuhao, and Lexuan supports her decision to pursue the mysterious inner guidance 191 192.
• Tang Ya — Combat partner and collaborator in Ice Crystal Spark; their coordinated restraints and fire attacks are effective against stronger opponents 150 151.
• Yan Shaozhe — Her teacher, who watched her grow up and regards her as almost a daughter. He remains determined to recover her after discovering her memory loss 359 360 363.
• Xiao Xiao — Junior and sparring pupil who tries to reach her after her disappearance. Despite being injured and threatened by the amnesiac Ma Xiaotao, Xiao Xiao still hopes to restore her memories 196 348 349 352.
• Ma Hongjun — Ancestor and the deity who chooses her as his successor. He recognizes her bloodline and entrusts her safety to Xiao Xiao before fighting Huo Yuhao 234 347 364.
• Meng Hongchen — Tournament opponent later placed under her care and considered for Shadow Garden recruitment 180 182 184.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin — Deities who intervene on behalf of Ma Hongjun’s successor. Tang Hao initiates her inheritance without preparation; Ah Yin warns of the danger and shields her 364 365.

Notable Quotes

“All tactics are useless in the face of true strength.” 161

“Even if we can crush them, we must still give them the respect they deserve.” 160

“Ultimate Fire... makes me immune to poison~” 181