Ma Xiaotao

Biodata

Power Progression

Simulated Life

Present Timeline

Background / History

Simulated Life

Ma Xiaotao grew up in Shrek Academy’s Inner Court and was Yan Shaozhe’s disciple. She became attached to Lu Cheng after he relieved the agony caused by her Evil Fire. As a young girl, she followed him around, called him “Eldest Senior Brother,” and openly described herself as his little wife 9 10.

After Lu Cheng’s identity as an Evil Soul Master was exposed, Yan Shaozhe believed that showing her the evidence would end her attachment. Instead, she secretly planned to escape and find him. At fourteen, she led Shrek’s tournament reserve team; afterward, she joined the Holy Spirit Cult and refused Lu Cheng’s attempts to send her away. Zhongli Wu appointed her Holy Maiden because her Martial Soul was well suited to corruption, although Lu Cheng prevented him from brainwashing her 17 25 28.

Her loyalty became painful when Lu Cheng killed Yan Shaozhe for Zhang Lexuan’s sake. At her teacher’s grave, Ma Xiaotao struggled between mourning him and remaining beside Lu Cheng. Recognizing that Lu Cheng expected to die in the coming attack on Shrek, she begged him not to abandon her. He instead put her to sleep and left her in a valley, where she later awakened with an evolved Martial Soul 31 34.

Following Lu Cheng and Zhang Lexuan’s deaths, Ma Xiaotao confronted Shrek’s elders but accepted responsibility for the academy’s future. She erected their gravestones at Sea God Pavilion and eventually became its master. After twenty years, with successors available to sustain Shrek, she returned to Lu Cheng’s grave and walked into her own flames to join him in death 40.

Reunion in the Present Timeline

Ma Xiaotao awakened with both her memories and the Divine Fire Phoenix. She spent the next two years searching for Lu Cheng, while the academy repeatedly presented false matches. Her frustration drove her to train obsessively until Yan Shaozhe sent her to oversee the freshman assessment, partly to give her a break 40 45 48.

At the assessment, she recognized Lu Cheng in the arena. When he denied knowing her, she tricked him into acknowledging his role in her Martial Soul’s Second Awakening. Their subsequent confrontation centered on his treatment of her feelings: she rejected his claim to have protected her by leaving her behind and asked him never to manipulate or abandon her again. He promised, and later agreed that she could accompany him when he left Shrek 50 52 53 56.

She guarded Lu Cheng during his Soul Bone absorption and accompanied his cultivation travels. During their return to Shrek City, she killed Black Tortoise Sect elder Xu Jing, but spared Xu Sanshi because killing a fellow Shrek student would make her immediately answerable to the academy 56 59 60 68 69.

Tournament and Departure from Shrek

Ma Xiaotao led the Inner Court disciples against Evil Soul Masters in the Ming Dou Mountain Range. Her charge into their cave exposed the team to the Death Messenger’s chained corpse explosions, leaving her and several teammates badly injured or poisoned. She later apologized to Lu Cheng and sought his help with her recovery 112 114.

Although she wanted to return to competition, Wang Yan and Yan Shaozhe initially held her back as Shrek’s Soul Saint trump card. Against the Heavenly Soul Team, she fought aggressively enough to expose much of her strength, disregarding instructions to conserve her abilities 128 133.

During the final, she followed Lu Cheng and Zhang Lexuan to the Body Sect’s side. Guiltily avoiding Yan Shaozhe’s eyes, she announced that she was leaving the team. She subsequently became a second-generation Body Sect disciple and studied its body-tempering methods alongside Zhang Lexuan 138 159.

Life with the Body Sect

Ma Xiaotao remained close to Lu Cheng while assisting with practical matters around the sect and its traveling party. She brought him to meetings with Zhang Lexuan, arranged rooms for three rescued dragon girls, and retained useful knowledge of the Holy Spirit Cult’s internal forces from her simulated life 204 222 231.

By the time the Body Sect considered entering the continental war, she had reached Level 93. She briefed Lu Cheng on the participating factions, Xu Jiujiu’s repeated requests for assistance, and the deteriorating position at the Ming Dou Mountain Range before he ordered the sect to reinforce the front 251.

Appearance

Ma Xiaotao is a tall, fair-skinned woman with scarlet hair and crimson, phoenix-shaped eyes 31 50 231.

• Build: Curvaceous and approximately 1.85 meters tall, slightly taller than Zhang Lexuan 50 231.
• Clothing: Wears Shrek’s red-and-white Inner Court uniform; also appears in red clothing and high heels 50 59 135.
• Nails: Paints her fingernails and toenails red 53 56.
• Simulated childhood marking: Had Lu Cheng paint a fire lotus between her brows after seeing the blossom he painted for Zhang Lexuan 10.

Personality

Ma Xiaotao is forthright, lively, and impatient. She tends to act directly rather than consider political maneuvering, and her eagerness to fight can override tactical restraint. Even with decades of remembered leadership experience, she charges into the Evil Soul Masters’ cave and later disregards tournament instructions to hide her capabilities 50 112 133.

Her devotion to Lu Cheng outweighs institutional loyalty or the distinction between righteous and evil factions. However, she is not indifferent to others: Yan Shaozhe’s death causes her genuine grief, and she spends decades maintaining Shrek after Lu Cheng’s death because she accepts responsibility for its future 25 31 40.

She is affectionate, teasing, and openly jealous of romantic rivals. Beneath that confidence lies a deep fear of abandonment. Her strongest objection to Lu Cheng’s simulated choices is that he decided what she needed without asking her, leaving her alive to mourn while Zhang Lexuan died beside him 53 60 69 106.

Abilities & Skills

Divine Fire Phoenix

An evolved form of her Evil Fire Phoenix, obtained through Lu Cheng’s intervention and carried into the present timeline 34 40.

• Removes the recurring torment and need to suppress Evil Fire 40 45.
• Produces powerful divine phoenix flames capable of engulfing an arena or incinerating bodies 69 133.
• Can be briefly suppressed by the Ultimate Ice produced through Lu Cheng and Ling Luochen’s cooperation 110.
• Allows her, at Level 93, to fight a Level 97 Super Douluo 251.

Divine Phoenix Avatar

Her Martial Soul Avatar, identified as her Seventh Soul Skill, manifests the overwhelming presence of a divine phoenix 68 112.

• Creates a massive phoenix phantom and an enclosing cage of flames 68.
• Overpowers Xu Jing’s Xuanming Turtle Avatar and helps her tear through its Xuanming Armor 69.
• Does not prevent serious injury from the Death Messenger’s chained corpse explosions 112.

Divine Phoenix Cloud-Piercing Strike

A concentrated Divine Fire Phoenix attack that pierces its target 69.

• Penetrates Xu Jing’s chest at the heart, killing him 69.

Fiery Wings

Manifests wings for flight and aerial combat 34 50 112.

• Travels rapidly between Shrek’s Inner and Outer Courts 50.
• Folds the wings around herself defensively during the corpse explosions 112.

Leadership and Specialized Knowledge

Retains experience from serving as Sea God Pavilion Master in her simulated life 40 112.

• Commands Shrek disciples during the Ming Dou Mountain Range search 112.
• Recognizes dragon girls through knowledge acquired while leading Shrek 222.
• Knows the Holy Spirit Cult’s internal distribution of forces and its two Ultimate-level combatants 231.

Equipment / Items

• Winter Descends — A Level 7 ice-type Soul Tool with a pale-blue cannon barrel, carried during the Sunset Forest expedition 59 60.
• Hundred Thousand Year Golden Earth Dragon King Soul Bone — Supplies this Soul Bone to Lu Cheng, who absorbs it while she stands guard 56.
• Whale rubber and medicinal baths — Provides these to support Lu Cheng’s cultivation 53.
• Ten-thousand-year whale glue — Uses Divine Phoenix Fire to melt Lu Cheng’s black whale rubber, identifies its age, and feeds it to him 106.

Relationships

• Lu Cheng — Lover and the “Eldest Senior Brother” of her simulated memories. His relief of her Evil Fire begins her attachment; their present relationship develops after she demands that he stop deciding her fate without her consent 9 53 56 231.
• Yan Shaozhe — Teacher. She mourns him in the simulation and feels guilty when leaving him for Lu Cheng’s side in the present timeline 31 138.
• Zhang Lexuan — Senior sister, romantic rival, and fellow Body Sect disciple. Ma Xiaotao envies her place in Lu Cheng’s heart but continues to address her affectionately as “Sister Lexuan” 53 138 159.
• Jiaojiao — Rival for Lu Cheng’s attention. Their hostility dates back to the simulated Holy Spirit Cult period and resumes when Jiaojiao becomes his Soul Spirit again 60 61.
• Zhongli Wu — Appoints her Holy Spirit Cult Holy Maiden in the simulation; Lu Cheng blocks his attempt to brainwash her 28.
• Xu Jing — Enemy killed after she overwhelms his Xuanming Turtle defenses 68 69.
• Xu Sanshi — Spares him because he is a Shrek student and killing him would carry immediate consequences for her 69.

Notable Quotes

“Eldest senior brother, wherever you are, that is the righteous path.” 25

“You always think you've calculated everything, but why don't you ask whether what Sister Lexuan and I received was really what we wanted?” 53