Shrek Academy

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Shrek Academy
Original name	史莱克学院
Type	Soul Master academy
Location	Shrek City; its Inner Court is situated on Sea God Island within Sea God Lake 34 185
Occupation/Role	Educates and evaluates Soul Masters; maintains an Outer Court and Inner Court, as well as Martial Soul and Soul Tool divisions 66 80
Status	Active; continued coordinating continent-wide relief through Teleportation Gates and Sun God Cult believers during the elemental crisis 541
First Appearance	Chapter 23

Campus & Facilities

Shrek Academy occupies a major position within Shrek City. Its eastern gate is reserved exclusively for academy use; during new-student registration, the entrance is secured by more than thirty Soul Emperors and ten Soul Saints rather than the City Defense Army 65.

• Martial Soul Academy — One of the two main academic branches, reached by the left road beyond the central plaza 66.
• Soul Tool Academy — The branch reached by the right road beyond the plaza. Soul Tool education is divisive within Shrek, with supporters and opponents holding sharply conflicting views 23 66.
• Sea God Island — The Inner Court’s lush island campus, reached by boat across Sea God Lake. It contains ancient trees, rare plants, pavilions, and residences for Inner Court students 185.
• Sea God Pavilion — A three-story building at the island’s highest point, seemingly merged with the Golden Ancient Tree. Its halls are suffused with Life Energy and golden light 185.
• Beast Fighting Area — The academy’s largest building complex, funded by nearly one-third of Shrek City’s annual tax revenue. Students can pay one hundred Gold Soul Coins to face Soul Beasts in controlled life-and-death combat 137.
• Treasure Appraisal Pavilion — Its second floor is accessible to Core Disciples, including students from the second through sixth years 138.
• Shrek Soul Dueling Arena — Later used to process large-scale Artificial Soul Ring distribution, with Inner Court students recording recipients’ Martial Souls and attributes 455.

Admissions & Education

Applicants holding Recommendation Letters register at the New Student Building and undergo a Basic Assessment 65. The academy can also grant an Invited Student Admission Letter, which guarantees entry but not continued enrollment; Ma Xiaotao gave one to Huo Yuhao before his admission 50.

The Outer Court was established at the request of the Three Great Empires to select promising Soul Masters. It is characterized by frequent elimination assessments, forcing students to sustain their own progress or be expelled 80.

• Freshmen may face immediate physical assessments; Zhou Yi ordered students who had not fought before to complete one hundred laps of Shrek Plaza within an hour 78.
• The Inner Court is regarded as Shrek’s true core, while the Outer Court brings together talents and interests from multiple factions 80.
• Advanced techniques reserved for Inner Court students include Soul Ring Fusion, Stacked Burst of Soul Power, Mind Lock, Heart Separation Control, and Martial Soul Avatar Manifestation 80.
• The academy holds a yearly vacation of only one month 65.

Rewards and Development Programs

• Cultivation Retreat — Competition participants were granted opportunities to cultivate beneath the Golden Ancient Tree, alongside academy-provided next Soul Rings 185.
• Early Inner Court Examination — Beibei, Jiang Nannan, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou received permission to take the Inner Court Exam ahead of schedule after the tournament 185.
• Lecture Conference — Beginning after the Star Luo tournament victory, every student who participates in a championship-winning team is required to deliver a speech at a public academy lecture conference 185.
• Soul Guidance transportation — The academy began planning a Soul Power-driven transportation system, though it sought outside cooperation because of its enormous initial cost 281.
• Artificial Soul Ring program — Academy students managed registration, Soul Ring ceremonies, and the matching of Artificial Soul Rings to Shrek City residents’ Martial Souls 364 367 455.

Notable Personnel & Associations

Individual / Group	Connection to Shrek Academy
Mu En	Principal of Shrek Academy; convened the Sea God Pavilion Elders after learning of the Golden Ancient Tree spirit’s destruction 361 499
Yan Shaozhe	Dean of the Martial Soul Academy and the Blazing Phoenix Douluo 120 185
Cai Meier	Vice Dean of the Martial Soul Academy 185
Xian Lin'er	Dean of the Soul Engineering Academy 185
Qian Duoduo	Vice Dean of the Soul Engineering Academy 185
Zhang Lexuan	Led academy teams during major Soul Fighting Competitions and encouraged reserve members to enter the Inner Court 171 185
Shi Xing	Shrek City’s city lord, a level 93 Titled Douluo and a Shrek Academy graduate 31
Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy	Longstanding competitive rival and exchange-program partner; Shrek invited Sun Moon students for an exchange, while Shrek students later studied in Mingde Hall 171 210

Reputation & Influence

Shrek Academy is widely recognized as the continent’s foremost academy. At the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, it was introduced as an institution that had won every championship for nearly a thousand years 158.

• Four thousand years earlier, a Shrek dean led sixty Titled Douluo in a counterattack against the Sun Moon Empire. Xuan Zi stated that without this intervention, the continent might have become the Sun Moon Continent 143.
• Its position in the center of the continent is considered a deterrent to a renewed Sun Moon invasion; the empire is said to test Shrek through academy competitions rather than risk a continental war 143.
• The White Tiger Family considered Shrek powerful enough that “ten ducal estates” could not contend with it. The family complied after Yan Shaozhe demanded compensation over Dai Huabin’s actions against his disciple 120.
• Shrek’s status alone influences regional politics: the Star Luo Royal Family had to consider the academy before moving against the White Tiger Family 120.
• Its Inner Court carries exceptional social prestige; guests were described as more important than ordinary members merely because they were Inner Court students 312.

History & Major Arcs

Huo Yuhao’s Enrollment

Ma Xiaotao secured Huo Yuhao’s entry through an Invited Student Admission Letter 50. He registered through Shrek’s eastern gate shortly before the school year and began attending First Year classes in the Martial Soul Academy alongside Wang Dong 65 77.

Continental Soul Fighting Competition

Shrek entered the Star Luo competition as the reigning dominant academy and drew enormous public attention throughout the elimination and round-robin stages 158 161. The team defeated Zhengtian Academy using Huo Yuhao and Ling Luochen’s “Shrek Twin Ice Controllers” combination, then ultimately won the competition 171 184.

Upon returning, the delegation received a Sea God Pavilion audience, Cultivation Retreat opportunities, Soul Ring rewards, and early Inner Court examinations for selected students 185.

Sun Moon Exchange Program

Shrek initiated an exchange program with Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy, selecting students from both sides to study their rival institution’s methods 171 210. During the exchange, Huo Yuhao represented Shrek in a friendly match, defeating two Sun Moon students in succession and damaging the Competition Stage during the second bout 216. Ye Guyi later chose to join Shrek Academy, partly because of Huo Yuhao’s influence 265.

Golden Ancient Tree Crisis

Huo Yuhao and Mu En discovered that the Golden Ancient Tree’s tree spirit had been destroyed and that its souls and Soul Power had been devoured by Ah Yin. Mu En responded by summoning the Sea God Pavilion Elders 361.

Artificial Soul Rings and Civic Mobilization

As ordinary residents gained the prospect of becoming Soul Masters through the Sun God Cult and Artificial Soul Rings, Shrek Academy became central to the registration and Soul Ring ceremony effort in Shrek City 364 367. The Soul Dueling Arena later processed nearly a thousand Artificial Soul Ring recipients at a time 455.

Later Continental Crises

Mu En arranged a meeting at Shrek Academy between the Four Great Empires’ emperors and Beast God Di Tian to address the Sun God Cult, Artificial Soul Rings, and Soul Beast hunting in the Star Dou Great Forest 499. After the later disaster, Shrek City residents petitioned the academy to build a Hero Monument for the Soul Masters who died protecting the people 528.

Trivia

• The academy’s appearance is based on its anime design rather than the original novel’s description 66 185.
• Shrek City is treated as the academy’s territory in plans for its proposed Soul Guidance transportation system 281.