Shrek

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Shrek (史莱克)
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; Shrek City
Occupation/Role	Soul Master academy, regional political power, technological developer, and military coordinator
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 7

Background / History

Shrek Academy has existed as an undefeated tournament legend for ten thousand years and possesses immense public prestige across the continent. Its reputation is strong enough that many people assume it can solve extraordinary problems, including curse-related afflictions, without questioning whether it truly can. 233 253

Its admission standards have become less demanding than they were ten thousand years earlier: applicants need to exceed Level 15 before age twelve, though obtaining a recommendation letter from a main-city lord remains a major barrier. 7

Though formally an academy, Shrek exerts influence comparable to a supranational authority. Its Surveillance Group helps preserve imperial stability and counter Evil Soul Masters, but also restricts the Three Great Empires’ executive, judicial, and personnel powers. This has led some rulers to view Shrek as an overbearing “father figure” rather than merely a school. 83 201

Shrek’s Academy Library maintains records on Evil Soul Master abilities accumulated over millennia of conflict, making it one of the organizations most knowledgeable about them outside the Holy Spirit Cult. 207

Academy and City

Shrek Academy is based in Shrek City, a wealthy city whose annual tax revenue reaches tens or even hundreds of millions of Gold Soul Coins. 8

• The academy’s standard external uniform is dark green and bears a trumpet-eared monster emblem. 232 563
• The emblem alone can deter hostile Soul Masters, owing to Shrek’s longstanding reputation and its permanent stationing of more than ten Titled Douluo. 563
• Shrek produces a Limit Douluo roughly every one or two generations. 563
• The Sea God Pavilion serves as Shrek’s senior leadership body; Xuan Lao acts as Pavilion Master during the Beast Tide crisis. 883 892
• The Treasure Pavilion grants privileged Red Card users annual access to one top-tier treasure and a 40% purchase discount; Chen Ping states that his Inner and Outer Court benefits would amount to more than 100 million Gold Soul Coins. 300

Reputation and Influence

Shrek’s name creates intense pressure in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Duel Tournament. Even when its representatives appear unusually young or field only reserve members, opposing academies fear its presumed strength. 232 241

• Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy was visibly intimidated before facing Shrek’s reserve team. 233 234
• Zhengtian Academy considered one-on-one combat especially dangerous because Chen Ping could potentially defeat all seven opponents alone. 259
• Shrek’s reserve team defeated Zhengtian Academy despite a total Soul Power deficit of more than one hundred levels, an unprecedented tournament result. 272
• Its championship campaign culminated in another tournament victory, with the team retaining Shrek’s long-standing championship prestige. 313
• In a later tournament, Shrek’s team repeatedly fielded a single contestant in elimination rounds and still achieved complete victories. 569 575 578
• The public strongly supported Shrek against the Holy Spirit Sect, viewing it as the favored force to defeat the Evil Soul Masters. 644

Technology and Soul Guidance Development

Shrek’s Soul Guidance Department develops advanced equipment that challenges—and eventually surpasses—the Sun Moon Empire’s traditional technological advantage. Its progress becomes a strategic concern for Sun Moon officials because Soul Guidance Device superiority is central to their plans for continental war. 243 683

Sky Fortress

He Caitou’s Sky Fortress deploys one hundred Soul Guidance Cannons for simultaneous long-range bombardment. Chen Ping deliberately used its public debut to demonstrate Shrek’s technological strength to the Sun Moon Empire. 578

• Its firepower can blanket the Soul Arena and overwhelm enemy positions. 578
• The Heavenly Armor Sect conceded rather than face it in the Individual Elimination Match. 578
• Its appearance alarmed Xu Tianran and Jing Hongchen, who feared Shrek was overtaking the Sun Moon Empire in Soul Guidance technology. 578

Thousand Refinements Battle Armor

Shrek developed a mature humanoid Soul Guidance Battle Armor based on the Sun Moon Empire’s long-running Experiment No. 1 project. Chen Ping and Old Yi produced the Thousand Refinements Battle Armor within a few years by building on that existing technological foundation. 588

• The armor shocked Jing Hongchen, who recognized its connection to a project his side had struggled with for thousands of years. 588
• Soul Guidance Armor can temporarily raise a Rank 50 Soul King’s Soul Power to the level of a Soul Emperor. 667
• Chen Ping’s prototype is described as external auxiliary Soul Guidance mechanical skeletal equipment. 667

Rare Metal and Industrial Capacity

Shrek uses large quantities of rare metal for military infrastructure and Soul Tool production. Chen Ping also integrates Undead laborers from his Small World into mining and metallurgy to expand Shrek’s manufacturing capacity. 783

• Shrek’s development could narrow the Three Great Empires’ technological and resource gap with the Sun Moon Empire within decades. 783
• During the Beast Tide, Xuan Lao supplies Chen Ping’s demi-plane with resources to manufacture additional Soul Guidance Cannon Shells. 914
• Soul Beast remains recovered after the Beast Tide replenish Shrek’s material reserves, including tendons, fur, horns, and bones. 914

Shrek City Defenses

Shrek City’s walls are heavily disguised war fortifications. Behind their outward appearance of blue bricks and tiles are integrated Soul Tools, detection systems, Soul Power equipment, and thick rare-metal armor. 882

• The city’s four walls function as super war fortresses. 882
• Half-meter-thick pure metal plates are layered into the walls, frustrating Soul Beast attempts to create breaches through bombardment. 900
• A South City Wall storage area serves as Shrek’s de facto command center during the Beast Tide, using hundreds of High-Altitude Detectors and display screens for real-time battlefield intelligence. 883
• The City Guard includes 3,000 Soul Masters and 7,000 ordinary citizens; under martial law, civilians operate Soul Tools as targeting personnel. 883
• Shrek maintains three Shrek City Guard Soul Engineer Legions, each led by a Super Douluo and a Titled Douluo commander or vice commander. 841

Defensive Soul Tools

During the Beast Tide, Shrek City employs layered defenses designed by Chen Ping and directed in the field by Shi Xing. 888 890

• Ground traps — Whirlwind slowing traps, ground spikes, lasers, floating mines, and poison traps inflict heavy initial casualties. 888
• Soul Guidance Cannon-howitzers — Bombard Soul Beasts attempting to dismantle the traps. 890
• Long-range bombardment network — Creates a fourteen-kilometer firepower “death line,” though Emerald Swan healing later allows Soul Beasts to cross it. 900
• High-Temperature Incendiary Bombs — Used against assaults by the Four Great Ferocious Beasts and their forces. 901
• Melee Soul Tools and shields — Issued to City Guard troops when Soul Beasts reach the walls. 900 902

Major Events

Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Duel Tournament

Shrek initially entered the tournament with only seven reserve members and Wang Yan as leading teacher, causing rivals to interpret the lineup as deliberate contempt. 228 232

After an accidental explosion in its hotel meeting room, Wang Yan immediately apologized, compensated affected students, and offered to pay for property damage. 228

Shrek’s reserve team won multiple decisive matches through intimidation, tactical deception, Soul Guidance Devices, and Chen Ping’s leadership. Its victory over Zhengtian Academy became a historic upset, and the team ultimately won the championship. 272 288 313

All-Continent Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament

Shrek fielded Chen Ping alone against the Dragon Slaying Sect’s seven contestants, demonstrating extraordinary confidence. 569

The academy later used the Sky Fortress and Battle Armor to display its advances in Soul Guidance technology. Its victory over the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was significant enough to make Xu Tianran postpone plans for continental war. 578 600

Chen Ping subsequently led Shrek to victory over the Holy Spirit Sect, personally eliminating all seven Evil Soul Masters on the opposing team and securing Shrek’s tournament championship. 662

Beast Tide at Shrek City

A million Soul Beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest besieged Shrek City, targeting it first because Shrek could coordinate the Three Great Empires and threaten the forest with its high-level combatants. 898

Shrek entered martial law, mobilized its population, and used prepared traps and artillery to inflict major losses. The Soul Beasts eventually reached the walls through healing support and Ferocious Beast leadership, but Shrek’s rare-metal fortifications and layered defenses remained formidable. 883 888 900 901

Xuan Lao was severely injured by Di Tian while defending the city, then invoked the Sea God’s mark and the power of past Pavilion Masters to temporarily become a Limit Douluo. 892

Relationships

• Three Great Empires — Allies and beneficiaries of Shrek’s protection, but also resent Shrek’s political interference and institutional power. 83 201
• Sun Moon Empire — Principal technological and geopolitical rival; Shrek’s Soul Guidance advances disrupt the empire’s military plans. 243 578 600
• Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy — Longstanding tournament rival and technological competitor. 228 243 585
• Tang Sect — Closely aligned; its representative team is regarded by observers as effectively Shrek’s second team. 585 624
• Body Sect — Participates in a mutual student-and-teacher exchange program with Shrek. 719
• Holy Spirit Cult — Hostile Evil Soul Master faction opposed by Shrek in tournament and political conflicts. 585 644 662
• Star Dou Great Forest — Enemy during the Beast Tide, whose Soul Beast forces target Shrek City for its strategic importance. 883 898