Shrek

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Shrek Academy 3
Alias(es)	Shrek; 史莱克 45 46
Organization Type	Soul Master academy 3 46
Location	Shrek City, outside the Star Dou Great Forest 224
Affiliation	Claims neutrality; supports the original Douluo Three Kingdoms against the Sun Moon Empire, later joins the Federation 45 226 280
Leadership	Sea God Pavilion; Xuan Zi serves as its acting master during the academy’s decline 224
Role	Cultivating elite Soul Masters, training Soul Engineers, and hunting Evil Soul Masters 46 123 130
Status	Active under the Federation; seeking to regain its former standing 280
First Appearance	First mentioned in the provided material in Chapter 3 3

Background / History

Shrek’s prestige rests on generations of powerful graduates, extensive cultivation knowledge, and its ability to attract outstanding talents from across the continent. Even Su Yu, who rejects many of its principles, initially considers its knowledge resources the best available. Its ten-thousand-year monopoly over the Soul Fighting Tournament championship further reinforces that reputation 3 10 109.

The academy’s relationship with the original Three Great Empires supplies both students and political support. Their major factions help establish the Outer Court, while their promotion of Shrek strengthens its public standing. This arrangement also draws top geniuses away from local royal academies, leaving those institutions weaker 57 164.

Its professed neutrality becomes increasingly disputed after the Sun Moon Continent merges with Douluo Continent. Qian Tong argues that Shrek has become partisan and failed to recognize the importance of Soul Tools; Su Yu likewise sees its reliance on reputation and traditional teaching as vulnerabilities 10 27.

Organization

Courts and Departments

Division	Function and documented features
Outer Court	Educates students drawn from the continent’s major factions. Its admission system includes city-lord recommendations, which Su Yu criticizes as an obstacle for commoners 58 164.
Inner Court	Houses elite students and provides concentrated cultivation resources. Its students also undertake missions against Evil Soul Masters 130 157.
Martial Soul Department	Responsible for Martial Soul cultivation; led by Yan Shaozhe during the documented events 208 209.
Soul Tool Department	Develops Soul Tools and trains Soul Engineers. Initially marginalized, it receives substantial support after Shrek’s defeats 123 170.
Sea God Pavilion	Convenes senior experts to decide military missions, tournament preparations, negotiations, and the academy’s future direction 132 157 229.

Notable Personnel

Member	Position or significance
Mu En	Previous Sea God Pavilion master and Yan Shaozhe’s teacher. His final defensive trump card remains within the Golden Ancient Tree 209 226.
Xuan Zi	Senior expert and later acting Pavilion master. His mistakes contribute to tournament losses, but he subsequently adopts more cautious mission planning 57 132 224.
Yan Shaozhe	Martial Soul Department dean; oversees tournament preparations and personally leads the delegation to Ming Capital 157 170 209.
Qian Duoduo	Soul Tool Department leader. His advancement to Ninth-Level Soul Engineer and later policy arguments increase the department’s influence 45 170 229.
Fan Yu	Soul Tool instructor and former teacher of Huo Yuhao; He Caitou regards him as a father figure 79 123.
Xian Lin’er	High-ranking academy representative known as the Martial God Douluo; her disappearance triggers an investigation and demands for revenge 73 77.
Old Song and Lin Lao	Influential Pavilion elders whose lack of opposition helps Qian Duoduo redirect academy policy 229.
Titan	Temporarily guards Shrek as its Limit Douluo while Xuan Zi seeks a breakthrough 133.
Zhang Lexuan	Regarded as a safeguard for Shrek’s future resurgence; agrees to participate in the Far North war 280.

Resources and Facilities

• Golden Ancient Tree — Shrek’s central cultivation advantage. Su Yu attributes its historical success with Ultimate Martial Souls largely to the tree; he later observes that the flow of laws is clearer around it 46 224.
• Sea God Pavilion cultivation access — Valuable enough to become part of Shrek’s agreement with Illustrious Virtue Hall. Su Yu, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Bai Feng receive access together 224 226.
• Cultivation archives — Include cultivation techniques, accumulated experience, and extensive information about soul beasts. Illustrious Virtue Hall obtains a large quantity of the latter through ransom negotiations 3 123.
• Soul-bone reserves — Supported by generations of tournament victories. Shrek pays thirty ten-thousand-year soul bones to recover Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu 109 123.
• Treasure Appraisal Fair — Used to channel exceptional treasures to prospective tournament contestants through arrangements such as collateral loans 157.
• Inner Court environment — Contains rich Primordial Energy; the Golden Ancient Tree stands on an island in Sea God Lake 224.
• Shrek City defenses — Form the first line of defense against Beast Tides from the Star Dou Great Forest and have endured several such attacks 224.

Education and Technology

Soul Master Cultivation

• Elite recruitment — Shrek’s access to top-tier geniuses remains a major advantage even after its prestige begins declining 164 174.
• Advanced cultivation experience — Its graduates provide documented examples of absorbing soul rings beyond ordinary limits 41.
• Ultimate Martial Souls — Historically, Shrek is the only academy known to have successfully cultivated their bearers to the highest Soul Master ranks. Su Yu disputes whether this proves superior teaching, pointing instead to the Golden Tree 44 46.
• Traditional instruction — Su Yu calls its teaching rigid and argues that students often devise their own soul-ring combinations. Qian Buduo finds himself unable to refute these criticisms 46.
• Evil Soul Master missions — Intended partly as practical training, but repeated casualties undermine confidence in the academy’s protection of students 53 57.

Soul Tools and Battle Armor

• Strongest Individual Soldier Plan — Shrek’s project for combining Soul Master and Soul Engineer development 54.
• Early resistance — The academy initially looks down on Soul Tools despite their growing military importance 10 27.
• Expanded investment — Shrek later heavily supports the Soul Tool Department, but the imprisonment of Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu deprives it of its strongest engineering talent 123.
• Practical adoption — Fifth-Level Soul Tools allow the tournament team’s two Soul Kings to fight at Shrek Soul Emperor strength. Qian Duoduo’s Ninth-Level breakthrough also helps end Yan Shaozhe’s opposition to the technology 170.
• Battle armor gap — Yan Shaozhe identifies obtaining battle armor technology as essential after witnessing the Sun Moon Royal Team’s overwhelming amplification 204.
• Material limitations — Even with deciphered Ninth-Level Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon technology, Shrek lacks the Rare Metals needed to manufacture it 224.

Soul Spirit Cultivation

• Threat to Shrek’s specialty — Unlike battle armor, the Soul Spirit cultivation system directly reforms Martial Soul cultivation, the field in which Shrek claims leadership 218.
• Earlier Martial Soul fusion — The system consciously develops fusion between Soul Master and Martial Soul from the Soul Scholar stage, rather than leaving it largely to later breakthroughs and insight 218.
• Pressure to adapt — Pavilion elders recognize that failing to absorb and improve upon the system would erode the academy’s prestige and eventually its recruitment 218.
• Post-unification compatibility — Students can study Martial Soul cultivation at Shrek while also learning Soul Tools at Illustrious Virtue Hall; such dual enrollment already exists within half a year of unification 280.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Loss of Students and the First Tournament Defeat

Su Yu exposes Qian Buduo’s Shrek connection and challenges the academy’s claimed neutrality. His arguments persuade Qian Buduo to question its methods without viewing that reconsideration as outright betrayal 45 46.

Huo Yuhao’s dissatisfaction offers a more consequential opening. The Martial Soul Department fails to recognize the value of his Spirit Eye adequately, while his Soul Tool Department relationship with Fan Yu initially keeps him attached to Shrek. Su Yu eventually persuades him to leave for Illustrious Virtue Hall 53 54.

Before the Star Luo tournament, an Evil Soul Master incident devastates Shrek’s delegation. Its withdrawal application enrages Xu Jiawei, who fears wasted tournament investment, damaged morale, and a propaganda victory for the Sun Moon Empire. Shrek instead assembles an emergency roster and wins its opening match 57 58 59.

In the finals, Xuan Zi intervenes to save Ma Xiaotao, breaking the protective barrier and injuring Soul Ancestors. Shrek forfeits the team competition and then the individual competition after three losses, ending its championship monopoly 67.

Losses Among Senior Experts

Kong Deming defeats Xian Lin’er at the imperial border. Shrek presumes her dead, although she has actually been captured; Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu later visit Illustrious Virtue Hall to investigate her disappearance 70 73 74 77.

A subsequent clash leaves Xuan Zi gravely injured and Mu En near death. By the time Shrek develops its Soul Tool Department more aggressively, Mu En has died; Jing Hongchen speculates that his final instructions helped prompt the change 83 123.

Shrek eventually sends Old Song to negotiate the release of Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu, who have been detained for over a year. Their ransom restores badly needed expertise to the academy 123.

Attempt to Reclaim Tournament Glory

Shrek concentrates resources on a stronger generation of contestants, reduces their dangerous missions, and avoids hunting Evil Soul Masters while traveling to the next tournament. Yan Shaozhe leads the delegation personally, with Xuan Zi following secretly rather than serving as its visible protector 157 170.

Tournament lineup	Documented composition
Star Luo opening team	Seven contestants: Wang Dong, Jiang Nannan, He Caitou, and four urgently summoned Outer Court students 58.
Star Luo finals team	Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Ye Wushuang, He Caitou, Jiang Nannan, Su Yue, and Wang Dong 65.
Ming Capital main team	Led by Su Tong, a Soul Saint with Ultimate Ice. Other documented members include He Caitou, Chen Dao, Shui Yun’er, Tang Zhen, and Xiao Xiao 170 174 178.
Ming Capital reserves	Include Xie Huanyue, Wu Feng, and Bai Yuan; these three defeat the Iron Sword Sect’s lineup 178.
Combined Shrek and Tang Sect delegation	Two main teams and two reserve teams, totaling twenty-eight contestants 175.

Despite victories over the Iron Sword Sect and Tyrant Dragon Sect, Shrek becomes increasingly alarmed by its rivals’ battle armor. Huo Yuhao’s declaration that he intends to destroy the White Tiger Duke’s Estate also exposes a fundamental reason he cannot return: Shrek cannot accept a student destroying Dai Mubai’s descendants 176 178 204.

Snow Empress Crisis and Public Backlash

Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe consider the transformed Snow Empress a possible bridge between humans and soul beasts. They oppose her capture, but Jing Hongchen challenges Shrek’s lack of a concrete reconciliation plan and presents Illustrious Virtue Hall’s alternative 199 206 207.

The confrontation escalates into battle. Su Yu’s disclosures concerning Yan Shaozhe and Ma Xiaotao damage the academy’s reputation, while Shrek’s experts escape Ming Capital under pursuit. The tournament is canceled amid the conflict 208 209.

Enrollment Collapse and Policy Change

Shrek’s separate agreement to redeem its Inner Court geniuses alienates factions whose students remain captive. Meanwhile, Illustrious Virtue Hall’s affiliated academies draw away students from conquered territories, the Star Luo imperial family withdraws support, and sects recruit more aggressively. Shrek’s Outer Court becomes visibly desolate 224.

Its leaders consider seizing the five Illustrious Virtue Hall geniuses visiting Sea God Pavilion. Su Yu counters by revealing Ninth-Grade Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons deployed outside Shrek City, making an attack a threat to the academy’s foundation 226.

Qian Duoduo subsequently gains the leading position in a Pavilion policy debate and secures a change in direction. He rejects credential-polishing and the Inner Court–Outer Court distinction as the measure of Shrek’s success, arguing that its purpose should be cultivating exceptional talents 229.

Federation Era

Joining the Federation removes Shrek’s old political grievances with the Sun Moon Empire, but not its rivalry with Illustrious Virtue Hall. The academy retains an advantage in developing a Soul Master’s own abilities, an increasingly important component of battle armor cultivation 280.

Su Yu recruits Sea God Pavilion’s elders for the war in the Far North. He also accepts educational competition and dual enrollment rather than treating Shrek’s continued development as something to suppress 280.

Relationships

• Illustrious Virtue Hall — Principal technological and educational rival; also a negotiating partner for prisoner exchanges, cultivation access, and later overlapping study 123 224 280.
• Sun Moon Empire — Former military opponent. Shrek repeatedly supports Star Luo forces against it before joining the Federation 226 280.
• Star Luo Empire — Longtime source of promotion, students, medical assistance, and military cooperation; confidence in Shrek deteriorates after its repeated setbacks 57 58 224.
• Tang Sect — Closely intertwined partner with an annual exemption admission slot. Its tournament delegation is regarded by Jing Hongchen as effectively Shrek’s second team 14 133 175.
• Body Sect — Bitter rival, although both oppose Sun Moon expansion; Du Busi welcomes Shrek’s embarrassment when it does not weaken that shared resistance 53 209.
• Holy Spirit Cult — Enemy connected to Evil Soul Master operations and Ma Xiaotao’s capture and corruption 133 209.
• Su Yu — Persistent critic, talent recruiter, battlefield opponent, and later Federation leader who negotiates with and recruits Shrek’s experts 46 54 208 280.
• Huo Yuhao — Former student whose departure costs Shrek an Ultimate Ice genius; his revenge against the White Tiger Duke’s Estate makes reconciliation impossible 53 54 176.
• Snow Empress — A transformed soul beast whom Shrek’s leaders defend and consider a possible starting point for human–soul beast reconciliation 199 206.

Notable Quotes

“Although I don't agree with many of Shrek's principles, I have to admit that its educational resources are indeed the best on the entire continent.”
— Su Yu 3

“Shrek's glory was cultivating monsters—and cultivating monsters alone.”
— Statement of the academy’s renewed purpose 229