Fengyun Academy

Biodata

Power Progression

Fengyun Academy’s documented increases in strength come through its faculty, rather than an organizational cultivation rank.

Background / History

Establishment

Mu Rong Chen commissioned Kachino, Xiao Lin, and Su Yuntao to establish an advanced Soul Master academy in Suotuo City while he sought funding elsewhere. He chose the name Fengyun Academy, appointed Kachino vice dean, and tasked Xiao Lin and Su Yuntao with creating a soul hunting department and guiding the first students. He also supplied a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Guest Elder Token to deter interference 93.

Orlan financed construction and supplied workers and materials. The academy rose in seven days, directly opposite Shrek Academy, whose teachers immediately regarded its arrival as a provocation. Xiao Lin openly declared that Fengyun would cultivate the common-born applicants Shrek rejected 97 100 105.

Recruitment and Accreditation

Mu Rong Chen initially struggled to find sufficiently capable, trustworthy teachers. Wanting to remain outside the attention of major factions, he selected Shi Nian as the academy’s public manager, compelled him to serve through a poison pill, and appointed him dean. At that point, the academy had neither students nor an established teaching faculty 106 110 111.

Its first recruitment drive targeted families turned away by Shrek. Free tuition, meals, accommodation, and cultivation supplies drew the applicants across the road. Mu Rong Chen personally screened the children, admitting a first cohort of thirty commoners aged twelve to fourteen, including Lin Dong and Su Mei 112 113 114 115.

Flender subsequently reported Fengyun for operating without certification. When education officials arrived with soldiers, Mu Rong Chen requested the highest level of accreditation. Shi Nian presented a stored-value card containing 500,000 Gold Soul Coins, and Zhang Dekai returned in less than four hours with the officially stamped Fengyun Advanced Soul Master Academy plaque. The inspection then turned against Shrek, which was ordered to register within three days or face closure 116 117.

Opening and Expansion

Orlan interrupted the inauguration ceremony to confront Mu Rong Chen. After Mu Rong Chen defeated him with two strikes, Orlan surrendered and pledged lifelong service, joining the teaching staff. Following the ceremony, Mu Rong Chen delegated daily operations to Shi Nian and supplied one million Gold Soul Coins before leaving to cultivate 118 120 121.

Shi Nian later renewed his commitment to protect the academy after receiving Mu Rong Chen’s transformative pill. His advancement to Soul Emperor and Dugu Bo’s appointment as advisory dean strengthened Fengyun before another admissions confrontation. Shi Nian defeated Zhao Wuji through his Remnant Dream Domain, while Dugu Bo subdued Shrek’s teachers; Flender’s public, illusion-induced disgrace further damaged Shrek’s reputation 129 130 131 133 135.

Fengyun’s tournament runner-up finish attracted proposals from Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire. Mu Rong Chen rejected cooperation with Spirit Hall and permitted consideration of limited places for the empire only if noble children remained excluded. By the later account, Dugu Bo’s prolonged absence worried Shi Nian, although Shrek’s teachers remained fearful of retaliating against an academy under his protection 136 148.

Admissions and Student Support

Selection Policy

Benefits

• No tuition or registration fees, with meals and lodging included 113 132.
• Soul Beast meat and medicinal herbs supplied to assist cultivation 113.
• Academy uniforms distributed to the first cohort 115.
• Enrollment grant of one Gold Soul Coin per student awarded during the first recruitment drive 115.

Training and Educational Philosophy

• Physical conditioning: Students undertake morning weighted long-distance runs under Xiao Lin and Su Yuntao. Mu Rong Chen deliberately routes the runs around Shrek Academy’s walls 116.
• Practical combat: Xiao Lin and Su Yuntao are assigned to lead the new students’ combat training 121.
• Curriculum management: Shi Nian oversees admissions, course planning, and resource allocation 121.
• Founder’s underlying aim: Mu Rong Chen intends the academy to produce loyal fighters serving him, rather than merely operate as an ordinary school 111 118.
• Emphasis on strength: His inaugural teaching links personal power with the ability to defend dignity, family, and home 118 120.

Leadership and Members

Administration and Faculty

• Mu Rong Chen — Founder and ultimate decision-maker. Selects personnel, finances operations, personally screens the first recruits, and sets external cooperation policy 93 111 114 121 136.
• Shi Nian — Dean and day-to-day manager. Initially coerced into service, he later voluntarily resolves to remain and protect the academy; his illusion abilities are central to its defense against Shrek 110 111 121 129 133.
• Kachino — Vice dean, financial overseer, and recruitment organizer. Entrusted with the protective sect token and academy funds 93 105 114 121.
• Xiao Lin — Founding organizer, teaching assistant, and practical combat instructor. Helps establish the soul hunting department and commissions uniforms 93 105 116 118 121.
• Su Yuntao — Founding organizer, teaching assistant, and practical combat instructor. Registers applicants and leads physical training alongside Xiao Lin 93 114 115 116 121.
• Orlan — Construction financier turned instructor. Joins after his defeat at the inauguration and later handles an admissions desk 97 120 132.
• Dugu Bo — Advisory dean and level-eighty-eight battle Soul Douluo. Helps Shi Nian obtain his sixth soul ring and personally intervenes against Shrek’s teachers 130 131 135.
• Unnamed female teacher — Assists Orlan with admissions brochures during a later recruitment drive 132.

Known Students

• Lin Dong — First-cohort student with a Blackiron Spear martial soul and innate rank-eight soul power; personally approved by Mu Rong Chen 114 115.
• Su Mei — First-cohort student with a mutated Frost Fox martial soul and innate rank-eight soul power 115.
• First cohort — Thirty commoner children, all previously rejected by Shrek for various reasons 115.

Campus and Insignia

Facilities

• Scale: Approximately the size of Shrek Academy, but smaller than Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy 97 103.
• Construction: Carefully selected materials, high blue-stone walls, and initially described black dark-iron gates 97 103.
• Buildings: Training field, classrooms, dormitories, assembly and council halls, and a tower containing Mu Rong Chen’s upper-floor office 97 111 115 121.
• Surroundings: Muddy roads and low village houses contrast with the academy’s imposing buildings 110.
• Official plaque: Displays the full accredited name and the seal of the Balak Kingdom’s Ministry of Education 117.

Uniforms and Symbols

• Student uniform: Fitted black clothing with a gold-thread ice dragon on the chest and gold edging at the collar and cuffs 115.
• Additional detailing: Gold cloud patterns along the collars and cuffs, with “Fengyun” on the back; commissioned from Suotuo City’s finest tailor 118.
• Instructor clothing: Orlan wears a navy-blue robe bearing a Frost Giant Dragon on the chest 132.
• Entrance couplet: Chosen by Mu Rong Chen and displayed beside the academy’s name, linking its identity to transformation through “wind and cloud” 93 98 132.

Funding and Protective Resources

External Relationships

• Shrek Academy — Principal rival across the road. Competition escalates from hostile inspections and recruitment clashes to an accreditation complaint and repeated attacks by its teachers. Fengyun’s tournament success later prompts Flender to lower Shrek’s admission standards 97 110 113 116 132 148.
• Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect — Its Guest Elder Token provides political deterrence; the academy is not established as a sect branch in the supplied account 93 114.
• Balak Kingdom’s Ministry of Education — Accredits Fengyun at its requested highest level through Zhang Dekai 116 117.
• Spirit Hall — Seeks long-term cooperation after Fengyun’s tournament success. Mu Rong Chen categorically refuses the proposal 136.
• Heaven Dou Empire — Also seeks cooperation. Mu Rong Chen allows consideration of a few places but retains the prohibition on noble children 136.
• Qin Ming — Declines Mu Rong Chen’s invitation because he has already committed to Shrek; later regrets his choice while observing Fengyun’s growth 103 131.
• Bibi Dong — Privately vows to destroy Fengyun Academy and make those who harmed Xiaogang kneel before him 138.

Notable Quotes

“How could golden scales belong in a mere pond? Once wind and cloud meet, they transform into a dragon!”
— Entrance couplet selected by Mu Rong Chen 93

“Fengyun Academy does not raise flowers in a greenhouse. It forges blades that drink blood!”
— Mu Rong Chen addressing the first cohort 118

“Weakness is the original sin!”
— Mu Rong Chen’s lesson at the academy’s opening 118 120