Flender

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Flender (弗兰德)
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Background	Commoner 1
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; leaves the renamed Blue Tyrant Academy with its original faculty after a dispute 259 260
Occupation/Role	Dean, educator, and proprietor of a curiosity shop in Suotuo City 1 73
Martial Soul	Four-Eyed Owl; later enhanced through fusion with a Hell Spirit Cat bloodline 11 331
Combat Classification	Agility Attack System Battle Soul Master 1
Confirmed Cultivation	Level 73 Soul Saint at his introduction 1
Status	Alive at his latest documented appearance 331
First Appearance	Martial soul awakening ceremony at the Martial Soul Hall orphanage 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level 73 Soul Saint — initial documented level	1 2	Introduces himself as an agility-attack battle Soul Saint. His seven rings are yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, and black.
Four-Eyed Owl bloodline evolution	331	Lin Feng uses Bloodline Ascension to fuse a high-quality Hell Spirit Cat bloodline into his martial soul, consuming one million Gold Soul Coins and ten Slaughter stacks. Gains markedly stronger concealment and night-hunting traits; no new cultivation level is stated.

Background / History

Recruiting Lin Feng and Oscar

Born a commoner, Flender understands how rarely ordinary children gain the talent to become soul masters. During an orphanage awakening ceremony, his initial indifference turns to excitement when Oscar awakens a food-type martial soul with Innate Full Soul Power. Lin Feng’s Money Bag martial soul and equally exceptional innate power give him a second recruitment prospect 1.

Flender persuades both boys to join Shrek by displaying his seven soul rings and advertising its faculty of two Soul Saints and three Soul Emperors. When they discover that the academy consists of dilapidated wooden shacks, he presents its poor conditions as a deliberate method of tempering their will 2 3.

Despite his stinginess, Flender accepts responsibility for the expense of Lin Feng’s gold-consuming martial soul. He helps test its abilities, searches for ways to fund skill unlocks, and supervises soul-ring hunts. Lin Feng later emphasizes that, whatever Shrek lacks in facilities, its dean has never neglected their cultivation resources 4 5 6 29.

Supporting His Students

Flender accompanies Lin Feng through increasingly dangerous soul-ring acquisitions. He closely monitors the first ring’s absorption, witnesses the summoning of Dominator Vanguards, and helps locate an attack-focused beast for Lin Feng’s later equipment development. During the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear hunt, he initially opposes the risky absorption until Lin Feng reveals a lifesaving trump card 3 11 40.

His concern extends beyond cultivation. When Lin Feng goes missing in the Star Dou Forest, Flender agrees to accompany Zhao Wuji into the inner circle to search for him. He had also intended to accept Lin Feng as his personal disciple, but abandons that hope after Qian Renxue becomes the boy’s teacher, recognizing that her resources offer him a broader future 26 29.

Flender obtains a Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma from Lin Feng by granting him 30% of Shrek Academy’s shares and appointing him vice dean. Rather than consume the herb himself, he gives it to his longtime friend Yu Xiaogang 66 100 259.

Heaven Dou and the Tournament

After the Shrek delegation’s humiliating reception at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Flender leads the group toward Blue Tyrant Academy. The institution is subsequently renamed Shrek Academy 117 121 122 133.

When Lin Feng reveals that Xiao Wu is a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Flender personally escorts her toward the Star Dou Forest. He refuses Tang Hao’s demand to surrender her and escapes with the help of Lin Feng’s speed-enhancing coins 134 135 141.

Watching Lin Feng reach the tournament finals moves Flender to tears: ten years after recruiting him, he sees his student standing on the highest competitive stage. Shrek wins the championship, and its tournament reputation and teleportation spectacle later drive applications to more than ten times their previous number 172 174 196 256.

Flender refuses Emperor Xue Ye’s proposal to rename the school Heaven Dou Royal Shrek Academy, even when the emperor offers ten million Gold Soul Coins in annual funding and top-tier faculty and resources. He insists that Shrek’s educational philosophy cannot accommodate the royal designation 214.

Departure and Bloodline Evolution

Yu Xiaogang’s repeated demands for a secret method of exceeding soul-ring absorption limits eventually destroy their friendship. When Yu Xiaogang attacks Lin Feng’s contribution to the academy, Flender openly credits Lin Feng with earning Shrek’s reputation and reveals the source of the Ganoderma. After Liu Erlong tells Lin Feng to leave, Flender departs with Zhao Wuji, Lin Feng, and the original faculty 256 259.

Outside the academy, he apologizes to Lin Feng for the mistreatment, then returns to their familiar banter. Later, Lin Feng performs Bloodline Ascension on him, merging the Hell Spirit Cat’s concealment instincts with the Four-Eyed Owl’s aerial capabilities 260 331.

Appearance

Flender is introduced as a sturdy, middle-aged man whose bearing combines merchant-like cunning with rugged toughness 1.

• Broad shoulders and upright posture, accentuated by gray-blue robes at his first appearance 1.
• Black-rimmed glasses, which he frequently adjusts while teaching, negotiating, or fighting 1 3 36.
• Falcon-sharp eyes 1.
• Winged martial soul possession, initially featuring grayish-brown Cat-Eagle feathers 135 331.
• Evolved form: wings spanning more than ten meters, pure-black feathers edged with Netherworld mist, four purple-black pupils, and a partly illusory silhouette 331.

Personality

Flender is a persuasive recruiter and habitual bargain-maker. He turns Shrek’s poverty into a lesson about endurance, imagines mountains of gold when he discovers exceptional students, and attempts to sell Lin Feng an honorary vice-deanship in exchange for academy funding. His opportunism also appears in gambling and in recruiting Shi Yue with promises while charging an entry fee 1 3 51 104 111.

His attachment to money does not outweigh his obligations to his students. He funds Lin Feng’s development despite the cost, prepares to search dangerous territory for him, and protects Xiao Wu from a Titled Douluo. His refusal of imperial sponsorship likewise shows that financial advantage cannot simply buy control of Shrek 6 26 135 214.

Flender’s protectiveness is personal rather than universal. He bluntly tells Xiao Wu that he would have killed her for her soul bone had she not been his student. He does not share her idealistic hope for peace between humans and soul beasts 135.

He initially favors mediation in conflicts involving Yu Xiaogang, but that loyalty has limits. Repeated accusations and hostility toward Lin Feng ultimately leave him furious and deeply disappointed in his old friend 110 256 259.

Abilities & Skills

Four-Eyed Owl Martial Soul

An avian beast martial soul suited to aerial mobility and agility-attack combat 1 11 135.

• Flight and transport: carries Lin Feng and Oscar through the air; later carries Yu Xiaogang during the group’s journey 6 111.
• Aerial positioning: hovers above opponents while delivering ranged attacks 15 36.
• Bloodline vulnerability: the hundred-year Dominator Vanguards’ dragon pressure makes his martial soul tremble despite his much higher cultivation 11.
• Original talent ceiling: before Bloodline Ascension, Lin Feng judges that Flender would ordinarily be limited to Soul Douluo without a special opportunity 331.

Fourth Soul Skill: Air Blade

Also rendered as Air Cutter, this skill releases sharp blades of air for ranged bombardment 15 16 36.

• Launches more than a hundred blades to pressure several Soul Saints or obstruct an opponent’s advance 15 16.
• Uses a “Tenfold” release to seal off escape routes during the Blood Wolf conflict 36.
• With Lin Feng’s Godly Gear and buffs, unleashes a thousand blades across half the sky during the valley ambush 162.

Evolved Concealment

Hell Spirit Cat bloodline fusion strengthens both visual concealment and suppression of his detectable aura 331.

• His silhouette becomes illusory, as though he could disappear at any moment 331.
• Even longtime companions struggle to locate him by sensing his aura while he stands in daylight 331.
• Combines stealth with flight to make his evolved martial soul particularly suited to hunting at night 331.

Teaching and Soul-Beast Assessment

Flender evaluates students’ readiness for dangerous rings and selects beasts according to their martial souls’ development needs 3 40.

• Uses Lin Feng’s determination to motivate Oscar and strengthen Shrek’s training atmosphere 3.
• Limits Oscar’s first-ring age while allowing Lin Feng a riskier absorption based on his demonstrated endurance 3.
• Searches specifically for physical-attack beasts without prominent elemental attacks at Lin Feng’s request 40.

Equipment / Support Items

• Glasses — his recurring personal accessory 1 3.
• Blue Sentinel Power — Lin Feng’s support effect restores 3% of Flender’s soul power per second without weakening because of their cultivation gap 5.
• Thornmail coins — used to test equipment stacking; the first two coins increase his attributes, while the third and fourth provide no additional gain 11 12.
• Infinity Edge — temporarily amplifies his combat power; he tests its critical-hit effect against a ten-thousand-year Rock Steel Rhino and feels the sharp drop when the enhancement expires 42 43.
• Two Boots of Swiftness coins — provide a 280% movement-speed bonus during his escape from Tang Hao with Xiao Wu 135.

Relationships

• Lin Feng — recruited student, cultivation charge, and eventual vice dean. Their relationship combines protective mentorship, pride, financial bargaining, and frequent teasing; Lin Feng later evolves his martial soul 1 29 66 172 331.
• Oscar — recruited after his exceptional awakening. Flender uses Lin Feng’s work ethic to encourage Oscar’s training 1 3.
• Zhao Wuji — trusted colleague and companion in student protection, combat, and the eventual departure from Blue Tyrant Academy 26 117 259.
• Ma Hongjun — personal disciple. Flender accidentally worsens his evil fire by giving him thousand-year Whale Rubber and urgently seeks Lin Feng’s help 33 256.
• Yu Xiaogang — longtime friend and recipient of the Ganoderma obtained through Flender’s agreement with Lin Feng. Their friendship collapses over Yu Xiaogang’s demands and treatment of Lin Feng 66 100 259.
• Liu Erlong — old associate who supports Yu Xiaogang’s demands; her confrontation with Lin Feng helps precipitate Flender’s departure 256 259.
• Qian Renxue — initially regarded warily as Lin Feng’s unexpected new teacher. Flender ultimately accepts that her backing benefits him 27 29.
• Xiao Wu — student whom he protects despite learning her soul-beast identity 134 135.
• Tang Hao — initially a visitor whose confrontation with Zhao Wuji Flender mediates; later an adversary when he demands custody of Xiao Wu 82 135.

Notable Quotes

“Shrek Academy only accepts monsters, not ordinary people.” 2

“Sigh, it's just because you are my student. If you weren't, I would have killed you to take your bone too.” 135

“Furthermore, Shrek has its own unique philosophy of education and cannot bear the weight of the ‘Royal’ title.” 214

“Why does the world call us Shrek the number one Soul Master Academy? That reputation was earned by Lin Feng.” 259