Yan Shaozhe

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Yan Shaozhe (言少哲)
Alias(es)	Dean Yan
Gender	Male 2
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; Sea God Pavilion leadership 3 4
Occupation/Role	Dean of Shrek Academy and Dean of its Martial Soul Department 4
Rank	Super Douluo 9 32
Status	Active 161
First Appearance	Chapter 2

Appearance

Yan Shaozhe is an elderly, white-bearded man who favors simple and elegant white robes. He projects a scholarly, serene presence from his book-lined office, usually seen with tea in hand. 2 160

• Calm, plain-faced demeanor that initially suggests little can surprise him. 2
• White beard, noted during his loss of composure over Ma Xiaotao's report from the Far North. 160
• His robes can be swept dramatically by wind while he supervises missions in the Star Dou Great Forest. 20

Personality

Yan Shaozhe is ordinarily composed, courteous, and attentive to Shrek Academy's image. He immediately recognizes extraordinary potential in Lu Ran and is eager to provide resources, protection, and institutional support. 2 32

His calmness repeatedly gives way to visible excitement when confronted with unprecedented talent or Ultimate attributes. He is particularly invested in the Martial Soul Department's future and frequently competes with Xian Lin'er over promising students, sometimes becoming smug when the department gains an advantage. 3 161

Despite this factional bias, Yan is a conscientious expedition leader. He watches over every student under his care, adjusts the team's pace for weaker members, and personally issues warnings during dangerous soul-hunting missions. 19 He also respects Mu En's authority, ultimately accepting his teacher's instruction not to investigate Lu Ran's secrets further. 160 161

Abilities & Skills

Super Douluo Cultivation

Yan Shaozhe possesses Super Douluo-level soul power and is regarded as an overwhelming presence by students and lower-ranked Soul Masters. 9 32

• Perceived Lu Ran and Zhang Lexuan before they entered his office. 2
• Verified Lu Ran's Innate Full Soul Power directly by sensing the soul power in his body. 2
• Personally searched the Star Dou Great Forest for rare Soul Beasts suitable for Lu Ran's contracts. 5 9
• Can move with such speed that his departure appears instantaneous and leaves no noticeable disturbance. 2 160

Spiritual Detection

Yan can sustain extensive spiritual detection while searching for Soul Beasts, though prolonged use imposes a cost. 9

• Maintained spiritual detection for seven consecutive days during the search for a Golden Hawksbill. 9
• Required a spiritual-amplification Soul Tool after exhaustion began to affect him. 9

Mission Leadership

Yan is an experienced teacher and field commander during Soul Beast expeditions. 19

• Keeps students within his sight while moving through dangerous forest territory. 19
• Gives threat warnings, delegates responses to students, and reduces the pace when their stamina declines. 19
• Shields Lu Ran from unnecessary danger while still allowing him to observe a team soul-hunting mission firsthand. 21

Equipment

• Spiritual-amplification Soul Tool — Used to support his spiritual detection during the Golden Hawksbill search; he specifically warned Lu Ran not to mention it to Xian Lin'er. 9

Relationships

• Lu Ran — Recruited him into Shrek after learning of his Innate Full Soul Power and contract-based Martial Soul; subsequently arranged Soul Beast searches, accompanied missions, issued him a special academy badge, and supported his projects. 2 5 8 46
• Mu En — Teacher and senior authority. Mu En repeatedly restrains Yan's impulsiveness, including ordering him not to investigate Lu Ran's Far North activities. 160 161
• Xian Lin'er — Rival dean of the Soul Guidance Department. Their competition over Lu Ran and later Xiao Xue reflects the longstanding departmental conflict. 3 4 161
• Zhang Lexuan — Fellow Shrek senior who accompanied Yan and Xian Lin'er on Lu Ran's first Soul Ring mission. 3 4
• Ma Xiaotao — His student. Yan sent her to Lu Ran in hopes that Lu Ran could suppress her Evil Fire, and later reacted with intense disbelief when she returned as an Ultimate Fire Soul Master. 11 160
• Xiao Xue — A prospective Shrek talent in whom Yan immediately took interest, proposing Ling Luochen as a companion and cultivation guide. 161

Story Role / Major Arcs

Lu Ran's Recruitment and First Contract

• Yan meets Lu Ran after his Martial Soul awakening, accepts him into Shrek without hesitation, and is astonished to learn that Lu Ran possesses Innate Full Soul Power and can contract Soul Beasts whose cultivation—and Soul Skills—can continue growing. 2 6
• He reports Lu Ran's abilities to Mu En and the Sea God Pavilion, inadvertently beginning a dispute with Xian Lin'er over which department should cultivate him. 3
• Yan helps identify the Rock Crystal Dragon as an earth-attribute Soul Beast suited to establishing terrain in Lu Ran's Small World, then accompanies the successful first contract. 5 6

Support of Lu Ran's Development

• Yan grants Lu Ran a special silver identity badge and access to the Inner Court library rather than the Outer Court library. 8
• He personally searches for Lu Ran's second contracted Soul Beast, the Golden Hawksbill, using extended spiritual detection. 9
• Concerned that Lu Ran's Blue Silver Grass research may lead him toward an unsuitable contract, Yan arranges a student soul-hunting team and personally leads it. 16 19
• He provides Lu Ran with an academy-owned three-story storefront for his milk tea business and is surprised to see Soul Beasts employed as paid workers. 46 47

Academy Leadership

• Yan personally waits for Lu Ran during Outer Academy enrollment, an action that shocks the new students and reinforces Lu Ran's exceptional standing at Shrek. 32
• After Zhou Yi's death, he discusses academy safety measures with Lu Ran and decides that teachers and students leaving campus should receive communication and defensive Soul Tools. He also concedes that Soul Tools need further development. 117
• He grants Lu Ran and Ma Xiaotao a month of leave for their Far North journey after witnessing Lu Ran's five ten-thousand-year Soul Rings. 144

Ma Xiaotao's Ultimate Fire Ascension

• Yan spends thirteen years seeking an Ultimate Ice Soul Master capable of helping Ma Xiaotao control her Evil Fire. 160
• He is overwhelmed when Ma Xiaotao reports that Lu Ran found Xiao Xue, an Ultimate Ice Soul Master, and secured the means to help her ascend to Ultimate Fire. 160
• At the elders' meeting, Yan proudly reveals Lu Ran's role in Ma Xiaotao's transformation, using the occasion to needle Xian Lin'er and the Soul Guidance Department. 161
• Although he initially hopes to recruit Xiao Xue for the Martial Soul Department, he is instructed by Mu En to stop fixating on departmental divisions ahead of the planned integration of the two departments. 161