Beast Fighting Zone
Douluo: Starting with a King's Ball, Capturing Wang Dong'er
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Beast Fighting Zone |
| Original Name | 斗兽区 |
| Type | Soul beast housing and combat facility 7 18 |
| Affiliation | Shrek Academy 7 |
| Location | Within Shrek Academy, near the Training Zone 16 |
| Administrator | Gong Changlong, known as Elder Gong and the Beast King 7 |
| Role | Keeps captive soul beasts and provides arenas for student–beast battles and advancement examinations 7 18 |
| First Appearance | Song Mu visits with Du Weilun to demonstrate his awakened martial soul 7 |
Layout and Facilities
The Beast Fighting Zone is Shrek Academy’s largest building, occupying an area equal to its teaching buildings, dormitories, and Shrek Plaza combined 7.
| Area | Description |
|---|---|
| Beast Fighting Arena | Outermost section, styled like an ancient Roman colosseum. Its large arena hosts student advancement examinations 8 18. |
| Smaller arenas | Allow multiple students to battle soul beasts simultaneously. Song Mu and Wang Dong’er also use one to interact with his captured beasts 18. |
| Office Area | Houses administrative staff and the office of the elder responsible for the facility 7 8. |
| Soul Beast Garden | Core housing area, with specially constructed habitats suited to each beast’s environmental needs 8. |
| Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Zone | More heavily fortified section within the garden, holding ten-thousand-year beasts 24. |
Soul Beast Housing
- Attribute-specific habitats: Ice-attribute beasts occupy cold spaces, while fire-attribute beasts live in hot environments 8.
- Controlled enclosure access: Elder Gong operates a nearby soul guidance device to open the connection between an enclosure and the outside 8.
- Cultivation range: The facility houses beasts ranging from hundred-year to ten-thousand-year cultivation; the latter number fewer than twenty 9 26.
Management and Funding
- Gong Changlong oversees the zone and has spent most of his life working with soul beasts. He personally assists Song Mu’s capture experiments by sealing beasts with his soul power 7 8 24 26.
- Funding: All Shrek City tax revenue goes to Shrek Academy, with one-third invested in the Beast Fighting Zone 7.
- Main expenses: Captivity and maintenance account for its principal costs, with the Soul Beast Garden consuming the largest share 8 9.
- Proposed savings: Du Weilun recognizes that storing beasts through Song Mu’s martial soul could substantially reduce upkeep costs; the passages do not establish that this storage arrangement is implemented 9.
Story Role
Martial Soul Evaluation
Du Weilun brings Song Mu to the zone to assess his newly awakened martial soul. Its captive beasts provide controlled test subjects, while Elder Gong supplies the restraint needed to make captures easier 7 8.
| Event | Chapter | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Wind Spirit Wolf capture | 8 | Song Mu initially fails to capture a wolf just over the hundred-year mark, then succeeds after Elder Gong seals it. |
| Combat-control testing | 9 | Tests spanning hundred-year through four-thousand-year beasts establish that level-25 Song Mu can command two beasts simultaneously, with a control ceiling just above three thousand years. |
| Continued access | 9 | Elder Gong welcomes Song Mu to return and capture whichever beasts he likes. |
| Flame Lion King capture | 11 12 | Song Mu captures a lion just over a thousand years old and evaluates its talent through his panel. |
| First ten-thousand-year capture | 24 25 | Elder Gong helps Song Mu capture a beast in the fortified section on his first attempt. |
Wang Dong’er’s Cultivation
Song Mu repeatedly captures and releases the zone’s beasts to obtain cultivation fruits. A beast’s first release awards these fruits; subsequent releases do not, preventing him from repeatedly harvesting the same beast for materials 12.
Over eight months, Elder Gong helps him work through almost every beast in the facility. The final documented capture and release raises Wang Dong’er to level sixty, completing Song Mu’s special mission and earning the light-element Refraction skill stone 26.
Elder Gong then states that there are no more beasts for Song Mu to catch. This does not mean the facility has been emptied: the final ten-thousand-year beast is explicitly released back into the same location 26.
Related Characters
- Gong Changlong — Administrator and Song Mu’s principal helper during capture testing and the eight-month cultivation project 7 24 26.
- Du Weilun — Arranges the initial visit and evaluates the capture and combat-control abilities 7 9.
- Song Mu — Regular visitor whose access to captive beasts makes the facility a major resource for his early development 12 25.
- Wang Dong’er — Accompanies Song Mu, plays with the Wind Tiger and Blazing Lion in a smaller arena, and receives the fruits generated through his captures 18 19 26.