Shrek Academy

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Shrek Academy
Alias(es)	史莱克学院; the continent's number one academy; the continent's premier academy
Affiliation	Independent soul master academy; Shrek Seven Monsters
Occupation/Role	Soul master education and training institution
Status	Active
Location	Northern Star Luo Empire, near the borders of several great empires; its surrounding settlement is known as Shrek City 6 11
First Appearance	6

Background / History

Shrek Academy is widely regarded as the number one academy on Douluo Continent. It draws on the continent's foremost resources to cultivate gifted soul masters, many of whom later become academy teachers and continue recruiting new talent. Its reputation is reinforced by a long record of tournament success, having won nearly every Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament championship for the past thousand years 6 22 62.

The academy occupies an enormous campus, around which Shrek City developed. Statues within the academy depict its three founders and the first generation of the Shrek Seven Monsters 11.

Yao Shi enrolled at age twelve with Rank 24 soul power after graduating early from Bluestone Town Junior Soul Master Academy. He later won the freshman assessment with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, but was denied full outer-court core disciple status despite defeating the Netherworld White Tiger in one strike. The academy instead offered him provisional core treatment until the end of the academic year; he withdrew during the holiday and transferred to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy 6 27 51.

Admissions and Student Life

• Entry requires suitable age, sufficient soul power, and letters of recommendation. Yao Shi and Huo Yuhao entered using recommendations from city lords whose illnesses Yao Shi had treated 11.
• New students receive dormitory keys, uniforms, and freshman badges upon registration 11.
• Freshmen are housed in two-person dormitories with wooden beds 12 50.
• Students who fail the freshman assessment are expelled rather than transferred to another class 22.
• The freshman assessment involves nearly 300 three-person teams; only the top 150 may remain at the academy 22.
• Core disciples and high-ranking students are reassigned to Class One under Zhang Lexuan after the freshman assessment 27.

Training and Assessment

Freshman Training

Under Zhang Lexuan, Freshman Class One follows a schedule of daily running, martial soul cultivation, martial-soul-specific exercises, Friday sparring, and two weekly rest days 20.

Zhou Yi previously used an uncompromising disciplinary approach, ordering the class to run 100 laps around Shrek Square after a registration dispute and threatening immediate expulsion for noncompliance. Her punishment of Yao Shi and Wang Dong escalated to 300 laps—90 kilometers—after they challenged her methods 15 16.

Core Disciple Selection

Core disciples are selected through academy evaluation rather than only demonstrated combat strength. Yao Shi was excluded despite winning the freshman championship, as the academy judged his branch martial soul to have limited long-term potential 27.

For selection to the Shrek Seven Monsters reserve team, 25 Martial Soul Department core disciples and one Soul Guidance Department core disciple participated in a ruleless free-for-all. The last seven remaining were selected as reserves and tournament substitutes 54.

Shrek Seven Monsters Reserve Team

Member	Notes
Bei Bei	Selected through the core-disciple free-for-all 54
Xu Sanshi	Selected through the core-disciple free-for-all 54
Jiang Nannan	Selected through the core-disciple free-for-all 54
Wang Dong	Selected through the core-disciple free-for-all 54
Ning Tian	Selected through the core-disciple free-for-all 54
Dai Huabin	Selected through the core-disciple free-for-all 54
Zhu Lu	Selected through the core-disciple free-for-all 54

The reserve team trains under Xuan Zi once per week and is continuously assessed over five years. Their appointment is treated as an academy secret, with disclosure risking revocation of their status 54.

Notable Personnel

• Yan Shaozhe — Headmaster of Shrek Academy during the freshman assessment period 24.
• Du Weilun — Academic Affairs official who announces core disciple selections 20 27.
• Xuan Zi / Elder Xuan — Super Douluo, reserve Seven Monsters assessor and trainer 54 57.
• Wang Yan — Teacher who supervises the reserve team during the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament 57 61.
• Zhang Lexuan — Freshman Class One homeroom teacher after Zhou Yi's replacement 20.
• Zhou Yi — Former Freshman Class One homeroom teacher and a six-ring Soul Emperor 14 15.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Yao Shi's Enrollment and Departure

Yao Shi and Huo Yuhao arrive at Shrek Academy after travelling from the Star Luo Empire. Both register independently rather than accepting Tang Ya's offer to enter through the Tang Sect; at Yao Shi's advice, Huo Yuhao enrolls in the Soul Guidance Department 10 11.

Although Yao Shi's team wins the freshman assessment, the academy's core-disciple decision convinces him that Shrek has little to teach him beyond its denser soul power. He leaves at the end of the term without informing Wang Dong, later enrolling at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy 22 27 51.

Reserve Team Crisis

The reserve Seven Monsters travel with the Shrek Inspection Corps toward Star Luo City. During an operation against bandits in the Mingdou Mountains, a Death God's Messenger uses corpse explosions to kill Yao Haoxuan, Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, and Xixi; Wang Dong is abducted but recovered unharmed. Xuan Zi returns to the academy with the dead and injured while Wang Yan leads the remaining students onward to tournament registration 56 57.

Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament

Because its official team is unavailable following the ambush, Shrek enters the tournament with only two official members—Ma Xiaotao and Ling Luochen—and its seven reserves. Spectators initially question the academy's apparent decline when the reserve team reveals only three Soul Ancestors, two Soul Elders, and two Soul Grand Masters 61 62.

The reserve team defeats Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy in just over a minute through coordinated use of Ning Tian's enhancement, the Hell White Tiger martial soul fusion, and Wang Dong's aerial support 63.

Reinforcements fail to arrive after another evil soul master ambush kills four academy disciples. Shrek's remaining team struggles through the tournament until Ma Xiaotao loses control of her Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul during a match against Zhengtian Academy, killing three opponents and severely injuring another 66 69.

With Ma Xiaotao incapacitated and no reinforcements available, Wang Yan withdraws Shrek from all remaining matches. Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei later explains publicly that the academy had been forced to field its reserve team because of the pre-tournament ambush 70.

Trivia

• Shrek's dark green uniforms are described as traditional academy attire 61.
• The academy's outer courtyard is unfavorably compared with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy's campus and dormitories by former student Yao Shi 50.
• Following Yao Shi's later display of twin martial souls, ultimate attributes, and a domain, Shrek personnel regret having allowed him to leave 67 69.