Sea God Pavilion

Biodata

Authority and Membership

Sea God Pavilion serves as Shrek’s highest decision-making institution. Its elders direct academy policy, control major resources, oversee the Inquisitorial Legion, and convene the continent’s leading factions when Shrek’s authority extends beyond the academy. The position of Sea God Pavilion Master is presented as one of the highest authorities in the soul master world. 12 34

• Mu En presides over the Pavilion’s major councils and gives final approval to its most consequential decisions. 12 41 46
• The Pavilion has nine core senior elders and a larger body of external senior elders. A recalled meeting gathered more than thirty Titled-level powerhouses. 12 29
• Elders may also hold major academy offices, including leadership of the Martial Soul Department, Soul Tool Department, Treasure Gathering Pavilion, and Inquisitorial Legion. 5 9 13
• The Sea God Pavilion Internal Affairs Token authorizes its bearer to mobilize personnel, investigate the academy, suspend the Inquisitorial Legion, and allocate Soul Tool Department resources. 22
• Its main hall is used for council meetings, public announcements, diplomatic gatherings, and ceremonies involving the continent’s major powers. 45 47 53
• Recruited Soul Engineers are promised exceptional direct admission into the Pavilion if they attain the ninth level and serve Shrek for twenty full years. This offer applies to both the two Eighth-level recruits and the four Seventh-level instructors. 29
• Mu En temporarily entrusted academy affairs to Xuan Zi’s full discretion while his own age and condition limited his administrative capacity; major proposals still returned to Pavilion deliberation and Mu En’s approval. 38 40 41
• Xuan Zi identifies Zhang Lexuan as a possible future contender for Pavilion Master, but explicitly leaves her eventual qualifications dependent on her own achievements. She is not formally appointed as successor. 34 35

Facilities and Security

• Council Hall — venue for elder deliberations on academy reforms, the Firmament Tribunal, and wartime mobilization. 12 41 46
• Dining Hall — a Pavilion facility where Xuan Zi regularly obtains food. 2 3
• Residential and quiet chambers — used by senior elders such as Mu En for private meetings and recovery. 16 22
• Outer structures — gray-white buildings near Shrek Academy’s inner grounds. 2
• Inner Court defensive formation — activated during Zhang Lexuan’s discipleship ceremony to restrict unauthorized access near the Pavilion. 44
• Sea God Lake perimeter — Pavilion forces operate around the lake and use it as a central point within Shrek’s Inner Court. 3 29
• Outer Court reception hall — used to receive the Three Empires’ envoys when they requested the restoration of Inquisitorial Legion patrols. 30
• Ceremonial plaza — located before the Pavilion; hosted Zhang Lexuan’s apprenticeship ceremony and the continental coalition’s prewar assembly. Pavilion stewards inspected the ceremony’s seating and maintained strict access controls. 45 64
• Western side hall — used for Xuan Zi’s private negotiations with Jing Hongchen over student exchanges. 55
• Mu En’s top-floor chamber — the initial meeting place where Xuan Zi presented the Spirit-Eating Engraving Knife and explained its concealed Life Gold. 57
• Golden Ancient Tree / Half-Life Tree — the ancient tree’s transformation permanently increased Shrek City’s spiritual-energy density and nourished plant-type Soul Masters. Its life energy also supported the rejuvenation and cultivation breakthroughs of the Pavilion’s senior figures. 58 59 61
• Exchange-student accommodations — arranged by the Pavilion and prepared by Cai Mei’er for the visiting Sun Moon delegation. The thirty visiting students were assigned to cultivate around Sea God Lake for two years. 95 96

During the Sun Moon delegation’s arrival for the apprenticeship ceremony, Xuan Zi ordered all Pavilion Titled Douluos to remain at the academy for three days and placed particular emphasis on guarding Mu En. Jing Hongchen’s scouts subsequently found the Pavilion’s surroundings sealed off and inaccessible. The ceremony concluded without the Ninth-level Fixed Soul Cannon Shells being fired. 43 45

Key Personnel

• Mu En — presiding elder and final authority behind the Pavilion’s reforms, Tribunal charter, and campaign against Evil Soul Masters. He later leads the decisive operations against the Holy Spirit Cult and investigates the resulting threat beyond the Douluo Plane. 41 46 62 99 107 110
• Xuan Zi / Chen Xuan — Taotie Douluo, Pavilion elder, former vice commander of the Shrek Inquisitorial Legion, and principal architect of the academy’s reforms and the Firmament Tribunal. 3 46 55
• Elder Song / Song Yunzhi — led the academy-wide traitor investigation and later coordinated intelligence and Tribunal administration. She reports the northern purge’s results and accompanies Mu En to reinforce the Sun Moon front. 22 29 65 78
• Elder Lin / Lin Huiqun — manages major financial and intelligence resources through the Treasure Gathering Pavilion; assisted corruption investigations and wartime funding. 9 15 16 61
• Yan Shaozhe — former Martial Soul Department dean who executes Pavilion policy, organizes personnel, and represents Shrek in external negotiations. He represents Shrek in the awakening pilot program, recruits Ma Xiaotao, and later conveys Mu En’s request for Di Tian to investigate the deep sea. 30 41 61 84 86 87 110
• Cai Mei’er — participant in Pavilion councils and initially the Martial Soul Department’s vice dean; later takes over as dean. She manages academy administration, welcomes exchange students, and submits a proposal for an Outer Court Inquisitorial Team. 7 40 46 87 92 95
• Xian Lin’er and Qian Duoduo — Soul Tool Department leaders responsible for modernization, Soul Engineer recruitment, and Tribunal communications. 13 42 63
• Elder Zhuang — senior healer tasked with organizing Shrek’s healing- and food-type Soul Masters for war. 62
• Lu Yun — Rank 92 Soul Master and Shrek Outer Pavilion elder by the coalition’s departure. He serves Xuan Zi as a messenger and administrator during the search for Holy Spirit Cult strongholds and the interrogation of prisoners. 65 74 75 76
• Elder Feng — Rank 95 Super Douluo, veteran Inquisitorial Legion elder, and Xian Lin’er’s former teacher. Recalled from the northern front to escort Shrek’s exchange delegation, he later returns to the Holy Spirit Cult front alongside Xian Lin’er. 93 95 98

Power Progression

Major Reforms and Actions

Internal Purge and Resource Redistribution

Song Yunzhi’s academy-wide investigation captured five Titled Douluos, more than twenty Soul Douluos, and numerous lower-ranked collaborators. Conclusive evidence and confessions led to public executions beside Sea God Lake, where she announced that betrayal of Shrek or cooperation with Evil Soul Masters would be punished by death. 29

• Confiscated shops, land, Soul Tools, and materials funded compensation for injured or crippled Inner Court disciples and supported the Soul Tool Department. 29
• Inner Court students studying Soul Tools received equipment and materials free of charge, with the Treasure Gathering Pavilion responsible for covering shortfalls. 29
• The purge and the flight of associated personnel left seven Inner Court teaching vacancies and more than ten Outer Court class-supervisor vacancies. 39
• Replacement teaching disciples received doubled cultivation resources. Those with three cumulative years of excellent teaching evaluations could apply for permanent positions and associated inner-city residences. 41
• Staff residences were for rent rather than sale and had to be returned when the holder lost the corresponding position. 41

External Missions and Institutional Independence

The Pavilion’s withdrawal order emptied Inquisitorial Legion outposts across the Three Empires. When Evil Soul Master attacks increased and imperial envoys requested renewed patrols, Yan Shaozhe refused to overturn the two-year suspension, emphasizing that Shrek was not an institution the empires could summon or dismiss at will. 30

The later reform council maintained the suspension through the apprenticeship ceremony and prepared public negotiations over rules, resources, and costs. Xuan Zi argued that the powers benefiting from continental peace must contribute money and personnel rather than leave Shrek to bear those responsibilities alone. This principle became part of the Firmament Tribunal’s framework. 41 46 48

Exchange Program and Campus Administration

Xuan Zi promoted cooperation with the Sun Moon Empire as a means of combining Shrek’s accumulated Martial Soul knowledge with Illustrious Virtue Hall’s superior Soul Tool technology. He first raised exchanges as an option during recruitment planning, later discussed the political risks with Yan Shaozhe, and directly proposed reciprocal study to Jing Hongchen in the Pavilion’s western side hall. 7 38 55 56

• Shrek sought a long-term arrangement in which a Ninth-level Soul Engineer would be stationed at the academy in return for sending a top Soul Master to Illustrious Virtue Hall. Jing Hongchen described this as a permanent exchange intended to maintain formal ties between the institutions. 89
• Xian Lin’er led Shrek’s thirty students and four instructors, with Elder Feng serving as escort. 95
• At Illustrious Virtue Hall, students joined experimental groups under Eighth-level Soul Engineers, while instructors received private laboratory placements and guidance from Ninth-level experts. 98
• Huan Hongchen led the visiting Sun Moon delegation to Shrek, where Cai Mei’er welcomed them and escorted them to Pavilion-arranged lodgings. 95
• Elder Feng imposed travel, conduct, dispute-reporting, and study rules to protect the students and Shrek’s reputation abroad. 94

Cai Mei’er’s proposed Outer Court Inquisitorial Team was intended to reduce the administrative strain left by the disbanded Legion. It would recruit fourth- through sixth-year students for routine departmental work and campus patrols, rather than restore the former continent-wide military organization. Proposed incentives included additional monthly cultivation resources, service records, priority consideration for Inner Court selection and graduation assignments, and opportunities for outstanding members to apply for personal guidance from a senior Titled Douluo. 92

Firmament Tribunal

Formation

Sea God Pavilion abolished Shrek’s Inquisitorial Legion and replaced it with the Firmament Tribunal, a continent-wide institution intended to coordinate opposition to Evil Soul Masters and administer universal Martial Soul awakening. 47 48

“Above Shrek lies the heavens. Under heaven, all things and all forces may be judged.”
— Xuan Zi on the Tribunal’s name and purpose 46

The Pavilion required the factions’ actual decision-makers to attend a further summit within seven days or forfeit participation rights. Tribunal members were also prohibited from concurrently holding positions of real authority in their original factions, prompting Du Busi to relinquish leadership of the Body Sect in order to enter the new institution. 49 50

Branch Stations and Service System

The Tribunal’s first framework, approved through Sea God Pavilion, established thirty-two branch stations across the continent. 55

• Stations begin in the capitals of the four empires and expand into major cities, with additional stations near the four core powers. 55
• Each station includes a chief officer, two deputies, Awakeners, stationed Spirit Masters, and patrol squads. 55
• No core power may hold more than forty percent of a station’s personnel positions. 55
• Station chiefs may be recommended by nations, but require approval from more than half of the Arbitration Council. 55
• Tribunal members are prohibited from using their authority for their original sects or political factions. 55
• Advancement is tied to individual contribution points, performance, service time, and available positions; sect wealth cannot purchase advancement. 55
• The Contribution Hall is scheduled to open after two years, once the stations and three major bureaus are established. 55
• During Mu En and Xuan Zi’s seclusion, the empires and major sects submitted initial personnel lists and branch-station plans, which Elder Song and Elder Lin began compiling. 61

Shrek’s first-term contribution offerings included advanced Inner Court cultivation manuals covering Soul Ring application, Ring Fusion, Soul Power compression, and combat combinations, limited to twenty manuals annually. It also committed thirty annual portions of naturally shed Golden Ancient Tree branches and leaves. These offerings were part of the requirement that the core powers contribute treasured resources to the service system. 55

Martial Soul Awakening Program

The Tribunal’s central public mission is to restore universal Martial Soul awakening across the continent. 48 49

• Every child of suitable age is to receive an opportunity to awaken their Martial Soul, regardless of wealth or social status. 48
• Participating powers gain priority in recruiting newly discovered talent. 48
• Sea God Pavilion frames the program as a means to identify gifted children early and prevent vulnerable talents from being pushed toward evil paths. 49
• Pilot programs subsequently operate in multiple empires. By the Northern Border ceremony, the Sun Moon Empire’s program has been running for two months. 84
• Recruitment uses formal resource declarations: factions commit core resources to reserve promising children openly rather than compete through private conflict. 84 85
• Yan Shaozhe represents Shrek at the Northern Border pilot, where more than four hundred children are tested by twelve awakeners. 84 85
• Shrek secures Ma Xiaotao, an Evil Fire Phoenix wielder with Innate Full Soul Power; Illustrious Virtue Hall secures Song Yu, whose Martial Soul is the Mechanical Core; the Body Sect receives the child with an origin-level blood Martial Soul. 85 86
• Ma Xiaotao is brought to Shrek and accepts Yan Shaozhe as her teacher. 87

The unusually concentrated appearance of exceptional children also becomes a strategic concern. Mu En takes in a child with the Ferocious Beast Shrek Martial Soul, while reports identify further prodigies such as a Wind-Thunder Staff wielder. Mu En and Xuan Zi interpret the cluster of rare Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power awakenings as a possible sign of wider upheaval rather than merely a recruitment success. 97

Continental War Against Evil Soul Masters

Sea God Pavilion transformed the Tribunal from a political institution into a wartime coalition after Mu En ordered an open purge of Evil Soul Masters. 61 62

• Mu En ordered all Shrek Titled Douluos stationed across the continent to return within seven days. 61
• The Pavilion redirected part of Shrek’s accumulated reserves and a decade of Treasure Appreciation Pavilion profits into war supplies and rewards. 61 62
• Major factions that refused the alliance gathering risked losing their Tribunal rights; factions proven to shelter Evil Soul Masters faced extermination. 62 63
• Elder Zhuang organized healing- and food-type Soul Masters to secure treatment and provisions for the campaign. 62
• Mu En led the Star Luo and Heavenly Soul forces, while Xuan Zi led the Sun Moon and Douling forces toward the Sun Moon Empire. 65
• The Pavilion promised combatants ownership of captured spoils and fivefold compensation to the families of those killed in battle. 65
• Pavilion elders were required to deliver the fallen combatants’ pensions personally, without delegating the task to others. 65
• Mu En declared that Shrek would protect the soldiers’ earned rewards from seizure and that the Tribunal would punish factions attempting to appropriate them. 65

Search Operations and Victim Recovery

Xuan Zi’s forces shifted from the initial march to systematic searches for Holy Spirit Cult remnants and underground installations. He ordered separate interrogations of captured members, doubled aerial detection Soul Tools, and organized mixed Soul Master–Soul Engineer search teams. Each team was to have both a Titled Douluo and a Titled Soul Engineer as leaders to improve detection and protection against ambushes. 74

• Riftwind Douluo and Hansu Douluo discovered an underground base containing 127 desiccated civilian corpses and blood plasma used in the cult’s Blood Marrow Devouring technique. 74 75
• Eight strongholds uncovered over the following half month yielded 347 captured Evil Soul Masters, including twelve Soul Douluos, and 1,008 desiccated corpses. 75
• Xuan Zi ordered recovered victims to be buried immediately at the sites rather than transported elsewhere; the first stronghold’s dead received a memorial monument. 75
• Prisoners revealed twenty outer strongholds but could not safely disclose the central headquarters. Two Soul Douluos detonated when interrogators triggered Ye Xishui’s lethal Dark Ban, severely injuring two interrogators. 76
• Xuan Zi prohibited further headquarters questioning, ordered the known locations recorded, and directed the secret elimination of the remaining captured cult members and fugitives. 76

Encirclement and First Major Battle

The coalition surrounded the Evil Demon Forest with Soul Masters, Titled Douluos, Soul Engineer corps, detection networks, and extensive linked Soul Tool formations. Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and Heavenly Sun Douluo coordinated the technological defenses, including a second-generation linkage array tested against Heavenly Sun Douluo’s Rank 97 attacks. 76 77

At the northern command post, Elder Song reported that many remote bases in the former Three Empires had been destroyed, but their major leaders had largely escaped. Mu En left Du Busi in charge of the northern defensive line, assisted by Purple Lightning Douluo and Xuanwu, and traveled with Elder Song to reinforce Xuan Zi in the Sun Moon Empire. 78

Ye Xishui then attacked the allied camp with blood-sea and wraith techniques while Zhongli Wu and the Twelve Apostles prepared a concealed ambush against Xuan Zi. Kong Deming and the Soul Engineers sustained the defensive barrier until Xuan Zi and Little Black Dog intervened. Mu En arrived in time to split the Blood Sea Wraith Spear and destroy the Apostles’ formation. 78 79

Xuan Zi’s subsequent Taotie Descent annihilated the Twelve Apostles and much of the cult’s perimeter strength. Long Xiaoyao rescued Ye Xishui and Zhongli Wu only after the three expended major trump cards and suffered severe damage. Mu En ordered the forest perimeter reinforced and sealed while the coalition prepared its final assault. 81 82

Final Assault and the Enemy Leaders’ Escape

Mu En convened the allied leaders after sensing that the Douluo Continent’s origin was reacting to an approaching threat from beyond the world. He argued that the Holy Spirit Cult had to be eliminated before it could combine with that danger. 99

• The final assault was scheduled for the third day after the command meeting. 98 99
• Illustrious Virtue Hall supplied Soul Tool weapons and ammunition, while Douling contributed a ten-thousand-strong Soul Master army and provisions. 99
• The main encirclement approached from the west, south, and north; the eastern side was monitored rather than directly assaulted to avoid unnecessarily provoking the Evil Emperor. 99
• Xuan Zi was assigned to watch the Evil Emperor, with Taotie available to intervene. Ten Ninth-level shells were reserved specifically for that threat. 99
• Xian Lin’er and Elder Feng joined the frontline leadership after settling Shrek’s exchange students at Illustrious Virtue Hall. 98 99

In the underground palace, Mu En, Kong Deming, Xuan Zi, and Taotie brought Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, Zhongli Wu, and Feng Ling close to defeat. The Demon Empress intervened to rescue them, then used the Abyssal Return-to-Void Pearl to repel the attackers and open a passage between planes. Despite attempts by Mu En, Kong Deming, and Taotie to tear open the passage, she escaped with all four cult leaders. 107

Investigation of the External Threat

Following the escape, Mu En ordered searches across the continent and ocean and warned Di Tian that the continent’s survival might be at stake. Yan Shaozhe later appealed to Di Tian on Mu En’s behalf, securing his agreement to investigate the mysterious deep-sea powerhouse. 107 110

Mu En pursued a parallel investigation by traveling to Sea God Island and consulting Sea God Douluo Chen Lan, a long-standing acquaintance with extensive knowledge of the ocean. He recounted the battle and explained that the rescuer’s bead had frightened the continent’s origin. Mu En concluded that the phenomenon represented an unknown threat from beyond the Douluo world rather than an ordinary racial conflict or internal continental upheaval. 110