Zhou Yi

Biodata

Appearance

Zhou Yi is described as a stern-faced older woman with an unusually hoarse voice 10 11.

• Her voice is likened to fingernails scraping across a blackboard 11.
• During her later outing in Shrek City, she wears a somewhat hideous mask; together with her gloomy expression, it frightens nearby passersby 77.

Personality

Zhou Yi rules her class through intimidation. She calls her freshmen “fools,” threatens expulsion over a hundred-lap punishment, and declares Tang Wutong expelled after the student challenges her authority. She immediately regrets the declaration but refuses to retract it in front of the class 11.

In combat, she is more adaptable than her classroom conduct suggests: she recovers quickly from a failed attack, defends against Tang Wutong’s follow-up, and defeats Dai Huabin when he charges her 13.

Her authoritarian behavior is tempered by fear of stronger backing. Before expelling Tang Wutong, she hesitates because Dean Yan is watching the student closely; the narration characterizes her as bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Her arena challenge is a calculated attempt to restore her authority by targeting the class’s three strongest students rather than expelling everyone who protests 11 12.

She remains resentful after her dismissal, blaming Du Weilun for excluding her from the next intake’s homeroom-teacher assignments and arguing with Fan Yu over the matter. When confronted about arranging an assassination, she outwardly denies responsibility despite privately revealing her involvement. She first attempts to escape and summon help, then offers valuables to buy her freedom, and finally chooses to fight when those efforts fail 77 78.

Abilities & Skills

Red Dragon Martial Soul

Zhou Yi’s Red Dragon Martial Soul provides offensive and defensive abilities. Her high-level Soul Emperor cultivation briefly shows signs of approaching Soul Sage while she uses an enhancement skill, despite suppression from Xiang Jun’s Sea God Domain 13.

• Flame Dragon’s Wrath — fourth soul skill: Empowers her charge and dragon-claw attack; Xiang Jun blocks it with a water barrier 13.
• Holy Shield Flame Dragon — fifth soul skill: Forms a red-dragon phantom that absorbs Tang Wutong’s Butterfly God Slash with only shallow scratches 13.
• Red Dragon’s Elegy — sixth soul skill: Summons a fire dragon over ten meters long. Xiang Jun erases it with Unfixed Storm 13 14.

Her Martial Soul is identified as a fire-attribute, Earth Dragon-class Martial Soul. As a lesser dragon Martial Soul, it is vulnerable to the Golden Dragon King’s bloodline pressure: during her final confrontation with Tang Wutong, the suppression makes her legs tremble, disrupts her Soul Power circulation, and ultimately collapses her Martial Soul Possession 12 78.

Soul Power-Enhanced Voice

• Zhou Yi silences Class One’s protests with a shout charged with Soul Power 11.

Soul Tools and Resources

• Emergency Soul Tool: Carried against her chest and activated during the countryside confrontation. She expects Fan Yu to bring reinforcements if she can stall long enough, but no rescue arrives before her death 77 78.
• Storage Soul Tool: Holds several gold cards, cultivation resources, and a Soul Bone, which she offers to Xiang Jun and his companions in exchange for letting her leave 77.

Power Progression

History

On Class One’s first day, Zhou Yi orders every student to run a hundred laps because none admits to fighting since registration. Tang Wutong objects to the collective punishment, and their argument ends with Zhou Yi declaring her expelled. When the class protests, Zhou Yi redirects the confrontation to the Soul Arena 11.

There, Zhou Yi challenges Xiang Jun, Tang Wutong, and Dai Huabin to last twenty moves against her, promising to step down as homeroom teacher if they succeed. Xiang Jun’s Sea God Domain weakens her, but she withstands several attacks and eliminates Dai Huabin. Xiang Jun then immobilizes her and dispels her fire dragon with Unfixed Storm. Tang Wutong strikes the defenseless Zhou Yi with a Clear Sky Hammer, breaking her ribs and knocking her unconscious 12 13 14.

Dean Yan Shaozhe announces that Class One will receive a new acting homeroom teacher. Han Ruoruo subsequently takes over the class 14 17.

After Xiang Jun, Tang Wutong, and Huo Yuxi are attacked outside Shrek City, Xiang Jun and Tang Wutong suspect Zhou Yi of hiring the attacker. Tang Wutong initially blames Dai Huabin, but Xiang Jun doubts that he could afford the cost of employing a Soul Sage to assassinate Shrek students near the academy. Wu Ming identifies the defeated assailant as Lei Su, a level-72 Soul Sage wanted by the Shrek Inspection Corps 40 41.

Zhou Yi recuperates at home following her arena defeat. Once recovered, she seeks out Du Weilun as enrollment for the next intake begins, only to discover that she has not been assigned a freshman homeroom. This provokes her anger toward Du Weilun and a major argument with Fan Yu. Three days before the new term, Huo Yuxi spots her strolling alone in Shrek City, drawing Xiang Jun and Tang Wutong’s attention 76 77.

The trio follows Zhou Yi from the shopping district into the countryside on her return toward Shrek Academy. The Ice Empress seals off the surrounding area, and Xiang Jun plants the Seagod’s Trident in her path before confronting her. Zhou Yi immediately tries to flee, but Tang Wutong and Huo Yuxi block her retreat. She activates her emergency Soul Tool, hoping Fan Yu will arrive with help 77.

When accused of arranging the assassination, Zhou Yi denies it, but her private thought that she has already killed the middleman confirms her involvement. She offers gold cards, cultivation resources, and a Soul Bone in exchange for her freedom, also promising to have Fan Yu investigate the supposed real mastermind. Xiang Jun rejects the offer 77 78.

Zhou Yi then summons her six Spirit Rings and prepares to resist, believing that familiarity with her opponents’ abilities gives her a chance. Tang Wutong intervenes before Xiang Jun attacks, wielding the Golden Dragon Spear and suppressing Zhou Yi’s Red Dragon Martial Soul through the Golden Dragon King’s bloodline. Zhou Yi attempts to block with her arms, but her Martial Soul Possession collapses, leaving her unable to resist effectively. Tang Wutong kills her with the spear. Xiang Jun subsequently freezes her remains and every trace of blood, scattering them as tiny ice fragments and erasing the physical traces of her death 78.

Relationships

• Fan Yu — Zhou Yi’s husband; she hopes he can withstand the pressure caused by her attempt to expel Tang Wutong 11. They later argue over her exclusion from new homeroom-teacher assignments. During her final confrontation, she activates an emergency Soul Tool in the expectation that he will bring people to rescue her 77.
• Tang Wutong — A student who challenges Zhou Yi’s punishment, is declared expelled, and later knocks her unconscious in the arena 11 14. After suspecting Zhou Yi of arranging the assassination attempt, Tang Wutong helps corner her outside Shrek City and ultimately kills her with the Golden Dragon Spear 41 77 78.
• Xiang Jun — A student whose Sea God Domain suppresses Zhou Yi and whose Unfixed Storm ends her final attack 12 13 14. He later identifies her as the likely mastermind behind Lei Su’s attack, confronts her, rejects her bribe, and destroys the traces of her body after Tang Wutong kills her 41 77 78.
• Dai Huabin — The third student in the arena challenge; Zhou Yi counters his charge and kicks him off the stage 12 13.
• Yan Shaozhe — The dean decides Zhou Yi should leave for lacking professional ethics and arranges a replacement teacher after the fight 12 14.
• Du Weilun — The academy administrator whom Yan Shaozhe instructs to remove Zhou Yi. After recovering, she resents him for leaving her out of the next intake’s homeroom-teacher assignments 12 77.
• Han Ruoruo — Replaces Zhou Yi as Freshman Class One’s homeroom teacher following the arena defeat 14 17.
• Huo Yuxi — One of the students endangered by the assassination attempt attributed to Zhou Yi. She spots the recovered Zhou Yi in Shrek City, accompanies Xiang Jun and Tang Wutong in following and confronting her, and witnesses her death 40 76 77 78.
• Lei Su — The Soul Sage whose assassination attempt leads Xiang Jun and Tang Wutong to suspect Zhou Yi. Her later internal admission that she killed the middleman confirms her role in arranging the attack, though she continues to deny responsibility aloud 41 77.

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