Zhou Yi

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Zhou Yi (周漪)
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Shrek Academy
Occupation/Role	Head teacher of Freshman Class One 32 35
Cultivation	Level 64, Six-Ring Soul Emperor 1
Martial Soul	Fire Dragon 33
Soul Ring Configuration	Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black 33
Spouse	Fan Yu, deputy dean of Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department 33
Status	Alive at her last documented appearance; targeted by the Star Rail Escort Agency’s assassination operation 37
First Appearance	Mentioned in Chapter 1; appears in person in Chapter 33 1 33

Background / History

Zhou Yi remains a freshman teacher despite possessing cultivation high enough to qualify for promotion. She refuses transfers because she enjoys controlling admissions during the three-month assessment period, when she can expel provisional students at will. Once students gain official admission, they become subject to Shrek’s regular elimination system instead. She previously used this authority to expel her sworn enemy’s younger brother 33.

According to Su Yanshang and his wife, their son entered Shrek at twelve with level-eighteen Soul Power but suffered from congenital frailty and lasting damage caused by absorbing an excessively old First Soul Ring. Although he explained his limitations, Zhou Yi dismissed his warnings as an attempt to avoid training. She forced him through weighted running in an Iron Garment and used Soul Power pressure when he stopped 1 9.

The parents state that three months of this training ruined their son’s health and ended his cultivation prospects. Zhou Yi offered no apology, describing her methods as weeding out unsuitable students. When they sought an explanation, she drove them away with her Soul Emperor pressure, and the academy provided no remedy. After a year of unsuccessful treatment, they commissioned her assassination 1.

Appearance

• Uses makeup to make herself look fierce and intimidate students; this is not her natural appearance 33.
• When she releases her Martial Soul, a crimson fire-dragon phantom rises behind her amid scorching flames and heat distortion 33.

Personality

Zhou Yi treats expulsion as both a disciplinary tool and a source of personal satisfaction. Despite having little teaching experience, she bases her methods on sayings drawn from Shrek’s biographies, including the belief that students who avoid trouble are mediocre. She habitually keeps freshmen waiting before entering class to establish control 33.

Her confidence is closely tied to her position and cultivation. When Lin Chen outmaneuvers her, she attributes his success to a costly speed technique rather than accepting his superiority. She nevertheless avoids directly confronting him after recognizing his unusual strength and potentially powerful backing 34.

She distinguishes genuine inability from deliberate avoidance of work, granting Huo Yuhao extra time to finish his run. However, she treats other students’ skipped laps and dishonesty as grounds for immediate expulsion. When challenged over the proportionality of that punishment, she prioritizes her pride and authority over answering the criticism 35 36 37.

Abilities & Skills

Fire Dragon Martial Soul

Zhou Yi possesses a fire-associated dragon Martial Soul and six Soul Rings 33.

• Its manifestation releases scorching heat across a classroom or training field 33 36.
• The dragon phantom instinctively attempts to defend her when Lin Chen appears behind her 33.
• Its reaction is too slow to stop Lin Chen from placing his Dart Blade against her neck 33.

Soul Power Pressure

Zhou Yi uses her Soul Emperor pressure to enforce obedience 1 36.

• According to the injured student’s parents, she applies pressure when students stop during weighted running and later uses it to drive the parents from Shrek 1.
• During the confrontation over expulsions, her pressure prevents the protesting freshmen from speaking or catching their breath 36.

Student Surveillance

• Secretly watches the hundred-lap exercise from a concealed position and identifies students who cut corners 35.
• Recounts individual students’ missed laps, although Lin Chen subsequently corrects her counts 35 36.

Relationships

• Fan Yu — Her husband and deputy dean of the Soul Tool Department. His influence makes an attack on Zhou Yi substantially more dangerous than her own cultivation suggests 1 33.
• Lin Chen — Her openly defiant student. He defeats her attempt at intimidation, challenges her teaching philosophy, and rallies classmates against her expulsions 33 36.
• Wang Dong — A student she considers talented and more manageable than Lin Chen; Zhou Yi privately selects Wang Dong as her preferred class-monitor candidate 34.
• Huo Yuhao — Initially dismissed as weak, though Zhou Yi recognizes that his Martial Soul may interest her husband. She later acknowledges his effort during the running exercise 34 35.
• Su Yanshang and his wife — Parents who hold her responsible for destroying their son’s cultivation prospects and hire the Star Rail Escort Agency to kill her 1 9.
• Star Rail Escort Agency — The organization carrying out the assassination contract. Acheron volunteers to kill Zhou Yi, while the team prepares to neutralize Shrek’s defenders 2.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Assassination Contract

• Phainon quotes ten million Gold Soul Coins for killing Zhou Yi inside Shrek. The system classifies the mission as a premium three-star order, with her institutional protection and husband’s connections accounting for much of the danger 1.
• The clients pay a 100,000-coin deposit and request a customized operation 2 3.
• Their script requires the agency to strike when Zhou Yi expels a student after the new school year begins. If she expels no students that year, she is to be spared 9.

First Class and Running Exercise

Zhou Yi opens her first class by threatening expulsion for any mistake and demanding that students who have fought stand up. When Lin Chen claims his encounter with Wang Dong was intimidation rather than a fight, she challenges him. He silently appears behind her, places a blade at her neck, and returns to his seat before she can respond. He then turns her praise of troublemaking against her objections to his defiance 33.

Unable to regain control through argument, Zhou Yi orders students who have not fought to run one hundred laps, then sends the remaining students to run as well. Afterward, she allows the exhausted Huo Yuhao to complete his missing ten laps but expels several students who deliberately skipped part of the exercise 34 35.

Public Challenge and Agency Assault

Lin Chen acknowledges the students’ dishonesty but argues that correcting such faults is a teacher’s responsibility. The students join his criticism, and Zhou Yi suppresses them with her Martial Soul pressure. Unable to refute the argument, she insists that the expulsions will proceed 36 37.

Silver Wolf, having recorded the confrontation, announces a show about physically “expelling a teacher” and spreads her domain across Shrek. The agency intercepts the academy’s strongest defenders while declaring Zhou Yi its sole assassination target. Kafka identifies the grieving parents’ commission as the reason for the attack; Zhou Yi’s death is not shown in the supplied chapters 37.

Notable Quotes

“Under me, none of you may make a single mistake. Otherwise, I can expel you at any time.” 33

“On the grounds that I am a teacher, on the grounds that I am a Soul Emperor, and on the grounds that I can expel you at any moment.” 34

“I, Zhou Yi, am going to expel all of them today. What are you going to do about it?” 37