Zhou Yi

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Zhou Yi (周漪)
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Shrek Academy, formerly; later joined the Holy Spirit Cult 70 76
Occupation/Role	Intermediate teacher and homeroom teacher of Freshman Class One; briefly reassigned to clerical work before being dismissed 23 70
Martial Soul	Red Dragon, an impure-blooded lesser-dragon Martial Soul 26
Highest Documented Cultivation	Level 70; described as a Soul Saint, but had not obtained her seventh Soul Ring 77
Soul Ring Configuration	Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black 23 26
Spouse	Fan Yu, deputy dean of Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department 23 29
Status	Deceased; died after charging into Fan Yu’s attack 78
First Appearance	Mentioned in Chapter 7; appears directly in Chapter 22 7 22

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Six-ring Soul Emperor	23 26	Her established cultivation as a Shrek teacher. Possessed six Soul Skills and the self-created Dragon Might technique.
Soul Ancestor — regression	28 70 71	After El severely injured her, she experienced rapid aging and cultivation loss. Her remaining strength was explicitly identified as Soul Ancestor.
Peak Soul Emperor — recovery	72 76	Restored through the Holy Spirit Cult’s altar rituals, which supplied soul power and increasingly distorted her aura.
Level 70 — Soul Saint threshold	77	Absorbed evil energy harvested through abuse and torture, surpassing her former cultivation and restoring much of her youthful appearance. Still lacked a seventh ring and therefore a Martial Soul Avatar 78.

Background / History

Shrek Academy Career

Zhou Yi graduated from Shrek Academy’s Outer Court and later became a teacher there. Despite her reputation for producing students who advanced to the Inner Court, she remained an intermediate teacher and had never attained senior-teacher status 22 23 70.

Her classroom operated through intimidation, punishing physical training, and arbitrary expulsions. Students could be ordered to run two hundred laps in iron clothing, injured by impossible training demands, and then expelled for failing to meet her standards. Other teachers often avoided confronting her because of Fan Yu’s position 23.

El challenged her advertised high advancement rate, arguing that she achieved it by removing weaker students rather than improving them. Xiao Xiao separately revealed that Zhou Yi had pressured her to add an early Soul Ring to her second Martial Soul for the Freshman Assessment, prioritizing Class One’s victory over her long-term cultivation 23 35.

Confrontation with El

Shortly before the Freshman Assessment, Zhou Yi demanded that Class One take first place and ordered Lu Renjia’s expulsion when he questioned their prospects. El entered the classroom and openly challenged her treatment of students. She responded with Soul Emperor pressure, attempted to expel both him and Huo Yutong, and insulted their family 22 23.

After El threatened to summon a Limit Douluo elder, Yan Shaozhe intervened. He announced a public apology, permanent exclusion from senior-teacher evaluations, removal from her homeroom position, and a ban on managing a class for at least ten years. El nevertheless demanded an unrestricted one-on-one duel 24.

Zhou Yi intended to use the match to cripple El despite Yan Shaozhe’s warnings, believing Fan Yu’s influence would protect her afterward. Instead, El’s Alatreon Martial Soul suppressed her Red Dragon, while his dragon-element abilities neutralized and appropriated her fire attacks 25 26 27.

After her final charge failed, Zhou Yi tried to concede, but El repeatedly prevented her from finishing. He broke much of her skeleton and subjected her to Ultimate Lightning, leaving her severely burned and unconscious. Yan Shaozhe declared El the winner, and Wang Yan temporarily replaced her as Class One’s homeroom teacher 28 30.

Dismissal and Recruitment

Fan Yu apologized to Zhou Yi’s victims, promised compensation, and took her for treatment. Elder Zhuang restored much of her outward appearance but could not identify the unfamiliar energy affecting her. Yan Shaozhe also viewed her treatment as an opportunity to investigate El’s dragon energy 30 31.

Zhou Yi subsequently aged rapidly and lost much of her cultivation. Initially retained as a clerical employee out of consideration for Fan Yu, she was later dismissed entirely. Her accusation that El had drained her vitality through Evil Soul Master methods was rejected, and the academy warned her against further accusations 70.

She refused Fan Yu’s offer of a teaching position elsewhere because it restricted her training methods and power to expel students. Their argument escalated when she accused him of conspiring with Mu Jin to abandon her 70.

A mysterious letter offered to restore her cultivation and vitality. Zhou Yi followed its address to a medicine shop in Shrek City’s West District and accepted the Holy Spirit Cult’s assistance. The cult intended to use her to corrupt Fan Yu and infiltrate Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department 71 72.

Final Attack and Death

With the cult’s help, Zhou Yi reached level 70 and regained much of her former beauty. She became intoxicated by the prospect of further breakthroughs while continuing to deny that she was an Evil Soul Master. Cao Quan warned that she still lacked a seventh ring and should avoid reckless action in Shrek City 77.

El used Sapphire Star’s fate-guiding power to direct her toward Fan Yu and Mu Jin’s dinner together. Believing Mu Jin had stolen her husband, Zhou Yi waited until he left alone and attacked him with corrupted green flames 77 78.

Fan Yu discovered the assault and intervened. When Zhou Yi’s flames threatened to spread beyond control, he unleashed a Soul Douluo attack against her flame tornadoes and domain. Still pursuing Mu Jin, she charged into its path and suffered a fatal injury 78.

Dying in Fan Yu’s arms, she continued blaming her former students and colleagues before revealing the Holy Soul One Pill Shop and the Holy Spirit Cult’s presence in West District. Her final thoughts expressed regret and a desire not to die remembered as an Evil Soul Master 78.

Appearance

Zhou Yi was middle-aged but habitually disguised herself as an elderly woman; her human-skin mask was knocked away during her duel with El 24 26.

• Usual disguise: Deep facial wrinkles, created with a human-skin mask and cosmetics 23 70.
• After her defeat: Genuinely aged into a white-haired woman appearing to be in her fifties or sixties, with sagging, mottled skin 70 77.
• After cult-assisted recovery: Appeared approximately thirty or forty and used makeup to recreate her former youthful looks 77.
• Martial Soul Possession: Dark-red scales and a muscular dragon-humanoid form surrounded by flames. Following her corruption, her dragon coloration and fire became eerie green 26 78.

Personality

Zhou Yi equated obedience with respect and treated criticism as an attack on her authority. She enjoyed controlling students’ futures and relied on her cultivation and Fan Yu’s influence to avoid consequences. Even after dismissal, she insisted that her only mistake had been losing to someone stronger 23 24 70.

Her loss of beauty and status intensified her isolation, anger, and possessiveness toward Fan Yu. She briefly recognized the helplessness of students whose appeals she had denied, but did not sustain that empathy. Her restored power instead encouraged addiction to further advancement and violent revenge 70 71 77.

She repeatedly rejected the label “Evil Soul Master” despite accepting the cult’s methods. Only at the end of her life did she recognize her situation sufficiently to expose the cult’s location and express inward regret 77 78.

Abilities & Skills

Red Dragon Martial Soul

An impure-blooded lesser-dragon Martial Soul that grants dragon transformation, physical enhancement, and fire-based attacks 26 27.

• Possession: Covers her body in dragon scales and provides claws and a dragon-humanoid physique 26.
• Bloodline vulnerability: El’s superior dragon might suppressed her Martial Soul and slowed her soul-power circulation by at least thirty percent during their classroom confrontation 24.
• Elemental vulnerability: Her fire attacks could be disrupted, erased, or seized by El’s dragon-element abilities 27.

Dragon Might

A self-created Soul Skill developed from her Martial Soul’s characteristics, allowing her to adjust her aura and suppress opponents 26.

• Could frighten weaker students, impair movement, and slow soul-power circulation 26.
• Was comparatively ineffective against opponents at her own cultivation level 26.
• Collapsed when El released his Alatreon Martial Soul’s superior pressure 26.

Soul Ring Techniques

Ring	Soul Skill	Documented Effect
First	Crimson Dragon Power	Enhancement used alongside Red Dragon Scale Armor in her opening assault 26 27.
Second	Fire Dragon Flame Breath	Emits a high-temperature fire pillar from her mouth; scorched the arena’s stone into a lava-like state 27.
Third	Red Dragon Scale Armor	Enhancement accompanying her opening attack; later identified as an attribute-enhancing skill 26 27.
Fourth	Lie Yan Storm	Creates enormous fire tornadoes, used together with Lava Domain 27.
Fifth	Blood-Burning Dragon Soul	Enhances her body with burning scarlet soul power and a red-dragon phantom; briefly protected her inside El’s Frostflame Vortex 27.
Sixth	Lava Domain	Spreads intense heat and transforms the battlefield into a molten environment 27.

Corrupted Flames

After receiving the Holy Spirit Cult’s evil energy, Zhou Yi wielded green Painful Flame and a Painful Flame Hell Domain 77 78.

• The flames adhered to victims and inflicted intense mental anguish 78.
• Their mental effects affected even Fan Yu, a Soul Douluo 78.
• She combined her fourth and sixth rings into green flame tornadoes and an expanding domain 78.
• Despite reaching level 70, she had no seventh ring or Martial Soul Avatar 77 78.

Equipment / Items

• Human-skin masks — Used to impersonate an elderly woman while teaching and a younger woman when visiting the cult’s shop 26 71.
• Cosmetics and facial fillers — Included mask-making paste, gel, and powder; later used to enhance her restored youthful appearance 70 77.
• Holy Spirit Cult invitation letter — Offered cultivation restoration, extended vitality, and advancement beyond her previous limits, with an address in West District 71.

Relationships

• Fan Yu — Husband and principal protector. Initially overlooked her abuse, later compensated her victims and sought reconciliation; his attempt to stop her final attack inadvertently killed her 23 29 30 76 78.
• El — Student who exposed her conduct and defeated her. Later manipulated the circumstances leading to her death through Sapphire Star 23 28 77 78.
• Huo Yutong — Student whom Zhou Yi insulted and attempted to expel alongside El, provoking his demand for a duel 23 24.
• Mu Jin — Rival teacher with feelings for Fan Yu. Zhou Yi blamed him for her marital breakdown and attempted to kill him 26 70 78.
• Lu Renjia — Student who publicly condemned her training and expulsions, including the lasting leg injuries suffered by his friend Bao Huiyi 22 29 31.
• Xiao Xiao — Twin-Martial-Soul student whom she pressured to add a premature Soul Ring for the Freshman Assessment 35.
• Yan Shaozhe — Dean who disciplined her and refereed her duel; arranged treatment partly to study the energy El had left in her 24 26 30.
• Cao Quan — Holy Spirit Cult shopkeeper who facilitated her restoration and warned against premature revenge; regarded her chiefly as a route to controlling Fan Yu 72 77.

Legacy

• A circulated account claimed that Zhou Yi regained her senses, exposed the Evil Soul Masters, and died from backlash, rather than from Fan Yu’s attack 85.
• Her final disclosure helped expose an organized Evil Soul Master presence in Shrek City, prompting concern among major continental factions 78 85.
• Some Inner Court students who had studied under her blamed El’s brutality for her corruption and sought to punish him 91.
• El’s alteration of her fate produced a recorded world-deviation change of only 0.1891%, leading him to conclude that eliminating individual, replaceable figures was insufficient to reshape history substantially 79.

Notable Quotes

“I wasn't wrong! I did nothing wrong! My only mistake was losing to that brat!!” 70

“West District, Holy Soul One Pill Shop, Holy Spirit Cult, Evil Soul Masters...” 78