Yan Shaozhe

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Yan Shaozhe (言少哲)
Alias(es)	Bright Phoenix Douluo; Dean Yan 8 26
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; Martial Soul Department; Sea God Pavilion 8 62
Occupation/Role	Dean of the Martial Soul Department’s inner and outer courts; Sea God Pavilion elder 50 62
Martial Soul	Bright Phoenix 27
Cultivation	Rank 95 Super Douluo 27 46 62
Teacher	Mu En 46
Disciple	Ma Xiaotao 51
Status	Alive after being killed and resurrected by Origin God 65 81
First Appearance	Chapter 8 8

Background / History

Yan Shaozhe descends from Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao. El describes his inheritance as containing several dangerous bloodlines, including Blood Soul, Death God Demon Puppet, and Dark Sacred Dragon, while crediting the Bright Phoenix bloodline with keeping him from becoming an Evil Soul Master 90.

A disciple of Mu En, Yan Shaozhe became dean of Shrek Academy’s Martial Soul Department and an elder of the Sea God Pavilion. He has no children and regards his personal disciple, Ma Xiaotao, as effectively his daughter 8 46 62 82.

Appearance

Yan Shaozhe is a middle-aged man whose refined features and kindly smile give him an approachable appearance 8 24.

• Clothing: Wears white when introduced in his office and when intervening in Zhou Yi’s confrontation with El 8 24.
• Temporary injuries: Later appears with a bruised face and swollen lumps after Mu En beats him. The injuries carry a special power that prevents their removal through outside means; Yan Shaozhe claims he merely fell 95.

Personality

Yan Shaozhe combines a courteous public manner with calculated institutional self-interest. He personally apologizes for Zhou Yi’s misconduct, yet had deliberately placed El and Huo Yutong in her class while withholding information about El’s talent. His intended outcome was to remove Zhou Yi from the department’s entrenched interests and earn El’s goodwill 24.

He treats exceptional talent as a long-term asset for Shrek. Beyond securing El’s loyalty, he wants El’s powerful martial soul bloodline to take root at the academy. He instructs Du Weilun to observe El’s preferences in girls and arrange introductions, presenting the scheme as a contribution to the soul master world 8 33 50.

His concern for Ma Xiaotao is more personal. He adopts a humble tone when seeking help for her evil fire and becomes visibly shaken when El proposes a life-threatening rebirth method. After his own death and resurrection, he also becomes markedly deferential toward El, repeatedly apologizing when he fears he has offended him 51 81 82.

Abilities & Skills

Bright Phoenix Martial Soul

Yan Shaozhe’s martial soul possesses light-associated power and produces blazing attacks. The Bright Phoenix lineage is also described as capable of returning from death and possessing multiple lives, although Yan Shaozhe’s own use of that ability is not shown 82 84.

• Offense: Uses blazing golden feathers against Electrolux’s summoned Bone Dragon 84.
• Bloodline suppression: His martial soul experiences intense fear when El releases Alatreon’s dragon might, despite Yan Shaozhe’s much higher cultivation 27.
• Limit: Electrolux’s empowered Bone Dragon completely blocks his attack during their staged confrontation 84.

Super Douluo Soul Power

At rank 95, Yan Shaozhe can restrain weaker soul masters, project his voice through soul power, and move through the air 24 26 27.

• Restraint: Immobilizes Zhou Yi and seals her mouth with soul power 24.
• Communication: Sends private voice transmissions to Du Weilun, Zhou Yi, El, and Xuan Zi 8 25 28 84.
• Protection: Reinforces the assessment arena’s barrier against El and Huo Yutong’s combined attack, whose destructive force approaches a Soul Douluo’s all-out eighth soul skill 48.
• Transport: Carries El and Huo Yutong to his office using rapid soul-power-assisted movement 50.
• Limit: The unfamiliar white light at the Sea God Pavilion leaves him unable even to summon his soul power 62.

Sovereign Over All

Yan Shaozhe has learned Mu En’s mental-attribute self-created soul skill, Sovereign Over All, but has mastered only about half of it despite his Super Douluo cultivation 46.

Martial Soul Assessment

He recognizes the value of ultimate attributes, high-tier dragon martial souls, and unusual control over natural energy 24 42 49.

• Identifies the ultimate-fire aura on El’s pendant as belonging to an expert far stronger than himself 24.
• Recognizes Huo Yutong’s Ultimate Ice and high-tier True Dragon martial soul 42.
• Detects the innate attraction and control of surrounding energy displayed by El’s second martial soul 49.

Relationships

• Mu En — Teacher and superior. Mu En directs his efforts to accommodate El and later disciplines him physically 8 46 95.
• Ma Xiaotao — Personal disciple whom he regards as a daughter; resolving her evil fire is one of his strongest personal concerns 51 82.
• El — Initially a prized recruit and prospective pillar of Shrek; after Origin God’s intervention, Yan Shaozhe becomes subject to his control 8 30 65 81.
• Huo Yutong — Student whose Ultimate Ice he recognizes as valuable both to Shrek and to Ma Xiaotao’s treatment 42 51.
• Du Weilun — Long-serving subordinate who implements his admissions, leave, and assessment arrangements 8 33.
• Zhou Yi — Teacher he deliberately uses as an obstacle for El before removing her from her homeroom position 24.
• Fan Yu — Soul Tool Department vice dean. Yan Shaozhe gains his gratitude by arranging treatment for Zhou Yi while privately exploiting the incident to protect his own department 30.
• Xuan Zi — Fellow academy expert who coordinates attacks with him during the staged confrontation with Electrolux 84.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao — Ancestors whose connection to Yan Shaozhe is revealed to Mu En by El 90.
• Feng Ling — Had an intimate relationship with Yan Shaozhe. El attributes her transformation from Dark Phoenix to Evil Phoenix to the dangerous elements of his inherited bloodline 90.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Securing El’s Loyalty

• Approves three months of leave for El and Huo Yutong immediately after enrollment. Following Mu En’s wishes, he tells Du Weilun to accommodate reasonable requests without making the preferential treatment too obvious 8.
• Explains that El could secure at least another thousand years of Shrek’s development and plans Sea God Pavilion meetings to settle his resources, treatment, and potential teacher 8.

Zhou Yi Incident

• Intervenes when El threatens to summon a Limit Douluo over Zhou Yi’s insults. He accepts responsibility for inadequate supervision and promises a public apology, permanent disqualification from senior-teacher evaluations, and a ban on leading a class for at least ten years 24.
• Agrees to referee El’s unrestricted duel with Zhou Yi, prohibiting fixed-charge soul tools, lethal attacks, and deliberate serious injuries. He initially doubts that a Soul Elder can overcome a Soul Emperor 25 26.
• Privately tells El not to kill Zhou Yi once her defeat becomes overwhelming 28.
• Uses Fan Yu’s acceptance of responsibility to shift the scandal’s burden toward the Soul Tool Department. He arranges Elder Zhuang’s treatment partly to study the dragon-element energy remaining in Zhou Yi’s injuries, then appoints Wang Yan as Class One’s temporary homeroom teacher 30.

Freshman Assessment

• Gives El byes into the quarterfinal stage and requires him to compete alone, deliberately providing a stage for his love of showing off 33.
• Offers guaranteed inner-court admission to a team defeated by El. Class Five’s selected team forfeits, while Lu Renjia’s team accepts the challenge 41.
• Condemns Dai Huabin’s conduct after Huo Yutong reveals their history, announces his expulsion, and promises to contact the White Tiger Duke 46 47.
• Protects the arena during the final and witnesses El reveal his second martial soul before winning the championship 48 49.
• Awards El the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone and Huo Yutong’s team a Secret Art Soul bone, replacing the usual soul-ring rewards with special prizes 50.

Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire

• Requests El and Huo Yutong’s Ultimate Ice assistance to suppress Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire. El negotiates three future promises, limited to assistance within Yan Shaozhe’s power and consistent with Shrek’s and the continent’s rules 51.
• Later sends Huo Yutong to assist Ma Xiaotao as she approaches her Soul Saint breakthrough 72.
• Questions El’s proposed method of destroying Ma Xiaotao’s body with Phoenix Flame and reviving her as a pure fire phoenix. He recognizes its potential but fears the danger to his disciple 82.

Origin God’s Intervention and Later Duties

• Escorts El and Huo Yutong to an unprecedented Sea God Pavilion meeting attended by first-year students 62.
• Dies alongside the Pavilion elders under the emotional influence of Origin God’s presence. Origin God reconstructs their ruptured hearts, and Yan Shaozhe later acknowledges that his resurrection left him completely subject to another’s control 65 81.
• Confirms El’s placement on the following year’s tournament main team and promises to formalize his participation within a week 81.
• Joins Xuan Zi in the staged battle against Electrolux, helping create the appearance of a confrontation with the Holy Spirit Cult 84.
• Redirects El and Zhang Lexuan’s duel to Sea God Lake to avoid further destruction of the academy’s already damaged training grounds 95.