Zhuang Silin

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Zhuang Silin graduated from military academy decades before the main events. Captain Song remembers her from their academy days and says their most recent meeting was at a Federation assembly. By the time Xu Jintang enters Leikedasi, Zhuang serves as its year director as well as a teacher 54 86.

Recruitment and Joint Examination

During an inspection of Dawn Academy, Zhuang watches Song Tianqi’s team compete and notices that Xu Jintang possesses at least twice the mental power of her peers. She privately questions Xu about it and considers her explanation that her support ability may evolve into an ice-type ability 20 21.

Because the evolution remains uncertain, Zhuang offers Xu a one-year visiting-student place rather than special admission, with an opportunity to gain regular status through an internal assessment. Xu instead declares that she will enter through the joint examination. Zhuang admires her confidence and gives her a visiting-student nameplate nonetheless 21 22.

As chief examiner of the All-Star-Region Joint Examination, Zhuang oversees candidate entry and explains the live ranking system. When Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan arrive late, she permits them to participate but delays their entry by an hour. After Xu wins first place and chooses Leikedasi, Zhuang accepts the returned nameplate and welcomes her as a regular student 34 36 48.

Experimental Class

Zhuang initially upholds Xu Jintang’s placement in the support class, but gives her and Xue Zhongqi an opportunity to prove that existing restrictions should be reconsidered. After consulting other instructors about Xu’s developing ice attribute, she helps arrange a different training path 54 55 63 64 69.

She becomes homeroom teacher of a secret experimental class comprising Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, Jiang Shiyi, Xue Zhongqi, and Yan Yuting. The project gives them preferential resources and intensive training for the Military Academy League three years later. Their transfers are concealed as special missions, and Zhuang arranges a separate villa for their residence and training 71 72 78.

Her assessments emphasize both individual strength and cooperation. She allows Xu to resolve Yan Yuting’s failed strength test by demonstrating the value of her support, then has the class survive one minute against five stronger third-year students. After they succeed, she gives them three months to defeat the seniors outright, with one challenge attempt each day 75 77.

A later victory over Yu Wanyao’s team secures the academy’s continuation of the project. Zhuang tells both teams that they are competitors and partners working toward the same objective: keeping Leikedasi in first place 101.

Military Internship and Ability User Competition

When the students’ military internship area enters level-one alert, Zhuang and the other teachers decide to retrieve them personally. She rejects Song Tianqi’s wish to remain and help fight, warning that most of the class is too weak to contribute safely. She later collects Xu Jintang after Xu secretly stays with the military, then tests her newly developed ice abilities 88 92 97.

During the Ability User Competition, Zhuang and Wu Jinghong take responsibility for the Mask Squad’s tactical guidance. Zhuang announces that Xu Jintang, Jiang Shiyi, and Song Tianqi may use their abilities provided their identities remain concealed, and formally changes the team’s goal to winning the championship 129.

She obtains additional academy funding, reviews opponents, and oversees specialized practice. When she learns from someone else that Xu possesses a second ability and advanced inscription skills, she reprimands her for concealing information essential to their preparations. After learning the effects of Tilting Scales, she agrees it should remain a hidden trump card 143 154 155 159 177.

Challenge Circuit and Military Academy League

After a military camp assignment, Zhuang immediately sends the students onward to a medium-star-region challenge circuit. Yu Wanyao’s team competes openly while the experimental class serves as substitutes; Leikedasi must challenge more academies than Clifford did the previous year while maintaining a perfect win rate 227.

During the visit to Principal Alice, Zhuang disciplines Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi for their Heaven Ascension Platform appearance. She later permits the class to investigate defective medicine at Alice’s family factories, but limits their responsibility to investigation and insists that any threat to their safety will end the mission 236 237.

Alice’s recognition of the Mask Squad makes Zhuang question whether their identities can remain secret. Miao Mingzhi reassures her that the students no longer need secrecy to prevent others from overshadowing them 237.

Before the league, Zhuang supplies rival-team intelligence and introduces mixed-team training between the experimental class and Yu Wanyao’s squad. When accompanying teachers are initially ordered to withdraw from the event, she leaves Xu Jintang in charge 265 271 299.

She later repels black-clad attackers at Leikedasi’s gates. During the investigation into allegations that the main team fabricated injuries, she and Miao Mingzhi confront the investigators in the intensive care ward; subsequent scans find no evidence supporting the allegation 305 324.

Appearance

• Youthful appearance: Xu Jintang is surprised by how young she looks despite her Peak Seventh Tier strength 20.
• Clothing: Wears a jacket during the Dawn Academy assessment, casual clothes when taking charge of the experimental class, and purple clothing during the attack at Leikedasi’s gates 20 72 305.

Personality

Zhuang is demanding and difficult to impress. Her students know that even excellent performances usually earn no more than a “not bad,” making her enthusiastic praise after their first team assessment particularly striking. She values demonstrated results, but honors her promises when students meet her conditions 75 77.

She respects initiative and intelligence rather than judging students solely by combat strength. During the joint examination, she defends Xu Jintang’s unconventional methods as part of her individual ability, arguing that military academies need well-rounded candidates. She also admires the determination of students willing to challenge established expectations 22 41 55.

Her strictness is strongly tied to student safety. She refuses to let underpowered students remain in a dangerous combat zone and places explicit safety conditions on Alice’s commission. Toward outsiders who threaten or belittle Leikedasi’s students, her polite manner can quickly become confrontational 88 105 237 324.

Abilities & Skills

Mental Power and Combat

Zhuang’s ability and fighting style are described as forceful and overbearing; the supplied passages do not identify her ability by name 324.

• Allows Xu Jintang’s Chains of Ice to bind her without treating them as a threat 97.
• Dismisses a full-powered Ice Blade Storm with a wave of her hand, despite judging its area damage stronger than an ordinary Fourth Tier attack 97.
• Neutralizes a level-two formation attack with a wave of mental power before it can strike the senior students 145.
• Drives back multiple black-clad attackers, then divides a follow-up attack to pursue their separate escape routes 305.

Perception and Ability Assessment

• Detects Xu Jintang’s unusually large mental-power reserves during a team match 21.
• Senses the increase in Xu’s strength after overnight cultivation 74.
• Evaluates Xu’s ice attribute as stronger than Yu Wanyao’s and assesses the destructive power of Ice Blade Storm 97.
• Recognizes that the restrictions on Xu’s second ability may indicate exceptionally high quality 155.

Teaching and Tactical Analysis

• Designs strength tests, time-limited survival assessments, and long-term team challenges 75 77.
• Works with Wu Jinghong on strategies for different competition formats, including ways to limit the Spirit of Wood Squad’s group support 129.
• Uses academy intelligence networks to brief students on rivals’ cultivation, abilities, and fighting styles 265 313.
• Identifies signs of professional special training in Green Sail Vine Military Academy’s match footage 271.

Relationships

• Xu Jintang — Recruiter, examiner, and homeroom teacher. Their relationship combines frequent reprimands with practical support; Zhuang later credits Xu’s rise primarily to her own character and strength 21 48 154 295.
• Song Tianqi — His mentor before the experimental class is established. She firmly restrains his recklessness and warns him against underestimating stronger opponents 20 88 265.
• Jiang Shiyi — Experimental class student whom Zhuang holds to a higher standard during strength testing 71 74.
• Xue Zhongqi — Experimental class student whose support and inscription expertise become a source of pride during the academy leaders’ review 69 295.
• Yan Yuting — Experimental class student. Zhuang accepts a practical demonstration of her support ability as grounds to overlook her failed strength test 75.
• Yu Wanyao — Captain of Leikedasi’s openly competing team, which Zhuang trains alongside the experimental class 101 227 271.
• Wu Jinghong — Fellow instructor and collaborator in the Mask Squad’s tactical preparation 129 154.
• Miao Mingzhi — Leikedasi principal who oversees the experimental project and entrusts Zhuang with retrieving the students safely 101 237 294.
• Alice — Fellow academy representative who hosts Zhuang’s group and requests the students’ help investigating her family’s pharmaceutical factories 235 236 237.
• Captain Song — An acquaintance from her military academy days who asks after her well-being 86.

Notable Quotes

“If you want to break the rules, you need the strength to do so.” 55

“You're competitors, but you're also partners. Just like in today's match, neither of you is the losing side.” 101

“So rather than saying I discovered her, it's more accurate to say she made her way here through her own character and strength.” 295