Xiao Yan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Xiao Yan (萧衍)
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Shrek Academy (formerly, Class Nine); Skywater Advanced Soul Master Academy; Skywater Academy Tournament Team; Nine Treasures Glazed Sect ally
Occupation/Role	Soul Master; former Class Nine monitor; Honorary Dean of Skywater Academy; leader of Skywater Academy's tournament team; prospective founder of the Fuxi Dao Sect
First Appearance	Chapter 1
Martial Soul(s)	Fuxi Zither; Eastern Emperor Bell
Cultivation Technique	Art of the Fuxi Emperor
Soul Spirits	Snow Empress; Ice Empress; Ice Bear King Xiao Bai; Electrolux; Illusion-Sound Sky-Rending Bird; Netherworld Spirit Bell Beast; Scarlet King

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level 46 Soul Ancestor	1 2	Enrolls at Shrek Academy at age eleven with the Fuxi Zither martial soul; possesses four soul rings.
Four ten-thousand-year soul rings	26	Reveals four black rings during the Freshman Assessment, overwhelming Team Wang Gang.
Level 50 Soul King	33 36	Reaches the fiftieth-level bottleneck; travels to the Extreme North seeking a hundred-thousand-year fifth ring.
Level 51	37	Gains an energy boost after Snow Empress becomes a Soul Spirit and merges with the Eastern Emperor Bell.
Level 56	47	Has absorbed a Soul Spirit and soul ring during the Extreme North expedition.
Peak “tangible but formless” spiritual realm	56	Refines forty percent of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s spiritual origin during seven days of seclusion.
Level 60	71	Breaks through while successfully fusing Ice Empress and Xiao Bai as Soul Spirits; remaining energy is held back by the lack of a sixth ring.
Tangible and material spiritual realm	94	The Time Sundial Needle elevates his spiritual power to a realm where his illusions can interfere with reality and directly affect the soul.
Level 70, pending soul rings	95	His compressed soul power reaches Soul Sage level despite his missing sixth and seventh rings; he can obtain both rings to complete the breakthrough.
Level 74 Soul Sage; Soul Core formed	111	Successfully completes further Soul Spirit fusion and condenses a Soul Core, stabilizing his cultivation at level 74.
Level 75 Soul Sage	114	Scarlet King’s suppressed and purified energy further reinforces his physique and raises his cultivation to level 75.
Seven soul rings	129	Displays seven rings during the tournament: two hundred-thousand-year red rings as his fifth and sixth rings, followed by an unprecedented orange-gold seventh ring.
Level 95; god-level physique and spiritual power	168	After fully absorbing the Taiji Heaven-Seizing Creation Dragon Pill during seclusion at the Icefire Yin Yang Well, gains a god-level body, god-level spiritual power, and pure divine power; the Fuxi Zither gains two completed god-level soul rings.

Background / History

Xiao Yan was raised as the son of Xiao Zhan and Qing Wan, and is Xiao Xiao’s elder brother by upbringing, though the two are not blood-related. Xiao Zhan discovered him as an infant in the Star Dou Forest after the Eastern Emperor Bell suppressed the surrounding hostile life forms. His father credited the Art of the Fuxi Emperor secretly imparted by Xiao Yan with enabling his breakthrough from level 94 to level 95, later reaching level 96 2 33 43.

At eleven, Xiao Yan entered Shrek Academy alongside Xiao Xiao. His level 46 cultivation, composed demeanor, and extraordinary talent earned special treatment: tuition was waived, he and Xiao Xiao were given individual rooms, and he chose Mu Jin’s Class Nine over Zhou Yi’s Class One to avoid its harsh training methods 1 3.

He spent much of his first term cultivating, sparring with Xiao Xiao, and refining his zither arts. He became Class Nine’s monitor and agreed to periodically perform the Lingshu: Yuan-Gathering Melody for the class, increasing its cultivation speed for seven days at a time 10 17.

After the Freshman Assessment, Xiao Yan went to the Extreme North with Xiao Zhan to obtain his fifth ring. There he contracted the Snow Empress as a Soul Spirit, later accepted Ice Empress and Xiao Bai, and obtained powerful ice-, water-, sound-, and spatial-attribute resources 33 42.

He later left Shrek following conflict with Elder Xuan Zi, who attempted to murder him after being humiliated. Snow Empress killed Xuan Zi with Emperor Palm — Great Cold No Snow, after which Xiao Yan took Xuan Zi’s soul bones and storage ring 62 65 68. He subsequently traveled with Ning Tian and Wu Feng to the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect and joined its affiliated, all-female Skywater Academy 70 75.

At Skywater, Xiao Yan entered the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow cavern, encountered the Ice God inheritance, and negotiated his appointment as the academy’s Honorary Dean in exchange for seventy percent of its Profound Ice Marrow 79 83. He later trained the Skywater Team, Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao, using extreme cultivation methods to improve their physiques, attributes, and combat ability before the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament 89 96.

During the tournament period, Xiao Yan returned to the Star Dou Forest to obtain further Soul Spirits and complete the fire-element authority of the Eastern Emperor Bell. He subsequently returned as a seven-ring Soul Sage and fought for Skywater Academy in the elimination rounds 103 115 129.

After defeating Shrek Academy, Xiao Yan battled Yan Shaozhe after the latter attempted to evade responsibility for aggravating Ma Xiaotao’s injuries. He defeated and spared the level 95 Super Douluo with the Fuxi Zither technique Dragon-Phoenix Severing Heaven, forcing Yan Shaozhe to apologize 134 137.

Xiao Yan later entered prolonged seclusion at the Icefire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest. Over two and a half years, he fully refined the Taiji Heaven-Seizing Creation Dragon Pill, emerging at level 95 with god-level physical and spiritual foundations, pure divine power, Water-Fire Taiji Dragon Wings, and two god-level Fuxi Zither soul rings 168 172.

Upon returning to Nine Treasures City, Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian, promised to resolve the hereditary flaw of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda martial soul, and revealed his intention to create his own godhood rather than merely inherit the Ice God’s divine position 171 174.

Appearance

Xiao Yan is an exceptionally handsome youth with a refined, detached bearing that repeatedly draws attention from students and elders alike.

• Tall and straight in build 2.
• Wears moon-white or white-patterned robes, sometimes with soft white feathers at the collar 1 2.
• Has deep black eyes and a calm, restrained expression 56.
• Carries a free-spirited, unrestrained temperament despite his reserved manner 1 2.
• His appearance makes him a conspicuous presence at Skywater Academy’s all-girls campus 76.
• Wore black tournament attire when facing Shrek Academy in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament 129.
• After his seclusion, his presence carries an oppressive, star-sea-like aura that even Ning Fengyi cannot fully perceive through 172.

Personality

Xiao Yan is calm, rational, and intensely focused on cultivation. He avoids pointless conflict when possible, choosing Class Nine specifically because Zhou Yi’s training philosophy would interfere with his path of cultivating essence, energy, and spirit in harmony 3.

He is calculating in negotiations and willing to exploit an opponent’s vulnerability. After Ma Xiaotao injured Xiao Xiao, he manipulated the academy into offering a ten-thousand-year soul bone, then demanded further compensation for treating Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire 14 16 28.

Despite this pragmatism, he is protective of Xiao Xiao, guides her cultivation and soul-bone absorption, and deliberately keeps her off his Freshman Assessment team so that she can grow through genuine combat 17 19. He also favors restraint in battle, putting defeated opponents to sleep rather than seriously injuring them 26.

He initially regarded romance as a distraction from his goal of cultivation and godhood 44 57 75. However, his bond with Snow Empress gradually becomes openly affectionate, while his reunion with Ning Tian ends her long wait and establishes their romantic relationship 159 168 171 172.

As an instructor, Xiao Yan is demanding rather than reassuring. He believes cultivation requires breaking past one’s limits, and subjects his students to tailored illusions and harsh elemental training while carefully keeping them short of collapse 90 94 95.

He is also capable of restraint toward enemies despite overwhelming strength. After Yan Shaozhe’s conduct provokes him into battle, Xiao Yan stops his decisive strike short of killing the Shrek dean and leaves after forcing an admission of defeat 137.

Abilities & Skills

Fuxi Zither

Xiao Yan’s primary martial soul is an ancient divine artifact whose music can influence energy, minds, sound, and elemental forces.

• Uses zither music to create illusions and mental pressure, as demonstrated when he traumatized Wu Feng with a vision of Ning Tian replacing her 7.
• Can suppress violent energy during soul-bone absorption and guide it safely into the recipient’s body 17.
• Defeated three Freshman Assessment opponents in one second with Void Zither Playing 20.
• Can incapacitate opponents without revealing his martial soul or rings 21.
• His music can freeze and temporarily control Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire, and he claims he can purify her Phoenix martial soul to Ultimate Fire 15 29.
• Defeated a ten-thousand-year Flame Lion King with Cold Note: Triple Frost Fall 50.
• His improved Phantom Dream: Martial Drill Melody creates individualized, tangible illusions that can cause real pain, exhaustion, and spiritual pressure while training multiple targets at once 94.
• Can seal mental probing and spiritual-detection abilities through a zither note 25.
• Uses water and fire laws through his zither strings to create swarms of elemental fire dragons and ice phoenixes 135.
• Can perform Dragon-Phoenix Severing Heaven, a water-fire zither composition that manifests a colossal fire dragon and ice phoenix and overwhelms Yan Shaozhe’s Light Phoenix Avatar 135 137.
• Following his Icefire Yin Yang Well seclusion, the Fuxi Zither possesses two completed god-level soul rings 168.

Art of the Fuxi Emperor

A cultivation technique emphasizing simultaneous refinement of essence, energy, and spirit.

• Continuously circulates primordial Taiji Qi through Xiao Yan’s meridians 2.
• Draws in and refines surrounding heaven-and-earth energy 5.
• Requires exceptionally strict energy compression and refinement, slowing apparent cultivation progress while creating an extremely stable foundation 12.
• Developed Xiao Yan’s Star River Sea of Consciousness and Fuxi Bagua Formation Map 5 47.
• Enables him to maintain a synchronized progression of physical strength, soul power, and spiritual power 47.
• Provides the foundation for his Water-Fire Taiji formations and his comprehension of elemental laws 123 133.
• Supports his refinement of the Taiji Heaven-Seizing Creation Dragon Pill, allowing his physique and spiritual power to reach god-level quality 168.

Eastern Emperor Bell

Xiao Yan’s second martial soul, also called the Chaos Bell, is a supreme divine artifact that suppresses other powers.

• Ranked alongside the Fuxi Zither among the ten ancient divine artifacts 5.
• Holds a dominant position even over the Fuxi Zither within his Sea of Consciousness 5.
• Rejected Snow Empress initially before accepting her as a Soul Spirit 37.
• Absorbed the massive soul power of Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai during their integrations 37 72.
• Allows Xiao Yan to exceed the Douluo Continent’s conventional nine-ring limit 72.
• Contains divine runes that Electrolux studies, though contact with them repeatedly repels him 5 6 67 68.
• Its spacetime divine runes allow Xiao Yan to perform short-distance teleportation and alter the flow of time in a limited area after his comprehension deepens 95.
• Suppressed and purified Scarlet King’s origin energy, enabling Xiao Yan to complete its fire-element authority 114.

Mystic Yellow · Water Controller

A water-element authority gained from a Mystic Yellow Gilded Gold soul ring.

• Grants dominion over water- and ice-related martial souls and skills 38.
• Can suppress even Ultimate Fire 38.
• Freezes powerful enemies through zither notes, including the Flame Lion King and more than thirty upper-grade students 50 62.
• Subdued water-attribute Spirit Kings Shui Xian’er and Shui Qing’er without a direct fight 75.
• After absorbing Winter God Guard, gives Xiao Yan greater mastery over water, ice, and snow than Snow Empress possessed at her peak 73.
• Can forcibly stimulate and evolve inferior ice-attribute martial souls through its higher-order authority 96.

Mystic Yellow · Fire Controller

A fire-element authority awakened through the Eastern Emperor Bell’s second gilded soul ring after Scarlet King’s integration.

• Grants dominion over all forms of fire element 114.
• Lets Xiao Yan wield Ultimate Fire and combine fire laws with his existing water authority 120 129.
• Allows him to manifest and precisely shape fire through pure elemental control, such as creating a solidified flaming chair without using a soul skill 133.
• Forms the fire half of his Water-Fire Taiji techniques and domains 123 134.

Void: Immeasurable

A spatial-control domain derived from the Taixu Sound-Suppressing Hou soul bone.

• Influences and dominates surrounding space 28.
• Enables spatial folding, tearing, and shifting 28.
• Suppressed the Space-Rending Cold Sound Owl’s spatial abilities 41.

Suppression of Sound — Ten Thousand Laws

A sound-and-vibration domain derived from the Taixu Sound-Suppressing Hou soul bone.

• Controls the frequency of sound and vibration within its range 28.
• Amplifies Xiao Yan’s zither music 28.
• Suppresses attacks and soul power transmitted through vibration 28.

Time Sundial Needle

An eye bone obtained from Xuan Zi’s storage ring that grants Xiao Yan authority over the flow of time.

• Allows him to accelerate or slow the movement of objects within his field of vision 91.
• Enhances his perception and serves as a key for deciphering the Eastern Emperor Bell’s time divine runes 91 92.
• Raised his spiritual power to the tangible and material realm, enabling more realistic and dangerous illusion formations 94.

Water-Fire Taiji Domain

A law-based domain formed by combining Xiao Yan’s water and fire authorities.

• Establishes an independent space in which Xiao Yan determines the governing rules 134.
• Suppresses by fifty percent the strength of opponents above Xiao Yan’s cultivation whose attributes are neither Ultimate Water nor Ultimate Fire 134.
• Reduced Yan Shaozhe, a level 95 Super Douluo, to the combat capacity of an ordinary Titled Douluo 134.
• Can maintain balanced water-fire formations for prolonged cultivation and martial-soul evolution 123 127.

Water-Fire Extremes Spear

A weapon condensed from Xiao Yan’s comprehension of water and fire laws.

• Combines water and fire laws into a single offensive spear technique 131.
• Defeated Ma Xiaotao after she used the forbidden Ring Fusion secret technique to reach high-rank Soul Douluo-level combat power 131.
• Produced force sufficient to threaten the tournament’s protective barrier, which was maintained by more than a hundred soul masters 131.

Water-Fire Taiji Dragon Wings

A pair of water-fire divine wings formed from Xiao Yan’s advanced Taiji authority.

• Allows Xiao Yan to tear through space and travel via spatial passages 168 169.
• Supports his mobility after reaching god-level physical and spiritual foundations 168.

Winter God Guard

A divine-grade torso bone created by fusing the soul-bone essences of Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai.

• A million-year, water-attribute torso bone 72 73.
• Nearly doubles Xiao Yan’s already formidable physique 73.
• Grants Winter Extinction, an offensive divine skill with a normal form and a source-power form; the latter has a one-year cooldown 73.
• Grants Winter Boundary Guard, a defensive skill that completely nullifies attacks below divine level in its source-power form and halves damage from divine-level attacks; this form also has a one-year cooldown 73.
• Xiao Yan can reduce soul-power consumption and accelerate formation by resonating with environmental moisture 74.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Fuxi Zither — Primary martial soul and musical weapon.
• Eastern Emperor Bell — Second martial soul; supreme divine artifact 5.
• Fuxi Bagua Compass — Used to locate the Snow Empress in the Extreme North 34.
• Taixu Sound-Suppressing Hou soul bone — 300,000-year fierce-beast soul bone offered as payment for treating Ma Xiaotao 28.
• Space-Rending Cold Sound Owl left arm bone — Hundred-thousand-year soul bone given by Xiao Zhan 42.
• Winter God Guard — Divine-grade fused torso bone 72 73.
• Time Sundial Needle Eye Bone — A time-attribute soul bone recovered from Xuan Zi’s storage ring and absorbed by Xiao Yan 67 90 91.
• Xuan Zi’s soul bones and storage ring — Taken after Xuan Zi’s death 66 67.
• Soul Spirit Contract Array runes — Xiao Yan gives Di Tian a condensed spiritual sphere containing the contract formation’s runes to support wider adoption of the Soul Spirit system 114.
• Frost Lament: Divine Judgment — Ice God divine weapon retrieved from the Extreme North Core Zone and given to Snow Empress, who receives its divine power and sword-technique memories 159.
• Taiji Heaven-Seizing Creation Dragon Pill — A supreme medicinal pill fully refined by Xiao Yan during his Icefire Yin Yang Well seclusion, elevating his body and spiritual power to god-level quality 168.

Relationships

• Xiao Xiao — Younger sister by upbringing; Xiao Yan is protective, trains her personally, and pushes her to become independent in battle 1 17 19 23. The two are not blood-related 15. After Xiao Yan’s two-and-a-half-year absence, she reaches level 59, later breaks through to the level 60 bottleneck, and reunites with him tearfully 169 171 182.
• Xiao Zhan — Adoptive father; a level 96 Super Douluo who supports Xiao Yan’s Extreme North expedition and fights alongside him 33 41 43.
• Qing Wan — Adoptive mother; a peak level 89 Soul Douluo who accompanies Xiao Xiao on her fourth-ring hunt 33.
• Electrolux — Soul Spirit and magical adviser; studies the Eastern Emperor Bell’s divine runes and devised the Soul Spirit Contract array 5 6 35 37.
• Snow Empress / Xue’er — Soul Spirit and former Lord of the Extreme North; became Xiao Yan’s first contracted fierce-beast Soul Spirit and later requested that he call her Xue’er 35 38 66. She grows increasingly attached to Xiao Yan and accompanies him through the Star Dou Forest 104 115. Xiao Yan entrusts her with the Ice God divine weapon Frost Lament: Divine Judgment, and she later publicly kisses him after his emergence from seclusion 159 168.
• Ice Empress / Bing’er — Soul Spirit; initially hostile, then willingly accepts Xiao Yan after learning of the contract’s benefits 39 40 71. She later trains the Skywater Team under Xiao Yan’s direction 91. She develops conflicted, jealous feelings after witnessing Xiao Yan’s increasing intimacy with Snow Empress 159.
• Xiao Bai — Ice Bear King and Soul Spirit; Snow Empress’s godson, who follows Xiao Yan so that he can remain with her 39 40 71.
• Illusion-Sound Sky-Rending Bird and Netherworld Spirit Bell Beast — High-level Soul Spirits acquired by Xiao Yan during his Star Dou Forest expedition 115.
• Scarlet King — Soul Spirit whose origin energy completes the Eastern Emperor Bell’s fire-element authority and grants Xiao Yan Mystic Yellow · Fire Controller 114.
• Ning Tian — Classmate, ally, Skywater teammate, and Xiao Yan’s girlfriend; joins Xiao Xiao’s Freshman Assessment team and brings Xiao Yan to the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect and Skywater Academy 18 70. She supports his leadership and undergoes his intensive training before the tournament 89 96. After enduring his two-and-a-half-year absence, she reunites with him in tears, and Xiao Yan promises that she will not need to wait any longer 171 172.
• Wu Feng — Ning Tian’s bodyguard and classmate; initially antagonistic, then becomes fearful and respectful after Xiao Yan’s illusion 7. Xiao Yan later guides her dangerous attempt to evolve her Red Dragon martial soul toward Ultimate Fire 123 127. By Xiao Yan’s return, she has reached level 51 and mastered the Flame Emperor True Dragon martial soul 169.
• Shui Wan’er — Dean of Skywater Academy; negotiates Xiao Yan’s appointment as Honorary Dean and seeks his assistance in strengthening the academy’s tournament team 77 79 89.
• Shui Xian’er and Shui Qing’er — Twin Spirit Kings, Skywater Team captain and vice-captain, respectively. Xiao Yan’s Water Controller authority subdues them and later helps elevate their martial souls 74 75 89 96.
• Mu Jin — Class Nine homeroom teacher; appoints Xiao Yan class monitor and relies on his Yuan-Gathering Melody to aid students’ cultivation 10.
• Ma Xiaotao — Inner-court disciple whose evil fire Xiao Yan can suppress and purify in exchange for valuable compensation 14 16 28 29. By the tournament, her purified Phoenix martial soul has reached Ultimate Fire and she has become a seven-ring Soul Sage 129. Xiao Yan later defeats her Ring Fusion-enhanced Fire Phoenix but deliberately avoids killing her 131 132.
• Yan Shaozhe — Shrek dean and Xiao Zhan’s old friend; gives Xiao Yan preferential treatment but repeatedly negotiates from a disadvantaged position over Ma Xiaotao’s treatment 2 3 14 16. He later seeks Xiao Yan out to request a meeting with Mu En, only to have his power suppressed by Xiao Yan’s Water-Fire Taiji Domain 133 134. Xiao Yan defeats and spares him with Dragon-Phoenix Severing Heaven, compelling his belated apology 135 137.
• Mu En — Sea God Pavilion Master and level 99 Limit Douluo. Xiao Yan agrees to meet him after the tournament despite his disdain for Shrek Academy’s conduct 4 134.
• Di Tian — Beast God of the Star Dou Forest; agrees to cooperate with Xiao Yan in promoting the Soul Spirit system after receiving the Soul Spirit Contract Array runes 114. After Xiao Yan’s seclusion, Di Tian is forced to acknowledge the overwhelming strength Xiao Yan now possesses 183.
• Meng Hongchen — Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy’s ace, who becomes infatuated with Xiao Yan after meeting him 100 103. Xiao Yan later gives her Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow to resolve the hidden flaw in her Vermilion Ice Toad martial soul as a parting gift 142.
• Xuan Zi — Shrek elder who invalidated Xiao Yan’s assessment and later attempted to assassinate him; killed by Snow Empress 62 65 66.
• Ning Fengyi — Sect Master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect and Ning Tian’s father. Xiao Yan treats the sect as a principal ally and promises to resolve the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda’s hereditary flaw for all qualified sect members 70 172 176.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Shrek Academy Enrollment

Xiao Yan enters Shrek as an eleven-year-old level 46 Soul Ancestor, chooses Class Nine, and receives special accommodations due to his exceptional cultivation 1 3.

Class Nine and Freshman Assessment

He becomes Class Nine’s monitor, supports the class’s cultivation through the Yuan-Gathering Melody, trains Xiao Xiao’s team, and wins the Freshman Assessment after revealing four ten-thousand-year soul rings 10 18 26.

Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire

After Ma Xiaotao attacks the siblings, Xiao Yan secures soul-bone compensation for Xiao Xiao and agrees to treat Ma Xiaotao only after obtaining increasingly valuable rewards 14 16 28 29.

Extreme North Expedition

He journeys with Xiao Zhan to acquire a fifth soul ring, contracts Snow Empress, meets Ice Empress and Xiao Bai, gains Mystic Yellow · Water Controller, and absorbs the Space-Rending Cold Sound Owl’s ring and left-arm bone 33 43.

Conflict with Xuan Zi and Departure from Shrek

Xiao Yan humiliates Xuan Zi during an upper-grade assessment. When Xuan Zi later ambushes him, Snow Empress kills the elder; Xiao Yan then leaves Shrek 62 65 68.

Skywater Academy

Xiao Yan travels to the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect with Ning Tian and Wu Feng, learns that Skywater Academy is an all-girls institution, and begins integrating Ice Empress and Xiao Bai while joining the academy 70 75.

He subsequently becomes Skywater Academy’s Honorary Dean in return for a share of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. His exploration of the academy’s underground cavern brings him into contact with the Ice God inheritance space 79 83.

Skywater Team Training

In exchange for the Mystic Ice Marrow, Xiao Yan promises to train Skywater Academy’s tournament team and evolve the Shui sisters’ martial souls to Ultimate Ice while raising the others to pseudo-ultimate attributes 89. He also trains Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng through tangible illusion drills, elemental tempering, and Water-Fire Taiji formations 90 95.

After two and a half months, all seven Skywater Team members manifest Ultimate Ice martial souls and possess heavily strengthened physiques. Xiao Yan is appointed their tournament leader 96.

Star Dou Forest Soul Hunt

Before taking the field in the tournament, Xiao Yan leaves Star Luo City for the Star Dou Forest without Xiao Zhan’s protection 103 104. There, he gains the Illusion-Sound Sky-Rending Bird, Netherworld Spirit Bell Beast, and Scarlet King as Soul Spirits, completes the Eastern Emperor Bell’s fire-element authority, and reaches level 75 111 114 115.

Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament

Xiao Yan leads Skywater Academy in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. He defeats the Douling Team with a restrained fire lotus, advances Skywater through the elimination rounds, and faces Shrek Academy in the semifinals 120 127 129.

Against Shrek, he reveals seven soul rings and his dual Mystic Yellow water and fire authorities. He defeats Ma Xiaotao’s Ring Fusion-enhanced Fire Phoenix with the Water-Fire Extremes Spear without using a Martial Soul Avatar 129 131.

After the tournament fighting, Xiao Yan accepts Meng Hongchen’s Hongchen Token as a parting gift. In return, he creates a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow bracelet containing a Water-Fire Harmonized Taiji Diagram, suppressing her cold poison and offering a possible route for her Vermilion Ice Toad martial soul to evolve 142.

Yan Shaozhe’s Visit

Following the Shrek match, Yan Shaozhe requests that Xiao Yan return to Shrek to meet the dying Mu En. Xiao Yan accepts the request but confronts Yan Shaozhe over his mishandling of Ma Xiaotao’s injuries, then traps and suppresses the Super Douluo with the Water-Fire Taiji Domain 133 134.

When Yan Shaozhe chooses battle rather than a sincere apology, Xiao Yan uses the Fuxi Zither to command water and fire laws, defeats Yan Shaozhe’s Martial Soul Avatar, and spares him with Dragon-Phoenix Severing Heaven 135 137.

Icefire Yin Yang Well Seclusion

Xiao Yan cultivates at the Icefire Yin Yang Well for two and a half years, fully refining the Taiji Heaven-Seizing Creation Dragon Pill. He emerges at level 95 with god-level physique, god-level spiritual power, pure divine power, Water-Fire Taiji Dragon Wings, and two god-level Fuxi Zither soul rings 168.

Snow Empress openly kisses him upon his return, marking the culmination of her long-held affection 168.

Return to Nine Treasures City

Xiao Yan returns with Snow Empress and observes the growth of Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng before revealing himself. He reunites with Xiao Xiao and Ning Tian, assuring Ning Tian that she will no longer have to wait for him 169 171.

He reveals the Icefire Yin Yang Well’s existence to the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect and promises to use Immortal Herb essences and the twin springs’ transformative power to remedy the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda martial soul flaw on a sect-wide scale 172 176.

Path to Creating a Godhood

Rather than accepting the Ice God’s inherited divine position as his final destination, Xiao Yan declares his intention to create his own godhood. This ambition forms the basis of his prospective Fuxi Dao Sect and broader plans to reshape the continent 174.

Trivia

• Xiao Yan’s four initial soul rings are all ten-thousand-year rings, an unprecedented display that shocks Shrek Academy 26.
• He refused Xiao Xiao’s offer of a sixty-thousand-year soul bone, stating that he does not lack such enhancements 17.
• Xiao Yan’s Sea of Consciousness takes the form of a vast star map centered on the Fuxi Bagua Formation Map 5.
• He initially regarded romance as a distraction from his goal of cultivation and godhood 44.
• His presence at Skywater Academy causes immediate attention because he is a boy at an all-girls school 76.
• His seventh soul ring is orange-gold rather than any conventional ring color, and its aura is considered stronger than an ordinary hundred-thousand-year red ring 129.
• He declined the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect’s offer of covert protection for the tournament journey, insisting that he alone was sufficient 96.
• Xiao Yan gives Snow Empress the Ice God divine weapon Frost Lament: Divine Judgment because he considers her swordsmanship and Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Unparalleled better suited to it than his own 159.
• After his Icefire Yin Yang Well seclusion, even ordinary Titled Douluos are overwhelmed by the quality of Xiao Yan’s divine power 168.