Yan

Biodata

Appearance

Yan is exceptionally sturdy, with long fiery-red hair, dark-red eyes, and flame patterns across his body. His face is described as plain 5.

• Martial Soul Possession transforms him into a nearly three-meter-tall, ram-horned flame monster 6.

Personality

Yan is usually even-tempered, but becomes impulsive and intensely jealous when Hu Liena gives someone else attention. Her concern for Huo Yuhao drives him to attack despite her order to stop. Even after being injured, his pride keeps him fighting while she watches 6 7.

Abilities & Skills

Flame Lord Martial Soul

Yan’s top-tier Beast Martial Soul grants fire and earth abilities, combining strong offense with formidable defense. At Level 52, he has five Soul Rings: two yellow, two purple, and one black 6.

• Granite Rock — Second Soul Skill: Covers him in dark-red stone armor, greatly increasing strength and defense while adding searing flames to his attacks 6.
• Magma Surge — Fourth Soul Skill: Spreads magma across the ground beneath his opponent 7.
• Flying Sand Frenzy — Fifth Soul Skill: Combines fire and earth into erupting columns. Used after Magma Surge, it is Yan’s strongest attack and rivals a Soul Emperor-level Soul Skill 7.
• Flame Shield: One of his defenses; a Level 5 Soul Cannon shatters it before breaking through his stone armor 11.

Relationships

• Hu Liena — Fellow Golden Generation member and the focus of Yan’s unrequited devotion. He repeatedly tries to enter the Soul Tool Department to be near her and reacts angrily when she is hurt 6 13 15.
• Xie Yue — Fellow Golden Generation member and Spirit Hall Academy teammate 5 22.
• Huo Yuhao — Yan attacks him out of jealousy and is decisively defeated. Huo later rejects Yan’s applications to the Soul Tool Department because his Spiritual Power falls short 6 7 13.
• Bibi Dong — Spirit Hall’s Pope; she orders Yan to test Huo Yuhao’s Soul Cannon despite his objections 11.

Story Role

• Yan enters the Star Dou Great Forest with Hu Liena and Xie Yue to obtain Hu Liena’s fifth Soul Ring. Drawn to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, he attacks after seeing Hu Liena show concern for Huo Yuhao. Huo repels him, then destroys his combined Soul Skill with the pressure of his Soul Rings 5 6 7.
• At Pope’s Hall, Yan questions Huo’s claims about Soul Tools. Bibi Dong makes him test a Level 5 Soul Cannon, which breaks through his defenses and badly injures him 11.
• During Spirit Hall Academy’s Soul Engineer selection, Yan repeatedly fails the Spiritual Power requirement. He later confronts Wang Qiu’er after she injures Hu Liena, but Huo stops the dispute 13 15.
• Yan takes the front line against Shrek Academy in the tournament final. He, Zhang Ping, and Sun Chuantao press Xiao Wu as she tries to delay Spirit Hall’s fighters 22 23 24.