Yan Hua

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Yan Hua (延华真人)
Alias(es)	True Person Yan Hua; Elder Yan Hua 129 130
Gender	Male 133 135
Affiliation	Jiangnan Township; Immortal Alliance 131 190
Occupation/Role	Nascent Soul elder; organizer of repeated investigations into the Half-Limit Secret Realm 133
Status	Alive, but injured and reduced to Nascent Soul Early Stage after losing his possessing avatar 145 191
First Appearance	Chapter 129, descending into the Half-Limit Secret Realm through possession 129

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Nascent Soul Middle Stage, fourth level	191	His true body's cultivation before the secret-realm backlash, disclosed retrospectively during his visit to Emerging Cloud Peak.
Qi Refining perfection — possessing avatar	129	His descending aura settles at this level after a Soul-Possession Talisman installs his remnant soul in a disciple. This is the avatar's operating cultivation, not a breakthrough by his true body.
Nascent Soul Early Stage — true body	145 191	Sacrificing his soul fragment while his true body is at a critical point in cultivation causes a regression. He estimates seventy or eighty years of recuperation to regain his former level.

Background / History

Yan Hua investigated the Half-Limit Secret Realm through possessed Qi Refining juniors on three consecutive expeditions. These visits gave him extensive knowledge of its terrain and led him to identify Ridge Trench as a likely hiding place for High Person Longyan's second Dragon Scale 133 134.

His interest in the scale extended beyond obtaining a powerful relic. He believed refining it would allow him to reach Spirit Transformation, claim the title of High Person, and force the Immortal Alliance's leader to surrender authority. He intended to abolish rotating leadership and establish hereditary rule under Jiangnan Township 133. He also imagined eventually ascending beyond Spirit Transformation, with the younger disciples witnessing his success 134.

Personality

Yan Hua is intensely conscious of cultivation rank. When a Qi Refining cultivator threatens him, he treats the challenge as an affront requiring an exemplary killing. He also enjoys praise, including compliments that disciples believe they are exchanging outside his hearing 130 133.

His favor toward his own lineage coexists with extreme disregard for expendable subordinates. He approves compensating a possessed disciple's family with spirit stones and medicinal herbs rather than preserving the disciple's body. In battle, he is willing to consume that body's essence blood and sacrifice a limb to strengthen his Treasure 131 143.

Despite his arrogance, Yan Hua uses feints, retreats when outmatched, and adjusts his plans to protect Jiang Yantai and preserve his Treasure. His confidence turns to fear when he suspects a Spirit Transformation cultivator may be competing for the Dragon Scale 139 144 191.

Abilities & Skills

Soul Possession

• Descends through a Soul-Possession Talisman, placing a wisp of remnant soul in a disciple while his true body remains elsewhere 129 130.
• Retains his Nascent Soul combat experience despite operating through a Qi Refining body 139.
• Can use the borrowed body to wield a Treasure, but its limited dharma power cannot sustain his strongest techniques indefinitely 130 133.
• Severely damages the vessel through excessive expenditure. The body first withers and loses its prospects of advancing beyond Foundation Establishment, then ultimately becomes a dried corpse 132 145.
• Cannot readily exploit the vessel's Five-Note Resonance Spell without knowing its eight-character resonance. None of the accompanying disciples can provide that information 141.
• Losing the avatar and soul fragment can injure his true body and reduce its cultivation 145 191.

Water Manipulation

• Floods forests and caverns, forms enormous Mist Flood Dragons, and attacks with water blades, columns, and grasping shapes 130 138 141.
• Takes control of Mo Chen's water blades and turns them against him 130.
• Summons fast, tiger-shaped water beasts to pursue fugitives ahead of his party 135.
• Disrupts opponents' Water Escape through a ripple in the surrounding water 132.
• Creates prisons and defensive Water Curtains; his final cavern-wide barrier withstands attacks from Mo Chen, Bai Weishuang, and Feiyi long enough to cover his disciples' retreat 130 144.

Ice Techniques

• Freezes the Water Curtain Cage to prevent escape 132.
• Produces Ice Puppets whose spears impale and immobilize opponents 132.
• Combines restraint with destructive currents and a contracting water prison to kill trapped cultivators 132.

Treasure Transformation

• Reshapes his natal orb Treasure into water, protective shields, and constricting rings 141 142.
• Corrodes Mo Chen's real flying sword despite the concealment provided by the Sword Shadow Technique 139.
• Uses essence blood to strengthen the Treasure and bind Feiyi, although the initial contest leaves them in a stalemate 141.
• Cuts off the possessed body's arm and feeds its blood to the orb to increase its power 143.

Spiritual-Essence Refinement

• Converts four slain cultivators' remains into blood-colored beads 132.
• Gives the beads to Jiang Yantai, explaining that they can be refined into spiritual essence corresponding to the victims' roots 132.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Luminous Orb / Jade Pearl — His natal Treasure, also described as the Smooth Jade Pearl, Blue Orb, and Round Orb. It supplies his avatar's principal offensive and defensive power. He entrusts it to Jiang Yantai during the retreat 130 138 140 141 144.
• Soul-Possession Talisman — Enables his emergency descent into a disciple inside the Half-Limit Secret Realm 129 130.
• Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone — Replenishes the avatar's dharma power during recovery and combat 133 138 143.
• Black-Gold Token — Identifies him as True Person Yan Hua of Jiangnan Township when he arrives at Emerging Cloud Peak 190.

Relationships

• Jiang Yantai — His eldest maternal niece and favored junior. He rewards her expedition achievements, offers cultivation guidance and a prestigious marriage alliance, and stays behind to cover her escape 133 135 144.
• Mo Chen — Enemy who obstructs his attempt to seize the Dragon Scale. After the avatar's destruction, Yan Hua orders a search for a low-ranking Emerging Cloud Peak disciple surnamed Mo 138 145.
• Bai Weishuang — Rival who refines the Dragon Scale. Yan Hua initially mistakes Bai for another Nascent Soul cultivator operating through possession, then later suspects involvement by a Spirit Transformation elder 139 191.
• Gu Dongfeng — Victim of his Mist Flood Dragon, which tears off both legs. Gu's subsequent death gives Mo Chen an additional reason to oppose Yan Hua 130 136.
• Feiyi — Mo Chen's spirit beast and a coveted target. Yan Hua threatens to dissolve its master-bonding technique and seize it, but its resistance helps prevent him from interrupting Bai's refinement 141 142.
• Unnamed Jiangnan Township disciple — His possession vessel, described as an obscure eighth-layer Qi Refining cultivator before possession. Yan Hua exhausts the body until it becomes a dried corpse 141 145.
• “Old Drunkard” — Emerging Cloud Peak's external affairs elder, whom Yan Hua consults while demanding an explanation for his avatar's destruction 191.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Descent into the Half-Limit Secret Realm

• Jiang Yantai activates his emergency talisman using a follower as the vessel. Yan Hua's initial spiritual pressure forces nearby cultivators out of the air and pins them to the ground 129.
• He reclaims his Treasure from Jiang Yantai and overwhelms the rival groups with water and mist techniques 130.
• He kills four cultivators from the Only Sword Sect and Misty Cliff, presenting their deaths as the removal of future obstacles for Jiangnan Township 131 132.

Pursuit through Ridge Trench

• Yan Hua assumes Mo Chen and the wounded Gu Dongfeng cannot cross Ridge Trench and approaches leisurely, expecting to collect their corpses 133.
• After following their blood trail into the cliff caves, he sends water beasts ahead. Mo Chen destroys both and continues deeper underground 135.
• Evidence of powerful ice techniques reveals that another cultivator reached the Dragon Tomb at least two days earlier. Yan Hua abandons his leisurely pace and moves ahead of his disciples 136.

Battle for the Dragon Scale

• Finding Bai Weishuang already refining the scale, Yan Hua attempts to interrupt the process. Mo Chen blocks him with sword shadows, spells, concealed formations, and talismans 138 139.
• Feiyi's arrival forces Yan Hua to concentrate on restraining the spirit beast while Jiang Yantai's group attacks Mo Chen 141 142.
• Bai completes the refinement and joins Feiyi against him. Yan Hua orders a retreat, raises a massive Water Curtain, and sends Jiang Yantai away with his Treasure 143 144.
• The possessed body dies after exhausting its remaining power. Yan Hua's true body survives, but the sacrificed soul fragment causes injury and cultivation loss 144 145.

Visit to Emerging Cloud Peak

• Yan Hua arrives personally and demands to know whether the sect has a Nascent Soul cultivator surnamed Bai 190 191.
• The external affairs elder denies such a cultivator exists. Their discussion leads Yan Hua to suspect a Spirit Transformation figure from the Extreme Cold Way, but this remains his interpretation rather than a confirmed identification 191.
• Alarmed by the possibility of being ambushed, he leaves to refine another clone. At the reception platform, he kills a mid-stage Core Formation array guard without any visible movement 191.

Notable Quotes

“Then I will force the Alliance Leader to surrender the Alliance Leader's token, abolish that Immortal Alliance leadership rotation system, and make Jiangnan Township supreme! We'll replace rotation with hereditary succession!” 133

“Hmph, those two brats not only forced me to sacrifice my soul fragment and damage my cultivation, they even stole the Dragon Scale. Even if I have to turn Emerging Cloud Peak upside down, I'll find them.” 145