Zi Yan

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Zi Yan (紫妍); named by Su Qian 35
Alias(es)	Brute Force King 37
Species/Race	Ancient Void Dragon; pure royal lineage 33 47
Gender	Female 33 47
Affiliation	Ancient Void Dragon Clan by birth; formerly lived at Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy; accompanies Liu Yu after leaving with Su Qian’s approval 33 37
Occupation/Role	Liu Yu’s traveling companion, treasure finder, and occasional guard during alchemy 35
Family	Only daughter of Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun 33 47
Status	Alive; restored to an adult human form and accompanying Liu Yu during the three-empires invasion 47 49 50
First Appearance	Fighting a Golden Ape in the mountains behind the Inner Academy 33

Power Progression

Zi Yan’s advancements are shown through energy accumulation and transformation; their exact cultivation ranks are not stated 40 46 47.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Advancement begins; purple cocoon forms	46	A retrospective account places the cocoon’s formation a few days before Liu Yu began his Dou Zong breakthrough. Repeated consumption of medicinal pellets supplied the energy needed to advance.
Cocoon advancement completed; adult form emerges	47	After a transformation lasting over a year, she emerges amid a pillar of purple light. Her adult appearance briefly reverts to a childlike body when green light surges from within her.
Further strength increase; adult form restored	47	Consumes a seventh-rank Transformation Pill supplied by Liu Yu. Her body matures again, draws in surrounding energy, and gains additional strength over half a day.

Background / History

Zi Yan belongs to the purest royal lineage of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. Her father, Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun, is trapped in the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion 33.

She lived alone from childhood and lacked companionship. After accidentally eating Transformation Grass, she took on the appearance of a little girl. She sought energy-rich medicinal ingredients to grow and eventually gain the ability to switch freely between beast and human forms 34.

Su Qian brought her to Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy and gave her the name Zi Yan. Even there, she continued living by herself, making Liu Yu’s offer of companionship and protection especially meaningful to her 35 37.

Appearance

Zi Yan initially appears as a petite girl, later emerging from her cocoon as a tall adult woman while retaining her purple hair and eyes 34 47.

• Purple hair and eyes: Her hair is described as silky, and her purple eyes remain a distinguishing feature in both forms 34 47.
• Childlike form: Has delicate features, fair cheeks, and a face compared to carved jade 37 47.
• Adult form: Becomes tall and curvaceous; Yun Yun recognizes traces of her younger face beneath the changed appearance 47 48.
• Clothing: Wears white when Liu Yu first observes her and purple clothing when she arrives at Feather Pavilion 33 40.
• Purple wings: Spreads them during combat and while patrolling for Liu Yu 34 35.

Personality

Zi Yan is bold, proud, and quick to retaliate. She taunts the Golden Ape while eating its stolen fruit, resents being called little, and insists that her childlike appearance does not reflect her actual age. Despite her preference for brute force, she recognizes when an attack is too dangerous to meet directly and switches to evasion 33 34 40.

Her loneliness makes her deeply receptive to kindness. She embraces Liu Yu after he accepts her as his follower, eagerly praises him, and takes guarding his pill refinement seriously. Her concern becomes obvious when pill lightning gathers and when he remains inside the Fallen Heart Flame’s prison 34 35 36 37.

Her affection is mixed with mischief. She pulls Liu Yu’s hair during their quarrels, tricks him into lowering his guard before biting his face, and immediately considers challenging him after her transformation strengthens her. She also shows restraint: she spares the defeated Golden Ape and avoids repeatedly asking for gifts when she fears taking Liu Yu’s generosity for granted 34 35 37 40 47.

Abilities & Skills

Exceptional Physical Strength

• Trades punches with a fifth-rank Golden Ape using her body alone 33.
• Scatters a golden gale with one punch; even an enthusiastic embrace carries enough force to make Liu Yu shudder 34.
• Is known as the Brute Force King, though Liu Yu’s superior strength prevents her from breaking his grip during their scuffle 37.
• Cannot overpower the Golden Ape’s giant transformation and requires Liu Yu’s intervention against its finishing attack 34.

Treasure Sensing

• Can sense natural spiritual treasures, including medicinal ingredients 35.
• Guides Liu Yu through the mountains behind the Inner Academy for over two weeks, helping him gather herbs and other resources 35.
• Claims that there is no treasure she cannot find; this is her own boast rather than a demonstrated unlimited range 35.

Medicinal Energy Absorption

• Can swallow medicinal ingredients directly and withstand their wild medicinal power 33.
• Eats Liu Yu’s specially processed pellets, which retain energy too unruly for ordinary human bodies 34.
• Initially receives a limit of one bottle daily, but later reports that she can digest three bottles a day as her advancement approaches. Liu Yu’s examination confirms that she is nearing a breakthrough 35 40.
• Accumulated medicinal energy enables her cocoon transformation 46.

Flight

• Uses purple wings to dodge the Golden Giant Ape’s attacks 34.
• Flies around Liu Yu’s clearing while keeping watch during his seventh-rank pill refinement 35.

Spatial Manipulation

Her royal Ancient Void Dragon heritage gives her exceptional talent for manipulating space 47.

• Immobilizes a escaping Transformation Pill by making the surrounding space writhe 47.
• Vanishes without producing spatial fluctuations that Liu Yu can detect 47.
• Her concealment is not absolute: Liu Yu locates her by spreading soul power over the forest 47.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Storage Ring — Carries pill bottles and stores the Qi Cultivation Pills Liu Yu gives her 34 35 38.
• Medicinal pellets — Her main supplied source of growth energy. Liu Yu produces sixty golden pellets from Mighty Vajra Fruits and a drop of diluted earth-core body-tempering milk, followed by over a hundred bottles of assorted pellets 35.
• Qi Cultivation Pills — Receives three from Liu Yu, who warns that they restore Dou Qi and should not be eaten casually 34.
• Seventh-rank Transformation Pill — Restores her adult form after her post-cocoon reversion and triggers a further increase in strength 47.

Relationships

• Liu Yu — Protector, pill supplier, and chosen “Boss.” She initially mistakes his six wings for evidence that he is a magical beast like herself. Their bond develops through treasure hunting, mutual reliance, and frequent roughhousing; he later guards the grove containing her cocoon 34 35 37 46.
• Su Qian — Brought her to the Inner Academy and named her. She calls him “Old Man Su.” He entrusts her to Liu Yu after witnessing their close bond 35 36 37.
• Yun Yun — Friend and confidante whom she addresses as “Sister Yun.” Zi Yan complains to her about Liu Yu’s teasing and later discusses his romantic connections with her 40 48 50.
• Zhu Kun — Father and former ruler of the Ancient Void Dragons; trapped in the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion 33 47.
• Golden Ape — Opponent whose Mighty Vajra Fruit she steals. After Liu Yu defeats it, she spares its life in exchange for fruit as compensation 33 34.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Meeting Liu Yu

Liu Yu first discovers Zi Yan fighting the Golden Ape and considers helping her to gain her trust. He intervenes when the ape’s giant form overwhelms her. Zi Yan accepts him as her boss, takes two remaining Mighty Vajra Fruits as compensation, and gives him one while asking him to process the other into pellets 33 34.

Their partnership quickly becomes practical: she locates treasures, while he defeats dangerous beasts and prepares food-like medicinal pellets. She also guards him during the refinement that draws Su Qian’s attention 35 36.

Leaving the Inner Academy

Zi Yan accompanies Liu Yu and Su Qian into the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, worrying while Liu Yu extracts part of the Fallen Heart Flame’s origin. After he returns, she insists on leaving with him. Su Qian approves and asks Liu Yu to take care of her 36 37.

She travels with Liu Yu to East Nether City during his planned journey to the Eastern Continent. When the space wormhole is broken and the alternative sea route proves dangerous, he postpones the expedition partly out of concern for her safety. They return to Feather Pavilion, where she meets Yun Yun 38 40.

Cocoon Transformation and Return

Zi Yan enters a purple cocoon after accumulating enough medicinal energy to advance. Liu Yu cultivates beside it and seals the surrounding grove against disturbances. She eventually emerges, briefly reverts to her smaller body, then regains adult form with a Transformation Pill 46 47.

Afterward, she remains with Liu Yu and Yun Yun, accompanying them to the Jia Ma Empire during the three-empires invasion. She watches Liu Yu’s confrontation with the Poison Sect’s leader and questions Yun Yun about his apparent history with her 48 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“Boss, if only I’d met you sooner. Then no one would have dared bully me!” 34

“Boss, I’ll make sure to protect you!” 35

“I’m not little! I only look like a little girl because I ate transformation grass.” 40

Trivia

• Zi Yan feels an unexplained connection to Liu Yu’s Red Dragon Cauldron, especially its engraved dragon. Liu Yu suspects that the draconic beast used to make it possessed a trace of Ancient Void Dragon blood 35.
• She blames Liu Yu’s cheek-pinching and head-patting for her failure to grow taller 40.
• Despite accepting Liu Yu as her boss, she argues that she is older than him and that he should call her “big sister”; her exact age is not given 40.