Lin Yan

Biodata

Power Progression

Personal Cultivation

Temporary Template Strength

These configurations are borrowed system power, not permanent breakthroughs. Their martial souls and Soul Rings disappear when Lin Yan withdraws the template 30 40 61.

Background / History

Lin Yan was originally a homebody from Blue Star. After transmigrating, he was born in Holy Soul Village, the same village as Tang San. His bound Pet Breeding House appeared in Suotuo City alongside his birth, but the system prevented it from opening until he turned twelve. He spent his savings visiting the shop once before returning home to wait 1.

At Nuoding Academy, Yu Xiaogang used Lin Yan as an unfavorable example while establishing his authority before Tang San. Lin Yan retaliated with a public verbal attack, provoking Tang San’s hostility. Tang San and Xiao Wu subsequently targeted him during his academy years 2 79.

Unable to activate his system and dissatisfied with his weak aptitude, Lin Yan stole Ah Yin’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and seed from Tang Hao’s hiding place behind a waterfall. The Soul Bone transformed his body and martial soul. After reaching level twenty at age nine, he transferred to Suotuo Intermediate Soul Master Academy to remain near his future shop 2.

Appearance

• Strikingly handsome face: His appearance is directly revealed when he removes his mask before Xiao Wu 79.
• Special fitted mask: Conceals his identity during business; he tells Zhu Zhuqing that he wears it to maintain mystery 25 79.
• Youthful bearing: Zhu Zhuqing notices that his speech and behavior seem young despite his apparently overwhelming strength 36.

Personality

Lin Yan is openly money-driven. He treats wealthy customers as valuable opportunities, turns demonstrations and confrontations into advertising, and prioritizes earning money over pursuing beautiful women. His enthusiasm rises sharply whenever a customer purchases a maximum-tier package 2 25 48 52.

His commercial conduct combines genuine reliability with aggressive salesmanship. He supplies itemized bills, honors Sea Dragon Douluo’s promised discount, and compensates Zhu Zhuqing after overcharging her. However, he also withholds the most alarming possible consequences of same-sex reproduction because he fears losing orders 20 51 53 99.

Proud and retaliatory, Lin Yan refuses to quietly accept humiliation. He enjoys intimidating opponents and being mistaken for an unfathomable expert, while privately acknowledging that much of his displayed power belongs to temporary templates rather than himself 2 34 40.

He resists emotional obligations, repeatedly denying that the children created with his blood are his offspring. Nevertheless, he comforts frightened children and becomes protective of Little Sea God, resolving that no one should bully her 26 57 68 85.

His treatment of Xiao Wu is considerably harsher. He enforces her lifetime employment contract, ties assistance with her revenge to his favorability, and privately considers preventing her from reaching the promised threshold 79 81.

Abilities & Skills

Life Azure Snake

Lin Yan’s native martial soul begins as a weak green snake and develops after absorbing Ah Yin’s Soul Bone 1 2 44.

• Gains the wood attribute and limited healing power from the Soul Bone 2.
• Is described as capable of evolving indefinitely 41.
• Contains a Life Crystal Core whose stored vitality can become Soul Power, healing power, or toxins 44.
• Has documented Soul Rings associated with the Mandala Snake, Blackwater Mysterious Tortoise, and Emerald Swan 2 41 44.

Life Healing

His third Soul Skill, obtained from the sixty-thousand-year Emerald Swan, provides ultimate group healing 44.

• Restores vitality and sustains Soul Power.
• Cleanses toxins other than those produced by his own abilities.
• Can combine with his own toxins to strengthen their poisonous effects 44.

Descendant Customization

As the Cultivation Room’s sole host, Lin Yan operates the Gene Cultivator and configures artificially produced descendants 3 6.

Bloodline Feedback

The system grants Lin Yan long-term, uncapped bloodline feedback from the descendants he produces, allowing his personal cultivation to grow independently of borrowed combat templates 30 31.

• Explains that Ning Rongrong receives one-tenth of her daughter’s Soul Power growth and Soul Ring age, with affection affecting feedback 12.
• Anticipates receiving one percent of Little Sea God’s divine advancement if she becomes a god 88.
• Unlike ordinary customers, who receive feedback only from their highest-intimacy child when ordering multiple offspring, Lin Yan considers producing many children advantageous 40.

Evenly Matched Trait

This template trait synchronizes Lin Yan’s temporary strength with a qualifying opponent 30 34.

• Raises him to level eighty-three against Zhu Wei, rank ninety-three when benchmarked against Xiao Wu, and peak Quasi-God against the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King 34 76 83.
• Unlocks the template’s configured Soul Rings according to available Soul Power 31 34.
• Does not permanently raise his personal cultivation 40 83.
• The Debt Collector version locks his other host permissions and prohibits using its strength for private affairs 30.

Xuanyuan Sword Template

Debt Collector No. 1 supplies a divine-grade Xuanyuan Sword martial soul, nine configured Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and a complete Hundred Thousand Year Paralysis Soul Bone Set 30.

• Exclusive talents: Sage’s Way Judgment, Gods and Ghosts Retreat, Piercing Heaven and Earth, Human Emperor Suppresses Dragon Qi, and Imperial Pressure 30.
• Paralysis effects: Attacks can seal Soul Skills and slow opponents; the set also provides a Paralysis Domain 30 35 40.
• Sever Heaven and Earth: His ninth Soul Skill cuts off energy, perception, spirit, and space within a sealing domain 40.
• Combined restraint: Uses the sealing and paralysis domains together to immobilize a beast tide, including Da Ming and Er Ming 40.

Four Immortal Slaying Swords Template

Lin Yan customizes this configuration while acting as Demon King Guard No. 001 59.

• Combines four swords with a complete formation diagram to create the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation 59 61.
• The formation requires four opponents of equivalent strength to break it 59.
• Uses a Vampiric Soul Bone Set to absorb enemy vitality through attacks and rapidly heal injuries 59 61.
• Defeats Demon King Guard No. 002’s Ancestral Dragon configuration in an arena demonstration; the arena’s Life-Saving Mechanism prevents a fatal outcome 61.

Kunlun Mirror Template

The Kunlun Mirror grants space-time abilities, including the ninth Soul Skill Time Reversal 76.

• Reverses time to save Xiao Wu and Tang San 76 79.
• Requires substantial Soul Power; Lin Yan worries that activating the reversal could exhaust him 76.
• Is a temporary configuration rather than his native martial soul 76.

Shop Authority and Protection Services

Lin Yan controls system-backed facilities and services within the Cultivation Room 49 57 65.

• Summons customized guards, including the Blazing Flame Guard, Obsidian Guard, and Demon King Guard 49 50 58.
• Opens an arena for demonstrations and explains its protection against sparring deaths 57 61.
• Enforces the shop’s no-combat rule and uses barriers or immobilization to stop disturbances 56 65 67 93.
• Adds protection packages for direct relatives while retaining restrictions against using escorts to deliberately provoke conflicts 65.
• Relies on system protection to shield Suotuo City’s residents during Little Sea God’s awakening disaster 66.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Mask — Conceals his face and his identity as Tang San and Xiao Wu’s former classmate 25 79.
• Storage Soul Tool — Stores his mask after he removes it before Xiao Wu 79.
• Ah Yin’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone — Stolen and absorbed to improve his aptitude and evolve his martial soul 2.
• Ah Yin’s seed — Taken from Tang Hao’s hiding place and retained for its valuable plant bloodline 2.
• Sixty-thousand-year Emerald Swan Trunk Bone — Extracted and stored; he does not immediately use it 44.
• Kunpeng — System-provided divine beast mount used for debt collection and long-distance travel; also removes the floodwaters from Suotuo City 31 66 88.
• Life-bound female Mandala Snake — Hatches after the system strengthens its bloodline to Golden quality. Lin Yan can control its soul and life 54.
• Goddess of Life’s blood — Receives a drop of God King-level blood and plans to use it to cultivate three children for himself 105.

Relationships

• The System — Grants his shop, services, and combat templates, but tightly restricts their use. Lin Yan resents its rules and his one-ten-thousandth commission, hoping eventually to become powerful enough to dispense with it 30 31.
• Ning Rongrong — His first showcased customer. Her successful order establishes the shop’s credibility and attracts the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s attention 3 9 12 16.
• Ning Zhizun / Ning Supreme Empress — Ning Rongrong’s daughter, created using Lin Yan’s paternal bloodline. She publicly calls him Daddy, prompting him to deny paternity and arrange another strength demonstration to divert suspicion 3 57.
• Zhu Zhuqing — Customer whose family debt he personally pursues. He compensates her for an overcharge and defeats the Zhu Family’s strongest fighters during collection 20 26 35 36.
• Zhu Zhuyou — Zhu Zhuqing’s daughter. Calls him Daddy during a shared meal; Lin Yan privately recognizes the risk of his paternity being exposed but refuses the title 26.
• Sea Dragon Douluo — Customer who identifies Lin Yan’s billing mistake and receives a twenty-percent discount. Later orders both his own son and Bo Saixi’s daughter, regarding Lin Yan as a businessman who keeps his word 20 51 53 62.
• Little Sea God / Xiaolan — His daughter with Bo Saixi’s bloodline. He denies being her father publicly but comforts her, escorts her to her mother, and promises protection 68 82 85 88.
• Bo Saixi — Mother of Little Sea God. Demands the identity of her daughter’s father and later takes refuge at Lin Yan’s shop after being expelled from Sea God Island 88 97 98.
• Tang San — Former schoolmate and antagonist. Their feud begins after Lin Yan insults Yu Xiaogang; Lin Yan later steals Ah Yin’s Soul Bone and seed from Tang Hao 2.
• Xiao Wu — Former schoolmate who helped target him. After saving her through time reversal, Lin Yan enforces her contract as his exclusive lifetime employee 76 79.
• Qian Daoliu — Witness to Lin Yan’s overwhelming template strength. Incorrectly claims Little Sea God as his daughter and is repeatedly restrained and corrected 60 65 67 68.
• Deep Sea Demonic Whale King — Defeated opponent who surrenders treasure as the price of being spared 83 84 85.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Establishing the Cultivation Room

Lin Yan opens amid accusations of fraud and needs a wealthy customer to demonstrate his services. Ning Rongrong pays the admission fee, purchases extensive upgrades, and receives a daughter whose existence validates the Gene Cultivator. Her order turns public skepticism into demand 1 2 3 5 9 11.

Zhu Family Debt Collection

After cultivating Zhu Zhuyou, Lin Yan travels to the Zhu Family to recover the debt assigned against Zhu Zhuqing’s inheritance. Zhu Wei’s refusal activates the Evenly Matched Trait. Lin Yan splits the family hall, defeats both Zhu Wei and the family ancestor, and secures Dai Zhenghua’s concession without another fight 26 31 34 35 36 37.

Beast Tide and Personal Advancement

Lin Yan restrains a beast tide with the Xuanyuan Sword template, then releases most of the captured Soul Beasts because their attack followed slaughter by poachers. He retains an Emerald Swan and exploits the borrowed template to absorb its unusually old Soul Ring, permanently reaching rank thirty-five 39 40 41 44.

Escort Demonstrations

Public demonstrations establish the guards’ value to major factions. Lin Yan later fights Demon King Guard No. 002 himself, using the Four Immortal Slaying Swords configuration. His victory convinces spectators that the shopkeeper possesses god-slaying strength, although he subsequently withdraws the template 49 50 57 59 60 61.

Little Sea God and Sea God Island

Bo Saixi’s daughter awakens with ocean authority, flooding Suotuo City before Kunpeng removes the water. Lin Yan later defeats the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King while escorting her toward Sea God Island. After Bo Saixi accepts the child, he collects Sea Dragon Douluo’s payment and returns to Suotuo 66 82 83 84 85 88.

Shop Expansion and Divine Blood

The version 2.0 upgrade introduces employee ranks, Soul Beast cultivation, and parent-child packages. Lin Yan expands into same-sex orders while considering children of his own. By Chapter 105, he has obtained the Goddess of Life’s blood and plans three children, but postpones the project to process Qian Renxue’s order; the system warns him that she has played a trick just as he prepares to use his blood 93 94 96 98 105.

Notable Quotes

“The customer comes first. You pay, I do the work.” 9

“Watch closely. This strike will be spectacular.” 34

“I'm a businessman. However much your life is worth, that's how much you give me. Buy your life with money, or I'll still kill you.” 85