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Yan Fangzhou

Young Soul Transformation prodigy and black-flame cultivatorShanhe Pavilion

Yan Fangzhou is a ruthless young prodigy whose demand to test the Federation's strength leads to prolonged imprisonment inside Li Fan's layered illusion and time-space seal.

Biography

Chapter 815

Yan Fangzhou first gains notice as a young Soul Transformation member of Shanhe Pavilion willing to use the Heavenly Scene Treasure Gourd to rupture another cultivator's cave-heaven. Shang Tianci later persuades him to consider the Federation, but Yan mocks its small population and challenges its claim to power. Li Fan responds by isolating him inside an effectively endless layered formation. Yan breaks early illusions with black flame, exhausts talismans and escape methods, then shifts through arrogance, panic, pleas, apparent madness, and attempted deception. Li Fan sees through the performance and leaves him confined rather than accepting the coerced surrender. (Chapters 815–944)

Appearance and personality

The corpus does not establish Yan Fangzhou's stable physical features. He is imaginative, proud, confrontational, and initially contemptuous of institutions that cannot prove strength. His willingness to propose cave-heaven destruction shows ruthlessness; his behavior under confinement also shows adaptability, since he tries flattery, surrender, and feigned collapse when force fails. (Chapters 815–944)

Abilities and cultivation

Great-annihilation black flame

Yan's black flame can shatter layers of illusion and impose a state resembling spatial stillness. Li Fan compares its aura to the annihilation left by Crimson Flame but judges it a transformation of heaven and earth rather than the true Heavenly Spirit. Seven-Colored Jade Void light can suppress it, and the Infinite Law's layered confinement prevents it from reaching an exit. (Chapters 883–884)

Soul Transformation resources

Yan is explicitly a young Soul Transformation cultivator and carries multiple life-saving techniques, including a golden lightning talisman. None can escape Li Fan's sealed maze, demonstrating that realm and resources do not answer an environment whose time-space rules are controlled externally. (Chapters 883–944)

Relationships

  • Shang Tianci recruits Yan and repeatedly asks Li Fan to release him.
  • Li Fan values Yan's ruthlessness but answers his challenge with extended imprisonment and psychological pressure.

Items

  • The Heavenly Scene Treasure Gourd is a resource Yan proposes using; the source does not firmly establish his permanent ownership.
  • A golden lightning talisman is expended unsuccessfully inside the seal.