True Yan Knight

True Yan Knight, previously known as True Yan Emperor, is an apeman warrior, a leader of the Nine Universe Sect, and Luo Feng's principal early teacher within the Virtual Universe Company. At first he is an emperor-level undying whose strength is said to approach that of a universe knight. His importance, however, lies as much in judgment as in rank: he identifies Luo Feng's need for a stronger foundation, guides him without making him dependent, spends heavily to equip his cultivation, and later risks his own godly body to avenge an attack on him. Luo Feng eventually returns that loyalty by giving True Yan access to the Ancestral God School's soil-and-space Beast God inheritance. True Yan breaks through as a universe knight and is a universe master by the closing era, although the corpus does not show the breakthrough between those last two ranks. (Chapters 453–473, 529–583, 729–748, 941–984, 1393, and 1485)

Biography

Choosing Luo Feng in Primal Chaos City

True Yan enters the narrative as the strongest of the Nine Universe Tablet's sub-sect leaders in Primal Chaos City. He is a tall, golden-furred apeman in golden armor, already an emperor-level undying and an instructor who has cultivated for an immense span. While other great beings can spend eras in secluded training, True Yan deliberately watches the company's new generations, believing that a teacher's occasional intervention can redirect a talented student. Among the twelve newcomers studying the Nine Universe Tablet, he judges Luo Feng the most promising and disputes assessments that place the youth clearly below Rong Jun. (Chapters 453–455)

His first intervention is not an offer of patronage but an exact criticism. In an unsolicited letter, True Yan tells Luo Feng that his use of the Nan Shen Armament is too rigid: a weapon is dead, but its user is alive. He directs him to Floating Blood and to the balcony carvings left by Lian Luo so that he can understand the weapon through law comprehension rather than fixed motions. The recommendation changes Luo Feng's priorities and helps him establish the foundation that True Yan values more highly than spectacular short-term progress. True Yan continues observing him, concluding that Luo Feng may eventually surpass Bolan if he preserves that solidity. (Chapters 455–461)

True Yan's concern for younger generations extends beyond formal students. As an important figure of the apeman Kahon clan, he normally ignores clan politics, but intervenes when other leaders manipulate the allocation of a young clansman's resources. His threat to seal every offending leader is extreme, direct, and effective. The episode establishes the pattern that later governs his teaching: he allows capable people to struggle on their own, yet becomes ferocious when stronger parties use institutions to crush them unfairly. (Chapter 467)

After Luo Feng passes the third level of the Heavenly Bridge, True Yan teaches the first three pictures of the Nine Universe Tablet through a three-day demonstration of their golden law engravings. Luo Feng then asks to become his disciple, and True Yan accepts. For roughly the next twenty years in Primal Chaos City he provides close instruction, but warns Luo Feng to solve ordinary difficulties himself and seek intervention only for problems beyond his ability. He sets two distant goals—entering the Primal Region and becoming an emperor-level undying—and brings Luo Feng into a teaching lineage of ninety-two disciples, twenty-three already dead and only one then at emperor level. Those losses explain why his warmth is paired with severe expectations. (Chapters 472–473)

Teaching through dangerous missions and long absences

True Yan follows Luo Feng's progress after Primal Chaos City without trying to control every decision. When Jade worries that Luo Feng has remained in the Blood River World's ancient ruins for about eighty years, True Yan recognizes that the apparent disappearance is sustained study. He tracks Luo Feng's comprehension of the early wonders of the Nine Universe Tablet and attributes the growth to a combination of his own pointers, Time Space Scribbles, and Blood River experiences. His pride is informed rather than blind: he knows where Luo Feng is improving and which resources are responsible. (Chapters 529–547)

The dangerous mission system tests that balance between guidance and independence. True Yan calls Luo Feng's choice of an impossible-level mission reckless, but once Luo Feng has examined his motives and decided, he does not order him back. He asks only that his student return alive. When Luo Feng later vanishes for three years in Demon Note Mountain, True Yan personally travels to the Absolute Beginning Region in anger and worry. After learning that Luo Feng obtained an inheritance, he neither pries into its details nor publicizes it; instead he analyzes the politics around the limited inheritance slots, recognizes Mo Luo's deception, and leaves Luo Feng to settle the qualification battle himself. (Chapters 557–583)

His teaching is materially costly. At the sector-lord stage, which he considers the most important phase of cultivation, True Yan gives Luo Feng 106 supporting manuals and the first three volumes of Nan Shen Seven Forms. The purchase costs eight billion company points—about half of True Yan's accumulated points—and is tailored to Luo Feng's aptitude for the fusion of gold and space. True Yan describes the first three levels as a path toward invincibility below universe knights, especially valuable when Luo Feng is about to enter battlefields where a teacher cannot protect him. The gift is not evidence that Luo Feng instantly masters the forms; it establishes the scale and precision of True Yan's investment in his survival. (Chapters 702–729)

Before Luo Feng departs for the outer-region wars, True Yan hides concern behind rough humor, telling his disciple not to disgrace him and to return with good wine. The farewell repeats the plea he made before the impossible mission: come back alive. True Yan's blood family died far in the past, and the story explicitly connects that loss to the way he treats disciples as family. His mentorship is therefore neither purely institutional nor sentimental. He equips his students, expects judgment under pressure, and accepts that he cannot remove the risk that has already killed many of them. (Chapters 729–748)

Taking the Beast God path and returning to battle

By the Blade River era, True Yan is described as invincible among emperors, with combat power comparable to an ordinary universe knight and wealth in the hundreds of billions of mixed elements. He repeatedly tries to contact Luo Feng during the latter's disappearance in Star Tower and celebrates his return rather than resenting that the disciple has begun to exceed the teacher. Yet his own cultivation has stalled. Primal Chaos City Leader explains that True Yan follows the soil-and-space Beast God path and had previously requested an Ancestral God inheritance token, but scarce human resources were assigned to candidates judged to have better prospects. (Chapters 850–941)

Luo Feng answers that old disappointment immediately by giving him a soil-and-space Beast God inheritance token. The exchange reverses their material roles: the teacher who spent half his points on Luo Feng now receives an opportunity his organization had denied him. True Yan travels with Luo Feng to Bauhinia Island, builds a neighboring palace, and begins the inheritance. His test places him at the fourth Beast God inheritance level and leaves him feeling close to the breakthrough that had evaded him for ages. (Chapters 941–947)

The breakthrough arrives after retreat. A five-colored whirlpool of origin-law energy gathers as True Yan fully comprehends the space law and becomes a universe knight; his divine body absorbs enough energy to reach about ninety-two percent of its new capacity. The narrative also states that his genes had previously evolved to ten times the ordinary level. Friends gather to celebrate the new True Yan Knight, but the rank does not soften his temperament or turn him into a cautious elder who delegates personal danger. (Chapters 947–981)

When he learns that Bark Mirror Emperor has threatened Luo Feng in the Nine Remoteness region, True Yan goes directly to Rock Island. He says Luo Feng treated him as family and gave him the inheritance token, so he cannot spare the attacker. Burning godly power, he uses a long-held black staff, formidable soul defense, and speed-amplifying combat boots to overwhelm Bark Mirror and nearly kill him. Wan Feng Knight intervenes before the finishing blow, forcing True Yan to escape after losing fifty-four percent of his godly body. The assault is a victory of loyalty and technique rather than a clean strategic success: Bark Mirror survives, while True Yan pays a devastating physical cost. (Chapters 982–984)

From limit knight to universe master

True Yan remains one of Luo Feng's trusted elders even after their combat standings reverse. On Thunder Island he has a broad network of knight friends and receives Luo Feng before the latter ventures onto Original Star. When others joke that the disciple has grown stronger than the teacher, True Yan expresses pride rather than insecurity. He recommends intelligence and caution, but respects Luo Feng's decision to travel alone. The same frank loyalty defines later retrospective descriptions of him: True Yan will do anything for those he cares about, including fighting Bark Mirror without certainty of victory. (Chapters 1017–1034 and 1094)

Much later, Luo Feng regards True Yan as a limit universe knight only one step from universe master and gives him resources and an ancient-civilization cultivation guide to hasten that progress. The chapter also uses “undying” in a broad group description, but the more specific limit-knight assessment accords with his directly shown earlier breakthrough. The corpus does not narrate his next breakthrough, identify its law route, or show the battle or realization involved. (Chapter 1393)

By the closing chapter, True Yan is directly described as a universe master. Luo Feng offers cultivation conditions within his miniature universe that may allow him to pursue true god, but no success at that higher rank is shown. True Yan also asks Luo Feng to show mercy toward Official Po Yu: she had once plotted against Luo Feng in revenge for the death of True Yan's lover, and True Yan feels guilt over the chain of events. He later helps Po Yu's people migrate to Teacher Origin's universe. These compressed revelations establish an old love and a capacity for forgiveness, but leave the lover's identity, death, and True Yan's precise responsibility unresolved. (Chapter 1485)

True Yan finally joins Luo Feng's family, teachers, and allies outside Tilted Peak Sector to send Luo Feng and Teacher Origin toward reincarnation. His presence brings his relationship with Luo Feng full circle: the teacher who once gave a novice one corrective letter now watches that disciple leave their Universe Ocean. He is alive at this point and remains a universe master; the supplied corpus does not state whether he later becomes a true god or follows Luo Feng beyond reincarnation. (Chapter 1485)

Appearance and personality

True Yan is an apeman, tall and sturdily built, with golden fur, a long golden beard, and golden armor. His early appearance has the physical force of his personality: he laughs freely, speaks bluntly, and is repeatedly associated with ferocity rather than refined ceremony. The corpus does not give a fixed height, eye color, age, or detailed later change in appearance, and his virtual-universe presentation should not be assumed to document every feature of his physical body. (Chapters 453–467 and 981–984)

He is straightforward, protective, and difficult to intimidate. Toward students, that protectiveness does not mean constant rescue; he prefers to identify a decisive weakness, give the right tool or principle, and require the student to act. The deaths of twenty-three disciples and of his earlier blood family give emotional weight to his repeated demand that Luo Feng return alive. He is proud when Luo Feng surpasses expectations, accepts help from his former student without embarrassment, and treats the reversal as proof that the teaching relationship succeeded. (Chapters 455–473, 529–583, 729–748, and 941–1034)

His strongest virtue and clearest liability are the same. True Yan is willing to spend half his points, confront clan leaders, or burn away more than half his godly body for someone he regards as family. That loyalty can become impulsive retaliation, as his attack on Bark Mirror shows, but it is not thoughtless cruelty: he keeps Luo Feng's inheritance secret, reads institutional politics accurately, and later pleads for Po Yu despite her hostility. The narrative supports a man governed by personal bonds and direct judgment, not a simple contrast between wisdom and rage. (Chapters 467, 583, 729, 982–984, 1094, and 1485)

Abilities and progression

True Yan is a close-combat warrior and teacher whose known path combines space law, the soil-and-space Beast God route, extreme physical strength, staff combat, and constructed pinnacle techniques. His progression is unusually clear from emperor-level undying to universe knight, but only the result—not the process—of his later rise to universe master is supplied. Claims that he is “invincible” among emperors describe his reputation and comparative level; they do not establish victory over every possible emperor, treasure combination, or special life form. (Chapters 453–455, 850, 941–984, 1393, and 1485)

Nine Universe instruction and space law

As the strongest Nine Universe sub-sect leader, True Yan has deep mastery of the Nine Universe Tablet and its space-oriented principles. He can render the first three pictures as complex golden engravings for instruction and identify why Luo Feng's Nan Shen Armament use fails to embody them. His teaching method links law comprehension to flexible weapon control rather than memorized form. The expensive True Yan Technique is mentioned in the company catalog, but the corpus does not demonstrate its contents or confirm that every technique True Yan later uses comes from that manual. (Chapters 453–473)

True Yan fully comprehends space law at his universe-knight breakthrough. That achievement supports teleportation and his later knight standing, but the text does not inventory every space-law application he knows. Before the breakthrough, his combat power is already comparable to an ordinary knight despite his lower formal rank; afterward, his technique, tenfold gene level, equipment, and burning of godly power let him threaten opponents with exceptional bloodlines. These factors should be distinguished rather than treating rank alone as the source of every result. (Chapters 850 and 947–984)

Soil-and-space Beast God inheritance

True Yan's fusion path follows the soil-and-space Beast God. He had trained along it for an extraordinarily long time before receiving an Ancestral God School token, and testing on Bauhinia Island places his comprehension at the fourth inheritance level. The inheritance helps break his stagnation, but the corpus does not state that it alone causes the later breakthrough or that he completes the Beast God path. His title remains True Yan Knight after the fourth-level assessment. (Chapters 941–981)

His later status as a limit universe knight and then universe master implies further growth, assisted by Luo Feng's resources and ancient-civilization guidance. No source passage states his final Beast God inheritance level, the name of a universe-master technique, or whether the universe-master breakthrough still follows precisely the same fusion route. Those details remain unknown. (Chapters 1393 and 1485)

Staff combat and pinnacle techniques

True Yan's principal killing weapon in the Bark Mirror battle is a black staff banded with golden hoops, described as a treasure he has possessed for a long time. With burning godly power he drives it through a sequence powerful enough that Bark Mirror would likely have died without Wan Feng Knight's intervention. True Yan is said to have created three pinnacle techniques over hundreds of millions of years, but the supplied battle does not clearly name or fully explain all three; it would therefore be unsafe to assign every staff motion a formal technique name. (Chapters 982–984)

One of the three is a soul-defense pinnacle technique developed to correct a warrior's vulnerability to soul attacks. The version used against Bark Mirror is described as roughly ten times sturdier than True Yan's original. It combines his will, burning godly power, and soul defense strongly enough to resist Bark Mirror's talent attack. This is a demonstrated resistance in one encounter, not proof of immunity to all soul techniques or to opponents at higher levels. (Chapters 982–984)

Godly body, movement, and equipment

At the time of the Rock Island battle, True Yan's tenfold gene level gives his godly body a strength described as roughly one hundred million times that of a sector lord. His combat boots reveal a second form when he burns godly power. As a top-tier treasure, they give him enough speed to chase Bark Mirror and later escape Wan Feng Knight. The boots enhance movement rather than establishing that True Yan is universally faster than every knight, and their later custody is not stated. (Chapters 981–984)

The same encounter shows both the strength and cost of the undying body. True Yan can burn godly power for explosive offense and survive losing fifty-four percent of his body, but the loss is treated as severe rather than instantly trivial. The corpus does not show the duration or resources required for full recovery. It also supplies no corresponding measurements for his later universe-master body, so his closing physical scale and treasure set cannot be reconstructed from the earlier battle. (Chapters 982–984 and 1485)

Mentorship and battlefield judgment

True Yan's most consequential skill is diagnostic teaching. He identifies a single mechanical flaw in Luo Feng's weapon use, selects manuals suited to gold-and-space fusion, reads the politics surrounding inheritances, and distinguishes when intervention would protect a student from abuse from when it would prevent growth. His extensive network among Virtual Universe Company undyings and knights also gives him reliable access to information. This is practical expertise demonstrated across decades and eras, not a supernatural perception technique. (Chapters 453–583, 702–748, and 1017–1034)

His judgment has limits. The attack on Bark Mirror is personally understandable and tactically formidable, but he begins it without certainty, is interrupted, and loses most of his godly body. True Yan's combat record therefore supports courage, preparation, and elite technique while also showing that loyalty can make him accept risks a more detached strategist might refuse. (Chapters 982–984 and 1094)

Power progression

Relationships

• Luo Feng: True Yan recognizes Luo Feng's foundational weakness, accepts him as a disciple, teaches him for decades, and repeatedly equips him for dangers the teacher cannot accompany him into. Their bond becomes reciprocal: Luo Feng gives him the Beast God inheritance token and later cultivation resources, while True Yan risks his body against Bark Mirror and remains part of Luo Feng's family circle through the final sendoff. (Chapters 453–473, 529–748, 888–984, 1034, 1393, and 1485)
• Primal Chaos City Leader: Both belong to Luo Feng's teaching lineage, with True Yan providing close early instruction and the city leader operating at a much higher institutional and cultivation level. Primal Chaos City Leader knows True Yan's Beast God route and explains why humanity had not granted him a scarce inheritance token; True Yan later approaches the city leader when Xu Xin reports Luo Feng's possible death. (Chapters 881 and 941)
• Bark Mirror Emperor: Bark Mirror's threat against Luo Feng turns him into the target of True Yan's most fully shown late battle. True Yan nearly kills him with burning godly power, staff techniques, and soul defense, but Wan Feng Knight's intervention saves Bark Mirror and leaves True Yan badly depleted. The relationship is defined by retaliation on a disciple's behalf, not a long personal rivalry established before that crisis. (Chapters 982–984)
• Bolan: Bolan serves as an early benchmark in True Yan's assessment of Luo Feng. True Yan does not dismiss Bolan's exceptional talent, but predicts that Luo Feng's firmer foundation can eventually let him surpass the initially more dazzling genius. Their direct personal relationship is not developed beyond their shared Virtual Universe Company setting. (Chapters 455–461)
• Jade: Jade is True Yan's former life-and-death teammate and long-standing friend, not his student. Acting for Nine Blade Knight, she questions him about Luo Feng's prolonged stay in the Blood River World; True Yan uses his closer knowledge as Luo Feng's teacher to show that the apparent disappearance conceals sustained cultivation. (Chapters 464 and 529)
• Official Po Yu: Po Yu's attempt against Luo Feng is later explained as vengeance for the death of True Yan's lover. True Yan feels implicated and pleads for her, then helps her people migrate. The closing summary leaves the lover, original incident, and full history between True Yan and Po Yu largely unresolved. (Chapter 1485)

Items

• Black staff with golden hoops: True Yan's long-held principal killing weapon in the fight with Bark Mirror Emperor. It supports his staff techniques under burning godly power, but its formal name, acquisition, precise treasure grade, and later custody are not supplied. (Chapters 982–984)
• Combat boots: A top-tier treasure whose second form dramatically increases True Yan's speed while he burns godly power. They allow him to pursue Bark Mirror Emperor and escape Wan Feng Knight; no formal item name or later status is given. (Chapters 982–984)