Yuan Yan

Yuan Yan is a Patriarch (Tribulation Transcendence stage) of the Elder Devil Realm. As a patriarch, he is a pillar of power within the realm and works to ensure its continued prosperity. He is vigilant against outsiders and dangers to the realm. As a result, he keeps a vigilant watch on key locations where foreign beings tend to invade. He takes the appearance of a young man dressed in black robes. 
== Infighting ==
Even though Yuan Yan serves as one of three patriarch protectors of the Elder Devil realm, he will still stoop to conspiring with others to undermine his peers. He plotted together with another Sacred Ancestor named Liu Ji who was vying for the position of Matriarch held by Bao Hua. He used his Nightmare Blood Curse in order to restrict Bao Hua, enabling the weaker Liu Ji to contend against a matriarch. He agreed to protect Liu Ji in her new role as best as he could.
== Invasion by Foreign Beings ==
As a patriarch, Yuan Yan served as one of the key pillars supporting opposition against the Stemborer Queen who had slowly been escaping her seal. In order to preserve the Devilish races, he revived a plan to conquer land in the neighboring Spirit Realm. However, everything did not go according to plan. The races of the Tian Yuan Continent banded together forcing a stalemate. Furthermore, the invasion opened an opportunity for a group of Body Integration invaders infiltrated the realm in order to obtain the Clean Spirit Lotus nurtured within the Bitter Spirit Island. 
The lotus often attracted invaders from neighboring realms. As a result, the island was always protected by one or more guardians. Yuan Yan was temporarily serving as guardian of the island when beings from the Spirit Realm invaded. He was notified when the group of Spirit Realm beings penetrated the formation sealing the island. Upon investigation, he found a group of beings from the Human and Spirit Races. He was surprised to discover that one of the beings possessed a fragment of the Spirit Monarch. As a result, he was forced to expend a great deal of energy defending himself from suicide attack by the monarch. 
== First Meeting ==
The attack from the Spirit Monarch was powerful and immediately wiped out all but Yuan Yan and a sole human survivor. This human survivor was Han Li who at the time was at the Peak of the Body Integration stage. Yuan Yan was going to deal with the sole survivor until he was interrupted by Bao Hua who had secretly been following the Spirit Realm invaders. Weakened by the previous attack by the Spirit Monarch, Yuan Yan reached a temporary truce with Bao Hua whom he had previously plotted against. He watched as Bao Hua failed to kill Han Li. Yuan Yan was shocked to learn than Han Li possessed a profound heavenly treasure. 
As a result, Yuan Yan was willing to agree to a temporary ceasefire between himself and Han Li as well as let Han Li obtain the Lotus in exchange for a Devil Refining Herb. After Han Li successfully obtained the lotus, Yuan Yan watched Han Li get ambushed by the clone another sacred ancestor Nie Pan. However, Yuan Yan did not intervene because the herb still had a restriction placed on it by Han Li. Han Li managed to kill Nie Pan's clone and escape. After doing so, the restriction on the herb was automatically removed. Yuan Yan was now solely focused on refining the herb, and did not want to pay any further attention to Han Li. As a result, Yuan Yan issued a realm-wide Immortal Vanquishing Order in order to entice other Sacred Ancestors into hunting and dealing with Han Li. 
Unfortunately, this only resulted in more harm to the Elder Devil Realm. Han Li killed several Devilish Lords and clones of Sacred Ancestors.
== Stemborer Queen ==
Years later, news of the Stemborer Queen had reached the Spirit Realm. As a result, a truce was negotiated and the invasion to conquer territory in the Spirit Realm was abandoned. Grand Ascension stage beings from the Spirit Realm and other nearby realms banded together to deal with the queen. Yuan Yan led a group of these beings to strengthen the seal.of the queen. However, he and the other Grand Ascension stage beings were instead trapped by the very restriction that sealed the queen. It turned out that the queen managed to take control of a portion of the seal. He managed solicit help from the former matriarch Bao Hua. 
As a result, another group of Grand Ascension reinforcements were recruited from nearby realms. This group managed to slay the Stemborer Queen. As a result, Yuan Yan and the other Grand Ascension beings were freed from the restriction. He later learned that Han Li had become a newly ascended Grand Ascension stage cultivator and played a pivotal role in slaying the queen.
== Abandoning an Ally ==
Years later, Yuan Yan was invited to a private meeting by Bao Hua. However, Han Li showed up for the meeting in her place. After a brief introduction, Yuan Yan immediately realized that Han Li had been sent to stall him from fulfilling an agreement to defend Liu Ji. Bao Hua had plotted to reclaim her position as Matriarch and had paid a heavy price to recruit Han Li in order to stall Yuan Yan. Yuan Yan was aware of Han Li's abilities and decided to take the opportunity to exchange cultivation insights instead of attempting to fight Han Li.
== References ==
Category:Characters
Category:Male
Category:Grand Ascension
Category:Devils
Category:Tribulation Transcendence