Li Yan

**Li Yan** is one of the minor antagonists in *Immortal Swordsman In The Reverse World*.

Yan is the mother of Li You Wei and was Head of the Li Family. She was also one of the 10 Great Experts. Her main goal was the rule Jinmen by destroying the Ye Family.

## Background

   When Yan was little, she grow up together with Li Jian becoming childhood sweethearts and would lead to marriage and having their son, You Wei. She would later discover about her husband's affair with Ye Qing Mei and having 2 daughters with her. Yan and her family were in conflict with the Ye family. She sent a member in her family as a spy who married Qing Mei to ambush her but failed later on.

Yan and her family owned the Ancient Material Arts led by Huang Kai Shan and both were together before.

## Appearance

* Yan's face is scarred.
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Yan has purple hair and eyes. She wears a long sleeve dark gray over Chinese coat, pants, and high heel shoes. She also wears pearl earrings.

Not long after, the left side of Yan's cheek on her face becomes horribly scarred though soon was healed thanks to the Tang Family's healing medicine.

20 years ago, Yan's hair was let down, She wore similar dark gray clothes and shoes she has on in the present day though the top part of her Chinese coat reveals half of her chest.

## Personality

Yan is shown to get angry and will threaten Qing Mei and her family if finding out her son has been killed by Qing. After You Wei's death, she develops a hatred for Qing wanting to kill him to avenge her son's death even going as far attempting to try to kill his family as well of all those that are close to him.

## Synopsis

### Jing Men Arc

Yan confronted Ye Qing Mei and Ye Chen Xi who were fighting Tang Jie and Tang Zi Yan learning on how her son is being targeted by Chu Qing. She prepares to strike Qing Mei but is stopped by the unexpected arrival of Meng Zui. She teams up with Zui to kill Qing but fails as they let Qing escape. Learning the truth that her son's been killed by Qing, Yan swores to have revenge on him with the people close to him. She also plans to destroy the Tang Family by robbing their medicine market business.

At Qing's house, Yan and her bodyguards destroy the entire place and learn that that Qing's family is not in the house. She figures out that Qing Mei got to them before she did. Yan and her bodyguards confront Qing Mei and her bodyguards demanding to hand over Qing and his family, but when Qing Mei refused, she fought her.

Yan teams up with Kai Shan who is head of the Supervision Department to bring down those who oppose her. She, Jie, and Qing Mei stop the fight between Mr. Jian (Qing) and Kai Shan and ask to hand over Chen Xi and Qing but to no use.

On the news, Yan finds out about the dragon at Yunjiang River and heads over there.

Yan later learns about Kai Shan's death and is angry being cut off from Jianwu for good. She and one of the elders, Li Yuan team up with 3 Taoists for they next encounter with Qing Mei.

At Yunshan Mountain, Yan along side with Yuan, Zhang Xu Dong, and a Taoist fights Qing Mei and Ye Jinzhu. When a disguised Qing comes into the fight standing with the Ye sisters, Yan tries to make a deal with Qing for him to kill Qing Mei, but he refuses and the fight continues. While having the upper hand, the fight is stopped by Wu Dunren leader Quan Zhen Cult blocking Yan's attack from killing Qing. She and her family retreated when Xiao Yu new leader of Jianwu intervenes.

At Hantan Beach, Yan and her allies are seen together and are reported by Xu Dong who got attacked by Qing Mei that their enemy is not alone. Yan states that Qing Mei will die and orders her allies to be ready. As she and Yuan are informed by Dunren that Qing Mei brought more people, they both attempt to escape but are caught up by Qing Mei. As Yuan gets wounded, Yan is confronted by Qing Mei to settle things fairly and the 2 fight. Yan and Qing Mei prepare to end their fight by getting their knives out. Yan manages to pierce Qing Mei's chest thus killing her. However, Yan's throat gets sliced open by Qing Mei and Yan falls to her death.

## Strength

Yan's power seems to be on equal terms with Qing Mei's power.

## Weapon

### Dagger

Yan can summon a dagger if she has to as shown with her final fight with Qing Mei.

## Trivia

* Out of the 4 major Heads of the families, Yan was the only one besides Xing Lie to birth a son.
* Yan is ranked 5th of the Experts.