Zhang San

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Zhang San was originally Tang San of the Tang Sect, an outer-sect disciple. His soul fought Tang Shan for control of Tang Hao’s son’s body but was driven out by a mysterious system. A mysterious force then placed him in another body: an orphan who named himself Zhang San 1 7 8.

The orphan’s parents had both been Spirit Hall deacons and Soul Saints. They died beneath Tang Hao’s hammer while pursuing him with the previous Pope. Zhang San grew up in a Spirit Hall orphanage; Chrysanthemum Douluo believed his Twin Martial Souls resulted from a beneficial mutation of his parents’ Martial Souls 7.

Appearance

As a child, Zhang San was thin and ordinary-looking, with eyes that appeared unusually mature. By thirteen and a half, he stood just over 1.7 meters tall and had a lean, muscular build 7 99.

• Eyes: Mature and composed in youth; later cold, fierce and sharp 99 260.
• Martial Soul Possession: Dark purple carapace covered his body, and his legs became eight scythe-sharp spider legs. His face turned grayish purple and distorted, with bulges on his forehead and green light in his eyes 147.

Personality

Zhang San initially presented himself as composed and respectful. He was grateful for Bibi Dong’s acceptance and hoped to use his future position to spread Tang Sect Hidden Weapons across the continent 8.

He was proud of those weapons and reacted furiously when Tang San disparaged them. Repeated disgust at his spider form deepened his inferiority and made his already quiet nature more withdrawn and violent 147 153. His resentment toward Tang San grew from their rivalry and Tang Hao’s killing of his parents. After gaining greater power, he regarded Hu Liena as his possession and turned against both her and Bibi Dong 177 260.

Abilities & Skills

Man-Faced Spider Emperor

Zhang San’s first Martial Soul gave him a poisonous spider form suited to close combat and control 147.

• Spider legs: Eight sharp limbs used to slash or attack from multiple directions 147 152.
• Spider Web Restraint: A control skill he used against Xiao Wu 147.
• Toxic Spider Spikes: His second Soul Skill fired poisoned purple-black spikes 152.
• Sky-Net Poison Web: His third Soul Skill released a large venom-coated web 152.
• Fourth Soul Skill: A group-control ability gained from the Cave Demon Spider’s Soul Ring 99.
• Limit: Tang San resisted the poison from Zhang San’s web and quickly healed the cut it caused 153.

Zhuge Repeating Crossbow

Zhang San’s second Martial Soul was a repeating crossbow, later called the Godly Zhuge Crossbow. He first revealed it publicly against Tang San at the tournament 153 260.

• Fired three volleys totaling forty-eight bolts against Tang San, who deflected them all 153.
• Later crossbow skills included Linked Bead Shot, Armor-Piercing Cone and Stormy Rain 264.
• Used Godly Zhuge Crossbow True Body and Ten Thousand Arrows Fired Together against Tang San near Nuoding City 264.

Tang Sect techniques and Hidden Weapons

Zhang San retained Tang Sect cultivation methods and expertise in Hidden Weapons 99 225.

• Purple Demon Eye: Broke Xiao Wu’s Charm after it briefly dazed him 147.
• Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track: A movement technique used to dodge and maneuver in combat 147 152 265.
• Mysterious Jade Hand: Used for defense when fighting Xiao Wu 147.
• Weapon design: Produced crossbow blueprints suitable for mass production. The versions used by Spirit Hall fired six bolts at once rather than a genuine crossbow’s sixteen, preserving core Tang Sect secrets 99 133.

Divine Slaughter’s Domain and Asura power

Zhang San gained Divine Slaughter’s Domain through the Slaughter City trials and later learned to release and withdraw it at will 222 237.

• The domain spread a killing aura, but Tang San’s Destruction Domain compressed it until Hu Liena added her own domain 237.
• As an Asura God Trial candidate, Zhang San could sense the general location of Hu Liena’s domain through its connection to Asura Divine Power 262.
• As Asura God, he used the divine skill Asura Judgment, which Tang San destroyed with his hammer 268.

Poison-making

Zhang San refined a compound poison from deadly toxins gathered with Spirit Hall’s resources. It was colorless and odorless once mixed with blood; he poured it into Slaughter City’s blood pool, spreading it through the city and killing fallen ones 215.

Equipment

• Asura Demon Sword — A divine weapon taken after the attack on the King of Slaughter. It recognized Zhang San and later fully accepted him 215 238 260.
• Storage Soul Tool — A silver ring taken by Tang San in Death Canyon. It contained rare metals and Hidden Weapon blueprints, but no cultivation manuals 178 181.
• Hidden Weapons — Used weapons including the Stomping Crossbow, Silent Sleeve Arrow and Guanyin’s Tears; Tang San destroyed the latter with the Hammer of Destruction 178 265.
• Five Soul Bones — Took torso, arm and leg bones aged between 50,000 and 80,000 years from the Spirit Hall Empire’s stockpile and absorbed them 261.

Relationships

• Tang San — The soul who displaced him from Tang Hao’s son’s body and became his principal rival. Zhang San also sought revenge on him for Tang Hao’s killing of his parents 7 177.
• Bibi Dong — His teacher and patron, who made him Holy Son. Their relationship broke down when she stopped him from attacking Hu Liena and her child 8 222 260.
• Hu Liena — His senior sister, who cared for him from his arrival at Spirit Hall. Although they developed affection, Zhang San later threatened to kill her and her child with Tang San 99 260.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan — Investigated his background, brought him before Bibi Dong and helped him obtain Soul Rings 7 8 217.
• Xiao Wu — Zhang San felt an inexplicable closeness toward her, but she disliked his attention and defeated him in the tournament’s individual matches 138 146 147.
• Tang Hao — Killed the parents of Zhang San’s new body. Zhang San held Tang Hao’s son responsible for the debt 7 177.
• Lor Diarra — Protected Zhang San and his companions from Tang San’s group in Death Canyon, allowing them to escape 178.

Story Role

Spirit Hall and the tournament

Bibi Dong accepted Zhang San as her disciple after warning him about the dangers of Twin Martial Souls. She promised him the position of Holy Son and succession to the papacy if he reached Soul King before age twenty 8.

At thirteen and a half, he returned from his fourth Soul Ring hunt as a Soul Ancestor and joined Spirit Hall Academy’s tournament team 99. In the Grand Finals, Xiao Wu defeated him in an individual match. During the team contest, he challenged Tang San one-on-one, revealed his second Martial Soul and was thrown out of the arena 147 152 153.

Death Canyon and Slaughter City

Two years later, Zhang San and three teammates confronted Tang San’s group in Death Canyon. Tang San defeated and bound him, stole his Storage Soul Tool and nearly killed him before Lor Diarra intervened 177 178.

In Slaughter City, Zhang San poisoned the blood pool. When the King of Slaughter attacked him and Hu Liena, Bibi Dong and the two accompanying Douluo intervened and gravely wounded the king. Bibi Dong later rebuked Zhang San, explaining that the city had served as a prison 215 217.

Holy Son and Asura God

After mastering Divine Slaughter’s Domain, Zhang San was formally anointed Holy Son alongside Hu Liena as Saintess. He later received the Asura God Trial through the Asura Demon Sword 222 238.

Following two years in seclusion, he emerged at peak Level 98. On discovering that Hu Liena had a child with Tang San, he attacked them and defied Bibi Dong when she intervened. He subsequently became emperor of the Spirit Hall Empire and pursued Hu Liena to Nuoding City 260 262 264.

Zhang San eventually inherited the Asura godhood and fought Qian Renxue, Shui Bing’er and Dugu Yan above Jialing Pass. Tang San arrived, shattered his godhood with the Clear Sky Hammer and killed him after reminding him of their struggle in the sea of consciousness 267 268.