Tang San

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Tang San (唐三)
Alias(es)	Third Brother
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Shrek Academy
Occupation/Role	Control System Soul Master; Shrek student
Status	Alive; relentlessly searching the Star Dou Great Forest for the missing Xiao Wu 66
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Rank 29 Control System Soul Grand Master	1	Introduced with the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and two hundred-year Soul Rings.
Temporary Three-Ring Soul Elder	12	Li Xiaoyao's Time Jump raises his Soul Power and lets him experience his future third Soul Skill.
Temporary quasi-Rank 40 Soul Ancestor	14	Time Jump and Ning Rongrong's amplification elevate him from Rank 29; he displays yellow, yellow, and purple Soul Rings before challenging Zhao Wuji.

Personality

Tang San is vigilant and intensely prideful about his cultivation, Tang Sect techniques, and teacher Yu Xiaogang's theories. Li Xiaoyao's abnormal Soul Ring configuration shakes his confidence in those theories, while his defeat leaves him determined to retaliate and seize Li Xiaoyao's Spatial Teleportation Soul Bone Skill. 1 3 4

He is fiercely protective of Xiao Wu. Her injury prompts him to challenge Zhao Wuji with lethal hidden weapons, and her disappearance later drives him into a frantic, self-neglecting search of the Star Dou Great Forest. 14 15 66

Tang San guards the Mysterious Heaven Skill as a Tang Sect secret. When Ma Hongjun asks to learn it, Tang San refuses and persuades him to abandon the request by claiming that cultivation requires crippling all existing Soul Power and risking death from Evil Fire backlash. 24 35

Abilities & Skills

Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul

Tang San's primary revealed Martial Soul is Blue Silver Grass, used for control and restraint. 1 12

• Blue Silver Entanglement — summons barbed Blue Silver Grass from the ground to bind targets. 14
• His Blue Silver Grass defense is pierced by Li Xiaoyao's soul-power bullet during their first fight. 2

Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record

Tang San possesses the complete inheritance of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, though Li Xiaoyao reads its contents from Tang San's memories with the Tenth Bullet. 3

• Mysterious Heaven Skill — an internal cultivation method Tang San treats as a restricted Tang Sect secret. 3 35
• Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track — a movement technique used for rapid evasion and escape. 3 57
• Mysterious Jade Hand — a hand-training technique. 3
• Purple Demon Eyes — an eye-training method. 3
• Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon — a grappling and redirection technique. 3

Tang Sect Hidden Weapons

Tang San combines hidden weapons with the Mysterious Heaven Skill's throwing techniques, targeting an opponent's vital points from difficult angles. 2

• Uses Plum Blossom Darts, Bone-Piercing Nails, Willow Leaf Knives, Coin Darts, Poison Smoke Bombs, Soul-Chasing Death Needles, Silent Sleeve Arrows, Godly Zhuge Crossbows, and Sand-Shooting Shadows. 2
• Later deploys Godly Zhuge Crossbow bolts, Dragon Whisker Needles, and Bone-Piercing Nails against the Titan Giant Ape. 52
• His weapons cannot overcome Li Xiaoyao's Spatial Teleportation and fail to meaningfully injure the Titan Giant Ape. 2 3 52

Physical Endurance

Tang San uses the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to maintain greater endurance than most of the group during the journey toward the Star Dou Great Forest. He carries the exhausted Xiao Wu despite his own fatigue. 43

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges Night — waist-mounted Soul Tool used to store and draw hidden weapons. 15
• Tang Sect hidden weapons — includes poisoned projectiles, needles, darts, sleeve arrows, and Godly Zhuge Crossbows. 2 52

Relationships

• Xiao Wu — Closest companion; she calls him “Third Brother,” and he repeatedly shields her from danger. After her disappearance, he searches the Star Dou Great Forest obsessively. 1 14 66
• Tang Hao — Father and covert protector. Tang Hao watches Tang San's initial confrontation with Li Xiaoyao, later intervenes against the Titan Giant Ape, and is killed in the Phoenix God's explosion. 3 52 59
• Li Xiaoyao — Hostile rival. Li Xiaoyao defeats him with a single shot, reads his memories, and repeatedly manipulates events around him; Tang San covets Li Xiaoyao's Spatial Teleportation Soul Bone Skill. 2 3 53
• Yu Xiaogang — Teacher whose Martial Soul theories Tang San initially trusts, though Li Xiaoyao's Soul Ring configuration causes him to question them. 1
• Zhao Wuji — Shrek's entrance-test examiner. Tang San challenges him to a rematch after Li Xiaoyao's group passes the fourth test, then attacks him after Xiao Wu is injured. 14 15
• Ma Hongjun — Fellow Shrek student who asks Tang San to teach him the Mysterious Heaven Skill; Tang San refuses. 34 35

Story Role / Major Arcs

Rose Hotel Conflict

Tang San meets Li Xiaoyao at the Rose Hotel while disputing a room with Xiao Wu and Dai Mubai. As a Rank 29 Soul Grand Master, he challenges Li Xiaoyao, but his hidden-weapon barrage is evaded through Spatial Teleportation and he is severely wounded by a gunshot to the waist. He ultimately admits defeat to protect both himself and Xiao Wu. 1 2 4

Shrek Academy Entrance Test

During the fourth entrance test, Li Xiaoyao's Time Jump temporarily raises Tang San to a Three-Ring Soul Elder. Empowered further, Tang San becomes dissatisfied with being a bystander in Li Xiaoyao's victory and demands a serious rematch against the seven-ring Zhao Wuji. 12 14

Mysterious Heaven Skill Dispute

Li Xiaoyao exposes that Tang San may possess a solution for Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire problem. Tang San refuses to share the Mysterious Heaven Skill, then convinces Ma Hongjun that learning it would require crippling his cultivation and risking death. 23 24 35

Star Dou Great Forest Incident

Li Xiaoyao frames Tang San by simulating a peak-Douluo aura, provoking the Titan Giant Ape into attacking him. Tang Hao saves Tang San and draws the beast away, but Tang San is knocked unconscious amid the clash. Li Xiaoyao subsequently alters Tang San's memories so that Xiao Wu's disappearance appears to be the Titan Giant Ape's doing. 52 53

Phoenix Descent and Aftermath

Tang San attempts to flee Li Xiaoyao's Phoenix Descent using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track. The Asura God's power teleports him thousands of meters away from the explosion, allowing him to survive while Tang Hao and the Titan Giant Ape perish. 57 59