Tang San

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Tang San (唐三)
Alias(es)	Little San
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; Tang Sect
Occupation/Role	Shrek Academy student
Status	Alive; his Asura Divine Power is suppressed after being restrained by the Green-Scaled Eagle Cub 55
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Mysterious Heaven Skill	23	Uses his Tang Sect internal art while attempting to evade Su Chen; it proves ineffective against Su Chen's speed and strength.
Crippled cultivation	49	Su Chen crushes Tang San's right arm, severs its meridians, and shatters more than half of his Mysterious Heaven Skill internal energy.
Asura Divine Power and Asura Divine Will	52	Granted by the Asura God; his right arm and dantian are restored, and his dantian is forcibly expanded.
Asura Divine Power suppressed	55	The Green-Scaled Eagle Cub's Bone Script chains suppress the divine power within his dantian, preventing it from circulating.

Background

Tang San arrives in Tiandou City with Xiao Wu and attends Su Chen's storytelling at Listening Rain Pavilion. Although impressed by the scale of the worlds Su Chen describes, he initially concludes that the storyteller is a fraud and waits for the audience to expose him 1 2.

He recalls a previous life connected to the Tang Sect, whose internal arts and hidden weapons inform his understanding of combat. He considers Yu Xiaogang's martial-soul theories authoritative and repeatedly uses them to dispute Su Chen's accounts of physical cultivation 1 5 6.

Appearance

Tang San is introduced as a handsome young man with calculating eyes. He is later seen in simple blue robes, while subsequent defeats leave him heavily bandaged, disheveled, or disguised beneath a bamboo hat 1 17 31 48.

• Long-term companion of Xiao Wu, who wears a pink dress and scorpion-tail braid 1
• Often conceals weapons within his sleeves 11 46 48
• Sustains severe facial injuries after Su Chen strikes him, including a collapsed cheek and lost teeth 23 30
• His right arm is later crushed and deformed by Su Chen before being restored by Asura Divine Power 49 52

Personality

Tang San is analytical and deeply confident in his own knowledge. He assesses Su Chen's claims through Tang Sect manuals and Yu Xiaogang's theories, treating anything beyond those frameworks as impossible or fraudulent 1 5 6.

His loyalty to Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao is a defining motivation. He reacts violently to insults against Yu Xiaogang, and Tang Hao's public defeat and auction drive him toward increasingly desperate revenge against Su Chen 9 23 32 46.

He is also calculating and willing to provoke stronger figures into acting for him. He incites Zhao Wuji by claiming that Su Chen demeaned the Vajra Bear martial soul, then later tries to use a poisoned hidden weapon to assassinate Su Chen during a storytelling session 13 17 46 48.

Abilities & Skills

Tang Sect Techniques

Tang San retains techniques and knowledge from the Tang Sect.

• Mysterious Heaven Skill — Internal art used to circulate his power; Su Chen later destroys more than half of its accumulated internal energy 23 49.
• Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track — Movement technique used in attempts to escape Su Chen and the Green-Scaled Eagle Cub; it fails against their superior speed 23 55.
• Purple Demon Eye — Activated when Tang San confronts Su Chen in defense of Yu Xiaogang 23.
• His techniques are insufficient against Su Chen's physical power; Su Chen dismisses them as ineffective before striking him down 23.

Hidden Weapons and Poisons

Tang San specializes in mechanical hidden weapons and lethal Tang Sect poison.

• Carries a Silent Sleeve Arrow concealed in his sleeve 11.
• Assembles a black cylindrical hidden weapon from components stored in his Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges 46 47.
• Uses a colorless, odorless poison said to dissolve even a Title Douluo into blood within three steps after contact 46.
• Launches a poisoned needle at Su Chen from less than thirty paces away; Su Chen catches it between two fingers 48 49.
• Enhances a later poisoned attack with Asura Divine Power, but the Green-Scaled Eagle Cub destroys the attack and defeats him 54.

Clear Sky Hammer

Tang San wields the Clear Sky Hammer during his second attack on Su Chen.

• Uses it alongside Asura Divine Power against the Green-Scaled Eagle Cub 54.
• The cub tears through the Asura Divine Power on the hammer and disarms Tang San, breaking his left arm in the process 54.

Asura Divine Power

The Asura God chooses Tang San as an instrument against Su Chen.

• Restores his crushed right arm and crippled dantian 52.
• Grants him divine might strong enough to suppress nearby rogue cultivators and weaken the manifestations of Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Bone Douluo 54.
• Does not overcome the Green-Scaled Eagle Cub; its Bone Script seals the divine power in Tang San's dantian 55.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges — Storage item used to carry Tang Sect blueprints and weapon components 46.
• Silent Sleeve Arrow — Concealed sleeve-mounted hidden weapon 11.
• Mechanical hidden weapon — A black cylindrical launcher built from Tang Sect knowledge 47.
• Poisoned needles — Coated in highly corrosive Tang Sect poison 46 49.
• Clear Sky Hammer — Wielded in his Asura-empowered assault on Su Chen 54.

Relationships

• Xiao Wu — Companion who arrives in Tiandou City with him; Tang San initially fails to notice her distress over Su Chen's discussion of soul beasts 1 2.
• Yu Xiaogang — Teacher whom Tang San reveres as a father figure and whose theories he repeatedly defends; Yu Xiaogang assists in planning Tang San's assassination attempt on Su Chen 5 23 46 48.
• Tang Hao — Father. Tang San is devastated after Tang Hao is defeated, crippled, and auctioned by Su Chen, making revenge and rescue his primary goal 30 32 33 46.
• Flender — Shrek Academy dean who supports Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, though he fears the risks of Tang San's assassination plan 13 46 47.
• Zhao Wuji — Shrek Academy instructor whom Tang San manipulates into confronting Su Chen by attacking the honor of the Vajra Bear martial soul 13 17.
• Dugu Bo — Close friend who values Tang San's help in purging poison from his body and reacts furiously when Tang San is injured 23.
• Su Chen — Principal adversary. Tang San repeatedly challenges, schemes against, and attempts to assassinate him; Su Chen defeats and cripples Tang San on multiple occasions 5 17 23 49 54.
• Asura God — Grants Tang San divine power, restores his body, and commands him to kill Su Chen 52.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Opposition to the Storyteller

Tang San publicly disputes Su Chen's tales of the Perfect World's physical cultivation, using Yu Xiaogang's theories to argue that children cannot possess extraordinary physical strength without soul power. Su Chen's demonstrations repeatedly undermine Tang San's arguments and leave him increasingly enraged 5 6 7 9 11.

Manipulating Zhao Wuji

After Su Chen humiliates Yu Xiaogang, Tang San deliberately tells Zhao Wuji that Su Chen has insulted the Vajra Bear martial soul. He succeeds in provoking Zhao Wuji into challenging Su Chen, but Su Chen later exposes Tang San's intention to use Zhao Wuji as a weapon 13 17.

Defeat and Tang Hao's Auction

Tang San attacks Su Chen after Yu Xiaogang demands that Su Chen become his disciple. His hidden weapons and movement techniques fail, and Su Chen beats him before throwing him from the pavilion 23.

Tang Hao arrives to avenge his son but is defeated and crippled by Su Chen. Tang San witnesses his father being auctioned to Xue Qinghe and is expelled from Listening Rain Pavilion with the Shrek group 30 31 32 34.

First Assassination Attempt

Believing Su Chen relies on the defenses of Listening Rain Pavilion, Tang San prepares a physical hidden weapon and a lethal poison. Disguised among the audience, he fires a poisoned needle at Su Chen, who catches it effortlessly 46 47 48 49.

Su Chen crushes Tang San's right arm, damages his dantian and Mysterious Heaven Skill, then has him thrown out of the pavilion with Yu Xiaogang and Flender 49.

Asura God's Chosen Pawn

The Asura God restores Tang San and grants him Asura Divine Power and Will in exchange for his agreement to kill Su Chen 52. Tang San returns to Listening Rain Pavilion and launches another poisoned hidden-weapon assault, now empowered by divine force 54.

The Green-Scaled Eagle Cub intercepts the attack, disarms Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer, severely injures him, and suppresses his Asura Divine Power with Bone Script chains 54 55.

Notable Quotes

“A teacher for a day is a father for a lifetime!” 23

“If I do not avenge this, I, Tang San, am not worthy of being a son!” 46

“As long as I can kill him, Tang San is willing to pay any price!” 52