Tang San

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Tang San
Alias(es)	Sea God Tang San; Old Tang; Third Brother
Original Name	小三
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Shrek Academy; Tang Sect
Occupation/Role	Control-system Soul Master; Twin Martial Souls holder; Tang Sect disciple and prospective founder; Son of Destiny
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 8 (mentioned)

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Third Soul Ring attempt	43	Attempted to absorb a 3,000-year soul beast as his third Soul Ring; the attempt failed and caused his Soul Power to fall.
Soul Ancestor, Rank 43	202	Declared himself a Rank 43 control-system Soul Master. His Blue Silver Grass carried four rings: yellow, yellow, purple, and a black Ten-thousand Year ring.
Fourth Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring	203	Absorbed a 10,091-year Lone Bamboo ring after following Yu Xiaogang's theory. It granted the unusual fourth skill, Blue Silver Pole Vault.
Rank 47	249	Forcefully consumed multiple pills and circulated the Mysterious Heaven Skill to offset their side effects, raising his Soul Power to Rank 47 before Tang Hao stopped him.
Clear Sky Hammer: three Soul Rings	269	With Tang Hao's help, obtained 8,000-year, 9,000-year, and 15,000-year rings for the Clear Sky Hammer.
Rank 49	269	Reached Rank 49 after attaching the three Clear Sky Hammer Soul Rings.

Background

Tang San is a reincarnator and Tang Sect disciple who regards himself as responsible for reviving the Tang Sect in the Douluo Continent. He possesses Twin Martial Souls—Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer—and is the son of Tang Hao, the Clear Sky Douluo 48 202.

His Blue Silver Grass had not awakened its Blue Silver Emperor bloodline. This left his first martial soul vulnerable to criticism despite his Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls talent 48. His early attempt to force a 3,000-year third Soul Ring failed, reducing his Soul Power and making him suspect that he had been manipulated 43.

A future divine-soul manifestation of Tang San, known as Old Tang or Sea God Tang San, resides in Tang Wuling's Sea of Consciousness. This manifestation identifies Tang Wuling as his daughter, sealed the Golden Dragon King power within her behind eighteen layers, and selected Lin Nuo as a successor for future conflict with the Abyss Plane 68 134.

Appearance

Tang San is described as an ordinary-looking, unremarkable blue-haired youth 234 243.

• Blue hair.
• Ordinary, unremarkable appearance.
• Often carries Tang Sect tools and a Storage Soul Tool.
• Uses the imposing Clear Sky Hammer only after being pushed into a disadvantage.

Personality

Tang San is intensely proud of his reincarnator identity, Twin Martial Souls, Tang Sect inheritance, and Clear Sky Hammer lineage. Being dismissed as weak or ordinary provokes him sharply, leading him to issue challenges or pursue dangerous methods to prove himself 48 202 265.

He is determined and protective of those he considers important, particularly Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, his teacher Yu Xiaogang, and his father Tang Hao. However, this protectiveness often becomes impulsiveness: he secretly investigates guarded territory, jumps into confrontations without understanding the circumstances, and attempts to force his cultivation through pills 128 201 249.

His setbacks against Lin Nuo and Tang Wuling leave him deeply insecure, but he repeatedly responds by pursuing greater power and revenge rather than accepting defeat 234 249 265.

Abilities & Skills

Blue Silver Grass

Tang San's primary martial soul is Blue Silver Grass. Although he recognizes it as unusual after successfully absorbing a Ten-thousand Year ring, its Blue Silver Emperor bloodline remains unawakened during this period 48 203.

• First Soul Skill: Blue Silver Entanglement — summons rapidly growing Blue Silver Grass vines to bind targets 202 258.
• Third Soul Skill: Spider Web Restraint — attempts to restrict opponents with a web-like formation 202.
• Fourth Soul Skill: Blue Silver Pole Vault — transforms Blue Silver Grass into an elastic bamboo-like pole for mobility and blunt attacks 202 203.
• His fourth ring came from a 10,091-year Lone Bamboo, giving the skill its bamboo-pole form 203.
• Tang Wuling was able to break or evade his Blue Silver Grass techniques through raw physical strength alone 259.

Clear Sky Hammer

Tang San's second martial soul is the Clear Sky Hammer, a powerful tool-type martial soul inherited from Tang Hao 48 259.

• Revealed publicly during his tournament battle with Tang Wuling 259.
• Uses the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique after Tang Hao's training 260.
• Later gained three Soul Rings: 8,000-year, 9,000-year, and 15,000-year 269.
• Despite his confidence in it, the Clear Sky Hammer was defeated by Tang Wuling's ordinary forging hammer 260.

Tang Sect Techniques

Tang San retains and uses several Tang Sect arts from his previous life.

• Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track — high-speed movement technique used for evasion, infiltration, and escape 128 239.
• Purple Demon Eye — visual technique used to search for hidden enemies 128.
• Mysterious Heaven Skill — internal cultivation technique; Tang San uses it to mitigate the harmful effects of medicinal pills 249.
• Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon — manipulates nearby objects, including broken fragments of his Blue Silver Pole, as projectile attacks 259.
• Concealment Technique — used alongside Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track when he secretly approached Tang Wuling's hotel room 239.

Sea God Divine Soul

The Sea God manifestation of Tang San can intervene through Tang Wuling's Sea of Consciousness.

• Suppressed the unsealing Golden Dragon King bloodline when Tang Wuling's breakthrough endangered her life 68.
• Left a Thought Imprint while attempting to influence and guide Tang Wuling; Lin Nuo's pre-existing imprint interfered with the intended result 69 70.
• Set eighteen seals on Tang Wuling's internal power and instructed Lin Nuo to release the sixth seal when she reaches Soul Ancestor rank 134.
• Claims to possess only a limited number of opportunities to intervene directly 64 134.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Twenty-Four Bridge Moonlit Jade — Storage Soul Tool used to carry detoxifying herbs and other supplies 128.
• Crossbow — Tang Sect weapon carried during his confrontation with Lin Yan 48.
• Medicinal pills — made using incomplete herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; Tang San uses them to force rapid Soul Power growth 249.
• Notebook of Soul Ring methods — contains methods for Ten-thousand Year Soul Ring absorption and later notes on attaching rings to a second martial soul 265.

Relationships

• Tang Hao — father and the Clear Sky Douluo. Tang Hao stops Tang San from damaging himself through reckless cultivation, trains him in the Clear Sky Hammer, and helps him obtain Soul Rings for it 249 269.
• Xiao Wu — close companion and romantic partner. Tang San reacts violently when Tang Wuling severely injures her, while Tang Hao approves their relationship 249 258.
• Yu Xiaogang — teacher. Tang San trusts his theories deeply, including the dangerous method that led to his Ten-thousand Year Lone Bamboo ring 155 203.
• Tang Wuling — Tang San's future daughter according to his divine soul, though the younger Tang San does not recognize her and instead wrongly suspects she is Tang Hao's illegitimate child 134 239 240.
• Lin Nuo — rival and adversary. Lin Nuo defeats Tang San without using soul skills, protects Tang Wuling from him, and is selected by Tang San's divine soul as a successor 203 134 240.
• Lin Tian and Lin Yan — hostile figures who monitor Tang San, thwart his search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and manipulate circumstances around his Soul Ring cultivation 128 155.
• Ning Rongrong — a person Tang San considers important to his future plans for establishing the Tang Sect 201.
• Ning Fengzhi — sect master who attempts to use Tang San's identity and strength to resolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's conflict with Lin Nuo 201 202.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Shrek Academy and the Failed Soul Ring Attempt

Tang San's attempt to absorb a 3,000-year soul beast as his third ring fails, lowering his Soul Power. Yu Xiaogang concludes that the event was likely caused by deception or illusion, while Tang San becomes furious at the perceived attempt to damage his cultivation path 43.

Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well

Believing a hidden herb garden will let his strength rise rapidly, Tang San infiltrates the area at night. Lin Tian intercepts him with Soul Power arrows, wounds him in the back, and forces him to retreat 128. Tang San later reaches the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well only to discover that its Immortal Herbs have already been removed 154 155.

Ten-thousand Year Lone Bamboo Ring

Yu Xiaogang receives a manipulated notebook containing a method for absorbing a Ten-thousand Year Soul Ring and persuades Tang San to attempt it 155 156. Tang San successfully absorbs a 10,091-year Lone Bamboo ring, but receives Blue Silver Pole Vault rather than a devastating combat skill 203.

Duel with Lin Nuo

At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Tang San challenges Lin Nuo while at Rank 43. His Blue Silver Entanglement and Spider Web Restraint are interrupted or bypassed, and Lin Nuo overwhelms him using physical attacks alone 202 203.

Tang Wuling Investigation and Wager

Tang San feels an inexplicable familial familiarity toward Tang Wuling and secretly investigates her hotel room. After mistakenly suspecting that Tang Hao and Lang Yue are her parents, he accepts Lin Nuo's wager that her martial soul will be Blue Silver Grass or the Clear Sky Hammer 239 240.

Tang Wuling instead reveals the Golden Dragon King martial soul. Tang San loses the wager and publicly admits that he and Shrek Academy are “voyeurs,” unaware that Zheng Yiran recorded the statement 240. The recording later spreads online, contributing to public mockery of Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect 243 244.

Soul Master Tournament

After Tang Wuling defeats Xiao Wu, Tang San challenges her in anger. His Blue Silver Grass skills and Blue Silver Pole Vault prove ineffective against her physical power, forcing him to reveal the Clear Sky Hammer 258 259. Even with the hammer and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique, he loses when Tang Wuling counters him with an ordinary forging hammer 260.

Clear Sky Hammer Soul Ring Training

Humiliated by his defeat, Tang San resolves to attach Soul Rings to the Clear Sky Hammer. Tang Hao permits the training despite the incomplete notes involved, and later helps him acquire three rings, bringing him to Rank 49 265 269.

Notable Quotes

“I, Tang San, challenge you!” 202

“Touch my reverse scale, and you must die!” 258

“I, Tang San, admit that I am a perverted voyeur. Everyone in Shrek Academy is just like me, all voyeurs.” 240

Trivia

• Tang San's Ten-thousand Year fourth Soul Ring produces Blue Silver Pole Vault, a mobility skill centered on a bamboo-like Blue Silver pole rather than a direct offensive ability 202 203.
• His use of Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track in the recorded wager incident becomes a key reason viewers consider the footage authentic 243.
• The future Tang Sect's public denial that the recorded Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track is genuine begins to weaken Sea God Tang San's faith power 244.