Tang San

Biodata

Cultivation

Power Progression

Personality

Tang San is disciplined, analytical, and intensely determined. He studies opponents’ patterns, calculates timing windows, and develops targeted countermeasures rather than relying solely on raw strength. After reviewing Su Chen’s formation, he identifies the likely soul-power burden of maintaining forty ten-thousand-year summons and builds Shrek’s initial strategy around extending the battle past that limit 32.

His loyalty to his teammates is both his defining strength and a vulnerability. Su Chen recognizes that Tang San will prioritize rescuing allies, then designs the team battle to force him into impossible choices 35 37. Even when Su Chen offers surrender, Tang San refuses to abandon Xiao Wu or accept defeat passively 38.

Defeat reinforces rather than breaks his resolve. After losing to Su Chen, he studies Beast-Soul Unity, seeks a detailed map of the Star Dou Great Forest’s core area, and commits himself to dangerous training for a rematch 50.

Tang San’s sense of gratitude is similarly absolute. Although Su Chen remains a rival, Tang San honors the debt incurred when Sky Abyss Academy shelters him and Xiao Wu from Spirit Hall, provides Su Chen with access to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and later assists the Abyss Court at the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well 79 111 112. Su Chen ultimately judges that Tang San’s debts of gratitude outweigh even his life 111.

After ascending as the Sea God, Tang San remains calculating enough to consider eliminating Su Chen before the Supreme Summoner can mobilize his forces. However, he abandons this course when he determines that the Myriad-Realm Summoning God Seal makes victory impossible and that attacking would endanger Xiao Wu and the other Shrek Monsters 173. In later years, he becomes more restrained and reflective, accepting that neither he nor the Divine Realm has the right to interfere with Su Chen’s chosen peaceful life 201 203.

Abilities & Skills

Blue Silver Grass

Tang San’s primary martial soul provides large-scale control, battlefield perception, binding, and projectile guidance.

• Spreads across large portions of the arena to establish a sensory and control network 47.
• Forms compressed chains capable of attacking from the ground, air, and flanks simultaneously 36.
• Creates Spider Web Binding to seal the sky and obstruct Purple Lightning Thunder Eagles 47.
• Directs shattered stone fragments as a guided projectile barrage when combined with the Haotian Hammer 38.
• Is vulnerable to Ling Shuang’s Heavenly Net Immortal Vine, which devours and restrains his grass within its plant domain 36 37.
• Uses dispersed Blue Silver Grass to impede pursuing Soul Sages while defending the unconscious Xiao Wu in the Star Dou Great Forest 76.

Blue Silver Emperor

Following his Sea God Island training, Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass evolves into the purified Blue Silver Emperor, greatly enhancing his perception, precision, and monitoring capacity.

• Forms a highly sensitive living sensory network capable of tracking twelve critical acupoints on a cultivator’s body at once 112.
• Allows him to issue precise, near-instantaneous instructions for redirecting violent medicinal energy through another person’s meridians 112.
• Creates a large protective sensory sphere around Su Chen while the latter absorbs the Primordial Ring-Marrow Lotus 114.
• Retains sufficient battlefield-control potential that Tang San considers it one of his principal answers to Su Chen’s legion, though he later recognizes that it cannot easily restrain twenty hundred-thousand-year Dark Golden Terrorclaw Bears 153.

Haotian Hammer

Tang San’s concealed second martial soul is an exceptionally destructive heavy weapon. Its use rapidly consumes his soul power and life force 38.

• Haotian Hammer: Shatter — Creates a five-meter crater and repels several of Su Chen’s summons with its shockwave 47.
• Earthshattering Hammer — Breaks Su Chen’s frontline formation through successive direct strikes 48.
• Grand Sumeru Hammer: Mountain-Splitting — Shatters the arena floor into a projectile storm directed by Blue Silver Grass; one fragment cuts Su Chen’s cheek 38.
• Its recoil fractures three fingers in Tang San’s right hand after the team battle 39.
• Extended use places severe strain on his body, especially when he activates both martial souls simultaneously 38.
• His first three Earthshattering Hammer strikes send Iron Wall flying, repel Shadow Leopards through hammer wind, and create a gap in Su Chen’s forty-beast formation 48.

Tang Sect Hidden Weapons

Tang San uses concealed weapons with precision, timing, and tactical intent.

• Sealing Pouch — Fires three sleeve arrows along converging arcs to test an opponent’s first reaction 47.
• Buddha’s Fury Tang Lotus — Miniature explosive weapons powerful enough to force a ten-thousand-year Fearclaw Bear back three steps 47.
• Prepared a specially tempered Blue Silver Grass fragment that interrupts Mo Qianye’s soul-power transmission for 0.3 seconds; Xiao Wu uses it during her match 46.
• His hidden-weapon handling is compromised when Chu Yao’s poison mist reduces his finger dexterity by forty percent 36.
• Possesses Tang Sect pharmacological knowledge advanced enough to improve the Abyss Court’s immortal-herb absorption plan by at least forty percent 111.

Xuantian Technique

A cultivation technique that enhances Tang San’s endurance, recovery, and internal energy control.

• Allows him to purge poison and continue fighting after his hands are impaired 36.
• Sustains him through Su Chen’s combined lightning, assassination, and frontal-pressure formation despite mounting wounds 48.
• Provides enough recovery for Tang San to expect partial healing of his fractured fingers within two days 40.
• Supports his precise control of internal energy during high-risk medicinal refinement and cultivation assistance 112.

Purple Demon Eyes

A spiritual technique used for perception and direct mental attacks.

• Helps Tang San maintain clarity while under severe pressure during the team battle 38.
• Mental Shock interrupts Su Chen’s control over his legion for 0.3 seconds, creating an opening through the Black Tortoise defense line 48.
• The attack triggers Su Chen’s King’s Will, which retaliates with a mental backlash that disrupts Tang San’s final hammer strike 48.
• Allows him to determine that Di Tian’s beast tide is ultimately advancing toward Spirit City rather than targeting Heaven Dou City itself 150.

Ghost Shadow Trace

A movement technique included among Tang San’s expected one-on-one arsenal against Su Chen 40.

Sea God Divine Authority

After completing the Sea God’s inheritance, Tang San gains divine authority over the ocean and wields the Seagod’s Trident.

• Sea God’s Light creates a protective zone capable of neutralizing Di Tian’s oppressive aura around Heaven Dou City 150.
• Unfixed Storm temporarily binds Xiong Jun, though the 470,000-year Dark Golden Terrorclaw Bear begins forcibly breaking the divine restraint 151.
• Upon ascension, his divine perception expands across the sea, allowing him to sense ocean currents, sea soul beasts, and minute disturbances in the water 173.
• Uses Golden Thirteen Halberds, Thirteenth Form: Halberd-Body Unity: Shift the Stars to destroy the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s Twin Soul Cores 172.
• His divine aura suppresses the martial souls and spirit rings of the Shrek Seven Monsters immediately after his ascension 173.

Divine Status

Tang San’s later path is tied to both the Sea God and the God of Asura.

• The God of Asura identifies Tang San as his mortal agent and seeks to accelerate his growth against Su Chen’s Supreme Summoner inheritance 141.
• Later assumes the dual divine positions of Sea God and God of Asura 201.
• Co-governs the reorganized Divine Realm alongside the Life God and God of Destruction 201.

Tournament Role

Preparing for Sky Abyss Academy

Tang San senses an instinctive chill upon seeing the name “Sky Abyss,” recognizing an approaching worthy opponent before meeting Su Chen directly 29. After Yu Xiaogang learns that all seven Sky Abyss members possess four ten-thousand-year spirit rings, Tang San responds by immediately beginning additional training 30.

He identifies Su Chen’s forty summons as a disciplined army rather than a disordered collection of soul beasts: Fearclaw Bears lead the front, Shadow Leopards secure the flanks, Thunder Eagles control the air, and Black Tortoises protect Su Chen 32. Tang San initially concludes that Su Chen’s likely weakness is the soul-power cost of sustaining the legion and proposes a prolonged-battle strategy 32.

After viewing Su Chen’s preliminary victories, Tang San concludes that ordinary Blue Silver Grass tactics are insufficient against forty ten-thousand-year soul beasts. He begins rebuilding Shrek’s strategy around wide-area poison and large-scale melee warfare 31.

Shrek Academy Team Battle

Tang San leads Shrek’s opening decapitation attempt against Su Chen, using Blue Silver Grass chains while Ning Rongrong buffs him and Dai Mubai 36. Su Chen’s team has anticipated the assault: Ling Shuang counters Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, Jiang Tieyi’s gravity field restricts his movement, and Chu Yao’s poison disrupts his hidden weapons 36.

As Shrek’s formation collapses, Su Chen gives Tang San the choice of watching his teammates fall or moving and leaving Xiao Wu under crushing gravity 37. Tang San responds by revealing the Haotian Hammer and eventually launches a field-wide stone barrage that wounds Su Chen’s cheek—the first visible tournament injury Su Chen suffers 38.

Sky Abyss Academy wins, but Tang San’s refusal to surrender and his final assault earn the crowd’s respect 38.

Individual Match Against Su Chen

Tang San enters the final individual match with his right hand still recovering from three fractured fingers 40. He begins by testing Su Chen with sleeve arrows, then uses Blue Silver Grass and Spider Web Binding to limit the Thunder Eagles’ movement 47.

Su Chen’s Shadow Leopards ambush Tang San through Shadow Fusion, injuring his left arm. Tang San abandons his Blue Silver Grass field and commits fully to the Haotian Hammer, forcing Su Chen to reveal all forty ten-thousand-year summons 47.

Tang San breaks the initial formation with three hammer strikes, survives Su Chen’s layered counterattack, and uses Purple Demon Eyes—Mental Shock to reach Su Chen directly 48. Su Chen’s King’s Will disrupts the finishing blow, after which Point-Blank Summoning breaks three of Tang San’s ribs 48.

Tang San loses the final clash but leaves the arena standing with the Haotian Hammer as support. When Su Chen promises a clearer victory next time, Tang San answers that the outcome may be different 48.

Post-Tournament Growth and Alliances

During Spirit Hall’s hunt for Xiao Wu, Tang San enters Su Chen’s defensive gorge formation with the unconscious Xiao Wu and joins Sky Abyss Academy in a temporary alliance for survival 73. After the crisis, he repays the assistance with a Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch token that enables Su Chen to seek resources from Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect 79.

Tang San later cooperates with Su Chen and the Abyss Court at the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well. He accepts herbs as repayment for the earlier rescue, provides the Tang Sect Secret Pharmacopoeia Fragment, and helps Chu Yao supervise the Abyss Court’s dangerous immortal-herb refinements 111 112.

After returning from Sea God Island at Level 87, Tang San proposes an alliance between the Tang Sect, Shrek Academy, and Abyss Court against Spirit Hall and the Holy Spirit Cult. Su Chen accepts only after Tang San recognizes the Abyss Court as an equal, independent force 135.

Tang San later asks Su Chen for assistance against the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, acknowledging that the Shrek Seven Monsters’ chance of victory alone is below ten percent 168. Su Chen’s twenty Ancestral Qilins suppress the whale king and leave Tang San to claim the decisive kill and its million-year spirit ring, directly enabling his Sea God ascension 172 173.

Relationships

• Su Chen — Initially a tactical rival and equal whose formation tactics and Beast-Soul Unity Tang San studies after defeat 32 39 48 50. Their relationship gradually becomes one of debt, pragmatic cooperation, and wary alliance after Su Chen’s group shelters Tang San and Xiao Wu from Spirit Hall 73 79 111. Though Tang San considers killing Su Chen immediately after becoming the Sea God, he ultimately accepts him as a rival rather than a mortal enemy 168 173. In later years, Tang San recognizes Su Chen’s superiority and choices, treating him with humility and mutual respect 201 203.
• Xiao Wu — Close companion, trusted combat partner, and later wife. Tang San refuses to abandon her during Sky Abyss’s team battle, protects her while Spirit Hall pursues them through the Star Dou Great Forest, and repeatedly places her safety above his own ambitions 38 76 173 201. Xiao Wu supports him during his recovery and executes a countermeasure he prepared for Mo Qianye 39 46.
• Yu Xiaogang — Teacher and strategist. Yu Xiaogang provides intelligence on Sky Abyss Academy and warns Tang San against reckless use of the Haotian Hammer 30 37. His theories are repeatedly challenged by Su Chen’s unprecedented martial soul, while Tang San’s tactical insight provides Shrek with its primary response 32 137.
• Tang Hao — Father and Clear Sky Hammer predecessor. Tang Hao’s confrontation with Su Chen begins because Su Chen defeated Tang San, but he later acknowledges the legitimacy of Su Chen’s victory and remains focused on securing the Divine Realm Fragment that Tang San needs 51 52 139 140.
• Dugu Bo — Elder ally and protector who openly identifies Tang San as his “little monster.” Dugu Bo places himself between Tang San and the Abyss Court upon their reunion at the Ice-Fire Yin Yang Well 111.
• Shrek Seven Monsters — Tang San serves as their central coordinator, controlling vision and shifting between offense and defense through Blue Silver Grass 30. His divine aura later overwhelms even his closest companions, underscoring the gulf created by his Sea God ascension 173.
• Ning Rongrong — Teammate whom Tang San reassures before her individual match, telling her to maintain her Seven Treasure Glazed Tower for as long as possible rather than demanding victory 40. She supports his efforts to restrain Xiong Jun by strengthening him while he maintains Unfixed Storm 151.
• Chu Yao — Initially suspicious of Tang San, but develops professional respect for him after his pharmacopoeia and Blue Silver Emperor monitoring method improve the Abyss Court’s refinement process 111 112.
• Tang Sect — Tang San is its founder and principal leader. He uses its hidden weapons, medicinal knowledge, and political connections to strengthen both Shrek and his later allies 79 111 203.

Notable Quotes

“He has laid out a killing chessboard. Then I’ll overturn the table.” 35

“Before absolute power, a plan is just a sheet of paper.” 37

“The next time we meet, I will not lose again.” 50

“We can be rivals. We can fight over the continent’s order. But we are not mortal enemies.” 168

“I have learned.” 203