Tang San

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Previous Life and Martial Soul Awakening

In his previous life, Tang San was a once-in-a-century Hidden Weapon prodigy of the Bashu Tang Sect. He arrives on the Douluo Continent carrying the secret arts of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, giving him an adult’s experience beneath the appearance of a village child 1 2.

His Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power initially reinforce his belief that he is destined to lead the age. Su Chen’s awakening overturns that confidence: the Chaos Ancestral Dragon suppresses both of Tang San’s Martial Souls and disrupts his internal energy. Old Jack then awards Holy Soul Village’s sole work-study place to Su Chen, promising to seek another place for Tang San 1 2.

Tang San reveals the Clear Sky Hammer to his father, Tang Hao. After hearing about Su Chen’s god-level Martial Soul and innate level-twenty power, Tang Hao warns him not to reveal his second Martial Soul to Su Chen or become his enemy without certainty 3.

Nuoding Academy and the Failed First-Ring Hunt

At Nuoding Academy, Yu Xiaogang deduces that Tang San possesses Twin Martial Souls from his awakening certificate. Impressed by this reasoning, Tang San accepts him as his teacher 4 7.

Tang San’s first confrontation with Su Chen begins when he assumes Xiao Wu was forced to acknowledge Su Chen as her brother. Xiao Wu rejects his intervention, and his ensuing challenge ends with Su Chen defeating his combined Tang Sect techniques in one palm strike. His right arm is badly injured, and he seeks Yu Xiaogang’s support 7 8 9.

Su Chen’s public criticism of Yu Xiaogang’s theories plants doubts about whether Tang San is merely a test subject. Nevertheless, Tang San accompanies his teacher into the Soul Hunting Forest, hoping a Mandala Snake ring will unlock Mysterious Heaven Skill’s first bottleneck and improve his injured body 10 12.

The hunt becomes disastrous when Yu Xiaogang abandons him before the Dark-Armored Bloodhorn Dragon. Tang San’s footwork, Blue Silver Grass, and steel Hidden Weapons fail to stop the beast; Su Chen intervenes and saves him. Tang San then watches Su Chen absorb the dragon’s three-thousand-year ring and take the four-hundred-year Mandala Snake intended for him 14 15 16 17.

Gravely wounded and unable to leave alone, Tang San conceals his hatred for Yu Xiaogang. He accepts a ten-year Deadwood Vine ring as an emergency measure. Although it raises him to level eleven and stabilizes his injuries, it degrades his Blue Silver Grass rather than providing the venomous, durable control ability he wanted 18.

Six Years of Revenge Preparations

Tang San’s withered Martial Soul draws public laughter at Nuoding Academy. He blames both Su Chen’s seizure of his opportunity and Yu Xiaogang’s instruction, resolving to overcome them through mechanical Hidden Weapons 20.

Tang Hao secretly teaches him the force-generation principles behind the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and leaves money and a Bone-Setting and Meridian-Mending remedy. With the improved forging method, Tang San completes a refined-iron Sleeve Arrow treated with Mandala Snake venom 23.

Six years later, Tang San ambushes Su Chen with poisoned bolts. His right arm has been barely reattached and still aches in rainy weather. Su Chen defeats him again, shattering his left arm and injuring his chest. Yu Xiaogang directs him toward Shrek Academy in Suotuo City as a possible source of protection and recovery 24 25.

Shrek Team and the Arena Defeat

Tang San reaches Shrek’s recruitment site in a wheelchair. During Su Chen’s confrontation with Zhao Wuji, he secretly launches poisoned needles at Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu. Su Chen destroys the needles and strikes him down; Zhao Wuji condemns the attack, while Flender orders emergency treatment because of his ties to Yu Xiaogang 30 31.

As a Shrek Team tactician, Tang San plans to combine Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun’s frontal assaults with Blue Silver Grass interference. Dai Mubai ignores the formation and charges alone, leaving Tang San unable to maintain the plan 35.

After his teammates fall, Tang San unleashes poisoned crossbows and hand-thrown weapons at Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong. Su Chen retaliates with Dragon Emperor fist intent and Pure Yang Dragon Aura, crippling his hands and destroying his primary meridians. Tang San is subsequently permanently removed from the Soto Great Soul Arena’s rolls 36 38.

Star Dou Great Forest and the Dark Mutation

Yu Xiaogang proposes following Su Chen into the Star Dou Great Forest to seize a mutated soul beast capable of reshaping meridians. Tang San travels with the battered Shrek group, his limp forearms splinted against his chest 38 39.

A two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider offers another hoped-for recovery opportunity. Tang San fires his remaining Godly Zhuge Crossbow at its vulnerable underside, but Su Chen’s intervention destroys the bolts. Seeing the spider’s eight external soul bones intensifies Tang San’s conviction that another opportunity meant for him has been taken 43.

Following further devastation, Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass undergoes a Dark Devouring Mutation. Tang Hao abandons the prospect of a righteous cultivation path for his son and carries him away toward Slaughter City 45 46.

Slaughter City and Blood-Devouring Cultivation

In Slaughter City, Tang San fights convicts in a blood-filled deathmatch pit while Tang Hao watches without intervening. Blade wounds distort his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and an axe strike and kick leave him close to death. His determination to kill Su Chen and take Xiao Wu back drives him to abandon normal Mysterious Heaven Skill circulation and forcibly reverse his sea of qi 59.

This self-mutilating surge combines residual Man Faced Demon Spider venom, Tang Sect poisons, and Slaughter City’s resentment within his mutated Martial Soul. Black vines emerge through his forearm wounds and pierce three convicts, draining their blood, Soul Power, and vital essence. The resulting energy pushes him past the rank-thirty threshold, while the victims’ resentful souls and blood-fiend aura form a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring threaded with blood 59.

Afterward, Tang San drinks a discarded cup of Bloody Mary despite its poisoned human-blood contents. His remaining emotional warmth disappears beneath his desire for revenge. Over the following months, he continues devouring death-row prisoners and reaches level forty-three 59 85.

While he remains in Slaughter City, Su Chen claims the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s immortal-herb fortune. The narration contrasts this with the original story, in which Tang San obtained the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and other herbs that strengthened the Shrek Seven Devils 70.

Meridian Gate Battle and Critical Defeat

Tang San returns alongside Tang Hao at Meridian Gate, blocking Su Chen and Qian Renxue’s escape. His appearance and Martial Soul have become overtly corrupted, and he threatens to drain Su Chen’s blood and turn the women around him into blood slaves. Before attacking, he drains four allied Heaven Dou imperial guard officers to fuel his fourth Soul Skill, Hundred Ghosts Heart-Devouring Blood Net 85.

He conceals thirty-six blood-poisoned Bone-Piercing Needles within the net using Bat Wing Reincarnation. Su Chen’s Pure Yang Ancestral Dragon True Fire destroys the net, and his counterattack shatters Tang San’s vine armor. Tang San responds by impaling and devouring over a hundred nearby rebel soldiers, advancing to level fifty-one and exposing himself publicly as an Evil Soul Master. Tang Hao defends his actions and holds off Chen Xin, Yue Guan, and Dugu Bo 86.

Tang San then manifests the Blood-Colored Clear Sky Hammer and uses both Martial Souls at once. He confines the battlefield with a vast vine cage, continually drains surviving soldiers to replenish himself, and builds the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to its sixty-fourth strike. The exchange injures Su Chen and cracks two of his Dragon Emperor Spears, but its recoil breaks Tang San’s left arm and knocks the hammer from his hand. Tang San’s actual objective is to use the final collision as bait to close to point-blank range 87.

For his final attack, Tang San reverses his Mysterious Heaven Evil Skill, ruptures three major heart meridians, concentrates his essence, qi, and spirit into two fingers, and detonates the surrounding vines. The confrontation leaves Su Chen grievously wounded and exhausted, but Tang San is critically defeated: ice-fire bone spears pierce both shoulder blades and pin him to a ruined wall, his chest reduced to a charred and frozen bloody crater. Seeing his son near death, Tang Hao begins detonating his own Soul Rings through the Great Sumeru Hammer’s Ring Detonation technique to attack Su Chen 88.

Appearance

Tang San first appears as an ordinary farm boy with black hair and a delicate face. Repeated injuries and prolonged resentment leave him gaunt, disheveled, and frequently bloodstained 1 7 24 36.

• Eyes: Often bloodshot after the time skip; Purple Demon Eye produces a faint purple mist during use 13 24 30.
• Clothing: Arrives at Dorm Seven carrying a shabby bundle; later wears loose sleeves that conceal weapons and a large gray cloak over his splinted arms 7 24 39.
• Injuries: Recurrent arm fractures, chest trauma, and damaged meridians require slings, splints, and wheelchair transport 12 25 30 39.
• Post-Slaughter City appearance: His face becomes corpse-pale, his eye sockets sunken, and his eyes entirely dark blood-red. Black-barbed vines drip foul black-red slime as they emerge through the blood vessels and gaps between the bones of his torn arms 85.
• Meridian Gate injuries: Simultaneous Martial Soul use and repeated hammer recoil expose the bones of his left arm and cause bleeding from his facial orifices. His final defeat leaves both shoulders impaled and his chest caved in, burned, and frozen 87 88.

Personality

Tang San is initially controlled, wary, and adept at hiding his thoughts behind a polite child’s demeanor. His experience across two lives makes him attentive to threats, while his Tang Sect training encourages him to judge dangerous or obstructive people as legitimate targets for killing 1 2 3.

His confidence rests heavily on his secret arts, Twin Martial Souls, and belief in his exceptional destiny. Su Chen’s repeated victories turn that confidence into jealousy and possessiveness, particularly over Xiao Wu, whose affection he regards as something that should have belonged to him 2 7 24 30.

He can suppress even murderous resentment when survival requires it. After recognizing Yu Xiaogang’s abandonment, he feigns gratitude because he cannot escape the forest alone. Later defeats erode this restraint: he attacks unprepared girls with lethal weapons and disregards arena rules in pursuit of revenge 18 31 36.

Slaughter City turns his willingness to sacrifice others into a method of cultivation. He drains living people to survive and advance, eventually attacking allied officers and soldiers without distinction. His revenge also becomes explicitly coercive, extending to threats of enslaving the women around Su Chen 59 85 86.

Despite his increasingly frenzied behavior, Tang San retains the ability to conceal tactical intentions. His sixty-four-strike hammer assault serves as a costly feint to bring him close enough for a final killing move. He is willing to rupture his own heart meridians to obtain the power needed for that attack 87 88.

Abilities & Skills

Blue Silver Grass

Tang San’s right-hand Martial Soul begins as a pale-blue sprig and can produce vines for binding 1 15.

• Before receiving a Soul Ring, its vines burn immediately against the Bloodhorn Dragon’s flames 15.
• The Deadwood Vine ring gives it yellow-brown streaks and brittle, decaying leaves that can snap in a breeze 18 20.
• He later uses its first Soul Skill to attempt support in a team battle; the skill’s name is not given 35.
• Its Dark Devouring Mutation produces black blades with sinister barbs and flesh-and-blood-hungry vitality; its first successful devouring application is shown in Slaughter City 45 59.
• Dark Bloodsucking Vines: Emerge through his wounded flesh and later through his arms and back. They pierce victims and drain blood, Soul Power, and vital essence, leaving desiccated corpses 59 85 86.
• Blood-devouring advancement: Stolen blood energy breaks cultivation bottlenecks. Resentful souls and blood-fiend aura can condense into a Soul Ring, as demonstrated after he drains three convicts 59.
• Fourth Soul Skill — Hundred Ghosts Heart-Devouring Blood Net: Produces a hundred-foot-wide poisonous net containing resentful souls and black Qi. He fuels its Meridian Gate use with four Soul Ancestors’ blood essence and conceals a Hidden Weapon attack within it 85 86.
• Vine armor: Forms a defensive covering that Su Chen’s pure yang attack shatters 86.
• Large-scale confinement: Weaves a thousand-foot-wide cage of black-red thorns to prevent Su Chen from retreating while he attacks with the Clear Sky Hammer 87.
• Limitations: Su Chen’s Pure Yang Ancestral Dragon True Fire directly counters the vines’ blood poison and resentful-soul power. Their growth and use can tear apart Tang San’s own flesh, sinews, and meridians 85 86.
• Self-detonation: Detonates hundreds of surrounding vines as part of his final point-blank attack at Meridian Gate 88.

Clear Sky Hammer

His concealed left-hand Martial Soul is a heavy black hammer inherited from Tang Hao’s lineage 1 3.

• Its discovery confirms his rare Twin Martial Souls 3.
• Tang Hao instructs him to keep it hidden from Su Chen 3.
• Tang San treats it as a possible means of compensating for his damaged Blue Silver Grass 18.
• Blood-Colored Clear Sky Hammer: Its later form bears blood-colored demonic patterns and releases blood lightning and destructive pressure. It carries a black Ten Thousand Year Ferocious Beast Soul Ring 86 87.
• Simultaneous Twin Martial Soul use: Wields the hammer in his left hand while controlling Dark Bloodsucking Vines with his right. Devoured human blood forcibly suppresses the conflict between the two Martial Souls, but simultaneous use places a severe burden on his body 87.

Mysterious Heaven Skill

The Tang Sect’s internal cultivation method supplies the energy behind his movement, hand techniques, and Hidden Weapons 7 13 15.

• Its internal breathing method helps him suppress injury pain 12.
• His first Soul Ring breaks its initial bottleneck 18.
• Su Chen’s dragon pressure repeatedly disrupts or stops its circulation; damaged meridians later severely restrict its use 1 13 23 30.
• In Slaughter City, he abandons its normal circulation and reverses his sea of qi to force a surge of power, combining residual venom, hidden poisons, and evil resentment within his mutated Martial Soul 59.
• By the Meridian Gate battle, his internal method is called Mysterious Heaven Evil Skill. He reverses it and ruptures three major heart meridians to release a final surge of Internal Power for a two-finger attack 88.

Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track

A movement art using unpredictable steps, rapid repositioning, and afterimages 7 8.

• Allows him to reach an opponent’s blind spot and evade beast attacks 8 15.
• Su Chen’s Divine Eyes read its movements, while Dragon Emperor fist intent ultimately prevents him from dodging 8 36.
• Deep blade wounds beneath his left ribs distort his footwork during a Slaughter City deathmatch 59.

Mysterious Jade Hand

A hand technique that coats his palms with a lustrous, jade-like sheen for close combat 7.

• Used to strike vulnerable points in combination with footwork and force manipulation 7.
• Its protection fails against Su Chen’s palm strike and later punch, resulting in severe hand and arm injuries 8 25.
• During his final Meridian Gate attack, his raised right hand is ghastly jade-white and covered with black-purple corpse spots as he gathers power into his index and middle fingers 88.

Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon

A force-manipulation technique intended to borrow an opponent’s strength and disturb their balance 7.

• Forms part of his planned one-move attack against Su Chen’s ribs 7.
• Fails to overcome Su Chen’s physique in both dormitory and alley confrontations 8 25.

Purple Demon Eye

An ocular art that sharpens his perception in dim surroundings 13.

• At full effort, he distinguishes tiny leaf movements and locates danger near a dead tree in the Soul Hunting Forest 13.

Hidden Weapons and Poison Knowledge

Tang San retains the Tang Sect’s Hidden Weapon techniques and Poison Classics 2 43.

• Uses poisoned needles, nails, arrows, flying knives, and mechanical crossbows 13 15 23 36.
• Rainstorm Pierces the Heart: Combines three steel needles and six short arrows in a concentrated attack 15.
• Myriad Blossoms Rain: Combines two Godly Zhuge Crossbows with numerous hand-thrown weapons into a broad poisoned barrage 36.
• Ordinary steel projectiles fail against the Bloodhorn Dragon’s defenses; Su Chen’s dragon aura destroys later attacks 15 31 43.
• Bat Wing Reincarnation: Sends thirty-six Bone-Piercing Needles along treacherous curved trajectories, sealing escape routes. At Meridian Gate, the needles are steeped in Slaughter City’s bone-rotting blood poison and concealed beneath his blood net 85 86.

Forging

His previous-life expertise lets him manufacture mechanical Hidden Weapons despite limited resources 23.

• Tang Hao teaches him to drive force from the calves, rotate through the waist, and borrow force 23.
• These principles increase his forging speed severalfold while reducing strain on his depleted vitality 23.
• He is not taught the full eighty-one-strike hammer sequence in this encounter 23.

Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer

Tang San later demonstrates the Clear Sky Sect’s compounding hammer technique in combat, also called the Chaotic Cloak in the account 87.

• Borrows the recoil of each impact to generate the next strike, increasing force through successive rotations 87.
• Reaches the sixty-fourth strike against Su Chen while replenishing himself through the vines’ continual blood drainage 87.
• The accumulated strikes injure Su Chen’s hands and arms, and the final collision cracks two thirty-thousand-year Dragon Emperor Spears. Tang San suffers greater recoil damage, including a broken left arm and the loss of his grip on the hammer 87.
• Uses the sixty-fourth strike as bait to knock the spears aside and enter point-blank range for a concealed follow-up attack 87.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Sleeve Arrow — Concealed mechanical launcher; his refined-iron version holds three bolts treated with Mandala Snake venom 23 24.
• Godly Zhuge Crossbow — Fires sixteen refined-iron bolts; used in the arena barrage and against the Man Faced Demon Spider 36 43.
• Hand-thrown Hidden Weapons — Bone-Piercing Nails, steel needles, Shadowing Sand needles, and flying knives, frequently coated with poison 13 36.
• Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night / imitation pouch — Waist-mounted equipment used to carry Hidden Weapons. Earlier passages call it an imitation pouch; it is reported destroyed after the arena defeat, though a later passage again places a crossbow inside it 14 35 38 43.
• Bone-Setting and Meridian-Mending remedy — Medicine left by Tang Hao alongside a bag of Gold Soul Coins 23.
• Realgar powder — Carries a packet while searching the Soul Hunting Forest 13.
• Blood-poisoned Bone-Piercing Needles — Thirty-six pitch-black needles steeped in Slaughter City’s bone-rotting blood poison, used for Bat Wing Reincarnation at Meridian Gate 86.
• Bloody Mary — Drinks a discarded cup of poisoned human blood after his Slaughter City breakthrough 59.

Relationships

• Tang Hao — Father and protector. Warns him about Su Chen, teaches forging principles, punishes Yu Xiaogang for ruining his foundation, and ultimately takes him toward Slaughter City. There, he watches Tang San’s deathmatch without intervening and recognizes his blood-devouring ring formation. He later openly defends his son’s slaughter of soldiers and begins Ring Detonation after Tang San is critically wounded at Meridian Gate 3 22 23 45 59 86 88.
• Ah Yin — Mother. Tang Hao associates Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass with her and states that she gave her life to save their child 3 22.
• Yu Xiaogang — Teacher whom Tang San initially reveres. Abandonment and the disastrous first ring turn that respect into concealed killing intent, although Tang San continues relying on him for survival and recovery plans 7 18 25 38.
• Su Chen — Fellow villager and principal enemy. Repeatedly defeats him and takes opportunities identified as belonging to his destiny; also saves him from the Bloodhorn Dragon. Tang San’s subsequent blood-devouring cultivation remains driven by revenge against him. Their Meridian Gate battle ends with Tang San pinned to a ruined wall and near death 1 15 17 43 59 85 88.
• Xiao Wu — Object of his unreciprocated attachment. Rejects his attempted intervention, remains devoted to Su Chen, and eventually becomes a target of his poisoned attacks. Even in Slaughter City, Tang San treats taking her back as a reason to survive 7 31 36 59.
• Old Jack — Village elder. Promises to seek an alternative work-study place after awarding the village’s sole place to Su Chen 2.
• Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun — Shrek teammates assigned frontal assault roles in Tang San’s arena strategy; Dai Mubai’s premature charge breaks the formation 35.
• Flender — Shrek dean and Yu Xiaogang’s sworn brother. Arranges emergency treatment despite Tang San’s public misconduct 25 31.
• Zhao Wuji — Shrek Soul Saint who condemns Tang San’s recruitment-site sneak attack as a disgrace 31.
• Heaven Dou imperial guards and rebel soldiers — Fight on the same side as Tang San at Meridian Gate, but become fuel for his cultivation and attacks. He drains four Soul Ancestor officers, then over a hundred soldiers, and continues feeding on survivors during his hammer assault 85 86 87.
• Chen Xin, Yue Guan, and Dugu Bo — Witness his mass blood-devouring at Meridian Gate and move against him in outrage; Tang Hao intercepts them 86.

Destiny Losses

The Destiny Plunder System identifies Tang San as the Child of Destiny and rewards Su Chen for disrupting his opportunities and relationships 1 6 17.

Notable Quotes

“No matter what lies ahead, the Tang Sect Secret Arts will be second to none in this world.” 7

“Yu Xiaogang, you have given me reason to kill you!!” 18

“Why... Why did you take everything from me?!” 36

“Suck... them dry!!” 59

“Aaargh!! Su Chen! I’ll cut you into a thousand pieces, drain your blood, and turn every woman around you into my blood slave!!” 85

“Su Chen... if the King of Hell calls for your death at the third watch, who would dare keep you alive until the fifth!” 88

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