Dong Santong

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Dong Santong (董三通)
Alias(es)	Fatty Dong; Fatty; Child of Light. Uses “Demon-Slaying Envoy” as a false identity and later impersonates the Earth Spirit Overlord 486 1254 2207 2289.
Species/Race	Initially regarded as a Human Race cultivator; later identified as a member of the Immortal Race 1925 2207.
Gender	Male 146.
Affiliation	Heavenly Dao Sect; Human Race Alliance; Immortal Race 146 1925 2207.
Occupation/Role	Cultivator; Buddha Xuanmen’s only disciple; Immortal Race’s Child of Light. Former brothel errand boy; also described as king of the Human Realm 146 1224 1565 2266.
Spiritual Root	Extremely rare mutated Light Spiritual Root, later called a Light Immortal Root 151 506 1925.
Highest Documented Realm	Immortal Tribulation Stage 2264 2267.
Status	Alive; regains his original body after Fu Yuchen’s possession and later battles White Ghost True Devil 2289 2410.
First Appearance	Chapter 146, “Dong Santong” 146.

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
True Cultivation Stage — Great Perfection	146 151	Reached this realm in just over two years after becoming Buddha Xuanmen’s disciple. Defeated Huang Hua without using a dharma artifact; his Core Condensation breakthrough was described as imminent.
Golden Core Stage	537 538	His realm had stabilized. Even Iron Lady and Du Chengfeng together could not defeat him in sparring; his divine abilities were comparable to those of a late Golden Core cultivator.
Golden Core Stage — Fifth Layer	704	Reached the fifth layer during six years of cultivation, overtaking Li Xiaoya’s fourth-layer cultivation.
Nascent Soul Realm — Late Stage, Eighth Layer	1004	Advanced during decades of secluded training. Added a supple-body tempering art to his light techniques, making him considerably harder to defeat.
Spirit Communion Stage	1225	Broke through while trapped in white-bird form in a cage filled with light-attribute spiritual qi.
Spirit Communion Stage — Late Stage, Great Perfection	1224 1225	Continued cultivating during several hundred years of confinement before regaining human form and returning to the Human Realm.
Great Void Stage	1254	Advanced years before his public appearance using a method supplied by the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma. Li Xiaoya concealed the breakthrough’s celestial signs; only Li, Qianshan, and Xuanmen initially knew.
Great Void Stage — Middle Stage	1565	Explicitly identified at this level during his battle with the Upper Realm reception envoys.
Heaven-and-Earth Realm	1925	Retrospectively identified at this realm during his decades of attacks on Dragon cultivators in the Race Battlefield.
Heaven-and-Earth Realm — Great Perfection	1925	Reached great perfection during centuries of raids on the Ancient Dragon Continent. Killed Elder Black Dragon’s Mighty One Stage grandson before disappearing.
Mighty One Stage — Late Stage, Peak / Great Perfection	2207	Reunited with Li Xiaoya after a thousand years spent confined to cultivation and study under the Immortal Race.
Immortal Tribulation Stage	2264 2267	Explicitly confirmed during Fu Yuchen’s possession attempt and Dong’s subsequent escape. The breakthrough itself is not described.

Background / History

Dong Santong worked as an errand boy in a brothel before Buddha Xuanmen brought him to the Heavenly Dao Sect. At his introduction, he had joined roughly three years earlier. He initially resented being taken away, but came to enjoy immortal arts and hoped to return to his former workplace to show off his abilities 146.

His rare light root was the reason Xuanmen accepted him as a disciple. Dong’s unruly behavior led his master to confine him with restrictions, but after beginning cultivation he accidentally discovered that he could pass through them. Xuanmen stopped relying on confinement and warned him not to use the ability recklessly 151 506.

Dong’s origins later acquired political importance: the Dragon Race suspected that he was the Immortal Race’s missing Child of Light, while Human Race leaders feared the consequences of his disappearance. Daode Daoist Patriarch concealed him and refused to disclose his identity because of a sworn pact. Dong eventually returned to the Immortal Race, where he underwent prolonged cultivation and study in a role he had not chosen for himself 1925 1974 1975 2207 2264.

Appearance

Dong initially appears as a plump, fair-skinned, bald man dressed like a monk. He denies actually being a monk, explaining that he copied his master’s appearance because he considered it handsome 146.

• Early appearance: Chubby face, small eyes, and a bulging belly 146 1224.
• After Treasure Mountain: Extremely thin and lanky, with defined abdominal muscles. His bald head, clothing, and familiar aura remain recognizable 1224.
• Later appearance: Plump and fair-skinned again; at his Immortal Race reunion, he wears white robes and a gold crown over a full head of hair 1254 2207.
• Emergency combat form: Can swell to three or four times his normal size, becoming a ball-like body covered in black runes and white light 1077.

Personality

Dong is boastful, irreverent, sociable, and eager to attract attention. He teases Li Xiaoya about romance, volunteers for fights to “steal the limelight,” and treats reunions as opportunities to spar. His love of food persists even after centuries of cultivation: immediately after returning from Treasure Mountain, he asks for something to eat 146 526 1224 1225.

His loyalty is far more serious than his banter. He repeatedly risks his life for Li Xiaoya, protects Li’s loved ones, and regards his senior brother’s affairs as his own. After Li disappears, this devotion becomes a centuries-long campaign of revenge against the Dragon Race 608 616 628 851 1802 1925.

Dong can be observant and tactically inventive in combat, identifying concealed equipment and adapting when direct attacks fail. Outside battle, however, he is impulsive and comparatively vulnerable to elaborate schemes. Fu Yuchen exploits that weakness, while Heavenly Feather True Immortal explicitly considers him unable to keep a secret 526 1289 2208 2264.

Abilities & Skills

Light-Attribute Divine Abilities

Dong’s mutated light root provides exceptional speed and versatile offensive techniques at both close and long range 151 175.

• Produces concentrated beams, light swords, conjured hands, white blades, and White-Light Feathers 175 176 486 1254.
• Uses white spheres to blind opponents and exploit the Demon Dragon General’s discomfort with light 1289 1801.
• Develops a concealed strike that allows him to remain invisible after attacking. Its use against King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs consumes half his magic power 1076.
• Later launches enormous blades that track White Ghost True Devil through repeated teleportation, followed by translucent longblade slashes capable of damaging the devil’s bone-bladed arms 2408 2410.

Invisibility and Shadow Body Arts

Dong uses Light Invisibility Art, Light-Shadow Body Art, and Shadow Body Art to conceal himself, misdirect opponents, and deliver ambushes 176 484 1287.

• Can disappear from multiple cultivators’ divine sense; by the Race Battlefield period, ordinary Mighty One Stage cultivators cannot detect him with divine sense from a hundred miles away when he uses full concealment 484 1773.
• Creates attacking copies that reform after destruction and can be indistinguishable from his real body 486 1566 1753.
• Uses substitutes to survive apparent killing blows and escape pursuit 608 1076 1567.
• Deploys explosive white-light figures to interrupt the Great Qian Devil Lord’s teleportation 1298.
• Limits: Li Xiaoya detects his early invisibility through unusually strong divine sense. King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs exposes him with golden light, and the big-nosed cultivator tracks him by scent 176 617 1076.

Restriction-Bypassing Ability

An innate ability unique to Dong’s light-root aptitude allows him to pass through restrictions rather than destroy them. Its discovery dates to his escape from Xuanmen’s confinement; a later account associates it with his tongue 506 1225.

• Carries the unconscious Li Xiaoya through the Heavenly Earth Tower’s restrictions 616.
• Passes through Treasure Mountain’s Five-Colored Light Curtain, which withstands King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs’s Demon Core attack 1078 1225.
• Limits: Repeated use contributes to severe magic-power depletion during the rescue. It does not free him from Fu Yuchen’s specially prepared cord and possession trap 616 2263 2264.

Six-Light Shield

Dong conjures a reflective shield that redirects incoming spells toward their caster 176.

• Reflects Flame Blades, Cross Flame Blades, and fire serpents 176.
• Can deploy two shields simultaneously to block Qi Qinglong’s thirty-six spiritual knives 526.
• Limit: Li Xiaoya pressures the defense by splitting attacks and sending them from four directions 176.

Soft Body Tempering

Dong’s supple-body art emphasizes flexibility and absorption rather than the hardness of Li Xiaoya’s body tempering 1004.

• Makes his body extraordinarily flexible and resistant to physical battering 1004.
• Supports a swollen, rune-covered form that deflects attacks while he forces his way through a demon-beast horde 1077.
• Allows him to survive Yan Longzi’s tail strike while shielding Li Xiaoya, though he is severely injured 1802.

Movement, Spatial Techniques, and Eyesight

Dong combines light-based movement with specialized equipment and later learns a Spatial Law Divine Ability from the Immortal Sovereign 1077 2266.

• Uses wing-assisted teleportation to evade King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs’s expanding golden rings 1077.
• Can sacrifice lifespan and cultivation for a major speed increase 1077.
• Uses the Spatial Law Divine Ability during his escape as a Nascent Soul 2266.
• Possesses exceptional eyesight, detecting distant mountains and following Li Xiaoya and Yan Longzi across unobstructed void from over a thousand kilometers away 1076 1801.
• Limits: His winged treasure has a finite teleportation reserve; sacrificing lifespan and cultivation makes prolonged flight costly 1077.

Earth Spirit Overlord Armor

After losing his body to Fu Yuchen, Dong takes control of the Earth Spirit Overlord’s immense Light Crystal Immortal Stone armor. The Overlord’s true form is a sentient crystal essence, not the gigantic exterior; Dong traps the essence inside its own body, where it dies. This is not possession of the Overlord 2280.

• Supplies enormous physical strength, helping him and Li Xiaoya kill the Light-Winged Dragon King 2275.
• Blocks divine sense so effectively that Li Xiaoya and Xiao Qian can hide inside it 2289.
• Enables Dong to impersonate the Overlord, move through demon-beast territory, and enter Ten Thousand Demon City 2289.
• Makes him, by his own assessment, stronger than before despite losses of cultivation and equipment 2289.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Moonlight Crescent Saber — His life-bound magic treasure, refined by Second Better. Can split into phantom sabers or a storm of blades. Repeated strengthening raises it to exceptional grade; it is badly damaged by King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs and again during the possession ordeal, but Xiao Qian returns it to him 603 1077 1565 1782 2207 2289.
• Moon-Slaying Divine Light Blade — A gift from Li Xiaoya. Dong refines it beneath his tongue with a fragment of his spirit; this hidden preparation enables his Nascent Soul to escape Fu Yuchen’s trap 2265 2267.
• Azure-Wind Light Wings — Manifested alongside a giant bird phantom during his battle with the reception envoys and surrounding cultivators 1565.
• Golden protective orb — An emergency item supplied by Buddha Xuanmen before entering seclusion. Its lightning destroys the big-nosed cultivator’s poisonous bird and damages his flying sword 617.
• Light Crystal Immortal Stone armor — The Earth Spirit Overlord’s former exterior, later used as Dong’s combat shell, disguise, and concealed transport for allies 2280 2289.
• Emergency Message Talisman — Sends Qianshan an image of the floating Treasure Mountain before Dong approaches it 1076 1078.
• Soul Life-Bound Lamps — Given to Li Xiaoya and Xiao Qian; their weakening aura alerts the pair that Dong is in danger 2266.
• Cross-marked sphere — A mission-specific targeting marker secretly planted beneath the demon army’s Black Flying Boat for the Fire Rain Meteor Formation 1287.

Relationships

• Li Xiaoya — Senior martial brother, closest friend, and sworn brother regarded as closer than flesh and blood. Their competitive sparring accompanies repeated mutual rescues, shared secrets, and coordinated battles 486 1786 1801 1802 1925 1298.
• Buddha Xuanmen — Master and the only person to accept Dong as a disciple. Their relationship combines discipline and teasing with deep affection; Dong repeatedly seeks news during Xuanmen’s dangerous recovery 146 995 998 1224.
• Zhang Cai — Senior cultivator entrusted with Dong’s care while Xuanmen is in seclusion. Their association is marked by scolding, complaints, and destructive mischief, though they continue the Zhang Family murder investigation together 409 460 487.
• High Person Qianshan — Senior sect authority who entrusts Dong with reconnaissance and covert missions and helps keep his Great Void breakthrough secret 1074 1254 1287.
• Liu Xian’er — Fellow disciple close to Dong through Li Xiaoya. Dong informs Li of her secret searches for him, later fights to protect her during qi deviation, and undertakes a search for treatment materials 487 1224 1565 1575 1579.
• Zhang Hong — Fellow disciple close to him through Li Xiaoya; her disappearance contributes to his distress during the reception-envoy conflict 1224 1565.
• Second Better — Friend and artifact refiner who made the Moonlight Crescent Saber for him. Dong later promises to arrange spirit stones for Second Better’s Soul Space Teleportation Device 2207.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch — Protector who hides Dong following his Dragon Race raids and keeps his special identity secret under a sworn pact 1925 1974 1975.
• Immortal Sovereign — Teaches Dong a Spatial Law Divine Ability and seeks Li Xiaoya’s assistance with Dong’s planned trial 2207 2266.
• Xiao Qian — Ally in the Bright Star Realm who helps defeat the Light-Winged Dragon King, supports Dong’s infiltration plan, and returns his damaged saber 2275 2289.
• Fu Yuchen — Betrayer who steals Dong’s body in an attempt to obtain his identity and Child of Light bloodline. Dong survives, and Li Xiaoya later hands him the imprisoned Fu Yuchen 2264 2266 2289.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Sect Rivalry and Early Reputation

• Meets Li Xiaoya through antagonistic banter, then dispels the rumor of a Liu–Lin marriage alliance by explaining the families’ feud and the restrictions of Liu Xian’er’s Nine-Spirit Maiden Art 146.
• Takes first place in the sect’s selection tournament. A dispute over martial seniority leads to a sparring match with Li, showcasing his speed, invisibility, light attacks, and Six-Light Shield 151 174 175 176.
• Later continues the unresolved Zhang Family murder investigation with Zhang Cai after other cultivators abandon the costly search 460.

Tianyuan Continent Duels

• Defeats Du Kang in friendly combat by concealing his presence, producing indistinguishable copies, and stopping a light blade at Du Kang’s neck without harming him 516.
• Represents the Du Household against Qi Qinglong. He avoids the opening attack with a decoy, identifies Qinglong’s instant-spell ring, and blocks the ensuing knife barrage 526.
• Once his Golden Core realm stabilizes, Iron Lady and Du Chengfeng seek his help obtaining treasures guarded by a seventh-rank Flying Three-Headed Lion Beast 537 538.

Rescue from the Heavenly Earth Demon Sect

• Escapes the four elders’ ambush despite injury and reports Li Xiaoya’s capture to Master Long 608.
• Secretly follows the captors, retrieves Li and his Heaven-and-Earth Bag, and carries him through the Heavenly Earth Tower’s restrictions 614 616.
• Exhaustion and pursuit leave him gravely wounded. Li awakens, protects him, and supplies elixirs; Dong later agrees to remain behind to protect Li’s mother while still recovering 617 619 628.
• His injuries fully heal only after more than eight months on an island 659.

Sect Warfare and Xuanmen’s Recovery

• Supports Li Xiaoya at an Elder Council meeting and eagerly seeks involvement in the war against Fire Dragon Palace. His elusive ambushes tie down numerous enemy cultivators, making him a priority target 851 874.
• Repeatedly seeks access to Xuanmen during the effort to remove the demonic divided spirit afflicting his master, then reacts with overwhelming relief when Xuanmen returns safely 995 998.
• Returns to Jade Bamboo Peak and undertakes prolonged secluded training, developing his soft-body defenses while continuing periodic spars with Li 1004.

Treasure Mountain and the Birdcage

• Volunteers to investigate an unusual phenomenon at sea. He reports the floating mountains to Qianshan, survives King Ten-Thousand-Zhangs’s pursuit, and reaches safety beyond the Five-Colored Light Curtain 1074 1076 1077 1078.
• Pursues a rare white bird, slips past silver puppets, and collects treasures. Approaching a golden cage transforms him into a plump white bird and transports him to a light-rich cultivation environment 1225.
• Remains trapped for several hundred years, cultivating and fighting the other birds until he regains human form. Returns gaunt, hungry, and at Spirit Communion great perfection 1224 1225.

Defense Against the Demonic Tribulation

• Reveals his secretly achieved Great Void cultivation by ambushing and seriously wounding the Force Demon General while claiming to be the “Demon-Slaying Envoy” 1254.
• Prioritizes Qianshan’s mission over fighting the Demon Dragon General and covertly plants the Fire Rain Meteor targeting marker beneath the enemy flying boat 1287.
• After the meteor strike, fights the isolated Demon Dragon General, adapting with copies and blinding light when the General’s strength proves superior 1289.
• Cooperates with Li Xiaoya against the Great Qian Devil Lord. Explosive copies disrupt the Devil Lord’s escape, allowing Dong’s saber to pierce his eye 1298.

Upper Realm and Liu Xian’er’s Treatment

• Helps the Hehuan Twin Demons pass through lightning into the Five-Colored Spiritual Light Vortex 1524.
• As a newly ascended cultivator, clashes with reception envoys after Liu Xian’er’s qi deviation. The confrontation expands into a crowd attack and then a battle with Elder Qianling while Dong tries to reach Liu 1565 1566 1567 1568.
• Learns that his companions are alive but Liu’s mind and cultivation remain endangered. Accepts the task of obtaining rare treatment materials and travels to the Flowing Light Star Realm to seek a Silver-Sand Golden Spirit Shark’s inner core 1575 1579.

Race Battlefield and Dragon Race Revenge

• Follows Li Xiaoya to the Race Battlefield despite Li’s objections. His advanced concealment becomes one of the Special Group’s principal advantages 1751 1753 1773.
• Intercepts Yan Longzi’s pursuit, wounds his eye, and carries the injured Li away. He then shields Li from a tail strike, nearly being pulled into a spatial vortex before Li attempts to retrieve him 1801 1802.
• After Li disappears, hunts Dragon cultivators for decades, then conducts raids on the Ancient Dragon Continent for five or six hundred years. His killing of Elder Black Dragon’s grandson precedes another disappearance 1925.
• Daode Daoist Patriarch reveals that he hid Dong. Dong briefly reunites with Li before leaving to return to the people connected with his special identity 1974 1975.

Immortal Race Reunion

• Reunites with Li Xiaoya and Second Better at Mighty One great perfection, complaining of a thousand years confined to study and cultivation 2207.
• Requests Li’s help with a trial planned for a thousand years later and promises to arrange approximately one hundred billion high-grade spirit stones for Second Better 2207.
• Warns Li that returning to the Thirty-Three Star Realm is dangerous, though he does not know the full explanation 2207.

Fu Yuchen’s Possession and the Earth Spirit Overlord

• Fu Yuchen immobilizes him with a specially prepared cord, formation, and talismans, then takes possession of his body. Dong escapes as a Nascent Soul using the blade hidden beneath his tongue and his spatial ability 2263 2264 2265 2266 2267.
• Hides in light crystal immortal stones that are absorbed into a Demon King’s armor. Rather than continue resisting, he uses the armor as a refuge and begins recovering 2267 2268.
• Gains control of the Earth Spirit Overlord’s crystal armor, joins Li and Xiao Qian in killing the Light-Winged Dragon King, and reveals his identity. He stays among the Demon Kings to exploit his disguise 2275 2280.
• Recovers his original body, receives his damaged saber and the imprisoned Fu Yuchen, and transports his allies into Ten Thousand Demon City inside the armor. His magic power recovers in just over a month, far faster than Li and Xiao Qian expect 2289 2291.
• Deflects suspicion after the city’s teleportation formation explodes, rallies fleeing beasts with promised crystal rewards, and assumes command of the defenses while his allies prepare their next move 2296.

Battle with White Ghost True Devil

• Ambushes White Ghost True Devil in Chaos Space, keeping him under pressure with tracking white blades while copies intercept his followers 2408.
• Damages the devil’s divine-beast skulls and refined souls, overcomes parts of his monstrous transformation, and destroys his army during the duel 2410.
• Cuts off the devil’s horns and strikes across his waist; the provided account ends during the attack, without confirming the battle’s outcome 2410.

Notable Quotes

“Who said I was a monk?” 146

“Hey, Senior Brother, why stand on ceremony? Your business is my business, isn’t it?” 851

“I, Dong Santong, am back!” 1224

“I am Dong Santong!” — Revealing himself from the Earth Spirit Overlord’s guise 2275.