Tang Ya

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Loss of the Tang Sect Estate

Tang Ya grew up helping her parents manage the declining Tang Sect’s affairs. At nine, she had lost both parents, and the Iron Blood Sect had forcibly seized the sect’s estate in Heaven Dou City. She alone escaped and set out for Shrek Academy, hoping its historical ties with the Tang Sect would persuade it to intervene 2 3 12.

In the Heavenly Spirit Mountain Range, she rescued six-year-old Ye Xixuan, whose family had also been destroyed. Their shared bereavement brought them together, and they agreed to travel to Shrek Academy while looking after one another 1 2.

Shrek Academy’s Refusal

At Shrek’s eastern gate, Tang Ya announced Ye Xixuan’s innate full soul power, helping draw the academy’s attention to him. After Zhou Yi took him inside, she waited outside and hoped his acceptance would also improve the Tang Sect’s prospects 4.

Yan Shaozhe refused to intervene in the seizure of the estate, citing Shrek Academy’s impartiality. Instead, the academy offered the Tang Sect one examination-free admission slot each year. The refusal devastated Tang Ya and stirred resentment-linked power within her martial soul. Ye Xixuan found her crying outside the gate and promised to help her 8 11 12.

Settling in Shrek City

Encouraged by Ye Xixuan, Tang Ya resolved to restore the Tang Sect through her own strength rather than depend on the academy. She settled in Shrek City and rented a courtyard house for the two years remaining before she could enroll. Ye Xixuan visited her once a week while training on Sea God Island 12 13 15.

During this period, Zhang Lexuan helped her obtain a Ghost Vine second soul ring. Tang Ya subsequently entered Shrek Academy at eleven as a rank-twenty-one Soul Grandmaster and became Jiang Nannan’s roommate 16 21 22.

Outer Court Studies

Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan passed the three-month Freshman Assessment through their own abilities. Tang Ya was assigned to Class One alongside Bei Bei. When he asked to join the Tang Sect, she refused him coldly, associating his approach with the academy that had abandoned her in her most desperate circumstances 30.

After learning that Bei Bei possessed the Radiant Sacred Dragon martial soul, she concluded that the academy’s leadership had likely sent him. She rejected what she regarded as charity. By the end of her second year, she was preparing to advance to the third year 31 36.

Third Soul Ring Journey

After reaching level thirty, Tang Ya prepared to hunt for her third soul ring with Ye Xixuan. She purchased their supplies and proposed approaching the Star Dou Great Forest from the south, avoiding the more dangerous side facing Shrek Academy. They departed through Shrek City’s southern gate three days later 48 50.

Appearance

• Hair and eyes: Black hair and black eyes; she frequently wears her long hair in a ponytail 4 22 49.
• Build: Initially described as petite and slender. At eleven, her delicate features and youthful appearance have become more pronounced 11 21.
• Clothing: Receives two white freshman uniforms upon enrollment; later appears in a blue skirt and white knee-high socks 21 49.
• Resemblance to Ye Xixuan: Their matching hair and eye colors make them look like blood-related siblings when they first arrive at Shrek Academy 4.

Personality

Tang Ya is cheerful, talkative, and quick to treat others as friends. Her company helps Ye Xixuan relax after his family’s destruction, but her lack of conversational boundaries initially overwhelms the reserved Jiang Nannan. She enjoys teasing Ye Xixuan and sometimes makes unintentionally ambiguous remarks 2 3 21 49.

Her kindness is expressed through practical care: she washes clothes, prepares food, and helps organize travel. Her experience managing the Tang Sect’s affairs also makes her capable at bargaining and finding affordable accommodation 3 13.

Her sunny manner conceals grief and resentment. Shrek’s refusal leaves her blaming both the academy and her own weakness. With Ye Xixuan’s support, she regains the determination to rebuild the Tang Sect, but remains hostile toward assistance she views as belated charity 11 12 30 31.

Abilities & Skills

Blue Silver Grass

Tang Ya possesses the plant-type Blue Silver Grass martial soul 1.

• Can extend a strand to wrap around and retrieve objects, as demonstrated when she takes Ye Xixuan’s clothes to wash 3.
• Obtains her second soul ring from a Ghost Vine supplied by Zhang Lexuan 16 22.
• Prefers natural surroundings filled with vegetation, consistent with her identity as a plant-type soul master 50.

Hidden Dark Blue Silver Grass Ability

Ye Xixuan identifies the likely source of her martial soul’s dangerous stirring as Dark Blue Silver Grass’s innate ability to devour life force. At that point, Tang Ya has not fully awakened it 12.

• Intense resentment produces a death-tinged purple glimmer in her eyes 8 30.
• Her emotional breakdown stirs power within her Martial Soul Origin and involuntarily activates Ye Xixuan’s Mind Demon Mark 11.
• Ye Xixuan intends to help resolve the hidden danger; the supplied chapters do not establish that it has been eliminated 12.

Travel and Household Management

• Learned to manage sect business alongside her parents from childhood 3.
• Organizes rest stops, food preparation, laundry, and caravan travel during the journey to Shrek 3 4.
• Bargains for accommodation based on cleanliness and value rather than luxury 13.
• Plans the safer southern approach to the Star Dou Great Forest and purchases expedition supplies 50.

Residence

• Location: A rented courtyard house in southern Shrek City, retained as somewhere to stay during academy breaks 15 23.
• Layout: A courtyard of less than fifty square meters with three rooms. Tang Ya and Ye Xixuan usually occupy the northern and eastern rooms; the western room serves as storage 23.
• Personal touches: Filled with plants chosen to suit Tang Ya’s tastes. Its style resembles the former Tang Sect estate 15 23.

Relationships

• Ye Xixuan — The boy she rescues and initially treats as a younger brother. Their mutual support develops into romantic affection: she kisses his cheek, he later admits that he likes her, and she deliberately arranges their soul-hunting trip as time alone together 1 2 37 49 50.
• Jiang Nannan — Roommate and close friend. Tang Ya notices her low spirits, learns about her mother’s illness, and brings the matter to Ye Xixuan so he can help obtain the needed medicine 21 36 37.
• Zhang Lexuan — Benefactor who helps her obtain her second soul ring. Tang Ya appreciates her kindness and wonders how she and Ye Xixuan should repay her 16 22 23.
• Bei Bei — Classmate and admirer whose request to join the Tang Sect she rejects. Tang Ya distrusts his apparent connection to the academy’s leadership, while Bei Bei remains drawn to her kindness and cheerful disposition 30 31 36 49.
• Parents — Raised her within the Tang Sect and taught her to help manage its affairs. Their deaths end the carefree childhood she recalls while caring for Ye Xixuan 3 12.
• Iron Blood Sect — Enemy faction responsible for forcibly occupying the Tang Sect’s Heaven Dou City estate 2.

Notable Quotes

“That's perfect. I'll take you to Shrek Academy with me, and we can look after each other along the way.” 2

“I have to stay and rebuild the Tang Sect with my own abilities, forging its former glory anew!” 12

“Move. I'm not accepting disciples!” 30