Tang San

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Previous Life and Holy Soul Village

Tang San was an orphan taken in by the Tang Sect and trained as an assassin. His previous life lasted more than a decade under cold, isolated conditions, leaving familial affection something he longed for but had never experienced 4.

In his new life, he grew up with Tang Hao in Holy Soul Village. After completing his Martial Soul awakening, he returned home to find his father distressed in front of Tang Tianlin. Mistaking Tianlin for an aggressor, he drew a concealed blade and threatened to kill him. Tang Hao struck him and ordered him to apologize to his elder cousin 2.

Revealing the Clear Sky Hammer changed his father’s response dramatically. Tang Hao embraced him, explained their descent from the Clear Sky Sect’s main bloodline, and instructed him to use the hammer in his left hand to protect the grass in his right 2 3.

Joining the Clear Sky Sect

Tang Tianlin formally admitted Tang San into the Clear Sky Sect with Tang Hao’s approval. Tang San pledged to cultivate diligently and avoid disgracing the sect. His recruitment also triggered rewards from Tianlin’s system, which evaluated his twin Martial Souls and innate full soul power as top-tier talent 3.

During the following month, regular meals and renewed family attention visibly improved his health. Tang Hao taught him the Clear Sky Secret Art before leaving to gather resources, while Tang San remained with Tianlin for training and experience 4.

Initially determined to cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer, Tang San reconsidered after Tianlin explained the balance required between twin Martial Souls and the hidden potential of his Blue Silver Grass. He chose to cultivate the grass first and specialize in its life attribute, reserving the hammer for direct combat 4 5 7 8.

Nuoding Academy and His First Soul Ring

At Nuoding Academy, Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempts to become his teacher. Yu’s dismissal of Blue Silver Grass provoked Tang San’s killing intent, while Tianlin intervened on his behalf 5.

Tianlin subsequently took him to Sunset Forest, where a Dragon-Patterned Vine voluntarily sacrificed itself to him. The sacrifice supplied his first Soul Ring, awakened his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, and gave his grass the ability to drain vitality 8 9.

After returning to the academy, he again encountered Yu Xiaogang. Hearing Tianlin challenge Yu’s proposed poison-based cultivation route deepened his hostility toward the would-be teacher. Tang San fought him using his first Soul Skill, revealing a first ring far older than Yu expected 17 18 19.

Return to His Ancestral Home

Tang San brought Xiao Wu along when Tianlin returned to the Clear Sky Sect. During the journey, he began to understand the connection between his father’s past and the sect’s withdrawal from the world 20.

Tang Xiao welcomed him as his nephew and assured him that the sect was his home. The acceptance gave Tang San a tangible sense of belonging unlike anything he had experienced in his previous life 24.

Over the next five years, he settled into sect life, using its supply of metals to manufacture hidden weapons and exchanging forging knowledge with fellow disciples. By the end of that period, he genuinely regarded the Clear Sky Sect as his home 27.

Immortal Herbs and Later Conflicts

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Tang San applied his medicinal knowledge to Dugu Bo’s condition and proposed herbs that could help evolve his Martial Soul. He also recommended treasures suited to Tianlin’s physique and spiritual cultivation, setting aside his own desire for the ice and fire golden body 31.

Later, Zhao Wuji attempted to recruit him into Shrek Academy. The encounter became a fight in which Tang San used hidden weapons, movement techniques, and his self-created Blue Silver Azure Sky Dragon against the Soul Saint. Zhao’s gravity skills restricted his movement, and his stronger attacks broke through Tang San’s vine defenses 41 42.

When Xiao Wu’s background came into question, Tianlin revealed that Tang San himself had inherited half his bloodline from a Soul Beast. Tang San realized that his mother had undergone Soul Beast Transformation and responded to the confirmation with relief 50.

Appearance

At his first appearance, Tang San is a small, thin boy with dark skin and azure eyes 2.

• Improved health: After a month with Tianlin, he grows noticeably taller, develops visible muscle definition in his arms, and loses much of his sun-darkened complexion 4.
• Bloodline changes: Awakening his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline makes his skin fairer, softens his features, and gives his black hair faint signs of turning blue 9.
• Eye techniques: Purple light appears in his eyes when he prepares for combat or activates his ocular technique 18 41.

Personality

Tang San is intensely protective of family but quick to interpret offenses as grounds for lethal retaliation. He threatens Tianlin before understanding his identity, prepares a sleeve arrow when Yu Xiaogang insults his Martial Soul, and later considers tormenting Yu while respecting Tianlin’s instruction not to kill him 2 5 18.

His previous isolation makes familial affection especially important to him. He treasures Tang Hao’s rare approval and comes to trust Tianlin even more than his father. Under Tianlin’s guidance, he becomes increasingly considerate: at the medicinal garden, he prioritizes his cousin’s cultivation opportunities over an enhancement he personally covets 3 8 15 31.

He also values specialization and responds well to correction. Rather than making both Martial Souls serve the same offensive purpose, he chooses a complementary life-oriented path for Blue Silver Grass. When Tianlin challenges his satisfaction with defeating opponents of the same rank, he immediately puts aside his pride and resumes meditation 8 13.

Abilities & Skills

Twin Martial Souls

Tang San inherits the Clear Sky Hammer from his father and Blue Silver Grass from his mother. His Blue Silver Emperor bloodline gives the apparently ordinary grass substantial hidden potential 2 7 9 50.

• Cultivation order: Follows Tianlin’s advice to strengthen Blue Silver Grass first, then cultivate the hammer once the balance and foundation are suitable 5 7.
• Complementary roles: Selects the life path for the grass because the hammer already supplies direct offensive power 8.
• Clear Sky inheritance: Learns the Clear Sky Secret Art from Tang Hao before his father leaves to gather resources 4.
• External enhancement: Both Martial Souls can absorb vitality and dragon power released during Tianlin’s breakthroughs 14 15.

Dragon-Patterned Blue Silver Grass

His Blue Silver Grass develops thicker blades and pale golden markings after the Dragon-Patterned Vine’s sacrifice. Later enhancements produce the much tougher Dragon-Patterned form 9 38.

• Binding: Sends strands out to entangle targets, obstruct movement, or delay an incoming attack 9 41.
• Vitality absorption: Drains a tree until it yellows and withers, channeling its vitality back through the grass 9.
• Adhesion and suction: Its surface gains stickiness and suction alongside improved toughness 9.
• Defensive shaping: Reassembles scattered vines into a wall in front of himself 42.
• Limits: Stronger opponents can still break it. Zhao Wuji tears apart enhanced strands with Soul Power and later destroys the fused dragon and vine wall 41 42.

Soul Skills

Blue Silver Azure Sky Dragon

A self-created Soul Skill inspired by Tang Tianlin’s Dragon Transformation ability. Tang San combines his three enhancements and fuses Dragon-Patterned Blue Silver Grass into a dragon-shaped construct 41.

• Greatly increases the fused grass’s toughness and gives it offensive capability.
• Turns its branches and leaves into sharp, resilient projectiles usable as hidden weapons.
• Can be broken apart by Zhao Wuji’s stronger attacks; its remnants remain available for defensive reshaping 41 42.

Tang Sect Techniques

• Mysterious Heaven Skill: Cultivation method used to circulate and absorb energy, including the mist from Tianlin’s breakthroughs. Tang San initially attributes his innate full soul power to this technique 7 14 37.
• Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track: Evasive footwork used to avoid Xiao Wu’s attacks and retreat from Zhao Wuji 27 41.
• Purple-Gold Demon Eyes: Ocular technique pushed to its limit while coordinating a hidden-weapon assault 41.
• Mysterious Jade Hand: Covers his hands in a white-jade sheen; activated while preparing to withstand Zhao Wuji’s punch 42.
• Assassin training: Grants unusually sharp sensitivity to auras and practiced handling of concealed weapons 4 41.

Forging and Hidden Weapons

Tang San has a strong personal interest in forging and manufactures Tang Sect hidden weapons using the Clear Sky Sect’s metals and workshops 24 27 41.

• Exchanges forging insights with fellow disciples 27.
• Launches weapons along deceptive trajectories, including four faint silver projectiles that circle behind Zhao Wuji 41.
• Uses poison-coated hidden weapons as a backup against stronger opponents 41.

Medicinal Knowledge

Tang San can identify immortal herbs, assess their compatibility with a cultivator, and explain the risks of forcing Martial Soul evolution 31.

• Identifies Sweet Potato Golden Dragon as central to the proposed evolution of Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul.
• Recommends Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower for different aspects of Tianlin’s cultivation.
• Warns that incompatible treasures can cause Martial Soul instability, mental disorder, or fatal bodily destruction 31.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Concealed short blade — Carried in his sleeve during his first confrontation with Tianlin 2.
• Silent Sleeve Arrow — Concealed on his right arm; readied against Yu Xiaogang, with three arrows quietly loaded during a later confrontation 5 18.
• Tang Sect hidden weapons — Personally crafted at the Clear Sky Sect; include projectiles used in his fight with Zhao Wuji 27 41.
• Whale rubber — Consumed to strengthen his physique before acquiring his first Soul Ring 8.

Relationships

• Tang Tianlin — Elder cousin, cultivation guide, and the Clear Sky Sect’s young master. Tang San calls him “Big Brother” and eventually trusts him more than Tang Hao 3 8 11.
• Tang Hao — Father and first teacher in the Clear Sky inheritance. His praise carries great emotional weight for Tang San, particularly after the revelation of his twin Martial Souls 2 3 4 15.
• Tang Xiao — Paternal uncle and sect master. Welcomes Tang San into the clan, offers him protection, and tells him to regard the sect as home 24.
• Mother — A transformed Soul Beast whom Tang San has never met. His Blue Silver Grass and half-Soul Beast ancestry come from her 50.
• Xiao Wu — Close friend, sparring partner, and fellow Clear Sky Sect disciple. Accompanies him to his ancestral home and insists on being his senior sister despite joining later 20 21 22 27.
• Yu Xiaogang — Rejected would-be teacher. Tang San resents his insults, intrusive questioning, and cultivation advice, eventually confronting him in combat 5 17 18 19.
• Dugu Bo — Recipient of Tang San’s medicinal advice. Tang San proposes a Martial Soul evolution treatment while warning him explicitly about its potentially fatal risks 31.

Notable Quotes

“Since I have the Clear Sky Hammer, I don't lack the ability to fight head-on. Blue Silver Grass should do what the Clear Sky Hammer can't.” 8

“You're allowed to bully the young with your seniority, but I'm not allowed to prepare a backup?” 41