Tang San

Biodata

Power Progression

Current Storyline

Original Timeline and Alternate Counterparts

These states belong to the revealed original timeline, a simulated projection, or an alternate Tang San—not the six-year-old student’s current progression.

Background / History

Previous Life

Tang San was an orphan adopted by Elder Tang Lan of the Tang Sect, an organization combining martial arts with assassination. As an outer disciple, he was barred from its core teachings, but stole the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and secretly cultivated it for twenty years. His greatest documented creation was the Buddha’s Fury Tang Lotus, the sect’s foremost hidden weapon 12.

When his unauthorized study was exposed, he leaped from Ghost’s Grief at twenty-nine. Lu Chen’s account challenges the necessity of this suicide: Tang Lan had tolerated his activities, while sect leader Tang Da Xiansheng wanted to appoint him sole successor after seeing his Tang Lotus. Tang San nevertheless continues to regard his theft as justified by the techniques he restored 12 85.

Rebirth and Childhood

According to Lu Chen’s examination of the river of time, Tang San did not naturally reincarnate as Ah Yin’s child: his arriving soul destroyed the newborn’s soul and seized its body. Tang Hao subsequently raised him in Holy Soul Village while working as a blacksmith and drinking heavily, leaving the young Tang San responsible for cooking 10.

Lu Chen interprets Tang Hao’s neglect as deliberate observation of the unusually mature child. In this account, Tang Hao eventually recognized the possession but retained Tang San because of his filial behavior and, after awakening, his value as a twin-Martial-Soul revenge prospect 23.

Nuoding Academy

• First confrontation with Lu Chen: Outside the academy, Lu Chen overpowers Tang San before he can react effectively. Tang San’s left palm is pierced during the confrontation, and the humiliation becomes a lasting grievance 77 97.
• Apprenticeship: Yu Xiaogang pays for his treatment and correctly identifies his concealed second Martial Soul. Tang San considers killing him to protect the secret, but instead accepts him as master, partly hoping to benefit from his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan connections 80 81.
• First Soul Hunt: A poorly made Sleeve Arrow initially fails against the Mandala Snake. After obtaining its ring, Tang San prioritizes absorption over fully detoxifying the injured Yu Xiaogang 93 94.
• Debt and deception: Tang San relinquishes his Silent Sleeve Arrow for a two-hundred-Gold-Soul-Coin credit against their expenses. He later exploits Yu Xiaogang’s missing memories to portray the teacher’s injuries as a deliberate sacrifice to save him 96.
• Public criticism of his cultivation: At Spirit Hall, Lu Yun challenges the decision to give a plant Martial Soul a snake ring. Tang San learns that the choice has sacrificed potential improvements to vitality, recovery, and resilience, and privately turns against his teacher 99 100 101.
• Entrance assessment: Against Xiao Chenyu, he develops grass-blade projectiles and vine armor. Xiao Chenyu’s sudden berserk transformation reverses Tang San’s apparent victory, but the academy still accepts him on the strength of his performance 105 106 108.
• Dorm Seven defeat: Tang San tries to impress Xiao Wu and defeat Lu Chen with his full combination of techniques. Lu Chen breaks through his attack without releasing a Martial Soul and shatters his nose with one punch 109.
• Blacksmith employment: Seeking stronger hidden weapons, he visits the city’s smithies but encounters mandatory weapon-reporting rules. He ultimately accepts work for one Silver Soul Coin per month plus commissions 115 116.

Revealed Original Timeline

The notebook and Lu Chen’s explanations describe a substantially different future from Tang San’s present academy life.

• Dugu Bo’s support: Tang San uses Tang Sect medicinal knowledge and immortal-herb effects in his blood to formulate an antidote for Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan. He gains Dugu Bo’s friendship, access to his garden, the Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch, and three promises. Dugu Bo subsequently protects him and restores his confidence in Blue Silver Grass 60.
• Soul Beast sacrifices: Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming sacrifice themselves to him. Lu Chen criticizes Tang San for repeatedly using Xiao Wu’s ring skills despite knowing that doing so consumes her soul power and harms her prospects of resurrection 11 12.
• Divine family manipulation: After ascending, Tang San splits his daughter’s soul to influence the Douluo Plane’s human and Soul Beast children of destiny 12 128.
• Destiny scheme: One divided soul is placed in the Emperor Auspicious Beast, who becomes Wang Qiu’er. Lu Chen describes her attachment to the human Child of Luck and eventual sacrifice as part of Tang San’s attempt to monopolize the plane’s destiny and suppress Soul Beasts. Another retained fragment preserves his daughter’s complete memories and remains obedient to him 128.
• Tang Sect revival: Lu Chen identifies Tang Ya as a pawn for binding Huo Yuhao to the Tang Sect rather than a principal beneficiary of Tang San’s plans. His suggestion that Tang San was implicated in the sect’s destruction remains an accusation in the supplied account, not a demonstrated act 127.

Extraterrestrial Counterpart

Extraterrestrial Tang San follows a multiversal path of accumulation: hunting his counterparts, taking their planes’ power and fortune, and gathering that strength into himself. Shattered Plane Spirits are presented as evidence of the destruction caused by this method 1.

In Chapter 79, he destroys a counterpart who has integrated a divine circle, annihilates that counterpart’s universe with sword light, and absorbs the resulting crimson currents. He then uses bloodline connections to inspect other universes, prioritizing worlds at useful stages of his family’s development. One world containing a newly enrolled Tang San and Xiao Wu appears entirely unthreatening to him 79.

Appearance

• At six, Tang San looks approximately eight or nine after his first Soul Ring further develops his body 98.
• His ring-enhanced Blue Silver Grass is dark blue with black markings resembling those of the Mandala Snake 94 99.
• Lu Chen’s Dorm Seven punch severely damages his nose. School Doctor Wang can treat the wound and prevent infection but cannot guarantee restoration of its shape 109 112.
• The level-thirty-nine projection has eight spider-leg lances extending from its back; its hands turn jade-white when using Mysterious Jade Hand 48.

Personality

Tang San is guarded, calculating, and intensely protective of his secrets. When Yu Xiaogang identifies his twin Martial Souls, he considers murder and silencing witnesses before rejecting the plan because it is too risky. He later maintains outward devotion to the teacher while privately viewing him as a stepping stone 81 102.

His desire for affection coexists with this instrumental approach. Lu Chen attributes his attachment to Tang Hao to an orphan’s longing for family, while Yu Xiaogang’s simple gesture of stroking his head gives him an unfamiliar sense of warmth. His enthusiasm for entering school is also genuine: he has never attended one in either life 23 85 97.

He responds to humiliation with persistent resentment and self-justification. Repeated defeats convince him that he needs stronger hidden weapons rather than a reassessment of his opponents. His attraction to Xiao Wu turns into hatred when she openly chooses Lu Chen, and he rationalizes benefiting from Lu Chen’s food as using an enemy’s resources to fund his eventual revenge 111 113 115.

Abilities & Skills

Blue Silver Grass

His initially awakened plant Martial Soul is ordinary Blue Silver Grass, despite the body’s latent Blue Silver Emperor bloodline 31 32.

• Entanglement: Binds targets with vine-like grass carrying a paralytic, nonlethal toxin 30 103.
• Grass-blade projectiles: Plucks and straightens leaves with internal power, concentrates their toxin, and throws them using hidden-weapon techniques 105.
• Vine armor: Covers vital areas defensively, helping limit his injuries during Xiao Chenyu’s assault 106.
• Cultivation limitation: Ah Yin criticizes the Mandala Snake ring for neglecting Blue Silver Grass’s defining vitality. Lu Yun later warns that his chosen development route cannot simply be reversed by switching to plant rings 30 100 101.

Clear Sky Hammer and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer

The Clear Sky Hammer is his concealed second Martial Soul. Both Tang Hao and Yu Xiaogang instruct him not to reveal it casually or add rings without permission 81.

• Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer: Links force from calves through waist, back, and arms, redirecting rebound into successive strikes 66.
• Metal refinement: Uses the technique successfully to refine iron and demonstrate his blacksmithing competence 115.
• Projected combat use: The level-thirty-nine version throws the hammer with Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon; it still has no Soul Rings at that stage 47 48.

Mysterious Heaven Skill

The internal cultivation method retained from the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record underpins his Soul Power growth and Tang Sect techniques 32 103.

• Has balanced, body-nurturing properties, though it cannot immediately erase the effects of severe blood loss 81.
• Breaks through its initial bottleneck after his first Soul Ring 94.
• Supplies internal power to reinforce thrown grass blades and other secret arts 103 105.

Tang Sect Secret Arts

• Purple Demon Eye: Tracks movement and reveals fine detail; Tang San uses it to read Xiao Chenyu’s attacks and coordinate his assault on Lu Chen 105 109.
• Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon: Manipulates force and objects, including the projection’s thrown hammer 48 109.
• Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track: Provides evasive, unpredictable footwork and rapid repositioning 48 104 109.
• Mysterious Jade Hand: Turns his hands jade-colored and supports close-range strikes 106 109.
• Hundred Solutions to Hidden Weapons: His recorded hidden-weapon discipline; demonstrated applications include massed projectile attacks and the adaptation of grass leaves into throwing blades 47 105.

Poison and Medicine

• Performs basic detoxification on Yu Xiaogang after the Mandala Snake encounter 94.
• In the original timeline, passes Dugu Bo’s medicinal tests and develops an antidote for Martial Soul poison backlash using his knowledge and immortal-herb-treated blood 60.
• The level-thirty-nine projection possesses poison attributes and fire and ice immunity 47.

Eight Spider Lances — Original-Timeline Projection

An External Soul Bone consisting of eight back-mounted spider lances 47 48.

• Supports close-range attacks, poisoning, and attempts to create distance 48.
• Its poison injures Lu Chen during the simulation but is insufficient to kill him after divine suppression and healing 48.
• The projection’s superior cultivation and equipment do not prevent its defeat by Lu Chen 48.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

Current Storyline

• Silent Sleeve Arrow — Mechanical hidden weapon used during the Mandala Snake hunt. Its poor workmanship reduces its effectiveness; Tang San later trades it to Beifeng toward their outstanding bill 93 96.
• Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night — Storage item from which he retrieves needles during his entrance assessment 104.
• Sewing needles — Inexpensive substitute projectiles used after losing his Sleeve Arrow 104.
• Sulfur powder — Spreads a protective ring around himself and Yu Xiaogang before absorbing his first Soul Ring 94.

Previous Life and Original Timeline

• Buddha’s Fury Tang Lotus — Successfully manufactured in his previous life after twenty years of secret cultivation 12.
• Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch — A Soul Tool capable of storing living things, given to him by Dugu Bo in the original timeline 60.
• Immortal herbs — Originally consumes Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew. The last greatly strengthens his spiritual power 48 66.
• Projected hidden-weapon arsenal — Includes Bone-Piercing Needles, Dragon Whisker Needles, Mother-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Orbs, Godly Zhuge Crossbows, and Yama’s Invitation 47 48.

Relationships

• Tang Hao — Father of the body he occupies and his childhood guardian; teaches him hammer techniques and conceals his background. Lu Chen characterizes their relationship as a mixture of Tang San’s longing for family and Tang Hao’s revenge calculations 23 66 81.
• Ah Yin — Mother of the original child whose body he seized. After learning the truth, she regards Tang San as an enemy 10 30.
• Tang Lan — Previous-life adoptive guardian and Tang Sect elder who tolerated his unauthorized study 12.
• Yu Xiaogang — Master and prospective source of connections. Tang San publicly promises lifelong filial loyalty while increasingly resenting his guidance and pursuing his usefulness 81 101 102 116.
• Old Jack — Village elder who supports his education and once considers him Holy Soul Village’s greatest hope. Tang San emotionally discards him after noticing his change in attitude following the academy incident 80.
• Lu Chen — Principal current-story enemy. His repeated defeats and humiliations make Lu Chen an inner demon; Lu Chen also targets his fortune and monitors his movements 109 114 117.
• Xiao Wu — Beloved companion in the original timeline, but openly hostile to him in the current story. His unsuccessful attempt to “rescue” her from Lu Chen ends in defeat and permanent enmity 12 109 111.
• Xiao Chenyu — Entrance-assessment opponent whose berserk transformation defeats him. Tang San later adds him to his grievances over Nuoding’s weapon regulations 106 115.
• Dugu Bo — Original-timeline friend, benefactor, and protector; their relationship develops through poison treatment and medicinal research 60.
• Tang Wutong / Tang Xiao Qi — Daughter in the revealed original timeline, whose divided soul becomes central to his schemes involving the plane’s children of destiny 12 128.

Notable Quotes

“A teacher for a day is a father for life. You deserve my kneeling obeisance.” 81

“Alas, after living a second life, I’m no longer the cold-blooded killer I once was. I’ve become someone with human warmth!” 94