Tang San

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Early appearance: A youthful, handsome face, fair skin associated with his Mysterious Heaven Skill practice, and eyes that shine violet when using Purple Demon Eye 9 14 107.
• Waterfall training: Develops a muscular physique while wielding the Clear Sky Hammer against a powerful torrent 93.
• As Tang Yin: Has long azure hair and eerily handsome features. After his forbidden enhancement, his eyes acquire a faint blood-red gleam and his body radiates a bloody presence 99.
• Later clothing: Wears a fitted blue outfit while training on Sea God Mountain 117.

Personality

Tang San maintains a gentle, modest, righteous public manner while privately treating people as possessions or instruments. His attachment to Xiao Wu combines possessiveness with calculation: even before their open conflict, he regards her potential sacrifice as a means of gaining a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. He interprets her rejection as theft of something already belonging to him 5 9.

He repeatedly presents revenge as an obligation to “save” Xiao Wu or uphold justice. When direct confrontation becomes dangerous, he turns to surveillance, public humiliation, hired assassins, poisoned ambushes, and institutional pressure. He is capable of considerable patience and self-restraint when witnesses or stronger opponents threaten the success of his plans 14 17 18 41 71.

His self-image rests heavily on purity and superiority. He privately despises Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun’s visits to brothels, yet cultivates their loyalty when he needs their strength and connections. He deliberately accepts eighty lashes to win their trust, regarding the injuries as a profitable exchange. After learning of Xiao Wu’s intimacy with Xiong Shaoqing, he eventually abandons his refusal to accompany them to the red-light district 24 27 31 63 64.

Repeated defeats intensify rather than diminish his ambition. He accepts punishing training and his father’s harsh discipline, but redirects his humiliation into hatred of Xiong Shaoqing. His recovery on Sea God Island restores his confidence and reinforces his expectation that he will eventually return as the continent’s ruler 93 103 117.

Abilities & Skills

Blue Silver Grass / Blue Silver Emperor

His plant Martial Soul provides battlefield control through spreading vines, restraints, and concealed attacks. It later awakens as the Blue Silver Emperor 36 50 99.

• Conceals poisoned Bone-Piercing Nails among vines to attack opponents from below 36.
• Attempts to bind enemies while overwhelming them with hidden weapons 37 50.
• Is vulnerable to Xiong Shaoqing’s earth-attribute shock waves, which uproot the grass and scatter concealed projectiles 36.

Clear Sky Hammer

His second Martial Soul serves as a heavy striking weapon and the focus of his waterfall training 93.

• Completes an eighty-one-strike sequence that briefly drives the waterfall upstream 93.
• Receives an early imprint of Asura killing aura following his forbidden enhancement 99.
• Is overpowered by Xiong Shaoqing’s hundred-thousand-year Qian Jun Rock Bear Soul Spirit on Hell Road 101.
• Later suffers extensive cracking when Xiong Shaoqing crushes it with physical strength, causing Tang San to vomit blood 106.

Mysterious Heaven Skill

His principal internal cultivation method supports Soul Power development, physical protection, and recovery from exertion 14 22 41.

• Channels internal power strongly enough to pulverize a porcelain cup without injuring his hand 14.
• Eases muscular pain during Shrek Academy’s weighted training 22.
• Provides the foundation for his breakthroughs to levels 39 and 40 41 47.

Tang Sect Secret Arts

His inherited techniques support evasion, perception, defensive redirection, and covert action.

• Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track: Uses irregular footwork to evade Xiao Wu’s attacks and narrowly avoid Xiong Shaoqing’s punches 9 37.
• Purple Demon Eye: Produces a violet glow in his eyes; used during combat and to monitor a restaurant’s private seating area before drugging a dish 37 47.
• Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon: Redirects Xiao Wu’s close-range attacks while he avoids injuring her 9.
• Concealment and lightness techniques: Hides his presence during surveillance and considers using Tang Sect Lightness Skill to slip out of Shrek Academy 17 22.

Hidden-Weapon Crafting and Poisons

Tang San manufactures mechanical weapons, compounds poisons, and adapts equipment to an opponent’s defenses 41 62.

• Coats Godly Zhuge Crossbow bolts with the strongest compound poison he can make at the time 41.
• Develops Armor-Piercing Poison Needles specifically to penetrate protective Gang Qi 62.
• Disperses colorless, odorless aphrodisiac powder into food using a precise flick of force 47 48.
• Applies his previous-life poison knowledge to an attempted treatment of Emperor Xue Ye 111.
• His weapons become ineffective against sufficiently powerful protection: the Armor-Piercing Poison Needle fails against Xiong Shaoqing, and later volleys shatter against his level-72 defensive Gang Qi 71 106.

Forbidden Enhancement and Asura Influence

Tang Hao uses the Clear Sky Sect’s prohibited Blood-Burning Soul-Sacrifice Method to force the power of living ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts into Tang San 99.

• Raises him to peak level 59 99.
• Mutates his physique, granting strength far beyond ordinary Soul Masters of the same level 99.
• His hatred and the enhancement attract the Asura God’s early attention, resulting in an Asura killing-aura imprint on his Clear Sky Hammer 99.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night — Waist-worn storage equipment used to carry the Godly Zhuge Crossbow 41 42.
• Godly Zhuge Crossbow — Heavy mechanical hidden weapon he painstakingly constructs for a poisoned black-market ambush 41.
• Sleeve Arrow / Silent Sleeve Arrow — Concealed projectile weapon; one poisoned arrow grazes Xiong Shaoqing while he protects Xiao Wu 36 50.
• Back-Mounted Flower Crossbow — One of the poisoned mechanical weapons deployed against Zhu Zhuqing 50.
• Bone-Piercing Nails and Needles — Small projectiles used in concealed attacks; later develops armor-piercing poisoned variants 36 62.
• Dragon Whisker Needles — Included in his failed hidden-weapon barrage at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well 106.
• Armor-Piercing Repeating Crossbows and poisoned Fine Steel Nets — Equipment specifically requested for the Bloodhand Mercenary Corps’ assassination formation 22.

History

Previous Life and the False Diary

Tang San retains knowledge of poisons from a previous life in the Tang Sect and identifies himself as its successor 27 111.

Xiong Shaoqing knows Tang San as the original story’s son of fortune who eventually became a God King. He uses that knowledge to construct a fabricated previous-life narrative in his diary, portraying Tang San as a hypocrite who stole the continent’s fortune. These diary claims form part of Xiong Shaoqing’s deception, rather than an established account of events in this timeline 1.

Xiao Wu’s Departure and the Publishing-House Confrontation

Xiao Wu’s sudden fear and avoidance alarm Tang San, who suspects someone has turned her against him. He searches through snow for several days before finding her eating barbecue with Xiong Shaoqing in Suotuo City. His attempt to take her away ends with Xiao Wu attacking him; unwilling to damage the Soul Ring he has reserved for himself, he defends and retreats 5 9.

He spends the last of his savings investigating Xiong Shaoqing and concludes that the fallen noble lacks wealth, strength, and backing. Outside Hanmo Publishing House, he publicly accuses Xiong of being a penniless fraud. Zhu Zhuqing condemns his stalking and slander, while Boss Qian’s presentation of a prestigious purple jade token overturns his accusations. Tang San leaves amid public ridicule rather than attack in front of witnesses 14 17.

Bloodhand Plot and Shrek Alliance

After earning money through consecutive Great Soul Arena victories, Tang San hears that Xiong Shaoqing has defeated a higher-ranked opponent. He decides to arrange a killing through intermediaries rather than act where Xiao Wu might discover his responsibility 18.

He hires ten Soul Elders of the Bloodhand Mercenary Corps, equipped with armor-piercing crossbows and poisoned nets. While training at Shrek, he anticipates comforting Xiao Wu after Xiong’s death. Discovering Xiong alive and competing successfully later convinces him that the mercenaries have probably been wiped out 22 25.

Learning that Zhu Zhuqing is Dai Mubai’s fiancée gives him another avenue of attack. After a forbidden outing, he falsely takes sole responsibility for involving Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun and endures eighty lashes. The performance wins their loyalty, allowing him to direct their shared resentment toward Xiong Shaoqing 25 26 27.

Arena Defeat and Black-Market Ambush

Tang San organizes a three-person team with Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to challenge the Heaven-Shaking Phantom Team. He mixes Blue Silver Grass control with poisoned projectiles, but Xiong Shaoqing, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing defeat his teammates. Tang San continues alone before withdrawing with a shattered shoulder 34 36 37.

After recovering and reaching level 39, he constructs a poisoned Godly Zhuge Crossbow and plans an ambush near a black-market auction. He expects Xiong to attend for Netherworld Dark Fragrance Bamboo, a treasure suited to Zhu Zhuqing, and waits for the auction to end so other treasure-seekers may also threaten him. The encounter ends in another defeat; Tang San escapes, shaken by Xiong’s ability to severely injure a Poison Shadow Sect Soul Ancestor 41 42 43 44 47.

Drugging Attempt and the Fierce God Team

After obtaining his fourth ring, Tang San secretly drugs soup intended for Xiong Shaoqing, hoping to provoke public misconduct and destroy his reputation. Xiao Wu drinks it instead. Tang San follows them to their inn and breaks into the room intending to pose as her rescuer, but Xiong exposes the timing of his arrival and the intended target of the drug 47 48.

Zhu Zhuqing forces him outside and prevents him from interrupting Xiao Wu’s treatment. Despite his level-41 cultivation, ten-thousand-year restraint skill, and poisoned weapons, he struggles to subdue the lower-ranked Zhu Zhuqing 48 49 50 51.

His attitude toward Xiao Wu subsequently turns openly punitive. He supplies the Fierce God Team with Armor-Piercing Poison Needles and supports arranging a Higher-Level Deathmatch. Privately, he hopes to recover Xiao Wu’s Soul Bone if she dies. The scheme fails, enhances Xiong’s reputation, and leaves Tang San acknowledging that his weapons cannot penetrate his rival’s protection 56 62 64 68 70 71.

Yu Xiaogang and Forbidden Training

Unable to defeat Xiong directly, Tang San reports the existence of conscious, independently fighting Living Soul Spirits to Yu Xiaogang. He hopes his teacher’s theoretical ambitions, clan connections, and moral pressure will force Xiong to surrender the method. He conceals his own humiliating defeat while emphasizing the discovery’s significance 71.

His teacher’s subsequent disgrace becomes another grievance. Under Tang Hao’s supervision, Tang San trains beneath a waterfall and reaches level 50. Tang Hao then resorts to forbidden soul-sacrifice enhancement after the Blue Silver Emperor awakening, raising him to peak level 59. During this period, he appears under the name Tang Yin 93 99.

Slaughter City and the Immortal Herbs

Tang San spends a hundred days training in Slaughter City, but Xiong Shaoqing’s Living Soul Spirits overwhelm him on Hell Road. Tang Chen intervenes to protect him and treats his injuries. Outside the city, Tang Hao lashes him for failing despite the sacrifices made to strengthen him 101 103.

Tang San next offers Dugu Bo hidden weapons and a poison cure in exchange for immortal herbs. Dugu Bo refuses, explaining that his backlash has already been suppressed and that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s plants are promised to Xiong Shaoqing 104.

Tang Hao then attacks the site’s defenses while Tang San anticipates using the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to improve his techniques. Xiong arrives, destroys his projectile barrage, nearly crushes his hammer Martial Soul, and caves in his chest with a kick. Tang Hao rescues him and flees, later using his own vitality to reconstruct Tang San’s damaged meridians 105 106 107.

Imperial Treatment and Sea God Island

Tang Yuehua secretly brings Tang San and Tang Hao into Heaven Dou City and supplies treasures for his recovery. Tang San sees Emperor Xue Ye’s illness as an opportunity: curing the emperor could secure imperial protection against Spirit Hall and Xiong Shaoqing 111.

Xiong has already commissioned Yang Wudi to make a catalyst for the emperor’s existing mixed poison. The treatment ends disastrously, Tang San is accused of murdering the emperor, and Tang Hao breaks into the palace to rescue him. Tang San believes he has become a scapegoat in an imperial succession struggle 112 113.

With both Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou hostile, Tang Hao directs him toward Sea God Island. There, Tang San reaches the 108th step under Sea God’s Light, heals his remaining injuries, and advances to level 68. He resolves to complete the Sea God Nine Trials, obtain the Sea God Trident, and return to avenge his defeats; none of those later goals is shown completed in the provided chapters 113 117.

Relationships

• Xiong Shaoqing — Principal enemy. Tang San repeatedly attempts to expose, assassinate, or overpower him; his jealousy and humiliation also trigger fortune-stripping rewards for Xiong’s system 9 14 26 37.
• Xiao Wu — Formerly addressed him as Brother San. He regards her as both his exclusive romantic possession and a future hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring; after her rejection, he contemplates imprisonment, punishment, and harvesting her Soul Bone 5 56 62.
• Zhu Zhuqing — Enemy who condemns his hypocrisy and protects Xiong and Xiao Wu from him. Tang San also exploits her engagement to provoke Dai Mubai 17 27 48 49.
• Dai Mubai — Shrek teammate and accomplice. Tang San wins his trust through the eighty-lash punishment, then uses his jealousy, combat strength, wealth, and princely status against Xiong 26 27 34 64.
• Ma Hongjun — Shrek teammate and accomplice in ambushes and assassination plots. Like Dai Mubai, he believes Tang San’s staged sacrifice demonstrates genuine brotherhood 26 27 43 62.
• Yu Xiaogang — Teacher who considers him a prized disciple. Tang San seeks to mobilize his ambitions and connections against Xiong’s Living Soul Spirit method 71.
• Tang Hao — Father, trainer, protector, and harsh disciplinarian. Uses forbidden enhancement on him, rescues him repeatedly, and expends his own vitality to preserve his cultivation foundation 93 99 103 106 107.
• Tang Chen — Great-grandfather who protects him following the Hell Road defeat and treats his injuries 103.
• Tang Yuehua — Aunt who shelters him in Heaven Dou City, provides medicinal treasures, and helps him gain access to Emperor Xue Ye 111.
• Dugu Bo — Rejects his proposed exchange for immortal herbs and remains aligned with Xiong Shaoqing 104.

Notable Quotes

“Father, I want to grow stronger. I want to kill Xiong Shaoqing with my own hands and wash away the humiliation he brought upon my teacher and me. As long as I can kill him, I’m willing to pay any price.” 93

“Xiong Shaoqing, you’d better stay alive. When I, Tang San, perfect my divine arts and return from Sea God Island as a king, I will crush your bones with my own hands and repay every humiliation you inflicted on me a thousandfold, ten thousandfold.” 117