Tang Rou

Biodata

Power Progression

History

Blood Moon Calamity

Tang Rou originally worked as a doctor and continued saving lives after becoming a Transcendent. During the Blood Moon Calamity, she served in the rear support units, healing and encouraging the defenders. She believed humanity would produce heroes capable of resisting the disaster and wanted to become one herself 83 86 103.

A Calamity Demon General targeted her because of her contribution to the defensive line. Chen Nian intercepted its attack, saving her. She subsequently used Source of Life to restore his injuries and fatigue, witnessing his strength as Buyu firsthand and resolving to become more useful to him 86 87 89 90.

Joining Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace

Traveling to Lu City to seek admission to Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace, Tang Rou encountered Chen Nian without initially recognizing him as Buyu. After she treated an elderly passenger’s heart attack, Wei Chen approached her with a fraudulent guild referral. Her eagerness to fight alongside Buyu led her to trust his business card despite Chen Nian’s warning 103 104.

Wei Chen instead brought her to Moon Capture, where Wan Jiahao intended to exploit her sexually to strengthen his talent. Wei Chen had drugged her coffee and used his ability against her; Chen Nian killed him, allowing her to regain her senses 105.

When the Wantong Group later demanded that Tang Rou be handed over, Chen Nian formally welcomed her into his guild and warned them against touching her. She quickly settled into the guild’s informal, egalitarian atmosphere 109 110.

Guild Healer and Divine Awakening

Tang Rou accompanied Ning Ziqing to Chen Nian’s home and accepted an invitation to travel to the capital. During the tournament disturbance, she fled with Ning Ziqing from an out-of-control telekinetic and embraced her protectively when escape became impossible 146 149.

She and Lu Ge later received the Desolate Beast core Chen Nian brought back, completing the materials needed for the guild’s level-two base upgrade. Following the Black Calamity campaign, Tang Rou treated Zhao Yixue and asked Chen Nian for a Divinity so she could contribute more effectively 157 215.

Chen Nian fulfilled that promise while visiting her mother in hospital. After awakening Gou Mang, Tang Rou immediately demonstrated her stronger healing by saving a critically ill young woman with a severe congenital heart condition 220.

God-Demon Capital and Overseas Missions

In God-Demon Capital, Tang Rou stayed behind against Jorōgumo, Hone-onna, and Ubume so Shangze Sakura and Zi Nan could escape. She launched Sakura onto the Undead Bone Dragon with vines, then sealed herself inside Tree Prison. Unable to break through, the monsters carried her to Nurarihyon, who cut apart the prison before Chen Nian intervened 304 307.

Her overseas duties also included delivering advanced technological products to the Dragon Country Academy of Sciences. During the attack on Dragon Country’s plane over the Pacific, she and Bi Shuang protected the other passengers, and Tang Rou treated the survivors’ injuries before the International Transcendent Competition 391 400.

Chen Nian subsequently recruited her for a journey to the Heavenly Vault Realm. In Undead Valley, she defended the party against a monster tide before the Spring of Life dragged her underwater. Her Divinity briefly resisted its control, giving Chen Nian an opening to rescue her and remove the water from her body 411 455 456.

World Tree Academy and the Memory Crisis

After a prolonged separation, Tang Rou confronted Chen Nian over treating her like an employee he could call upon and then leave behind. He offered to seek admission for her to World Tree Academy, explaining that her limited solo combat ability made the normal assessment difficult. She later entered the academy’s medical department on the dean’s recommendation 570 579.

When Chen Nian entered the cracks between worlds to retrieve Rika, Tang Rou initially forgot him. With Big Rika’s notes, she began contacting his companions and restoring their memories. Her efforts helped mobilize the collective will that empowered the World Tree’s seed, allowing Chen Nian and Rika to escape 583 584.

Calamity Tree Rescue

At the academy, deputy medical department head Cai Ming confessed his feelings to Tang Rou. Her immediate inclination was to refuse because she already liked Chen Nian 674.

Tang Rou was later held alive at the Calamity Tree’s roots, impaled on a branch to nourish it. Chen Nian infiltrated the stronghold, killed her two Demon God guards, freed her, and healed her injuries. They confessed their feelings, and Tang Rou kissed him. When an Early Tier Seven Origin Demon God attacked, Chen Nian placed her inside the Chaos Light-Devouring Beast’s independent space 687.

She returned with Chen Nian afterward. During his subsequent qi-refining training under Merlin, she helped him recover from his injuries 689 692.

Appearance

Tang Rou has long black hair and a curvy figure with a little softness. Her eyes acquire a green tint after she awakens Gou Mang’s Divinity 83 220 345.

• Build: Described as remaining shapely despite her large appetite 345 411.
• Weight: Admits to weighing 47.6 kilograms when Chen Nian frightens her with a fake identity test 444.
• Casual clothing: Wears white T-shirts and denim shorts; sometimes ties her hair into a ponytail 497 570.
• Work clothing: Wears a white coat at the academy’s medical department 674.

Personality

Tang Rou is outgoing, gentle, and committed to helping others. Her ambition is to protect her home and country and support heroes, rather than seek status as someone’s ornament. Even when threatened during the Blood Moon Calamity, she remains composed and holds to her belief that humanity can resist 83 86 103 105.

Her everyday manner is much more playful. She enjoys food, sleeping in, watching dramas, and bargaining for rewards when Chen Nian gives her chores. She trades increasingly bold jokes with him, complains about overtime, and enthusiastically reverses her objections when offered equipment or a holiday home 260 263 371 400 411.

She is deeply afraid of ghosts and frightening monsters, but that fear does not stop her from protecting companions. Her decision to remain behind in God-Demon Capital contrasts with her panicked attempts to convince the monsters that she would taste terrible 304 307.

Although she repeatedly claims that food matters more than romance, prolonged separation reveals how much she values being needed by Chen Nian. She dislikes feeling interchangeable with his other acquaintances or being treated as someone available only when there is work 480 570 687.

Abilities & Skills

Elven Healing — Source of Life

Source of Life restores physical injuries and fatigue through life-filled green energy 87.

• Restores Chen Nian during the Blood Moon Calamity battle 87 89.
• Relieves an elderly passenger’s heart attack symptoms 103.
• Can be applied from several meters away 299.
• Supports injured travelers and combatants, including the survivors of the Pacific aircraft attack 400.

Chant of Life

An elven secret art identified as her first-tier ultimate skill. Its song makes listeners feel reinvigorated 83.

• Used to encourage and sustain defenders during the Blood Moon Calamity 83.
• Complements her battlefield healing role rather than functioning as a documented offensive attack 83 86.

Gou Mang — God of Spring and Wood

Her Divinity strengthens her healing and grants control over vines and plants. Its awakening releases enough vitality to restore withered leaves and dead grass nearby 220 370.

• Heals a young woman suffering from a severe congenital heart condition 220.
• Produces vines that intercept Jorōgumo’s spider silk 304.
• Binds and throws Shangze Sakura onto the Undead Bone Dragon to enable her escape 304.
• Briefly resists the Spring of Life’s control while Tang Rou is drowning 456.

Tree Prison and Defensive Barriers

Tang Rou can use her divine power defensively despite her limited offensive ability 304 455.

• Tree Prison: Encloses herself in regenerating layers of vines that Jorōgumo, Hone-onna, and Ubume cannot break 304.
• Limit: Nurarihyon cuts apart the vine enclosure 307.
• Green barrier: Holds back Undead Valley’s monster tide while Chen Nian prepares Tiankong Divine Cannon; she warns that she cannot maintain it much longer 455.

Medical Knowledge and Combat Limitations

• Trained and worked as a doctor before becoming a Transcendent 103.
• Joins World Tree Academy’s medical department, which employs healers and people with substantial medical knowledge 579.
• Primarily a support specialist: her difficulty completing dangerous missions alone obstructs the academy’s ordinary admission route 149 570.

Equipment & Items

• Yin-Yang Talisman: Receives a level-one talisman from Haruna to resist ghostly aura. It can be upgraded using ghostly aura gained from defeating monsters 303.
• Legendary equipment: Receives Chen Nian’s discarded legendary equipment after he equips the Oni King Supreme Ring 339.
• Hawaii home key card: Receives a registered key card to an ocean-view home as an incentive to accompany Chen Nian on another assignment 411.
• Airship: Buys an airship with money obtained from Chen Nian’s ex-girlfriend and pilots it before Chen Nian brings her aboard his own vessel 454.

Relationships

• Chen Nian / Buyu — Her rescuer, guild leader, employer, and eventual romantic partner. Their relationship develops from admiration into teasing familiarity, then an explicit confession and kiss during her Calamity Tree rescue 90 109 370 687.
• Tang Rou’s mother — Regularly urges her to find a partner and openly favors Chen Nian, welcoming his visits and encouraging their closeness 220 270 570.
• Ning Ziqing — Chen Nian considers Tang Rou a suitable guide for her growth. Tang Rou later tries to shield her during the tournament disturbance 103 149.
• Su Jinyu / Xiao Qi — Fellow guild member and someone to whom Tang Rou complains about Chen Nian. Tang Rou also helps restore her memories of him 345 400 584.
• Tsuchimikado Rika — Befriends her by offering snacks; their shared love of food helps them get along. Tang Rou later plays a key part in the effort to bring her and Chen Nian back from the cracks between worlds 355 577 584.
• Shangze Sakura and Zi Nan — Companions in God-Demon Capital whose escape Tang Rou secures by staying behind 304.
• Cai Ming — Deputy head of the academy’s medical department and an admirer. Tang Rou is inclined to reject his confession because of her feelings for Chen Nian 674.

Trivia

• The author originally planned Tang Rou as a supporting character, but her appearances expanded until she had more page time than some heroines. At that point, the author deliberately retained the secretary–boss dynamic 370.
• The hospital patient Tang Rou heals after awakening Gou Mang was inspired by a real fan with a congenital heart condition, according to the author’s chapter postscript 220.
• She sells a recording of Chen Nian’s Demon King battle for epic equipment, giving ordinary buyers a blurry version while sending Xiao Qi a high-definition copy 345.
• Her appetite extends to exploding fruit: after its juice splatters her colleagues’ white coats, she still remarks that it tastes good 606.