Nangong Tang

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Power Progression

Background / History

Sect Life and Financial Troubles

Nangong Tang’s unusual Spirit Root prevents her from refining ordinary spirit pills; she can produce only poison pills. Their poor sales leave her struggling to fund her cultivation. Her grandfather supported her when she was young but later demanded that she earn her own money, declaring that a poison cultivator unable to make money was not a good poison cultivator. She consequently resorted to swindling Spirit Stones from senior disciples on other peaks and sometimes divided a single Grain Avoidance Pill into several portions 30.

She grew up with Ye Qingyu and developed a longstanding feud with Shen Mingxiao. Shen had demanded that she become his dao companion when they were children and turned against her after she refused. He later cited an alleged childhood poisoning as proof of her malicious character 31 33 39.

Fate in the Original Novel

According to Su Ruanruan’s system, the original novel described Nangong Tang contracting a Heart-Devouring Demonic Vine in the Green Wood Illusion Forest and using it to enter an ancient cave abode. Unable to suppress its backlash, she died inside the secret realm. The system identifies a 79% similarity between that vine and Feng Zhuo’s Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Vine, rather than confirming that they are identical 28.

Rescue and Partnership with Feng Zhuo

Nangong Tang finds Feng Zhuo unconscious after the Soul-Devouring Vine’s backlash. She suppresses the vine with her flame and medicine, carries him to shelter, and offers further treatment in exchange for accompanying her to an ancient cultivator’s cave abode. Her interest also extends to studying the vine: she eagerly asks to cut away a small piece of his flesh containing it, but abandons the request when he refuses 28.

She initially claims that the cave contains a Spirit-Cleansing Pool and may hold the Spirit Taming Sect’s Symbiotic Contract. After Feng Zhuo exposes her evasions and Yanba restrains her and her toad, she admits that the purifying treasure is actually Spirit-Purifying Mystic Water, whose demanding conditions make it an uncertain cure. Her claim about the Spirit Taming Sect’s inheritance is an educated guess, not confirmed knowledge 29 30.

Her own objective is to find records explaining her toad’s mutation after it swallowed the Miasma-Glass Poison Flame. Once this is clarified, Feng Zhuo thanks her with supreme-grade pills and provides an additional apology gift for restraining her. Their tense arrangement becomes a willing partnership 30.

Ancient Cave Abode

Nangong Tang identifies a crooked dead tree marking the entrance, uproots it, and sends her toad underground to excavate the passage. She also stops Feng Zhuo from attempting to fill the doors’ grooves with blood, explaining that he should use the Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Vine instead 34.

A teleportation array separates them upon entry. The narration indicates that Nangong Tang receives the greater share of the cave’s opportunities, although her individual acquisitions are not specified. She emerges at Foundation Establishment Early Stage with her toad at the seventh tier 34 36.

Countering the Secret-Realm Ambush

Su Ruanruan falsely accuses Nangong Tang and Feng Zhuo of jointly poisoning her, despite never having met Nangong Tang. The accusation exploits Nangong Tang’s reputation for poison techniques and persuades Shen Mingxiao to help organize a hunt 31 33.

Warned by Ye Qingyu’s message talisman, Nangong Tang and Feng Zhuo remain underground until the secret realm’s final day. During the confrontation at the exit, she secretly buries offshoots of Feng Zhuo’s Green Vine Heart Flame beneath the assembled attackers, helping him trap more than fifty disciples. She also records their threats and subsequent infighting on an image-recording jade 36 37.

Afterward, she reluctantly agrees to bring the Purple Yang Pill Sect disciples out only at the last moment before the realm closes, while Yun Li handles the Supreme One Divine Sect disciples. This allows Feng Zhuo to confront Chu Yunfei outside without the ambushers immediately joining the dispute. Her recording later becomes evidence of the organized attack against him 39 45.

Appearance

• Face: Youthful, with a shrewd expression and bright, almond-shaped eyes 28 29.
• Clothing: Introduced as a green-clad figure; wears brocade boots with subtle patterns 28 29.
• Usual companion: The Green-Eyed Golden Toad can perch on her shoulder 28.

Personality

Nangong Tang is theatrical, quick-tempered, and mischievous. She introduces herself with an exaggerated pose, answers questions about her knowledge by calling herself a genius, and readily trades insults with Ye Qingyu. Their arguments can escalate into wrestling matches in which neither uses spiritual power 29 32.

She is intensely curious about rare creatures and protective of her toad, objecting when Feng Zhuo dismisses its value. Her willingness to seek ancient records stems from concern over its unpredictable mutation 28 30.

Financial hardship makes her opportunistic rather than too proud to bargain. Her anger at Feng Zhuo’s interrogation vanishes upon discovering the quality of his gifts, and she immediately asks for additional compensation. Nevertheless, she proves a useful partner by helping execute the counterambush and preserving evidence 30 37.

Abilities & Skills

Poison Cultivation and Pill Refinement

Her special Spirit Root restricts her alchemy to poison pills 30.

• Uses first-tier poison pills to counter poison and suppress the Soul-Devouring Vine’s Blood Resentment Qi 29 30.
• Her treatment suppresses the backlash temporarily rather than curing its underlying cause 28 29.
• Her poison expertise surpasses that of the roughly two hundred disciples present in the secret realm; Chu Hongxiao considers her talent in poison techniques even more frightening than her grandfather’s 33 39.

Miasma-Glass Poison Flame

Nangong Tang indirectly contracts this Divergent Flame through the Green-Eyed Golden Toad after it accidentally swallows the flame 30.

• Ranked sixty-eighth among Divergent Flames 30.
• Manifests as a green or cyan flame at her fingertips 28 29.
• Can merge briefly with the toad to increase its rank; the mutation’s broader consequences remain uncertain 30.

Green-Eyed Golden Toad

Despite its poisonous-sounding name, the toad is an earth-attribute Demon Beast particularly skilled in escape techniques 30.

• Can swallow Nangong Tang and flee underground with her 29.
• Excavates tunnels and underground chambers, enabling concealment and covert movement 34 36.
• Reaches the sixth tier when it swallows her flame during the confrontation with Yanba, and the seventh tier following the cave exploration 29 36.
• Helps position Feng Zhuo’s flame offshoots beneath the ambushers without exposing her movements 37.

Equipment / Items

• Anti-baleful-Qi pills — A secret Purple Yang Pill Sect formula used to suppress Feng Zhuo’s Blood Resentment Qi 29.
• Green Wood Essence-Nourishing Pill — Supplies one to Feng Zhuo; despite being first tier, it restores thirty percent of his Foundation Establishment Middle Stage spiritual power 29.
• Supreme-grade pill gifts — Receives two bottles of Spirit-Restoring Pills, one of Spirit-Feeding Pills, and one of Foundation Establishment Pills, all second tier, plus a bottle of first-tier Rejuvenation Pills 30.
• Image-recording jade — Records the secret-realm confrontation and passes it to Feng Zhuo 37.

Relationships

• Feng Zhuo — Rescued cultivator turned exploration partner. Their cooperation develops from mutual suspicion into coordinated action against the ambushers 28 29 30 37.
• Ye Qingyu — Childhood friend and frequent sparring partner. He conceals her whereabouts, warns her of the hunt, and later sends word that he will wait at their usual meeting place after reaching Foundation Establishment 32 33 36 39.
• Green-Eyed Golden Toad — Cherished contracted beast whose mutation motivates her search for ancient records 30.
• Shen Mingxiao — Hostile fellow sect disciple whose resentment follows her rejection of his childhood demand to become dao companions. He supports the false poisoning accusation against her 31 39.
• Su Ruanruan — Falsely implicates her in poisoning and seeks to extract information about the ancient cave abode from her 33.
• Unnamed grandfather — Formerly paid her expenses, then insisted she finance her own cultivation 30.
• Master of Poison Miasma Forest — Her master; the only person in her sect she says recognized the Green-Eyed Golden Toad 28 30 33.

Notable Quotes

“Because I’m a genius.” 29

“Fellow Daoist Feng, you don’t know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are until you run a household!” 30