Wang Doushan

Wang Doushan is a Snow Crane bloodline cultivator from Flowing Cloud City and one of Su Chen's earliest and most dependable friends. Although his absent-mindedness, appetite, and immense weight make him appear harmless, he is a calculating fighter who repeatedly sides with common students against the expectations of bloodline nobility. His greatest strength comes from combining the Snow Crane bloodline with Devouring the Heavens, a technique that converts stored fat into life force and makes him extraordinarily difficult to kill.

Biography

The late examinee and a partnership of opposites

Wang Doushan first met Su Chen while nearly missing registration for the Three-Mountains Region entrance examination. Su Chen reminded the distracted youth to collect his jade tablet, and Wang introduced himself as a candidate from Flowing Cloud City. The encounter immediately established the contradiction that would follow him throughout the corpus: he was careless enough to forget an essential deadline, yet fast enough to complete the errand almost instantly once someone drew his attention to it. (Chapter 116)

Their real friendship began after Su Chen found four candidates pursuing the injured Wang. Wang did not demand help or try to pull a stranger into his quarrel, even though Ji Hanyan's Frosted Ice Palms, Zhang Sheng'an's wood poison, and repeated attacks had left him in serious condition. When Su Chen offered treatment, Wang trusted him to inspect his body and followed his instructions while the Snow Crane bloodline slowly neutralized the remaining cold and poison. In return, he committed himself to helping Su Chen qualify rather than treating the intervention as a debt that could be forgotten. (Chapters 132–134)

The two then swept through the examination area as a deliberately complementary team. Wang used Thousand Feather Hands to obstruct groups, Snow Earthquake Explosion to break formations, and Snow Crane Steps to glide through the air, while Su Chen supplied the endurance and ranged offense that Wang lacked. Wang's strongest attacks consumed too much energy for a long pursuit, but he understood that limitation and let Su Chen determine when to fight and when to move. Their rapid accumulation of points carried Wang to fifty-fourth place and revealed that the apparently simple Fat Crane could think quickly in battle. (Chapters 134–135)

Wang also became Su Chen's first guide to the political reality of bloodline society. After they found murdered candidates, he explained why a noble killer might escape severe punishment and offered Su Chen safety by remaining at his side. When Su Chen nevertheless chose to hunt Pan Yue alone, Wang respected the decision instead of trying to control him. Later, on seeing Jin Ling’er apparently controlling Su Chen, he attacked her at once; after learning the truth, he accepted her as an ally, helped force Ji Hanyan to retreat, and agreed to reunite with both companions at the Hidden Dragon Institute. (Chapters 136–151)

Choosing friends over clan solidarity

At the Institute, Wang and Jin Ling'er were among the few students who welcomed Su Chen without distancing themselves from his lack of a bloodline. Wang's support soon became personal rather than merely social. When Su Chen was dejected after Shi Kaihuang rejected him, Wang drank with him, listened to the story of his blindness and family conflict, and supplied the background needed to understand Shi's long, failed search for a disciple. His casual observation helped Su Chen reinterpret the rejection and continue pursuing the instructor. (Chapters 156–170)

That friendship placed Wang in direct conflict with other members of the bloodline nobility. During the Falling Eagle Mountain expedition, he remained with Team Bright after Zhang Sheng'an turned a Clay Giant against them and chose Zheng Kuang, an old enemy, as his opponent. Zheng's Sword Rhinoceros bloodline overpowered Wang in direct exchanges and mangled his arm, but Wang had concealed fragments of his Snow Thread Origin Tool inside his bloodline attacks. Once enough fragments had entered Zheng's body, Wang recalled them and cut him apart from within, winning through patience and deception rather than superior force. (Chapters 213–218)

The victory created a danger that extended beyond the battlefield. Wang helped construct the account that the Clay Giant had killed six noble youths and understood that his own clan standing could protect him if he abandoned the commoner students. He did not do so. When the dead youths' clans investigated, interrogators found him so stubborn that they could extract no useful information. His silence preserved the shared cover story and demonstrated that his friendship with Su Chen, Du Qing, Sun Jizu, and the rest of Team Bright mattered more to him than a safe retreat into noble solidarity. (Chapters 227–240)

Wang later spent his own competitive standing to support Cloud Leopard. He was normally one of the strongest students of their year, but he deliberately stopped advancing and surrendered a high-ranked match so Cloud Leopard could reach the Goldwater Ruins expedition despite being poorly suited to formal stage combat. Other nobles openly resented both the manipulation and Wang's habit of associating with bloodline-less students. Wang accepted the hostility, helping turn an individual ranking contest into a collective effort that ultimately secured Cloud Leopard's place. (Chapters 264 and 274–275)

A body remade for battle

Su Chen rewarded his companions with techniques designed for their individual weaknesses. For Wang, he selected Devouring the Heavens, a bloodline-free art originally used by Zheng Bashan that transformed accumulated fat into life force. Wang chose strength over appearance without hesitation. Over four years his weight rose from roughly ninety to two hundred ninety kilograms, while his annual Institute rank advanced from ninety-second to eightieth, thirty-sixth, eighteenth, and seventh; by his final year he was ordinarily considered about sixth. That transformation brought costs stage rankings concealed. Added mass increased his power and survivability but slowed him during travel, so in the Goldwater Ruins he accepted a protective role: at Su Chen's request, he stayed with the comparatively vulnerable Ji Ruoyu, gathered herbs, ate to maintain his reserve, and avoided needless pursuit of Ferocious Race youths. (Chapters 264–265, 277, 281, 296–302, and 307)

Wang finally spent the reserve in a Takusha duel against the Temple Warrior Ferraro. Ferraro's Crimsonwolf attacks repeatedly tore and burned his body, but Wang converted fat into life force, recovered from otherwise fatal wounds, and returned with renewed force. As he grew lighter, his raw strength declined while his speed and the accuracy of Thousand Feather Hands increased. He also used Snow Earthquake Explosion to oppose Ferraro's flames and Snow Thread to destroy one of the warrior's arms, adapting his tactics as his body changed instead of relying on regeneration alone. (Chapters 306–309)

Ferraro nevertheless forced Wang through nearly all the fat he had accumulated over four years. After the reserve fell from the equivalent of several recoveries to roughly half a life, Wang used a Strengthened Strength Medicine to finish the exhausted warrior. He regarded that necessity as a moral defeat because Snow Thread and the medicine together exceeded the Takusha resource allowance by five hundred Origin Stones, even though Ferraro and the other Ferocious Race observers accepted the result. The duel thus proved both the terrifying ceiling and finite nature of his survival technique: sufficient continuous damage could exhaust it, and restoration required prolonged eating rather than an immediate reset. (Chapters 309–310)

The expedition continued with Wang suddenly lean, faster, and substantially weaker. He could no longer fill the same frontline role, searched eagerly for food, and relied on the group while beginning to rebuild his reserves. He still contributed judgment—recognizing that an adaptive formation had developed consciousness—and returned safely with the expedition. After graduation, family influence secured him a Knowledge Executor post in his native Flowing Cloud City, where official service and contribution to the Wang Clan could reinforce one another. (Chapters 311–322 and 341)

Service in Flowing Cloud and the call to reunite

Wang's posting removed him from Su Chen's daily campaigns but did not dissolve their bond. Su Chen continued to use him as the standard for Devouring the Heavens, explaining that Wang's rapid fat accumulation and Snow Crane mobility made the technique more effective for him than for Iron Cliff. The friends also continued to share the gains of their earlier work: Cloud Leopard specifically reminded Su Chen to include Wang when distributing a large reward, and Wang later sent Su Chen a scarce basket of Red Serpentfruits obtained from Ferocious Race territory. (Chapters 390, 432, 482, and 504)

His clearest later decision came when Iron Cliff called Su Chen's former classmates together for a mission connected to the stranded Heavenly Might Army. The appeal offered no ordinary reward and pointed toward the dangerous Limestone Mountain Range, yet Wang came with the other veterans of the Institute and Goldwater expedition. He arrived last—hours after the agreed afternoon meeting—and insisted that his faulty estimate was responsible, reproducing the same inability to judge time seen at his introduction. Beneath the comedy, however, his presence confirmed that years of separation and an official post had not weakened his willingness to answer when Su Chen needed help. (Chapters 629–630)

The corpus does not directly follow Wang through the resulting operation or establish a later office, cultivation realm, marriage, or death. Later references show that his recovery ability remains a recognized exception among restorative Origin Skills and preserve his cutting description of the Harpies as creatures that borrowed the prestige of stronger Beasts. These retrospective mentions establish his continuing reputation but not his physical presence; his last confirmed on-page state is therefore alive among the assembled rescuers. (Chapters 669 and 775)

Appearance and personality

Wang is introduced simply as a conspicuously fat youth and soon embraces the nickname Fat Crane. Cultivating Devouring the Heavens exaggerates that build dramatically: he rises from about ninety kilograms to two hundred ninety, with the stored mass serving as both strength and a reserve of potential life force. Burning nearly all of it against Ferraro reveals a leaner, more agile body beneath. The corpus describes the transformation in functional terms and does not give stable details for his height, hair, eyes, or later clothing. (Chapters 116, 133, 265, and 307–310)

His public manner is cheerful, shameless, and deceptively foolish. He laughs easily, speaks bluntly, forgets deadlines, and consistently arrives late because he cannot estimate travel time. He also pursues pleasure enthusiastically, once boasting about spending a break visiting numerous women and trying to broaden Cloud Leopard's romantic experience. Those habits are genuine, but they coexist with a fighter whom the narration calls shrewd and vicious once battle begins, as demonstrated by his hidden use of Snow Thread and his ability to exploit stronger opponents' assumptions. (Chapters 133, 218, 264, 285, and 630)

Wang is loyal without being submissive and honorable without being naïve. He accepts Su Chen's tactical direction when it makes sense, but he independently warns him about noble politics, chooses to protect weaker teammates, and spends his own rank for Cloud Leopard. After killing Ferraro, he judges himself against the agreed resource limit even when his opponent does not protest. His strongest recurring trait is therefore not comic appetite but a willingness to carry personal costs—injury, political suspicion, lost status, or years of accumulated fat—for people and principles he has chosen. (Chapters 136–137, 227–240, 274–275, 296, and 310)

Abilities and cultivation

Wang combines an inherited Snow Crane bloodline with body-oriented skills, a concealed weapon, and Devouring the Heavens. His exact cultivation realm at graduation and afterward is not stated in the supplied corpus, so his capabilities are best measured through demonstrated combat and Institute rankings rather than an inferred realm.

Snow Crane bloodline

The Snow Crane bloodline grants Wang cold-themed attacks, unusual aerial mobility, and some resistance to hostile effects. While badly injured during the entrance examination, its power gradually neutralizes both Ji Hanyan's freezing energy and Zhang Sheng'an's wood poison after Wang concentrates it around the affected Origin Energy nodes. This resistance is not immediate immunity: the frost still seals his body, the poison still weakens him, and Su Chen's intervention is needed to clear most of the obstruction quickly. (Chapters 132–134)

The bloodline also compensates for the movement penalty created by Devouring the Heavens. Snow Crane Steps lets Wang glide or maneuver through the air despite his size, and later analysis explicitly contrasts him with Iron Cliff, whose lack of a comparable bloodline makes added weight a greater tactical burden. The compensation is incomplete; Wang still slows companions over distance and becomes visibly faster when his fat is burned away. (Chapters 135, 218, 277, 308, and 390)

Thousand Feather Hands and Cloud Sundering

Thousand Feather Hands produces a rapid succession of palm or fist images. Wang uses the barrage to obstruct several opponents, suppress a single target through repeated impacts, and conceal fragments of Snow Thread within apparently ordinary bloodline exchanges. Its performance changes with his body: high stored mass gives each blow extraordinary strength, while lower mass reduces force but increases speed and accuracy. Ferraro withstands the technique through raw durability and later tears through its attack pattern with a forbidden burst, showing that it can be overcome by superior power. (Chapters 134, 218, and 307–309)

Cloud Sundering concentrates force around Wang's arms and releases a powerful barrier-breaking strike. It smashes ordinary defenses, helps the examination partnership overwhelm groups, and breaks Zheng Kuang's azure light barrier, although it cannot penetrate the Sword Rhinoceros cultivator's reinforced body. Wang estimates during the examination that he can use it roughly twenty-five times at his then-current level, making it much more sustainable than Snow Earthquake Explosion but still dependent on a finite Origin Energy reserve. (Chapters 134–135 and 218)

Snow Earthquake Explosion

Snow Earthquake Explosion is Wang's large-area burst. It releases an explosive field of snowy force capable of breaking up groups and, in the Ferraro duel, partially countering a compressed flaming claw. At the examination Wang can activate it only about five times before exhausting himself, so he normally reserves it for decisive exchanges. Its relative power also depends on his weight: Thousand Feather Hands surpasses it while his physical strength is at its peak, but the explosion becomes his strongest technique again after regeneration consumes much of that mass. (Chapters 134–135 and 308–309)

Devouring the Heavens

Devouring the Heavens is a bloodline-free technique Su Chen gives Wang after recovering it from Zheng Bashan's knowledge. It allows the user to convert accumulated body fat directly into life force, closing wounds and restoring physical condition. Wang's natural ability to gain weight makes him especially suited to the art. After four years of preparation, he can regenerate mangled flesh, severe burns, exposed organs, and the loss of a large portion of his body as long as sufficient fat remains. Later comparisons identify this as an exceptional recovery ability rather than ordinary defensive toughness. (Chapters 264–265, 307–309, 390, 432, and 669)

Stored fat is both fuel and a changing combat configuration. At high weight Wang possesses immense strength, endurance, and a reserve compared to several additional lives, but suffers reduced speed. Injury automatically or deliberately consumes the reserve; as he becomes lighter, strength decreases while Snow Crane speed and attack accuracy improve, temporarily making him more balanced. Below a critical threshold, further losses degrade his entire physical condition. This interaction lets him grow more dangerous during part of a battle, but it also gives an attritional opponent a clear path to victory. (Chapters 265, 277, and 307–309)

The technique's central cost is preparation. Wang spends years eating and preserving fat because every serious recovery permanently burns some of that reserve, and a prolonged sequence of heavy wounds can consume it faster than he can replace it. Ferraro's continuous flames are an effective practical counter because they force regeneration without pause, eventually reducing Wang to an ordinary build with only a fraction of one recovery left. Food can rebuild the reserve afterward, but the corpus supplies no instant method, fixed conversion ratio, or later improved version of the technique. (Chapters 307–312 and 318)

Snow Thread and tactical combat

Snow Thread is a soft Origin Tool that can divide into thousands of nearly invisible fragments and re-form around Wang's fingertip. Rather than contesting heavy weapons directly, he hides the fragments in Snow Crane attacks so that repeated contact deposits them inside an opponent. Recalling the pieces then cuts the target from within. The method kills Zheng Kuang despite the latter's superior physical offense and defense, and later destroys Ferraro's arm when the Temple Warrior reaches the weak point after releasing a major attack. (Chapters 218 and 309)

The weapon is powerful but not undetectable. Its entry creates tiny wounds that an attentive opponent can recognize, while the prolonged setup exposes Wang to repeated counterattacks. Wang therefore succeeds with it by presenting himself as a straightforward brawler and exploiting opponents who focus on his body rather than his technique. Against Ferraro it provides a disabling counterattack but not a complete victory, reinforcing that Snow Thread supplements rather than replaces his bloodline and regeneration. (Chapters 218 and 309–310)

Progression and latest confirmed state

Before learning Devouring the Heavens, Wang reliably placed within the Institute's top one hundred while concealing Snow Thread in formal matches. The new technique drives a steep rise through successive annual rankings and makes him famous as an opponent many students cannot kill even when he allows them to attack. His unrestricted performance against Ferraro leads Su Chen to call him the strongest member of the Goldwater group when he is willing to consume the reserve, though that peak is temporary and bought with years of stored resources. (Chapters 264–265 and 307)

The corpus does not state the realm he holds as a Flowing Cloud Knowledge Executor, whether he learns the better Origin Skills Su Chen promises after the Takusha, or how much fat he has accumulated by the rescue gathering. References long after graduation still treat rapid fat accumulation, Snow Crane mobility, and extraordinary recovery as his defining combination. No later cultivation variant, bloodline evolution, immortal-realm advancement, or permanent loss of these abilities is confirmed. (Chapters 310, 341, 390, 432, and 669)

Relationships

• Su Chen: Wang's closest friend, entrance-examination partner, and the person who gives him Devouring the Heavens. Wang repays Su Chen's early aid by fighting beside him, protecting his secrets under interrogation, helping his allies, supplying rare fruit years later, and answering the call to aid the Heavenly Might Army. Su Chen in turn treats Wang as part of the circle entitled to share both his discoveries and material rewards. (Chapters 116–151, 166–170, 227–240, 264–265, 482–504, and 629–630)
• Cloud Leopard: A fellow Institute student whose unconventional strengths Wang respects. Wang deliberately surrenders a high ranking to carry Cloud Leopard into the Goldwater expedition and later travels and trains with him. Their temperaments contrast—Wang is sociable and indulgent while Cloud Leopard is taciturn—but Wang includes him in the same loyal circle and even attempts to involve him in his leisure pursuits. (Chapters 264, 274–285, and 629–630)
• Jin Ling’er: Wang initially attacks Jin Ling'er when he mistakes her control of Su Chen for an assault, then accepts her as a trusted examination and Team Bright companion. They reunite at the Institute, receive tailored techniques from Su Chen together, and answer the later rescue summons as part of the same longstanding group. (Chapters 146–156, 213–240, 264–265, and 630)
• Ji Ruoyu: A Goldwater expedition teammate placed under Wang's protection at Su Chen's request. Wang stays with him, gathers resources, and resists being drawn into unnecessary fights while other groups search for them. Ji Ruoyu later joins the same gathering of old classmates for the Heavenly Might Army operation. (Chapters 296–302 and 630)
• Iron Cliff: Another cultivator of Devouring the Heavens, though one less naturally compatible with it. Su Chen uses Wang's Snow Crane mobility, rapid fat gain, and superior recovery to explain the technique's tradeoffs to Iron Cliff. Years later, Wang answers Iron Cliff's request for aid and joins the force preparing to help Su Chen's army. (Chapters 390, 432, and 629–630)
• Ferraro: The Temple Warrior who forces Wang to reveal the full mechanics and limits of Devouring the Heavens. Their Takusha is brutally adversarial but governed by mutual respect: Ferraro acknowledges Wang's victory, while Wang insists that exceeding the resource limit means he has technically lost. The duel costs Ferraro his life and Wang nearly all the fat accumulated over four years. (Chapters 306–310)

Items

No notable personal item associated with Wang Doushan appears in the finalized item inventory. Snow Thread, medicines, and food supplies contribute to individual scenes, but the supplied catalog does not designate any of them as a finalized notable item for this article.