Tong San

Tong San is a lion-man adventurer who passes from enslavement into lifelong service to Mo Yang Yu, then becomes one of the guardians and elders of her household. Together with Zong Ling, he helps raise Dong Bo Xue Ying and Dong Bo Qing Shi after their parents are imprisoned. The entity brief also attaches the late title “Housekeeper Tong,” but those passages describe an Imperial Wind Clan attendant and provide no link to this lion-man; that collision is excluded. Middle-corpus fragments establish later death, restoration, and Deity status without preserving the transitions, while the intact early record supports far more detail about Tong San's loyalties than his combat techniques. (Chapters 1–4, 29, 593, 780, 1284–1303, and 1384–1388)

Biography

Snow Eagle Territory and Black-Wind Cliff

Tong San is born in a remote lion-man tribe, but a powerful caravan attacks the community, kills those who resist, registers the captives as rebels, and sells the survivors into slavery. The captives receive numbered names—Tong Yi, Tong Er, Tong San, and so on—and he retains the imposed name “Tong San” for the rest of his recorded life. He is selected by the thirteen-year-old Mo Yang Yu and begins as her servant. Her habit of bringing him out of the clan's oppressive environment becomes the defining rescue of his youth, and even after years of shared danger turn their relationship into one of family, he insists on calling her “Master.” When the Mo Yang Clan arranges for the twenty-four-year-old Mo Yang Yu to marry a man more than a century older, she flees; Tong San follows her into years of adventuring alongside Dong Bo Lie and Zong Ling. Their repeated life-and-death struggles create the loyalty on which the later Dong Bo household is built. (Chapters 1, 3, and 29)

By the time Xue Ying is eight, Tong San is no longer merely a retainer. Dong Bo Lie calls him an old friend, Mo Yang Yu feeds him with her husband and children, and he is trusted with the family's most sensitive possessions and history. He and Zong Ling were present when the adventurers obtained the clan's sole Transcendent spear manual, and they are the only people besides Xue Ying permitted to know about both that manual and Mo Yang Yu's valuable storage pendant. Tong San also joins the parents in observing Xue Ying's early training, teasing Dong Bo Lie about how soon the boy will surpass him. This standing reflects proven loyalty rather than administrative talent: Mo Yang Yu explicitly says Tong San's rough temper makes him ill-suited to run the territory and entrusts day-to-day management and formal instruction chiefly to the calmer Zong Ling. That division of labor becomes essential when the Mo Yang Clan arrests Xue Ying's parents. Tong San rides urgently to fetch Zong Ling and nearly weeps when told that only a Transcendent could overturn the clan's warrant. He cannot rescue his master by force, but accepts her charge to remain with the children. His and Zong Ling's presence keeps Snowrock Castle functioning while its servants grieve. The two-year-old Qing Shi is initially frightened by Tong San's lion head and Zong Ling's serpentine form, leaving Xue Ying to put the child to sleep, yet Tong San watches the exhausted brothers with heartbreak and helps arrange their daytime care. He also answers Xue Ying's early questions about the strength needed for a Black Iron Order. He cannot give the boy a shortcut, but helps preserve the home, secrets, and goal that allow Xue Ying to pursue his parents' release. (Chapters 1, 3, and 4)

Tong San's guardianship is direct and sometimes argumentative. When Zong Ling returns badly injured from an encounter with the Bent Blade Union, Tong San calmly assesses the recovery, explains why the bandits are unlikely to repeat the same assault against prepared Star Breaking crossbows, and urges Xue Ying to join Eternal Wind Academy while the age window remains open. He is startled when the child rejects the obvious institutional route in favor of self-directed training, but ultimately recognizes the reasoning as characteristic of Mo Yang Yu rather than trying to overrule him. Later, when Xue Ying's Primordial Bloodline awakens, Tong San is the first relative to see its effects. He scolds what looks like the waste of an enormous magical beast, searches the room in disbelief, watches Xue Ying crush metal and destroy an alchemical dummy, then brings the evidence to Zong Ling. His response progresses from alarm to excitement once they identify the bloodline's likely meaning. As Xue Ying begins dangerous missions, Tong San remains the elder who worries openly and keeps the household ready for his return. He objects to the cost demanded by Qing Shi's prospective magic teacher, warns that even the outer Mountain Range of Desolation can produce creatures far above the intended target, and tells Xue Ying to follow Zong Ling's judgment. He celebrates when the expedition returns with the Silver Moon Wolf King's pelt and advises caution when Xue Ying later chooses Bronze Order missions to earn his parents' freedom. After Xue Ying kills a Legend ranker and shares the gains, Tong San receives costly refined armor and boots, but the more important exchange is trust: Xue Ying discusses family secrets in his presence because he believes Tong San would sacrifice himself for the imprisoned parents. Tong San in turn helps monitor Qing Shi's safety and behavior rather than treating gifts as release from responsibility. (Chapters 7–16, 25–26, and 35–53)

The confrontation with Xiang Pang Yun shows the limit and consequence of that role. When the assassin targets Qing Shi with a dart, Tong San is one of the relatives whom Xue Ying must shield with World Energy. Tong San stops Qing Shi from rushing toward a battle in which even a minor mistake could kill a Silver Moon ranker and then accepts Bai Yuan Zhi's plan to evacuate them by Black-Moon Centipede so that Xue Ying cannot be coerced through hostages. He and Zong Ling can only watch as Xue Ying kills Xiang Pang Yun and is swept into Black-Wind Abyss. Both hold Qing Shi back from following; while grieving as though their own child has fallen, Tong San insists that Xue Ying's talent gives him a chance to survive. That hope supports Qing Shi through the immediate shock and begins another six years in which the two uncles maintain the household and wait for Xue Ying's return. (Chapters 64–72)

Transcendence and the Xia Clan

When Xue Ying returns from Black-Wind Abyss, Tong San's joy confirms that the years of waiting never diminished the bond. Qing Shi teases that his grin is wide enough to split his face, and Tong San freely admits how happy he is. News that Xue Ying has become a Transcendent leaves him stunned, but the change in scale does not displace him from the family: Xue Ying still regards both uncles as loved ones, plans to share the Stone of Oceanic World's spiritual liquid with them, and includes them in the secrets surrounding that resource. Tong San also joins the rescue party's reunion with Dong Bo Lie and Mo Yang Yu. Seeing his white-haired master after two decades, he immediately weeps and embraces the returned couple with Zong Ling. His long guardianship thus ends not by withdrawing from the family, but by restoring the parents whose place he helped hold. (Chapters 86, 89, and 91)

Tong San continues to participate in family decisions without pretending to expertise he does not have. When Xue Ying asks which Transcendent organization he should join, Tong San agrees with the rest of the household that the decision must remain Xue Ying's because they do not understand that world well enough to direct him. He accepts further spiritual liquid, cultivation resources, and treasures, and his rank advances to at least Meteor level within the next six years. During the demon crisis Xue Ying selects Tong San among the limited relatives allowed to relocate to the Infernal World. Tong San uses one of those scarce places for his own wife and child, the first surviving evidence that he has established a household of his own, while still dining and sheltering with the wider Dong Bo family. The relocation preserves not only an old guardian but the next branch of his family. (Chapters 96–99, 133, and 161–167)

His appearances during Xue Ying's Transcendent campaigns are domestic but consequential. Tong San joins the family in the Xia Capital, welcomes Xue Ying home during the intervals between demon searches, and remains one of the relatives for whom Xue Ying exchanges further treasures. These passages do not show him entering Transcendent combat or advising on the clan's high-level war; instead, they establish why Xue Ying continues to fight and return. Tong San is part of the stable household that predates Xue Ying's power, accepts his protection without claiming authority over his path, and repeatedly receives him as a nephew rather than only as a lord. (Chapters 162, 189, and 221)

The later record survives only in short chapter openings, but it establishes two cycles of death and restoration. In Chapter 593, Xue Ying sees Tong San's relatively short life in the River of Time among familiar people who have died and promises to reincarnate him after transcending. The fragment does not preserve the act itself. By Chapter 780, however, Tong San is again living beside Dong Bo Lie, Mo Yang Yu, Qing Shi, and Zong Ling in a specially demarcated part of the Monarch Dong Bo residence. The group is said to have been Deities for more than ten thousand years and therefore unable to return to the Xia Clan world, establishing Tong San's later Deity state without naming its grade, inheritance, or means of advancement. The source gap prevents a reliable account of how he returned or reached that realm. Tong San eventually dies again. When Xue Ying becomes master of an Origin World, he can perceive lives from its entire history and identifies Uncle Tong among those he can recover. In the final chapter he expressly counts Tong San with his parents, Zong Ling, Qing Shi, and other loved ones who have died, and returns to the Origin World intending to reincarnate them before attending to celebrations of his own achievement. The supplied ending preserves his intention and his perception of Tong San through history, but not a completed restoration. Tong San's latest confirmed state is therefore dead, with reincarnation planned by Xue Ying rather than shown as accomplished. The promised act is also the ultimate consequence of Tong San's early guardianship: the child he helped preserve gains the power and desire to restore the elder who once kept his family together. (Chapters 593, 780, 1384, and 1388; source text incomplete)

Broken Teeth Mountain Range

The entity brief associates four late references to “Housekeeper Tong” in Chapters 1284–1303 with Tong San, but the local passages identify that man only as a core member and attendant of the Imperial Wind Clan. He addresses Imperial Wind High Mountain as master, follows that clan's princes, and participates in its deliberations. None of those passages calls him Tong San, describes him as a lion-man, connects him to the Dong Bo family, or explains a transfer from Xue Ying's household. (Chapters 1284, 1296–1297, and 1303)

The name “Tong” alone is insufficient to merge the two identities, especially because Tong San is independently placed in Xue Ying's family residence in Chapter 780 and among Xue Ying's deceased loved ones in the ending. The Imperial Wind Clan's Housekeeper Tong is therefore excluded from Tong San's biography, relationships, status, and abilities. This boundary leaves no source-grounded Broken Teeth Mountain Range activity for Tong San himself. (Chapters 780 and 1388)

Appearance and personality

Tong San is a lion-man of the beastman race. He stands more than two meters tall, with a lion's head on a human-shaped body, arms thicker than a human's thighs, a massive and robust build, and messy blond hair. He carries a weapon box in his first appearance and is later imposing enough that the toddler Qing Shi fears him on sight. The same body makes his softer reactions visually striking: he peers through a door in heartbreak at the orphaned brothers, grins uncontrollably when Xue Ying returns, and openly sheds tears when reunited with Mo Yang Yu. The corpus does not provide a later physical description after his advancement and restoration, so it cannot establish whether his appearance changes as a Deity. (Chapters 1, 3–4, 25, 86, and 91)

He is rough-tempered, plainspoken, and emotionally transparent. Tong San scolds waste, denounces an expensive teacher as black-hearted, reacts to danger with blunt warnings, and is quicker than Zong Ling to display excitement, anger, grief, or relief. His judgment is practical rather than subtle: he assesses bandit behavior from experience, favors the security of Eternal Wind Academy, and knows when Qing Shi must remain away from a battle beyond their level. He can be amazed by cultivation phenomena he does not understand, but asks questions and changes his view once shown evidence. These qualities make him poorly suited to quiet administration in Mo Yang Yu's own assessment, yet effective as a guardian who communicates danger and loyalty without ambiguity. (Chapters 3, 7–16, 25, and 64)

Loyalty is his defining motivation. Enslavement does not make him devoted to the Mo Yang Clan; his bond attaches specifically to the young woman who treated him as a person and brought him into her life. He follows Mo Yang Yu through escape and mortal danger, regards her as more important than his own life, and remains with her children when direct rescue is impossible. Over time that service becomes reciprocal family membership. Xue Ying trusts him with treasures and secrets, calls him uncle, provides for Tong San's wife and child, and eventually makes restoring him from death one of the first uses contemplated for power over the Origin World's history. Tong San's development is therefore social and relational more than martial: servant becomes follower, follower becomes friend and uncle, and the guardian becomes one of the people Xue Ying refuses to leave to mortality. (Chapters 1, 3, 29, 53, 89, 161, and 1384–1388)

Abilities and cultivation

Tong San's early strength is established mainly by comparison, not by named techniques or solo battles. He is a veteran knight and adventurer whom young Xue Ying must surpass before expecting Dragon Mountain Manor's Black Iron Order, but he does not possess that order himself. He is weaker than the Silver Moon Wolf King and far below the Legend-ranked duel between Xue Ying and Xiang Pang Yun. The supplied text names no Dou Qi method, weapon art, True Meaning, or bloodline unique to him. (Chapters 1, 4, 26, and 64–66)

Lion-man physique and martial foundation

Tong San's lion-man body is exceptionally large and muscular, supporting the physical demands of a knight and years of adventuring. He carries a box of weapons and is familiar with the destructive scale of Heaven-, Meteor-, and Silver Moon-rank combat, but Chapter 1's statement about the “power of a Heaven Rank Knight” refers to Dong Bo Lie's demonstration rather than explicitly naming Tong San's own rank. Chapter 4 places Tong San below the level at which Dragon Mountain Manor would recognize Xue Ying with a Black Iron Order, while Chapter 26 confirms that neither Tong San nor Zong Ling could kill a Silver Moon Wolf King. These comparisons bound his mortal combat level without supplying a representative victory or a precise early rank. (Chapters 1, 4, and 26)

His adventuring experience provides applied knowledge. Tong San has survived repeated life-and-death expeditions with Mo Yang Yu, Dong Bo Lie, and Zong Ling, knows the outer Mountain Range of Desolation can expose a party to beasts several ranks above its target, and can identify a Silver Moon Wolf King's pelt immediately. He understands the Star Breaking crossbows' deterrent value, the risks of Bronze Order missions, and the impossibility of intervening safely in a Legend-rank fight. In Snowrock Castle he uses a flute to summon roughly one hundred waiting soldiers and helps sustain order after the lords are taken. None of these applications demonstrates a supernatural sensory or command ability; they reflect experience, household authority, and a prepared signaling tool. (Chapters 1, 4, 7, 16, 25, 35, and 64)

Equipment-supported protection

After Xue Ying kills a Legend ranker and acquires his treasures, he equips Tong San and Zong Ling with expensive refined armor, boots, and other protective gear. The passages establish that this equipment is more valuable than the robe and staff Xue Ying gives Kong You Yue, but do not name its materials, embedded arrays, defensive output, or activation requirements. Tong San is not shown using it to reverse a major battle. During Xiang Pang Yun's attack, Xue Ying still has to deflect a dart aimed at the relatives, and Tong San's best protective choice is to keep Qing Shi away from the duel and evacuate. The gear improves his resources without erasing the gulf between an experienced household knight and a Legend ranker. (Chapters 52 and 64–66)

Spiritual liquid, Meteor rank, and Deity state

Xue Ying later gives Tong San spiritual liquid from the Stone of Oceanic World. The liquid nourishes a mortal's body, Qi sea, and spirit, heals physical and soul injuries, and can extend the useful span over which cultivation continues. Six years after drinking it, Tong San has reached at least Meteor rank. The wording sets a minimum rather than an exact ceiling, and the corpus shows no technique, duel, or breakthrough scene explaining how his improved foundation operates in combat. Further treasures exchanged by Xue Ying may support the family, but no passage isolates their effect on Tong San's next advancement. (Chapters 89, 97, 133, and 221)

Chapter 780 later includes Tong San among family members who have been Deities for more than ten thousand years. This is his highest directly evidenced cultivation category. The fragment provides no Deity grade, Dao, combat application, lifespan mechanism, or interaction between that realm and his lion-man physique; it also does not preserve how a man described as dead in Chapter 593 returned before this period. By the ending Tong San has died again, demonstrating that the unspecified Deity state did not make him permanently beyond death. Xue Ying's final ability to move a historical soul into the present belongs to Xue Ying, not Tong San, and the act remains intended rather than completed in the supplied text. (Chapters 593, 780, 1384, and 1388; source text incomplete)

Power progression

Relationships

• Mo Yang Yu: Mo Yang Yu selects Tong San from among enslaved lion-men and becomes the person at the center of his loyalty. He follows her out of the Mo Yang Clan, adventures beside her, continues to call her “Master” after they become family, raises her children during her imprisonment, and weeps when she finally returns. (Chapters 1, 3, 29, and 91)
• Dong Bo Xue Ying: Tong San watches Xue Ying grow from a gifted child into the family's protector, while Xue Ying treats him as an uncle rather than a servant. Tong San guards his home and brother, counsels caution, grieves at Black-Wind Cliff, and waits for his return; Xue Ying later supplies his cultivation, includes his wife and child in sanctuary, and repeatedly intends to restore him from death. (Chapters 1–99, 133–221, 593, 780, and 1384–1388)
• Zong Ling: Zong Ling is Tong San's fellow adventurer, co-guardian, and closest operational partner in Snow Eagle Territory. Tong San openly relies on Zong Ling's calmer judgment and administrative skill, while the two jointly preserve the castle, raise the brothers, receive Xue Ying's secrets, and remain together through later family life and death. (Chapters 3–99, 161–221, 780, and 1388)
• Dong Bo Qing Shi: Qing Shi initially fears Tong San's lion-man appearance, but Tong San helps care for him after his parents' arrest and again after Xue Ying falls into the abyss. He restrains the boy from entering fatal battles, sustains hope during grief, and remains part of the family household as Qing Shi matures. (Chapters 3–4, 13–16, 53–72, 86–99, and 161–189)
• Dong Bo Lie: Dong Bo Lie calls Tong San an old friend after their years of adventuring together. Tong San shares his pride in Xue Ying, protects the household during his imprisonment, and embraces him on his return; they later live beside one another in the Monarch Dong Bo residence. (Chapters 1, 3, 29, 91–99, and 780)
• Wife and child: Tong San asks that his unnamed wife and child be included in Xue Ying's ten-person Infernal World relocation allotment. They later dine with Xue Ying's family, but the corpus supplies no names, abilities, or fuller individual histories for either of them. (Chapters 161 and 167)

Items

No character-specific notable item is sufficiently established for a dedicated entry in the supplied corpus. Tong San carries an unspecified weapon box in his first appearance, uses a flute to summon soldiers, and later receives unnamed refined armor and boots from Xue Ying; their individual names, histories, and full mechanics are not preserved. (Chapters 1 and 52)