Ding Shan

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### General Information

The leader of Tianyuan Merchant Guild. It seems that he has withdrawn from worldly affairs and handed over the business to his daughter Ding Ling'er.

### History

He first appears as an elder of Ten Thousand Treasures Store called Xuan Yutang. During the Merchant Competition in Songyue Yan City he kills Gu Feiyang's friend Yuwen Bo (Ch. 648). Yunxiao doesn't know that Ding Shan is the killer. During the whole competition Xuan Yutang seems to be sure that Yunxiao wins, greatly confusing the other Sects Elders.

Later when Songyue Yan City is completely destroyed by the demons Shang and his followers, Xuan Yutang is one of the few remaining survivors. He captures the remaining high ranking merchants and takes them away. Shortly after he has a fight with Di Jun who also appears in the destroyed Songyue Yan City, but can't defeat him and retreats.

After the incident of Songyue Yan City the elder "Xuan Yutang" of Ten Thousand Treasures Store disappears from the world.

It turns out that Ding Shang never handed of over Tianyuan Trading Company to his daughter, but has always been the one in control of everything. Especially the main forces "Golden Edge and Silver Radiance" have always been in his control.

In New Yan City he invites 18 nine-Star Martial Sovereigns to refine a so-called 9-Yin 9-Yang Pill to help him breakthrough to Divine Transcendence. Due to Ding Ling'ers pleading he allows Yunxiao to participate in the refinement.

In the end it's revealed that Ding Shang manipulated the array and the refinement is just a disguise to directly extract the 18 nine-Star Martial Sovereigns Qi, allowing him to transcend the 9 Star Martial Sovereign and reaching the Divine Transcendence Realm. Yunxiao manages to take advantage of the manipulated array and absorbs, alongside Ding Shang, the Qi of those Cultivators. Ding Peng used as part of the array, because his body possesses a special Yin-Yang constitution, suffers greatly during the process.

It's revealed that Ding Peng and Ding Ling'er are only Ding Shan's adopted children, also proven by Ding Peng through a birthmark on his waist. Ding Shang killed their biological parents and adopted them when they were little kids. Ding Peng was raised only to be used for the Yin Yang Array. Ding Shang kills Ding Peng, who revealed to Yunxiao that Ding Ling'er is his biological sister and is not related to Ding Shang.

Later during the Ten Thousand Treasure House's attempted assassination of Ling Baiyi, Ding Shang takes over Mando Chamber of Commerce as well as Thunderwind Commerce Guild and absorbs the remnants of Empyrean One Pavillion, which took shelter in Yunxiao's World God Monument, making Tianyuan Trading Company the number one Chamber of Commerce on the Tianwu Continent.

Yunxiao encounters Ding Shan again in the North Regions Mystic Realm Langya Heaven, there they enter the eternal worlds emperor pill pavillion. Out of greed for Ding Shan's lvl 10 Pill he agrees to let him go, only to get tricked by him. Leaving him behind with a lvl 7 Pill and Ding Shan managed to escape unscathed.

Ding Shan agrees to join Li Yi's Grand Hegemony Alliance. Unfortunately immediately after the Devils from the Demon World started to invade. Ding Shan got his soul searched and then his body smashed to pieces, which results in his death.

Later it's revealed that he fused with the Immemorial Astral Wind Spirit (one half of the Crocodile), which gave him a Wind Spirit Body, so he survived. To let his son escape from the Devil Lan he tied him down and got killed again.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1727
2. ↑ Chapter 2153
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 2162
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 2167