Myeong Ryu-San

## Name

Myeong Ryu-San used to be a street thug and petty thief. When he tried to steal a pouch of poison from Tang Gi-Mun, he was stopped by Jin Mu-Won and badly beaten. Seeing his innate resistance to poison and talent in martial arts, Tang Gi-Mun decides to make him his disciple. He offers Ryu-San to become his disciple and learn the martial arts of the Tang Family of Sichuan. Ryu-San agrees and takes Gi-Mun as his master and starts training under him. Along with being trained by Tang Gi-Mun, he is also trained by Jin Mu-Won at times in sparring and the more physical aspects of martial arts.

## Background

Myeong Ryu-San was a poor, young boy. He went around to different sects with some money in the hopes that he would get accepted into a sect. He would offer the little money he had as an entrance fee and would say that he had been told by others that he possessed some degree of talent in martial arts. He got rejected by every sect he went to on the basis of him being poor and not being of noble or prestigious origin.

He came from a poor background. He had an extremely sick mother who couldn't work and his and her savings were very meager. His mother gave him her meager savings in the hope that he could use it and become an outstanding martial artist. She always asked him for forgiveness for the fact that somebody talented like him was born to her. She said that all she did was bring him misery and apologized for being unable to develop his talent.

The continous rejections from the sects piled up on Myeong Ryu-San and he decided to take it out on a sect leader who had just rejected him. He jumped up to the man's shoulder and bit him in the neck, drawing blood and causing him to fall down. Ultimately, his background and circumstances led him to become a petty street thug and thief.

## Battle Prowess

Myeong Ryu-San has innate talent in martial arts. His fighting style is shown based on raw instincts and this style is purely meant for survival. Prior to becoming Tang Gi-Mun;s disciple he is shown to not know the basics and is fighting with rage. He has explosive strength and innate talent but does not know how to utilize it properly.

Upon becoming Gi-Mun's disciple, he is trained by Gi-Mun and Jin Mu-Won and is becoming better and more refined in his fighting and martial arts. He also has an innate resistance to poison that rivals and even surpasses Gi-Mun's own resistance to poison.

### Martial Arts

He is still learning and is currently Tang Gi-Mun's disciple. He is a practitioner of the that Tang Family's martial arts. This martial art is one that deals with poison and it's primary focus is the use of poison. It requires its practitioners to have a resistance to poison and to know how to handle and use it properly and effectively.

Currently, Ryu-San is being trained on the basics of the martial art and is further increasing and honing his resistance to poison while building up his physical capabilities and fighting. He is also being trained in the making of poison, the different poisons and their types and the various uses of poisons.

The Tang Family's martial arts requires in-depth knowledge about poison and all practitioners of this martial art need to be well versed in all aspects of poison.

*For more information, visit the main article: Martial Arts of the Tang Family.*