To meet Ren, Yúan creates an army of Jiang Shi from freshly killed corpses which Ren disposes of with little difficulty. However, Yúan merely laughs at her and proceeds to punish her by sealing her in a dungeon for the ten days it takes Ren to return home after his fight with Yoh. Yúan first appears when Ren is fighting Asakura Yoh, where Jun confronts her father and asks him to let go of Ren as Ren would otherwise wind up destroying himself. Sometime before his children's birth he began wearing his Dà Dào Wáng Over Soul constantly. They were raised harshly and told that their main duty was to serve the family. Over the time he fathered two children, Jun and Ren. He decided that it was time for the Tao Family to once be again recognized by the world, and saw the Shaman Fights as a way to do so. He was officially adopted into the main house through marriage with Ran and thus became the main heir.Īt an unknown time, his father-in-law Tao Ching stepped down and Yúan became the head of the Tao Family. Yúan won with a single hit while she fell in love instantly. To become her husband, he would not only have to go through a formal interview, he would also have to defeat her in battle. But when Tao Ran, the heir to Main Family needed to find a husband, he was one of her suitors. Originating from Guizhou, China and born on November 30, 1956, Yúan was born into a branch family of the Tao Family and thus he was considered nothing more but a talented Taoist. He can also gather the souls in the Bâo-Lèi Sword and create a huge, scaled, Shenlong like Chinese dragon to complete with Tao Yúan's head (with his exaggerated mustache & beard) and four sets of sharp claws. He can use these tablets to generate an Over Soul shaped like a large-sized version of himself, only far more exaggerated. He carries these spirits on him, by wearing an armor made out of memory tablets. His guardian ghosts are that of 2000 years of the Tao Family who have been unable to leave to the afterlife because of their treatment of those they saw nearest. He is a very talented Taoist and has an extremely high Furyoku level, as he is able to maintain a gigantic Over Soul made of all of his ancestors, for several years. Unbeknownst to all but his wife, Yúan has always been fond of both his children and keeps a photo album of them.

Ching calls it the tragedy of a man who only wished to be a good Tao.Īlthough the meeting with Asakura Yoh and his friends have changed his outlook on life and made him open up, he still tries to protect the family interests, even fighting with and losing to Asakura Mikihisa just to see if he was worthy to train his son Tao Ren. However, it is later revealed that he is a much more deep person and, due to his family's long history of being shunned and betrayed, has lost the ability to trust people outside of his family. he taught them to be cruel and emotionless. He heavily believes in the doctrine of Tao (道, Dào) even raising his children with this doctrine, and instead of showing them love and care. Tao Yúan, when he first appeared is both a sadistic and a malevolent man. Beneath his armor, he wears a red shirt, green baggy pants, and a white skirt. He uses these to generate his large Over Soul Dà Dào Wáng. The robes cover the fact that he wears large armor, consisting of the Tao Family Ancestors' memorial tablets. Yúan is commonly seen wearing a black Chinese Hanfu tied together with a red sash and a purple Zhaoshan with golden patterns. He still has a long black goatee and a black exaggerated mustache, but his hair is smooth and is tied together in a spike in the upper back of his head, with a royal headpiece. His true appearance is that of a tall and very muscular man, who has tattooed a far elaborate Tao Family symbol onto his back and with a far more firm build body. However, this form is, in reality, is an Over Soul. He has a black exaggerated mustache and a goatee and blank yellow eyes. His head is slightly round and his black hair is formed into five spikes, similar to a crown. Outside of battle he wears a black robe, with a golden lining. He wears white pants, black boots, and a purple skirt tied with a black scarf. He is an extremely tall and muscular man, with a wide stomach.

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