Dragon-Seeking Sect

Biodata

Power Progression

History

Founding and Successive Sect Masters

The Dragon-Seeking Sect was founded approximately a thousand years before Chen Ning’s leadership. Its first master established a base in Spirit Province and forged alliances throughout the Nine Provinces. Successive leaders pursued sharply different policies, allowing the young sect to rise rapidly among much older powers 30 59 157.

Succession and Internal Infiltration

The previous master investigated the sect’s undercover agents and entrusted their identities to his chosen successor. He selected the original owner of Chen Ning’s body because his background was the cleanest, while fearing that other potential successors had been compromised by the infiltrated leadership 1 158.

Chen Ning initially faced opposition both openly and covertly. Han Zhuang challenged his leadership during the Azure Cloud Rite, but Wine Maniac and Sword Immortal Li Changtian publicly supported him. Supreme Elder Lin Yuan also opposed the succession and sent his disciple Lin Yao to kill him 11 193 272.

The Ninth Elder later used demonic sound to undermine the disciples. Chen Ning countered with words of a sage, breaking their demonic obstructions and winning their heartfelt allegiance. By the period following the ranking battle, most spies among ordinary disciples had been removed; the infiltration had always been more severe among the upper ranks 61 158.

Expansion Beyond Spirit Province

The sect destroyed the True Martial Saint Sect after the latter’s agent, Venerable Insect, unleashed an insect calamity on Spirit Province. Its victory secured valuable resources in Martial Province and earned a favorable reception from local powers that had suffered under the defeated sect 216 220 231 233 234.

Chen Ning subsequently established a Central Province base outside the North Pole Region, declining the security of settling within the Star God Palace’s protected territory. Despite this move, the Peach Blossom Spring Mountain Range remained the main headquarters 289 736.

Beyond the Nine Provinces, Chen Ning learned that the first-generation master had founded a mysterious, scattered offshoot on the Vast Land. Much later, Chen Ning established a Vast Land Dragon-Seeking Sect whose predecessor was Emperor Yu’s Flower in the Mirror, Moon in the Water 470 772.

Organization and Territory

Leadership and Internal Structure

• Sect master — Leads the organization and determines its development policy. Successive masters’ contrasting approaches shaped its history 30.
• Grand Elder — Cang Yue holds the highest authority when the sect leader is absent. Chen Ning later entrusted her with overseeing the sect before his departure Beyond the Heavens 11 445.
• Elder hierarchy — Includes nine elders and a Supreme Elder; Lin Yuan occupied the latter position while scheming against Chen Ning 61 193 272.
• Law Enforcement Hall — A major combat force associated with Hall Master Xiao Mei; its experts helped overwhelm the Blood Owl Sect 38 170.
• Disciple ranks — Include Registered, outer, inner, and True Disciples. The annual ranking battle grants rewards, privileges, and honor, especially to the top ten 38 57 148 152 339.
• Surprise Troops Battalion — An expeditionary force that reinforced the Heaven-Praying Hall during the Rakshasa invasion 428.

Holdings

Culture and Recruitment

The sect enjoyed a longstanding reputation for honorable conduct. During the Marrow-Cleansing Fruit competition, rival cultivators considered it courteous and restrained, trusting that it would not retaliate afterward merely because someone competed against it 38.

Its internal cohesion was initially weaker than its reputation suggested. Disciples often identified more strongly with their own peak, teacher, or hall master than with the sect as a whole. Chen Ning’s vow that every disciple should become a dragon gave them a shared identity and personal loyalty to their leader 61.

• Selective admission — Even after becoming the Nine Provinces’ foremost superpower, the sect maintained strict disciple selection rather than expanding indiscriminately 736.
• Broad cultivation choices — Disciples can pursue sword, fist, soul, and other cultivation paths. Chen Ning also opened a formerly restricted White Horse Saint Cult eye technique to all sect disciples 409.
• Competitive incentives — Annual ranking battles reward achievement; Chen Ning offered to take the first-place winner as his personal disciple 148 152.
• Multiracial membership — Its forces include the Black Dragon Clan and experts from the Nine Li Demon Race 73 321 358.
• Civilian protection — Saving Spirit Province from the insect plague strengthened its reputation as an orthodox sect concerned with ordinary people’s welfare 233.

Sect Abilities and Resources

Valor Surpassing the Three Armies

A repeatable sect buff that temporarily increases disciples’ cultivation 316 361.

• Can raise cultivation by as much as one major realm, or by several minor realms.
• Produced more than a thousand Earth Martial Realm combatants during the True Martial Saint Sect campaign.
• Enabled the Starry Sky Realm delegation to overwhelm a six-faction alliance despite being outnumbered approximately five to one 361.

Heavenly Pride Ranking

A sect reward that promotes sudden enlightenment and improves disciples’ comprehension 316.

• News of improvements to talent and comprehension attracted cultivators from other sects.
• Its success caused recruitment losses and unrest among competing powers, including the Yama Holy Sect 160.

Divine Abyss Soul-Annihilating Array

A sect-protecting formation automatically bound to the organization 321.

• Activated against outside attackers to annihilate their souls.
• Its description states that enemies below the Saint level cannot evade its soul-destroying effect.
• Killed a Nine-Star Martial Venerable who attacked the mountain gate during the Shattered Star Realm siege 321 407.

Holy Armament Pavilion

A system-granted building with a complete artifact-forging system 339.

• Produces artifacts from Low-Grade to Top-Grade Spirit Artifact level at its documented initial range.
• Its forging grades improve alongside the sect.
• Requires substantial materials; it does not create artifacts from nothing.
• Avoids material wastage during forging, allowing the sect to retain nine portions when charging outsiders ten portions of materials per commission 339 343.

Alchemy and Cultivation Resources

• Mirror-Breaking Pills — Supreme first-grade pills refined by Chen Ning that allow a realm breakthrough without destabilizing the recipient’s foundation 214.
• Heart-Cleansing Mirror — Remained active on Vermilion Bird Peak and contributed to the disciples’ overall strength 736.
• Martial arts reserves — Initially included lower-grade Heaven-tier sword techniques; later holdings included the supreme-grade Heaven-tier Prajna Ancient Scripture 93 365.
• Competition reserves — Displayed more than a thousand Spirit Artifacts and hundreds of immortal pills during the sect-foundations contest 374.
• Spirit Province’s blessed environment — Accelerated cultivation; by Chen Ning’s return, Jun Wuya and Qi Feng had reached Late-Stage Martial Venerable 736.

The Secret Treasure Legend

The legendary inherited treasure does not exist according to the previous sect master’s disclosure. Earlier masters invented the story to boast and impress others. Generations of retelling transformed it into a supposedly guarded secret, while the sect’s actual growth came from sustained effort and governance 1.

• Cang Yue and Xiao Mei attributed Chen Ning’s unusual cultivation and ability to affect others to the treasure 32.
• Wind Shadow Sect leader Feng Yihan planted Chu Huang among the disciples to approach it through the succession 152.
• Venerable Insect refused to believe Chen Ning’s denial and used Spirit Province’s suffering to pressure him into surrendering it 219 220.
• Lin Yuan and other elders again suspected Chen Ning had mastered the treasure after he declared that the sect would kill even a Saint who threatened it 271.

Major Conflicts and Achievements

Relationships

• Flying Cloud Valley and Li Changtian — Close supporters; Li Changtian backed Chen Ning’s leadership, and the valley supported the campaign against Spirit Province’s evil sects 11 173.
• Immortal Music Palace — Became an ally after eight hundred years without reconciliation. Chen Ning later rewarded its assistance with five High-Grade Spirit Artifacts 128 234.
• Yama Holy Sect — Shifted from espionage and confrontation to accommodation. After the True Martial Saint Sect’s fall, its Holy Lord approved seeking a lasting alliance 102 233.
• Heavenly Lake Holy Land — Mu Tianji arranged Meng Yuyi’s presence to help the sect enter the top ten and later offered protection against Central Province’s superpowers 303 377.
• Star God Palace — Escorted the sect into Central Province and offered a protected settlement location; its experts also prepared to defend the sect at the superpower gathering 289 291 357.
• Great Yan Imperial Dynasty — Sent Cang Yue as a spy. The Yan Emperor later conspired with Lin Yuan to seize control of the sect’s Spirit Province organization 11 335.
• Heaven-Praying Hall — Initially attempted to suppress the sect through poisoning and suffered heavy resource losses; later received Dragon-Seeking reinforcements against the Rakshasa Race 203 214 428.
• Central Province rivals — The Wind and Thunder Divine Cult, Demon Battle Saint Sect, and other powers sought to suppress its rise and protect their existing interests 266 291.
• Vast Land allies — Supported by the Grand One, Light, Moon, and Kunlun God Clans, other powerful God Clans, and the Dragon Clan 772.

Notable Quotes

“Heaven rewards diligence! Strive ceaselessly to better yourselves!”
— Chen Ning, addressing the disciples 59

“People of the Dragon-Seeking Sect should have just such ambition. Once I have swept away the dark clouds hanging over the Nine Provinces Realm, every member of my Dragon-Seeking Sect shall be a dragon!”
— Chen Ning to Xiao Douzi 736