Greenwood Sect

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Grounds and Facilities

The sect occupies a Spirit Vein within the Greenwood Mountain Range. A mountain-protecting grand formation separates its grounds from the surrounding region; Spiritual Qi inside is at least twenty times denser than at the Black Tiger Gang’s base 31 36.

The sect also has Miscellaneous Affairs, Mining and Law Enforcement halls 24.

Recruitment and Membership

Probationary disciples

During the recruitment drive Lu Ping attends in a simulation, applicants pay one Low-Grade Spirit Stone or take a Greenwood Loan. Recruits receive a handbook, an identity token and probationary status 20.

• Advancement: Probationary disciples have six months to reach Qi Refining and become formal disciples. Deacon Liu Cheng says the sect will make arrangements for those who fail 20.
• Initial supplies: Recruits receive a Qi Guiding Instruction, a straw mat and three free Grain Avoidance Pills. Further pills must be purchased; those short of Spirit Stones can take a Cultivation Assistance Loan 21.
• Ascension Hall risks: The hall’s formation combines Spirit Gathering with a Qi-and-Blood-to-Spirit Formation, which consumes cultivators’ Qi, blood and souls to improve Spiritual Qi conversion. Of seventeen Body Tempering Realm Completion disciples observed attempting breakthroughs in the first ten days, one succeeds and sixteen die 21.
• Experimental pills: In the simulation, Liu Cheng sells Spirit-Urging Pills on credit. Nine of the ten buyers explode that night, and the hall absorbs their blood; the remaining buyer reaches Qi Refining 22.

Ascension Tokens

An Ascension Token allows a holder at Qi Refining First Layer or above to enter directly as an Outer Sect Disciple. The Black Tiger Gang received one after meeting the sect’s cumulative tribute quota, but its leaders lacked the cultivation to use it 33 36.

Lu Ping later presents that token at the External Affairs Hall. Liu Cheng verifies it and registers him as an Outer Sect Disciple, bypassing the probationary route Lu Ping experienced in his earlier simulation 36.

Resources and Fees

• Spirit Stone production: Disciples can use the Greenwood Art to fill Spirit Blanks with Spiritual Qi. The sect retains one stone out of every ten produced 23.
• Alchemy Student Loan: In Lu Ping’s simulation, a fifty-stone loan leaves him sixteen after a ten-stone deposit and advance deductions for rent, training and exam registration. A payment thirty days overdue enters the Law Enforcement Hall’s collection process 24.
• Alchemy facilities: The hall separately charges for furnace rental, earthfire, waste disposal, medicinal-dreg disposal and instructor consultations 24.
• Certification: Selling unlicensed pills can incur a tenfold fine. In the simulation, the hall offers Lu Ping only twenty percent of the price for his effective pills because he lacks a license 24 27.
• Pill quotas: Certified alchemists receive monthly quotas. Second-Grade Alchemists are assigned ten Low-Grade Pills per month 38 39.
• Isolation abodes: After poison from Lu Ping’s simulated cave abode drives out neighboring occupants, an Alchemy Hall deacon converts the vacated caves into isolation abodes and rents them for ten Spirit Stones each—twice the standard rent 26.

Notable Members

• Han Changqing — Sect master. In Lu Ping’s simulation, he investigates a Demonic Spirit Stone carried by Lu Ping and uses him as bait for five years 29 30.
• Liu Cheng — Deacon who oversees probationary disciples in the simulated Ascension Hall and later registers Lu Ping’s real-world entry with an Ascension Token 20 22 36.
• Qi Cangshu — Alchemy Hall elder who summons Lu Ping to assess experimental Spirit-Urging Pills 42 50.
• Zhao Li — Alchemy Hall member who announces certified alchemists’ quotas and examines Lu Ping’s advance quota payment 38 44.
• Lu Ping — Joins the sect in a simulation, then enters as an Outer Sect Disciple in the real world. He subsequently works in the Alchemy Hall 23 24 36 38.

Story Role

First simulated tenure

Lu Ping reaches the sect after escaping the Black Tiger Gang and joins as a probationary disciple. He survives the Ascension Hall, reaches Qi Refining and becomes an Outer Sect Disciple before choosing the Alchemy Hall 16 20 22 23 24.

After five years of debt and alchemy training, Lu Ping passes the First-Rank Alchemist examination and pays off his loans. Han Changqing then confronts him over a prohibited Demonic Spirit Stone. Lu Ping dies in their fight, but Jiang Mutian’s hidden Divine Sense kills Han; the simulation ends, and Lu Ping inherits its cultivation, skills and memories 27 29 30 31.

Real-world entry and later simulation

After awakening, Lu Ping obtains the Black Tiger Gang’s Ascension Token and uses it to join the Greenwood Sect as an Outer Sect Disciple. Completing this job-change mission unlocks another simulation attempt and real-world Trait changes 31 33 36.

In the later simulation, Lu Ping earns his alchemist certificate, fulfills Alchemy Hall orders and cultivates while concealing his progress. He leaves to seek Jiang Mutian, later returns to the sect, and is summoned alongside Elder Qi Cangshu 38 39 44 45 49 50.