Lingxiao Sect

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Organization

• Disciple ranks — Outer Disciples, Inner Disciples, and Personal Disciples. Personal Disciples are selected through assessment by the sect's six Martial Venerable elders 177.
• Leadership — Lingxuzi presides over the sect alongside six elders who lead its lineages: Qingwei (also rendered Qinghui), Jianchi, Yunlong, Xuanyin, Suxin, and Qingzhu 303 359.
• Outer Disciple promotion — After reaching the Core Condensation Realm, Lu Changsheng registers at the Internal Affairs Hall. Promotion frees him from Labor Peak duties, grants a monthly stipend of fifty mid-grade spirit stones, and permits him to choose three martial arts 7 8.
• Inner Disciple promotion — Disciples who pass the three trials of the Outer Sect Competition qualify to enter the inner sect 132.
• Personal Disciple selection — The assessment includes Beast Tide, Illusionary Space, Heavenly Sound Valley, and Giant Valley, followed by challenges against sect-appointed guardians. The top three receive additional rewards and first choice of master 216.

Cultivation Grounds and Facilities

• Dragon Fall Ravine — A cultivation site with exceptionally dense spiritual energy; entry is restricted, and disciples use it for secluded training 4 5.
• Spirit Gathering Lake — An Outer Sect cultivation ground whose core area attracts fierce competition for access to its spiritual energy 99.
• Divine Fortune Pool — An Inner Sect pool nurtured by spiritual veins and more than 3,600 medicinal herbs. Its effects include strengthening the foundation and refining the body, bloodline, and divine soul; the top three Outer Sect Competition finishers receive seven days there 132 133.
• Martial Arts Pavilion and Scripture Pavilion — The former provides martial arts to newly promoted Outer Disciples; the latter holds higher-level techniques available to qualified Inner Disciples 8 134.
• Mission Hall — Posts assignments for Inner Disciples, with rewards that can include spirit stones, pills, artifacts, and martial skills 178.
• Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda — An eighteen-level Inner Sect training site devoted to physical tempering. Its Body Tempering Ranking records disciples' results 203 796.
• Boundless Golden Pool — A cultivation ground in the Personal Disciple area, made available to the top three in the Personal Disciple assessment 230.

Major Events

Lu Changsheng rises from menial work to Outer Disciple after reaching the Core Condensation Realm, then wins the Outer Sect Competition and enters the inner sect 7 8 132. He later places first in the Personal Disciple assessment and chooses Elder Qingwei as his master 230.

The sect's Qingwei lineage wins its annual Personal Disciple competition, earning a place on an expedition to a Martial Venerable Tomb near Boundless Demonic Palace territory 242. At a subsequent Sect Gathering, Taishang Sword Sect disciple Zhen Qing defeats several Lingxiao disciples before Lu Changsheng defeats him and secures Lingxiao Sect's victory 282 284 287.

When Earth Demon Beasts attack, the Outer Sect is destroyed and the Inner Sect's Mountain Protecting Array nearly collapses. Returning disciples bring the Eastern Mausoleum Domain Seal, which Lingxuzi uses to kill an Earth Demon Beast and save the sect 357 358. Lingxiao Sect then marches against the Boundless Demonic Palace and defeats its leader, Li Wanmo, but the Domain Seal shatters in the battle, triggering a decline in the domain's spiritual energy 359 361 370 371.

Lingxuzi sends Lu Changsheng and four fellow disciples to the North Divine Domain to seek help for the Eastern Mausoleum Domain 372. During their absence, eight West Xuan Domain sects besiege Lingxiao Sect for more than half a month, forcing its defenders back to the main peak. Lu Changsheng returns with the Sky-Mending Divine Cauldron; Lingxuzi takes control of it, and the attacking forces are routed 630 631 632. After the Domain Seal is restored, Lingxiao Sect's prestige and scale grow substantially 796. Later, the sect witnesses Lu Changsheng use four domain artifacts to open a passage to the Immortal Realm 799.

Relationships

• Boundless Demonic Palace — Long-standing rival and eventual wartime enemy. The sects fight over the future of the Eastern Mausoleum Domain 242 360 370.
• Taishang Sword Sect — A fellow major power whose Sect Gathering with Lingxiao Sect becomes a contest of reputation; the two later cooperate in addressing the Earth Demon Beast crisis 282 305.
• Azure Sun Sacred Sect — Lingxuzi was accepted as a disciple by its founder, Old Ancestor Qingyang. That connection helps Lingxiao Sect's representatives when they travel to the North Divine Domain 372 466.
• Eight great sects of the West Xuan Domain — Besiege Lingxiao Sect while seeking the shattered Eastern Mausoleum Domain Seal; their assault ends after Lu Changsheng's return 630 631 632.