Red Sun Sword Sect

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Red Sun Sword Sect (赤阳剑宗)
Organization Type	Cultivation sect
Base	Red Sun Mountain Range, east of Da Shang; the range was formerly called White Night Mountain. 47 80
Territory	Governed Da Shang, Da Li, and Da Chu, encompassing over six million square kilometers and more than 440 million people. 47
Leadership	Zhan ChiYang, Sect Master and mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator. 100 167
Affiliation	Claimed to be a Blue Star Small Thousand World lineage of the Immortal Alliance’s Red Sun Sword Sect; the upper sect later disavowed it. 247 257
Status	Annihilated by Li ChunJun. 257
First Appearance	Chapter 13

Territory and Organization

• The sect’s mountain gate stood in the Red Sun Mountain Range, whose surrounding economic zone contained tens of millions of residents and was supplied by roads, railways, and airports linking Da Shang, Da Chu, and Da Li. 80
• Cultivators lived in mountain-built, antique-style settlements rather than high-rise cities. Dozens of towns existed throughout the range, including the locations of its eight major Dao Institutes. 80
• The Red Sun Southeast Dao Institute trained reserve disciples and maintained its own law-enforcement team; ordinary civil agencies handled mortals but did not interfere in cultivator disputes. 80 83
• Disciples permitted to reside within the mountain range generally included formal disciples, Inner Disciples, Core Disciples, and True Inheritance Disciples. Inner Disciples received private courtyards and could employ servant disciples. 85
• The sect possessed three True Inheritance Disciples: Zhou WuGou, Chu TianQue, and Xiao YanZhi. 123
• Its Blue Star force was estimated to include roughly 300–320 Core cultivators, though Void Core cultivators were generally excluded from active combat calculations. 123 151
• Before its destruction, the sect retained sixteen Nascent Soul cultivators outside the Star Gate, including two late-stage Great Real Persons. 162

Cultivation Resources and Practices

Crimson Sun Body Refining Art

The sect’s files contained the Crimson Sun Body Refining Art, a Body Refining method intended to rapidly train martial artists through solar heat, physical techniques, and breathing methods. 13

• Cultivation required exposure to “Red Sun” light to temper flesh, muscles, and bones. 13
• The art depended on the Red Sun Pill; practicing without it could cause severe loss of vitality or immediate death. 13
• The sect’s control of the pill allowed it to bind practitioners of the art to its rules and influence. 13

Recruitment Policy

The Red Sun Sword Sect focused on cultivators with Spirit Roots and regarded Body Cultivators primarily as strong laborers rather than as a central cultivation path. 104

History

Conflict over Li ChunJun

Li ChunJun first obtained the Crimson Sun Body Refining Art, the Martial Arts Innate True Explanation, and sword techniques from the sect’s files. He selected the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Sword Art and began cultivating the Crimson Sun method. 13

After Li ChunJun displayed Mystic Phoenix Sword Qi within its jurisdiction, the sect identified him as a potential Flame Phoenix Sword Child. Bai Yang and Sky Mirror Elder considered retrieving him, while also discussing destroying or controlling him if the Supreme Void Sword Sect could not be prevented from claiming him. 98

Bai Yang later offered Li ChunJun the position of True Inheritance Disciple and promised comprehensive sect support, but Li refused. Zhan ChiYang then ordered his capture and threatened any Supreme Void Sword Sect Core cultivator who interfered. 100

The failed capture escalated into an open territorial confrontation. The Red Sun Sword Sect surrounded the Supreme Void Sword Sect’s Wild Goose Mountain, while the Supreme Void Sword Sect mobilized cultivators into Red Sun territory. 101 105

Assassinations and Border War

The sect repeatedly attempted to kill Li ChunJun after he joined the Supreme Void Sword Sect. Fang Xiu infiltrated a mission disguised as an Evil God Believer to assassinate him, while later Red Sun forces ambushed Li’s team at Azure Water Cold Pond. 116 146 147

The sect suffered heavy Core-realm losses during the fighting in Da Shang. Zhan ChiYang rebuked his subordinates for failing to report Li ChunJun’s rapid advance to the Core Realm and regretted not sending more cultivators to kill him earlier. 142

Bai Yang proposed coercing Li ChunJun through his mother or using the Blood Origin Curse Killing Art. The sect later joined with the Wuji Sect and Xiantian Sect in a curse plot during Li ChunJun’s True Inheritance Battle against Xiao YanZhi. 142 167 169

In Da Shang Royal City, the sect used a Space Locking Array concealed on one of Li ChunJun’s relatives to trap him. He escaped after deploying powerful talismans and killed two True Core cultivators during the breakout. 157

Li ChunJun subsequently led the Supreme Void Sword Sect in breaking the Da Shang Royal City’s protection formation. Zhou WuGou was defeated, crippled, and left alive to witness the destruction of the sect’s forces; Bai Yang was killed while attempting to flee. 160

Disavowal and Annihilation

After Li ChunJun reached first place on the Sun Radiance Ranking, the Immortal Alliance’s Red Sun Sword Sect expelled the Blue Star lineage for mishandling him. 247

When Li ChunJun returned to Blue Star, the upper sect’s representatives declared that no official Red Sun Sword Sect branch had been established there, leaving the Blue Star organization without protection from its claimed parent sect. 257

Li ChunJun killed sixteen Nascent Soul Real Persons with a single sword strike, then dispersed the Crimson Sky Sword into tens of thousands of Sword Qi that killed the sect’s remaining elders and disciples. The Red Sun Sword Sect ceased to exist. 257

Relationships

• Supreme Void Sword Sect — Longstanding territorial rival. Its protection of Li ChunJun and recognition of him as the Flame Phoenix Sword Child triggered the sect’s campaign to capture or kill him. 98 100 101
• Li ChunJun — Former cultivator within the sect’s jurisdiction and its principal enemy. The sect attempted recruitment, capture, assassination, coercion, and cursing before Li annihilated it. 100 142 167 257
• Wuji Sect — Allied with the Red Sun Sword Sect against Li ChunJun and the Supreme Void Sword Sect; both were implicated in attempts to eliminate the Flame Phoenix Sword Child. 169
• Xiantian Sect — Cooperated in the curse plot through Elder Ge Li and the Blood Origin Curse Killing Art. 142 167
• Immortal Alliance Red Sun Sword Sect — The claimed upper sect ultimately expelled and disavowed the Blue Star lineage rather than defend it. 247 257

Notable Members

• Zhan ChiYang — Sect Master; a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator who ordered Li ChunJun’s capture and later recognized him as a grave threat. 100 105 167
• Bai Yang — Elder involved in the initial attempt to recruit Li ChunJun; later proposed using Li’s mother as leverage and was killed during the Da Shang campaign. 100 142 160
• Sky Mirror Elder — Elder who insisted that the Supreme Void Sword Sect must not be allowed to produce another Flame Phoenix Sword Child. 98 101
• Zhou WuGou — True Inheritance Disciple stationed in Da Shang; initiated a True Inheritance Battle, then was crippled by Li ChunJun. 123 158 160
• Zhou Chixin — External Affairs Hall Master and head of the Zhou family. 134
• Xiao YanZhi — One of the three True Inheritance Disciples; fought Li ChunJun in the True Inheritance Battle and was killed. 123 166 168