Tianshan Sect

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Tianshan Sect
Original Name	天山宗
Founder	Tianshanzi
Established	Over 1,000 years before the main story 68 69
Headquarters	Tianshan Mountain, Yuntian Prefecture, Qingzhou 68
Occupation / Role	Major Qingzhou martial arts sect; cultivates and trains martial geniuses through Tianshan Pavilion; founding member of the Nine Provinces Alliance 48 59 213
Territory	Eight prefectures under its jurisdiction before the unification of the Nine Provinces 24 69
Affiliation	Nine Provinces Alliance (founding member) 213
First Appearance	Chapter 24

History

Founding and expansion

Tianshanzi established the sect and his lineage on Tianshan Mountain more than a millennium ago. After discovering the Martial Emperor’s three legacy treasures, he installed them in Tianshan Pavilion as the foundation for nurturing exceptional disciples. The sect credits these relics with producing countless Xiantian experts and expanding its territory from five prefectures to eight. 68 69

Long Tianhong incident

Eighty years before the main story, the sect invested heavily in Long Tianhong, a Qingyang Prefecture genius whose apparent rise after opening his acupoints suggested he could surpass First Rank. It assigned him elite teachers, techniques, and resources, but his advancement slowed sharply after reaching Peak Fifth Rank. 24

More than a decade later, an anonymous letter, supported by evidence, revealed that Long Tianhong had concealed his prior cultivation and fabricated his extraordinary early progress to secure the sect’s protection and resources for himself and the Long Family. The Sect Master ordered Long Tianhong’s execution by slow slicing and exterminated nine generations of the Long Family. The scandal made the sect a laughingstock among major Nine Provinces forces and caused powerful factions to prioritize the age at which a genius first displays talent over rapid subsequent advancement. 24

Lin Yi’s rise

Lin Yi entered Tianshan Pavilion after its leadership confirmed that he met its admission threshold. The sect gave him free access to the Tianshan Three Treasures, Tianshan Coin purchasing privileges, and substantial rewards for his performance at the Willpower Stone Pillar. 67 68 79

His rapid advances initially raised fears of another Long Tianhong. Sect Master Gu Changsheng therefore offered Lin Yi a choice between immediate staged rewards and a more demanding final assessment based on the authenticity of his talent. 90 93

After Lin Yi defeated the Xiantian cultivator Chu Chuan as a First Rank martial artist, the sect’s elders and Martial Saint ancestor recognized his unprecedented potential. The sect subsequently supported his entry into the Martial Emperor’s Lost Palace and provided resources to assist his breakthrough to Xiantian. 124 133 137

Unification of the Nine Provinces

After Lin Yi destroyed the Yuan Imperial Palace and displayed overwhelming power, Martial Saints and major forces submitted to Tianshan Sect authority. Within a month, the Nine Provinces Continent was brought under the sect’s command. 192

When the Three Mountains Family later attacked Tianshan Sect, Lin Yi defended the sect, killed the invading Divine Body Realm elders, and ultimately slew the Immortal Realm expert Sanshan Helong. In the aftermath, Lin Yi proposed consolidating the major powers into the Nine Provinces Alliance, with Tianshan Sect among its member forces. 204 207 211 213

Registration and continued defense

To avert further extraworld incursions, Lin Yi sought lawful recognition for the formerly “masterless” Nine Provinces through the wider starry-sky order. Ancestor Yan Hui was appointed temporary leader of the Nine Provinces Alliance while Lin Yi pursued this objective beyond the Nine Provinces. 213 214

The Nine Provinces subsequently completed official registration, with its coordinates, ownership, and local powers formally verified. The confirmation was delivered to Lin Yi at Tianshan Sect. 250

Yan Hui continued overseeing the alliance’s perimeter surveillance and ordered its personnel not to provoke an unidentified powerful visitor investigating the earlier conflict with the Three Mountains Family. The visitor, an elder dispatched by the Three Mountains Main Family, refrained from entering the registered Nine Provinces while gathering information. 258

Organization

Leadership

Position	Holder	Notes
Sect Master	Gu Changsheng	Xiantian Golden Core Grandmaster; ranked eighth on the Heaven Ranking 78 93
Sect Ancestor	Yan Hui	Martial Saint, sect protector, and temporary leader of the Nine Provinces Alliance during Lin Yi’s absence 137 138 213 258
Tianshan Pavilion Master	Liu Donglai	Ranked fifteenth on the Earth Ranking 78 107
Tianshan Pavilion Vice Pavilion Master	Zhang Lun	Relayed news of Lin Yi’s Xiantian Core Formation breakthrough and summoned sect support 162
Supreme Elder	Chu Haitian	Xiantian Golden Core elder and great-grandfather of Chu Chuan 123 133

Tianshan Pavilion

• Located at Tianshan Mountain’s snow-covered summit; its information is confidential even to many ordinary sect elders. 68
• Founded specifically to cultivate martial arts geniuses. 48 59
• Houses a Pavilion Master and two Vice Pavilion Masters; even a Vice Pavilion Master is a Xiantian-level expert. 73
• Maintains roughly 100 disciples across five generations. 68
• Pavilion disciples train there for five years, with the stated objective of reaching the Xiantian realm. 68
• Exceptional geniuses from outside the sect’s territory may enter through places purchased by their affiliated forces. 48 59
• Conducts the quarterly Tianshan Grand Competition, which ranks all Pavilion disciples and distributes Tianshan Coins. 68 84

Nine Provinces Alliance administration

• Tianshan Sect is one of the alliance’s founding powers, alongside the Myriad Phenomena Tower, Zuowang Daoist Sect, Great Zen Vajra Temple, Wanlong Chamber of Commerce, Shanhai Sect, and One-Character Sword Pavilion. 213
• The alliance preserves each member force’s independence while coordinating resources, intelligence, genius cultivation, and defenses against starry-sky threats. 213
• Yan Hui directs the alliance’s defensive response within the Nine Provinces, including its perimeter surveillance formations. 258

Resources and Training

Tianshan Three Treasures

Treasure	Function	Notes
Red Dragon Mother Pool	Enhances cultivation and serves as the source of all Red Dragon Pools.	Provides rewards for rapid cultivation progress. 69
Myriad Laws Stone Wall	Creates an ideal opponent using the same martial art as the user.	Allows martial artists below Xiantian to identify flaws in their techniques and improve martial skills and force-exertion realms through sparring. 69
Willpower Stone Pillar	Strengthens willpower and Spiritual Soul power.	Its pressure and illusions test challengers as they approach it; stronger Spiritual Soul power improves thinking speed and comprehension. 70 71

• The three treasures are Martial Emperor relics discovered by Tianshanzi and are the core reason for Tianshan Pavilion’s reputation. 69
• Tianshan Pavilion disciples may use all three treasures free of charge. 68
• Lin Yi set the sect’s Willpower Stone Pillar record by reaching the 389-meter mark after only three months in the Pavilion. 90

Tianshan Coin

• Tianshan Sect’s internal currency for Pavilion disciples. One Tianshan Coin equals 100 taels of silver. 69
• Can purchase medicines, pills, martial arts manuals, breathing techniques, and other treasures below the Xiantian realm; breathing techniques and manuals may reach mid-grade Xiantian quality. 68
• Awarded primarily through quarterly Pavilion rankings. 68

Tianshan Grand Competition placement	Tianshan Coin reward
1st	2,000
2nd	1,500
3rd	1,000
4th–10th	800 68
11th–30th	500
31st–50th	300
51st–100th	150

Doctrine and Policies

• Down-the-mountain trials — Every disciple must undertake trial missions after a period of sect cultivation, regardless of talent. The tradition was established by Tianshanzi, who believed true powerhouses must be tempered through battle rather than raised in protected conditions. 101
• Genius investment — The sect allocates elite teachers, techniques, treasures, pills, and large quantities of Tianshan Coins to promising disciples. Lin Yi received rewards worth millions of taels while still a Fifth-Rank martial artist. 24 79 111
• Internal faction recruitment — Xiantian families within the sect actively seek to recruit Pavilion disciples into their factions; the higher leadership generally permits this competition. 50 77
• Talent verification — Following the Long Tianhong scandal, extraordinary progress alone is not treated as conclusive proof of talent. 24 90 93

Relationships

• Lin Yi — Tianshan Pavilion disciple and the sect’s most heavily supported prodigy; his rise enabled Tianshan Sect to unify the Nine Provinces. 68 124 192
• Tianshan Pavilion — The sect’s confidential summit institution for the cultivation of elite geniuses. 48 68
• Nine Provinces Alliance — Tianshan Sect is a founding member of the alliance, whose temporary leader is its ancestor Yan Hui. 213 258
• Great Yuan Dynasty — Major adversary whose experts targeted Lin Yi and later fought against the sect during the wider conflict. 107 162 179
• Myriad Phenomena Tower — Initially a stronger neutral peak force; later joined Tianshan Sect and other major powers in war against the Great Yuan Dynasty and the Nine Provinces Alliance. 104 179 213
• Buddhist Sect and Daoist Sect — Powerful allied forces that aided the protection of Lin Yi and later joined the Nine Provinces Alliance. 138 179 213
• Three Mountains Family — Extraworld hostile force whose elders attacked Tianshan Sect using the Black Tortoise Grand Formation; its Immortal Realm expert Sanshan Helong was slain by Lin Yi above the sect. The Three Mountains Main Family later dispatched an elder to investigate Lin Yi’s inheritance and seek negotiation rather than immediately renew hostilities. 204 207 211 213 258
• Time God Kingdom — The broader starry-sky power through which the Nine Provinces obtained official registration and legal recognition. 214 250

Notable Quotes

“Jade uncarved cannot be made into an artifact; a person unpolished cannot break through!” — Tianshanzi’s principle behind the sect’s mandatory down-the-mountain trials 101