Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect

Biodata

Background / History

The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is an ancient sect with a heritage spanning ten thousand years and a reputation as a sect that once produced a god. Its inherited martial soul is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, a support-type martial soul whose seven-tier limit historically restricted its users from reaching the highest levels of cultivation. Ning Rongrong was the only known person in ten thousand years to evolve it into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda before Ning An 6.

Before the story, the sect established the cooperative channels, resources, industries, and connections used by its affiliated sects. It also supplied cultivation resources, opened trade routes, sheltered them from foreign enemies, and mediated sect conflicts 1 2. Despite this foundation, the sect entered a prolonged decline: it had not produced a Titled Douluo or even a Soul Douluo for a long time, lacked notable younger-generation talent beyond Ning An and Ning Tian, and had few disciples present in its council hall 1.

With the Sect Master absent while searching for talent, affiliated sects attempted to exploit the sect's weakened position. They demanded sixty percent of all cooperative profits, a share that would have left the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect unable to cover its costs and threatened to reduce it to a second- or third-rate power 1.

Ning An, the eleven-year-old Young Sect Master, had already mastered sect law and managed more than half of the sect's affairs. He rejected the demand, accepted the affiliated sects' wager, and defeated their younger representatives alone. The defeated sects surrendered compensation and reduced their own profit shares from thirty percent to ten percent, preserving the sect's foundation 1 5.

Following this victory, Ning An's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into the legendary Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. The transformation healed his injuries, strengthened his physical body and soul power foundation, and restored the sect elders' confidence that the sect could reclaim its former glory 6.

Organization

Leadership

Affiliated sects

• Tang Sect — Becomes an affiliated sect after Tang Ya and Bei Bei acknowledge that its secret arts are incomplete and derived from the Nine Treasure Arts. It must transfer eighty percent of its hidden-weapon output and acquired Soul Master resources to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, retaining twenty percent for operations and member cultivation 14.
• Jade Water Sect — Former affiliated sect that joined the attempted profit seizure. After Ning An defeats its representatives, it accepts a ten-percent profit share and offers compensation 5.
• Longwind Sect — Former affiliated sect that joined the attempted profit seizure. It apologizes, provides compensation, and accepts a ten-percent profit share 5.
• Azure Rock Sect — Admits fault and submits after Ning An's victory over the affiliated-sect prodigies 5.

Resources and Influence

• Maintains cooperative trade channels, resource networks, industrial foundations, and external connections established over many years 1.
• Historically provides affiliated sects with:
  • Cultivation resources.
  • Trade routes.
  • Protection from foreign enemies.
  • Intervention in sect disputes 2.
• Receives ninety percent of cooperative profits after the affiliated sects reduce their share to ten percent 5.
• Receives eighty percent of the Tang Sect's future hidden-weapon production and Soul Master resources 14.
• Holds a main-city recommendation letter for Shrek Academy and receives gifts from the city lord, who treats Ning An with formal respect 6 7.

Inherited Martial Souls and Arts

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda

The sect's inherited support-type martial soul for tens of thousands of years. Its seven-tier limit was regarded as the sect's greatest longstanding regret, as it prevented complete support capability and hindered members from reaching the continent's pinnacle 6.

Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda

The evolved nine-tier form of the sect's inherited pagoda martial soul and the supreme auxiliary martial soul. Ning An's evolution marks the first reappearance of a true Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in ten thousand years since Ning Rongrong 6.

• The first two named treasures are Strength and Speed 26.
• Its emergence is treated by the elders as proof that the sect has regained hope of restoring its former glory 6.

Nine Treasure Arts

Arts claimed by Ning An as the sect's authentic inheritance. They include Ghost Shadow Track, Jade Hand, Controlling Crane, Capturing Dragon, Purple Demon Eye, Hundred Solutions to Hidden Weapons, and other techniques 12.

• Ghost Shadow Track — Movement technique capable of rapid, traceless movement and evasion 11.
• Jade Hand — Body-tempering art that hardens the hands, blocks weapons barehanded, and resists poison 11.
• Controlling Crane, Capturing Dragon — Force-control art that can redirect attacks, manipulate objects at a distance, and seize or bind opponents 11.
• Ning An teaches Ghost Shadow Track, Jade Hand, and Controlling Crane, Capturing Dragon to Ning Tian, Huo Yuhao, and the Third Elder to strengthen the sect's foundation 11.

Relationships

• Ning An — Young Sect Master and central figure in the sect's revival; protects its industries, defeats its challengers, and awakens the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda 1 5 6.
• Ning Tian — Sect disciple and Ning An's younger sister; defends the sect publicly during the affiliated-sect crisis and witnesses the pagoda evolution 2 6.
• Huo Yuhao — Recruited by Ning An after being rescued in the Star Dou Great Forest; swears to cultivate and restore the glory of the Nine Treasures 8 9.
• Third Elder — Loyal elder and Soul Douluo-level protector who receives instruction in the Nine Treasure Arts and is ordered to return to the sect to teach them 11 22.
• Tang Sect — Affiliated sect under the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, bound by an eighty-percent resource contribution arrangement 14.
• Affiliated sects — Once dependent beneficiaries of the sect's resources and protection; their attempted betrayal is reversed after Ning An's victory 1 5.

Major Events

• Affiliated Sect Profit Crisis — Several affiliated sects demand sixty percent of cooperative profits while the Sect Master is absent, exploiting the sect's lack of top experts and young talent 1.
• Arena Wager — Ning An accepts a contest against the affiliated sects' younger generation and defeats five assault-type Great Soul Masters using his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear martial soul 3 4.
• Restoration of Profit Terms — The affiliated sects apologize, offer resources, and accept ten percent rather than their prior thirty-percent profit share 5.
• Return of the Nine Treasures — Ning An's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolves into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, ending the sect's ten-thousand-year absence of a true nine-tier pagoda 6.
• Recruitment of Huo Yuhao — Ning An rescues Huo Yuhao and brings him into the sect, viewing his resilience as valuable to the sect's future 8 9.
• Tang Sect Submission — The Tang Sect accepts affiliated status, contributing eighty percent of its future resources and hidden weapons in exchange for preservation and potential access to authentic arts 14.