Bodhi Sect

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Bodhi Sect
Original Name	菩提教
Classification	Buddhist cultivation sect; one of the Three Sects / three great teachings 635 680
Affiliation	A constituent power of the Immortal Court 654
Territories	Active across three of the four great continents; Northern Continent is principally the domain of the Three Immortals Sect 724
Status	Active; heavily involved in the great calamity and its conflicts with the Divine Dynasty, Orthodox Gods, and Three Immortals Sect 818 843
First Appearance	Chapter 635

Organization

Rank / Group	Position and known function
Three Buddha Patriarchs	The sect’s supreme leaders: the Past Buddha governs Western Continent, the Future Buddha governs Southern Continent, and the Present Buddha presides over Eastern Sumeru and the present age. 755 803
True Buddhas	High authorities beneath the Buddha Patriarchs. Each patriarch is attended by two True Buddhas, for nine in total. 755
Great Freedom Bodhisattvas	Second-rank practitioners, comparable to the Three Immortals Sect’s Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals. They handle worldly affairs and may eventually join the True Buddhas. 724 729
Bodhisattvas	Third-rank practitioners who wield Bodhisattva Fruit Positions and often command Arhats, conduct transmissions, or oversee regional operations. 721 735
Arhats / Practitioners	Practitioners who obtain a Fruit Rank after entering a Venerable’s tutelage and passing a trial; they serve beneath that Venerable’s seat. 635
Golden Lotus Walkers	Advanced walkers who have perfected the Six-Calamity Lotus Platform Method, gained a Venerable’s favor, passed a test, and received the Golden Lotus Method. 651
Novice monks and attendants	Lower-ranking disciples who maintain temples, guide visitors, transmit scriptures, and attend senior monks. 103 803

Teachings and Cultivation

Lotus Platform Methods

The sect’s Lotus Platform Methods are regarded as exceptionally valuable inheritances, comparable in prestige to the Three Immortals Sect’s true Immortal Venerable lineages. They are preached openly at times, allowing mortals, rogue cultivators, demons, and heretics to gain access to incomplete teachings. 654 659

• Practitioners undertake bodily tribulations and heart tribulations while walking the world to comprehend the Great Dao and seek a Fruit Rank. 721
• The sect’s scriptures can stabilize a cultivator’s soul during tribulations, making them valuable as life-preserving treasures rather than mere manuals. 651
• The Nine-Tribulation Golden Lotus Method was publicly expounded by Seven Treasures Bodhisattva at Crane Mountain. 654
• The sect possesses “ten thousand volumes of true scriptures,” though access is controlled by status and lineage. 734

Fruit Positions and Dharma Bodies

Bodhi Sect cultivation centers on obtaining and developing a practitioner’s Fruit Rank or Fruit Position, a path comparable in raw strength to an immortal cultivator’s Dao Fruit. 635

• Arhats manifest Golden Bodies and employ Fruit-Rank techniques tailored to their Dharma forms. 680
• Bodhisattva Fruit Positions allow cultivators to imitate the order of Heaven and Earth, using Dao-origin to construct increasingly complete Dharma bodies. 716 721
• Senior figures may bestow divine abilities or portions of a higher Fruit Position upon disciples, though such gifts can also function as restraints. 702
• The Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Taming Great Wisdom King position granted Shen Yi a three-headed, six-armed wrathful Dharma body and a fragment of a third-rank Bodhisattva Fruit Position. 702

Formations and Buddhist Treasures

The sect is especially dangerous in coordinated warfare. Its practitioners combine Dharma bodies, Buddhist light, formations, and sect treasures rather than relying solely on individual combat. 751

• Groups of Bodhisattvas can merge their Buddhist light and Dharma powers into a coordinated suppression formation. 751
• More than a thousand Arhats can jointly create a large-scale Buddhist-light formation capable of enveloping an entire hall. 798
• The Immaculate Buddhist Beads are an innate Buddhist treasure used to strengthen Great Freedom Bodhisattvas. 820
• The Future Buddha’s golden ring can forcibly bind and control a Demon Venerable. 750
• The sect’s scripture-transmitting palanquin was guarded by four Great Arhats and the Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Taming Great Wisdom King. 713

History

Expansion into the Divine Dynasty

The sect’s practitioners operated throughout the Divine Dynasty by preaching, establishing shrines, and circulating cultivation methods. Its teachings were presented as open salvation, but the spread of incomplete scriptures also created large numbers of prospective followers seeking further Bodhi Sect inheritances. 654 659

The Divine Dynasty regarded this expansion as a threat to imperial authority. Court officials believed the sect’s public transmission of scripture encouraged greed and could redirect the mortal world’s Imperial Qi away from the dynasty. 674 712

In Jianyang Prefecture, disciples Zhi Qing and Zhi Ming pursued the Dragon-Tiger Grand Scripture, abducted cultivators, and forced them to atone for alleged sins. Their conflict with Shen Yi ended with Zhi Qing’s death and exposed serious corruption among ordinary sect practitioners. 649 650

Conflict with the Divine Dynasty

The confrontation escalated after Dragon-Tiger Arhat Hui Zhen was killed by Shen Yi while attempting to take an old flood dragon demon. The Divine Dynasty publicly accused Hui Zhen of colluding with demons and causing calamity across West Mountain Prefecture. 678 680

The sect responded through direct pressure and covert operations. The Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva confronted the dynasty in West Mountain Prefecture, while Bodhi Sect monks later used Golden Light Prefecture as a staging ground and attempted to manipulate Wu Shan into serving as a message of submission. 685 699 701

Shen Yi subsequently accepted the Bodhi Sect’s investiture as the Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Taming Great Wisdom King, formally entering the sect while receiving a restraint placed within his Fruit Position by the Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva. 702

Scripture Transmission and the Great Calamity

The Bodhi Sect publicly dispatched its true scripture into the mortal world under the Great Wisdom King’s protection. The stated goal was to spread the Dharma, but the transmission also positioned the sect to gain influence during widespread demon calamities and unrest. 712 713

Shen Yi intercepted the transmission, killed eight Great Arhats, and removed the scripture from the sect’s control. The Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva pursued him, but Shen Yi later completed a Bodhisattva Fruit Rank and killed the Bodhisattva. 716 721 724

During the same period, the sect sought to recruit and direct demon forces. It manipulated demon clans, offered salvation to captured Demon Venerables, and planned to seize Orthodox God positions by intervening at Eight Extremes Valley. 710 731 750

War with the Three Immortals Sect

The Bodhi Sect infiltrated Northern Continent with disguised Bodhisattvas and clashed with the Three Immortals Sect over disciples, Dao grounds, and incense offerings. 763 791

In Eastern Continent, the sect besieged Three Immortals Sect disciples with over a thousand Arhats and several Bodhisattvas, intending to refine their enemies alive through a grand formation. Taixu True Lord’s arrival broke the formation and reversed the balance of power. 798

The resulting conflict brought the Seventy-Two Cave Golden Immortals to Eastern Sumeru for negotiations. Both sides accused the other of initiating bloodshed, and Joyful True Buddha personally intervened when the dispute threatened to spiral beyond the control of the Bodhisattvas. 803 804

The attempted reconciliation failed. Bodhi Sect forces resumed coordinated ambushes against Three Immortals Sect disciples across Eastern Continent, while their senior figures prepared Buddhist treasures and formations to eliminate Shen Yi. 818 820

Southern Sumeru Battle

By the final documented conflict, the Bodhi Sect’s Past Buddha and five True Buddhas gathered at Southern Sumeru to suppress the Ancestor Gods and confront Shen Yi. 841

Shen Yi’s forces fractured the sect’s leadership: Joyful True Buddha defected, Past Buddha was defeated and driven into the River of Time, and the remaining True Buddhas and monks were captured. 842 843

Relationships

• Immortal Court — The Bodhi Sect is one of the Immortal Court’s constituent powers and operates alongside the Three Immortals Sect within the broader cultivation order. 654
• Divine Dynasty — Initially coexisted under strained arrangements, but the sect’s scripture transmission, cultivation of mortal followers, and clashes with court officials led to open hostility. 654 680 712
• Three Immortals Sect — Rival great sect. Their struggle over Dao grounds, disciples, incense offerings, and the great calamity developed into warfare across multiple continents. 763 791 803
• Orthodox God Sect — The Bodhi Sect sought to capture Orthodox Gods and seize their positions, treating their authority as an obstacle to its own ambitions. 731 732
• Demon races — The sect recruited demons, restrained Demon Venerables with Buddhist treasures, and used demon invasions to create conditions favorable to spreading its teachings. 710 750
• Shen Yi — Entered the sect as the Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Taming Great Wisdom King, attained Bodhisattva fruition, then repeatedly acted against its leadership and disciples. 702 729 843

Known Members

• Past Buddha — One of the Three Buddha Patriarchs; governs Western Continent. Defeated by Shen Yi and forced into the River of Time. 755 843
• Present Buddha — Sect leader associated with Eastern Sumeru and the present age. 803 841
• Future Buddha — Sect leader responsible for the Great Southern Continent; personally selected Golden Toad as a disciple. 724 750
• Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva — Invested Shen Yi as the Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Taming Great Wisdom King and placed a restraint within his Fruit Position; later killed by Shen Yi. 702 724
• Golden Toad Bodhisattva — Future Buddha’s personally chosen disciple; an ambitious Bodhisattva who attempted to force a breach into Southern Continent. 729 750
• Seven Treasures Bodhisattva — Preached the Nine-Tribulation Golden Lotus Method at Crane Mountain and later participated in operations involving demon forces and rival cultivators. 654 735
• Great Freedom Pure World Bodhisattva — Senior Great Freedom Bodhisattva who directed Golden Toad and Shen Yi after the Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva’s fall. 729
• Great Freedom Lotus Pearl Bodhisattva — Protectively intervened for Bodhi Sect disciples during the Eastern Sumeru Dharma Debate; later killed by Shen Yi. 808 813
• Great Freedom Snow Mountain Bodhisattva — A prominent Eastern Sumeru leader who organized resistance against Shen Yi and later relayed intelligence to the True Buddhas. 816 818
• Monk Zhi Kong — A practitioner who repeatedly opposed the wrongdoing of fellow sect members and later disclosed the sect’s structure to Shen Yi. 649 724
• Monk Hui Zhen — Dragon-Tiger Arhat publicly accused by the Divine Dynasty of colluding with demons; killed by Shen Yi. 678 680

Trivia

• Despite its Buddhist terminology and compassionate public image, the sect’s monks are repeatedly shown using coercion, assassination, demonic proxies, and forced recruitment. 649 701 710
• The Bodhi Sect’s coordinated formations become more powerful as additional practitioners join them, contrasting with the Three Immortals Sect’s more individualistic fighting style. 751
• The sect considers the spread of scripture a means to draw cultivators toward its higher inheritances and Fruit Positions. 659 689