Immortal Sect

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Immortal Sect (仙门)
Alias(es)	Eternal Heaven — name used in Northern Liao / the Golden Horde Court 36
Occupation / Role	Cosmic cultivation organization governing disciples, cultivation worlds, and subordinate territories
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 5

Origins and Scale

The sect identifies the Celestial Venerable as its founder; all disciples are regarded as the Celestial Venerable’s successors. The Celestial Venerable Hall’s statue is used to identify spiritual roots, including difficult-to-detect Variant Spiritual Roots 36.

Its visible cosmic structure is described as “One Palace, Three Courts, Eight Immortal Peaks.” Twelve celestial lights and their accompanying stars form the shape of an immense gate, leading Wang Ping to conclude that the Immortal Sect is far larger than an ordinary terrestrial sect 41.

• The Eight Trigrams Furnace, Divine Farmer Cauldron, and Investiture Altar are the three largest worlds under its rule 158.
• The sect also maintains numerous Blessed Lands and Grotto-Heavens; the highest-grade sanctuaries, Immortal Abodes, are primarily reserved for Third Tribulation Realm True Disciples 158.
• After the Great Rebellion, immortals sealed three former Great Rebellion sites—including the Eight Trigrams Furnace—and repurposed them for their own use 292.
• The Divine Weapons Institute is one of the sect’s three great institutes and appears in deep space as a vast megastructure built around a star 203.

Hierarchy

Rank / Status	Position within the sect
Force Servitor	Refined puppet-servant used by disciples; seals can compel lifelong loyalty to the sect 5
Menial disciple / worker	Lower-level laborer, often assigned chores and hard labor under higher-ranking cultivators 37
Rogue Cultivator	A cultivator outside the formal disciple ranks; completing the First Tribulation Realm can permit entry into the Dao registry as an Outer Sect Disciple 63
Outer Sect Disciple	Formal disciple rank reached through cultivation and registration 63
Inner Sect Disciple	Higher-ranking disciple; many serve as long-lived Dao-protecting generals or become Corpse-Liberated Immortals because they lack hope of Qi Refinement 325
True Disciple	Elite disciple with access to major inheritances, positions, and political influence; their status far exceeds that of Inner Sect Disciples 270
Qi Refiner / True Person / True Lord	Senior cultivation authorities whose actions and decrees shape the sect’s worlds, Fate, and major conflicts 87 270

Cultivation System

Stage	Requirement / Function
Crossing Tribulations	Begins with the Human Tribulation: Spirit-Communing Thought, a sealed body, cyclical breathing, and the ability to borrow qi to manifest dharma. It is followed by wind, fire, lightning, and Fate tribulations 37
Qi Refinement	The path entered after completing the tribulations; it leads toward the Great Dao 37
Life Tribulation	A personal, fate-driven calamity that immediately confronts Third Tribulation Realm cultivators. Surviving it only grants an opportunity to attempt Qi Refinement 158

Spiritual roots determine access to this system:

• True Spiritual Roots offer a genuine path toward longevity and higher cultivation 36.
• Defective Spiritual Roots allow spell cultivation but are said to offer no hope of Qi Refinement or the Great Dao; their bearers are commonly employed as laborers, Force Servitors, or Daoist generals 37.
• The sect restricts crucial knowledge, including the correspondence between cultivation methods and the Twenty-Four Qi of Heaven and Earth, making advancement difficult for lower-ranked cultivators 147.

Governance and Resources

Human Resources

The Immortal Sect’s lower hierarchy is built on labor, bodies, and debt.

• In Northern Liao, it holds the right to levy a “death tax”: corpses are surrendered through state-supported Sky Burial practices. Wang Ping concludes that these bodies are used as materials for Force Servitors 36.
• Force Servitors can be produced in furnaces, delivered to disciples, and controlled through loyalty-imposing seals 5.
• In the Eight Trigrams Furnace, lower-ranked cultivators and mortals are treated as Human Firewood and disposable resources 125 327.
• Rogue Cultivators may need to purchase employment under True Disciples with Incense Dharma Coins, often accepting debt to gain access to stable positions 63.

Commerce and Corruption

• Heaven and Earth Pavilion is a True Disciple faction involved in reselling Immortal Sect assets. It profits from magical treasures smuggled out of the Eight Trigrams Furnace and from laundering Incense Dharma Coins 126.
• Daoist Xuan He founded Book Mountain within the Eight Trigrams Furnace before ascending as an Outer Sect Disciple. Wang Ping suspects its “ascension” system is used to export Natal Flying Swords and accumulated incense from the Furnace 93 125.
• Cultivators frequently exploit institutional loopholes. The sect requires evidence before acting against suspected Marauder Cultivators, allowing disciples to hide behind disguises and technicalities 170.

Control of Great Shun

Great Shun functions as the Immortal Sect’s “white glove.” The sect uses the Weapon Ranking and the Fate-Gazing Flesh-Bone Mirror to monitor martial artists, guide selected fighters toward Grandmasterhood, exhaust their Fate, and recover their Divine Weapons after death 125.

This system was disrupted when the Martial Dao Chief rose outside the Weapon Ranking’s surveillance and elevated Great Shun’s martial arts beyond the sect’s expected limits 125.

Military and Defensive Assets

• Heaven’s Will Wields the Profound Blade — a Spirit Treasure suspended above the Eight Trigrams Furnace. It acts as a sect-level defensive weapon and can target unauthorized high-level cultivators within the Furnace 158 231.
• Force Servitor armies — True Disciples can field enormous formations of refined servants. Shuntianzi’s Myriad Chariots Banner of Armored Soldiers contains over a million Force Servitors, including divine-general-level units 270.
• Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands — privately held cultivation territories that can strengthen their owners in battle and generate resources 158.
• Spirit Treasures — weapons and artifacts comparable in status to Qi Refiners; their control is a major source of power within the sect 159.

Major Factions and Members

• Celestial Venerable — acknowledged founder of the Immortal Sect 36.
• You Xuexin / You Daoist Nun — True Disciple associated with Bliss Peak and the Divine Weapons Institute; initially employs Wang Ping as an attendant 38 85.
• Liansheng Yue / Liansheng Bodhisattva — white-robed second True Disciple associated with the Immortal Formula Institute 84 85.
• Mingyou — Qi Refiner and You Xuexin’s master; a major strategist in the struggle over Wood Qi and the Eight Trigrams Furnace 159 231.
• Daoist Xuan He — Book Mountain’s founder and a Furnace-Watching Disciple tied to Heaven and Earth Pavilion’s smuggling operations 125 126.
• Kun Yun — fifth True Disciple and founder of Heaven and Earth Pavilion 218.
• Immortal Talisman — third True Disciple who presides over the Immortal-Brahma Sword Duel and seeks to restore Human-Yang Wood to the Heavenly-Earthly Order 256.
• Gan Wujia / Heaven-Stealing Thief — wanted Third Tribulation Realm rebel cultivator whose Five Thieves Stealing Heaven Method threatens sect authority while exploiting its divisions 87 338.

Conflicts

Heaven-Stealing Thief

The Heaven-Stealing Thief spreads cultivation methods that can grant instant mastery but turn users into nourishment for his own path. The Immortal Sect considers his followers dangerous “tribulation cultivators,” yet has failed to capture him despite his notoriety and suspected ties to True Disciples 38 41 170.

Great Rebellion

The Great Rebellion destroyed portions of the Six Heavens’ Ancient Qi and left behind cave abodes, merit, and unresolved political consequences. The sect later transformed former rebellion sites into controlled worlds, while powerful factions seek to restore or replace the lost Qi paths 292 322.

Immortal-Brahma Sword Duel

The Immortal-Brahma Sword Duel is a recurring conflict between the Immortal Sect and the Brahma Kingdom. It contests Heavenly Estates, Earth Hearths, and Human Firewood, while also serving as a Life Tribulation and merit opportunity for True Disciples 259 295.

The contest eventually escalates beyond a formal duel into a wider Dao conflict involving True Disciples, Corpse-Liberated Immortals, Spirit Treasures, and True Persons 282.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Role of the Immortal Sect
Wang Ping’s first transmigration	Wang Ping awakens as a controlled Force Servitor, exposing the sect’s use of refined human servants 5
Northern Liao and You Daoist Nun	The sect’s death tax, spiritual-root hierarchy, and attendant system are revealed as Wang Ping enters You Xuexin’s service 36
Cosmic revelation	Wang Ping witnesses the twelve-star gate and realizes the Immortal Sect is a cosmic-scale organization 41
Book Mountain investigation	Xuan He’s control of Great Shun, Fate, Weapon Rankings, and smuggling operations reveals the sect’s exploitation of subordinate worlds 93 125 126
Eight Trigrams Furnace conflict	Competing True Disciples, Qi Refiners, and Corpse-Liberated Immortals fight over lifespan, Fate, the Twenty-Four Qi, and the Furnace’s resources 158 231
Immortal-Brahma Sword Duel	The sect’s internal divisions become overt as Immortal Talisman, Mingyou, Wang Ping, and rival institutions pursue incompatible plans 256 282
Wang Ping’s challenge	After killing Mingyou and gaining Great Rebellion merit, Wang Ping openly challenges the Immortal Sect and begins confronting its disciples directly 268 270

Notable Quotes

“Only profit is eternal.” — Immortal Talisman on the Immortal Sect’s internal loyalties 268

“The Immortal Sect was founded by the Celestial Venerable. Every disciple of our Immortal Sect, regardless of cultivation level, is a successor of the Celestial Venerable.” 36