Righteous Alliance

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Righteous Alliance
Original Name	正义联盟
Organization Type	Alliance of cultivation sects, native cultivators, and Heaven-Sent Ones (players) 184 187
Founder / Leader	Lin Bai 184 187
Leading Sect	Righteousness Sect 184
Affiliation	Allied with the Taiyi Kingdom 276 294
Occupation / Role	Promoting the Way of Laws, coordinating member sects, integrating players into society, and applying cultivation to civilian needs 186 187
Headquarters	Initially maintained offices at the Beggar Gang’s Qian City branch; later established its headquarters in Thunder City 186 273
Status	Active; continues recruiting and assimilating former enemies 409
First Appearance	Proposed and named in Chapter 184; formally established in Chapter 187 184 187

Power Progression

The stages below track the alliance’s collective strength and institutional growth, rather than an individual cultivation realm.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Founding coalition	184 187	Lin Bai brings four opposing sect leaders into an alliance led by the Righteousness Sect, establishing mutual defense and centralized leadership.
Consolidation of the Qian City region	217	The conquest of the Chaoyuan Sword Sect brings every cultivation sect around Qian City into the alliance. Members become more cooperative after witnessing Lin Bai subdue a Spirit Transformation expert.
Three Spirit Transformation experts under Lin Bai’s command	237	Sword Immortal Cangming and Jian Shijiu become puppet bodyguards. The Beast Taming Hall also joins, adding demon-beast resources and techniques.
Long-distance transport capability	273 277	Magpie Bridges provide a way to reinforce distant positions and move beyond encircling armies; establishing the network becomes the alliance’s principal strategic hope.
First-rate power	288 290	Victory at Thunder City brings Mahayana cultivators from the Ten Sects into the alliance, giving it standing to confront the Seven Righteous Sects and Five Demon Sects. Members gain access to more advanced cultivation methods.
Eight Mahayana cultivators	296	Lin Bai assesses the alliance as possessing no more than eight Mahayana cultivators, with territory covering two towns and eight Basic Cities.
Acquisition of the Blood Sect’s reserves	312	The defeated sect’s spirit stones, pills, artifacts, and secret manuals become alliance property. Its headquarters is reorganized as an alliance branch within one day.
Expanded production and training	351	Spirit Pill Sect cultivators refine pills, Artifact Refining Sect cultivators manufacture Immortal-Binding Ropes, and Xu Longyun accepts native and player disciples to strengthen the alliance.
Casualty-free tribulation method	366	Lin Bai demonstrates a method using Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix that achieves a hundred-percent success rate in mortal-realm tribulation transcendence without casualties.

Background / History

Foundation

Lin Bai conceived the Righteous Alliance as an alternative to forcing defeated sects into the Righteousness Sect. He needed native allies because his influence over the Beggar Gang’s players was geographically limited, while stronger players would eventually emerge elsewhere. Zhao Tulong, Shen Kuang, Ge Feiyun, and Xin Shang accepted his proposal because they could not defeat him, privately intending to reconsider their position later 184.

At the organizing meetings, Lin Bai disclosed his stated concern that the Heaven-Sent Ones’ rapid growth and apparent immortality could threaten the world. Rather than make enemies of them, he proposed guiding them and linking their interests to those of native society. He also invited the sect leaders to shape the charter and brought City Lord Guo Yuan into the committee as an intended independent overseer 186 187.

Privately, Lin Bai admitted that his public presentation was partly an act. The alliance was meant to help the Righteousness Sect grow without requiring every member to join that sect, while giving him influence and protection as he pursued the Heavenly Dao 188.

Expansion and the Execution Order

The alliance expanded through military victories, recruitment offers, and material incentives. Lin Bai used Justice Weekly to rehabilitate the reputations of former enemies and present the coalition as a reform movement rather than an association of “evil” sects 187 193.

The Seven Righteous Sects and Five Demonic Sects responded with a Righteous-Demonic Joint Execution Order against Lin Bai. Its terms prohibited assistance to him, invalidated the alliance’s patent law, and outlawed law cultivation. Alliance businesses were shut down and several sects cut ties, but the principal leaders declared their loyalty; Lin Bai reinforced their commitment with rare Spirit Fruits 226 228.

During the subsequent campaign, Lin Bai bypassed Flower-Washing Valley’s challenge and advanced toward the Beast Taming Hall. Some sects switched sides as his army approached, while city officials reopened shuttered businesses when the distant execution order proved difficult to enforce locally 230 231.

Thunder City Crisis

In Thunder City, the alliance combined recruitment with public works: its army cleared bandits, repaired roads, and built bridges while businesses and offices opened in the city. Xu Longyun intervened as Princess of Yunyang to take charge of relations between the alliance and the state 249.

Powerful enemy groups then occupied surrounding cities, recruited away alliance disciples, and threatened its outlying holdings. The alliance lacked enough high-level fighters to hold its territory without Lin Bai. Attacks by the Poison Sect and Blood Sect on the Beggar Gang in Qian City and Jiamao City exposed this weakness, killing members and seizing the Justice Weekly printing press 269 273.

The Battle of Thunder City ended in an overwhelming alliance victory, but more than a thousand alliance cultivators were killed. The postwar council debated consolidation against retaliation; Lin Bai advocated Magpie Bridge raids that would seize resources and withdraw rather than attempt to hold every enemy headquarters 283 288 290 291.

Recognition and Renewed War

Negotiations with Patriarch Yuanqing brought concessions from the established sects and an agreement to pay reparations. Public recognition attracted wealthy clans, merchants, investment, and recruits. Hu He subsequently announced the alliance’s fundamental policies as its official spokesperson 297 298.

The settlement did not end the struggle. Reparations were delayed, Chilian Ancestor and Song Yaoqing escaped, and rival sects and player consortiums worked to restrict the alliance’s publicity and influence beyond Taiyi. Xu Longyun used Magpie Bridges to recruit abandoned sects inside the kingdom, while Lin Bai announced an expedition to collect reparations, pursue the fugitives, and expand the bridge network 300 301.

After the Blood Sect’s defeat, the alliance incorporated its headquarters and reserves. Lin Bai then advanced toward the Sacred Ultimate Sect, keeping his closest companions with him because the new branch lacked sufficient powerful defenders 310 312 313.

Later Expansion

Lin Sibai led alliance players in taking over vacated Seven Righteous Sects territories and connecting them with Magpie Bridges. The captured compounds generally lacked secret manuals, leaving the Blood Sect’s collection especially important for high-level player cultivation. Large-scale player arrivals also strained pill supplies 332 343.

As events spread into the Immortal Realm and Gods and Devils Continent, Far-Sighted Eagle urged consortium managers to seek positions in the alliance rather than depend on their companies. Enemy rewards meanwhile targeted alliance cultivators, leaders, core disciples, newspaper staff, and public projects. Lin Bai continued to describe assimilation—turning enemies into allies—as the alliance’s defining method of growth 400 401 409.

Organization and Governance

Leadership

• Alliance leader: Lin Bai holds command authority and claims veto power as founder 184 187.
• Alliance committee: Originally includes member sect leaders, the Beggar Gang’s leader, and City Lord Guo Yuan; disputes are to be brought before it 187.
• Spokesperson: Hu He manages external relations and publicly announces alliance policy 294 298.
• Administration and intelligence: Xu Longyun supervises recruitment, controls the Beggar Gang’s finances, and reports intelligence on hostile forces 253 269 300.
• Informal hierarchy: After the Thunder City victory, Mahayana cultivators occupy the council’s foremost seats, while longstanding lower-realm leaders sit farther down. Players continue sitting as equals with high-level cultivators 291.

Rules and Policies

Policy	Provisions
Mutual defense	An attack on one member sect is treated as a threat to the entire alliance; other members must provide assistance 187.
Resource priority	Members must prioritize allies when supplying resources and share benefits 187.
Protected sect interests	Lin Bai initially refuses players unrestricted access to member sects’ Dao Arts, reassuring the leaders that membership protects their interests 187.
War reparations	Defeated sects can be charged for the alliance’s wartime losses, even after surrendering. Members are encouraged to recover their own losses through later campaigns 187 237.
Intellectual property	The Patent Office receives sect techniques. During the Mahayana crisis, Lin Bai orders patents and other intellectual property freely shared among members to strengthen the coalition 239 253.
Demon-beast equality	Demon beasts are separated from the Beast Taming Hall’s ownership and placed under Little White Fox’s management; cooperation with cultivators requires Equality Contracts 239.
Territorial authority	Individuals and groups dealing with the alliance inside its controlled territory must follow its rules 298.
Membership	Any individual or group may apply. Members must uphold alliance interests and obey its laws or face expulsion 298.
Declared freedoms	The alliance publicly advocates freedom of speech and freedom of the press 298.

Members and Affiliates

Sect / Group	Connection
Righteousness Sect	Founding and leading sect; Lin Bai also uses the alliance to advance its development 184 188 200.
Beggar Gang	Player organization supplying logistics, commercial activity, and newspaper staff; its leader receives a committee seat 186 187.
Chaoyuan Sword Sect	Incorporated after Lin Bai’s victory; He Qin becomes a prominent alliance member 217 218.
Spirit Artifact Pavilion	Supplies artifact refiners, rare materials, and equipment expertise 226 273.
Medicine King Valley	Supplies pills and cultivation resources available to alliance members 269.
Hundred Flowers Valley cultivators	Participate in alliance affairs; Jiang Yuru attends meetings as a valley representative 212 220.
Beast Taming Hall	Joins after its defeat; contributes beast-taming methods and demon-beast resources, while Long Lin disputes subsequent losses of control and patent income 237 239.
Heavenly Dragon Sword Sect, Wind Spirit Temple, Artifact Refining Pavilion, Ghost Spirit Sect, Blood Saber Sect	Register during the fifth player arrival and submit exclusive techniques to the Patent Office 253.
Blood Sect branch	Created from the conquered Blood Sect headquarters and personnel 312.

Capabilities and Resources

Magpie Bridge Network

Long-distance transport links require lovers at both ends and give the alliance exceptional mobility 273.

• Supports civilian travel, trade, cultivation exchanges, and fee collection 273 298.
• Enables reinforcement, evacuation, and raid-and-retreat warfare 277 291.
• Provides rapid return to threatened branches once a bridge is established 313.
• Only Lin Bai can remove the bridges, making control of their operation politically significant 276.
• Cannot by itself guarantee the defense of every civilian settlement across Taiyi 291.

Cultivation and Technical Production

The alliance pools sect knowledge, specialists, and Lin Bai’s equipment to improve members’ training and supplies 226 273 294.

• The Blacksmith’s Six-Piece Set increases artifact-forging success by sixty percent 273.
• Specialists manufacture Immortal-Binding Cords and teach alchemy to the growing workforce 294.
• Improved restraints can hold a Mahayana cultivator for ten breaths; weaker cords can briefly restrain Void Insight cultivators 300.
• Law cultivation offers an alternative to slow conventional advancement, with the ways of deficiency and love becoming especially popular among members 271.
• Butterfly Transformation offers a form of rebirth, while cultivation partnerships become a practical means of preparing for death in battle 310 351.

Publicity and Information

Justice Weekly and Heavenly Dao Review serve the alliance’s political and promotional interests 257.

• Publicize policies, victories, businesses, and Lin Bai’s abilities 195 231 269.
• Rehabilitate member sects and undermine opponents through selective framing 187 193 237.
• Use player forums, private contacts, and livestreams to spread news and obtain intelligence 198 257.
• Remain vulnerable to seized printing equipment, attacks on staff, rival publications, and consortium information blockades 273 300 310 401.

Civilian Services

The alliance’s declared program is to make immortal techniques useful outside elite cultivation 187 195.

• Medicine: Proposed public alchemy workshops and lower pill prices; alliance pill shops offer discounted goods 195 231.
• Infrastructure: Road repair, bridge construction, and bandit suppression 249.
• Education: Proposed Cultivation Academies for ordinary people 195.
• Commerce: Pill shops, artifact workshops, branded cultivation goods, and bridge transport 198 231 298.

Relationships

• Lin Bai — Founder, military spearhead, and final decision-maker. His habit of personally taking the greatest battlefield risks protects members, but also makes the alliance heavily dependent on him 187 242 269.
• Xu Longyun — Administrator and strategic adviser who challenges reckless expansion and later prioritizes alliance interests over her father’s position 273 300 301.
• Hu He — Official spokesperson and diplomat; her first press conference defines the alliance’s public policies 294 298.
• Taiyi Kingdom — State partner in the Magpie Bridge project and military ally. Its support represents a break with the established cultivation powers, although the alliance later questions the kingdom’s material contribution 276 294 301.
• Duke Who Guards the Nation — Provides Northern Defense Army support while warning that retaliation against Taiyi’s civilians could undermine the alliance’s legitimacy 283 291.
• Seven Righteous Sects and Five Demon Sects — Principal institutional rivals; oppose the alliance through execution orders, military action, competing publications, and economic restrictions 226 238 299.
• Player consortiums — Compete for recruits, commerce, and information control. Some managers later consider joining the alliance as corporate authority weakens 269 300 400.

Limitations and Internal Tensions

• Dependence on one leader: Even after recruiting Mahayana cultivators, Lin Bai remains the only member regarded as certain to defeat the major sects’ forces 269 291.
• Coerced loyalty: Founding leaders join under duress, and later recruits often retain attachments to their former sects 184 291.
• Fear of puppetry: Lin Bai’s ability to turn powerful cultivators into puppets discourages potential high-level allies from joining 277.
• Uneven defenses: Rapid expansion leaves branches and distant territories vulnerable when the strongest members travel together 269 313.
• Player self-interest: Some players hope prolonged conflict will weaken both the alliance and established sects, allowing independent player powers to emerge 194 291 371.
• Contested equality: Free sharing of techniques and demon-beast autonomy strengthen the coalition but provoke resentment from members who lose income or control 239.
• Public virtue versus coercion: The alliance promises peace and participation, while Lin Bai uses forced recruitment, intimidation, propaganda, and conquest to sustain it 184 193 230 292.

Notable Quotes

“Combine immortal cultivation with people's livelihoods, and put Dao arts in service of the people.”
— The alliance’s proposition presented in Justice Weekly 195

“If we can't hold it, we won't. We'll gather up the good things and escape over the Magpie Bridge, then raid a different home next time.”
— Lin Bai’s proposed strategy against the major sects 291

“The Righteous Alliance doesn't rely on orthodox cultivation. We absorb and assimilate.”
— Lin Bai on the alliance’s growth 409