Heaven Mending Pavilion

Biodata

Background / History

The Heaven Mending Pavilion’s legacy dates to ancient times. Its birthplace is the Ancient Sacred Academy, described as a land of divine beings and Saints. The first Pavilion Master established the sect and planted the Divine Vine, which grew into its guardian. The Pavilion subsequently expanded beyond its original grounds 37 41 45 46.

The founder died in ancient times, but his soul returned to the Pavilion as an unclear-minded remnant driven by an unresolved obsession. His identity remained unknown even to senior elder Tao Ye until the Divine Vine revealed that the troublesome Elder Paranormal was their founding ancestor 46.

Organization and Recruitment

Admission

• Main recruitment: The regular recruitment period draws large numbers of children from surrounding regions. Some great tribes expend considerable resources to secure even one place 37.
• Annual scouting: Emissaries visit great tribes and venture deep into the Great Wilderness each year to select talented children 37.
• Ancient Sacred Academy selection: Places are limited and awarded through trials in the Primordial Battlefield. Joining an already-arranged selection requires replacing an existing candidate under the relevant faction’s name 38.
• Exceptional admission: Di Yi is accepted outside the ordinary process after Elder Gu recognizes his sincere desire to study. His unusual strength earns him access to restricted grounds and the scripture repository, but no personal instructor 39 41.
• Integrity: The gate elder explicitly states that the Pavilion will not welcome someone who lacks integrity, although his warning to Di Yi results from misunderstanding his origins 37.

Training and Rules

• Genius Camp: Talents selected from great tribes live together to exchange ideas and learn from one another 41.
• Instruction: Elders periodically visit the camp to explain Bone Text; residents also study the Bone Scripture independently 42.
• Consistent lodging rules: Elder Gu explains that even the Human Emperor’s daughter would not receive different treatment under the camp’s accommodation rules 41.
• Lasting ties: Elders regard disciples who eventually return to their own tribes and homes as a continuing source of support for the Pavilion 40.

Grounds and Facilities

The Pavilion occupies spiritually rich mountains with ancient trees, cloud-wreathed peaks, clear lakes, and beasts accustomed to living alongside humans 36.

Sacrificial Spirit and Defenses

Divine Vine

The Gourd Vine is the Pavilion’s strongest fighting force and a living witness to its cultivation history 45 46.

• Declining vitality: Its leaves have become sparse, dry, and yellow. It sleeps to slow its loss of vitality, while an uncanny force around its dwelling devours surrounding essence 45.
• Remaining lifespan: The Vine estimates that, barring an unexpected change, it has only a few decades left and cannot withstand the coming great calamity 46.
• Strategic importance: Its death would expose the Pavilion to potentially catastrophic attacks from hostile forces 45.
• Perception limit: It cannot perceive Di Yi through divine perception because it lacks physical eyes; it interprets this as evidence that his level of life far exceeds its own 45 46.

Runic Barrier

The Divine Vine created the Primordial Battlefield’s protective runic arrangement 38.

• The field can block attacks from Primordial Remnants.
• It forms a little world that even great kings and marquises normally cannot see through.
• Di Yi sees through it without using a Precious Technique or spiritual heavenly eye, shocking the assembled observers 38.

Void Crossing

The Divine Vine uses its sole Azure Gourd to construct an advanced spatial passage 47.

• Crossing the breadth of an ancient kingdom is within the technique’s capabilities.
• It transports Di Yi toward the Hundred Broken Mountains, but does not itself force open that secluded world.
• Di Yi comprehends the technique through True Understanding and later uses it during his journey to the Hundred Herb Garden 47 48 49.

Resources and Items

• Bone Scripture — Contains cultivation knowledge and accounts of Void Crossing and sacred medicinal plants 42 47 50.
• Predecessors’ cultivation insights — Part of the Pavilion’s teaching inheritance and foundations 41.
• Rare medicinal plants and spirit medicines — Cultivated reserves protected from unauthorized gathering 37 50.
• Tao Ye’s bright yellow gourd — Carried by the senior elder during the Elder Paranormal disturbance; its fluctuations reassure and comfort Lie Wan’er 44.
• Rarest treasures — Offered by Tao Ye in exchange for Di Yi’s blood as a possible means of reviving the Divine Vine; the proposed exchange does not proceed 45.

Members and Relationships

• Elder Paranormal — Founding ancestor and first Pavilion Master. His missing sword could house his remnant soul and potentially restore his clarity 46 47.
• Elder Gu — Elder who initially mistakes Di Yi for a Fire Kingdom royal, then arranges his admission and introduces him to the Genius Camp 37 39 41.
• Tao Ye — Senior elder who coordinates the response to the haunting and brings Di Yi to the Divine Vine 44 45.
• Elder Zhuo Yun — Responds to the Elder Paranormal’s appearance and directs threatened disciples toward Di Yi’s protection 43 44.
• Di Yi — Exceptionally admitted member who promises to retrieve the founder’s sword and intervene if the predicted calamity occurs 41 47.
• Lie Wan’er — Daughter of the Blazing Sun Marquis and a talented disciple targeted by the Elder Paranormal 40 43 44.
• Cheng Ji — Disciple involved in the Elder Paranormal affair who subsequently cultivates at Di Yi’s residence for safety 44.
• Great clans, major sects, and royal families — Send descendants to study at the Pavilion. Visitors during the academy trials include representatives associated with Little Western Heaven and the Fire Kingdom 36 38 40.
• Nearby mountain villagers — Freely visit spiritually rich surrounding lands with the elders’ permission; they praise the Pavilion for allowing them to strengthen their bodies there 36.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Di Yi’s Arrival and Admission

• After learning of the Pavilion in Cloud-Rushing Town, Di Yi chooses it as his destination and travels more than eight hundred thousand li on foot 29 36.
• His arrival coincides with trials for the Ancient Sacred Academy, explaining the unusual concentration of powerful clans and royal visitors 36 38 40.
• Once admitted, he studies the local cultivation system through camp lectures and the Bone Scripture, then advances from the Blood Moving Realm to ten Cave Heavens 41 42 43.

Elder Paranormal Disturbance

• The haunting begins in the Genius Camp and spreads to ordinary disciples’ residences as the ghost avoids confronting Di Yi. More than half the Pavilion loses its peace, although no one is reported injured or killed 43 44 45.
• Tao Ye asks for Di Yi’s blood to revive the weakening Divine Vine. Di Yi refuses because the dangerous Black Blood within him could cause destruction rather than healing 45.
• The Divine Vine reveals the ghost’s identity and explains that recovering his sword offers hope both for his remnant soul and the Pavilion 46 47.
• Di Yi departs with the Golden Hou to retrieve the sword, using the Vine’s passage before entering the Hundred Broken Mountains ahead of their scheduled opening 47 48.

Threat of the Great Calamity

• The Divine Vine describes recurring calamities whose causes and history have been erased. According to its account, ninety percent of Venerables vanished, while those below that level escaped the calamity 46.
• It fears that its own death may herald another catastrophe and identifies Di Yi as someone who might end the cycle if he remains in the Eight Regions 46.
• Di Yi promises not to stand aside if the calamity occurs. In return, the Vine pledges that the Pavilion will do its utmost to provide whatever he needs 47.