Wuliang Dao

Biodata

Power Progression

The stages below describe the sect’s institutional rise, not an individual cultivation realm.

Background / History

Ancient Ziwei Sect

Wuliang Dao existed for more than thirty thousand years before He Mu’s rise. Its reputation extended throughout Ziwei, and it ruled the vast southern lands of the Divine Continent. He Mu was a cultivator who emerged from this established sect, not its founder 7.

After attaining the Dao, He Mu returned for the Heavenly Venerable Ceremony. Wuliang Dao opened its normally strictly regulated gates and welcomed delegations from across the universe. Leading figures, including Quasi-Venerables, entered the Ninefold Heavenly Palace; lower-ranking cultivators gathered within the sacred land, while other cultivators and mortals paid respects from outside 7.

Rule Under He Mu

During He Mu’s subsequent seclusion, Wuliang Dao extended its presence across the star domains. Its disciples spread teachings, performed miracles, blessed mortals, and maintained order. When He Mu emerged three hundred years later, he announced further preaching within the sect and ordered preparations to preserve its inheritance against a looming danger 9 10.

Over the following millennia, the sect distributed the Dao Canon He Mu created to give living beings opportunities to cultivate. Its governance coincided with growing prosperity and an increasing number of powerful cultivators, despite the Heavenly Venerable’s suppression of the myriad Daos 11 15.

He Mu initially stayed at Wuliang Dao or wandered the mortal world, but later established his personal cultivation sanctuary at Undying Mountain. This remained distinct from the sect’s Ziwei headquarters 14 18.

Demon Shadow and the Ziwei Crisis

After returning from Undying Mountain, He Mu preached within the sect and perfected its Heavenly Venerable Grand Array. When Demon Shadow began slaughtering beings across the heavens, prayers reached He Mu at Wuliang Dao. Sect disciples also called for vengeance for their slain companions. He Mu departed to confront and destroy the demon, then returned his Dao Wheel to Ziwei and issued a reassuring decree through the sect 16 17 18.

A later disturbance of the Heavenly Heart Imprint convinced the universe that He Mu was nearing death. Wuliang Dao did not know his whereabouts, had received no decree, and could obtain no response from the slumbering Dao Wheel. With hostile powers watching it, the leadership recalled distant disciples and reduced the sect’s sphere of influence. This defensive withdrawal unintentionally reinforced the rumors 22.

Three Forbidden Zone Supremes subsequently attacked Ziwei. The sect’s grand array and Wuliang Dao Wheel sheltered the star, but Divine Flame Supreme eventually shattered the formation. He Mu intervened before Ziwei’s destruction, revealed that he had used his apparent decline to lure out enemies, and killed all three Supremes 23 24 25 26.

Renewed Faith Campaign

After beginning his second life, He Mu returned to Wuliang Dao, met its members, and stationed the Dao Wheel there again to safeguard its foundations. An ocean of faith above the sect nourished Ziwei for three years before he ordered another universe-wide preaching campaign 30 31 32.

During the next three hundred years, the disciples’ expanding shrine network helped gather the faith that strengthened He Mu’s Heavenly Emperor image. That image ultimately gave birth to Pan, his Divine Self Body, whom He Mu appointed to patrol the heavens and quell upheavals in his place 32.

Headquarters and Sacred Grounds

• Ninefold Heavenly Palace — A suspended palace complex whose highest tier received He Mu’s golden avenue during the Heavenly Venerable Ceremony. Distinguished visitors occupied its halls 7.
• Central Treasure Hall — A vast, imposing but unadorned audience hall. He Mu occupied the central throne while the sect leader and senior members sat below 10.
• Central Heavenly Palace — He Mu’s residence within the sect before he moved to Faith Divine Heaven; the later ocean of faith gathered above it 32.
• Medicinal gardens — Contain countless precious herbs, with even medicine kings described as far from rare 7.
• Sacred mountains — Hold immortal springs, wondrous stones, ancient vines, and rare trees valuable enough to provoke battles among outside cultivators 7.
• Auspicious manifestations — The skies display the Four Divine Spirits alongside phantoms of legendary immortal spirits and divine beasts 7.

Leadership and Membership

The sect ordinarily maintains strict rules. Despite its elevated status, its disciples are described as dignified and restrained, with few becoming arrogant tyrants. Relief of suffering and aid to living beings are recurring duties under He Mu’s decrees 7 10 15.

Abilities & Skills

Dao Teaching and Transmission

• Distributes He Mu’s Dao Canon throughout the sea of stars, widening access to cultivation teachings 11.
• Receives direct instruction from He Mu, including preaching intended to strengthen disciples before an anticipated calamity 10 16.
• Sends disciples into remote regions as well as major star domains 32.

Faith Network

• Builds Heavenly Venerable temples and Wuliang Shrines throughout the universe 9 15 32.
• Channels devotional thought power from those shrines toward Ziwei and the Wuliang Dao Wheel enshrined there 15.
• Supports He Mu’s faith cultivation through preaching, miracles, and relief of suffering 10 32.
• Helps accumulate the faith used to form Pan; the sect’s disciples do not independently create the Divine Self Body 32.

Heavenly Venerable Grand Array

• Shrouds the sacred land and is perfected by He Mu after his return from Undying Mountain 15 16.
• Envelops Ziwei during the Three Supremes’ attack, sheltering its living beings 23.
• Uses the Wuliang Dao Wheel as its core and draws strength from faith and the Wuliang Great Dao 24.
• Cannot withstand the sustained assault of the three Ancient Supremes; Divine Flame Supreme burns through it despite its faith reinforcement 23 24.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Wuliang Dao Wheel — He Mu’s Dao-attainment weapon, repeatedly stationed at Wuliang Dao to protect its foundations. Prolonged exposure to faith makes it increasingly extraordinary, with faint immortal light. During the Ziwei crisis, it counters Divine Flame Supreme and raises a protective barrier after the array’s destruction 15 24 31.
• Jade bell — The sect’s most important ritual instrument. Three tolls mark its highest ceremonial honor, also used for a sect leader’s accession and to summon members before He Mu 10.
• He Mu’s Dao Canon — The body of teaching the sect distributes to benefit cultivators throughout the universe 11.

Relationships

• He Mu / Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable — Emerged from the sect and became the source of its universe-wide authority. He remains its protector, teacher, and central object of worship 7 10 16.
• Pan — He Mu’s Divine Self Body, formed through the faith accumulated during the sect’s renewed missionary campaign; appointed to maintain peace across the heavens 32.
• Primordial Beginning Immortal Palace — Its palace master travels from the Big Dipper Ancient Star Domain to attend the Heavenly Venerable Ceremony 7.
• Moon-Worshipping Sect — Sends congratulations from the Feixian Ancient Star Domain for He Mu’s Dao attainment 7.
• Divine Flame Supreme, Demon Sound Supreme, and Chaos Supreme — Forbidden Zone enemies who attack Ziwei during He Mu’s apparent decline, overwhelming the sect’s defenses before he intervenes 23 24 25 26.