Attending the Investiture at the Prince's Residence, the War in the North (5,000 Characters, Map Attached at the End

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The Divine Land was vast, with countless Dao traditions, but precisely because of this, regional and sectarian prejudices were inevitable.

Heaven tilted toward the southeast. The Divine Land was fertile in the east and barren in the west, wealthy in the south and poor in the north. Thus, along a northeast-to-southwest boundary running through Shiwei Mountain, the Taihang Mountains, Mount Wuling, Snowpeak Mountain, and the Southern Ridge, the Righteous Path occupied the east, while evil and demons were driven west. Naturally, righteous and evil could not coexist.

There was, however, one exception in the west. Nature gathered its divine beauty and nurtured the Wilderness of Du Guang amid treacherous mountains and hostile waters, and Daoism flourished there. After the Tang, the Daoists there became Xuanmen, dividing the west in two and separating north from south. Those to the south were called the Southern Demon Cult, and those to the north the Northern Demon Cult.

As for the east, although everyone belonged to the Righteous Path, terrain and Dao traditions had naturally divided them into distinct camps over the long years.

South of the Huai River lay what people commonly called the Eastern Daoist Sect, led by the Haoran Alliance and the Orthodox Unity Alliance. North of the Huai River lay the northern Daoist sects, led by the Quanzhen Alliance. Of course, these names existed only because Daoism currently flourished in the Divine Land while Buddhism declined. During the Tang dynasty, they would have been called southern Chan and northern Chan.

Moreover, whenever Daoism flourished throughout the ages, the Eastern Daoist Sect had always acknowledged Dragon-Tiger Mountain as its leader. Whenever they needed to unite to slay demons and weather calamities, or even contend against the Northern Path, Western Xuan, or the Chan Sect,