Great Luo Immortal Sect

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Power Progression

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

History

Founding and inherited path

Immortal Venerable Great Luo rose during the Epochal Calamity associated with Immortal King Xuanjun’s campaign against the God Clan. After attaining Great Luo True Immortality, he could not develop his grotto-heaven through the combined powers of Space-Time, Karma, and Reincarnation. He instead entered Celestial Immortality through Space-Time alone and established the sect’s enduring foundation 331.

The founder inherited the Most High Miro Precious Edict and created the grotto-heaven that became Miro Heaven. Later generations enriched it with the mysteries of the five elements and creation 230. Great Luo and subsequent Celestial Immortals found the complete Great Luo path too difficult to sustain, abandoning the simultaneous cultivation of its component paths in favor of a single-Dao breakthrough 314.

Li Xian’s recruitment and protection

The Rising Dragon Pavilion served as an affiliated recruitment institution: its pavilion master and tower masters belonged to Great Luo. Selected Dao Seedlings and Immortal Seedlings received passage to the sect aboard a Heavenly Ark 58. Li Xian arrived with one such intake and began as an outer disciple 63.

As Li Xian’s value became apparent, the sect increasingly intervened on his behalf. Xuanling blocked Lei Jun’s attempt to pressure him over two superior-grade Dao Artifacts, explaining that attacks against him by Immortal Realm experts would invite retaliation and potentially all-out war 229. After Luo Hou’s assassination attempt, Lu Linyuan personally forced the Boundless Immortal Dynasty to accept an abdication, confinement, formation concessions, and access to core-city airspace 261.

During the Immortal Domain crisis, the sect organized the retrieval of stranded disciples. Yue Jiuxiao also struck the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground’s territory after its Loose Immortals attempted to capture and kill Li Xian 283 289. Li Xian’s safe return with enormous spoils prompted celebrations throughout the sect 289.

Wars in the True Immortal Great World

After Tianyuan Daoist ascended, Great Luo reduced its external commitments, consolidated its territory, invested in cultivating Immortal Realm experts, and sought a possible retreat route. These preparations limited internal disorder when the Immortal Realm Gate was later forced open 330 331.

The sect then resisted an invasion involving five major Demon Race clans. Li Xian shattered Youxuan’s formation, allowing the sect’s Loose Immortals to destroy the remaining defenders, before carrying the fighting into demon territory 339. The victory damaged the invading clans and deterred other hostile groups from acting openly within Great Luo’s lands 342 343.

Conflict with the Radiant Sun Immortal Sect escalated into all-out war. Great Luo captured Golden Crow Fortress, occupied resource sites, and blockaded the enemy headquarters rather than paying the cost of breaching its formations 351. Under Li Xian’s leadership, it defeated an alliance of nineteen powers that included Radiant Sun, the Six Great Devil Sects, Demon Race factions, and Nine Heavens Sacred Ground forces 362.

Great Luo subsequently became the center of a self-preservation coalition opposing the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground’s unification campaign 393. When Liu Xianyi launched a long-range attack with the Nine Heavens Divine Mirror, Li Xian intercepted it while the sect brought its defensive formations to full power 394. The Sacred Ground’s eventual conquest ended its dominance and added further inheritances to Great Luo’s reserves 406 408.

Establishment in the Immortal Realm

Li Xian proposed reestablishing the sect within the Great Yao Immortal Dynasty 461. The resulting institution operated in Water Dragon Ward of Nine Emperors City, where its functions resembled those of a teaching school more than a lower-realm territorial sect 481.

Its initial strength did not make it capable of governing an immortal dynasty. Li Xian explicitly rejected such an arrangement, judging that a sect with only three Celestial Immortals lacked the personnel needed to administer one 476. Instead, support from Princess Hansu’s residence, an exceptional cave abode, and Li Xian’s connections allowed it to grow steadily 481 522.

Li Xian later returned to his home world and expounded the Dao for three years. His discourse advanced the world itself, enabled thirty-six Earth Immortals to become Pure Yang True Immortals, and shortened the Immortal Realm Gate’s opening interval to 10,800 years 532. When another group departed for the Immortal Realm, Yi Yuanshi became sect master of the home-world institution, remaining behind with Mo Xingzhou 538.

In the later Immortal Realm period, Lu Linyuan resumed the sect master’s position. The sect eventually expanded far beyond the Great Yao Immortal Dynasty, while its headquarters remained in Nine Emperors City 658 701.

Organization and Governance

Central administration

• Sect master: Holds the sect’s highest executive authority. Lu Linyuan’s position gave him the power to determine the fate of subordinate kingdoms and sects 261.
• Miro Hall: Central command from which the sect’s orders were issued, located on the floating island occupied by its Grand Elders 230.
• Nine great halls: Managed the sect’s operations. Every hall master had survived tribulation and attained the Immortal Realm 227.
• Supreme Elders Council: Included outstanding Human Immortals who had rendered substantial service; it formed part of the sect’s decision-making leadership 229.
• Grand Elders: Included Human Immortals and Earth Immortals serving the sect. Some Loose Immortals instead established and oversaw external branches 229.
• Internal factions: True Inheritors and elders commonly represented one or more subordinate forces. Promotions attracted gifts, service offers, and proposals for cooperation 231.

Disciple ranks and privileges

Yi Yuanshi’s honorary leadership of Xingtian Hall carried the hall master’s authority and duties without requiring him to remain stationed there 227.

Recruitment, rewards, and discipline

• Recruitment network: Candidates came through institutions such as the Rising Dragon Pavilion and directly from sect-governed cities and territories 58 64.
• Merit Points: Used to obtain provisions, cultivation resources, spells, Dharma Treasures, and pills. Missions and trials offered opportunities to earn them 63 116 181.
• Disciple discount: Li Xian was urged to spend his points before promotion ended his half-price disciple benefits 289 295.
• Combat-based evaluation: Cultivation methods and constitutions retained provisional ratings until tested in practice. Impressive descriptions alone did not establish their worth 138.
• Permitted competition: Disciples were free to spar so long as it did not become malicious murder 63.
• Limits on private revenge: Even an Immortal Realm Grand Elder lacked the right to kill indiscriminately, although exceptional status could lead the sect to overlook certain old grudges given a plausible explanation 181.
• Selective investigation: The sect largely ignored disputes among dependent forces. Deaths of core disciples or True Inheritors drew greater scrutiny than incidents involving many lower-status affiliates or elders 226.
• Immortal Realm intake: The reestablished sect recruited a batch every hundred years. True Inheritors were expected to bind themselves to the sect’s honor and disgrace 481.

Territory and Facilities

Territorial structure

Peaks and institutional sites

• Twelve outer-disciple peaks: Housed well over one million outer disciples. Named peaks included Gonggong, Tianwu, Dijiang, Qiangliang, Jumang, Zhurong, Ruxou, and Xuanming 64.
• Jumang Peak: Received Li Xian’s thirty-thousand-person intake. It had around one hundred thousand disciples, or roughly 140,000–150,000 people including menial disciples and stewards 64.
• Miro Heaven: The sect’s foundational grotto-heaven. It supplied Pure Yang Immortal Power for cultivation and powered the headquarters’ defensive formations 294 316 394.
• Immortal-Burying Ancient Ground: A central inheritance site guarded by Grand Elder Xu Jinglong. Li Xian studied seventy-nine Loose Immortal inheritances there 229.
• Sword-Dueling Platform: Venue for formal challenges, including Li Xian’s sixteen-opponent gauntlet 77.
• Zhuzhao Peak: Assembly point for more than forty thousand inner cultivators before the Cloudmist Swamp trial 116.
• Mysterious Light Peak: Site of the Sword Stele Li Xian left for future disciples 532.
• Dao Transmission Platform: Hosted Li Xian’s home-world discourse and more than four thousand Loose Immortal listeners 532.

Military Strength and Defenses

• Flame Furnace Fortress: A major defensive stronghold. During the Demon Race invasion, its garrison rose to approximately 360 Loose Immortals 341.
• Golden Crow Fortress: Captured from Radiant Sun and used as a base for territorial expansion. Its formations drew power from underground fire veins within a radius of 100,000 li 351.
• True Immortal-class warships: Included the Great Luo and Flowing Cloud. Three such vessels accompanied the sect’s eight-hundred–Loose Immortal deployment 384 387.
• Golden Core combat squads: Used standardized spells, sect-issued Dharma Treasures, and drilled joint formations. One was stationed at White Stone Harbor near Ascending to Immortality City 232.
• External branch support: Elder Bishui, possessing six-mark strength, oversaw the Ascending to Immortality City branch and could be called upon by a Dao Seed 232.
• Grand Array: Linked numerous formations to Miro Heaven. Its operators could attempt to channel the array’s energy into a defending expert to amplify combat strength 394.
• Monitoring network: Detected incoming Immortal Power fluctuations, allowing recognized visitors to identify themselves before approaching the headquarters 399.

Teachings and Treasures

Notable Members

• Immortal Venerable Great Luo — Founder and creator of the sect’s original grotto-heaven; deceased by the later Immortal Realm period 230 418.
• Lu Linyuan — Long-serving sect master, Li Xian’s protector, and later an Immortal King. He continued overseeing the Nine Emperors City headquarters after the sect’s wider expansion 261 658 701.
• Li Xian — Entered as an outer disciple, later served as Acting Sect Master, and became the sect’s principal military deterrent and external backer 63 376 522.
• Zhuzhao — Sect master of the reestablished Immortal Realm institution; later became a Mysterious Immortal and eventually stepped behind the scenes as an elder 481 566 658.
• Youying — Vice Sect Master of the Immortal Realm institution; later a Mysterious Immortal and elder 481 566 658.
• Primordial Unity — One of the Immortal Realm sect’s three original Celestial Immortals; later reached Mysterious Immortal and became an elder 522 566 658.
• Yi Yuanshi — Chief Dao Seed groomed for succession; became sect master of the home-world institution after three thousand years 538.
• Xuanling — Intervened against internal pressure on Li Xian and later accompanied Lu Linyuan to meet him in the Immortal Realm 229 658.
• Yue Jiuxiao — Pure Yang True Immortal who retaliated against the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground; later reached Celestial Immortal and took charge of an external region 289 566 701.
• Mo Xingzhou — One of the sect’s four gathered Pure Yang True Immortals; remained in the True Immortal Great World alongside Yi Yuanshi 291 538.
• Zhan Xingchen — Handled prospective disciples in the Immortal Realm institution and later reached Celestial Immortal 481 566.

External Relationships

• Rising Dragon Pavilion — Affiliated recruitment institution staffed by Great Luo members 58.
• Dragon-Controlling Sect and Creation Immortal Sect — Major allies against the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground; both supplied substantial forces for joint operations 342 384.
• Limitless Star Palace — Shared opposition to the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground despite territorial friction over the Falling Star Sea 351 393.
• Nine Heavens Sacred Ground — Principal rival in the struggle between world unification and the sects’ continued independence; eventually conquered 393 408.
• Radiant Sun Immortal Sect — Border rival whose invasions led to all-out war, the loss of Golden Crow Fortress, and the occupation of its resource sites 351.
• Boundless Immortal Dynasty — Punished for enabling an assassination attempt against Li Xian; later approached as a source of domain-training partners for him 261 306.
• Great Yao Immortal Dynasty — Host dynasty and major benefactor of the Immortal Realm sect. Its efforts to strengthen ties with Li Xian brought Great Luo substantial material support 522.
• Princess Hansu’s residence — Supplied connections and support that helped establish the Immortal Realm sect’s reputation and attract well-connected disciples 481.
• Tianyuan Sect — Great Luo later supported Song Yunqing and Zhuo Feiyu, both Immortal Kings, in reestablishing its lineage 701.
• Ascendants from the True Immortal Great World — Received assistance and resources from Great Luo even when they chose to seek their own sects rather than remain with it 538.