Eight Gods Pavilion

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Strength and Standing

History

Founding and Central Province Connections

The Eight Gods Pavilion was jointly founded by seven Golden Core patriarchs and one Nascent Soul cultivator. Its founders came from the Central Province, and their substantial foundations enabled the sect to rise quickly. After training successors, they returned to the Central Province; the pavilion maintained contact and continued sending talented disciples there for experience 3 45.

A pillar on the central peak preserves a strand of sword intent left by one of the Golden Core founders. Zhao Qian tells new recruits that a previous genius successfully comprehended the sword through it 3.

Bai Junhao's Defection

While Song Qi was traveling in the Central Province, Cangsong accepted Su Mingyue and Bai Junhao as disciples. Bai Junhao's impatience to improve nearly caused Qi Deviation and damaged his meridians. Seeking a remedy, he challenged the Heavenly Buddha Temple's Buddhist son, wagering Cangsong's Nine Heavens Sword Instruction against the body-tempering technique Buddhist Vajra 45.

Bai Junhao won the duel and brought Buddhist Vajra back to the pavilion. Afterward, the Heavenly Buddha Temple announced that its Buddhist son had been crippled, while people within the pavilion spread rumors that Bai Junhao had suffered Qi Deviation. The temple rallied other sects to demand his execution; only the Clear Bathing Palace refused to join the pressure campaign 45.

The assembled immortal sects decided to strip Bai Junhao of his cultivation and permanently confine him to the pavilion. He escaped through a vortex opened by a token, and his defection to the demonic path became known the following day. The incident exposed a breach in the pavilion's defenses, prompting Cangsong to dismantle and replace every original barrier 46.

Song Qi's Leadership and Qin Yi's Recruitment

Song Qi returned from the Central Province and inherited leadership several decades before the war. He rarely fought afterward, but twenty years before the Azure Seclusion Plain battle, he destroyed the body of a demonic Nascent Soul Early Stage elder in ten moves 41.

Zhao Qian later recruited twelve children with Spirit Roots from the Qin Kingdom, including Qin Yi, Qin Shiyu, and Qin Peng. Further testing at the pavilion admitted Qin Shiyu and Qin Peng to the inner sect. Qin Yi, possessing Lightning-Fire Dual Spirit Roots, became Song Qi's final disciple 2 3 5.

Defeat at Falling Cloud City

The pavilion deployed nearly a thousand disciples for the war against the demonic path. During the night raid on Falling Cloud City, Qin Yi discovered and killed the traitor Ye Zhen. Su Mingyue reorganized the survivors and sent patrols after Qin Yi warned that infiltrators might exploit the confusion 37 41.

The sect lost nearly a hundred disciples in the initial attack, including a True Disciple whose interrupted breakthrough ended in fatal Qi Deviation. The survivors gathered at Azure Seclusion Plain, where demonic forces trapped the righteous sects inside the Heavenly Demon Great Array 38 40.

Qin Yi summoned Song Qi's strand of divine sense from Cangyuan. Song Qi gathered the battlefield's swords into a giant blade and shattered the array, allowing the righteous forces to retreat. Demonic cultivators pursued them for fifty li 41 43.

Reported Casualties

Ten-Year War Preparations

Song Qi challenged the demonic Holy Lord at the Sacred Altar, forcing a withdrawal and securing a ten-year ceasefire before a decisive battle. His intervention also made the other righteous sects more wary of the pavilion's strength 42.

After acknowledging its defeat, the pavilion opened its resources to help disciples prepare. Cangsong assigned Qin Yi the additional task of reaching Golden Core within ten years and leading the pavilion's disciples into the coming battle 42 46.

Su Mingyue warned that a high-ranking traitor had exposed the righteous path's movements and might belong to the pavilion itself. Meanwhile, Song Qi accelerated preparations by opening the Azure Dragon Secret Realm for a six-month trial 43 47 48.

Territory and Facilities

Organization and Members

Leadership

• Song Qi — Pavilion master and master of Lan Xuan and Qin Yi. Directs resource allocation, opens secret realms with the elders, and intervenes personally against major demonic threats 5 41 42 47.
• Su Mingyue — Grand Elder and Cangsong's disciple. Commands the pavilion's forces during the Falling Cloud City campaign 37 45.
• Cangsong — Supreme elder, Song Qi's martial uncle, and master of Su Mingyue and the former disciple Bai Junhao. Created the pavilion's current defensive barriers 44 45 46.

Disciples and Personnel

• Qin Yi — Song Qi's final personal disciple; designated to lead the pavilion's disciples in the decisive battle if he reaches Golden Core within ten years 5 46.
• Lan Xuan — Qin Yi's senior sister and cultivation instructor. Obtained the Black Tortoise Inheritance and more than half the resources from its previous opening 7 47.
• Qin Shiyu — Inner disciple with Water, Fire, and Earth Triple Spirit Roots 3.
• Qin Peng — Inner disciple with Metal, Fire, and Wood Triple Spirit Roots 3.
• Zhao Qian — Recruiting envoy who conducts Spirit Root tests and escorts recruits to the pavilion 1 2 3.
• Deacon Qian — Hui Mountain contact who relays Song Qi's assignments to Qin Yi 10.
• Zheng Yuan — Outer disciple at Qi Refining Ninth Layer who guides Qin Yi to the pavilion's wartime gathering place. Unable to afford a Foundation Establishment Pill, he had remained at that level for three years 36.
• Xiao Tianyou — Seventh-ranked inner disciple. Killed by Qin Yi after pursuing him into the Azure Dragon Secret Realm over a grievance against Lan Xuan 48.
• Ye Zhen — Traitor killed by Qin Yi while setting up a formation during the Falling Cloud City attack 37.

Cultivation and Resources

Recruitment and Training

• Recruitment begins with testing for Spirit Roots; a second array-based examination at the pavilion identifies elemental affinities and determines placement 2 3.
• Triple Spirit Roots qualify Qin Shiyu and Qin Peng for the inner sect, while Qin Yi's Dual Spirit Roots attract the pavilion master's personal instruction 3 5.
• Documented disciple categories include outer, inner, True, and personal disciples 5 36 38.
• Training includes instruction from senior disciples, beast-hunting assignments outside the sect, and secret-realm trials 7 10 48.
• Personal disciples can receive substantial support: Qin Yi has no shortage of cultivation pills, unlike Zheng Yuan, who cannot afford a Foundation Establishment Pill 12 36.

Techniques and Treasures

• Sword-intent pillar — Preserves a founding master's sword intent for disciples to study 3.
• Cultivation methods offered by Song Qi — Extreme Thunder Divine Fire Instruction, Nine Nether Profound Asura Instruction, and Blazing Yang Thunder Asura Scripture; all are described as supporting cultivation to Nascent Soul 5.
• Buddhist Vajra — Body-tempering technique brought back by Bai Junhao and later taught to Qin Yi to strengthen his meridians 6 45.
• Flame Cloud Fruits — Distributed to Qin Yi during postwar preparations. Red fruit refines spiritual power and improves fire control; cyan fruit supplies abundant Spiritual Qi to help overcome bottlenecks 43 46.
• Defensive barriers — Rebuilt entirely by Cangsong after Bai Junhao's escape revealed that demonic forces had breached the original defenses 46.

Secret Realms

The pavilion possesses four secret realms; two are named in the available account 47.

External Relations

• Azure Cloud Imperial Dynasty — The pavilion lies within its territory but is independent of its jurisdiction and militarily superior 36.
• Qin Kingdom — A recruitment source whose emperor receives the pavilion's envoy and sends eligible imperial children for testing 1 2.
• Clear Bathing Palace — The only sect that refused to join the pressure campaign against Bai Junhao. Su Mingyue's elder sister is an elder there, and Song Qi previously won the affection of its young palace master 38 41 45.
• Heavenly Buddha Temple — A wartime ally with a bitter history: its campaign against Bai Junhao helped precipitate his defection 42 45 46.
• Demonic path — Principal wartime enemy. Its Left Protector, Bai Junhao, is Cangsong's former disciple; its Holy Lord agrees to the ten-year ceasefire after Song Qi's challenge 41 42 45.