Star Divine Sect

Biodata

Organization and Leadership

The sect’s administration included elders, hall masters, and peak masters, with inner and outer disciples stationed in its subordinate cities. Nine senior elders attended Jiang Xiaotian’s initial council concerning the attacks on its territory 14 19.

Territory and Resources

Headquarters

• Main hall: An ancient, magnificent palace used for leadership councils 14.
• Martial training grounds: Large enough to assemble a million disciples in orderly ranks 17.
• Star Forbidden Ground: The secluded area from which Feng Jue emerged to defend the sect 27.
• Soul Lamp Hall: Monitored members’ soul lamps, allowing the leadership to learn of deaths across its territory 14 15.
• Warships: A Storm City cultivator recalled seeing a sect warship measuring tens of thousands of zhang, far smaller than the Nine Nether Rebirth Boat 6.

Subordinate Cities

The sect directly appointed city lords to govern its ten main cities. Fire Cloud Main City was more than a hundred times the size of Storm City and maintained order through its four Divine Body Realm administrators 11.

All ten main cities were annihilated before Jun Wudao arrived at the headquarters 20.

Military Strength and Techniques

Cultivator Forces

• At the beginning of the confrontation, the sect fielded at least five Divine Power Realm experts, hundreds of Divine Body Realm elders and administrators, and over one million disciples 20.
• Feng Jue served as its hidden Divine Soul Realm defender, remaining secluded until the headquarters faced another devastating attack 25 27.

Sect-Protecting Formation

A high-grade profound-tier formation surrounded the headquarters with brilliant golden light 19 20.

• Reputedly capable of keeping Human God Realm experts at bay, at least briefly 20 21.
• Activated when Jiang Xiaotian recognized the attacks as a threat to the sect’s survival 16.
• Shattered in less than a breath under Jun Wudao’s first enormous black-hand strike 20.

All-Heavens Star Formation

A collective battle formation that combined the participants’ cultivation into an immense stellar assault 22.

• Hundreds of thousands of disciples shifted positions in coordinated patterns, creating star clusters that struck like falling meteors 22.
• Its initial bombardment joined the leaders’ attacks in blasting open a vast spatial black hole, but failed to kill Jun Wudao 22 23.
• Reformed by the surviving elders, administrators, and disciples; its power collapsed immediately upon meeting Jun Wudao’s dark radiance 26.

Leadership Techniques

• God Slaying — Jiang Xiaotian: Used a purple-glowing longsword to manifest tens of millions of enormous swords of light 23.
• Life and Death Seal — Daoist Yinyang: Manifested a rotating black-and-white taiji diagram embodying life, death, and reincarnation 23.
• Sun and Moon Illuminate the Heavens — Feng Jue: Unleashed a vast assault of blazing stellar bodies 27 28.
• Star Domain — Feng Jue: Enclosed Jun Wudao within a domain controlled by the supreme elder. Jun Wudao transformed it into a blood sea and shattered it 29.

History

Rise as a Pinnacle Power

Founded tens of thousands of years earlier, the Star Divine Sect survived numerous battles and became one of the Desolate Domain’s five pinnacle powers. Jiang Xiaotian credited its predecessors’ sacrifices for its standing and described the sect as a starting point from which generations of disciples entered the wider world 16 18.

The sect participated in Heavenly Moon Commandery’s Heavenly Pride Battle tens of thousands of years before the main events, but later stopped attending. Commandery officials continued collecting twenty percent of its resources every ten years 39.

Connection to the Jun Clan’s Destruction

Jiang Xueyi was formerly engaged to Jun Wudao but left their wedding with Su Fan. After Su Fan exterminated the Jun Clan, Jiang Xiaotian regarded him as his future son-in-law and believed his reputation would deter enemies from attacking the sect 14 15 19.

Jun Wudao blamed Jiang Xueyi for initiating the events that destroyed his family. Upon returning, he chose the Star Divine Sect as a target both for revenge and to test his new strength, deciding to destroy its subordinate cities before confronting its Divine Soul Realm guardian 10.

Fall of the Ten Cities

The deaths at Fire Cloud Main City first reached Jiang Xiaotian through extinguished soul lamps. He dispatched Daoist Yinyang to investigate and authorized punishment regardless of the attacker’s identity or faction 14.

As further cities fell, the leadership could not identify the enemy and considered whether an outside power was responsible. Jiang Xiaotian recalled Yinyang, activated the protective formation, and summoned the sect’s senior personnel. He also ordered Qingxia to select three thousand seed disciples to preserve its legacy; their successful evacuation is not established 15 16.

Destruction of the Headquarters

Jiang Xiaotian rallied a million disciples to defend their home, but their confidence collapsed when the Nine Nether Rebirth Boat appeared. Recognizing Jun Wudao, the sect’s members were stunned: they had witnessed Su Fan apparently kill him during the Jun Clan’s destruction 18 19.

Jun Wudao declared that Su Fan, Jiang Xueyi, and the forces behind them would face his revenge. His opening strike destroyed the protective formation and crushed a third of the headquarters, killing or wounding tens of thousands. The sect’s combined counterattack failed, and its senior leadership was rapidly overwhelmed 20 21 22 23 24.

Feng Jue emerged from the Star Forbidden Ground to intercept a renewed assault and ordered the survivors to retreat a hundred thousand miles. Despite briefly restoring their hopes, he could not defeat Jun Wudao. His Star Domain collapsed, he was beheaded, and hundreds of thousands of disciples perished with the domain’s destruction 27 28 29 30.

Aftermath

Shangguan Xiongtian and his entourage later inspected the devastated grounds. Their discussion confirmed the sect’s former standing and its resource payments to Heavenly Moon Commandery 39.

Jiang Xueyi subsequently arrived with Su Fan and Shangguan Feiyue. Seeing the ruins, she cried out for her parents and rushed down into the destroyed headquarters, followed by Su Fan 40.

External Relationships

• Jun Clan — Fellow pinnacle power and former prospective marriage partner through Jun Wudao and Jiang Xueyi. Their broken engagement became central to Jun Wudao’s grievance against the sect 10 19.
• Su Fan — Jiang Xiaotian’s prospective son-in-law. Some defenders expected him and Jiang Xueyi to avenge the sect if it fell 14 22.
• Jun Wudao — Enemy who destroyed the sect and its ten subordinate cities in retaliation for his clan’s annihilation 10 20 30.
• Half-Moon Mountain Manor, Earth Demon Cave, and Sword Repository Pavilion — Rival pinnacle powers initially suspected of arranging the attacks because they could contend with the sect 14.
• Heavenly Moon Commandery — Collected twenty percent of the sect’s resources every decade and recorded its standing among the Desolate Domain’s leading powers 39.

Notable Quotes

“Raise the swords in our hands! Defend the home behind us! Even in death, advance without faltering!”
— Jiang Xiaotian, echoed by the assembled disciples 18

“You want to destroy my Star Divine Sect? Then step over my corpse first! Come and fight!”
— Jiang Xiaotian to Jun Wudao 21