Black-Yellow Sect

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Power Progression

History

Decline and Succession

Liu Wuya was fatally injured after being caught in a battle between powerful experts outside the sect. Before dying, he entrusted Lin Ye with the sect master position and ordered him to preserve its legacy. Several disciples subsequently left for other sects, leaving Lin Ye and his junior sister Yu Yu as its only remaining members 1.

At this point, the sect’s strongest body-refining manual was the incomplete, mid Yellow-grade Lesser Bronze Body Art, which offered no continuation beyond the Body Forging Realm. Its poverty and weak leadership made it one of the lowest-regarded one-star sects near Spirit Yang City 1 2 6.

Rebuilding the Sect

Lin Ye began rebuilding by recruiting Ye Chen, whose severed meridians had seemingly ended his cultivation prospects. He offered body refinement as an alternative and taught him the high Black-grade Pain Dao-Body Forging, a renamed Devil Dao method 3.

Further recruitment brought Dongfang Bai, Dongfang Rou, Yang Yang, and Han Bing into Lin Ye’s disciple group. This expansion prevented the loss of the sect’s one-star status. Lin Ye then installed a new main hall and library pavilion, replacing the hall’s “Heaven and Earth Devil Sect” plaque with “Black-Yellow Sect” 7 10 13 32.

The first expansion of the outer sect included recruits brought back against their wishes. Lin Ye required them to remain until reaching Body Refining Third Layer, assigned Ye Chen to register them, and housed them halfway up the mountain. These disciples later built wooden houses and repaired the roads 15 18.

Establishing a Regional Reputation

Ye Chen and Yang Yang traveled to spread the sect’s name. Ye Chen rescued villagers from bandits and asked them to publicize the Black-Yellow Sect, while the pair’s disruption of the Bai Household’s marriage contest made their strength widely known in Spirit Yang City 20 22 25 26.

Their killing of Blazing Sun Sect disciples brought Elder Huangpu to the sect. Hoping to seize its apparent inheritance, Huangpu demanded entry and threatened its destruction. Lin Ye defeated and crippled him, then obtained silver and martial arts as ransom. The incident attracted new outer and menial disciples 27 28 29.

Lin Ye also developed an intelligence network. Dongfang Bai infiltrated the Supreme Simplicity Sect, while Yang Yang subdued the Blood Wolf Gang and placed it under the Black-Yellow Sect’s authority in Spirit Yang City 34 42.

Expansion Beyond Spirit Yang City

Dongfang Bai eventually became sect master of the Supreme Simplicity Sect, completing his original infiltration assignment. He later entered the Supreme Yin Sect to gather intelligence there 84 108.

The Black-Yellow Sect destroyed the Mystic Blood Devil Sect, earning praise from the Martial Alliance for an operation that other Chu Kingdom sects had avoided. After its four-star promotion, Lin Ye sent Chu He to secure the Chu imperial family’s submission through a contract backed by both force and cultivation resources 98 114 116.

Nalan Yu subsequently arranged a territory and grotto-heaven for the sect in the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty. Lin Ye transported its disciples, buildings, formations, Devil Spring, and underground Spirit Veins to the new site. The outer sect was rebuilt outside the grotto-heaven, with the inner sect established inside it 174.

Rise to Realm-Wide Prominence

As the Emperor Road approached, the disciples openly challenged prodigies from established sects, hidden powers, and Quasi-Emperor clans. Their success attracted the Shadow Pavilion, which considered the newly risen sect an easier target than the united Seventy-Two Orthodox Sects 215 216 217.

The Shadow Pavilion was subsequently wiped out, and the Black-Yellow Sect’s reputation spread throughout the Eastern Domain. Ye Chen then claimed the emperor’s seat on the Emperor Road, establishing the prospect of a Great Emperor capable of suppressing the Profound Heaven Realm 219 234.

When Taboo Beings began abducting people, Lin Ye dispatched Ye Chen, Yin Xiang, and Bai Shi to hunt them. They killed sixteen over six months, alarming the forbidden zones. Later, Taboo Sovereigns attacked the sect under the mistaken belief that Lin Ye was absent on the Immemorial Immortal Road; his second true body allowed him to remain present and confront them 242 252.

Immortal Expansion

Lin Ye ordered large-scale recruitment after receiving a mission to rule the Three Realms and Nine Lands and establish the strongest Devil Dao Immortal Sect. Candidates arrived from across the nine domains, and the sect’s Great Emperors expanded its grounds to accommodate its growth 259.

Planting the World Tree caused a dramatic rise in Spiritual Qi within the sect’s territory and contributed to the expansion of the Profound Heaven Realm itself. The sect later produced multiple True Immortal disciples 264 265.

Yu Yu’s account records that Lin Ye eventually led the Black-Yellow Sect into the Immortal Realm, where it fought and killed numerous Immortals 290.

Organization and Members

Leadership and Disciple Ranks

• Sect master: Lin Ye controls recruitment, missions, resource distribution, and applications for promotion 29 56 96.
• Inner disciples: In its early two-star period, the small inner disciple group consists of Lin Ye’s personal disciples 72.
• Core disciples: Ye Chen and the other personal disciples are promoted to core status and issued Spirit Treasure-grade identity tokens 84.
• Outer disciples: Recruited in larger numbers and trained through missions, resource exchanges, the Devil Spring, and the Battle Tower 56 96.
• Menial disciples and cooks: Recruited as the sect’s population grows following Huangpu’s defeat 29.

Notable Members

• Liu Wuya — Former sect master who entrusted the sect’s survival to Lin Ye before his death 1.
• Lin Ye — Successor to Liu Wuya; develops the sect using system rewards and tenfold feedback from his disciples’ cultivation achievements 1 6 69.
• Yu Yu — Lin Ye’s junior sister and the only other disciple who remains after Liu Wuya’s death; eventually becomes an Immortal 1 290.
• Ye Chen — Lin Ye’s first disciple and the eldest senior brother; later claims the emperor’s seat and becomes known as Great Emperor Xuanchen 3 21 234 242.
• Dongfang Bai — Second disciple; infiltrates the Supreme Simplicity Sect and Supreme Yin Sect, becoming sect master of the former and a Supreme Elder of the latter 7 84 234.
• Dongfang Rou — Third disciple; cultivates the Dream Illusion Devil Pupil Divine Ability 7 71.
• Yang Yang — Fourth disciple; brings the Blood Wolf Gang under sect control and specializes in cultivation through devouring resources and Demon Beasts 21 42 174.
• Han Bing — Cultivates corpse-refining and Sha Qi techniques, often training away from headquarters in suitable cultivation grounds 62 111 174 205.
• Chu He — Sixth disciple; secures the Chu imperial family’s submission and develops powerful body-refinement techniques 73 114 116 138.
• Nalan Xi — Seventh disciple; rescued with an Undying Devil Pill and rebuilds her cultivation through the Demon Fox Devil Body 71 72 73.
• Bai Shi — Eventually becomes Great Emperor Bai Shi and later completes his True Immortal breakthrough at the sect 242 265.
• Li Si — Gains preliminary control of a Forbidden Land and spends three months moving it to the sect 202.
• Yin Xiang — Reincarnated Great Emperor recruited by Lin Ye; becomes known as Emperor Xiang and participates in hunting Taboo Beings 204 242.
• Jin Diao Hu Lu — Golden eagle Demon Beast associated with the sect; rescues Nalan Xi and later searches for potential disciples using Devil Jade 71 138 140.

Cultivation and Methods

Devil Dao Cultivation

The sect’s principal methods are Devil Dao techniques, despite their righteous-sounding names and public presentation 23 290.

• Pain Dao-Body Forging is the renamed Hell Devil-Forging Body, allowing Ye Chen to cultivate despite his severed meridians 3.
• Pure Yang Finger, Pure Yang Escape Technique, and Pure Yang Claw disguise techniques associated with blood, escape, and bone-claw cultivation 6 23 26.
• Lin Ye selects methods suited to individual disciples rather than relying on a single uniform inheritance 164 205.
• The sect’s Devil Dao affiliation does not make it an ally of the Devil Race; Lin Ye explicitly rejects joining that faction 170.

Concealment Techniques

Secret methods help disciples conceal the nature of their cultivation and operate within righteous sects 26 34 73.

• Formless Demonic Body / Formless Devil Body: Conceals demonic characteristics; Yang Yang uses it to prevent observers from identifying his Devil Cultivation Method 26 56.
• Devil Shadow Breath-Returning Technique: Distributed under the name Shadowless Breath-Returning Technique for Dongfang Bai’s infiltration 34.
• At higher cultivation levels, the latter method can conceal a half-demon body and alter the apparent presence of a bloodline 73.

Missions and Resource Exchange

• The library pavilion’s array spirit administers a points system linked to disciple identity tokens 13.
• Disciples exchange mission points for cultivation resources and martial arts 18 56.
• Returning resources strengthens the sect’s reserves and earns points; Lin Ye continues rewarding contributions even when disciples already owe substantial points 241.
• Identity tokens provide short-range communication; later core-disciple tokens are Spirit Treasure-grade 38 84.

Headquarters, Facilities, and Treasures

Sect Grounds

• Original mountain headquarters: Established near human settlements over an incomplete Spirit Vein branching from the Western Mystic Mountain Range 28.
• Eastern Mountain territory: Administered by the sect, including recruitment and appointments, while remaining nominally part of the imperial dynasty 174.
• Grotto-heaven: Houses the relocated inner sect; Lin Ye merges a large Spirit Vein into it to improve the cultivation environment 174.
• Forbidden Land: Transported to the sect after Li Si gains preliminary control 202.

Cultivation Facilities

• Main hall: A system-provided building whose original Devil Sect plaque is replaced by Lin Ye 13.
• Library pavilion: Stores cultivation methods and martial arts and supports the disciple points system 13.
• Artifact Refining Treasure Hall: Contains refining chambers connected to earth-core fire. Initially underused because the sect lacks skilled artifact refiners 28.
• Devil Spring: Opened to outer disciples to accelerate their development 56.
• Cultivation Tower and Battle Tower: Used by disciples during cultivation and training 73 96.
• Spirit Veins: The original incomplete vein is restored, raising local Spiritual Qi fivefold; the veins are later moved with the sect 28 174.
• World Tree: Its planting produces a major surge of Spiritual Qi throughout the sect’s territory 264.

Defensive Formations and Major Treasures

• Corpse Sha Formation: Installed at the back-mountain burial ground 11.
• Blood Gang Earth Sha Formation: Earth-grade formation covering the sect; initially half-activated as a warning system, with full activation available when needed 3 11.
• Emperor Formation: Placed over the sect after Li Si relocates the Forbidden Land 202.
• Immemorial Devil God Tower: An Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon among the sect’s foundations, surpassing the weapons Yin Xiang possessed in her previous life 206.

External Relationships

• Martial Alliance — Registers the sect and approves its promotions. Its rules offer protection against open attacks and prohibit alliance members from investigating sects’ private advancement secrets 13 35 96 174.
• Blazing Sun Sect — Early rival whose disciples clash with Ye Chen and Yang Yang. Its elders are repeatedly defeated, and it pays ransom for Huangpu 27 29 42.
• Blood Wolf Gang — Subordinate force in Spirit Yang City, seized and reorganized by Yang Yang to extend the sect’s influence and gather intelligence 42.
• Supreme Simplicity Sect — Infiltrated by Dongfang Bai, who eventually becomes its sect master 34 84.
• Supreme Yin Sect — Infiltrated by Dongfang Bai, who reaches Supreme Elder status. It declines retaliation after discovering his allegiance because it cannot match the Black-Yellow Sect’s strength 108 234.
• Mystic Blood Devil Sect — Rival Devil Dao organization destroyed by the Black-Yellow Sect 96 98.
• Chu imperial family — Secretly submits through a contract secured by Chu He in exchange for cultivation benefits 114 116.
• Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty / Nalan Yu — Provides the territory and grotto-heaven used for the sect’s relocation 174.
• Tantai Clan collateral branch — Rescued by Lin Ye and settled near the sect; Ye Chen reunites there with Tantai Yao 183.
• Shadow Pavilion — Targets the sect’s prodigies to improve Li Zhenhe’s fortune and is subsequently wiped out 217 219 234.
• Taboo Forbidden Zones — Become enemies after the sect hunts Taboo Beings; several sovereigns later attempt a direct attack on headquarters 242 252.

Notable Quotes

“My disciple, after I die, you will be the Black-Yellow Sect’s sect master. You must develop and strengthen the sect from now on. Don’t let its legacy end with your generation.”
— Liu Wuya to Lin Ye 1

“Upholding the righteous path, the Black-Yellow Sect stands alone.”
— Ye Chen, convinced that his own cultivation belongs to the righteous path 23

“Heavens! I had thought our Black-Yellow Sect was the number one righteous sect under heaven, but Eldest Senior Brother told me it was actually the number one devil sect.”
— Yu Yu 290