Xuanwei Monastery

Biodata

Power Progression

History

Early Records and Lin Xu’s Arrival

The monastery’s earliest warehouse records date back ten years, when it governed only two villages. Lin Xu treats this as evidence that its Spirit Realm history may be much shorter than its established appearance suggests; its precise founding date is not confirmed 119.

Lin Xu enters the monastery through a role-assumption Spirit Realm Trial. His assumed identity includes memories of being selected as a child and spending years reciting scriptures and practicing martial arts. The trial requires him to become a true disciple 3 59.

He discovers the gold-grade Bright Lamp Spirit-Kindling Art in the Scripture Repository and receives its supporting lamp from the artifact refinement pavilion. Realizing the monastery could become his foothold in the Spirit Realm, he begins accumulating resources and merit 5 8.

War Against the Dungeon

Lin Xu reports information obtained from the Evil Eye about the dungeon to the east. Daoist Xuanzhen promotes him to inner disciple and assigns him to guard Peach Tree Village, which becomes a frontline defensive position 24 32.

The monastery commits much of its strength to the campaign. One major expedition includes seventy or eighty disciples, two hundred Dharma Protector Dao soldiers, five hundred militia, and more than a hundred supply carts. Its frontline communication remains poor: Peach Tree Village receives no useful intelligence despite wounded troops passing through the area 33 42.

Lin Xu becomes a true disciple after presenting two hundred thousand merit points. Later, his killing of the Manticore changes the balance of high-level combat power, and Xuanzhen appoints him master of the Incense Offering Hall 60 61 111 112.

The decisive battle devastates the monastery’s army. Daoist Chongxiao is killed, and Daoist Xuanling sacrifices himself to protect Xuanzhen. Xuanzhen then fatally wounds the giant city lord with a final sword attack at the cost of his own life. His seal passes to Lin Xu, whom the surviving disciples and soldiers recognize as monastery master 136 137.

Reconstruction Under Lin Xu

Lin Xu replenishes the depleted forces by spending 8,760 strings of Dharma Coins on available true disciples, inner disciples, and Dao soldiers. He reorganizes the military, appoints Zhao Yan as Demon-Suppressing Commandant, and brings the eleven true disciples into his Lamp Kindling Spirit Transformation Dharma lineage 143.

Nine true disciples temporarily assume responsibility for the three halls and six departments. Lin Xu also installs the captured Dungeon Heart in a cavern beneath the monastery, establishing a new dungeon at the convergence of its Spirit Veins 144 146.

After patrols and outposts restore order, he upgrades the monastery and merges its territory with Azure Cloud Mountain. He subsequently uses Source Fire to resurrect invasion victims, including more than eighty Night Watchers as monastery acolytes and five elites as two outer disciples and three level-four Daoist soldiers 150 170.

Expansion and the Jiang Lineage Conflict

A conquered beastman territory becomes linked to Xuanwei Monastery. Lin Xu later connects the pasture to its Earth Vein through the Dungeon Heart and fuses the territories, gaining direct authority over the land 167 179.

Before the Jiang Lineage’s attack, he develops the Zombie Mine as a source of military training, equipment, and other resources. When the enemy approaches, he orders three defensive bastions near Great Wang Village and Azure Cloud Mountain and mobilizes the territory’s dispersed Daoists and militia 193 196 221 222.

The Jiang Lineage’s territorial authority clashes with Lin Xu’s, causing local Spiritual Qi to fall dormant. During the ensuing battle, Li Xuanfeng, Evil Eyes, and crossbowmen cooperate against the enemy’s giant eagle riders 223 225.

Territory and Buildings

Geography

• Central basin: The monastery stands at the “heart of the bowl,” with its villages occupying the higher surrounding rim as a natural barrier. A survey after village expansion describes the territory as more than thirty li across 123.
• Spiritual environment: Spiritual Qi within the monastery is ten times richer than in the wilderness 13.
• Underground convergence: Three Spirit Veins meet in a natural cavern roughly three hundred zhang beneath the monastery—the site chosen for its new Dungeon Heart 146.
• Territorial ownership: Its territory is organizational public property, unlike Lin Xu’s personally owned Azure Cloud Mountain grotto dwelling 142.
• Independent village upgrades: Subsidiary villages can be upgraded separately, with resources and Source Fire drawn automatically from the monastery’s stores 119 142.

Subsidiary Territories

Notable Buildings and Landmarks

• Monastery complex: Originally occupies roughly one hundred mu, with halls arranged at different heights against the mountainside 4.
• Entrance: A large locust tree shades the gates; beneath it stands a weathered stele bearing the monastery’s name 3.
• Main hall: Contains a white-jade Dao Ancestor statue. Its entrance features purple-copper cranes, luminous glazed eyes, and green-jade floor tiles 60.
• Scripture Repository / Scripture Pavilion: Houses cultivation manuals and technical inheritances; originally guarded by Daoist Xuanling 51 74.
• Incense Offering Hall: Stands in the southeastern corner, with gold-leaf-covered masonry and two jade qilin statues before it 116.
• Incense Fire Altar: A level-one, one-mu building that increases incense-fire refinement efficiency by 100% 120.
• Underground dungeon: Built using spirit-rune bricks and formations, with training facilities supporting high-intensity practice for up to fifteen hours a day 149 150.

Organization

Three Halls and Six Departments

Hall masters and department heads are theoretically deacon elders. Before Lin Xu’s appointment, only the Demon Subduing Hall and Hall of Art Transmission have masters; the other leadership positions are vacant 74.

Ranks and Benefits

Teachings and Techniques

Heart Lamp System

• Progressive inheritance: The monastery’s principal method is a layered Heart Lamp System that develops with the cultivator’s realm rather than a single unchanging art 61.
• Bright Lamp Spirit-Kindling Art: A gold-legendary cultivation method whose basic portion can use a spirit lamp to open the Divine Aperture directly. Its listed bonuses include Soul Refining cultivation +30%, casting speed +30%, and skill consumption −15% 5.
• Mystic Art God-Descending Technique: Another fundamental inheritance that uses incense offerings and wish power to accelerate cultivation 24 74 116.
• Spirit Lamp Prayer Art: A true-disciple inheritance using the heart lamp as a medium and Incense Fire Dharma Coins as a guide for wish-making 61.

Soul Refining and Spirit Suppression

• Soul-related Dao arts: The monastery is founded on the Dao of Soul Refining and possesses substantial expertise against ghosts and other spirit bodies 49.
• Soul-Slaying Technique: Easy enough for Dao soldiers without Daoist aptitude to learn, yet exceptionally effective against spirits 49.
• Clear Dew Spirit Light Mantra: Heals and purifies, gently replenishing vitality and stabilizing injuries. Its limitations are slow recovery and heavy mana consumption 24.

Sword Arts and Supporting Disciplines

• Blood-Pattern Sword: A secret art that tempers a sword embryo with the cultivator’s blood and spiritual-sense imprint. An Object Manipulation Realm cultivator can direct the bonded sword across several li almost instantly 130.
• Supporting paths: The repository includes body refinement, beast taming, divination, talismans, formations, artifact refinement, and pill refinement 46 51.
• Limitations: Despite its valuable fundamental methods, the monastery’s inheritance has gaps in spells and cultivation crafts. Its Daoist arts are not especially destructive, and its strongest sword-control methods require the Object Manipulation Realm 118 142 188.

Military

Dao Soldier Organization

• Command: Zhao Yan commands the mountain-patrol, gate-defense, and demon-subjugation battalions. His Sha-breaking tiger tally can draw on a Dao soldier formation to unleash power beyond his individual strength 143.
• Combat doctrine: Dao soldiers specialize in coordinated formations, while the monastery’s cultivators are better suited to individual combat 143.
• Equipment: Dao soldiers receive complete sets of cyan common-grade magic equipment, including armor, weapons, arrows, and talismans 33.
• Territorial security: Under Lin Xu, outposts stand every two or three li. Outer disciples lead militia patrols, inner disciples and Dao soldiers form response squads, and Evil Eyes provide aerial reconnaissance 150.
• Earlier weakness: During the dungeon war, the monastery’s entirely human force is at a severe aerial disadvantage 35.

Resources and Recruitment

Recorded Population

These panels record separate points in the monastery’s reconstruction; they are not a continuous census.

Production and Reserves

• Strategic currency: Incense-offering faith fuels the monastery’s inherited arts. Dharma Coins can restore magic power and can be refined from faith or magic power 5 74.
• Incense collection: The level-one Incense Offering Hall automatically collects and stores wish power within ten li; its recorded monthly collection is 52,127 points 116.
• Source Fire: The Level 2 territory produces 200 Source Fire per month 153.
• Postwar reserves: Recorded stores include 873,000 jin of spirit rice, 37,000 Spirit Stones, more than 1,300 strings of Dharma Coins, 107 taels of Incense Fire Heaven Silver, and nine tamed spirit-beast cubs 142.
• Resource sites: The territory contains Spirit Veins, seven spirit springs, thirteen spirit-herb gardens, three black-iron mines, a copper-essence mine, Yin Locust Forest, a wild peach grove, and a Tiger Yao Lair 142.
• Agricultural development: Lin Xu disperses Daoists among the five villages to reclaim land. With Spirit Gathering Formations and growth spells, ordinary rice yields can reach one or two thousand jin per mu, though spirit-rice yields remain below a tenth of ordinary rice yields 153 222.

Level 2 Recruitment

• Recruit quality: Newly recruited disciples only just meet their rank’s minimum cultivation requirements. True-disciple recruitment does not automatically confer an elite template 116 143.
• Standard lamp: The Dao Rhyme Bright Light Lamp supports cultivation, amplifies spells, and stores additional magical power. It develops alongside its owner, eventually transforming into a Spirit Light Lamp 12 28 59.
• Soul storage: The Soul-Nourishing Talisman is a standard implement that shelters and nourishes spirit bodies 9.

Notable Members

• Lin Xu — Successor to Daoist Xuanzhen; reorganizes the monastery’s Dharma lineage, military, recruitment, and territorial development 137 143 150.
• Daoist Xuanzhen — Former monastery master; promotes Lin Xu through the ranks and passes on the monastery seal at his death 60 112 137.
• Daoist Chongxiao — Former Demon Subduing Hall master and frontline commander; killed by the giant city lord 74 136.
• Daoist Xuanling — Former Hall of Art Transmission master and Scripture Pavilion guardian; dies protecting Xuanzhen 74 136.
• Li Xuanfeng — Elite true disciple specializing in Yin soldiers, exorcism, and spirit binding; reaches level 7 and assists in bringing the other true disciples into Lin Xu’s lineage 144.
• Zhao Yan — Demon-Suppressing Commandant; leads three battalions and possesses a talent that strengthens troop morale, formation stability, and coordinated damage 143.
• Chen Xuanli — Inner disciple with Incense Offering Spirit Communion, granting greatly improved incense absorption and missionary effectiveness 116.
• Xu Yinyin — Hero-template true disciple whose Preacher skill can baptize devout believers into the priest class after she chooses a god to worship 171.
• Wang Yue — Inner disciple and formation specialist who helps organize Peach Tree Village’s defenses 32.
• Chen Yuanfu — Inner disciple specializing in talismans; receives Lin Xu’s dungeon report at Peach Tree Village 24 29.
• Xu Mingyuan — Inner disciple from the beast-taming branch; gravely wounded during the dungeon campaign and subsequently brought into Lin Xu’s following 50 51 52.