嵩山
In "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", the sect's leader Yue Buqun is the sect's 13th-generation leader. The Mount Hua Sect is part of the Five Mountain Sword Sects Alliance and Yue Buqun becomes the alliance's chief after defeating his predecessor, Zuo Lengshan of the Mount Song Sect. The novel's protagonist, Linghu Chong, is Yue Buqun's most senior apprentice. In the novel, the Mount Hua Sect is inferior to only three sects: Shaolin, Wudang and the Sun Moon Holy Cult.