Xuantian Dao Sect

Xuantian Dao Sect is one of the main martial arts organizations in the mortal world. They are part of the Righteous Path. It is the first sect that Long Chen joins to cultivate his martial dao.
There are (at least) 4 levels of organization. From top to bottom they are:
# Xuantian Dao Sect (top, HQ in Central Plains)
# Xuantian branches (e.g. East Branch): Branches of XDS
# Xuantian Supermonastery (玄天分院): Sub-branches of XDS branches
# Xuantian Monastery (玄天别院): Branches of Xuantian Super Monastery
The HQ is in the Central Region. XTD has a branch for each of the other regions in Tianwu: Eastern Wasteland (East branch), Western Desert (West branch), Southern Sea (South branch), and Northern Source (North branch).
== Abbreviations ==
* XT = Xuantian
* XTD = Xuantian Dao
* XDS = Xuantian Dao Sect
* SM = supermonastery
* M = monastery
Example: XTD East 36th SM 108th M means Xuantian Dao Sect East Branch 36th supermonastery 108th monastery. This is the monastery that Long Chen starts in.
== Intro ==
Mu Qingxuan gives an introduction to the XTD.
"The Xuantian Dao Sect has many specialties, from forging, refining, magical arts, formations, talismans, etc. In total, there are three hundred and sixty specialties for you to choose from. Whether you are a body cultivator, magical art cultivator, soul cultivator, sword cultivator, spirit cultivator, no matter what you cultivate, the Xuantian Dao Sect has countless tomes for you to study.
"The Xuantian Dao Sect has divine items protecting it known as the Reincarnation Mirror and Xuantian Tower. The Reincarnation Mirror will allow you to study the priceless Xuantian Catalog, which will allow you to use the Dao to peer into the heavens and cultivate to the point of being a god or an immortal.
"Here, as long as you have the talent, you definitely won't be overlooked. Horses dislike narrow paths, and the Great Peng hates the heavens for being too low. But whether you are a horse or a Peng, in the Xuantian Dao Sect, you will have limitless room for growth."
"However, these resources are the foundation of the Xuantian Dao Sect. Not everyone can enjoy them. Before setting your sights on obtaining these dream-like resources, you should first get some smaller goals. For example... don't fail the upcoming trials."
== Head Sect: Central Plains ==
The head XTD sect is located in the Central Plains.
Every ten years, the head sect would send flying boats to the branch sects to bring disciples who met the qualifications back to the head sect.
Those disciples all had to have reached Sea Expansion, and they needed to be no older than fifty.
=== Organization ===
The Xuan Master is the dean of XTD
* See Disciples for info on disciple organization
* Elder's Hall: Li Changfeng, Liu Cang are allies of Long Chen
* Law Enforcement Hall
===Disciple selection===
At the end of Volume 6, Li Changfeng (Elder's Hall) invites Chen to the Head Sect.
"There's still half a year until the branch sects' elites can gather for the head sect's disciple selection. Once you pass, you'll be able to cultivate in the head sect. The Central Plains is the true place for heavenly geniuses to cultivate. As for the Eastern Wasteland, you'll understand how insignificant it is in the future. Alright, people really do talk more as they get older. I have to return to the head sect to report on this matter. If there's anything you don't understand, you can go ask your sect master."
Long Chen was a bit apprehensive and excited. He had long since heard that the Central Plains was a holy land for cultivation. Geniuses covered the land, and no matter how talented you were, you would be drowned by countless other geniuses.
He also knew that the Skywood Divine Palace was in the Central Plains. In other words, only by going to the Central Plains could he see Chu Yao again.
"Once you arrive at the Xuantian Dao Sect, you'll understand that even if you can dominate the other four regions, you still won't have any superiority amongst the Central Plains' heavenly geniuses. To sum it up, avoid pride and impatience, avoiding showing off your sharp point, be more evasive and sly, and your journey will be easier," said Elder Sha.
Although Elder Sha was being subtle, his meaning was obvious. Long Chen might be the top amongst the disciples from the Eastern Wasteland, Western Desert, Southern Sea, and Northern Source, but compared to the geniuses from the Central Plains, his foundation was lacking. He was losing right at the starting line.
In truth, the reason why the Xuantian Dao Sect had established branch sects in the four outer regions wasn't because they had many hopes for the disciples raised there. To put it frankly, the four outer regions' disciples were nothing more than cannon fodder, fireflies to show off the brightness of the moon. 
Elder Sha was warning him kindheartedly. He had lived for a long time, and he had seen batch after batch of disciples who had gone to the Central Plains full of hope and passion, only to be given grievous blows from reality. He had seen countless promising geniuses fall one by one. Now he was almost numb to it.
It was precisely because he was numb that he didn't have much interest in things anymore. He just did his job, following the rules. Rather than aiming for the best possible result, he just avoided making mistakes.
====== Factions in the trial - Central Plains ======
Hua Shiyu = Heaven Female Alliance had one hundred and thirty thousand members.
Hu Guishan = Divine Beast Mansion had ninety thousand members.
Fan Song = Hegemon Hall had seventy thousand members.
Que Xinyan = Flame Gate had fifty thousand members.
Disciples that hadn’t been chosen for any faction had thirty thousand members.
Wang Zhen = Ten Thousand Insect Guild had twenty thousand members.
Long Chen = Dragonblood Legion has three hundred and one members.
====== The First Competition ======
First place is the Divine Beast Mansion at 29,370,000 kill points.
Second place is the at 25,260,000 kill points.
Third place is the Heaven Female Alliance at 22,000,000 kill points.
Fourth place is the Flame Gate at 16,070,000 kill points.
Fifth place is the Ten Thousand Insect Guild at 15,990,000 kill points.
Last place is the Dragonblood Legion at 15,980,000 kill points.
====== The Second Competition ======
First place:Dragonblood Legion has almost reached six hundred million points.
Second place:Heaven Female Alliance which had half the number of points as Dragonblood Legion.
Third place:Ten Thousand Insect Guild.
Fourth place:Divine Beast Mansion.
Fifth place:Hegemon Hall.
Last place:Flame Gate ( Disbanded ).
===Teleportation Formations===
The scene before him changed. Long Chen found himself in an extremely ancient transportation formation. This formation was incredibly vast, covering an area of several miles.
Around the formation were four pillars that soared into the clouds. The pillars sparkled with countless runes, and a majestic aura came from them.
The formation had been built atop a large mountain. It was surrounded by ancient buildings which appeared to have been built eons ago.
Over ten white-robed disciples appeared.
These disciples were very young, but their cultivation bases had all reached the Xiantian realm. Each of their robes had a large immortal character embroidered on the front: Xuan (玄).
Below that large Xuan character were two smaller characters written in the modern day style: law enforcement (执法). They were the Xuantian Dao Sect's law enforcers.
For ordinary law enforcers to have reached the Xiantian realm, the Xuantian Dao Sect was truly worthy of being an overlord of the Eastern Wasteland. This kind of foundation was truly shocking.
=== Rules===
Before the trial, the disciples had all been introduced to the Xuantian Dao Sect's rules. Within those countless rules, there was one that said if disciples had irreconcilable enmities, they could initiate challenges to each other. However, there would be no suppressing of the weak. Challenges had to be between people on the same level.
Inner sect disciples could only challenge inner sect disciples. They couldn't challenge outer sect disciples.
The first thing Long Chen did after obtaining his core disciple badge was to issue a challenge, and it was no ordinary challenge. By using his blood to ring the bell, he had issued a life and death challenge. Only core disciples were qualified to issue life and death challenges. This kind of challenge represented that their enmity had reached the point of either you die or I die.
Core disciples were all important pillars of the Xuantian Dao Sect, and so the bell had to be tolled for a life and death challenge between them. It signified that the entire sect's attention had to be focused at such a time.
===Applications===
In the Xuantian Dao Sect, disciples could freely join any department they wanted once they reached Foundation Forging.
This could be likened to an application. Once they advanced to the Jade Core realm, in other words, the level of a King, they would become Elders of that department.
For those who had joined a department, their glory would be the department's, and the department would greatly support them.
It was also due to this that the Law Enforcement Hall had still spent a huge number of points on Que Xinyan despite him losing his Earth Flames repeatedly.
Although Que Xinyan, Hu Guishan, and Fan Song hadn't reached Foundation Forging and couldn't officially join them yet, that didn't stop them from receiving the Law Enforcement Hall's patronage. The Law Enforcement Hall's power was just what they wanted.
==Dual-cultivation and marriage==
In the Xuantian Dao Sect, for a man and woman to hold hands as they walked was a very unbridled kind of conduct. That was because the Xuantian Dao Sect did not permit dual cultivation. That was part of the Dao-principles of the Xuantian Dao Sect.
If a pair were to marry, then their status as disciples would be revoked, and their monthly rations would disappear, making them commoners. Normally, only disciples who had reached the end of their cultivation and had no hope of ever advancing again would marry in the Xuantian Dao Sect and start creating heirs.
Experts in the Xuantian Dao Sect could have countless followers, and there could be some shady relationships, but there definitely wouldn't be anyone who dared to walk so openly while declaring their relationship.
===Merging Yin Yang===
These games were a kind of way for men and women to amuse themselves without breaking the sect's inherited rules.
The Dao Sect had a rule that stated its female disciples could not lose their virginity. That would affect their comprehension of the Heavenly Daos. As for male disciples, they couldn't merge Yang with Yin, or they would also be affected.
The sect enforced this rule strictly. If anyone tried to do such a thing in secret, they would definitely be found out and expelled from the sect. At best, they would be demoted to a worker or commoner.
But stifling these men and women so badly also wasn't good. To avoid that, the Dao Sect had ways to resolve those urges so they didn't have to be distracted.
Other than that final step of merging Yin with Yang, there weren't many other restrictions. And so the Dao Sect's disciples developed many ‘thirst-quenching games' on the sly.
The Dao Sect neither supported nor opposed these games. But if anyone lost their virginity, they would be directly expelled.
But there were always geniuses in every possible field. The Dao Sect's disciples ended up developing amazing games with special tricks and techniques. These games were sometimes even more stimulating than the real thing.
==Divine items==
The Reincarnation Mirror and the Xuantian Tower were the Xuantian Dao Sect's sect-protecting divine items. They were also what maintained the sect's karmic luck and could not be used lightly. Using them would damage the sect's karmic luck.
Last time in the eastern sea, because the Reincarnation Mirror had to be used to maintain the sect's karmic luck, Li Tianxuan had merely used the Reincarnation Mirror's projection. If he had used its true body, it would have caused major damage.
==Mountain of Karmic luck==
A huge mountain landed on the ground. That was the Xuantian Dao Sect's main peak. It had been collected by the Xuantian Tower. The main peak had the founder's statue, and they could not allow it to be damaged.
Once the main peak fell, divine light flowed through it. It was possible to see visible fluctuations flowing towards the statue.
Those fluctuations were karmic luck. There was an incredible amount of heaven and earth divine spring currently condensing. The Xuantian Dao Sect's rise was unstoppable.
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