Martial Heaven Alliance

Martial Heaven Alliance (天武联盟) or Tianwu Alliance, is an alliance of Martial Heaven Continent that includes the Xuantian Dao Sect. It is the largest alliance in the world. It is neutral with the Pill Tower and Ancient Races.
The Martial Heaven Alliance was an existence elected by the Righteous path. It only existed to unify the Righteous path's powers against the Corrupt path. The operation fees of the Martial Heaven Alliance were paid by the taxes of each Righteous sect. And so it was those very sects that the Martial Heaven Alliance depended on.
Its headquarters are in the Central Plains Ancient City.
== Appearance ==
=== Gray robes ===
They wore grey robes with a special design on their chests. It was an immortal character: alliance (盟 meng).
This was the mark of the Martial Heaven Alliance. They did not belong to any sect, but were a power elected from all the Central Plains' Righteous path's sects. They were in charge of the entire Righteous path in the Central Plains.
=== Blue robes ===
These ten people were wearing light blue robes. The front of their robes had a large immortal character embroidered onto them: Alliance. Around this character was a dark blue circle, and it represented the Martial Heaven Sea-Ring.
This was the sign of the Martial Heaven Alliance. These people were all Life Star experts, and their robes were not the same as the Martial Heaven Alliance's people that had appeared at the eastern sea. Their statuses were clearly even higher.
== Xuantian City ==
Due to the Martial Heaven Alliance's rules, King-level experts would not appear around the Xuantian City area during the beast tide except in special circumstances. Sending kings would provoke the wrath of the Martial Heaven Alliance.
== Finances ==
=== Tax system ===
The Righteous path had the Martial Heaven Alliance, and all the Righteous sects would send a few tax payments each year.
This tax had become a reward system. Each sect could get rewards from the Martial Heaven Alliance through killing experts from the Corrupt path.
The amount of the reward depended on the status and cultivation base of the slain Corrupt experts.
=== Wealth ===
The Martial Heaven Alliance controlled a huge part of the entire continent’s wealth. The Martial Heaven Alliance had its own mines and businesses.
Originally, the Martial Heaven Alliance was established by all the continent’s Righteous sects. Although the Martial Heaven Alliance had such a huge amount of wealth, they were only in charge of overseeing it. They did not have the authority to directly use it.
A portion of the Martial Heaven Alliance’s wealth came from a yearly tax each large sect had to pay. Another portion came from the Martial Heaven Alliance’s own mines and businesses, and another portion came from battle spoils won in battles against the Corrupt path.
This wealth was jointly owned, and each sect would pay tax according to its scale. Considering just how many Righteous sects there were, the total sum was an astonishing amount.
After all these years, the amount of wealth that it had accumulated could only be described as terrifying. However, this wealth had to be spent on defending the Righteous path, raising geniuses, and rewarding merit. Furthermore, any large expenditures had to have the alliance head’s personal nod of approval, as well as the Elders’. That was to avoid anyone being selfish or corrupt and abusing that wealth.
Now, Long Chen had led the Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples to defend the entire Eastern Xuan Region’s Devil Abyss. That meant that the Xuantian Dao Sect was receiving all the Eastern Xuan Region’s reward.
In the past, each time the Devil Abyss erupted, it would mean the sacrifices of countless disciples. The compensation for these disciples went to their sects.
A single region’s sects numbered in the tens of thousands. Each sect was given a reward based on their accomplishments, and just those rewards were extremely plentiful. Because the rest of the Eastern Xuan Region’s sects had been instigated by others to not participate in the Devil Abyss, all their rewards were going to the Xuantian Dao Sect.
What shocked Long Chen was that the reward set for the Eastern Xuan Region was a staggering sum of fifteen billion spirit crystals.
However, thinking about it, when fifteen billion spirit crystals were split between tens of thousands of sects, just how much could each sect get?
It wasn’t just the sum that was shocking, but it also allowed Long Chen to see the power of the Martial Heaven Alliance. After all, the Eastern Xuan Region was just one of the four weaker regions.
The Central Xuan Region’s reward was definitely even greater because it had more sects and more devil creatures.
==Relationships==
=== Righteous Path ===
The reason why the Martial Heaven Alliance could lead the Righteous path wasn't because the Martial Heaven Alliance itself was so powerful, but because the Righteous path needed protection and to unite against the Corrupt path.
As for sects that were strong enough, they disdained joining any alliance. No one dared to provoke them, so those sects' disciples could be monstrously powerful. Although Qu Jianying was hopeful for Long Chen, she was also worried.
As the head of the Martial Heaven Alliance, she wished she could raise her people's morale and vent years of frustration. Even if she died, she could die in peace then.
=== Ancient Races, Pill Valley ===
The ancient races only had a somewhat allied relationship with the Martial Heaven Alliance. They were not controlled by them.
Behind the Pill Tower was Pill Valley, and they were also not within the scope of the Martial Heaven Alliance's administration. In fact, there were many things that the Martial Heaven Alliance needed Pill Valley's cooperation for, so he had no choice but to be a bit more courteous.
=== Long Chen and DBL ===
“However, the alliance head treats me as family, so if the alliance head was in trouble, I can risk my life to save her. However, it is only due to my relationship with the alliance head and has nothing to do with the Martial Heaven Alliance. As for you old ghosts, you should burn incense as thanks to your ancestors that I don’t kill you right now. You actually want me to sacrifice my people to save you? Tell me, are you idiots?”
“Long Chen’s words are not wrong. The Martial Heaven Alliance is just an alliance, and to put it frankly, everyone is just cooperating. Other sects are also like this; the disciples go to sects because of their resources, while the sects accept disciples due to their talent,” said Qu Jianying’s granduncle-master.
Only then did Long Chen retract his killing intent. The elder staggered back and almost collapsed on the ground.
Qu Jianying’s granduncle-master continued, “Long Chen, let me continue asking you a few things. If we gave you the reward, then if Qu Jianying was no longer in the position of alliance ahead, would you still fight for the Martial Heaven Alliance?”
Long Chen shook his head. “Most likely not. No matter how great the reward, it’s not as valuable as my life.”
“In other words, if this reward was given to you, you would view it only as a favor from Qu Jianying?”
“Correct.”
Long Chen didn’t view the various powers he knew as friends. Powers themselves did not have those emotions. Other than the Heaven Splitting Battle Sect, the Wine God Palace, the original devil race, and the Spirit race, he didn’t feel any sense of belonging to any power.
That included the Xuantian Dao Sect. The reason he was loyal to the Xuantian Dao Sect was because the current Xuantian Dao Sect had Li Tianxuan.
The Xuantian Dao Sect that had Li Tianxuan in it was his home, but without Li Tianxuan, it would not be his home.
The Martial Heaven Alliance was the same. He only acknowledged Qu Jianying, but without Qu Jianying, he wouldn’t care about the Martial Heaven Alliance.
As long as someone treated him sincerely, he would sincerely repay them. But powers cared about profit, not feelings. So other than a few powers, Long Chen didn’t have any friendship with the others. He only had friendships with a few people inside them, and they were the only ones he cared about.
Ignoring everything else, just taking these nine idiots in front of him, why would he have to fight for them? That was just nonsense.
“Long Chen, you are a warrior of the Righteous path. If the Martial Heaven Alliance was in a life and death crisis, it signifies that the entire Righteous path is in danger. Would you really just watch as a spectator?” demanded another Grand Elder.
“That’s not the same. If I were to fight at that time, it would be because I wanted to, not because I was forced to due to taking someone else’s things. There is an essential difference between them. I, Long Chen, do not want to be bound by anything, and I never make promises lightly,” said Long Chen indifferently.
== References ==
Category:Tianwu
Category:Alliance
Category:Righteous Path