Xuantian Dao Sect/East Branch

Long Chen starts off in the Xuantian Dao Sect's East Branch, based in Eastern Wasteland. It consists mainly of 4 families:
# Shui family
# Zhou family
# Qu family
# Wang family
Each clan manages 9 Supermonasteries. 
The East Branch has tens of millions of disciples. It has 36 supermonasteries in total, with the 4 clans managing 9 each. Each supermonastery in turn has 108 monasteries. The supermonasteries are ranked 1 to 36 based on strength (36 being the lowest), and the monasteries are ranked 1 to 108 based on strength (with 108 being weakest). 
LC started in the 108th monastery of the 36th supermonastery of the east branch. The east branch is also the weakest of the branches. So in other words, LC had the luck to start in the weakest monastery of the weakest supermonastery of the weakest branch of the Xuantian sect.
== East Branch Organization ==
"The Xuantian Dao Sect's four families are the Shui, Zhou, Wang, and Qu families (水、周、王、曲). The Wang and Qu families' relationship with my Shui family isn't bad. They won't intentionally make things hard for us, so you don't need to be worried about that.
As for the Xuantian Dao Sect that Shui Wuhen had mentioned previously, that was nothing more than a branch sect that was located in the Eastern Wasteland. However, this branch sect was so large that it had thirty-six supermonasteries, each with one hundred and eight monasteries beneath it.
Hearing this, Long Chen's jaw dropped. He hadn't thought this world was so enormous. If Shui Wuhen hadn't explained all this, he really would still be a frog at the bottom of a well.
The Xuantian Dao Sect Shui Wuhen mentioned previously was the branch sect. Other than the sect master, there were four families that oversaw the 36 supermonasteries.
Each family was in charge of nine supermonasteries, while the one Shui Wuhen was in charge of was the 36th Xuantian Supermonastery, the weakest one of all the supermonasteries.
Hearing that, Long Chen couldn't help but bitterly smile. How had he ended up with such a fate? When he went to the monastery, he found the monastery to be the last place monastery, and now that he had joined the supermonastery, the supermonastery was also in the last place. This kind of luck was practically heaven-defying.
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"Although the Xuantian Dao Sect I'm talking about is just the branch sect, it has tens of millions of elite cultivators. As for the people who can attend the martial gathering this time, they are elites amongst elites. Our thirty-sixth supermonastery is the weakest existence of all the supermonasteries." When she reached there, Shui Wuhen became a bit embarrassed. 
Long Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "The monastery I was at was also the weakest existence. Now the supermonastery is also the weakest existence. Don't tell me that the branch sect we're at is also the weakest amongst the branch sects. My luck can't be that bad, right?"
Shui Wuhen looked at Long Chen. She didn't say anything for a long time.
"Really? This branch sect is also the weakest?" 
"But Even so, our Xuantian Dao Sect is still one of the overlords of the Eastern Wasteland. As you've seen, almost one hundred thousand people are attending the trial this time from the thirty-six supermonasteries. As for our thirty-sixth supermonastery, we have less than five hundred people." Shui Wuhen became even more embarrassed.
Out of these five hundred people, the Dragonblood Legion occupied three hundred and sixty members. That was because the trial's criteria required that the disciple had to reach the Xiantian realm and was not older than fifty.
Ninety-nine percent of the disciples were washed out by these requirements. If it weren't for the Dragonblood Legion, Shui Wuhen would have been too embarrassed to even come here to attend the trial.
That was because the other supermonasteries all had over a thousand elites who could attend, or even several thousand. When the thirty-sixth supermonastery was compared to them, they truly were weaker.
And if they didn't have Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er who were Celestials, then they truly would have been turned into the Xuantian Dao Sect's laughingstock.
But now that a monster like Long Chen had returned, the thirty-sixth supermonastery's position had immediately risen.
== Four family elders ==
== 4 family elders ==
At the front of the four families were four ancient elders that were currently discussing something. Long Chen was speechless: considering how old they looked, it was difficult for him to tell who was who.
It was unknown just how many centuries these old fellows had lived for. In any case, their wrinkles were more concentrated than the growth rings of oak trees, and their hair was as white as snow. But their gazes were still alive and healthy. They were wily old foxes that had taken human form.
These four were the family heads. Although their cultivation bases had only reached the late Sea Expansion realm, the reason they had become their families' heads wasn't because of strength, but because of their brilliant methods. That was what had won them the favor of the previous generation's family heads.
The leftmost elder was the Qu family's head, Qu Chengfeng. The first supermonastery, in other words, the strongest supermonastery, was amongst the nine supermonasteries they controlled. The second rank Celestial, Yue Qianshan, also came from the first supermonastery.
The next one was an elder with a long mustache and beard. He was the Shui family's head, Shui Yuncong. Although these four were all ancient elders, when comparing them, Shui Yuncong was at least slightly better looking than the others.
Shui Wuhen sat behind him. Her eyes were closed, clearly displaying her indifference toward the ones around her. She appeared a bit isolated when compared to the others who were constantly discussing something.
The strongest supermonastery that the Shui family controlled was the fifth supermonastery, and their number one genius, Shui Guanzhi, hailed from there. Rather than saying that Shui Guanzhi was someone raised by the fifth supermonastery, it was better to say he was someone personally raised by the Shui family. The reason he was placed in the fifth supermonastery was just a formality.
Beside Shui Yuncong was an elder whose face was slightly darker. He was the Wang family head. The second supermonastery was under the administration of the Wang family, while Zhong Wuyan was their peak expert.
The final elder was Zhou Tianyi.
Let alone Zhou Tianyi, even the other two family heads were shocked upon hearing that Long Chen had returned. What had happened in the chaos region was no secret in the Xuantian Dao Sect.
Although this matter had been mainly caused by the Pill Tower's Huo family, the Zhou family had been the one to act as a go-between. The photographic jade was proof of that, and that had brought on the fury of the vice sect master.
The Zhou family had put in a great deal of trouble to settle this affair. Not only had they scapegoated Zhou Qingyi and her son, but they had also given Shui Wuhen an immense amount of resources as compensation. But once that compensation had been given, once their people had been killed, once they had lost those resources, Long Chen had suddenly come back alive and well. That made Zhou Tianyi feel like he had swallowed crap.
He even suspected that they had known all along that Long Chen hadn't died, all to con his Zhou family. 
Shui Yuncong was still angry with Shui Wuhen. This child was too disobedient.
When it came to seniority, Shui Wuhen should call him uncle. But because of the matter with Long Chen, she had even gone against this uncle of hers, causing him to lose face. And when the time came for her to get the compensation, she didn't even consider backing the family, instead giving the money to Dragonblood Legion.
As for the Zhou family, they were truly brilliant. They had intentionally handed the compensation to Shui Wuhen in order to incite internal strife amongst the Shui family. The results were exactly what Zhou Tianyi wanted.
Due to Long Chen's alleged death, he had paid a great deal of compensation. But this compensation had been used to incite disharmony with Shui Wuhen and the rest of the Shui family. That had been a brilliant move. But now Long Chen had reappeared, and he felt like he had been duped, as if he had been the one to fall for the Shui family's trap. He even suspected that the disharmony in the Shui family was just an act they were putting on for him to see.
Zhou Tianyi asks Shui Wuhen how LC survived, so Shui just said that he dug a tunnel, and that is why it took so long for him to reach the martial gathering.
== Story ==
=== Switch ===
By Chapter 480, the 108th and 1st XT monasteries of the 36th supermonastery switch places, so LC's XT sect becomes the strongest within the 36th supermonastery.
=== Zhou-Shui feud ===
Within the Xuantian Dao Sect, other than the old patriarch's bloodline, there were also four great powers. Those were the Yan, Qu, Zhou, and Shui families.
Originally, the old patriarch had had four major disciples, and these four families were their progeny.
Their ancestral lines went back shockingly far, and their power definitely surpassed Long Chen's imagination. However, the four families were not very harmonious. Fights and schemes could not be avoided.
The ones who were most at odds with each other were the Zhou and Shui families. As for what enmities the two families had, Shui Wuhen didn't say. All she said was that their two families were like fire and water, and if it wasn't for the patriarch's bloodline suppressing them, they might have even started a full-scale war.
From her words, Long Chen learned just how terrifying the Xuantian Dao Sect was. That was because she had said that in her family, her power was ranked near the bottom amongst the higher levels. That was the only reason she had been sent outside and didn't remain in the Dao Sect.
She didn't tell him too much about her family's internal structure. All she said was the Zhou and Shui families were using Zhou Qingyu's death in order to turn their covert struggle into an open struggle. That was why Zhou Qingyi dared target Long Chen like this.
=== Post-Wangu, Remote Heaven Gang, and Evil Path ===
Originally, the Xuantian Dao Sect had dozens of smaller powers under them. But once the Xuantian Dao Sect had been attacked and Ouyang Qiuyu had tried to gather them, the smaller sects had evaded every which way, refusing to help.
Only seven sects had come to their aid. Although they were mostly useless, they had still gone all-out to assist them. Only at this time was it possible to see who was a real friend.
Even hundreds of years ago, the Pure Wind Gate was under the Xuantian Dao Sect's protection. 
When the Remote Heaven Gang was suppressing them and trying to devour them, it was the Xuantian Dao Sect that helped them survive. 
Before coming, they had alerted the other sects like them. But those other sects had refused to come, instead telling them not to send themselves to their deaths, saying something about how the Xuantian Dao Sect was heavily injured and how it would definitely decline. And that they had to stand independent now to avoid being dragged down with them.
At the same time as they had received the request for aid, they had received a threat from the Remote Heaven Gang. Although they hadn't said anything explicitly, it was clear that the Remote Heaven Gang wanted to dominate the Eastern Wasteland on their own. Helping the Xuantian Dao Sect was becoming enemies with the Remote Heaven Gang.
The Corrupt path's sneak attack was instigated by the Remote Heaven Gang. The timing is too coincidental. 
If Ouyang Qiuyu had returned according to her original plans, then by the time she would have returned, the Xuantian Dao Sect would have been destroyed. But perhaps it was that the Xuantian Dao Sect's karmic luck hadn't run out yet; she had returned just in time to save the sect from destruction.
Furthermore, on the Corrupt path's way to the Xuantian Dao Sect, there were many smaller sects. But they hadn't been implicated at all. Their targets had clearly been the Xuantian Dao Sect and their supermonasteries.
==References==
Category:Eastern Wasteland
Category:Xuantian Dao Sect/East Branch