Nine Provinces (1) Group

### Notable Members

 Saint Monarch Tyrant Song (Tribulation Immortal, Eternal Life Being, Heavenly Way)
Saint Monarch Seven Lives’ Talisman
Saint White (Tribulation Immortal, Heavenly Way)
 Saint Monarch Seventh Path
Ancient Saint Doudou
Ancient Saint Spirit Butterfly
 Saint Monarch Spirit Butterfly
Saint Monarch Mountain of Su

### Affiliation

Ancient Lake Monastery
Cultivator’s Alliance
Field of Heaven Island
Fighting Buddha Sect
Heavenly Mansion Artifact Sect
Heavenly River’s Su Clan
Spirit Butterfly Island
White Cloud Academy
World’s Horizon Temple
Snow Wolf Cave
Scholar Lineage
(Digit) Path Lineage
Clear Water Pavilion
Southern Longevity Sword Sect
Nine Serenities Ruler
Heavenly Way Must Step Down Alliance
Vajrapani Temple
Heavenly Demon
Ancient Heavenly Court
Ninth Heavenly Way

## Relationships

### Friendlies

Second Nine Serenities Ruler
Third Nine Serenities Ruler
Seventh Nine Serenities Ruler
Ninth Nine Serenities Ruler

### Enemies

Fourth Heavenly Way
Eighth Heavenly Way

Nine Provinces (1) Group was a famous and legendary group in All Heavens and Myriad Realms that based on Earth. The group was founded by Seventh Path, Rain Moon and Yellow Mountain to guide and lead the younger generation of cultivators.

Each and every member of the group was noted to be extremely talented and can be considered as one of the best in their respective realms. Their cultivation speeds also can be considered abnormal by normal cultivator standards.

## Chat Platform

### WeChat

The group uses WeChat as their social networking service.

### Cultivation Chat Group

Cultivation Chat Group, the group became Nine Provinces (2) Group.

At first, the chat group’s functions were extremely basic. However, with the help of Lady Dragon Net, the chat group’s functions were regularly updated, usually at the request of Song Shuhang.

## Rules & Traditions

### Equal Exchange

“*Take as much as you need, give back as much as you take*„

Using seniority to snatch from a junior is forbidden and any such action will face serious repercussion from the rest of the members. A transaction between members must be consensual or there will not be a transaction at all. If a member refused to sell a certain item, nobody else may force the member to sell it against the member’s own will.

### Games

The members are known to play online games such as Farmville. Stealing vegetables are a good way to establish relationship amongst the members. Trading game equipment also encouraged.

### Quests

Seniors in the group occasionally will issue quests or missions for juniors. Upon the completion of the quests, rewards will be given accordingly, based on difficulty and how well they complete them. More difficult quests have higher rewards compared to those with lower difficulty.

The reward for these small duties was seven or eight spirit stones of the Second Stage. Of course, these spirit stones were only a supplement. The real reward consisted of cultivation techniques, medicine pills, and other things of practical use.

### Fifth Stage Spirit Sovereign’s Gold Core

When they were a Spirit Sovereign, each member has seven dragon marks or higher gold core. However, the number of members with eight dragon marks didn’t exceed ten. Those who has six dragon marks or less will leave the group on their own volition.

When Song Shuhang and White became the Ninth Heavenly Ways, the members were given two gold core sticker patches on their respective gold cores, making all members of the chat group have nine dragon marks. This in turn makes them have a very high chance into becoming an Eternal Life Being in the future.

Some of the members were allowed to choose a sticker of their liking, while some of them were given customised sticker by White such as:

* Exterminating Phoenix was given a ‘cat’ sticker.
* Mad Sabre Three Waves was given an ‘ocean wave’ sticker.
* Flood Dragon Tyrant was given a ‘flood dragon’ sticker.

Each member also given a specialised background music by Song Shuhang.

### Knowledge Sharing

“*A person’s wisdom is limited*„

Despite the members are known as geniuses, they are well aware of their own limitations and the possibility there is someone who knows what they don’t. Who knows it isn’t important, but what he knows is important.

As such, its pretty normal for the members to learn from anyone, even from an unknown mortal, without any prejudice at all. Their pride and ego wasn’t at stake at all if they openly acknowledge they don’t know about something or someone is better than them.

This attitude allows them to grow, by continuously learning, gathering and sharing knowledge, rather than believing themselves as omnipotent and omniscience. Whenever they have a gathering, the members usually take the chance to ask senior members to dispel their doubts or solving problems in their cultivation, something the seniors happily obliged.

### Lurking

There are some members who cultivation style or personalities make them lurk in the chat group.

### Out of Topic

Discussions between the members will randomly skewered to random new topics in a heart beat, much to the consternation of Yellow Mountain.

### Death Seeker Army

Moments when certain death seeking members anger others. They are notably death seekers Three Waves, Copper Trigram and Song Shuhang.

This has caused Super Admin Yellow Mountain to feel Heart is Really Tired and Wants to Retire.

### Privacy

Each member has their own quirks and unique element. Others may not pry into a member’s privacy without permission. However, [Copper Trigram's extraordinary disguise ability infringes on physical privacy.

### Reminiscing & Complaining About Song Shuhang

Ever since Song Shuhang joined the group, its became a custom for the rest of the members to reminiscing about the hardship they suffers during their cultivation, especially the loose practitioners and monster cultivators. They compare their hardship to cheat existence Song Shuhang.

Every time they met him, they dreaded if he opened his mouth and told them he already promoted to another stage in the short time since their last meeting. His monthly sermons also contributed to their liver pains. Due to him, they have increased their cultivation time and spend less time doing anything else.

## Known Members

### Super Admin

#### Yellow Mountain

Yellow Mountain was one of the founders of the Nine Provinces (1) Group. He was the *de facto* leader of the group despite the presence of other higher ranking members. Yellow Mountain was the one who always provide help to the members, also the one who help them clean up any mess they created.

At the end of the novel, Yellow Mountain retired from this position and passed it to Song Shuhang.

#### Song Shuhang

Song Shuhang was a mortal who was ‘accidentally’ added into the group by Yellow Mountain. As Tyrant Song, Song Shuhang was the most famous member of the Nine Provinces (1) Group.

Shuhang also the member of the following subgroups

* Adventure Duo with White
* Death Seeker Army with Copper Trigram and Mad Sabre Three Waves
* Monster Trio with Skylark and White

Despite being the youngest age-wise, Song Shuhang has the highest seniority in the group according the established rules and custom of the Cultivation World. He was the first member to officially become an Eighth Stage Profound Saint, a Ninth Stage Tribulation Immortal, an Eternal Life Being, a Heavenly Way and finally a Transcendence.

At the end of the novel, Song Shuhang became the super admin of the group, replacing Yellow Mountain.

### Admins

#### Rain Moon

True Monarch Rain Moon was one of the founders of the Nine Provinces (1) Group. Despite being an active participant in the chat group, Rain Moon was never seen physically throughout the novel.

#### Seventh Path

Seventh Path was one of the founders of the Nine Provinces (1) Group. He was known as the Wiseman of the Group. The members will usually consult him whenever they have a problem they can’t solve.

His account is sometimes used by his (Digit) Path Lineage members to change other group members' account names.

Seventh Path was the second member of the group to actually become an Eighth Stage Profound Saint.

#### Skylark

Mad Sabre Three Waves has full access to her accounts. She is one of the permanent rare death seekers.

Skylark also the member of the following subgroups

* Death Seeker Army with Copper Trigram and Mad Sabre Three Waves
* Monster Trio with Song Shuhang and White

#### White

White was the second most famous member of the Nine Provinces (1) Group, on par with Song Shuhang.

White also has the second highest seniority in the group according the established rules and custom of the Cultivation World. He was the third member to officially become an Eighth Stage Profound Saint, the second to be a Ninth Stage Tribulation Immortal, an Eternal Life Being, a Heavenly Way and finally a Transcendence.

White also the member of the following subgroups

* Adventure Duo with Song Shuhang
* Monster Trio with Skylark and Song Shuhang

## Group Activities

### Battle of Severing Immortal Spectators

*Main article: Battle of Severing Immortal*
Most of the Nine Provinces (1) Group members were summoned by Venerable White's gifted disposable flying swords to his location at the Battle of Severing Immortal. The members begin to learn of latest member Song Shuhang's cheat existence and witness his cheat jump from First Stage to Second Stage. After the event, higher stage group members received a Seventh Stage Venerable sermon by Venerable White and with Song Shuhang's Way Grasping Stone's assistance, allowing many to improve their cultivation or arts. Luckily, a blood-type Heavenly Demon - Blood Demon fell nearby for the enlightened group members to test out their new ideas. After Venerable White slapped the nearly dead Blood Demon to death, all present available Nine Provinces (1) Group members obtained a magical item or resource treasure.

### Tractor Competition

*Main article: Tractor Race*
The Tractor Race was conceived by Venerable White because he enjoyed driving around on a hand guided tractor that had been among the large number of vehicles that Yellow Mountain had provided for him to play around with. The group members, after the race, witness Song Shuhang's chear Second Stage minor realm elevation.

### Dharma-Ending Battle

*Main article: Dharma-Ending Battle*
The film production was initiated by Song Shuhang, at first as a lie to his father to justify his ownership of many luxurious cars, and afterwards to placate White’s anger due to the Senior White Expression Package.

There rest of the members participate partly due to pitying Song Shuhang’s plight and largely because they are bored and have nothing better to do. They even enjoyed a small learn-to-cocoon with Song Shuhang event and took a group photo with "Hulk" Song Shuhang.

During the filming process, the members participated in Medicine Master's and Purple Mist's wedding, visited White Cloud Academy that resulted with obtaining a secret technique from the Solitary Holy Pond and fought against demons in the Battle of White Cloud Academy.

After filming, many members with their mortal business companies assisted True Monarch Yellow Mountain to advertise the film worldwide to placate their side of White's anger. Excluding White's mortal fake name Song Bai, every member had publicized a mortal [霸 dao/dharma name] (*Bà* \_ ) actor's name for the movie. Such names were:

* Tyrant Sabre, Tyrant Flood Dragon, Tyrant Lake, Tyrant Medicine, Tyrant Mist, Tyrant River, Tyrant Dust, Tyrant Lychee, Tyrant Su, Tyrant Waves, etc...

### Profound Saint Tyrant Song

*Main article: 5 + 1 Heavenly Tribulation*
The members were surprised by Thousand Years' First Saint parallel import Profound Saint Tyrant Song's ascension.

### Dharma King Good Fortune's concert

Many members attended Dharma King Good Fortune's concert to help others free themselves from their forced Heart Demon Tribulations. The members, excluding Song Shuhang and Soft Feather, suffered from the Soul Music King's singing. Even Senior Turtle could not escape it.

### Profound Demon Tyrant Ru

*Main article: Heavenly-Demonic Tribulation*
The non-closed up members received the special enhanced Pregnancy Gaze sermon by Profound Demon Tyrant Ru. Later members watched the rebroadcast and suffered the same fate. This sermon made many fear him.

### Immortal Food Feast

A regular event where Separated Snow, an immortal chef will plan out and cook a large feast for her fellow cultivators. Invitations to this are hard to come by, and many will pay great prices for tickets to the feast. During the first part of the feast, the members were affected by the small black room and forgot Song Shuhang, Sixteen and Soft Feather.

### Seventh Promotes Eighth Black Dragon Tribulation

*Main article: 4 + 28 Black Dragon Tribulation*
28 members mistakenly joined Shuhang’s Seventh Promotes Eighth Black Dragon Tribulation in nascent spirit form while another two joined physically.

As such, except for few, almost all active chat group members have an Eighth Stage Seal.

With Future Soft Feather's interference, all attending members survived and Song Shuhang did not develop a Heart Demon, resulting in a parallel alternate timeline.

### Battle for Heavenly Astral

*Main article: Battle for Heavenly Astral*
The Ancient Saint members, with Susu, Seventh Path and Immortal Guest in the Clouds, displayed a flashy entrance in the battle through Song Shuhang's and Lady Dragon Net's stage production.

### Throne of Wealth Dispersal

*Main article: Throne of Wealth Dispersal*
Nine Provinces (1) Group can be said as the biggest beneficiary of the wealth dispersal, with all members fated obtaining a treasure and Song Shuhang obtaining his trump art Whaling Strike and the Throne of Wealth Dispersal.

### Venerable Song

*Main article: 1 + 1 Heavenly Tribulation*
During a period when Tyrant Song was to be in forced close up by Profound Saint White, his status as a Seventh Stage cultivator was alerted and complained by the members.

### Heavenly River's Su Clan Annual Meeting

*Main article: Collapse of the Heavenly Way*
From December 31, 2019 to January 1, 2020, the Nine Provinces (1) Group attended the Annual Meeting as notable guests.

### 2020’s Chinese New Year Celebration

From January 24-25, 2020, the Nine Provinces (1) Group and its juniors held a Chinese New Year celebration with food cooked by Chu Chu and Separated Snow in Song Shuhang's Lotus Core World. Dharma-Ending Battle was also displayed on a nearby television. The members witnessed Song Shuhang's fireworks "body explosion", watched the rise of the 8.5 Heavenly Way and learned of Song Shuhang's rank up to Eternal Life Being.

### Vying for the Heavenly Way IX

In the alternate timeline where Future Soft Feather and Big Tyrant Song came from, the members of the Nine Provinces (1) Group participated in the Vying for the Heavenly Way IX.

During the vying that took thousands of years, the Nine Provinces (1) Group fought against the combined forces of the Fourth Heavenly Way and the Eighth Heavenly Way. Through out the vying, the members fell one by one until only Big Tyrant Song and Future Soft Feather were left.

After Song Shuhang became a Transcendence, he went to the alternate timeline and resurrected the members of the Nine Provinces (1) Group in their respective immortal residence. Yellow Mountain was the first member resurrected.

## Nine Serenities

After the ascension of the Ninth Heavenly Ways and the Ninth Rulers came into being, the members were able to go back and forth to the Nine Serenities World as they wished. This was due to the fact that all the current Rulers of the Nine Serenities are from the same side.

## Tyrant Family

As the Ninth Heavenly Way Tyrant Song's official seniors, the Nine Provinces (1) Group members since his entrance to cultivation are deemed as Tyrant Family members.

## Trivia

1. Aside from the listed names, there are still other members. Some of them were in closed meditation or went travelling.
2. Song Shuhang was the only mortal ever to join the group.

## Links and References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 397
2. ↑ Chapter 90
3. ↑ Chapter 92
4. ↑ Chapter 33
5. ↑ Chapter 514
6. ↑ Chapter 142
7. ↑ Chapter 1050
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 3140
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chapter 3165
10. ↑ Chapter 1
11. ↑ Chapter 1028
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 3126
13. ↑ Chapter 2278