Mingshu Sect

**Mingshu Sect** (*Traditional Chinese*: 明(Míng)庶(Shù)門(Mén), *Simplified Chinese*: 明(Míng)庶(Shù)门(Mén)) is a small scale cultivating sect that specialize in the art of Spirit Servant. It is surrounded by bamboo forest, with its front hall enshrining the former headmasters of the Sect, and its backyard containing a garden specialized for the Spirits. From the front of the gate, one can gaze on to the horizon and enjoy the beautiful and quiet scenery.

At the foot of the hill is **Pingxi Village**, the first village player visit in Chinese Paladin: Sword and Fairy 7. The village is protected by a force field established by Tianshi Sect, to protect the villagers from the monsters in Swallow Valley.

**Swallow Valley** situated to the south of the map. Most of the monsters are tame and do not attack people actively. However, Yue Qingshu notice that some monsters has become more violent recently.

## History

### Founding

Mingshu Sect was founded by the ancestor of Yue Qingshu, Yue Xilou. One of his Spirit Servant is Hazhan. He and Hazhan help each other in cultivation through the binding of their contract that benefits both. As the human gain more cultivation, the spirit servant also grow with them, and vice verse. Yue Xilou eventually attained immortality through his cultivation.

### Divine Tiger

Yue Xilou was friend with the founder of Tianshi Sect, Zhang Donglin. They worked together to tame a menacing spirit Divine Tiger, who want to make Luojia Mountain his territory. Yue Xilou even created an technique to restrict the Tiger. However, during their fight with the Tiger, Zhang was fatally injured. To save his friend, Yue put all his efforts, to the point of costing his own immortality. But Zhang still did not make it. A few years after the battle, Yue, now a mortal again, passed away too.

Despite of Yue's effort, the disciples of Tianshi Sect hold him accountable for their headmaster death. Zhang's successor, Zhang Fuhe even restrained the Divine Tiger as the guardian of Zhang's mausoleum. Ever since this event, the two Sects have not returned to their friendliness as before.

### Interact with Shushan Sect

During one of the side quest, it is revealed that one of the Head of the Sect has healed Yun'er for Li Yiru. The same event has been mentioned in Rememberance.

### Decline

Later generations of disciples of the Sect shift to contracts and binding techniques that benefits only them -- the same contract that the founder Yue Xilou created to restrict the Divine Tiger. They want to increase their speed of cultivation by draining the spiritual energy of their Spirit Servants. After Hazhan's last master died, he breaks out of the binding and escaped to Changbai Mountain. Since then, Mingshu Sect has been declining.

### Name Origin

《史記．律書》：「**明庶**風居東方。**明庶**者，明衆物盡出也。」

From Records of the Grand Historian, "**Mingshu** wind blows from the east. **"Mingshu"** is where that illuminate everything came rises from."

In the manga *Ancient Wind,* Yue Xilou named the Sect after his first Spirit Servant, Xiaodong (Little East). Xiaodong is born from the storm of East Azure.

## Notable Members

* Yue Xilou (Founder of the Sect)
* Yue Hanshan (current headmaster)
* Yue Qingshu (future headmaster)
* Xiu Wu
* Ziqiu

### Spirit Servants

* Qiaoling
* Hazhan
* Gubai
* Yun'er
* Chenfeng
* Shengyan
* Xiaoqi

## Shops

### General Store

* Medicine
* Materials

### Restaurant

* Meals
* Drinks

### Blacksmith

Provide strengthen services but no new weapon forge available.

## Map

* Human Realm
* Demon Realm

## Gallery

Map of Mingshu Sect, Pingxi Village and Swallow ValleyLoading screen showing the bridge connecting Pingxi Village and Mingshu SectSpirit Servant Garden behind the SectThe library of the SectThe front hallThe gate of the SectPingxi VillageSwallow ValleySwallow Valley