Grand-Orient Sect

The Grand-Orient Sect used to be the top sect of the Grand Orient Realm, but have since been overtaken by the Heaven's Elysium. Before Tianming's arrival, it was the fifth strongest sect in the realm. The sect is a congregation of multiple bloodlines, clans and families. The highest authority is held by the sect leader and is a hereditary. For several years, the sect master had been from the Li Saint Clan, Apex Branch of the Wind Bloodline, but after the decline due to various reasons, it is now only a nominal role.

The sect is protected by two Heavenly Pattern Formations that Li Shenxiao had created before his departure: the Grand-Orient Barrier and the Bloodbane Formation. The Bloodbane Formation was normally situated around the Li Mausoleum on Fatepath Peak and can only be extended beyond by the descendents of the Li Saint Clan.

## Sect Structure

### Leadership

The sect is currently being run by a council of thirty-three elders, whereas the sect master has become a nominal title. The council of elders are selected from the clans that used to support the Li Saint Clan such as the Ye Clan, Yuwen Clan, etc. The elders' ranking are based on their contribution, not their power, so rankings are subject to change upon each evaluation.

Aside from elders, there are other roles:

* There are ten hall prefects on each mountain who are in charge of resource distribution, conflict resolution and daily affairs of the immortal mountains. Under the hall prefects are the exalted masters who guide the disciples in their cultivation. Most of the hall prefects and exalted masters are Earth Saints.

* There are also mountain chiefs that are on the same level as hall prefects. They are not affiliated with any particular immortal mountain, but serve the council of elders directly. There are hundreds of chiefs and they reside on the Grand-Orient Sacred Mountain to manage sect operations. The prerequisites to become a chief is to breakthrough to the Earth Saint realm.

* There are also mountain lords who manage the ninety-nine mountains of the outer sect. They have the same status as exalted masters.
* There are also Grand-Orient Guardians who serve as the main combat force of the sect. They comprise of former outer disciples who do not make the cut as exalted masters but continue to serve the sect. There are normally stationed in the Abyssal Battlefield's entrances, around the sect and some are scattered among the sect branches in various nations.

### Types of Disciples

There are five ranks of disciples.

* The lowest ranking disciples are called nominal disciples. These people are unable to enter the sect itself to train and are geniuses scattered across the various nations that don't meet the standard of the sect.

* Within the sect, the lowest ranked disciples are called outer disciples. They are not allowed to enter the interior of the sect and can only train in the outer sect. They do not have proper guidance and have to rely on themselves for cultivation on the ninety-nine mountains.
* One rank above them are the inner disciples, which consist of talented disciples who have caught the attention of an elder and invited to join their immortal mountain. Inner disciples are coached by exalted masters, have access to better cultivation resources and are allowed to train at the Grand-Orient Sacred Mountain.
* The next rank of disciples are direct disciples. They are the direct disciples of elders and have access to all cultivation resources of the immortal mountain. These disciples tend to be either the most talented disciples or descendents of the elders' own clans. Each elder is only allowed to take ten direct disciples each decade.
* The highest rank of disciples are prime disciples. They do not fall under any of the elders and have the same authority as elders. They're allowed to train in the Prime Tower, the most sacred place in all of the sect. They are selected every decade and they can only be four at any one time. The basic requirement is for them to be reach the peak of Unity or breakthrough to Heavenly Will at the age of sixteen to seventeen.

### Factions

All disciples of the sect are free to form their own factions with a leader and adminstrators. These factions are free to select their members from the disciple population. Outer disciples generally have their own factions. The main reason for joining a faction is to fulfill sect missions and to train as a group in the Abyssal Battlefield such as the Wuyou Faction

## Prominent Locations

The Grand-Orient Sect is located on the Grand-Orient Mountain Range. The Kunpeng Sacred Mountain (Grand-Orient Sacred Mountain) serves as the center point of the sect. There are thirty-three immortal mountains situated around it, each belonging to one of the elders and their own individual faction. Outside of the immortal mountains, there are ninety-nine mountains which consist of the outer sect and ruled by a mountain lord.

* Fatepath Peak - Residence of the Li Saint Clan's Wind Bloodline.
* Goldgleam Mountain - Residence of the Li Saint Clan's Metal Bloodline.
* Kunpeng Sacred Mountain - The central-most mountain peak. Used to be the Kunpeng Sacred Hall, but after the Li Saint Clan decline, the council of elders establish themselves here and renamed it to Grand-Orient Sacred Mountain.
	+ Imperial Ninefold Gates - A cultivation tool known as the 'Instant Unity Maker'.
	+ Orient Hall - The hall where disciples can submit their missions and trophies from their beasts' carcasses for merit points and cultivation resources.
* First Grand-Orient Battlefield - One of largest sacred dueling ground in the sect. It is the location where the yearly evaluations and council summit are held.
* Second Grand-Orient Battlefield - One of the dueling grounds in the sect.
* Hall of Hunters - Outposts in the Abyssal Battlefield where the grand-orient guardians stand guard.
* Prime Tower - Holy Land of the sect. Only sect elders and prime disciples can cultivate inside.
* Hall of Inquistors - They have a group of guardians who investigate sect matters.
* Cloud Piercing Peak - A mountain located on the western corner of the sect and the location Ye Shaoqing and Tianming escaped to after Yuwen Taiji came into possession of the Grand-Orient Sword.

### Thirty-three Immortal Mountains

* Azure Immortal Mountain - Mountain managed by Ye Qing, one of the elders.
* Azure Dragon Sword Mountain - Mountain managed by Ye Shaoqing.
* Fengtian Mountain - Mountain managed by Yuwen Fengtian
* Fengyun Immortal Mountain - Mountain managed by Huangfu Fengyun
* Taiji Mountain - Mountain managed by Yuwen Taiji
* Yunzhi Mountain - Mountain managed by Su Yunzhi
* Ninepaths Mountain
* Nantian Mountain - Mountain managed by Chen Nantian
* Huochi Imperial Mountain - Mountain managed by Gongsun Shengji
* Yunxiao Mountain - Mountain managed by Shangguan Jingshu
* Bolin Snow Mountain

## Prominent Groups, Families and People

### Li Saint Clan

* Members of the Li Saint Clan can be found on their page.

### Council of Elders

* Huangfu Fengyun - First Elder
* Su Yunzhi - Second Elder
* Yuwen Fengtian - Third Elder
* Shangguan Jingshu - Fourth Elder
* Zhao Zhiyuan - Sixth Elder
* Chen Nantian - Seventh Elder
* Yuwen Taiji - Ninth Elder
* Su Jiudao - Tenth Elder
* Gongsun Shengji - Thirteenth Elder
* Su Zhen - Eighteenth Elder
* Qin Wulie - Twenty-first Elder
* Ye Qing - Elder and manages the Azure Immortal Mountain.
* Ye Shaoqing
* Zhao Xingyi

### Mountain Chiefs

* Yuwen Kaitai
* Ye Yuxi

### Prime Disciples

* Yuwen Shendu
* Su Wuyou
* Shangguan Yunfeng
* Zhao Lingzhou
* Li Tianming - Prime Disciple and Direct Disciple of the Azure Dragon Sword Mountain

### Direct Disciples

* Yuwen Shengcheng - Direct Disciple of the Taiji Mountain
* Feng Chiyu - Yuwen Shengcheng's posse.
* Su Li - Yuwen Shengcheng's posse.
* Su Tao - Yuwen Shengcheng's posse.
* Li Tianming - Direct Disciple of the Azure Dragon Sword Mountain
* Li Qingyu - Direct Disciple of the Azure Dragon Sword Mountain
* Su Yiran - Direct Disciple and daughter of Su Jiudao
* Yuwen Zhenxing - Direct Disciple of the Taiji Mountain and son of Yuwen Kaitai
* Chen Xiaoji - Direct Disciple and son of Chen Nantian
* Gongsun Shengji - Direct Disciple and son of Gongsun Sheng
* Huangfu Feifei - Direct Disciple and grandson of Huangfu Fengyun
* Shangguan Jiayi - Direct Disciple and granddaughter of Shangguan Jingshu
* Zhang Honglin - Direct Disciple of Bolin Snow Mountain
* Zhao Xingxing - Direct Disciple
* Jiang Xuankong - Direct Disciple

### Inner Disciples

* Ye Ziyi - Inner Disciple of the Azure Immortal Mountain
* Li Chenlei - Inner Disciple of the Azure Immortal Mountain

## History

### Recruitment of Li Tianming (Chapter 151, 185 to 189)

The Grand-Orient Sect was first mentioned when Li Jingyu and Li Qingyu were in Ignispolis and saw Wei Jing after her recovery from Lifesbane. They had been travelling through the various nations looking for heirs of the Grand Orient Sect who had bane-rings. Upon discovering that Wei Jing had three bane-rings and Tianming had one bane-rings, they decided to obseve them for a few more days to check on her personality and morality. A few days after the Sanctum Replacement Challenge, both Li Jingyu and Li Qingyu visited the Wei Clan to recruit Wei Jing, but instead took Li Tianming who had five bane-rings instead.

### Settling into the Sect (Chapter 213 to 221)

After obtaining Ye Qing's approval, Tianming was made an inner disciple of the Azure Immortal Mountain. He was able to attend a lecture by Ye Shaoqing on breaking through to the Unity Stage and was recommended to use the Imperial Ninefold Gates. As he flew over to the Grand-Orient Sacred Mountain, Li Qingyu gave him an introduction on the gates and the sect structure. As they were about to enter the gates, they were interrupted by Yuwen Shengcheng and his posse of female granddaughters from various elders. Ignoring them, Li Qingyu was able to breakthrough to the fifth level of Unity and overcome her Lifesbane, transforming them into Pentamoon Skybane. Tianming proceeded to attempt his breakthrough but was not able to sense any pressure from the gates until he reached the ninth gate. His breakthrough caused a scene as it had been thousands of years since someone cultivated under the ninth gate. Yuwen Shengcheng was furious and attempted to kill Tianming, but Tianming was able to easily block the blow and gave him a slap. Yuwen Shengcheng challenged Tianming to a duel at the battlefield, but before they could even leave the hall, Shengcheng went into a tantrum and attempted a second attack in the hall before being stopped by both Yuwen Kaitai and Ye Yuxi who were on duty that day. Further humiliated, Shengcheng continued to provoke Tianming but was convinced to leave with his posse by his uncle.

### Entering the Abyssal Battlefield again (Chapter 223 to 229)

After breaking through, both Tianming and Qingyu decided to look for Manna and beast souls to improve Ying Huo's and Meow Meow's power, so they prepared to enter the Abyssal Battlefield. Before they could get far, they were surrounded by Ye Ziyi and her clique of other disciples. Ye Ziyi provoked them and Qingyu took her on, easily dominating her with the help of Jiang Feiling.

After the incident, both Tianming and Qingyu entered the battlefield and headed for the Grandpeace Domain. As they explored the domain, they relied on Feiling's ability to locate manna as well as looking for suitable fire and lightning type beast. They were able to come across a Magma Inferno Demon, which later became Ying Huo's third spiritsource ability, Skyscorch Featherblast. Even after a half a day, they only came across royal manna which wasn't useful for them.

Just as they reached the edge of the domain, Feiling got a stronger sense of manna. As they went deeper, they saw a five-colored mist stirring above the ground which was a manna phenomena - ascension of five energies. Feiling identified that is was caused by the convergence of five profound manna, among which were fire, lightning, wind, earth and water type energies. Tianming took the manna and kept it just in time before Yuwen Shengcheng and his clique of female disciples arrived and surrounded them. Shengcheng tried to coerce Tianming to surrender the manna but got a beating instead. When the remaining female disciples tried to gang up on the Tianming and Qingyu, they also received a beating with Tianming handling those at fifth level of unity and Qingyu handling the remaining.

After Tianming and Qingyu left he battlefield, they went to submit the trophies from their hunt and received their rewards. Tianming was able to get a thousand spirit gems with blue heavenly patterns. As they went to the Grand Hall to look for unity-ranked battle arts, one piece of jewelry caught Feiling's eye and Tianming went to sell the three profound manna to purchase the necklace. With his remaining spirit gems, Tianming wasn't able to find any suitable battle arts and returned to Fatepath Peak instead.

### Arrest of Li Qingyu and (Chapter 283 to 287)

Shortly after the conclusion of the Prime Struggle and the match between Li Tianming and Su Wuyou, which resulted in Tianming's victory and gaining the title of prime disciple, Li Qingyu was bound in ropes and escorted into the First Grand-Orient Battlefield with a few carts. When Ye Shaoqing demanded for her release, the guardians claimed that she was a murderer. The rest of the elders soon came out of the tents to hold back Ye Shaoqing and to clarify the situation. The guardians had been on their way back from Kunming City and came across some people fighting. When they went to resolve the situation, the fight had already concluded and Li Qingyu stood alone with the bodies of Yuwen Shengcheng, Li Xuanchen and Guo Xiaofu near her. They immediately captured her and brought the bodies back.

Yuwen Fengtian found Yuwen Shengcheng's beheaded body on the carts, coughed out blood and collapsed on the ground. Yuwen Shendu was devastated at the loss of his brother and cried while holding his brother. Yuwen Fengtian immediately demanded for Li Qingyu's death and for her family to accompany in death. Tianming encouraged Qingyu to say the truth before things got messy. Qingyu revealed that it was a ploy by Su Wuyou and the others in order to target her and that Li Xuanchen and Yuwen Shengcheng were going to feed her the Carefree Fruit to turn her into an idiot.

As they waited for the elders to make a decision, Yuwen Shendu walked over to Qingyu and grabbed her by the neck. He held her life in his grasp and it caused an uproar with all the spectators. In order to protect Qingyu's life, Tianming was forced to reveal her status as a pentabane to the council of elders. Tianming also went up to Yuwen Shendu and demanded he release her and direct his anger to him instead. Tianming's display of courage for her sake, strengthened Qingyu's resolve and she was unyielding even under Shendu's power.

When the elders heard about Qingyu's pentabane status, they were doubtful at first but didn't want to risk her life. However, the fear of the Grand-Orient Sword hindered their actions. Yuwen Taiji pretended to be magnamious and gave a chance to Tianming to take the place of his sister and pay the price of Shengcheng's death instead. Tianming agreed to a battle to the death with Yuwen Shendu. Both of them stepped onto the battlefield with a heavenly pattern barrier maintained by the thirty-three elders.

### Death Battle with Yuwen Shendu (Chapter 287 to 292)

Meow Meow started the battle with a Chaotic Voltball and engaged the Saintfiend Taotie in melee combat while both Tianming and Meow Meow fought Yuwen Shendu. The odds were clearly not in Tianming's favor as a real Heavenly Will expert was far stronger in terms of battle arts and beast ki. Despite that, they were able to put up a strong resistance with Tianming and Feiling achieving a grade twenty synchronization and getting combat power beyond the level of Unity stage. Yuwen Shendu was previously taking his time, but when he took the battle seriously, he dealt a deadly cut to Meow Meow and almost cut off Tianming's hand if it didn't land on his metamorphised left arm. Feiling awakened her fifth ability, Soulburn, and informs Tianming of her intention. After Tianming reluctantly agreed, she turns into a golden flame and flies into Yuwen Shendu's body, seeping into his spiritsources and burning his beast ki. With Yuwen Shendu greatly weakened, Tianming used Cosmic Break and was able to destroy Yuwen Shendu's desperate strike, and cut into his head. Following that, Tianming and both his beasts were able to deal with the saintfiend taotie and killed it.

As the elders released the barrier, Yuwen Taiji was filled with rage at the loss of his precious son who had bore the burden of his desires, and summoned his lifebound beast and wanted to cut Tianming down. Ye Shaoqing ran to Tianming's aid and blocked the slash with Cosmic Break. As Yuwen Taiji prepared a second strike, the remaining twenty-five elders, who were not in his camp, stood before Tianming and were protecting him. Tianming's victory over Yuwen Shendu had removed the fear of the Grand-Orient Sword for the elders and they were eager to groom him as the future hope and leader of the sect. Another reason to protect Tianming was the discovery of Li Qingyu being a pentabane. For the sect to have two disciples with the potential of Li Shenxiao was a blessing and had to be protected at all cost. With the elders protecting Tianming, Yuwen Taiji was no longer able to get his revenge so he retreated with his entourage. The remaining elders started to pay respect to Tianming as the junior sect leader, acknowledging his new found status. Huangfu Fengyun informed Tianming about the Realm War starting in half a month and Tianming expressed his intent to participate. The elders also decided to split into groups to stay with Qingyu and Tianming to protect and guide them.

### Traitors in their Midst (Chapter 341 to 345)

As the Grand-Orient Sect team were returning from the Realm War on Huangfu Fengyun's lifebound beast, both of Yuwen Taiji's spies made their move. Zhao Zhiyuan revealed himself and struck the Aircloud Godcrane, causing all the passengers to fall out of the sky. As they landed and the remaining elders faced off against Zhao Zhiyuan, Shangguan Jingshu had snuck behind Tianming and held him as a hostage. Ye Shaoqing had no choice but to surrender the Grand-Orient Sword, which Zhao Zhiyuan took to deliver to Yuwen Taiji. Shangguan Jingshu revealed that both Zhao Zhiyuan and her had been poisoned by nethermare venom that Yuwen Taiji had recreated from ancient records and used them to do his bidding.

Shangguan Jingshu convinced Ye Shaoqing to take Tianming away and allow him to cultivate in secret before exerting revenge. She believed that Yuwen Taiji would have the power to protect the sect once he received the Grand-Orient Sword. After understanding Yuwen Taiji's plans better, both Ye Shaoqing and Tianming rushed back to the sect to retrieve the Ye Clan and both Li Jingyu and Li Qingyu. After getting to a safe distance away, the Grand-Orient Barrier was activated and covered the thirty-three immortal mountains in preparation for the Grand-Orient Realm Sect War.

### New Sect Master (Chapter 352 to 359)

After Yuwen Taiji fend off the first wave of attacks from both the Onyx Sect and Cloudmist Sword School, he had gained the recognition of the sect and most of the elders, and was called the sect master. His first act was to kill both Li Tianming and Ye Shaoqing, but Shangguan Jingshu had allowed them to escape with their immediate family. In turn, Yuwen Taiji redirected his anger to the Li Saint Clan who were led by Li Xuanyi.

Before Li Xuanyi could clarify the situation, he was slain in one thrust. The rest of the Li Saint Clan were exiled and chased outside the Grand-Orient Barrier to be killed by the guardians. Yuwen Taiji declared that he would kill a member of the Li Saint Clan until Ye Shaoqing appeared. He had killed Li Yansheng and Li Yunting before Ye Shaoqing could make it. Ye Shaoqing immediately clashed against Yuwen Taiji, but was heavily injured by the Grand-Orient Sword.

Pinning him down, Yuwen Taiji used Shaoqing as a bargaining chip for Tianming to appear. Tianming did not hestitate to go forward to save his master's life. When Yuwen Taiji tried to cut Tianming down with the Grand-Orient Sword, he was unable to as it had recognised Tianming as its rightful master. As Yuwen Taiji instructed his lifebound beast to kill Tianming, they were interrupted by the appearance of Li Wudi and his weakened Void Kunpeng. Li Wudi pulled out the Venomdrake Spike from his chest and the blood mist from the Bloodbane Formation fused into him and rapidly increased his combat power. His kunpeng also drew out its venomdrake spike and underwent an evolution and became the Ancient Infernalblood Kunpeng. Both of them easily crushed Yuwen Taiji and both his lifebound beast. Yuwen Taiji lose both his arms and the Grand-Orient Sword was thrown to the side. Both of Yuwen Taiji's lifebound beasts had their hearts eaten by the kunpeng. The kunpeng later targetted Yuwen Fengtian, who was protected by the seven elders, but all of them lose their lifebound beasts. Su Yunzhi, Su Jiudao, Su Zhen, Qin Wulie, Chen Nantian and Gongsun Shengji were all killed in a blur. After capturing both Yuwen Fengtian and Taiji, both were pierced with the Venomdrake Spike, and kept within a Bloodtear Sphere to undergo torture for the next hundred years.

With Li Wudi's victory over Yuwen Taiji, he was officially recognised as the sect master. He appointed Ye Shaoqing as his vice sect master and started to rally the sect members in preparation for the war which had undergone an interlude.

### Interlude of the Sect War (Chapter 378 to 379)

During the interlude of the sect war, Tianming, Feiling and Qingyu were walking down Fortune Street when they came across the girls from the Su Clan (Su Wuyou. Su Yiran, Su Tao and Su Li). Tianming had asked them to scram when Su Mu made her appearance and exchange unpleasantries before they took their fight to the Second Grand-Orient Battlefield. Tianming was easily able to defeat her with his mastery of Pyros Imperius of the Shenxiao Sword Art.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 340
2. ↑ Chapter 212
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 211
4. ↑ Chapter 190
5. ↑ Chapter 210
6. ↑ Chapter 213
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 223
8. ↑ Chapter 284
9. ↑ Chapter 344
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 209
11. ↑ Chapter 238
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 244
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Chapter 245
14. ↑ Chapter 251
15. ↑ Chapter 256
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 Chapter 265
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 17.8 Chapter 248
18. ↑ Chapter 296
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 Chapter 215
20. ↑ Chapter 272
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Chapter 297
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Chapter 243
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Chapter 258
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Chapter 270