Heavenly Demon Divine Cult

The **Heavenly Demon Divine Cult** (天魔神教) is a powerful cult of demonic practitioners.

## Hierarchy

* Ranks:
	+ **Heavenly Demon**: a title reserved for the cult leader.
		- "Sky Demon" The first Heavenly Demon (formerly, ascended)
		- "Moon Cleaving Heavenly Demon" Chun Hwi (formerly, deceased)
		- Hyuk Woon Sung (current)
	+ **Demonic Master:** the 10 most powerful cultivators of the cult. Each of them has power similar to a sect master of a powerful Orthodox sect.
		- "The Celestial" Klaus Beckmanz
		- "Wind Demonic Fist King" Gu Jong Byeok
		- "Demonic Teacher of Sun and Moon" Lee Shin Jung
		- "Hell Blade Demon" Mo In Ryang (formerly, deceased)
		- "Soul Splitting Flame King" Joo Moon Baek (formerly, deceased)
		- "Eight Bolt Blade King"
		- "Lotus Demon Ballad Sovereign" (new addition, only female in the Ten Demonic Masters)
		- "Lonely Dancing Youth" (new addition)
	+ **Demonic King**: there 30 of them in the cult. Their power is immeasurably higher than that of a Great Demon.
	+ **Great Demon**: a senior position in the cult. There can be as many as 300 Great Demons at any given time. Thus, the competition for the rank is great.
	+ **Demonic General**.
	+ **Demonic Captain**.
	+ **Demonic Soldier**: a starting step for the cult's elite forces. Roughly 10,000 out of the cult's 100,000 cultivators have this rank.
	+ **Demonic Disciple**: a base rank for the cult's cultivators

Other:

* **Divine Maiden:** keeper of the Divine Flame and also Spouse of Heavenly Demon
	+ Currently Chun Ah-Young.
* **Flower of the Dark Night:** Group formed of females who directly serve the Heavenly Demon and all of his/her needs including being his/her personal guards

Military units:

* **Ghost Mounted Troop** - The ghost which is human and the horse moves like one organic body. They're not part of the Twelve Support Units, but they are one of the main attack troops which represent The Divine Cult of the Heavenly Demon.
* **Twelve Support Units** - main combat units tasked with carrying out different missions for the sect.
	+ Charred Dragon Unit under Hyuk Woon Sung command
	+ White Ape Unit under Chun Ah-Young command, later transfers leadership to Sa Ryong Hwi at the end of the novel.
* **Latent Demon Squads** - training units composed of disciples graduated from Cave of Latent Demons. After successfully carrying out their mission, the 1st Latent Demon Squad is promoted to one of the Twelve Support Units.

## Locations

* **Heavenly Demon's Majesty** - the central location of the cult: it's highest peak with harsh weather conditions. It serves as the residence of the cult leader as well as the location where they summon sect's people and high ranking members.
* **Demonic Master Towers** - 10 towers located around the main peak. A Demonic master is assigned to each tower to protect the sect's territory
	+ **Heavenly Brain Tower** - the residence of San Gwan Chuk
	+ **Wind Demon Tower** - the residence of Gu Jong Byeok
	+ **Flame King Tower** - the residence of Joo Moon Baek
	+ **Sun and Moon Tower** - the residence of Lee Shin Jung
* **Cave of Latent Demons** - a training ground for future young elites of the cult. Due to unforgiving training process only a fraction of the initial trainees survive until the graduation.
* **Valley of Thousand Spirits** - originally a training ground which is now used as a location for punishing cult members. It's filled with ghastly Qi which causes people to go insane unless they are able to grow stronger and suppress it.