Factions

A faction is a group of cultivators. They are usually graded by the strongest cultivators in their ranks.

A individual person is in most cases aligned to their local force, not the empire it is a part of. **Chapter 507**

## Types of factions

A person can be aligned to smaller system recognized force like a town or bigger ones like an empire. The term 'Force' is used as a general term for a faction. Sects and Clans are for most cultivators in the Multiverse the basic organisation type of a force. Sometimes a single family like the Peak Family can be a force.

### Sects

Supreme elders were usually the main powerhouses of a Sect. Zac initially thought that the Sect Leader was the strongest guy around, but that apparently wasn’t the case. Being a Sect Leader was a highly administrative position, leaving little time for personal cultivation.

But the grand and supreme elders were the hidden forces of a sect, and they were generally in perpetual seclusion or traveling in disguise, working on breaking through their limits. They would only come out when the sect was facing extreme danger that the normal elders couldn’t handle, and they were the main deterrence against attacks.

Most of the multiverse wasn’t like earth. There were no ladders that showed who was alive and who died. A particularly strong elder might even be able to protect a sect thousands of years after their passing, since the outside world couldn’t be sure whether they were dead or if they had made a breakthrough, becoming even more monstrous. **Chapter 236**

"*The day-to-day running of a force isn’t something the leader bothers with. Are the elders of mighty Clans or Sects busying themselves each day with diplomatic issues and crop yields? No, they are cultivating. You don’t have a younger generation to deal with this for you, but you do have me and many other promising administrators.*"

The patriarch or sect leaders were never the most powerful people of a force, but rather something that could be considered middle management. They were powerful enough to command respect, but they only ran the day to day operations. The real decision-makers were the elders who either travelled the sector for opportunities or were secluded in cultivation in hopes of breaking through.

That wasn’t to say that those positions were useless. The sect leader did have access to most of the resources of the force, and they were in a far better position to break through in the future. Most of the grand elders of a clan had probably been the clan leader for a couple of millennia once upon a time. **Chapter 530**

#### Known Sects

* Black Heart Sect
* Red Hand Society

### Clans

A clan simply couldn’t stomach the cost of peak cultivation resources even for their greater talents, and there was no reason to do so. Even the greatest geniuses usually found themselves stuck at one bottleneck or another, often before they reached a level where they could actually contribute to the clan.

Meanwhile, hundreds of generations came and went for the Monarchs at the top. It was more cost-effective to breed more descendants since reaching the top usually required a series of unlikely encounters rather than wealth. **Chapter 692**

## Known Factions

### New Earth Factions

* Port Atwood
	+ The Union (*Underworld Venture*, after Zac and his allies conquered it)
	+ ~~New World Government (NWG)~~ (collapsed and absorbed into Port Atwood)
* ~~Everlasting Monastery~~ (left Earth)
* Marshall Clan
	+ Sino-Indian Alliance
	+ Asgard
* Dragonwing Enterprises (Underworld Nexus)
* Underworld Council

#### Earth Mystic Realm Factions

* ~~Catarva Clan~~ (annihilated over the course of the Mystic Realm's collapse)
* Lunar Tribe
* ~~Titans~~ annihilated during the arrival of the Dimensional Seed in the Mystic Realm
* Gemlings
* True Sky Faction

### Multiversal Factions

All Multiversal Factions are at least B-Grade. They can contain subfactions that can be considered multiversal factions in their own right.

* Buddhist Sangha
* Undead Empire
* Church of Everlasting Dao
* Technocrats
* Havarok Empire
* Radiant Temple
* Starbeast Alliance
* Six Profundity Empire
* Black Heart Clan
* Heavenly Realm

### Sector Factions

Factions with a presence only in one star sector. On the frontier peak factions are C-Grade.