Spirit Controlling Sect

## 御灵宗

The **Spirit Controlling Sect** is a member of the Six Great Devil Dao Sects of the Heavenly South Region. They reside within the Grand Spirit Mountains in the state of Tian Luo, which is home to countless spirit beasts and exotic insects. They are renowned for their control of spirit beasts and insects through devilish techniques. However, in the past, this focus on forcefully controlling beasts and insects led to internal conflict.

As a result of internal strife, a faction split from the sect to form another sect called the **Spirit Beast Mountain**. The Spirit Beast Mountain relocated to the State of Yue within the Heavenly South Region. As a sect residing within Yue, the Spirit Beast Mountain joined the Seven Sect Alliance to protect itself from the Spirit Controlling Sect that wanted to reunite through force.

## Ambitions

A goal of the Spirit Controlling Sect is to take the the position as the top sect among the Six Devil Dao Sects of the Heavenly South. To accomplish this, the sect needed to increase the number of Nascent Soul elders within the sect. Unfortunately, grooming a Nascent Soul cultivator through regular means was too difficult.

After recovering the lost Five-Element Spirit Nascents technique, the sect found a way to preserve the number of Nascent Soul elders it possessed. Using the technique, the sect used the Nascent Souls of members reaching the end of their lifespan to raise the cultivation of a Core Formation cultivator to the Nascent Soul stage.

### Five-Element Spirit Nascents

The Five-Element Spirit Nascents is a technique that can refine a Nascent Soul into a **Spirit Nascent** using rare materials. Spirit Nascents possess specific attributes that are determined by the Nascent Soul used to create the Spirit Nascent. When the Spirit Nascents are combined with a Core Formation cultivator with an affinity for the specific attribute (e.g. Wood) to elevate them to the Nascent Soul stage.

However, ascension in this manner has drawbacks. A cultivator ascending in this manner gain the benefits of increased magical power equivalent to a Nascent Soul cultivator. However, since the process of relocating their primordial soul hadn't taken place, they do not gain any of the benefits that Nascent Soul cultivators typically possess. The lifespan of the cultivator isn't increased.

In addition to the drawbacks, the ceremony to merge a Spirit Nascent with a Core Formation cultivator must be done in a batch of five. To complicate matters, the ceremony requires five Spirit Nascents with different attributes. As such, the Spirit Controlling Sect had to expend significant resources nurturing the Spirit Nascents and ensuring they didn't develop consciousness.

## Major Events

### Escape of the Wood Spirit Nascent

A Wood-attributed Spirit Nascent gained consciousness and snuck into the Hidden Scriptures Pavilion. Inside the Pavilion it gained powerful abilities by reading through the sect's secret techniques. These abilities allowed it to escape its restraints at opportune moments. The Spirit Nascent took the opportunity when the Core Formation guard of the Spirit Nascent greedily attempted to merge with it outside of the ceremony. The sentient Spirit Nascent killed its guard and fled.

To recapture the Spirit Nascent, the sect sent two Core Formation elders - Han Yunzhi, and Liu Yu. These two elders were the sect's candidates for fusing with the Wood Spirit Nascent. Unfortunately the sect encountered further losses as Liu Yu went missing after a confrontation with an an unknown Nascent Soul cultivator. Years later, the sect discovered that Han Li had obtained the Wood Spirit Nascent. However, the sect let the matter go unwilling to confront either the Heavenly Dao Alliance or Han Li himself who possessed abilities on par with a Late-Nascent Soul cultivator.

## References

RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 651
RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 667
RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 668
RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 669
RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 657

## Members

RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 757
RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 728
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RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 736
RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 335-336
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RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 672
RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 265
RMJI (凡人修仙传): Chapter 192