Decimo Dao Palace

The Decimo Dao Palace is a school located in the Theocracy of Ancients.  It used to be a sect, but after the Ancient Theocrats rose to power, the Decimo Dao Palace came to an agreement to serve as a school for their people.

## Structure

The Decimo Dao Palace consists of the Decimo Sacred Hall and ten other main halls (North, South, East, West, Life, Death, Earth, Sky, Past and Future). The Palace Lord oversees the entire palace, while each main hall has their own hall lords. There are other sub halls such as the Dark Hall, Disciplinary Hall and Divine Pattern Hall which have specific roles.

For the Dark Hall, it serves as the military arm of the palace and consists of the Astral Legion. There are a total of eight astral legions led by a Astral King. Under them are ten Astral Generals, and under them are ten Hiliarchs, and under them are ten Centurions, and under them are ten Squad Captains who managed squads of ten.

## Control of the Palace

The Palace is divided into various groups due to the different powers infiltrating and attaining authority and power. The Future Hall, Sky Hall, Life Hall and South Hall support the palace lord. The East Hall, Earth Hall and Death Hall belongs to the Ancient Theocrats and their disciples are mostly descendents of the imperial clan. The West Hall belongs to ancient clans such as the Ancient Qilin Clan. The North Hall belongs to the Saint Martial Manor. The Past Hall belongs to the Linglong Pavilion and has mostly female disciples.

## Student Rankings

There is a Decimo Sky and Earth Ranking List that ranks the students in the school: Earth Ranking for those under the age of 20, and the Sky Ranking for those between the age of 23 to 30. There is a Decimo Sky and Earth Ranking Contention is held once every three years to update the results. The final ranking of the student dictates how much cultivation resources they receive for the next three years. The top student would receive empyrean ranked manna.

## Prominent Locations

* Evil Suppression Dao Plaza - The Decimo Sky and Earth Ranking battles are conducted here.
* Spiritual Convergence - It contains the only spiritual energy fountain which allows one to gain enlightenment on creating one's saint spring and entering the Earth Saint Stage.
	+ It is split into ten regions and the higher one is ranked on the Decimo Sky and Earth Ranking List, the closer one can cultivate to the fountain. First Region: Top 10. Second Region: Top 100. Third Region: Top 200. Fourth Region: Top 300.
* Sacred Dao Hall - The personal hall of the Palace Lord, Weisheng Yunxi.
* Nature Arts Hall - The library for battle arts that had been collected by the Dark Hall.

## Members

#### Decimo Sacred Hall

* Li Wudi - Current Palace Lord
* Weisheng Yunxi - Former Palace Lord
* Ye Yi - Controls the Military
* Bai Mo - Controls the School

#### Dark Hall (Seven Astral Dark Hall)

In order to join the Dark Hall, one has to be at least an Earth Saint and be under the age of thirty.

* Ye Yi - Dark Hall Master & Commander-in-chief of the Seven Astral Legion
* Bai Zijun (Skycore Astral King)
* Li Tianming (Skycore Astral General)
* Ye Lingfeng (Skycore Astral Deputy General)

#### Future Hall

* Bai Mo - Future Hall King
* Bai Zifeng - Hall Lord
* Bai Zijin - Supernal Mentor
* Bai Xiaozhu - Disciple
* Li Tianming - Disciple
* Ye Lingfeng - Disciple

#### Past Hall

* Gu Suli - Former Past Hall King
* Gusu Yuyao - Disciple

#### Sky Hall

The Sky Hall consists of mostly women disciples.

* Weisheng Yumo - Sky Hall King
* Li Qingyu - Disciple of Wang Xin

#### Earth Hall

* Jiang Jianying - Former Earth Hall King
* Dongyang Yu - Disciple

#### Life Hall

* Situ Qinghe - Life Hall King
* Situ Yiyi - Disciple

#### Death Hall

* Jiang An - Former Death Hall King
* Jiang Shanjing - Supernal Mentor
* Jiang Nancheng (Student)
* Dongyang Zhuo (Student)

#### North Hall

* Zhao Shenhong - Former North Hall King
* Bai Zifeng - North Hall King
* Zhao Tianlu - Disciple
* Huang Ziting (Disciple)

#### West Hall

* Wei Ji - West Hall King
* Su Hongyin - Supernal Mentor
* Wei Wushang - Disciple

#### Divine Pattern Hall

The only place to learn Patternscribing in the palace.

* Bai Mo - Deputy Hall King

#### Other Disciples

* Gusu Yuyao
* Chen Jinghong - Disciple

## History

The Decimo Dao Palace used to be a sect that ruled the Theocracy of the Ancients, but after the Ancient Theocrats rose in power and established a nation, the Decimo Dao Palace was defeated and turned into a school the cultivated talents in the theocracy.

#### Tianming's Stay in the Palace (Chapter 432 to 453)

After leaving the Infernal Soul Purgatory, Tianming was brought to the palace to cultivate with Ye Lingfeng. As they spent their time cultivating, they became enemies with the disciples of the six other halls who were supporting the Ancient Theocrats. Li Tianming made his first step onto the Decimo Sky and Earth Ranking List by defeating Ning Wushuang and taking her place on the list. Tianming had an issue with the disciples of the Ancient Clans and even got Zhou Yuanyuan involved due to his connection. Ye Lingfeng also fought Jiang Nancheng and took his place.

After breaking through to the Earth Saint Stage, Tianming fought against Wei Wushang and took his place on the ranking list. Ye Lingfeng also got into the eighth place by defeating Jiang Yutong. Their display of power alerted the other factions of the palace lord's intentions, and they started bullying all of their disciples. Those with little to no backing were forced to submit or be ruthlessly dealt with. In order to restraint this behavior, Tianming suggested for the final ranking battle to be brought forward.

#### Final Ranking Battles (Chapter 454 to 464)

During the final ranking battles, Tianming and Feng went onto to battle the top ten which consisted of mostly disciples from the Ancient Theocrats and top disciple of the Saint Martial Manor and Dazzling Pavilion. In the battle for first place, Tianming fought against Dongyang Yu and was able to defeat him in two attacks. Dongyang Yu had been tasked with Dongyang Fengchen to kill Tianming with a four-star tome, and before his defeat he used the tome to attack Jiang Feiling instead. His tome was blocked by a Still Spirit Formation that Bai Mo had prepared for Tianming and both Tianming and Feiling were safe in the formation's protection. Furious at Yu's attempt to kill Feiling, Tianming killed him with a sword through the chest before he could commit suicide.

At the end of Tianming's battle, Tianming was now first place and Feng was now second. However, things were not over as the Ancient Theocrats revealed Dongyang Zhuo who had just joined the Death Hall of the palace. Tianming agreed to have a life and death battle with Dongyang Zhuo. Tianming's lifebound beasts were able to overwhelm Zhuo's hydra, while Tianming toyed with him until his lifebound died before ending the fight in 2 strikes, killing Zhuo in the process.

The death of Dongyang Zhuo and Tianming's usage of the original name of the Ancient Theocrats, Nineshade Clan, ignited the anger of the Ancient Theocrats and their supporters. They attempted to break through the formation but was stopped by the emergence of Ye Yi and his Dark Hall Army. The impressive display from the army curbed any further attempts from the Ancient Theocrats and they decided to retreat.

Dongyang Fengchen, the current crown prince made his appearance and invited Tianming to the Fireworks Festival. It was an event that allowed the top disciples for the entire theocracy to display their might and gain a spot to enter the Tomb of the Ancients. The tomb had been known for being the source of many strong artifacts such as the Grand-Orient Sword and the Evil Suppression Pillar.

### Power Struggle in the Divine Capital (Chapter 454)

Towards the end of the Fireworks Festival, Dongyang Ling had led various sects from the neighboring realms and collaborated with the ancients clans and various Jiang members of the Ancient Theocrats. The dao palace took a passive stance and set up the Evil Suppression Formation. Every disciple of the dao palace was given an ultimatum that anyone who left would not be allowed back. Weisheng Yunxi also called for a gathering of Hall Kings and those who did not answered her summons would be removed from their position. This led to a new group of Hall Kings taking their place.

## Trivia

* When Weisheng Yunxi was the Palace Lord, the Evil Suppression Pillar used to form a formation around the palace, protecting them and allowing them to exist as a "nation in a nation".
* The palace has a backup formation called the Ninefold Silver Formation that was used briefly to protect the palace during the war.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 401
2. ↑ Chapter 431
3. ↑ Chapter 435
4. ↑ Chapter 444
5. ↑ Chapter 465
6. ↑ Chapter 467
7. ↑ Chapter 542