Sign-In from the Start, I Build an Immortal Sect for the Ages

The Tianxuan Continent is divided into nine provinces. Spiritual veins run through its mountains and earth like veins through a body. Sects are built along them and fight over them, and nearly every place rich in spiritual energy has been claimed by the most powerful forces. The Ten Great Sects rule the nine provinces. They occupy strategic locations in each province, control the finest spiritual veins and the oldest inheritances of cultivation techniques, and hold the power to decide whether lesser sects live or die. Beneath them, second- and third-rate sects grow thick as weeds, only to vanish just as often. Some scrape by mining and refining medicine for the great sects; others attach themselves as vassals, always at risk of being swallowed up and erased. Qingyun Sect once stood near the top among the second-rate sects. Its grounds stretched across half of Green Mountain, and it had more than a thousand disciples. Then, after a joint assault for reasons no one could explain, its protective formation was broken and most of its elders were killed or wounded. All that remained was half of the front peak and fewer than twenty disciples, leaving it a dilapidated third-rate sect that could be erased at any moment. Here, martial cultivation is no lofty debate: it is the bare-bones qualification for survival. Every time you rise a realm, you gain a little more say in which spiritual veins you can claim and which places you can compete for. Take one step back, and you may lose even the ground beneath your feet.