Kongsang Sect
A hidden paradise atop a snow mountain, where medicine that raises the dying and poison that kills without a trace are two sides of the same coin.
NeutralRival: Jade-Maiden SectFist / Finger / Leg / Concealed Weapon
Also known as the Kongsang Medicine-King Sect, Mount Kongsang may look like an ordinary snow-capped peak, but it hides a paradise within — every rare herb imaginable grows in its hidden valleys. Kongsang disciples are masters of both medicine and poison: their remedies can bring the dying back to life, and their poisons can kill without leaving a trace. Based in the Liaodong–Mount Kongsang region, its arts run on the Return to Origin elemental attribute.
Kongsang Sect is politically Neutral, opposed to Jade-Maiden Sect, and its members lean toward the Solipsistic stance.
Sect Philosophy
Its arts span fist, finger, leg, and concealed weapons — rooted in ancient alchemical traditions, favoring rare poisons and secret medicines to enhance one’s power, even to the point of remaking the body itself. Its manuals run backwards from most sects: earlier chapters study slower, later chapters study progressively faster (this modifier does not apply to a manual’s overall framework). Techniques run on Medicine and Poison aptitude. Kongsang members can be asked to tutor Medicine, Poison, Weaving, and Craftsmanship.
Study-speed formula
When studying chapter X of a Kongsang manual: study efficiency = −75% + 25% × X
So chapter 1 is studied at −50% efficiency, while chapter 5 (if it exists) reaches +50%. The deeper into a manual you go, the faster it studies.
Full Technique Roster
| Type | 9th | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal Power | Qihuang Essentials | Shennong’s Herbal Secrets | Chaishan Green Satchel Art | 4 Methods of the Coiled Serpent | 9 Tripods Technique | — | |||
| Movement | Grass-Skimming Flight | Cliffside Hanging Gourd | Sand-Walking on Water | Chaishan Single-Line Sky | Green Serpent Sea-Stirring Technique | — | |||
| Ultimate | 4-Finger Green Ointment | 3-Region 9-Pulse Method | Bone-Piercing Dissection Method | 5-Yellow Poison-Warding Technique | Midday Rest Incense | Blood-Draining Method | White Water Longevity Method | Green Serpent Bone-Growth Technique | 9-Color Jade Cicada Method |
| Fist | Chaishan 5 Animal Fist | Great Snow Mountain Palm | Blood-Grip Technique | Weiling Immortal Bone-Transforming Palm | Cinnabar Divine Palm | Green Serpent Divine Palm | — | ||
| Finger | Chaishan Capture-and-Fall Hand | Hook-Aconite Claw | Iron Flower Bone-Rot Claw | Jade Cicada Finger | Green Serpent Iron Whisker Finger | Peerless Hand | — | ||
| Leg | Upside-Down Sky-Striker | Chaishan 1-Step Turn | Cuckoo Pecking Spider Style | Gold-Knocking Jade-Shaking 8 Forms | Green Serpent Tail-Swing Technique | Green Serpent Tumbling Leg | Flying Mountain Sea-Breaking 8 Forms | Mystic Tripod 100 Steps | — |
| Concealed Weapon | Owl-Feather Fragrance | 8 Immortals of the Other Shore | Startled Dream Fragrance | Jade-Blood Narcissus | 9 Madness Fragrance | Black Water Gut-Severing Powder | 100-Evil Bone-Melting Fragrance | Green Serpent Blood | Ghost-Bone Blood Crabapple |
Favor Interaction: Secret Medicine, Extended Life
Freezes a party member’s biological age for 3 years — but during this time, they may randomly contract a random poison each month.
Regional Story: “Rare Poison, Peerless Remedy”
Legend holds that the First Emperor of Qin sought the elixir of immortality — ten thousand years as his reign’s due. Kongsang Sect, too, has poured every ounce of its collective wisdom into the same pursuit. But medicine and poison walk hand in hand: countless brewing attempts have swung between resurrection and death, with no certainty either way.
Now, it seems Kongsang Sect is hiding some deeper secret — perhaps a rare figure, or a strange happening, still waiting to be uncovered…
| Trigger | Kongsang’s support reaches 50%, then locate the sect leader within Kongsang’s territory |
|---|---|
| Reward | Medicine King’s 10,000-Refined Clay |
| Sequel unlock condition | Hold Five Immortals Cult’s treasure, the Spirit Gu Shaman Book |
| Sequel reward | Immortal Elixir Fragment |
Signature Mechanic: Command the Ancient Cauldron
Completing “Rare Poison, Peerless Remedy” unlocks Kongsang’s centerpiece feature: commanding the Liao Family’s Ancient Cauldron to travel to any region and provide ongoing healing to everyone there — at the cost of your own health.
How it works
Activation: Interact with the “Liao Family Ancient Cauldron” facility on the map.
Cost: Consumes your character’s entire remaining health.
Effect: Sends the Cauldron to any uncorrupted region. Each month, it performs one random healing effect on every character in that region: heal all wounds, cure all poison, clear all internal disorder, or restore health to maximum.
Sequel unlock: Cauldron-Serpent Tempering
Consume a King Insect (of any type) to remove the “Xuanhui” corruption-mark trait from a character in the Cauldron’s region, granting them 10 years of immunity to Xuanhui corruption. This works on characters not yet corrupted too — you can pre-emptively protect them. 1 King Insect is consumed per character tempered.