With the formation of the Sunfire Sect complete, Lu Fan began assigning responsibilities to capable individuals from among the three thousand cultivators who had answered his call.
The Holy Fire Sect leader, An Zhen, was a natural choice to lead. As a devout cultivator of the Holy Sunfire Fist Art, his mastery over flame techniques and his deep understanding of Lu Fan's teachings made him the ideal candidate to lead the Men's Division. Lu Fan appointed him the Leader of the Male Faction, and entrusted him with overseeing the cultivation and guidance of all male disciples.
For the Women's Division, Lu Fan chose Lin Rou, a powerful female cultivator who had mastered the Whirlpool Art and possessed deep affinity with water-attribute cultivation. Her calm demeanor and strong leadership made her respected among the female cultivators. She was appointed as the Leader of the Female Faction, with full authority over the three islands designated for women.
Lastly, Lu Fan appointed An Zhi, who had walked the thunder path and refined the Thunder Patterns into a powerful bloodline, as the overall Sect Leader. Though young, An Zhi's potential was unparalleled, and his connection to Lu Fan's Thunder Body Tempering legacy made him a symbol of the sect's future.
The six supporting islands were officially organized—three for male cultivators and three for female cultivators, each tuned to their elemental affinities with spirit veins. Lu Fan personally upgraded one island with a Level 2 Fire Spirit Vein to benefit the Holy Fire cultivators and another with a Level 2 Balanced Spirit Vein for female disciples practicing water and moon-based techniques.
Once the leadership structure was in place, Lu Fan engraved all his newly developed cultivation arts, techniques, and formation blueprints onto the island's central Sunfire Pillar, allowing disciples to access his legacy freely. Beyond that, he gave no further instruction.
"You have the knowledge," he said, addressing the gathered disciples. "Now forge your own path. The Sunfire Sect will not spoon-feed you. I offer shelter, protection, and a legacy—but your cultivation, your strength, must be earned through your own hands."
With those words, Lu Fan stepped back from daily management, allowing the newly appointed leaders to take charge, and watched as the Sunfire Sect began to shape itself under their guidance.
A few years quietly passed, but the Sunfire Sect flourished beyond expectations. What began with just three islands each for men and women soon expanded into a chain of twenty-one islands. Of these, ten were allocated to male disciples, ten to female cultivators, and one central island was reserved solely for the Sect Leader, An Zhi, a symbol of unity and strength.
Under Lu Fan's vision, the cultivation structure solidified. Male cultivators predominantly practiced the Celestial Sun Sutra, a powerful and aggressive art rooted in fire and radiance, derived from Lu Fan's own Sunfire-based martial legacy. Female cultivators focused on the Celestial Moon Sutra, a more graceful yet profound art tied to the rhythms of moonlight and spiritual flow, echoing the essence of the Whirlpool Art and Lunar Pupils Technique.
As for An Zhi, the Sect Leader, he walked the path of destruction and rebirth through the Calamity Thunder Art, an intense cultivation method born from Lu Fan's Thunder Pattern legacy and refined through hardship.
Lu Fan's arts—whether the Sun, Moon, or Thunder pathways—had one thing in common: they were evolved directly from his martial art foundations, making them uniquely compatible with innate martial artists who had stepped into the cultivation world. The Sunfire Sect became a sanctuary for these rugged cultivators—men and women with hardened bodies, tempered wills, and a burning desire to rise.
Word of the Pillars spread far and wide. More and more people journeyed from distant regions just to approach one, hoping to receive acknowledgment and earn a place in the sect. These Pillars became both a test and a beacon, only granting access to those who met the fundamental requirements or carried affinity with Lu Fan's arts.
With this ever-growing influx and the firm leadership structure, the Sunfire Sect rapidly rose through the ranks. Thanks to Lu Fan's presence as a Nascent Soul expert, it officially ascended to the status of a Level 4 Sect.
Now that Lu Fan had firmly established the Sunfire Sect and was actively using the Pillars, the web of fate had woven itself deeply into the mortal world. The Pillars were no longer just artifacts—they were fate anchors, subtly tied to the destiny of cultivators in the entire region. Sensing this, Lu Fan retrieved an old relic from his past: the Eye Weapon, an artifact forged from concentrated faith energy, once a symbol of his influence during his early mortal experiments.
This Eye had long served its purpose, but now it was destined for something greater—a Sect-Defining Treasure.
To begin its transformation, Lu Fan took an unconventional route. He turned once more to his clone cultivation technique. Every time his clone underwent rebirth, all previous cultivation was lost. Normally, cultivators might reinvest that power into extending the clone's lifespan or fortifying the body. But Lu Fan had always chosen to discard it, allowing that overflow of raw cultivation energy to go unused.
Now, he found the solution—store it within the Eye.
Each rebirth, each discarded cultivation path, added a new layer of spiritual energy to the Eye. Over time, it became a vessel containing a chaotic mix of elemental Qi types—fire, water, earth, wood, metal, thunder, and even yin-yang variants. But this energy wasn't harmonious. It threatened to shatter the weapon from within.
To stabilize it, Lu Fan developed a revolutionary technique—the Rainbow Method.
Inspired by how white light splits into many colors, Lu Fan began cultivating with every elemental Qi type simultaneously, forcing his body to adapt. At first, it was agony. His meridians rebelled, his foundation trembled, but eventually, his body gave him the answer: resist and contain.
The Rainbow Method taught cultivators to build resistance to every Qi type, starting with trace amounts and slowly increasing. Eventually, one could harmonize them all—an embodiment of perfect balance.
He applied the same principle to the Eye Weapon. As the chaotic energies settled into harmony, the Eye advanced from a Level 2 spiritual weapon to Level 3. When it reached its limit, the heavens acknowledged it. A thunder calamity descended, testing the weapon's integrity.
The Eye survived, and through that tribulation, it was reborn—more refined, precise, and powerful. Now baptized by lightning and tempered by countless cultivations, the Rainbow Eye stood ready to become the core treasure of the Sunfire Sect.