Mu Clan

The Mu Clan is one of the four most powerful Magic Clans in China that specializes in Ice Magic. Although majority of Mu Clan members possess Ice Elements, they do welcome outstanding mages of other Elements into their ranks. Due to their status and influence they usually have no problem fostering and raising talents for their clan, enough to even displace the average high ranker if they feel like such. The Mu Clan had long been based in the capital. Not only did it have a long and powerful history of reputable Ice Mages, it also had a Forbidden Ice Mage which could guarantee several generations’ worth of prosperity for a clan.

It is an open secret that the Mu Clan can be monstrous when dealing with its members, not hesitating to support those they feel would bring benefit to the clan or to dispose of those they feel otherwise. Every decision made in the clan meetings was like a decree to the disciples. No one could disobey them, nor challenge the authority of the clan. The Clan strongly followed the law of the jungle. The Mu Clan had always been cruel and cold. Unlike Zhao Clan who are described as 'disgustingly rich' the Mu Clan's focus is solely on their Magic. They have no mercy to people deemed as useless, fate worse than death are reserved for anyone who dares to cross or betray them!

Not everyone in the Mu Clan had the surname Mu. Like other clans, it would sometimes recruit strong Mages of other Elements. The Mu Clan was scattered across many cities throughout the country and even have strong influences in the world. Every four years, the Mu Clan would send representatives to the different branches to filter out the disciples. Those who were chosen would be sent to Mu Clan Mountain and compete with thousands of other disciples

Structure
Many people called the Mu Clan the Ice Element Dynasty of the country, as their clan meeting was similar to the morning assembly of the officials before the emperor in a manner similar to the era of ancient dynasties. The people involved in the meeting would dress nicely and prepare their speeches for the meeting. They would be mindful of their actions and words while competing for the resources allocated during the meeting. Meetings would decide allocation of resources, assignments, position promotions or replacement and punishments.
 * Clan Elders: Peak Super Mages who possessed formidable status in the country. They were the real leading figures behing the Mu Clan
 * Clan Board Members: Representatives of the clan who are given seats in clan meetings. Authority figures who decide all decisions for the clan.
 * Disciplinary Hall: They are responsible for punishing disciples who committed offenses. The Disciplinary Hall had a unique status. The Mu Clan’s Disciplinary Mages had the right to execute their disciples without seeking permission from the Magic Association or the government. As a result, even though Mu Ningxue was a member of the national team, the advisors were not allowed to intervene when the Disciplinary Mages had tried to cripple her cultivation in Venice.
 * Member: Regular mages/non-mages who finish being disciples and are given missions/tasks to perform for the clan. Positive accomplishments further raise their position and status while failure begets removal or in some cases marriage to other clans to use as a bridge building connection.
 * Disciples: Select chosen beginner mages who were shown to have potential to bring value to the clan. They were made to train and compete against each other to strengthen themselves and weed out the weaker ones.

Every Mu Clan meeting was very strict and serious. Every member of the clan had to obey the rituals and ceremonies that were planned. Even those who had no right to take part in the meeting had to wait outside the room if they did not have any urgent business. While a meeting took place, the members of the clan were forbidden to contact outsiders. They also had to make sure no one interfered with the meeting.

Known Members

 * Fang Ning - Great Elder of the Clan.
 * Mu Dao - Elder of the Clan and a Councilman of the Highest Enforcement Union. He had at least disagreed with the clan’s decision to cripple Mu Ningxue during the World College Tournament. He revealed that Blue Bat was actually one of his own informants in the Black Vatican.
 * Mu Fangzhou - Elder of the Clan
 * Mu Feiluan (Ice Luan - A type of pheasant looking mythological bird) - One of the elders of the clan, in charge of the clan’s internal affairs. He was trained as a potential candidate to become the next patriarch. He was solely responsible for the arrangement, discipline, training, and punishment of the young disciples. He was the overseer of every disciple in the Mu Clan. He had the most say in how the clan dealt with Mu Ningxue. He was the one who had decided to cripple Mu Ningxue’s cultivation and expel her from the Clan. He used to think Mu Ningxue had the potential to lead the new batch of disciples, and had treated Mu Ningxue like a pearl in the palm but expelled her regardless due to her uncle's connection to the Black Vatican. Mu Feiluan had convinced the clan to abandon Mu Ningxue by claiming Nanrong Ni and Mu Tingying had more potential than her. Mu Ningxue was replaceable. He was the one who brought Mu Zhuoyun to Mu Clan Mountain to lure in Mu Ningxue. His ice luan makes it look as if he was wearing some metallic heavy armor, it increases his defence incredibly.
 * Both had extraordinary Ice Innate Talents. That fact alone made them irreplaceably powerful Mages. It was the reason why the two of them had retained their superior status in the Mu Clan, even when their cultivation had not reached the peak of the Super Level. they both reached the 3 Level of the Super Level. Yinfeng had not lost a fight against any Ice Mage in recent years. Even the Ice Mages of some ancient clans from foreign countries did not stand a chance against her. Her innate talent was ranked the strongest after Qin Yu’er. Super Power. She had to consume massive resources of the Ice Element to replenish the energy required for her innate talent, Ice Phoenix’s Reincarnation which allowed her to swiftly recover from injury when she was at the brink of death. Regardless, this duo was not even ranked top 10 in the clan. They were eventually crippled after their loss against Mu ningxue and had their innate talent taken from them.
 * Mu Yinfeng (Ice Phoenix) - They were a brother and sister team who possessed powerful Innate Talents, the power of the Ice Luan and the Ice Phoenix! They were the symbolic representatives of the Mu Clan, born in a clan of the Ice Element with the perfect Innate Talents. They were just as outstanding as their Innate Talents. They were both responsible for expelling Mu Ningxue and her father from the Cclan.
 * Pan Xi - their right hand man, sadistic and twisted man who stayed in touch with Mu Ningxue just to be close when she gets betrayed. He had chosen Mu Ningxue when she was still in Bo City and recommended her to Mu Feiluan.
 * Mu Gong - He is the leader, but it did not necessarily mean he was in charge of everything. He was not involved in the decision to cripple Mu Ningxue and only found out about it after it happened.
 * Ge Xiong - Leader of the Disciplinary Hall, Authority holding representative. Super Earth Mage, Super Power: Rolling Sand River.
 * Hou Ze - Super Ice Mage, Ice Super Power, Ice Mountain Coral. A Senior Brother in the same batch as Mu Ningxue and Mu Tingying. He had been considered a role model among them. He was not a disciple of the main clan. He had caught the main clan’s attention with his talents and climbed his way to the top. He had rendered meritorious contributions time and time again, and become a star of the Mu Clan. After awakening his Super Power he now had a seat in the clan meeting, and was an important member of the Mu Clan’s committee.
 * Mu Tingying - she was a potential candidate being raised by the clan and prior to Mu He's betrayal, was just Mu Ningxue's replacement. she harbors resentment and jealousy for being treated as such and tries on several occasions to attack and limit Mu Ning Xue's influence albeit rarely every successful. A shallow person who could not stand being ranked lower than Mu Ning Xue in practically everything.
 * Nanrong Ni - For many years, she pretended to be friends with Mu Ningxue, but deep down held deep hatred towards beautiful and talented Mu Ningxue. She was a white lotus whose heart is more venomous than any snakes, she did not hesistate to betray and cripple Mu ningxue when the oppurtunity arose while she was named the new successor of the ice crystal bow from then on, she dropped all facade and only then, people finally saw her true colors! While she scorned Mu Ningxue like Mu Tingying she was smart enough to have never thought she was stronger than Mu Ningxue just because of her high self-esteem. While somewhat strong in cultivation she preferred to hide behind stronger people instead. She faced high levels of embarrassment from ningxue when she was beaten by her several times, each time more demeaning with the last one making her lose an ear and having her flee in terror and shame.
 * Mu Xumian (Super Mage) - One of the well known public representative of the Mu Clan. Despite that status and her power as a Super Mage she was still not given any real high position in the clan, only sent out for arduous tasks and eventually stationed with the Li family in Feinlao city.

Mu Ningxue Expulsion
While the Ice Luan and Phoenix were the ringleaders behind her expulsion, it still required the consent of the clan meeting. As such Mu Ningxue's anger is directed to all authority wielders in the clan and not any one particular individual.

They had gone easy on Mu Ningxue in recent years because she had won the World College Tournament and did not want the ire of the public on them for attacking her in the limelight. Mu Ningxue had been a member of the national team. On the other hand, the Mu Clan was closely affiliated with the country’s powerful organizations. Some of the seniors in the Clan were very concerned about the clan’s reputation. They were worried that the public might condemn them if their Disciplinary Mages were too harsh on Mu Ningxue.

As a result, Mu Ningxue’s punishment had been put on hold over the years. Mu Feiluan and Mu Yinfeng had used other ways to keep Mu Ningxue in check, instead of threatening her directly. They decided to settle their "debt" with her and attack her directly once enough time had passed since the World College Tournament.

The Clan's animosity for Mu Ningxue was further increased when she stormed the clans headquarters beating up several of their ranked mages and even some high wielding authority members.

Ice Crystal Bow
Their most prominent artifact is the Ice Crystal Bow, which is permanently owned by Mu Ningxue. It had once been the Mu Clan's srongest weapon; the prized possession is a soul type artifact that links with its user and unleashes more power the higher the cultivation of the user. They reveal that when the ice bow was first created, they shattered it into many pieces and scattered them across the entirety of the Mu Clan. Every member of the mu clan that has one of these pieces would have their cultivation boosted and in turn pour in energy into the piece of the ice bow. But when the mu clan takes the pieces back, the cultivation of the mage that had the ice bow was taken along with them and some of the mages even die, including Mu Ning Xue's mother. Over the years they had taken back most of the pieces and sent them to Mu Ningxue to re-complete the bow, but now that they have the last pieces and that mu ning xue has been kicked out of the Clan, they were going to give the ice bow to their new top disciple, Nanrong Ni.

It depletes ones energy and strains the soul just to fire a single arrow from the ice crystal bow. Every seal on the bow would be released as the cultivators strength increases. Blood Release is the final Seal of this Bow, the bow emits a formidable aura and the runes on it turns a reddish hue. At this stage it is capable of laying waste to an entire mountain and killing Super Mages.

The ice Crystal Bow was transferable because it was a piece of magic Equipment bound to her soul. They could retrieve the bow by destroying her soul and passing it on to the next successor.

Discipline
With such a status they Mu Clan are rigorous when dealing with rogue or under-performing members, they do not hesitate when dealing with such members with extreme punishments handed out easily and swiftly. It was mentioned they would go as far as sealing a mage's cultivation and banishing them if they find them to be an eyesore. Mu Ningxue's mother had challenged one of the high rankers but lost and was subsequently exiled to the mountain in the south for her to die in grief and sorrow.

Forbidden Magic
They had established a private military camp in the north and conducted some research on some forbidden magic, thankfully none of them succeeded but the magic to cripple one's cultivation was a by-product of the research and was since then used as a permanent disciplinary tool for its most rogue members. Additionally they also found a way to take and transfer one's innate talent, not hesitating to use it on one of their authority figures Mu Feiluan after he lost against Mu Ningxue and embarrassed the clan hereby turning him into a vegetatif state.

Subordinate/Associated Clans
The Mu Clan was relentless in their pursue for power both financially and magic based. Just as they spared no member who did not fall in line they did the same for outside clans; regularly annexing the smaller clans so they can absorb their businesses and manpower. Clans that associated with them rather than fought were rewarded and grew:
 * Dali Clan
 * Nanrong Family - one of the oldest Magic renowned families in China, associated with the Mu Clan through marriage. They hope that Nanrong Ni would be their turning point for a comeback, to see if they can be promoted to a renowned clan after the World College Tournament.
 * Li Family - a renowned family who have attached themselves to the Mu Clan. They are mainly in charge of luxurious villas, but they are mostly used for bribing and coaxing the authorities of the Magic Association. They are in charge of the Mu Clan’s public relations.

Enemy/Rival Clans

 * Zhao Family - Financial/influential Rival
 * Fanxue Clan - Due to hatred of Mu Ningxue
 * Dongfang Clan - Due to their alliance with Fanxue Mountain
 * Mui Clan - Due tot heir alliance with Fanxue Mountain

Quotes
(Grand Elder) - "Oh Feiluan, you should know by now that the Mu Clan has always followed the basic rules of survival. If you had won, you would still be Mu Feiluan. Unfortunately, you lost"

“We will avenge you, but you should also sacrifice yourself when the Mu Clan needs it.”