Hot on the Trail

The Half Moon Sect was unlike anything Daniel had ever seen.

In Daniel's universe of origin, a sect was an organization whose main focus was to spread the notoriety and influence of a certain path of cultivation or martial discipline. They would do so by accepting any students they deemed to possess enough talent in cultivation, and by pouring time, effort, and resources into them... instructing them in the signature path until that very discipline would become part of their being. 

This personal connection between the sect and the students was employed so, once the student would learn everything the sect could teach them, they would develop a form of loyalty towards the sect. This loyalty would prevent them from leaving, and instead, would convince them to spend their lives spreading the path that the sect had taught them.