Northern Sect (Wang Chongyang) – Seven Masters and their branches:
- Longmen School (Qiu Chuji) – largest Quanzhen branch today, Baiyun Guan
- Yuxian School (Ma Yu) – purity meditation
- Nanwu School (Tan Chuduan) – virtue cultivation
- Suishan School (Liu Chuxuan) – natural hermitage
- Yushan School (Wang Chuyi) – ascetic practice + talismans
- Huashan School (Hao Datong) – Yi-Ching + inner alchemy
- Qingjing School (Sun Bu’er) – women’s alchemy
Southern Sect (Zhang Boduan) – Wuzhen Pian, inner alchemy, home practice allowed historically Five Minor branches: Shaoyang, Zhengyang, Chunyang, Haichan, Chongyang