Chapter 553

Fang Yuan rides the azure wolf king, still unable to crack the quote from Di Qiu inheritance. The sacred palace rises from the horizon with eight levels, each about two kilometers tall, the bottom one widest. Almost ten thousand people are already inside. ^{ch. 553}

An escort Gu Master, instructed by Hei Lou Lan, greets Fang Yuan at the gate of the first level as Lord Wolf King. A residence on the eighth level is ready. Fang Yuan asks to be shown around first. Out of respect for Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, Gu Masters may not ride steeds inside. The escort shows him the entertainment palace, the spring soup hall and the floating scent yard, where Giant Sun had moved the wine pool and meat forest. ^{ch. 553}

On the fourth level, the escort enters the drawing palace, one of the eight main palaces, by its side door, since only Giant Sun Immortal Venerable could use the main doors and his descendants keep that rule. Its walls hold eighty thousand drawings of beauties, all drawn by Giant Sun himself. Fang Yuan keeps silent, recalling that within his previous five hundred years central continent Gu Immortals destroyed Imperial Court blessed land and the sacred palace became history. Not even a venerable achieved true immortality, and Giant Sun is ashes, so Fang Yuan finds the palace’s proof of his existence pitiful. His interest wanes, and he asks to be taken to the eighth level. ^{ch. 553}

The escort hesitates, anxious to see for himself sites his status cannot reach, and lists the beauty palace, the unique scent palace and the jade statue palace. Fang Yuan refuses the detour. In his final years Giant Sun Immortal Venerable rarely left Longevity Heaven for the sacred palace, and on his last visit he skipped the girls chosen for him. Instead he built Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, set the rules of the Imperial Court contest and vanished from the world completely, leaving the women trapped there until their lifespans ran out. In Fang Yuan’s eyes the palace has little value, since its resources were taken long ago and even central continent Gu Immortals found nothing of value. The one valuable thing is Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the rank eight Immortal Gu house made by Long Hair Ancestor, which will appear at the empty peak of the eighth level only when the ten year blizzard strikes. ^{ch. 553}

Fang Yuan lives in seclusion, cultivating. Hei Lou Lan sends people to recruit him as an external elder of the Hei tribe. Fang Yuan says he needs to consider it, though he will definitely refuse in his heart. Human skin Gu is only a mortal Gu, and an Immortal Gu’s investigation could expose him. Northern plains super forces often recruit external elders, letting demonic path Gu Immortals become righteous and greatly helping Huang Jin tribes manage the region. ^{ch. 553}

Hei Lou Lan says nothing of Xing Jiu peak, but a rumor spreads that Wolf King is extremely overbearing and used his strength to suppress the weak there. Fang Yuan laughs inwardly, sure that someone is ruining his reputation, and suspects Pan Ping, Sun Shi Han or even Hei Lou Lan. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable once had a terrible reputation for toying with women, yet is now revered and publicly accused of nothing. Strength is everything here, which is one reason Fang Yuan loves this world. ^{ch. 553}

Half a month later, a water-like ripple appears in the golden sky and the land shakes. A piercing light shines at the peak of the sacred palace for forty-five minutes. As it disperses, a tower stands on the previously barren ground. It is Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. ^{ch. 553}