Immortal Palace

Biodata

Location and Layout

The headquarters manifests as a colossal palace suspended between heaven and earth. Its visible structure is the physical manifestation of a concealed grotto-heaven 354.

Grotto-Heaven Powers and Defenses

Concealment and Relocation

• The controller can hide the palace and move it throughout its original stretch of the Far Western Sea 354.
• Xuanzhe later brings the entire headquarters through a spatial rift above Crimson Flame Island during the South Sea conflict 471.
• Jiang Han regards the surviving grotto-heaven as the organization’s safeguard against complete destruction, even after the Palace Master’s death 354.

Spatial Restrictions

• Powerful restrictions prevent visitors from bypassing the five Immortal Bridges. Even a Nascent Soul cultivator would need time to dismantle them 354.
• A High-grade Immortal Seed allows its bearer to identify the correct bridge 362.
• By Su Bai’s later return, the inner headquarters remains enclosed by multiple layers of formations and spatial restrictions 714.

Grotto-Heaven Authority

• As a Greater Cave Heaven, the headquarters possesses substantial power that its controller can wield against intruders 427.
• Xuanzhe states that he can easily kill ordinary cultivators of his own rank inside it 427.
• Su Bai’s partial authority allows him to draw on some of that power and enter or leave freely, but does not permit him to move the grotto-heaven 427.

Xuanzhe’s Connection

• Xuanzhe has merged with the grotto-heaven, gaining an enduring lifespan at the cost of his physical body and the ability to leave it 356.
• The figure that receives visitors is a lifelike energy body 426.
• He is later revealed to be a Primordial Spirit Clone left by the founder, True Lord Xianyu, after Xianyu reached Deity Transformation 428.

History

Foundation and Original Purpose

True Lord Xianyu founded the Immortal Palace and left behind a portion of his Primordial Spirit to safeguard its inheritance and development. This guardian became Xuanzhe 428.

The organization built its identity around cultivators whose poor Spirit Roots obstructed otherwise exceptional combat talent. It offered powerful techniques and opportunities to seize resources, presenting this struggle as defiance of the Heavenly Dao 31 32 52.

Operations in Qingzhou

The Immortal Palace came into direct conflict with the Jade Mist Sect when its members took Jiang Han away and killed cultivators at Spirit Moon Lake. Su Duanqiu had also hoped to recruit Su Bai, but his Dual Spirit Root disqualified him under the organization’s original rules 32 33.

Jiang Han subsequently identified four members operating in Qingzhou: Sword, Sword One, Sword Three, and Fire Thirteen, his own designation at the time. He used Palace intelligence and specialized artifacts to obtain resources in the Blood River Secret Realm 65.

The Jade Mist Sect retaliated against Immortal Palace forces at the Golden Light Sect. Sword One was executed, and Su Bai killed another disguised member during the assault 86 95.

Decline in Qianyuan

Qianyuan’s forces, including the Qiankun Sect, inflicted severe losses on the organization. Its Palace Master fell, its membership dwindled, and its senior leadership was broken. By Jiang Han’s account, two of the Four Great Immortal Envoys were dead, one had disappeared, and the remaining envoy was recuperating at headquarters 352.

The headquarters survived, but rebuilding its outposts, intelligence network, and personnel required enormous funding. Xuanzhe later sought three hundred million Spirit Stones from Su Bai to stabilize its recovery 354 395.

Su Bai’s Admission

Jiang Han referred Su Bai for membership as repayment for his earlier help. Su Bai approached headquarters disguised as Ye Qingyu, passed through the Heavenly Gate under the Left Sentinel’s escort, and met Xuanzhe 352 354.

Xuanzhe recognized his disguise but admitted him and bestowed a High-grade Immortal Seed. Su Bai chose Spirit of the Immortal Palace as his branch title, with Jiang Han becoming Spirit One 355 356 357.

After advancing further, Su Bai became the Immortal Envoy Tianshu, while Tiangang joined as Yellow Springs. Xuanzhe granted Su Bai partial control of the grotto-heaven 427. Su Bai and Xuanzhe then agreed to cooperate: Xuanzhe would support his advancement and Heavenly Star Alliance activities, while Su Bai would aid and protect the Immortal Palace 430.

South Sea Stronghold

The Immortal Palace seized Crimson Flame Island, exterminating its Foundation Establishment and stronger cultivators and enslaving the surviving Qi Refining cultivators with Poisonous Gu. Unlike its earlier raids, this operation established a permanent stronghold, with captives working spirit fields, herb gardens, and mines 451.

Its forces then captured Rock Island, provoking intervention by eight South Sea Nascent Soul cultivators 462 463 464. During the ensuing confrontation, Xuanzhe brought the headquarters itself above Crimson Flame Island 471.

Su Bai negotiated a settlement under which the Immortal Palace retained Crimson Flame Island, withdrew from Rock Island, and agreed to pay thirty billion Spirit Stones over ten years. The first installment was three billion Spirit Stones 473.

Transformation into the Southern Palace

The territorial settlement did not end the organization’s raids. Over the following forty years, its attacks drove South Sea sects and refugees toward Green Ying Spirit Plain. Members increasingly concealed their affiliation, reserving their recognizable purple robes for formal occasions 481.

Xuanzhe eventually unified the South Sea and followed Su Bai’s recommendation to transform the Immortal Palace into a territorial sect. Su Bai’s inter-island Teleportation Arrays linked the Upper Nine Islands, improving travel and resource circulation 497.

Over subsequent centuries, the organization moderated some of its brutality, supported local clans and smaller sects, fought deep-sea Demonic Beasts, and protected shipping routes. More than two hundred years before Su Bai’s return in Chapter 714, it officially renamed itself the Southern Palace. Its core leadership remained unchanged 714.

Organization and Membership

Hierarchy

Branches

• Membership is divided by combat discipline or spell attribute, with more than a dozen branches reported when Su Bai considers joining 352.
• Examples include fire, water, wood, wind, sword, illusion, and lightning 352.
• Nine surviving Pulse Lords are listed later: Spirit, Thunder, Wood, Water, Gold, Wind, Blade, Eagle, and Fist 394.

Recruitment and Immortal Seeds

• High-grade Immortal Seeds support long-distance contact with Xuanzhe and organization-wide announcements 395 427.
• Despite relaxed admission rules, teaching Palace Divine Abilities to anyone without an Immortal Seed is treated as betrayal 362.

Resources and Techniques

Resource Acquisition

• Under the early system, the Palace supplied combat spells, raiding intelligence, and targets, rather than ordinary cultivation resources. Members seized their own supplies from other forces 52.
• Necessary operational artifacts could be provided, while unrelated Palace artifacts had to be purchased with Spirit Stones 65.
• Jiang Han surrendered half his Blood River Secret Realm gains to his superiors 65.
• Later rules for inter-sect campaigns required 70% of captured resources to enter centralized redistribution, leaving 30% for participating cultivators. Concealing spoils could result in expulsion and pursuit 460.

Technique Collection

• The Palace’s secret arts include both techniques created by its own members and inheritances taken from plundered sects 395.
• Its catalog contains eight Third Tier Sword Dao Divine Abilities. A Third Tier High Grade Divine Ability costs five hundred thousand Spirit Stones 362.
• Pulse Lords can purchase techniques from other branches 362.

Notable techniques include:

• Profound Sword True Essence Art — compresses Sword Qi and reduces its consumption through the Sword Vein; its methods can strengthen other Sword Qi Divine Abilities 63.
• Instant Lightning Refraction — Second-tier high-grade movement spell and Immortal Palace secret art 181.
• Myriad Wood Sword Domain — produces Spirit Wood Sword Thorns to imprison and kill targets 363.
• Myriad Blades Return to Origin — divides sword light into three thousand metal-attributed Sword Qi streams 363.
• Sky Burning Sword Prison — establishes nine fire pillars enclosing enemies within continual fire-blade attacks 363.

Teleportation Network

Hidden Outposts

• The Palace maintains Teleportation Outposts across several Cultivation Worlds 352.
• Permanent outposts require at least a mid-grade Immortal Seed, corresponding to an ordinary Pulse Lord’s level, for activation and use 362.
• Seeds allow authorized members to sense nearby outposts and pass through their protective shells 362.
• Some chambers lie deep underground, where pressure severely restricts Spiritual Sense. Outsiders cannot reliably relocate them even after a previous visit 362.
• The chamber and array are integrated, making forced entry liable to destroy the array 362.

Temporary Arrays and Supporting Items

• Temporary Teleportation Arrays — portable arrays that can be deployed immediately. Their creator became an Immortal Envoy before being killed by Qiankun Sect experts 362.
• Limited replacement stock — after the Array Master’s death, each exchanged temporary array depleted the remaining supply. A Golden Core-capable version would be worth at least one million Spirit Stones outside the Palace 394.
• Teleportation Talismans — used for rapid extraction, including Su Duanqiu’s escape with Long Xin 175.
• Shadow Dust — scattered at extraction sites to conceal traces 175.

Key Figures and External Relations

• True Lord Xianyu — founder; left Xuanzhe behind to preserve the Palace’s inheritance 428.
• Xuanzhe — guardian and principal headquarters controller; directs reconstruction, South Sea expansion, and the later transition into a territorial sect 395 451 497.
• Su Bai / Ye Qingyu / Tianshu — joins as Spirit Lord, later becomes an Immortal Envoy with partial grotto-heaven authority; supplies formations, negotiates the South Sea settlement, and builds inter-island arrays 356 427 451 473 497.
• Tiangang / Yellow Springs — Su Bai’s Purple Zombie and fellow Immortal Envoy; serves as a major combat force in the South Sea 427 454.
• Jiang Han — early Qingzhou recruit who later sponsors Su Bai’s admission and serves as Spirit One 65 352 357.
• Su Duanqiu — sword cultivator involved in Jiang Han’s recruitment and Long Xin’s entry into the organization 32 175 394.
• Long Xin / Thunder — recruited after rescue from the Holy Hall; later becomes the Palace’s Thunder and commands Lei Yi through Lei Wu 175 394.
• Jade Mist Sect — investigates and retaliates against Palace killings and infiltration in Qingzhou 33 86 95.
• Qiankun Sect — major suppressing force responsible for heavy organizational losses and the former Array Master’s death 352 362.
• Holy Hall — rival in the struggle to obtain Long Xin, whom its cultivators call the “Thunderous Pill” 175.
• Heavenly Star Alliance — indirectly benefits from South Sea unrest; Su Bai’s agreement with Xuanzhe establishes covert cooperation between their interests 427 430 473.