Tianyuan World, Firefly Sea.
Over a million laborers and more than a hundred thousand cultivators had gathered together, all waiting for the arrival of the Sect Master.
Before them stood an incomparably magnificent palace complex, stretching all the way to the edge of their vision.
This was the Heaven Dao Level Wonder their Ghost Ridge Palace had spent years building—a project that had mobilized a million laborers and more than a hundred thousand cultivators and cost over ten billion spirit stones: the Thirty-three Layered Heavenly Palaces.
"The Sect Master has arrived."
Just then, someone suddenly shouted.
Everyone looked up and saw a Thousand-Hand Centipede, three thousand meters long and bearing over a thousand pale corpse hands, swimming through the sky.
This was Blood Demon Ancestor's natal Gu worm, belonging to the famed demonic giant Su Jie. It had long since become known throughout the Great Li Dynasty because of Su Jie's reputation.
At that moment, Su Jie stood atop the Thousand-Hand Centipede, with Han Ruyan on his left and Liu Yingying on his right.
Looking down from high above, the newly completed Thirty-three Layered Heavenly Palaces was an endless complex of immortal palaces. One glazed dome after another and jade beams patterned like constellations resembled stars filling the heavens. Its grounds alone covered more than a thousand hectares—ten times the size of the Crimson Radiance Immortal Palace.
Its overall layout used the Twenty-Eight Mansions as a formation, as though the stars of the celestial sphere had been drawn in from the void.
At the very center stood a resplendent main hall. Nine tiers of coiling-dragon pillars supported a dome through which rosy light flowed. Glazed bells hanging from the eaves remained perfectly still in the gale. Curtains formed from ice crystals hung below, while at the highest point of the