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Nether Palace
Undead Mythology
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Nether Palace (冥宫) |
| Alias(es) | Underworld Palace 38 |
| Affiliation | Liu Zhi 38 235 |
| Role | Liu Zhi’s movable undead city and base for his undead forces 235 455 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 38 38 |
Power Progression
The Nether Palace’s ecosystem is tracked through Liu Zhi’s Underworld Ecosystem skill; these levels are not stated to be the palace’s city level.
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Underworld Ecosystem Level 1 | 118 | Liu Zhi completes a Tree Binding Spirit ritual, opening the ecosystem. |
| Underworld Ecosystem Level 2 | 278 | The seaweed–Fishman symbiosis reaches Level 2; further growth requires additional Tree Binding Spirit areas and synergy between them. |
| Underworld Ecosystem Level 3 | 573 | The skill lists several symbiotic systems, including an underworldized demiplane ecosystem. |
| Underworld Ecosystem Level 4 | 751 779 | Reaches Level 4, but its route to Level 5 is temporarily sealed and cannot be advanced with experience. |
| Underworld Ecosystem Level 6 | 950 | Recorded after fifteen years of growth, alongside Lord of the Nether Palace Level 7. |
| Underworld Ecosystem Level 7 | 1136 | Recorded alongside Master of the Underworld Level 9 and Underworld Shuttle Level 6. |
History
Initially, Liu Zhi maintained the Nether Palace through an altar at his waist. Entering it through the altar cost him 30 mana each day to keep it from disappearing. While confined to the altar, the palace had no foundation from which to gather resources or develop, prompting him to seek a haunted site where he could set it down 38 54 235.
The palace later became the center of an undead city. Liu Zhi built the Scarab Secret Hall as its council hall; it occupied roughly a quarter of the Underworld and provided administrative controls for construction and resources, as well as a military map for dispatching organized troops 299 303.
With Node Prince’s help, Liu Zhi moved the Underworld into a demiplane. After the conflict with the Dragon Duke, a rising mountain lifted the Nether Palace more than 500 meters above its former site and spread across roughly twenty times its original area. Liu Zhi and his subordinates subsequently chose to keep the palace in the underworld rather than move it back to the real world 455 490 493.
Layout and Functions
- Access and movement — The Nether Palace Altar lets Liu Zhi enter and leave the palace and send out Undead Servants or an undead army. His Underworld Shuttle skill allows movement between the Underworld and the real world 235.
- City administration — The Scarab Secret Hall’s administrative annex displays resources and building plans and controls construction, trade, mines, and other facilities. Its military annex dispatches organized troops, but cannot directly command unorganized soldiers 299 303.
- Troop training — Its facilities include a Mass Grave and the Beka Fencing Hall, which trains undead and other creatures in swordplay 71 99.
- Expanded terrain — After the mountain rose beneath it, trees surrounded the palace’s scattered buildings, with no paths connecting them at the time 490.
Notable Threats
- Foreign divinity — An iceberg carrying foreign divinity triggered a warning that the palace’s integrity was at risk. Liu Zhi used the Feathered Serpent’s solar divinity against it 266.
- Iron Blood Plague of Set — Liu Zhi was offered a choice between absorbing it, which could alter the palace’s functions and attributes, or dispersing it to expand the palace’s territory without retaining those attributes 261.
- Nasha and the first Blood Duke — They entered the Underworld and reached the Scarab Secret Hall while many defenders were absent. Nasha broke into the hall, where he and the first Blood Duke fought over items Liu Zhi had left inside 561 562.