The East Sea Dragon Palace being the Dragon Emperor's palace was hardly surprising.
Heavenly Pure Kingdom was actually the ideal state of the Human Emperor, Lieshan Clan?
What sort of place could be called the Human Emperor's "ideal"?
Jiang Wang only knew that Heavenly Pure Kingdom was vast and densely populated, and that its current guardian, Xu Wuming, was a Current Era True Lord who had come from the Three Punishments Palace. Earlier, when Zhuo Qingru had sought to apprehend Qiao Hongyi of Great Righteous Academy, she had specifically gone to Heavenly Pure Kingdom to request orders.
Beyond that, his knowledge of the place was exceedingly scant. He had always assumed it was somewhere much like the Futu Pure Land, but only now did intense curiosity arise within him.
"It should be something like a cave-heaven artifact, right? Like Jixia Academy," Jiang Wang guessed.
Yu Liyang smiled, seeming to appreciate Jiang Wang's breadth of knowledge. "That isn't an entirely wrong way to understand it. But more precisely, the East Sea Dragon Palace is the embodiment of Dragon Race authority, while Heavenly Pure Kingdom is a nation founded upon law—a perfect world of absolute rule by law."
Absolute rule by law!
Jiang Wang naturally thought of Lin Youxie. From her, he thought of Uriel, then Lin Kuang, that pitch-black Long Night, that insurmountable wall... and also Wu Bingyi, Grandmaster Wu, master of Measure Earth Palace.
For many cultivators of the Legalist School, a world that could uphold those four words, "absolute rule by law," was indeed one that could be called ideal.
Pulling his thoughts free from the past, he turned to history. According to certain classics, such as the Quiet Void Thoughts Collection, the Law Patriarch had been a figure who, together with the second Human Emperor, Youxiong Clan, brought