Eastern Wasteland, Sky Rampart Palace.
Sky Rampart Palace was in fact a vast, sealed Grotto-Heaven, its entrance located deep within Sky Rampart Peak of the Eastern Wasteland.
The Golden Ape Demon Emperor occupied this Grotto-Heaven and, by custom, called it Sky Rampart Palace.
As a member of the Demon Race, the Golden Ape Demon Emperor was innately repulsed by human palaces. There were, in truth, no real palaces within Sky Rampart Palace. He usually lived in a hollow within an ancient tree.
The ancient tree was golden-red, said to have originated from the Fusang Divine Tree. It could naturally gather the purest yang qi between heaven and earth and was extraordinarily wondrous.
The ancient tree stood a hundred thousand feet tall, with very few branches and leaves. Its trunk rose straight into the heavens like a golden-red mountain peak.
The Golden Ape Demon Emperor had hollowed out a tree cave at the very top of the trunk. Living within it allowed him to absorb the purest yang spiritual qi gathered by the Fusang Divine Tree, nourishing both body and spirit day and night.
He had been born with an indestructible vajra body and had further cultivated the Primordial Unity Heavenly Dipper Golden Body. Only then could he endure the purest yang spiritual qi.
After several hundred thousand years of being steeped and tempered day and night by purest yang spiritual qi, the Golden Ape Demon Emperor's body and spirit had long been honed to the peak of the eighth rank. Yet constrained by the Creation Golden Book, he could never break through the limits of the eighth rank.
The Golden Ape Demon Emperor did not care about the survival of the Eastern Wasteland's Demon Race, nor did he care about seventh-rank subordinates like Iron Tiger.
But he could not tolerate