Ji Yunshang's secondary palace was a special kind of structure within Soaring Sky City, standing side by side with the Soaring Sky Imperial Palace. It was a marvel she had built on a grand scale after taking power.
Its purpose had been to demonstrate her authority within the Soaring Sky Dynasty. Over the years, she had merely sent people to maintain it and rarely stayed there herself, instead constantly battling the Soaring Sky Holy Emperor within the imperial palace.
But after the Crimson Flame Army entered the city and took control of most of its defenses, Ji Yunshang made a great show of moving out.
This move set the Soaring Sky Dynasty's subordinate factions buzzing with speculation. Some said it was a sign before the storm, that the Soaring Sky Dynasty was about to undergo a change in heaven and earth.
Others claimed it was the Holy Emperor yielding to the Empress Dowager. After all, too many things had happened recently, and the Soaring Sky Dynasty had become the center of attention. To cool the situation further, the Holy Emperor had deliberately drawn the spotlight onto himself.
Yet what shocked people most was that Bai Yu, the foremost Great Apothecary from the Holy Heaven Cult, had accepted Ji Yunshang's invitation and taken up residence in her secondary palace.
The signal this action conveyed only made matters even more unfathomable.
Within the most luxurious bedchamber of the secondary palace—Ji Yunshang's own quarters—the style was rather serene, but both the materials and the extravagance of its furnishings were enough to leave anyone dumbfounded.
Hot springs, a bedchamber, a palace like a miniature pool of wine and forest of flesh—even a Body Integration Cultivator would not be able to resist praising its extravagance upon seeing it.
At the center of the bedchamber, Jiang