Sacred Emperor Palace

Biodata

Background and Rule

The Sacred Emperor Palace stands atop Mount Buzhou and claims authority over all four directions. According to Lin Qingxue, its rule has grown increasingly tyrannical over the preceding thousand years, with heavy taxes, harsh governance, and escalating suppression of other factions. Righteous sects that preserve ancient teachings are particular targets 10.

The Palace repeatedly attempts to force the Heavenly Sword Pavilion into submission. Lin Qingxue suspects that this pressure concerns Ancient Ruins whose secrets could repair the world’s flawed Great Dao; the means of opening those ruins is reportedly connected to the Heavenly Sword Pavilion’s legacy. Her knowledge of this motive is explicitly incomplete 10.

Its later operation in the Fallen Star Sea reveals ambitions beyond political rule. Intercepted orders describe opening Starfall Hall as an opportunity to “break the chains of fate and advance another step.” Ye Chen interprets this as potentially related to transcendence, rather than a confirmed description of the Hall’s contents 41 42.

Organization and Forces

Leadership and Officials

Offices and Military Units

• Heavenwatch Office — Detects abnormal spatial fluctuations near the Blood-Baleful Wasteland and suspects the arrival of something foreign. Receives Jin Sheng’s highest-secrecy intelligence report on the Heavenly Star Pavilion 18 25.
• Silver-Armored Guards — Serve the inspector’s command. Jin Wu brings four Nascent Soul guards to question Ye Chen in Greenstone Valley, then twenty guards at middle-stage Nascent Soul or above to the Heavenly Star Pavilion 18 31.
• Shadow Guards — Specialists in concealment, assassination, and coordinated attacks. More than twenty participate in the Ghost-Crying Ridge ambush under Jin Wu 33.
• Star Guards — An elite force serving directly under the Sacred Emperor. Deployed to the Fallen Star Sea, where dozens form a blockade around the ruined platform associated with Starfall Hall 41 43 44.

Abilities and Resources

Military Formations

• Starlight Space Lock — Used by Jin Wu at Ghost-Crying Ridge to restrain the target’s body and seal the valley. Paired with the Blood Demon Sect’s soul-attacking formation; Ye Chen stops the assault and turns its starlight arrows against the Shadow Guards 33.
• Starfall Strangulation — A Star Guard formation attack fueled by the Fallen Star Sea’s stellar energy. Ye Chen dissolves it with the command “Disperse” through Word Becomes Law 44.
• Golden Light Immortal-Slaying Formation — Proposed by Jin Wu as a means of capturing or killing Ye Chen after the Greenstone Valley humiliation. Its deployment is not shown in that encounter 19.

Surveillance and Intelligence

• Spatial-anomaly investigation — Heavenwatch Office detection prompts field inquiries into unfamiliar arrivals and the Demon-Burying Abyss 18 23.
• Secret outposts and coded orders — Used to coordinate the Starfall Hall operation. Lin Qingxue intercepts one transmission and learns of plans to monitor, recruit, or suppress Ye Chen 41.
• Covert tracking — Palace personnel investigate Ye Chen’s background and the Heavenly Star Pavilion’s unusual environmental restoration 30.

Environmental Purification

• The Palace can purify regional baleful energy, but doing so requires substantial resources and its finest experts.
• Jin Sheng considers the Heavenly Star Pavilion’s effortless restoration exceptional precisely because the Palace cannot match it so easily 25.

Equipment and Key Items

• Formation Disk — Carried by Jin Wu during the Ghost-Crying Ridge ambush; detects Ye Chen’s entry into the prepared trap 33.
• Regulation Silver Armor and broadsword — Worn and carried by Jin Wu during his visit to Black Wind Mountain 31.
• Dragon-patterned golden armor — Worn by the Iceedge Divine General 36.
• Starfall Hall “key” — Repeatedly emphasized in the Palace’s secret orders. Ye Chen later theorizes that it may be an orthodox token left by the ancient “Observers”; its exact nature remains unconfirmed 41 42 45.

Relationships

• Heavenly Sword Pavilion — A resistant righteous faction repeatedly pressured to submit. The Palace’s ambitions help drive it into an intelligence, trade, and mutual-aid alliance with the Heavenly Star Pavilion 10 41 42.
• Ye Chen / Heavenly Star Pavilion — Targets of investigation, coercive visits, and armed attacks. Secret orders later call for Ye Chen to be closely monitored and, if possible, recruited or suppressed 18 31 33 41.
• Blood Demon Sect — An occasional rival and tactical collaborator, not a confirmed permanent ally. Their representatives jointly pressure the Heavenly Star Pavilion, and their covert forces cooperate in the Ghost-Crying Ridge ambush 10 31 33.
• Blood Skull Stronghold — Lin Qingxue initially suspects that the Palace or Blood Demon Sect ordered her capture. Blood Skull Old Man later states that his stronghold has long been at odds with the Palace and has received no contact from Jin Sheng, leaving Palace responsibility for the capture unconfirmed 9 23.
• Greenstone Valley / Old Man Greenstone — Subject to inspection and questioning. Greenstone promises cooperation while concealing his suspicions about Ye Chen’s connection to the spatial disturbances 18.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Greenstone Valley Investigation

• Jin Sheng arrives with ten guards and two officials to investigate disloyal factions and unusual spatial disturbances. Ye Chen effortlessly deflects his initial divine-sense probe 17 18.
• Jin Wu demands the newcomers’ identities and threatens arrest. Ye Chen overwhelms him and his guards with pressure, then ejects them from the courtyard 18.
• Jin Sheng subsequently probes the courtyard with his own pressure. Ye Chen counters, leading the inspector to suspect a Void Insight-level presence and reconsider confrontation 19.
• After learning of the Heavenly Star Pavilion’s rise and purification abilities, Jin Sheng suspends investigations and submits a secret report to his superiors 25.

Confrontation with the Heavenly Star Pavilion

• On Jin Sheng’s orders, Jin Wu visits Black Wind Mountain alongside Blood Demon Sect Elder Xue Li. Their coercive demands end with Ye Chen sending both delegations flying hundreds of zhang away 30 31.
• Jin Wu later leads Shadow Guards into a joint ambush at Ghost-Crying Ridge. Ye Chen destroys the attacking forces, grievously wounds Jin Wu, and leaves him alive to convey a warning against further aggression 32 33.
• The Iceedge Divine General confronts Ye Chen near the Profound Ice Cavern and demands his surrender. After sensing a slight release of Ye Chen’s aura, he retreats without fighting 36.

Starfall Hall Expedition

• The Sacred Emperor secretly mobilizes Star Guards and secluded elders to open Starfall Hall. The operation’s urgency and instructions concerning Ye Chen are exposed through Lin Qingxue’s intercepted intelligence 41.
• A majestic, unidentified voice within the Palace announces: “The piece has moved. The Hunting Ground... must be swept clean.” The meaning of the “Hunting Ground” remains unexplained 42.
• Star Guards block Ye Chen, Lin Qingxue, and Mo Yu from approaching the ruined platform, threatening unauthorized visitors with death 43.
• Ye Chen dissolves their formation attack and forces the commander to withdraw. He does not pursue the retreating guards and proceeds onto the platform 44.