Luo Tong Barrier Land, Southern Peacock Kingdom.
This vast land lay near the sea, ranking third in area among Sindhu's twelve lands, behind only Ten Victories Holy Land and Wheel-Turning Holy Land.
The Peacocks had now founded a kingdom here, establishing a demon dynasty. All humans had been reduced to slaves; even immortal and Buddhist cultivators served under the Peacocks, without freedom.
The capital stood in a region called [Heavenly Colors Plain], where rosy lights of every color often swept across the sky. A sprawling cluster of magnificent, solemn palaces rose in the city's center. Their design differed greatly from Sindhu's style, instead bearing something of the Ancient Immortal Dao's character, with bronze used extensively.
Colored light flowed through the royal palace at the center, and clouds of rosy radiance surged. Melodious music drifted from the main hall, where pairs of handsome men and beautiful women danced with their bodies bare, stirring the rainbow and rosy clouds within the hall into an ever-changing tangle.
Numerous Rakshasas, Yakshas, Asuras, and monsters sat on either side. Most had strange forms, fierce and imposing, and were drinking and feasting amid general merriment.
Kong Xuan smiled from the seat of honor as he watched the scene below. An immensely powerful rosy-light Divine Ability gathered around him; he had already broken through to the Purple Mansion Late Stage.
This ruler of the Peacock kingdom had cultivated for a great many years and possessed profound cultivation. His Five-Colored Divine Light was renowned far and wide.
His bloodline was also among the noblest of all. His ancestors had produced a Golden Core cultivator, who, although not a Great Sage, had still raised the Peacocks into the foremost ranks of the Noble-Blooded. Moreover, his clan had connections in both the immortal and Buddhist paths, allowing them to preserve