Three miles beneath the gilded marble plazas of the Golden Heir Palace, deep inside the bedrock of the Central Star-Cluster’s royal asteroid, ran a heavily fortified, hundred-foot-wide underground corridor carved out of black star-granite.
At the far end of this dark corridor stood Golden Heir Gu Wuji’s most closely guarded secret:
The [Nine-Lock Mithril Bloodline Vault]—an impregnable underground bunker. Meanwhile, gu Wuji stored the Thirty-Six Living Immortal Bones he had dug out of outer-rim branch prodigies over the past decade, alongside Five Hundred Quadrillion High-Grade Spirit Stones taxed from thirty-six star systems!
Because Gu Wuji was terrified that the branch families or rival elders might one day discover his bloodline-plundering crimes, he hadn’t entrusted the vault to ordinary human guards who might talk.
Instead, the entire five-hundred-yard approach corridor in front of the vault was sealed by two lethal, non-human defenses:
1. [The Rank-9 Crimson Astral Killing-Laser Grid]: An interlocking web of ten thousand hairline crimson star-lasers crisscrossing the tunnel from floor to ceiling. Powered by a underground magma vein and capable of slicing a Rank 8 Peak Star-Lord into ten thousand cubes of roasted meat in half a second!
2. [Two Rank-8 Peak Blood-Gargoyle Automatons]: Two thirty-foot-tall mechanical monsters forged from black meteoric iron and fueled by compressed beast blood. Standing on either side of the vault door with twin six-ton executioner halberds crossed over the threshold!
