The palace you stay at is called Withered Path. It's a very popular palace in the area. There are still very many palaces and castles with many gods and rulers. There's wars at times but not very often since everyone gets a long quite well. You have someone you could call an enemy though. Zixin and you haven't gotten a long so well after the Withered Path's citizens, rulers and gods won the war with his land. Zixin has devilish thoughts but never fulfills them.