Beyond the archway was a massive hall, with a tall ceiling and several stories of balcony-corridors on both sides filled with shops and stalls, a chaos of banners and flags advertising the shops, limited discounts, and various types of goods hung under the ceiling and in between the two sides, along with strings of lanterns stretching between the balcony-corridors on multiple levels, as well as lanterns on the sides of nearly all columns in sight, which together brightly illuminated everything with a warm cozy light.
And all of these spaces were filled with people, as if this inner palace was a separate small kingdom of its own.
The far side of the hall stretched into distance, cutting into the heart of the mountain that the palace was built into, while to the opposite side, in some distance, were the massive main gates of the palace that Wu Long went around through the corridor.
