Fifty yards beneath the North Campus, the underground Rose Dungeon looked like a nightmare forged from crimson glass and stolen youth.
Three thousand vertical crystal stasis pods stood in concentric rings around a central pulsing furnace cauldron. Inside each stasis pod floated a kidnapped female cultivator. Ranging from young Rank 6 alchemists and Rank 7 Sword Fairies to thirty Rank 8 Early Saintesses from the Jade-Lotus Alliance, led by Holy Maiden Lin in Pod #001.
Every single captive woman had a barbed blood-siphon tube attached to her wrist, feeding into a massive. Six-foot-wide Master Heart-Meridian Pipe that ran straight into the chest of Dean Hua Cong at the center of the altar!
“Who—who is ripping open my ten-foot star-iron ceiling?!”
Dean Hua Cong looked up in horror as sunlight and fresh air poured through the jagged thirty-foot hole that had just been peeled open in the dungeon roof!
Refusing to hesitate for even a tenth of a second, the ruthless Rank 8 Mid Peak Dean slammed both palms down onto the manual blood-furnace wheel at the center of the altar. Moreover, Twisted it to [EMERGENCY FULL-DRAIN]!
ZZZZZZZT—GURGLE!
All three thousand crystal stasis pods flashed a violent, suffocating blood-red!
