By Sunday morning, the sleazy neon-pink lanterns and plastic peach trees of the North Campus had been completely swept into the campus incinerator.
In their place, gleaming white-jade banners embroidered with silver frost-lotuses and golden medical needles fluttered from the three-thousand-foot spire of the former Rose Tower.
Hovering above the grand front courtyard of the tower, Gu Changsheng and Empress Luo Qingxue unveiled a newly forged, fifty-foot horizontal plaque of unmelting star-ice and solar gold:
[1,000-SUN ACADEMY — THE LUO QINGXUE & PEACE PHARMACY COLLEGE OF WOMEN’S SWORD ETHICS, MEDICINE & SELF-DEFENSE]
[DEAN OF SWORD ETHICS: EMPRESS LUO QINGXUE | DEAN OF MEDICINE: CHIEF PHYSICIAN QIN WAN’ER | HONORARY HEAD TA: SU NUANNUAN]
Across the newly planted rose-and-sweet-potato gardens of the main plaza, all 3,000 liberated Saintesses, Sword Fairies, and Alchemists—dressed in crisp white-and-cyan academy robes—stood in neat formations.
At the front of the plaza, Gu Changsheng and Auntie Qin stood behind a long distribution table stacked with three thousand gleaming golden boxes fresh out of [Dad’s Care-Package Upgrade Box].
“Sisters,” Auntie Qin announced briskly into the plaza microphone, holding up a slender, exquisitely carved golden phoenix hairpin that hummed with both solar lightning and sovereign honey-detox runes. “Before any of you return to your home sects or begin teaching classes at our new Women’s College. President Gu spent thirty billion Dad Points last night fusing three thousand sets of [Care-Package Anti-Creep 100,000-Volt Self-Defense & Detox Hairpins]!”
