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Crimson detonation runes pulsed across the bars of all ten million crystal cages on Floor Four.
Inside the cages, the trapped spirits of ten million mothers and fathers did not scream in fear for themselves. Instead, as the scorching heat of the Grief-Refining Furnace began to singe the edges of their translucent sleeves. Fathers pressed their palms against the crystal bars and shouted at Gu Changsheng to take his children and run!
“Don’t listen to that six-armed monster, Immortal Father Gu!” a broad-shouldered carpenter in Cage #0088—labeled [Father Zhao — Executed Page 3 to Motivate Revenge Sword Hero]—bellowed at the top of his lungs. Even then, red sparks burned his ghostly shoulders.
“We’re already dead men! Don’t let him force your five kids to kneel! Take your wife and children and get out of the vault before the furnace blows!!”
“Yes! Protect your children first!” Mother Lin cried out from Cage #0002.
At the center of the iron plain, three-hundred-foot-tall Soul-Vault Warden Kuhai let out a grating, metallic laugh through his rotating funeral mask, tightening his upper-right bronze hand on the Self-Destruct Valve. Meanwhile, his other five arms raised five Half-Step Rank 10 Bereavement Cleavers around the furnace vents.
