Chains followed Mona's fingers into the vampire's soul.
Just like a contract.
When the chains vanished, the vampire's soul had turned deep purple.
It stood quietly behind Mona.
It had become Mona's contracted servant.
The power of her [dark high priest] talent began to manifest.
Inside the ritual circle, the vampire's blood also lit up the patterns.
The energy fluctuations within the vampire bloodline grew increasingly intense.
Whoosh... whoosh...
The sound of flowing water echoed through the Council Hall.
Accompanied by that sound, a blood-red river slowly materialized inside the ritual circle.
Its aura was mysterious and surging.
Descending alongside that river...
Was a mysterious dimensional world.
Yu Yuan knew it was the spiritual dimension, because he could faintly sense several suffocating auras.
A smile curled Mona's lips as she looked at the blood-red river.
Yu Yuan's eyes lit up as well, and he murmured inwardly:
We sacrificed a vampire, and it finally appeared! So this is... the vampires' bloodline river...
Through sacrifice and ritual, they had finally slipped open a back door into the spiritual dimension.
The vampires' bloodline river finished materializing, completing the first step of the ritual.
This bloodline river was clearly only a tributary, because many other tributaries, large and small, lay nearby.
Some were broad, others narrow, and some had even dried up.
But like a tree growing upside down, no matter how many branches there were, they all shared a single source—the source of the bloodline river.
Golden light shrouded the source of the bloodline river, and Yu Yuan sensed a terrifying aura.
This tributary clearly belonged to Duke Night Ancient's lineage, and its waters were quite broad.
It intertwined with three other broad tributaries, forming the main body of the Blood Clan's bloodline river.
Mona stepped forward to the Stag-Head Altar at the