They wanted me to prove I had activated my dantian.
So they needed to sense ki.
I immediately begin circulating my Ki as I stand up.
Standing up I effortlessly snap the ropes of my hands.
And as I take a step the ropes binding my legs snap off.
The whole crowd is shocked as they react in awe.
"I see, so it true." The Patriarch says.
Though trying to hide it I could see him smile.
"Ugh!!" The two guards standing beside me utter as they drop to their knees grabbing their chest.
They fall to the ground.
Looking at them, it was symptoms of poisoning.
Everyone in the hall were confused, including me.
Though guards, it doesn’t make sense that someone of the Dang family would just suddenly collapse from poisoning.
Though not immune they are very cautious when using poison within themselves.
Everyone mumur puzzled at what had just happened.
Suddenly I see a hand coming towards me.
He grabs me by the neck with his left hand tight lifting me off the floor.
It was the second elder.
I struggle a bit but couldn’t do much since I could implicate myself further if I harm an elder.
"What do you think you are doing" The Patriarch asks the second elder with a loud voice.
"Isnt it obvious that she has murdered this two?" The second elder replies.
Naaa I can’t do this shit anymore.
I grasp the elder’s left arm with the intention of applying pressure enough to cause him to let me go.
But as soon as I grasp his arm he screams in pain letting me go.
Huh? I felt a sizzling sensation when I touched him, what was that.
I drop to the ground coughing as he lets me go.
Everyone watching this is shocked at what was happening.
The Grand Elder immediately rushes to my front.
Fuck, there’s nowhere I’m beat a Master at this level I am right now.
Especially not one from the Dang family.
I immediately crouch, not knowing what to do but just getting ready Incase I needed to kill or flee.
He starts drawing nearer.
Step by step I watch his every move.
Trying to read every muscle movement.
But he just passes me.
He walks up to the chair behind me, bends down and picks up the rope that had snapped off my legs.
"Patriarch, could you come over here for a moment." The grand elder says to the Patriarch.
The Patriarch moves over.
"Check this out, but use Ki." The grand elder says as he passes over a twine of rope.
The Patriarch takes a look at it for about three seconds and his facial expression changes.
"Its laced with poison?" He says with a tone of shock.
"Who tried using poison on her!" The Patriarch says our loud in anger.
Hmmm, is he worried about me right now? or is he just bothered about the rules of the family.
"Its not that Patriach, look at her, does she look like she’s been poisoned? Think Patriarch." The grand elder states.
The Patriarch ponders for a while with his hand on his chin.
"Wait, you don’t mean..." The Patriarch blurts out before pausing.
"Well we can’t be sure yet. You should probably disperse this meeting." The grand elder suggests to the Patriarch.
The Patriarch nods at the grand elder’s suggestion.
"I would like to ask that everyone leave the hall immediately." The Patriarch says to everyone.
"What could be going on." I wonder.
"But Patriarch she..." The second elder tries to speak.
"Stand down Dang Shoo." The grand elder cuts him off.
He reluctantly backs away holding his left arm.
He gives me one last glare before turning and leaving.
"You stay." The grand elder tells me.
Well of course, it had something to do with me.
A while after everyone had left, the grand elder walks up close to me.
Staring deep into my eyes as if searching for something.
He stares oddly for a while before taking his eyes off.
I did nothing but just stand there looking back into his eyes.
"Follow me." The Patriarch says to me as he walks pass me.
The grand elder follows behind him as I follow behind them both.
They both lead me into a basement floor of the clans library.
Heading down into the basement, I become a little bit hesitant but I can’t do anything about it at this time.
The stairway was completely dark but with each step we took, a marble on the wall lit up the path in front of us.
We go down the stairs for a while before arriving at a wooden door locked from the outside with a padlock.
The Patriarch brings out a bunch of keys and opens the door.
They both go in and I follow behind them.
The room is lit by numerous luminous marbles.
Aren’t those things really expensive?
To have so many light up a stairway and then in a room this large.
It was a very spacious room with a large earthen table at the center.
Around were a number of weapons, pills, martial arts manuals and some large boxes.
"You probably have a lot of questions right now.
And the most important would be why we’ve brought you here." The Patriach begins to speak while opening a box filled with rolled up scripts.
He picks up one, unties it and places it on the table.
He uses some tiny metals to hold the edges to prevent the script from folding in.
On the script were some words I couldn’t read from the distance I was standing.
"Come closer child." The grand elder says to me.
As I go closer the Patriarch begins a long speech.
"I’m sure you must have heard about how we were once the greatest of the five great families of the Orthodox faction.
How we almost faced complete annihilation and how we are gradually rising, even though slow.
What people don’t know is that we knew about the incoming massacre and had planned on preparation for it.
About twenty years ago, a prophecy was made concerning us that...