"Finally someone came" thought alex as he saw a woman in white robes, not too shabby nor too extravagant enter the room.

  It's been three days since he transmigrated to this world. And he was a tablet. Yes a tablet made of stone, albeit looks shiny, with words "The great founding ancestor Resalto Redmond" on it. He could not feel any of his limbs, but he could see the room and hear some chirping of insects. And that was all he could do.

  For three days he had nothing to do, and he came to accept his situation quite quickly since he was an avid reader of web novels in his past life. And like everybody who transmigrated, he also came with his golden finger, a system.

  But this system was quite calm, and had a window of only three options

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  Sacrifice Points: 0

  [Summon Creature]

  [Upgrade]

  [Heal]

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  All the three options were greyed out and Alex did not understand anything about the sacrifice points. He did try to ask the system but he got no reply.

  And after three days of no human contact, he finally saw someone enter this room. He did not understand what this room was or why the woman entered the room, but he was ecstatic to see something moving.

  He wanted to communicate, but chose to observe first. Anyway he did know if he could talk or not since , well he was a tablet.

  The woman, then casually came near him, tried to lift the tablet from the platform. But as she was doing this, an enraged voice could be heard along with a zooshing sound.

  "Put that down!!"

  And then a bright slash, surrounded by a greenish hue cut off the woman's arm who was caught in surprise. Then she shrieked in pain, as she stared in horror at her cleaved hand, lying lifelessly on the floor with blood flowing like a stream from her wound.

  Even though in pain, she managed to say the words "Sect…. Sect master, please believe me, I wasn't trying to do anything. Please" And as she pleaded for another attack, this one pointy like an arrow, surrounded by a blue hue went as fast as a bullet through the woman's neck, killing her instantly.(because qi ravaged her body).

  "Huh.. What a pathetic excuse"

  Spoke to the old man who just killed the woman. He was the current sect master Plesto Redmond. Plesto came here to pay his respects to the ancestor like he does every month. But today he saw someone trying to lift the tablet, and he was enraged by the fact, and straight up killed her. In retrospect it was a very stupid thing to do, because questioning her would have yielded more answers. But this current sect master was known to let go of his rationality when he was angered. Then he left the room shouting something about how he will kill everybody involved.

  Alex had his chance to try to speak, but what happened before him left him shocked for a moment, seeing a human being killed before him just like that. Blood spewed on his stone body, and he could somehow feel it, but he could not do anything about it. He had a squirmy feeling on his body, and he felt disgusted but he had no hands.

  Although he expected the magic, he was still traumatised seeing a woman killed ruthlessly before his eyes, without any chance to explain herself. And after witnessing that scene, all his thoughts about talking died down.

  Few hours after the incident Alex finally collected himself, and started to think rationally. Subconsciously he called upon the system window. The once greyed out option of summoning creatures was now in a light red colour.

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  Sacrifice Points: 1

  [Summon Creature]

  [Upgrade]

  [Heal]

  The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.

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  Alex was ecstatic, seeing that his golden finger activated, providing him with a sense of security in this unknown world.As he looked through the system window for any changes he found that the sacrifice points now had a 1 next to it.

  He battled his urge to click on the button, as felt it was better to gather more points before he summoned anything, as he did know what it did or if it would attract the attention of that old man who might just pulverise him into sand.

  So he waited for a month thinking of ways to secure his identity and position in the sec, how he was going to introduce himself and all, but he had no progress since he did not know a lot about the world he was in. He was in a dire need of information, which he could not get as easily as in his precious life where he had the internet.

  He was trying to hatch different kinds of plans, but nothing seemed fool proof and he wasn't a genius of sorts, even in his previous life. So he waited. Every month the old man came, paid some respects and went.Weeks months and years passed. Alex debated on the pros and cons of summoning a creature with one point but always decided against it by his fear. He was a coward in his past life, he's a coward now and will be one in the foreseeable future and nothing was going to change that as things stood. As he was going through different emotional phases and stacking up the courage, he felt he needed to do something, anything for that matter.

  And finally, for a change, instead of a lone old man, around 200 people, wearing the same red robe, with golden sleeves,came into the room.

  "Why do we have to pay respects to the dead guy? Does the sect think we don't have anything else to do? I was just about to breakthrough the bottleneck I was stuck in for months and would have ascended to the spirit sea realm"

  A young man, with red hair and a well built figure, with average looks was murmuring to himself. He joined the sect 3 years ago and was instantly taken into the inner sect and was currently at the peak of qi gathering realm, a speed only a few handful of cultivators in the continent can match.

  But he was quickly refuted by another young man, with black hair, sharp emerald eyes, who seemed to be the centre of attention of the gathering. His robes were also different, it was black in colour with golden lines woven through it.

  "Somia, stop talking like you are above the customs of the sect. It is the practice of our sect to gather all the inner disciples to pay respects to the ancestor every ten years. Don't show that expression to the elders, if they see you, they will punish you again."

  As the boy was rebuting his friend, a voice, filled with majesty and a hint of excitement, sounded in the room.

  "As you all know, it is tradition that we gather all the inner disciples to pay respects to the ancestor every ten years. This year being that same year, we gather to get the blessing of our ancestor and show him the seeds of the young generation for him to smile graciously upon our future pillars"

  As the people gathered here were chattering, talking as if the speech ended, knowing their sect master to be a man of few words, the same voice, with excitement now evident, sounded again.

  "And this year we have a special ceremony planned too. A ceremony of blood, as an apology to our ancestor"

  And this started off a new set of chats, everyone thinking about what their hot blooded sect master was talking about, with some eyeing at the sect elders present, as if asking them to explain, or stop the sect master from doing something stupid.

  With a wave of his hand, the sect master quietens down his audience, and proceeds to explain. The incident where the woman tried to steal the ancestral tablet was investigated and turns out, it was a plan orchestrated by a rival sect, who wanted to shame their sect by stealing the ancestral tablet from right under their noses. Then the sect master called them names, for being so gutless to go head on against them, and announcing a full blown out war with that sect, but he was calmed down by the grand elder, who was the oldest elder present in this gathering.

  Anyway, the investigation yielded some results, with three people held accountable, two outer sect disciples who infiltrated as spies and one Outer elder, who made it possible for the woman to get access to the ancestral grounds in the first place.

  The outer elder thought that the sect wouldn't take much notice of a servant, and especially investigate so much into the records. He was approached by a man who promised him an inner elder position.All he had to do was assign a woman to the ancestral grounds, and then wait for the tablet to be stolen. After that, if he went to the Dancing sword sect with the tablet, he would be given the position.

  But unexpectedly the woman never appeared, and when he went to the man to ask for the position he was promised, he was rejected citing that delivering the tablet was part of the deal and since there was no tablet, he would not get the position. Fearing what would happen if he was caught, given the short tempered maniac sitting on the chair of sect master, he was getting ready to leave the sect. But by that time, the sect master ordered a high priority investigation, and they found him, who was ratted out by the two outer disciples.

  For years he was tormented, to spew out what he wanted to do with the tablet. He gave out the name of Dancing Sword sect a week into the investigative torture, but the sect master was adamant about there being another more dangerous, ulterior motive.

  After years of imprisonment and torture, he was finally out.He thought that with nobody being killed, his punishment would be softer, due to his position as elder.

  "We will be sacrificing these three to our ancestors, to apologise for disturbing his sleep."

  But what the sect master said after, made his head turn and immediately pleaded to reconsider. When the sect master was adamant and none of the other elders even tried to speak out for him, he took his final stance, and decided to kill as many people as possible before he went. But his plans were foiled when the sect master already sent the same attack he used all those years ago, a piercing strike like an arrow, which was this time covered with a reddish hue and went right through the heart of the elder. Throughout the whole session, the nameless elder did not even understand why he was dying over a simple tablet, not understanding what his betrayal meant to the sect master.

  And swiftly two more lifeless heads rolled on the ground, of the two disciples cut with the same sword by the grand elder himself.

  Looking at the lifeless bodies, none of the people in the crowd squinched, or even bat an eye while they were being killed, as if they were used to it. None in the crowd except one.

  Then everyone proceeded to pay their respects, with more people in robes that were of the servants like the one that woman wore cleaning up the blood. But something none of them expected happened, as a hole, black allover, as if devouring everything suddenly appeared before the tablet.

  All the elders and sect master instantly called upon their beasts, who were guarding outside the ancestral lands. They also jumped forward, standing in between the new portal of sorts and the disciples, calming them down and asking them to fall back.

  And from that hole comes a wolf cub, a tenth of the size of any being present there. All the people here , were well versed about various beasts and one quick witted disciple shouted

  "Grim Wolf. It's a Grim wolf cub"

  As the crowd was awed by the arrival of the creature, the elders were still vigilant and some beasts had arrived in the room where the gathering took place. As it looked, the beasts were ready to pounce upon the newly arrived cub,at the slightest signal from their masters.