Black Box

As soon as the Patriarch had slashed his own arm, the next in line did the same, and one by one, the Supreme Elders of the White Tiger Sect slashed their arms in a clock-wise rotation.

The blood dripped from the arms and down on the symbols engraved into the ground beneath. As the drops dripped into the carved out groove of the ground, the blood slowly filled out the pattern, and as the entire indent had been filled with blood, the floor beneath began to tremble.

At first, the stones merely trembled and clattered, but as the final Elder shed his blood into the engraved carving beneath his feet, the stones began to sink into the floor and created a staircase leading into the darkness below.

It was not before the stones began moving that the Patriarch and the Elders took out some pills and crushed them above the wounds, letting the medicinal powder from the pills spread across the wounds and quickly heal the gashes, removing all traces of the previous bloody scenario.