Too perfect...

"So...", the leader of the faction from the Ember Palm Pavilion spoke after the door closed, turning to Senior Dong, "Remember the deal, Old Man, if you do everything well, you and your Young Master both don't need to be harmed at all"

Senior Dong made a heavy look, seemingly not quite trusting that statement, but being out of options begrudgingly turned to move to the smaller platform with the stone monolith.

Silence hanged in the air as the older man began deciphering the writings on the monolith, a scene not dissimilar to what he did by the door.

And then, as he touched the monolith, the characters engraved on it began lighting up with the same glow as the 'liquid text', as if the inside of the monolith began filling with lava.

Profound symbols and patterns of the same color appeared on the floor of the platform that the three Sects' Disciples and the Young Master stood on.