《The Great Ancestor》 Ancestor Lan! Aste Continent, Blackcloud City. Situ Family Ancestral Tomb, "Ahh.. It feels so great to have a body. " Moans were heard from coffin of the great ancestor of Situ Family. Caretaker Rin was scared silly by the sounds as she backed against wall with confusion plus despair vividly displayed on her face. Before her eyes the coffin lid was blown away and a withered hand with barely any skin remaining on it clutched on edge on the coffin. A few seconds passed but nothing else happened. Caretaker Rin who was brink of insanity found this situation pretty disturbing, ''Shouldn''t the ghost come out now?'' As responding to her, the body finally stood up as withered old man with white silk clothes come out of the coffin scratching his head which was full of white hairs which somehow managed to reach his sunken shoulders. He looked around to find the lady on brink of pissing herself and said, "khmm... h..hello helloo." He found that lady was confused, he said, "Never seen old man coming out of coffin, huh?" Seeing the confusion on lady''s face now transforming into fear, he quickly started a new topic with gentle tone, "Who are you child?" He mused to himself, ''This was also something I always wanted to say but due to my age back then I never got chance to say it, huh huh finally dream coming true.'' Caretaker Rin was flabbergasted. She didn''t know what to do. She was taking care of this tomb for last three years. She knew the Great Ancestor Lan was placed here to continue the eternal rest. All rest and everything sounds good but he was clearly dead when placed here. Now at first the Great Ancestor come back to life and then start talking incoherent things. She didn''t know whether to be happy to see her so called ''Death Partner'' alive or cry to see dead resurrected and calling her child, still she mustered all courage and spoke, "Ancestor Lan, this one is your Death Partner." Now Ancestor Lan was confused, " Death partner?" ''What the fuck is that? Don''t tell me this body is so much withered because of her, damn.. people here seem to have some cruel fetish.'' On the other hand Caretaker Rin wondered, '' Isn''t this the common knowledge, why Ancestor is asking this?'' Still she didn''t dare to refute him so he replied honestly. "Ancestor Lan, I am obliged to serve you till death. I take care of the tomb.. yo..your tomb. And will stay here till I die." Still the thoughts in her mind were clearly displayed on her face. Ancestor Lan was now stroking his newfound beard while contemplating, ''Wow, never thought stroking beard was this fun. Damn me, watching too many strange things have corroded my pure mind. Still this world seems to be little weird.'' So after seeing the face of his new free servant he continued, "Don''t worry I am just little confused after resurrection. The god gave me new life but he was short on time so I think he jumbled the memories, so just help the god to complete his duty and explain me who am I, where am I?" And he straightened his back to look more dignified. Caretaker Rin was a young lady who lived her life in remote village and was afraid of ghost, so it was given that she believed in God, she was pretty much convinced and to fulfill god''s work.. This was one of the great opportunities few get. And when she saw dignified posture of Ancestor she bowed and started explaining, "Ancestor, this place is Situ family''s Ancestral Tomb where all the honored clansmen rest in their afterlife. Everyone is assigned room in tomb along with Death Partner who accompanies them." She looked toward Ancestor Lan through corner of her eye and saw he was still anticipating more she added, "Situ family is one of the five families which rule the Blackcloud City. Other families are Kai Family, Cheng Family, Jiang Family, Hai Family. Blackcloud city is one of cities in Long Empire which is ruled by Long family. Long empire is strongest empire which rules Southern Aste Continent. There are three more Royal families in Aste Continent which are Tian family, Reku Family, Song Family which respectively rules North, East and West part of Aste continent. There are other continents outside of Aste continent but this little one doesn''t know about them." She looked little guilty but small signs of pride could be seen in her eyes. She had read about this information from the books since there was nothing to do here. So her knowledge was much more than ordinary people. Seeing that she stopped explaining Ancestor Lan figured out that he doesn''t need the information on continent scale. Aste continent and what not, considering what he faced, he is ready to flip he world with snap of finger, yes, keyword is READY. World will not be flipped but he is ready. It is figure of speech. Still to let her continue, he quickly praised, "Hmm.. You are pretty knowledgeable. Good. Tell me more about situation in Blackcloud City in detail. About all families and our family."Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. " Blackcloud City is most wealthy city in Long empire after Royal City. It hosts only port in Aste empire hence all the sea products are mainly supplied through here. All five family used to govern it equally until last three years." After saying this she seems to be troubled about something but checking look on Ancestor''s face she continued, "But when the family failed to suppress the news of your death, other families started pressuring our family. Finally when the 6th generation Ancestor of Hai family, Hai Delu broke through Martial King State everything started crumbling. Hai Family now controls most of profit of port and other three families are now in all good terms with Hai family. Our family had long feud with Hai family due to our 6th generation Ancestor; Situ Fang married the woman Hai delu loved. I don''t know the detail but we are on bad terms with Hai family. So we are being constantly isolated. If not for our Ancestor Situ Fang being Level 9 Martial General, we would have been kicked out of BlackCloud City." During this time she noticed jovial expression on ancestor''s face, so she curiously studied his face. He seemed to be mumbling something so she stopped. Ancestor Lan was indeed Happy. He was happy that he somehow ended up in cultivation world. ''Martial General, Martial King, Martial fuck.. isn''t this cool. Who would have thought after dying in hands of those fuckers I got lucky break and stranded here. Ha Ha! Now I will cultivate like crazy and will return to earth and fuck them over, over and over again; Sheesh, its figure of speech.'' '' Ha Ha Ha. Wait! Before going back I will spread my legend throughout this Cultivation World. But to think of it when I died and my soul travelled here, I was given choice of occupying the dying youth on riverbank somewhere, which must be same like those waste or something in family. Shit! I was bored of reading those types of clich¨¦s, it was smart of great me that, at that time I ran away from there and started searching for strongest thing which was available to possess. I was not able to see anything but I think I somehow managed to possess strong human using only my blue gut feeling. Blue gut! Yes! Blue is the keyword. Blue signifies senses, red one danger, black one bitches. Blue and red I developed during my golden period of 8th grade. Black one I got when my crush got boyfriend. Shit, it still hurts.'' After noticing that the lady was watching him, he cleared his throat and said, "You said I died? How long was I dead and why I died, you know anything about that?" Caretaker Rin was aware of memory loss of Ancestor so she quickly replied, "Ancestor you passed away while breaking through Martial Supreme State to Demigod State three years before. " She explained with zeal. He didn''t know whether she was proud of his death or being in Supreme State. After listening this Ancestor Lan was worried, ''It seems it took three years for me to assimilate my soul with this skeleton. It seems he was barely alive at that time. But I don''t know if this body''s power is gone or still there. Fuck if I don''t have any cultivation? With this old body I will cry myself to death.'' So he quickly asked, "Young Lady, do you know any method to measure cultivation base?" Internally Ancestor Lan was very anxious if he turn out to be without cultivation, it will be a nightmare, ''So many enemies, I will be like fish on chopping board; A skinny fish. Skinny is the keyword. And even if he somehow hides from enemies, a passing gust and common cold will nail him to the grave. Now the weak boy at shore sure looks like good choice'' By the look of quick enlightenment on her face, the gossipy girl seems to have guessed the key point. She quickly produced measuring stone which was given to her by Situ Family. She was given cultivation manual when she started her life as Death Partner to prolong her life. After grabbing the measuring stone in her hand she poured her Qi in it and the stone glowed in two colors, she explained, "When I started as Death Partner I was given manual and these two stones to start cultivation. The realm stone shows each realm, single Color represent Martial Apprentice, each increase in color correspond to Martial Warrior, Martial Commander, Martial General, Martial King, Martial Emperor, Martial Supreme, Demigod then God state. Other people don''t know much about after Martial Emperor but I read about it in scrolls provided by Library. There is other stone which is used for indicating levels in each stage but the stone varies for each Cultivation realm. I have realm stone and one for Martial Warrior stage only." She sneakily added, " Because I reached Martial Warrior stage in only three years." She was little proud when she explained this and puffed her flat chest a little, seemingly she forgot her previous worry about Ancestor''s cultivation. Ancestor Lan was not that patient to praise her now, so he quickly snatched and tried pouring Qi from his body in the stone. He felt like his balls were in his throat and can pop out anytime soon. After concentrating for a while he felt strands of some power rushing from his body towards his hand, he slowly tried to guide the strands of that power-Qi into the stone bit by bit. When first strand entered the stone it quickly glowed with seven different colors, eighth color was flickering in and out. Ancestor Lan was overjoyed and started laughing boisterously. " Ha ha ha, My gamble paid out! Ha Ha! Now this world is worthy of witnessing Legend of great me Lamb..no it was Lan," He quickly stole a glance at girl and corrected "Great me, Ancestor Lan. Ha Ha Ha." As smart as he was he quickly gathered his wits and stationed his balls properly and laughingly praised the Lady who was as happy as him, "Not bad Young one, you reached Martial Warrior Stage in only three years. Good. Very Good. Don''t worry about anything now you are under my wing, I will take care of you from now on." Now he was enjoying posturing. ''My Blue gut was never wrong except when ¡­'' he tried to remember, ''except ¡­ ..fuck, leave it I don''t remember !'' Caretaker Rin was overjoyed and quickly kowtowed, "This little one is grateful for Ancestor''s Kindness." Ancestor Lan still didn''t know about many things as What is his age and which generation ancestor he was and many things in current family? Now he got power and then he has a family. He felt like Mafia Boss. He wanted to know more about them'' "Now tell me which generations Ancestor I am and who is current head of the family?" Caretaker Rin quickly explained, "Ancestor, you are Third Generation Ancestor and Current Family Head is Situ Xi of 7th generation." And after that she quickly added, "Ancestor my name is Situ Rin, I am of the 9th generation Situ branch family. I am only cultivator in my branch who reached Martial Warrior state at age of 23 years. Currently I am Martial Warrior Level 3. And I am only 24 year old." Last lines were clearly said with puffed flat chest. After listening to the promotional speech, Ancestor Lan was also feeling little proud, but of himself, ''Hu hu hu, 3rd generation means.. calculating age increased by cultivation and all ..lets round it off to thousands. Yes, good. I am probably aged in thousands. Fucking cool. And on top of that I am an Ancestor; I can pretty much curse everyone now.'' He patted head of the proud chick in front of her with genuine smile, thinking ''She did not forget to promote her'' which made the innocent lady overjoyed and said, "Let''s head to family building now, if you see anyone important just report to me quickly. Don''t let anyone notice that I don''t remember anything." He also added incentives, "If anyone bullies you report to me, I will fuck them over" Situ Rin was little startled by Ancestor''s crude language but she quickly dismissed it as generation gap considering the incentive and nodded furiously. Your Ancestor is here! Both came out of the gloomy tombs after a minute. Ancestor Lan saw this place for first time. He saw the buildings were made in middle age fashion with slanted rooftops probably to sustain heavy rain. Sun was shining brightly on top. He saw a high wall surrounding the area fully with guards loitering around it. This atmosphere brightened up, his already bright mood. ''Wall is must for the good base. Wall is must.'' He remembered his great loss is age of empire solely due to single broken wall. As he followed lead of Situ Rin whose head was stretched so high that, now he was worried it will break anytime soon. As they reached the big building clearly like one shown in Ancient Chinese movies back on Earth. Guards noticed an aloof figure marching in through the family main hall with hands behind his back occasionally speaking few words with long necked girl wait...the neck was just stretched; aloof skinny figure and quickly ran to stop them. Aloof or not they had to do their duty. Clearly they didn''t recognize skinny ancestor of theirs and were wondering how the duo passed through the main family gate. They yelled to stop them with signs of fear on their face, "Stop there! This is Situ Family mansion. Outsiders are not allowed. Return the way you came. " Last line was clearly a way out so they do not need to fight. Guards were aware that anyone who comes through the Main Gate will be accompanied by Main Gate Guards, if anyone is without them that clearly mean that he or she is trespassing, and now this old guy was marching like it was his home, means he had finished everyone on Main Gate. So no way they were no match for him as Main Gate Guards were elite among them. Ancestor Lan was clearly unaware of all it as he come from tomb which was already in the family compound, and Situ Rin was not well known either leading to this situation; as none of the books or gossipy old ladies told her these things. Ancestor Lan stopped and was thinking how this situation was similar to normal face smacking scenes in many novels he read on the Earth back then and was little happy. He had free chance to curse so he replied with dignified voice, " Your Ancestor here wants to meet everyone in family. Assemble them in this hall in front of me in next 2 hours. " After saying this he released pressure using his Qi which he got familiar with while walking here. He turned to Situ Rin and said, "Lad Rin send someone to bring me some food." He headed in the hall thinking about how he had not eaten anything in last few years. Even though it was not needed, the thought that he had not eaten is enough to make him hungry as hell, Two hours'' time was for especially for this. Never start game without full stomach. That was code to live by. Now Ancestor Lan( Lan) was sitting on main seat in hall, stroking his beard while waiting for the food. Guards were standing few feet away near the pillar occasionally stealing few glances at the Ancestor. Due to previous display of power they do not dare to question whether he was really their ancestor or not? They care for their life more than that. Now they were waiting for the family head while keeping close watch on this person. Close watch in the sense if he did anything funny, they can hightail as fast as can. Lan was wondering, ''Now that everything is same as other transcended person''s novel like on back on Earth, shouldn''t I get powerful system? System must be there. I must figure out how to activate it. That must be it.'' Like that he started shouting ''SYSTEM START'', ''START BOOTING'', ''COME OUT SYSTEM'' in his mind. Why not out loud? That is common sense if you read web novels. After shouting for while with no result he started pondering on it. It was then suddenly he found himself in front of counter. He can only see the counter in front of him, a metallic figure behind it. The figure behind the counter was similar to the robots from comics back on Earth, Old comic. Old is keyword here. Without any expression or anything on square face, round eyes like camera lens, small mesh at the place of mouth probably speaker. There was scroll on the counter with points written on it. He can''t see anything behind the robot other than darkness.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. Lan found out that he was not able to move nor he was able to sense his body. After a second of confusion he was overjoyed, ''This must be it. My system, HA HA HA!'' While he was laughing inside, he heard metallic sound in front of him, "What you want to buy?" Lan as smart as he was, he quickly started thinking, ''This robot is giving me something awesome as startup reward. I must ask something good or later I will regret it.'' Due to his motto to grab as much profit as possible in any situation, Lan replied, "Give me most powerful superpower in this world." Robot replied without pausing, "Only items in the worlds you visit or have been can be bought." Robotic voice was devoid of any emotion. Lan was disappointed still he tried to seek some comfort by buying a gun. "Give me most powerful gun." After few second of whirling sounds robotic voice replied, < Host body and soul code are not matching ¡­> < Improvising¡­.. Synchronizing with current Body¡­. Body cultivation exceeded the starting limit¡­.. Generating solution... Solution Generated! 1. Host cannot kill any living being. 2. System store items cannot be used to harm any living being. BAN will be permanently applied for current world of Inzar. > Now Lan was flabbergasted. He was regretting accessing system. If he did not wake up the system. The entire ban thing would not have happened. But now he cannot kill anything. But being smart and cunning, he felt little relieved. He never killed anything in his last life, not even chicken. He may have boasted about burning heaven, but actual killing was always different. Now he can harm anybody without fear of killing. ''Hu hu,'' Lan was very satisfied with his positive thinking. Then he remembered that by killing, the protagonist gains experience to level up. Now that I cannot kill, won''t I be stuck at the same cultivation level? Just before he can ask, robotic voice replied. "Host can buy items from shop and can increase the cultivation level by using Fame points. Fame Points are points which are shown on scroll here. When a person come to know your identity, whether it may be a false identity or true one or he is referring to you in any way you will get one Fame point daily until the person in question forgets about you. Currently you have 33 Fame Points." Robot was now explaining as much as possible. Lan heaved sigh of relief, he can make progress in cultivation. Now he was sure that he can leave this world quickly and start completing his ''To Take Revenge'' List. He did not forget that he cannot kill only in this world, if he leaves this place he can do as he wants. He mentally praised his mommy for giving birth to such genius son. Still he felt sad that he did not get anything for free. Just then robot quipped, "Congratulations Host for accessing system for first time. You are given special skill Status. You can view Information about anything you wish. < Error!> Lan was neither sad nor happy. Anything he got for free is good. But he was not sure that this damn robot can read his mind. Still he asked one doubt out loud, "Oh! Main thing; how to enter this place? I tried many things before entering; I was not able to enter." Robot replied, <"Error corrected.> < From now on whenever you think about it you can enter this place in instant." > With current affairs being so shocking, he felt need to transfer some tension to other people. Lan returned to his body with few candies in his hand. After returning he found out that, time was not passed at all. ''So that means when I am entering in that place, that does not affect this world. And by the look of guards my body was also here. That''s sad; I cannot hide there during emergencies.'' After few minutes of chewing on candies he bought from system, Situ Rin returned with plates of food. He grabbed other chair and placed a plate on it and started eating the seafood dishes. Why he was eating directly by hand? He was like this in his last world so he doesn''t want to forget his roots and habits. Yes, it is all about being ground to earth; nothing about being lazy to use something else, And for washing hand? He doesn''t think he can kill germs due to new ban. Yes, it was all system''s fault. He was also worried he may catch disease due to that. Robotic voice replied in his mind. < Error > <"Host, your body will be automatically healed continuously to compensate for ''Kill-ME-Not Penalty''." > Lan kept praising his mom for her noble did. Seeing the skinny old man grabbing plates after plate and munching on food guards were amused. By the look of it, now they can somewhat believe that the old man must be hungry ghost who crawled out from coffin. Situ Rin believed that this was due to generation gap and she will respect Ancestor''s way of doing things. So she was now glaring at the guards who were stealing glances at Ancestor. When Situ Rin was threatening last few guards with her glares, Lan finished eating. After eating he distributed all the energy he got all around the body. His skinny body quickly bulged up. ''How I did it? Don''t ask it was all instinct. Yeah.. Instinct is the keyword, like how tiger knows to bite and teenager knows to masturbate.'' Now he looked like any other old man in seventies. He bought rubber band from system and tied up his hair in ponytail. He also combed his long beard to produce pointy end with comb from system. He did not like buffed body, he again did some adjustment and become skinny like super strong old guys from novels and manga''s, who has one paragraph of description about how wind can blow them and all. When he was thinking whether to purchase hair gel to shape his beard more properly, he heard footsteps outside of the hall. Yes! I am Lan! He saw two genuine old men walking inside. Genuine is the key word. The long white robe fluttering without wind, which along with same color hairs and strong gait can surely certify them as '' old men who did something great in their life.'' Such men were followed by crowd of young people and few ladies. By hubbub in teenage crowd anyone can guess they were expecting some show now. When one of the old man, one with bushy eyebrows stopped his strong gait and observed Lan sitting in Main seat with mess of empty plates around everywhere, saw still the unconcerned expression on Lan''s face. He snapped, "Whoever you are? Kneel and beg for mercy now for this atrocity and you will be forgiven or else even god cannot save you from me." By the look on other old man, he was also eager to add something. Lan observed the angry old man with droopy eyes and picked up a bone and start slowly chewing it. The expression on his face was clearly asking for beating. Situ Rin the new gang member was muttering something incomprehensible. She was totally neglected. The young crowd started cheering for Bushy brow old man by adding few lines about how to beg and all. Bushy brow was sure that his threat will work as he did not sense any cultivation from opposite party. And when he spoke, he made sure to add spiritual pressure, before his 5th level Martial General cultivation mortal human would surely be compelled to beg. But the skinny old man was still leisurely chewing on bones with arrogant expression, he quickly guessed something amiss. He was family head after all. He changed his approached and calmed the young crowd with silent glare, "Why are you here? No matter how weak our family is now, we will not be pushed around by anyone." He made sure to include everyone. Young crowd now understood they were before someone of very high cultivation and quickly quiet down. Some who spoke earlier were trying to hide behind others. Lan was little happy. He already knew that even silence of powerful people can terrorize weak ones. Still he commended the quick wits of old guy. From Situ Rin''s mutters he managed to decipher that the Bushy brow one is current family head named Situ Xi and other one is Situ Pao his brother. He observed people among young crowd by slightly tilting his head, one in particular caught his attention who was standing in front of everyone, ''must be pushed to front by one trying to hide'' he thought. ''But the gloomy face surely reflects some hardship.'' He also noticed one wobbling in crowd. He came back to Bushy brow ¨C Situ Xi, "If it was any other time I would have slapped you till you become silly, call that Lady Stealer Fang in 10 seconds, can''t recognize your own ancestor, Kid''s nowadays." He sighed. Last line was clearly said in mutter but was enough to reach everyone''s ear. It was purely added by Lan to satisfy his desire to flaunt his age around. Suddenly crowd was quite as ¡­ as fuck. They were too quite. Everybody was looking at Lan like he is some mysterious creature. Situ Xi suddenly recalled old painting of Great Ancestor Lan. ''This old man looked similar to Ancestor Lan. Yes that crooked nose¡­he is the Ancestor Lan.'' It was as if he was shot with 1 Liter chicken blood. He started crying his eyes out, ''Now my days of worry will be over, I don''t have to carry shame of being the one to lead his family to extinction.'' He came forward and bowed so deeply that his head was touching ground. He shouted while crying, " Great Ancestor Lan, forgive this junior, Junior is old and senile doesn''t have good memory. Forgive me..Forgive me..*sobs*" He cannot say that he has never seen Ancestor Lan personally, as Ancestor was always cultivating even since he remembers. When he became Family Head, he was shown painting of Ancestors of family. That was all he saw of the ancestor.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. All the crowd now got confirmation and turned boisterous, they also joined with Family head. "Forgive US Great Ancestor! Forgive Us!" Lan was satisfied with them. ''This is it, This is how elders should be respected.'' He swept glance across masses, he noticed somebody was bowing too deeply¡­He carefully observed.. ''Fuck.. That one was sleeping. Never mind, as a great ancestor, I will forgive you.'' Caretaker Rin was also basking in worship as she was standing near ancestor and did not catch the bowing train. And to bow now, will be very awkward. And as she was under ancestor''s wing she doesn''t need to bow. ''Yes, that''s it. I should not; it will be bad for ancestor''s image if his teammates start bowing.'' She convinced herself. She noticed ancestor''s signaling her towards somewhere. Then she saw the sleeping Situ Kulu. She was furious'' Sleeping here in front of Ancestor? What a gall?'' and marched to wake him up. Lan nodded satisfactorily seeing that guy wake up and scrambling to bow. He then continued with dignified voice, "No need to do all this. I know you guys must have never got chance to see me. I forgive you. Now hurry up and call that Fang." Situ Xi stood up and signaled other old man- Situ Pao. Situ Pao forgot his strong gait and ran like small kid towards the entrance. Situ Xi smiled, "Great Ancestor, Ancestor Fang is in secluded cultivation, other juniors will not be able to invite him, Pao Pao will bring him here as soon as possible." Lan smiled showing he has no problem with it, He asked to pass time, "So, tell me why you looked to be in dire state? Other than both of you kids, no one has high strength. I noticed this place looks like thoroughly cleaned out of any valuables. What is happening here?" Lan has noticed nothing, it was all based on gossip by Rin. ''If they are financially tight, they must sell something from here, right?" Situ Xi was awed that Great Ancestor figured out his condition with just a look, nobody will be able to find out these things so easily. He respectfully explained, "Great Ancestor, after false rumor of your demise was spread by our enemy, Hai clan, and as you would not bother to clarify those lowly rumors, as it would have hindered your cultivation. Rumor was accepted as truth. Other clans especially Song''s followed Hai clan''s lead to pressure us to leave the tributaries of river. Our income drastically dropped as we are totally depended on the naval trade. Then Hai Clan''s Ancestor Hai Delu broke through to Martial King Rank, it was like mountain crashed on us, our other business and shops in Blackcloud city were forced to close, we would have been kicked out of city if not for Ancestor Fang and me to threaten them with fight to death. Now that you have come out of seclusion, everything will be good as old days. Everything will be good as long as you are here." Lan was happy with wits of Situ Xi, he did not even mentioned about Lan''s death. Lan was sleeping in coffin, '' Don''t tell me people here do cultivation in coffin? This guy is good with words. No wonder he managed to hold out for three years without any support.'' "No worries, Your Ancestor is here now. Just stand by and enjoy the show." But he was thinking something else, ''These guys where ganged up by everyone, they did not have a single friendly clan. They must have been bullies when they were in power, no wonder nobody tried to help them when they were down. And this Situ Xi wants to go back to old days, days of bullying others. Like hell!'' Still he confirmed his guess with Caretaker Rin, who explained in whispers, "Our clan was so respected that people used to come every month just to pay us money and nobody used to charge us anything when we buy things. It was so good." That was good way to explain extortion. Lan sighed, thing he hates most is forcing other because they are weak. Weak is keyword. He is familiar with the feeling of being bullied and extorted from his last life. From the looks the people gave him when he forced them to do his work or took their money, he knows all their pain. But he only forced who thought they were strong and liked to flaunt. Now he is in team with people who are bullies, he doesn''t know what to do. He need time to think. Situ Xi saw Great ancestor lost in thoughts he worriedly explained, "Great Ancestor, Ancestor Fang will be here shortly, his place of seclusion is at some distance away from Family grounds. That''s why it is taking some time." Lan shook his head, as Great Ancestor, ''Now I think about it, waiting for other is big NO for me, plus I needs to think something to rehabilitate the bullies'', "No need, gather everyone from family after a week, by everyone I mean every single person in family. If I found anyone not attending they don''t need to call themselves Situ anymore." With that Lan flicked his sleeves and started going out of the building. Caretaker Rin hurriedly followed him. Situ Xi was worried about facing Ancestor Lan''s wrath. He furiously shouted, "Send message to all members of family, Report here in 3 days. Use Gray hawks to send message to the ones in Tian Academy and Reku Academy, and Long Roar Academy. All should gather here in 3 days. Butler Yan use reserve funds to make arrangement, I WANT THIS DONE!" He also flicked his robe and started going out. Then he stopped, ''Ancestor must be still outside, better to go out after some time, I don''t want to face him now.'' As Situ Xi thought, Lan was standing outside, in flow of act he came out of the Main Hall but he don''t know where to go. ''I cannot go back to coffin, they must have some place for me right? I was here since 3rd Generation; I must have an area under me, right?'' He glanced hopefully back at his new gang member who quickly got clue, "Ancestor Lan, let me take to your Gray Courtyard. It has been untouched since you left. I always clean it even though nobody told me, I kept it clean to show you proper respect." By now Lan understood all about this gossipy girl, who loves to promote herself at every opportunity. Still she is all he got for now, "Good. Lead the way kid. Tomorrow, I give you something awesome as reward." Caretaker Rin joyfully guided him, on the way she also explained about lot of famous clothes, jewelries and other female products currently in trend in detail, in a worry that Ancestor must not give wrong gift due to generation gap. Buffing up! The Gray Courtyard was like its name all gray, spacious garden with green bamboos clustered together, some red flowers at corner, small lawn around bamboo house, which looked elegant and unique, and very weak. I don''t want to be smashed with falling bamboos when sleeping. He looks quizzically at Rin, "I think the coffin is safer than this?" Rin hurriedly replied, "Ancestor, this is Thousand Year Bamboo, which is tougher than any metal, strong enough to withstand full powered blow from King Rank Martial Artist, most valuable thing in the whole family. " Lan nodded with satisfaction, ''This suits someone as me.'' He pointed at side rooms, "You take that room, I will res¡­.t ..Cultivate now so don''t disturb me unless I asked for. Shout if you are in trouble." Rin without hesitation accepted new place and went to move over her things in. Lan entered his main room and slowly closed the door. He saw the comfy bed at corner and dived in. Old frail man diving in bed was very weird scene, which Lan masterfully ignored. Now that he got time, he started thinking about today, '' Everything went well, except I had to walk everywhere, don''t the people with high cultivation level fly everywhere? Even that Pao Pao ran with his two legs. Shouldn''t people fly? And even though I have supreme level cultivation I don''t seem to have any skill? What if the Hai guys come knocking on my door for fight or something? And by looks of it people in this family seems to have many bad habits, don''t know how many people are looking for chance to take them out, now I am in the way. They will try to assassinate me, don''t they? I am in big danger.'' After worrying for some more time, he called out to his best ally, ''System come out!'' He found himself in strange shop with face to face with the robot. The points on counter were now in hundreds and were increasing rapidly. He asked the robot, "System, you have any defensive skills which can protect me from fatal strikes? As you have stopped me from killing anyone, won''t everyone try to kill me? And when people can fly?" < Demigod Rank Martial artist can fly for limited duration.> < Searching for Query ¨CDefensive skills> He sorted the skills in ascending order of FP required, the description of starting few skills were similar, just difference was increase in defense of the body. All skills were passive. Most awesome were last few, those skills will make user invincible for period of time he is attacked, during normal time those skills will automatically deactivate. ''Gray skin was most costly and useful if I was normal user, as the skill transfers half of the damage back to attacker. But for me that skill was useless as I will not be able to harm anyone. Now that I think about it, how will system protect someone if I harms them? Will it make shield or something or just heal them back? Won''t shield make my cultivation useless then?'' < Error> "This is fine, I guess, system, please give me all the defensive skills available and usable by me." < 13 Skills Bought> Lan can see his points going down, but cannot feel any changes in his body. Maybe he needs to wait before exiting system to check the skills. "System show me some non-lethal attacking skills." < Searching for Querry ¨CNon-lethal Attacking skills > < Skill list 1. Lightening Jab ¨C 14 FP : Quick punch lightening punch which will stun the enemy. 2. Flying Straight- 17 FP : Quick Punch which will make enemy fly. 3. Goodnight Uppercut-50 FP : Quick Uppercut which will knock out the enemy. 4. .. 2999. Angry Buddha- 1999 FP : AOE attack which will knock out all the enemies with lower cultivation than the host. 3000. Smoking Buddha- 2394 FP : Smoke created by host will target single enemy and suffocate him/her. Enemy will feel near death experience. Restrictions: Affects people up to one cultivation rank higher than host. Cool down- 2Hrs , Requirement: User must smoke before using skill. > Lan saw skill list and briefly glanced over their description. He decided that Angry Buddha and Smoking Buddha are must have skills. As for requirement to smoke, ''Hais, I have to sacrifice something right? Mommy don''t blame me, it''s all system''s fault.'' But he did not have enough FP for both skills so he bought basic boxing skills. After searching he also found out skill which can hide his cultivation level. But it was costly. < Skill Natural ¨C 50000 FP, Makes user one with nature, nobody will be able to find out your cultivation level or presence. Passive. Requirement: Needs to spend 2 hours daily in a natural habitat. > It was good skill. But he was too poor for that. He must do something to increase his FP. He exited the system store after buying some movies. They were very cheap, 1-2 FP; But LCD with Batteries cost him around 100 FP. He spent some time watching movies then decided to visit this world''s goddess of dreams. SpyNet! Burst of sunlight forced Lan to cover his eyes with blanket, ''How the hell did sunlight came inside closed room?'' Angry and curious, he searched for the reason. Then after lazily searching whole room, he saw some designs carved on the roof of my bedroom. ''Is this legendary formation?'' His drowsiness blew away like gust; he was very interested in the formations in his previous life. ''No, I don''t like puzzles and all, I hate them, But formations are different, you just have to pay somebody to carve them on your things, and Tadaa~ you got awesome trinket without effort. But I was only familiar with those things from light novels never saw real one. I need help on that'', "System, Come out." Again he was in shady shop. He shouted, "System, search for something that will make me awesome in formations." < Searching for Query ¨CFormation Knowledge> "Huh? System, what the hell is that carved on my roof? Search for that." < Searching for Query ¨CSpirit Arts> "So it is called Spirit Arts. Fancy name! Why there are all books. Give me ready-made stuff! Like one ''we once install and never to worry again'' type." < Searching for Query ¨CSpiritual Diagrams> Lan was pretty disappointed seeing all those restrictions. All the powers were so nurfed that even Lan was not willing to buy them. ''Even simple Trapping Spirit Art, it take freaking 2 hours per each person to set up, then that means I have to work for long time and if my target brought extra sidekicks with him, It will not work. Even Small Shied is single use. And system, why there are only 1342 spirit arts? Shouldn''t be there plenty of them?'' < Query Acknowledged> < Spirit Arts known by Million or more people will be shown in system shop along with ones personally experienced by host> ''This is pretty harsh, System!'' Lan shouted few times to release his frustrations. '' If these spirit arts are known by that many people, everybody will notice it right away when I deploy it, won''t they?'' He figured that system doesn''t want him to rely on spirit arts or generally spirit arts are that much restricted. ''I believe it to be former. Why? Because I want to!'' But as smart as he was, he found a way through this. He bought all the books on spirit arts. ''If you want me to bend by having small door, I will just break the walls and enter.'' That was something Lan follows wholeheartedly. ''Books make man. No! I will not be the man. I am Great Ancestor with plenty promising youths in my family, who needs this type of knowledge. I will make them study this so they will have good future. It''s all for them. No! This was not about when they joined in hooting against me, not at all.'' While planning all that he finished his daily routines. He still did not have any solution to solve Situ family''s problem. To solve it he needs more data, so today he planned to assess actual situation in Black Cloud city. To know the real thing, he has to go incognito. Incognito is keyword here. For long time he dreamed of doing something like this, so today he was excited. Before that he has to find out about all members of family. ''Know yourself then your enemy, then you can manipulate everyone and you will be unstoppable.'' So he used his old tactics, and bought plenty hidden cameras, they were very cost efficient and wireless with batteries which can keep them running for months without worry. Lan never found those back on earth, battery life was too good. He bought big screens and fixed them to walls. He bought big antenna with wireless hub. After going through set guide he fixed antenna and distributor near his building with help of big 500 m long metal pillar. His newfound increased physical strength left him grinning like fool, resulting in weird glances from patrolling guards. After all that work, he was left with room which has wall laden with LCD screens, and rumbling generator in backyard. Satisfied with his arrangement Lan nodded to himself. Now I just have to fix all the hidden cameras everywhere. His setup gives his ability to place wireless cameras anywhere in 15 km according to manual. He planned to do this today. SpyNet Deployed! Sneaking and placing cameras will be very unsuitable for Great Ancestor Lan, so he just called family head and told him to leave family grounds for 10 hours with everyone. Situ Xi did not argue still was somewhat reluctant but faced with Great ancestor he was not able to do anything. Lan then with his gang member went to place the cameras. Situ Xi tried to tag along but glare from Lan forced him to herd everyone out. So even the dogs were chased out. After making sure everyone was gone he started his job. Caretaker Lin was very curious about small trinkets Ancestor Lan was placing at every corner but rounded it up as generation gap thing. Lan finished his work in three hours. He showed some mercy in his work and did not place cameras in private places like bathroom and all. In truth after watching all those HD stuff from last life he was afraid to scare himself to death due to watching something live here, '' Ancient people, can''t risk it!'' After all that he checked his FP points, he was shocked. His FP points were 200,000. And they were still increasing. He figured that the homeless members of Situ family must have given everyone shock resulting in his presence known, ''good for me''. With freshly obtained points he brought Angry Buddha, Smoking Buddha along with Supreme Domain Spiritual diagram. Supreme Domain was watered down version of God Domain with 150,000 FP cost. Supreme''s Domain ¨C FP 150,000. Deploy it to Cover selected area with defensive barrier. Barrier will block anyone from Supreme Rank and below from entering against user''s will. Can kill anyone in barrier below Supreme rank by user''s wish. Requirement: Supreme Rank Level 9 Cultivation. User must always be present in the deployed area for it to work. He selected his family compound to erect barrier. Allowed access to all family members and staff. After whole four hours of work he decided to retire. When Lan was walking back to his courtyard it was already evening. He found Caretaker Rin fidgeting continuously mumbling about how she can wait for tomorrow also. After carefully listening to her he remembered that he promised to give her something good today. '' Now that I think of it, what should I give her? Most famous gift would be mobile phone, But that thing is harmful for young mind, mobile phones were destroying families in his last life I mean mentally. Especially Sam++g ones, they were armed to do it physically also. But after carefully thinking, the Lad Rin with Mobile phone will be like giving wings to tiger; she can gossip all she want. Wait, without internet that is not possible.. Fuck.. why I am thinking so much?'' He quickly bought one pink looking mobile phone,Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. " Lad Rin, this is product of all greatest minds of old era, I kept it with me to find suitable successor, from now on it is yours" Caretaker Rin (Rin) took the pink flat thing and started fiddling with it, this was full touchscreen phone, after getting nothing she looked up with teary eyes, ''Ancestor gave me legacy item but I am not able to inherit it, I did not live up to his expectation! Will he kick me out from his team now?'' Looking at her fiddling with mobile phone, Lan was sure this thing will ruin generations. He saw the girl was about to bring flood and stopped her, without speaking he gestured her to follow him. ''Silence is best answer in most time and it makes you look cool also'' Lan followed this sometime. Rin hurriedly followed ancestor in his room. Ancestor was fiddling with flat thing with some glowing glass in front, after a while picture of beautiful girl come on glass which quickly vanished, then other woman in weird but beautiful attire come with the same artifact in her hand and the picture stopped. Lan got up from his computer seat, "This is knowledge gathered by previous successor, you watch this and learn from it you will understand the usage of this artifact. This will repeat continuously, you can press this button to pause and this one to go back. Don''t touch anything else there are some forbidden things which can cause mental deviation. Sit here after you finish this call me I will be inside bedroom." Lan hurriedly got away, he was scared, he nearly ruined this innocent girl, the last night''s videos were still paused on screen, if by mistake the girl saw that, she would have serious mental deviation. It was his godly reflexes which save the poor girl. Now that the girl was watching some Tutorials for newbie users he can check if all cameras are properly functioning. Rin thought Ancestor must have spent too much energy just to help her overcome her poor talent so she was grateful. She sat in front of glowing glass and carefully started learning from her predecessor after bowing two times. The predecessor was very skilled, soon Rin uncovered mysteries of this artifact know as Phone. She wanted to subscribe and like to help her predecessor but heeded Ancestor warning. Clearly, the subscribing and liking action would have caused too much strain leading to mental deviation. After that she quickly unlocked her phone and kept fingerprint lock and started taking her Selfies. Looking at her adorable picture on phone she bowed in direction of Ancestors room for bestowing this phone to her. This pictures were better than spiritual images which takes too much time to capture single moment, where person have to keep still without moving for hours. She immersed herself in other function of this phone. Inside his bedroom Lan already checked all cameras, as it was done by professional person such as Lan it was without doubt perfect. He decided to lie down for while. ''Now that I have set up everything, I can gather enough information about this people. But what if this guys discovered my cameras by spiritual sense? '' He tried to use spiritual sense , he slowly concentrated and found out he can sense Rin outside, slowly he sent his spiritual sense but he did not found anything else. After experimenting he discovered that spiritual sense works like echolocation, if other party is also cultivator then your spiritual sense will be repelled by them, in turn you can sense other person. That means cultivator cannot sense normal person. This was good news for Lan. His cameras will not be found out. After that he started thinking about his plan to educate this people. After coming up with nothing he decide to take power nap. A walk through the Town Lan woke up with irritating sunlight again barging on his face, making him further want to promote learning of Spirit Arts. He must make someone proficient enough to remove this thing from his roof. It was not like he did not try using brute force, he tried but without destroying the roof he was not able to remove this Spirit Diagram. This is the thing about this Spirit Arts, they take centuries to put but are firm like Mount Tai unless you use proper decoding. And the one who drew this diagram should be in coffin, so Lan was forced to wake up early. Lan did not let the small thing trouble him. Today was the day he was going to go incognito to search for information. He named this Operation ''Hidden Great Ancestor Going to the City to Search for Information.'' He felt the name sounds good, as expected of him. Outside he beckoned his already waiting gang member Rin and started walking toward Compound''s Main Gate. "Lad Rin, today this Ancestor will allow you to help me navigate in city, we will try to stroll through some suspicious areas and discover some truth. This glorious adventure will be written in historical records as GAGSI, you will be mentioned as second in command. So prepare yourself and put this on, we need to be inconspicuous as possible." He handed newly bought hooded brown cloak to Rin and put one on himself. Rin hurriedly pulled out her head from phone. Yesterday she found out few other feature of this artifact. As her predecessor said ''you have new world just waiting to be discovered'', Rin cannot disagree. Phone was simply a new world. She studied whole night still she was barely using few functions. But diligent Rin did not forget to wait upon the Ancestor. She mentally promised to guide ancestor to most suspicious places. She put on brown colored cloak which barely hid her face and instead made them more eye-catching. But she rounded it up as generation thing. She took out her phone and got beside Ancestor,Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings. "Ancestor, to commemorate this historical event we will tale selfie." With that she did not wait for Lan and took few pictures quickly. Lan mentally face palmed, Sure enough this thing ruins people, but noticed Rin is not afraid of him that much now. But he didn''t care; ''I will slap few people to death in front of her, she will get back her bearing, hu hu, for now I need this gang member.'' He also noticed even without filters he looked awesome. At front gate Guards easily recognized Great Ancestor Lan, after previous blunder everybody already memorized whole ancestry, never know when someone crawls out from tomb. They hurriedly shouted greeting, "Great Ancestor Lan!!" and kneeled. Lan was very happy with this gesture, he also mentally praised this guards for recognizing his awesome aura even with him hiding himself. But he just snorted, "Humph! This Ancestor is going incognito you better not reveal me otherwise, humph!" He ended with powerful snort and walked away. Rin did not manage to catch timing of all that so she missed excellent snorting moment. She made quick note to practice snorting and followed Lan looking proud with chin raised high, still it was difficult to type while raising chin, "One more thing to practice" she muttered. Lan strolled through the city for half a day. He visited many suspicious places such as place which is suspected to sell rotten fruits, some bath which does not replace their water regularly, etc. After all, his sources of suspicious things were gossips of old housewives told to him by gang member Rin. Overall he summarized this city as ''poor as fuck''. Four lane road surrounded by small shops and big houses, occasionally beast drawn luxury carriage will pass when most people will bow their heads, sometime some bigshot will stroll with his entourage; which will be scolding people on streets to keep distance, in short this is place where Cultivators with powerful background ruled with iron fist, common people were barely surviving bye doing some small business; which will be heavily taxed, barely enough to eat, mortals were fully depended on powerful families. Cultivators born from common family will slave away for big one and so on. From the information he got this was ''Dog eat cat and cat eat mouse world''. ''Still as the one heralded as Great Ancestor nobody can touch me. But for safety purpose I should stick with current family and command them. It is always better to be king than soldier, right?'' Lan once again confirmed his decision to reform Situ family. He followed after Rin. "Ancestor, the one we are heading toward is most suspicious place of all, I kept it for last. This vender was suspected of using sea water fish on his ''Fresh water fish skewers''. Many people are suspicious of him. He is around next corner." Situ Rin enthusiastically led the way. She was so proud of herself for having all this knowledge which can help Great Ancestor, especially the last one; she had eavesdropped on Aunt Chen for that. Aunt Chen is still known for her discerning eye in whole village. Lan followed after girl which was literally skipping. They got many weird glances since they arrived but nobody disturbed them. Lan was sure that the camouflage was working nicely. Most Suspicious Case It was normal day for Zeng Bo. Today also his business was dull. Barely few people came to his shop. His family has been doing this Skewer selling business for two generations. Income was barely enough to raise two kids and a wife, any more and everybody has to starve for alternate days. While growing up Zeng Bo had many dreams of being cultivator which can shake whole BlackCloud City, but as he grew up, he continued with shaking skewers on fire; his family business. But he was not as backward as his father. He controlled himself and had only one daughter. There was more than enough to eat, so he expanded into making Fresh Water Fish Skewers, he specially cultivated fresh water fish at home for that. Business was booming at start, Black Cloud City barely had any Fresh water so his skewers were rare delicacy. Even the famous Masters who guard gate of Cheng Family came to eat his skewers. He was sure that name ''Zeng Bo'' was going to be written in golden letters in the history of Zeng family. But all came crashing down when someone spread rumors that he was tricking everyone with Sea Water Fish instead of using Fresh Water Fish. His customers trusted rumors more than his words. In last month he barely got any customers, his family was now on verge of starving. If this continued for few more days, he will have to sell everything and start new work. So he was overjoyed when he saw young Mistress leading bony old man toward his shop. All in his life he knew that old people are respected only when they have money and power. And by look of this old fossil, he surely must be tycoon to allow such young mistress to lead him. He hurriedly fanned his hot skewers to spread good aroma. Before he could squeeze out any promotional speech, the young Mistress barked, "Old swindler, why you are selling sea water fish in Fresh water fish skewers?" while looking proud and frequently glancing at old man with eyes asking for praise. That time Zeng Bo knew his days were over. Two customers were wearing brown garbs which looked expensive, he saw their faces clearly, and the hood was not enough to hide anything. The weird dressing sense was making them stand out from crowd. From the attitude of young Mistress leading, he was sure they had huge backing. They were people nobody would want to mess with. Maybe his name will not be written anywhere and he will die today. But when he thought of his baby daughter he mustered courage and replied, "Great Mistress, this humble one does not dare to trick anyone. My fish are all fresh water fish. I swear upon my life." Lan was really frustrated at current situation, ''He The Great Ancestor was solving fresh, sea water fish case, fuck! If anyone heard this won''t my reputation take drop?'' still the situation already in front he cannot pull out, he has to face this. Looking at proud Rin he scolded, "Lad Rin, we must be tolerant in front of weak people" looking at Rin''s pitiful look he added, "But you did good, I will question him now." Rin hurriedly bowed and stood by Lan''s side, she will now get to experience Ancestor''s teaching, she must not be negligent. Lan dropped his hood and put his hand on his back, he observed the poor vender for minute in silence, when he was sure that any more and shopkeeper will pass out from stress he asked, "May I check your professional detail?" Zeng Bo was confused but still nodded when faced with mysterious senior''s dominant gaze. Lan activated his free skill which was gifted by system, "Status" < Name: Zeng Bo Profession : Skewer Maker, (Fresh Water Fish Skewer Specialty) > Lan was little angry seeing how little information was given, but he cannot do anything to the system so he choose to overlook it. ''This skill usage was so restricted that I have to ask every time I need to see status, and even after that, shown info will be limited to the one agreed by target. Is there any meaning of using this skill? Well, beggars can''t be choosers.'' Now when system showed the specialty as Fresh Water Fish Skewer, this case was solved. He pushed his invisible glasses and replied to awaiting audience of two, "I believe you, you used Fresh Water Fish." Looking at delicious looking skewers he gulped secretly and added,"Give one for each of us." Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. Zeng Bo started crying happily, after waiting for month somebody accepted his truth, now he was determined to continue this business. He thanked the good old senior, "Great Senior, this humble one is not worthy, not worthy, "he pushed broken stool," Senior rest here I will warm the skewers for you." Rin was not sure what happened but she corrected the old shopkeeper when she saw ancestor''s furtive glance at her, "This is Great Ancestor, You must refer to him as such ol..Shopkeeper." Zeng Bo did not mind and corrected himself, he started warming up skewers while shedding tears of happiness. Lan observed his skewer, he was half sure that the skewer will be salty due to all tears of the middle-aged man. ''But alas, it is hard to not respect his fans.'' The skewer was tasty, Lan was happy with his quick decision to order it. ''My whole trip was worthwhile just due to this skewer.'' Looking at young girl secretly licking her fingers he chuckled. Rin was mumbling about how she will not trust Aunt Chen''s words anymore. With eating finished he decided to conclude his adventure. He noticed the shopkeeper was still looking at them hopefully, he wondered what is it now? Then it clicked,'' Ahh.. he need money right'' he turned to gang member, " Lad Rin, pay him for two skewers." After thinking he added," Pay double the price. His skewers are good!" When Rin heard it, she was startled; when they started the adventure she did not bring any money, as she thought Ancestor will foot all bills, but now when she thought about it, ''Ancestor still had not collected his funds from coffin.The family head had not given him his fund as he was scared away by ancestor. ''Now I cannot shame ancestor. I have to take blame on myself otherwise ancestor will be embarrassed.'' "Ancestor, forgive this ignorant one, I misplaced my money bag somewhere. I will bring it back quickly." Lan was seriously embarrassed, he bragged about giving double but now he cannot even pay original price. If Rin went to bring money it will take at least hours to come back. He was in bind. He looked at shopkeeper prepared to give some excuse when he was interrupted, "Great Ancestor, this humble one does not dare to charge you anything. You acknowledged my skewer is more than enough." Zeng Bo was unsure whether the people in front of him were scammers or not but he was still grateful that they praised his skewers. They gave him hope when he was hopeless. So he decided to let them off and round it up as life lesson. Lan saw some mistrust in shopkeepers eyes which quickly vanished, but as great as he was Lan will not let even little suspicion exist for his character. He did not blame Rin, she was as clueless as him. ''Both were staying in tomb after all, difference was I was inside coffin and she was outside.'' So he decided to give the shopkeeper something from his system which he purchased before sleeping yesterday. < Summon Card: 30 FP. When registered user''s blood is dropped on the registered card, Host will be summoned to the card after three seconds. Restrictions: Consumes host''s lifespan (half lifespan x distance between registered user and host in meter) for every use. Three Uses Only. > This was something which Lan found out from shady system shop when looking for cheap things. This thing was cheap but very deadly, surefire way to die early. But Lan was smart, as his system store items does not allow harm to any living being, he was practically able to use this card as business card and distribute everywhere. But he never planned any use for it. Now the situation arises he decided to gift it. Lan pulled out card from system store, card was 5cm x 8cm rectangular with white background with picture of clenched fist with middle finger outstretched. When he saw the picture Lan cursed the system. He was sure that system must be angry as he outsmarted it. Still he kept poker face and said, "This is my personal Lifesaving Treasure; this occasion can be said as fortuitous encounter for you. Put drop of blood on the middle of card to register yourself. Whenever you are in life and death situation, put one drop again on this treasure. This will save your life for three times. Use wisely. Even Demi-God cannot be match for it. Again use only when you are in danger, only three uses remember." When he saw that shopkeeper is trying to reject he added, "Don''t decline. That treasure has power equal to Demi-God so you have backing of Demi-God. I will leave now. Remember three uses! Drop single drop of blood on it to use." With that said he put on hood and hurried away with Rin,'' Being mysterious and in hurry always looks cool'' he thought. Zeng Bo was still dazedly looking at Old skeleton hurrying away and the white card in his hand alternatively. He was not sure to trust the scammers or not, but he Zeng Bo was pioneer, he introduced Fresh Water Fish Skewer in Black Cloud City, he was not afraid of trying out new things. He was also little amazed when he saw old skeleton pulling out card from thin air. At least this must be something magical. After thinking for half a day he prickled his finger and dropped one drop on the white card. When blood came in contact with card it started shining in white bright light, his vision blurred, he saw mountains big as sky then ancient creatures walking on mountains, crushing mountains with every steps then gigantic tree swallowing those creatures, long worms, devouring the tree, big birds eating the worms and many more. Zeng Bo was able to feel massive aura from the small insect on the mountain, that small insect was enough to destroy everyone in Black Cloud city, now such many insect crushed by single step of lowest being here, he cannot fathom powers of other beings. Only when he was thinking such thing, suddenly massive hand came down and slapped everything. Everything become quite, without any life. All life was extinguished by single slap; he watched in horror; slowly the fingers on the palm curled into fist and lone middle finger came out. Then Zeng Bo saw his skewers in front, he hurriedly looked at the card. There it was the outstretched middle finger. He kneeled down and shouted, " All Hail LORD MIDDLE FINGER!!!" Commotion at Entrance Two days passed after that stroll, Lan did not know the card given by him had caused such change in that shopkeeper''s life. But Lan did notice many people returning during these two days. After watching few of them from front gate camera he confirmed that those are the clansmen staying away and just returned for the gathering he announced. Now so many people in the family compound waiting for just a glance of great ancestor; Lan felt proud. He also saw some speaking with normal patrolling guards to find out some inside secrets of pleasing Ancestor. Those guards were one who often patrols around his Gray Courtyard. Some guests were occasionally passing by his residence to just catch glimpse of him. After watching the entire hubbub Lan decided to hide for few more days, after all things gotten through hard way are more appreciated. So that resulted in these two days house arrest. Now the mysterious atmosphere around Great Ancestor was thick. Even the Caretaker Rin did not forget to hide in her room for last two days acting more mysterious than him. But Lan was sure she must be busy on her phone. Just when he was thinking about best entrance scenario for family gathering he heard loud noises from front gate camera. He saw few genuine old guys shouting his name. Family head Situ Xi and sidekick Situ Pao were arguing with visitors about something. This was the moment Lan was waiting for to make entrance. But cautious Lan quickly extended his spiritual sense and found out that the guys at front gate were weaker than him by one or two ranks. He could not confirm their actual cultivation but he can guess if they are stronger or weaker. From what he knew this world has nine cultivation realms- Martial Apprentice, Warrior, Commander, General, King, Emperor, Supreme, Demigod, God respectively. Each realm has nine levels. The ones at front gate were somewhere around general level according to his spiritual sensing. He did not find any skill for sensing cultivation level of opponent in system store and accurately sensing takes lot of practice which Lan loathes, so the current situation. The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Now that he confirmed that the hooligans at front gate were below his level which was half step demi-god i.e. between Martial Supreme Level 9 and Martial Demigod 1, he decided to take this chance to present himself to these nubs. Lan came out of his Bamboo House and started walking towards front gate unhurriedly with hands behind his back. Just then Caretaker Rin ran out of her room and joined Ancestor while looking proud. When ancestor started quarantine she did not panic. She observed the situation and without Ancestor she had to study the phone. But she did not forget her main job. She was smart; she kept her window crack open and always kept watch on Ancestor''s door. As result she did not miss his exit. Now that she had successfully done that; she could not be stop being proud of her intellect. Newly arrived family members were awed looking at majestic figure of the Ancestor. They felt aura emitted by that lean figure was so awe inspiring that they had to kneel down. The gray robe fluttering without wind accompanied by white ponytail waving in rhythm added layer of mystery around him. The petite butterfly like spirited young lady alongside calm ocean like old man, such contrast made the scene grandiose. OR These new people were finally happy to see rumored major backing after suffering for long time that they were just making mountain out of a molehill. They started slowly following their ancestor. When Lan reached at the front entrance he saw Situ Xi - family head shouting at old guys, "Old Yaozu don''t spout nonsense, Great Ancestor is not something likes of you can meet whenever you want. You had to have great fortune for that to happen. Now get lost before you lose your life." Situ XI was fuming; he clearly knew these old bastards were so shameless that they thought the returning of Great Ancestor is his trick to threaten them. ''They spied for two days but did not see Great Ancestor so now these old things want to make me lose face. If these was before I would have taken a step back but now that ancestor was in house I fear nothing.'' with that he thought of few more bad words to add for ones who barged in, "Yaozu, I tolerated your nonsense before but don''t go overboard or I will make your family ladies slave away for us for eternity after beating shit out of you." Clearly in his reverie he did not notice Ancestor was coming over. Lan heard this sentence when he arrived, ''This old man had very dirty mind'' is all he can think. But he did not speak. He just stood there and started watching the old men one by one with droopy eyes. Ancestor is here! Situ Xi saw Ancestor has arrived and he quickly greeted him, "Great Ancestor, I apologize for disturbing your cultivation," he knew Ancestor did not care for worldly matter before so he explained, "These old things are family head of ruling family''s in BlackCloud City. Bald one is leader of Jiang Family of west, this muscle brain with sword leads Kai Family," then he gestured towards back pointing, "The one at back; Yes, that feminine one with bow is Cheng family''s Master. And leading these bastards is this Hai family old thing Hai Yaozu; 7th generation Family head." Then he faced great ancestor and bowed, "Great Ancestor, they are here to bask in your glorious presence." Listening to their introduction, Hai Yaozu''s veins bulged, he was on verge of flipping out. Others behind him were no better than him; somehow Cheng Weizhe - Cheng family head was still calm. Yaozu was very wary of that cunning sneaky guy. But he controlled himself; today this Situ Xi was full of himself unlike before now that he got backing. But Yaozu is on important mission from his Ancestor Hai Delu, they have to probe the so called Great Ancestor of Situ Family. Without actually knowing the condition of this Great Ancestor of Situ family they cannot proceed forward with their plan. So he bowed to Ancestor Situ, "Great Senior, this humble one is Hai Yaozu, current Family Head of Hai family." Then he pointed at others and said, "The others are Cheng Weizhe ¨C Cheng Family Head, Kai Chao ¨C Kai Family Head, Jiang Honghui ¨C Jiang Family Head, today we are here to congratulate you on your recovery." Lan observed these guys and come with same description as Situ Xi. He was somewhat impressed with the accuracy of the description, it fits them so well. When he heard Hai family head, he was sure that these guys were very sneaky bastards, someone who can keep calm in front of such insults is worthy of leading family. They must have some other plan. But as his cultivation of way higher than these nubs he did not care about their plan, now that he had whole crowd watching him, he just decided to crash the party and give them a great show. He gazed at Hai Yaozu and said with flat tone while shaking his head, "You are not worthy! You are not worthy of congratulating me kid. Even your ancestor used to shit his pants if he accidently saw me and you are here causing commotion at my house. " He added strong snort, "Humph, you got guts. Scram now before I decide to keep you here forever." You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author. Lan''s voice was not loud but was enough to be heard by everyone. When they heard him, the Situ family crowd buzzed. They were excited that their Ancestor just directly insulted even Ancestors of Hai Family. Even with all that they just muttered among themselves did not speak out loud, they knew that they were not worthy of speaking in this high level match. Listening to the bustling crowd Hai Yaozu could not control anymore, he did not expect this Ancestor Situ to not even listen to him and just insult even his Ancestor, now when it reached this stage he had to proceed with his plan, looking at the carefree bony figure, he pulled out his sword and shouted with anger, "Old skeleton, let me see if you are capable of backing your words." With that he ran towards Lan. When he shouted others behind him also took out their respective weapons and followed him. Today they planned to kill this fake ancestor once and for all. According to them, Situ Xi had somehow faked having powerful ancestor just to stop demise of Situ Family, otherwise why this Great Ancestor did not came out when the Situ Family was suffering for last three years? They planned to put rest to the rumor once and for all. Lan did not expect the situation to escalate so quickly, he planned to give few more awe inspiring speeches, but faced with sudden assault he was disappointed. These guys are attacking him with killing intent so he did not plan to go easy on them. He waited for them to attack him before responding, he had to pose as powerful figure, he could not be scared with just small ambush, can he? After coming in striking range Hai Yaozu shouted and struck, "Tri-wind Sword Strike" His sword made three illusionary winds and disappeared, three winds approached Lan targeting his vitals. Lan did not flinch, the sword winds were difficult to defend against but swords winds were cluster of Qi made by opponent, so he decided to take out the source. Now that the opponent shouted his technique name loudly so he had to reply in same fashion, after all one cannot go against social norms, his fist moved like ghost and struck Hai Yaozu''s face, "Bloody Strike!" < Bloody Strike : Quick strike which will result in blood loss of enemy. > Hai Yaozu fell back with river of blood flowing out from his nose. Lan''s fist were dirtied by the blood but he did not care he proceeded to strike down others with his Bloody Strike. Only the one with bow was left behind as he did not attack. Lan thought the people will back out and kneel after one strike but he was surprised when they quickly got back on their feet and ran towards him in group while shouting their skills, "Tri-wind Sword Strike !" "Snake Ghost Spear !" "Thousand Pound Sword !" Lan decided to just reply with Bloody Strike again until they lose their consciousness due to blood loss. Best way is to make them feel hopeless. He turned to Rin who had already retreat at the start of fight and said, "You must tolerate weak people, but before that you have to make them understand that they are weak."