Interlude Xi Shu and the Monkey King_Cannapocalypse: Book 1 the re-integration

Xi Shu

June 20th, 2028, Mt. Huaguo, Inner Mongolia

Upon waking up in Wu’s “Weed Grotto”, I went to find my new master. I found him inside the small house smoking out of a rather long pipe that looked like it was made of glowing crystal. I was actually, kind of shocked that such a venerated character would be doing drugs. “Hello, Wu? Are you busy or can I ask you a few more questions?” I asked.

“I suggest you get some food and smoke some of this wizard weed so we can get started with your training.” Wu responded.

“That was actually something I wanted to ask you about, I’ve spent my whole life, refraining from putting impurities into my body in order to make sure I am at the peak of human performance. Now you’re telling me I should smoke the weed to become more intelligent and it will help with my longevity, Aether circulation, memory, and reflexes?” I asked unconvinced.

“Young Shu, the whole Draco empire has outlawed all mind advancing substances. If you had access to Aether imbued Cannabis, your species would have seen through the Draco Empires illusion and revolted hundreds of thousands of years ago. In fact, that very thing has happened here on Terra four or five times that I know of. Usually resulting a mass extinction level event caused by the Draco.” Wu said, and went on to say, “The speed at which your advancement progresses with the use of mind advancing substances like cannabis will be exponential. And the effect is also quite nice, and the benefits are infinite.”

After that conversation we smoked three glowing marijuana spliffs and must have smoked two or three pipes full and then we ate, we ate so much food. I must say BBQ pork, rice, and steamed vegetables never tasted so good in my life. We then sat and meditated for what felt like about an hour or so but turned out to be closer to 12 hours. After I cleaned myself up and changed my clothes again, then went to the grotto to begin training with the Chinese folk god.

Wu and I trained for hours, we worked using my Aether pool to imbue Aether into my swords, and how to circulate Aether into my limbs while fighting to increase the effectiveness and power of my strikes. I would usually wake up around 5am then we would smoke copious amounts of masters Wu’s wacky weed, have breakfast, meditate for a few (6) hours, and then we would train all day until 10pm and then we would retire to the cottage and smoke ourselves into a food frenzy and then gorge on amazing food that always seemed to be ready for us. I was getting much better at channeling the Aether into specific parts of my body while sparing with Wu, I was getting to the point where my arm would make contact about 6 inches early, due to Aether Fist, wrapped around my fist, foot, elbow, knee, sword, etc. The power was getting nearly an additional 100%. It went on like this for what felt like about three months, then one day Wu asked me to continue to meditate while he evaluated my progress. After 3 months of training, eating, and smoking I gained 16 points in strength, constitution, and agility, 14 points in luck & dexterity, 8 points in perception, intel, and wisdom.

June 26th, 2028, Mt Huaguo, Inner Mongolia

6:00am:After five Terran days or 120 days in the time dilated space I had learned to do things that I was sure were impossible, for instance I learned how to literally throw balls of charged Aether that exploded on impact. I honed my martial arts prowess to a level I have not seen exhibited outside of the movies. I was capable of moving with such grace and control I could run along the top of water and jump over 30 feet high. The first is an Aether manipulation technique called Aether Artillery and the second is just due to my high Constitution and Agility and a spell I learned call Aetheric Aura which allows me to surround myself in charged Aether using it to make myself faster, stronger, able to shield myself from attack , and achieve amazing feats of physical prowess. Master Wu has given me a number of other locations around the world I should visit via the intergalactic teleport system, some are operational others are not. I am being directed to Beijing, where Master Wu has explained that the XIA armory is located there. He went on to tell me that there are a number of priceless and extraordinary artifacts in the armory which will aid me in my journey. I asked if I should start looking for the Rinns or the Russian women from my dreams. Master Wu told me to follow my path to Beijing, collect the things I would need to advance through the coming tribulation, which starts today. Saying goodbye was more difficult than I had anticipated.

“Master Wu, I cannot begin to thank you enough for the guidance, wisdom, and instruction. I have learned much, improved in ways I would have previously thought impossible. You have truly put me on a sturdier path. You’ve given me the knowledge necessary to become more and enable me to help defend this planet I call home.” I said with respect.

“Master Shu, young man, you are every bit a Master. You will need to go to Japan and study with Miyamoto Musashi, you will find him on the island of Okinawa, he is the only Swordsman to reach a level over 500 in Swordsman I know of on this planet, well, the only human one.

I’m sure the Drow, the Orkanish, the High Elves, and the Draco all have Grandmasters, but I don’t think any of them are on Terra…….yet. Master Shu, it has been an honor to train with you and if you ever find yourself in need of a safe harbor, know you are always welcome here. Now, please come over here to the teleport array and attune your genetic code to this location and no one else will be able access this training hall without your permission.” After a small prick to my fingertips, I was the only person allowed to teleport into Wu’s domain. “Master, Wu? Do you think I could bring some of the glowing meditation weed?” I asked with a large smile on my face. “Of course, Master Shu, you would be doing yourself a great dis-service if you did not. Though, I have a feeling you will be soon meeting up with someone who will be able to help you in that department. I put a kilo into a spatial ring this morning, that should last you till you meet up with Mr. Derrik.” Wu chuckled. “Thank you once again, Master Wu.” “Until next time Master Shu.” With that I took my leave. Unfortunately, the teleporter to the Forbidden City was not active from this location, so I was going to go directly to Okinawa to meet with Grand Master Musashi as that array was operational.

Name: XI SHU (YELLOW PRINCE) Level: 0

Profession: Monk

Race: Human (XIAN) Bloodline: XIAN (PURE)

Age: 30 Weight: 95.26 Kg

Experience: 0 Height: 1.854 Meters

Exp to next level: 50 Class: TBD

Bloodline Provides per level: +2 Agility, +2 Dexterity, +1 Constitution

Health: 1060 Aether: 720 Stamina: 1280

Health Regen: 21.2 per min Aether Regen: 17.6 per min Stamina Regen: 25.6 per min

STRENGTH: 29 AGILITY: 33

CONSTITUTION: 24 INTELLEGENCE: 18

DEXTERITY: 31 WISDOM: 19

CHARISMA: 4 PERCEPTION: 26

LUCK: 24

SKILLS / ABILITIES SPELLS / TECHINQUES

UNARMED COMBAT – LEVEL 50 AETHER ARTILLERY – LEVEL 17

SWORDSMAN – LEVEL 50 AETHERIC AURA – LEVEL 13

ADVANCED AETHER CIRCULATION – LEVEL 36 AETHER FIST – LEVEL 21

ADVANCED AETHER MANIPULATION – LEVEL 21

Attribute points available: 0pts

Xi Shu

June 27th, 2028, Okinawa, Japan

(DAY ONE OF TRIBULATION)

2:00pm: Strangely enough the teleport array on the Okinawa side was outside of the training hall, just 30 feet away. Which is enough room for a giant blue Oni, and a large white tiger to be fighting to the death.

“Don’t mind me. I’ll just get out of your way and move along.” I said to the now still and focused on me battling duo. As the words left my mouth the tiger jumped at the opening and slashed at the blue ogre’s throat with its enormous and razor-sharp claws. The ogre was not fast enough to dodge and took the majority of the blow on the face and throat. He spun around with amazing speed and grabbed the tiger by the tail and threw it across the river we were standing nearby. As he turned around to look my way, he was met with my sword slashing across his chest and then kicked with uncanny speed and strength directly in the chest knocking the Oni, across the same river the tiger had just flown over. I made my way across the river in a split second and resumed my attack on the ugly blue ogre. As it was standing up, I came down on its shoulder with all of my might and an extremely sharp Jian using the ELEMENTAL CHARGE, I imbued the sword with Aether, and it cut through the ogre like a hot knife through butter. I pulled it out and swung back around the other way and caught it in the right hip and sheared off its right leg, kicked it aside and stabbed back and up into the hideous beasts’ throat, finishing the motion. As I pulled the sword from its throat, it sprayed me in warm foul stinking black blood. (+550 experience) floated into my vision in gold script.

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Once I was quite sure it was dead, I went to find the tiger it was battling, after a brief search I found, her. She lay mostly still with a number of ribs sticking out of her side and bleeding profusely. As soon as I lay eyes on her I could hear her in my mind. “Great warrior, I thank you for the assistance. But I fear it is too late for me, you would do me a great honor if you would please take care of my son and heir to my kingdom his name is Byakko, he will grow to become a very powerful and useful ally to you and the others. My only request is that you keep him safe while he is a cub, help him survive the tribulation, allow him to grow into his full potential. If you do these things, please believe, you will have no better friend in your life Byakko will be loyal and will follow you until the end of your days and into the next dimension.” She said softly into my head. “Of course, I will take care of the legendary white tiger cub. It will be an honor to share a life with such a majestic creature. Thank you for doing me this honor, I promise dear mother, I will guard your progeny with my life for the rest of my life. I also understand who he is to become and what his function in this new world will become. I will do my utmost to ensure all of these things occur as they should, the white tiger of the west will live to maturity and rule over his domain once sufficiently prepared to do so. This I vow to you mother tiger.” I replied to the dying tiger laying before me. As I said the words a fluorescent blue light covered me and then covered the dying tiger. I immediately looked at my notifications….

Notifications

{You have made a vow to the system}

{You have vowed to keep Byakko safe and alive until he reaches maturity}

~You have gained 6 points in Agility

~You have gained 1 points in Perception

~You have gained 1 points in Intelligence

~You have gained 6 points in Strength

~You have gained 2 points in Luck

~You are now level 1

~You now have 4 attribute points to distribute

~You gained 2 points of Dexterity