Kapitel 16: Journey to the Jade Palace

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Man, I think I could relate to Knull now. If I was in any way disturbed here. I too would seek to destroy it. I was actually kinda reluctant to leave again but I also really wanted to find a way to be here with a body, because staying as just a soul feels really wrong and uncomfortable. I could create myself a body using my magic but it would immediately cease to exist. My studies have shown that my soul, as well as my energy, were the only thing capable of existing here, so the easiest method would be to become a spirit, a lifeform made of energy, but I didn´t like that, I was unique in any way and I would not let my body be any different. So, I have no other option but to create a body that is both spiritual, biological, more and none of these at the same time, kinda like the Outer Gods are but different, it would be made by me, for me, to suite my power and status and I already had a plan for that. The plan would definitely take a long time but I was in no hurry, however for the plan to start I had to actually leave my home and go back to reality. No other choice, I guess.

So, I made my way back to where I could sense the Outerverse, this time there was no one who was strong enough to notice me. It wasn´t long before I spotted a reality nearby, my plan required specific universes but finding them was going to be hard, so I would just go to every reality I come across and at some point, I would arrive at the ones I needed. The moment I entered the new reality, I could feel that it had a new type of energy, this one not only seemed more spiritual than others I encountered but was also a lot harder to change into other forms, it seemed more like the lifeforce of this universe than anything else.

I could always look into it later, for now I had to find a new body to blend in. I felt around the universe, sensing many different dimensions until I finally spotted a planet with many different life forms. Interestingly enough, I had not been able to find any human, which would have actually been strange because what are the chances that three universes in a row had humans. Good thing I didn´t just create my own human body I a world where humans don´t exist. Once I arrived at the planet, I saw many creatures that looked like humanoid animals, I guess I was expecting too much when I was hoping for new creatures. I looked around a bit before I found an orangutan, no idea how old he was but he was small, so I was guessing he was a child.

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My new life has been rather boring till now, my 'parents' were an orangutan and a lemur, no idea how this worked, but apparently I was 5 years old. This world has proven itself not only to be completely populated by humanoid animals but I was also rather familiar to me. This world was martial arts based or to be more precisely, kung fu, and it was crated by a certain tortoise a few hundred years back. For anyone who still didn´t know where I was, I was in Kung Fu Panda. I had now entered two universes, that were fiction from the earth I was originally born on, in a row and I could no longer shove it up as coincidence. Sure, there were infinite realities but me entering two in a row that were built exactly how I knew them was not normal and I was surely going to investigate this 'coincidence'.

Anyhow, for now all that didn´t matter, I had already made plans on how I could benefit from this universe. Firstly, I could finally get some real battle experience, secondly, I could learn how to use many weapons correctly, thirdly, I was going to devour countless souls that had higher martial talent than my last universe, and lastly, I was so gonna absorb the Wellspring. My reserves have been stuck at Universal because the souls in Black Clover all had so little mana, most didn´t even have city level, the Wellspring however had a low Multiverse level reserve of chi. I definitely wasn´t going to care about the fact that I was literally absorbing the lifeforce of an entire reality, such opportunities were definitely extremely rare and I would benefit way too much. I just had to be careful to absorb the Wellspring when I´m all finished up with getting everything else from here, because I was certain that the moment I absorbed this universes lifeforce, it would simply die.

I decided to go to Valley of Peace to learn, me 'parents' were really proud of me when I told them that. As I made my way to the Palace and the founder of Kung Fu, I couldn´t help but smile at the thought of low Multiverse level reserves, that would directly place me into the big leagues of even the strongest realities like Marvel or DC. I would decide how to grow my World Tree later, because this universe had the spirit realm this was going to be a bit more complicated.

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A/N- For anyone wondering, anyone can learn Kung Fu at the Temple, how else would there be so many Kung Fu masters around

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Kapitel 17: Training

First Pov

The journey to the Valley of Peace didn´t have any complications, except maybe the long distance and the thousand steps before me right now. I always hated working out and could probably just teleport up but that could be noticed by Oogway, as well as it being contra productive, as I was here to learn to fight and for that I needed a strong enough body.

After nearly three hours, I finally arrived at the door to the Jade Palace. It was already late but I could still hear people practicing in the courtyard, so I just knocked. I waited for about a minute before the sound of fighting stopped and a pig opened the door. ''Yes, how can I help you'' he asked, a strange question to ask a 5-year-old who climbed all the way up here, did he think I walked up here for three hours just to ask if could go on their toilet? ''Hi, ahem, I want to learn Kung Fu'' he looked at me and asked ''How old are you? Where are your parents and do they know you're here?'', ''My name is Umar, I´m five years old and my parents know I came here''. At that answer he sighted ''Well Umar, it´s already too late to send you back, its getting dark. I imagine you are already tired after climbing the stairs, you can stay for the night and we will talk about it tomorrow morning after your rested''. Well, I'm not yet accepted but a bed sounded really good right now, so I can wait till tomorrow.

I immediately fell asleep after hitting the bed, the morning was also rather easy, I was asked a lot of questions and was examined, but after that I was finally accepted as a disciple. I wasn´t given to a master immediately, but was put in a beginner course where there were several other my age. It was mostly imitating the moves of the teacher and physical training for the first three months, after that we were finally allowed to use training equipment. That gave me finally an opportunity to showcase my talent and get a masters guidance.

After I completed the beginner training course on the first try, several masters started to pay attention to me. It was also around that time that I started to finally grow my World tree again, this universe had a proper afterlife, the spirit realm, so I could just grow it there, but that would attract some attention, but as long as it didn´t get destroyed or associated with me it would be alright. Another thing I had to do was make sure that the tree didn´t absorb the chi in the surroundings but just the energy I fed it, otherwise it would not only absorb the stuff that I was planning to take for myself but also bring the universe to its end earlier than planned.

Just a week after I planted the tree in the spirit realm, made sure that it radiated anti-chi to prevent it from being destroyed and gave it enough energy to freely grow for over a decade, I was accepted by a master. My master was a beaver named Bifi, I didn´t care about her name but in order to show my nonexistent respect to my master, I had to remember her name.

Training was going well and with my ever-increasing talent it was almost too easy, I was able to master most things she taught me almost immediately and I was now able to hold my ground against her in a hand fight. I had to admit, having a master was more useful than I thought, I already had the memories of countless masters but I don´t have their experience and mastery they gathered over decades. It was like watching an action movie, I knew how they did it but couldn´t replicate it, I really had to find a way to get adaptive muscle memory otherwise most of that knowledge would be wasted.

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I was now 7-years old and have reached the level of a master in pure hand-to-hand combat, my progress has been shocking so it wasn´t a surprise when rumors about my absurd talent spread. My master has finally decided I was ready to learn how to handle weapons, I didn´t want to started advanced or get suspected for being bloodthirsty, so I chose a bo staff to begin with. A bo staff was easy to handle and didn´t have any blades but it´s mastery could be transferred over to a spear so it was the perfect beginner weapon.

It barely took me 7 months to master the bo staff completely and rumors about me started to spread once more but I paid I t no head. Even thought my master was still shocked about my terrifying learning speed, she was also ecstatic to be able to teach a prodigy like me and couldn´t wait for me to choose my next weapon of choice, but I declined because I wanted to start reading the techniques from the Thousand scrolls of kung fu before concentrating on mastering the next weapon. I had already gained extreme precision from my training, like being able to hit the wings of a fly with the bo staff or if I felt like it even chop sticks precision, and I wanted to use that skill to lean about acupuncture. Acupuncture was very underrated, being able to control someone's body through their nerves was definitely something I wanted, it could be used for both fighting as well as medicine, not that I cared much for the medicine part.

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A/N- This world is mostly there for him to get actual combat experience, learn how to wield weapons without cutting his own fingers off, increase his martial talent and give him a huge energy reserve upgrade. If you aren´t interested in the grind, then you can skip it, it will probably only be 5-7 chapters max.

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