Now that I have introduced ki, you know things are going to start getting interesting. Goku begins his training in the sacred arts, slowly unlocking his buried potential …
Goku would sit under a palm tree for hours meditating, he had been told by the teacher that unlocking the barriers to the soul could take a considerable period and it had taken him about 13 years to achieve the prowess he had, however a younger mind might give faster results. For Goku time was not a concern, he had long sense discovered that he did not age like the average human. So he would sit under that same old palm tree, his eyes open, and his mind calm. Then he would focus, he would focus on the feather placed in front of him, he would feel it with his mental probing, he would understand and recognize the feel of it, he knew he was making progress, he could feel it in his veins, they throbbed with the energy he possessed, he just didn't know how to use it yet. So he stared at that single feather, trying to understand the mysteries hidden under that deceiving outer surface.
The old man would occasionally approach him and ask how he was doing; he rarely slept or ate in this time of intense training. The master he trusted for if this man could perform such feet's then he must have the required experience to perform such things, so Goku obeyed him. The man told him to relax and understand the feel of his quarry, one day he approached and removed the feather from its place and replaced it with another from the tail of the same bird the first one had been taken from, however he noticed that Goku immediately became uncomfortable, his stance shifted and he started visibly sweating, when the feather was replaced the young man returned to ease, all this happened without him even being aware, all he felt was that something was wrong and that soon, it had been righted. The man decided that the first part of Goku's training had been completed.
He gave Goku new instructions. He told him now to focus on the movement of the feather and to manipulate it, to make the feather shift it position. This took a week, and was more strenuous for Goku as he now required a certain task that he was facing difficulty in performing. After a week of diligent, frustrating focus, the feather moved. It did not leap into the air and start dancing a jig; it moved slightly to the rest, Goku was extremely joyful at this, he resumed his work with renewed vigor, but he was tired and got no further results, that night, for the first time the master told him to sleep. Goku slept more soundly than he had for a long time.
The next morning he set to work with renewed vigor, the master gave him additionally duties saying that he must not let his physical fitness fall; Goku did not tell him that his becoming unfit was simply impossible; he did not want to scare him. Goku achieved better and better results, by the end of the week he could make his feather levitate, by the end of the month he was so skilled he could actually make it do a jig in midair.
So the old man moved his lessons even further, he was given a different feather, then a leaf, then a piece of unmolded clay, then a stone fragment, then a fragment of pottery and then a stone sword. It took him 8 months and he discovered how the variety of the objects was directly proportional to the difficulty he faced in controlling them. But soon he achieved a state his master called 'universally adaptive'. Meaning he was attached to no separate object but had good control of any object he was presented with. The only thing that set the difficulty was the complexity of the structure and its weight. After a good deal of practice the master decided that he could now take the young man's training to the next level. He started Goku's offensive training.
He took Goku to a field and placed a slab of stone in front of him, and said, "Break it". Goku put his palm out towards the stone and concentrated, after a minute some cracks started to appear. The master was satisfied and told him to stay in the field and work on the rocks, his training would progress when he had turned all the rocks to sand. Goku remained undaunted by this task and welcomed the opportunity of further training. But before the teacher had the chance to leave, Goku said, "How far can you take me?"
The old man smiled, he closed his hands as his holding a ball and held them to his side, his hands filled with an orb of blue light which seemed to glow stronger and stronger. Soon it was shining so bright that Goku could barely look at it, the man thrust his hands forward and directed the resulting beam of blue energy towards a large slab of stone, the field was filled with light and a strong gust of wind seemed to come from the center of the field. When the light and wind faded, where there was previously a rock, there was nothing but charred ground, it had all happened in less than a minute.
"That far" said the old man before walking away leaving an awestruck Goku to continue his training.
Recognize the technique? I hope you did, if you like it, as always leave a comment and I'll C'ya later.