Unweathered Cliff face style, Unarmed [Earth]
It is said that the unweathered cliff style was born when the Great and Honourable ancestor bore witness to the grand Royal cliffs of the eastern seas, So named for their natural Colouring barring similarities to an emperor's Purple robes and the sheer scale.
Stretching miles, These cliff faces presented an Unbroken, Unmared and unbeaten face, Purple and as vibrant as the clothing of an emperor despite the incredibly beating that the Barren sea, Named for its impossibility for fishermen to ply their trade at the time due to its incredibly wrathful nature. The temperamental Sea would strike the cliff faces with Towering waves to which the ancestor was but an ant, It would whip the Royal cliffs with Mist and water droplets as strong as arrows and Slam the floating remains of its victims both natural and manmade into it like the impact of a Hundred Fists.
Despite this The cliff faces were unbowed. Not a mark could be seen upon their Royal Face, Not a dent or even an Imperfection, Years hardening the rocks until even the Wrath of the Barren sea was unable to even mark them.
The grand ancestor was awed. For 300 days and 300 nights Meditated, Moving closer to the edge of the cliff and Exposing himself more and more to the wrath of the sea with every Truth of the universe he came to understand. Every Breakthrough He moved closer, Even as his meditating body was struck by diminished blows from the sea.
It is said that for the final 77 days of his meditation, He sat at the edge, Taking the blows of the barren sea just as the Royal Cliff had for centuries.
Finally, he kneeled, Thanking the great cliffs for their teachings as though a commoner before to the emperor himself and traveled to what would day become the capital of Bei bu.
The city sat close to the wonderous Royal cliffs, Along a river that led from the Northern mountain down to the Barren sea. The river was large, Concentrating all of the runoff from the Northern mountains and almost as temperamental as the Sea that it fed into. Even with its temperamental nature, it served as the best source of water as the tundra that the city sat on was filled with the Sea to its east and the mountain to its north.
The temperamental river would flood commonly and had torn apart any attempt to damn or divert its flow. as such the Fishman of the captial had to sate themselves with the fish that would be left stranded by the flooding river.
The deep muck of the river's flood plains served as the perfect medium for the rice that the city fed on, Provided the river didn't tear the crop away.
It was a hard and temperamental mistress, But the river was the best source of food and water for the city and so the city was constructed their, weathering the harsh blows of the tempermental capital River.
At the time, The city was ruled by a tyrant, A cruel emperor who would execute his citizens if they didn't move out of his way fast enough.
The grand ancestor Traveled to this city, Sat upon the main Throughway of the city, Directly in the middle. And began to meditate.
Immediately, many disgruntled workers and farmers attempted to dislodge him But found their attempts met with Flesh as though stone. Sticks broke, Insults Ignored as though flies.
Soon, The city found t easier to move around him, and the Strange meditating Monk was left to himself as the city learned to ignore its new prop.
Then one day the Emporer came, His caravan of horses and wagons, decorated in hundreds of thousands of artisans beads, each depicting a tapestry of the greatness of this man and so tightly packed it could be used to hold water. The Precession found the man, And could not move his with fist nor word nor club.
When told of this, The Emporer demanded he be beheaded.
His royal guards went, The swords came down. and the swords broke, with nary a mark on the Grand ancestor's skin. Leaving the blades of the swords where they fell, They scrambled back to their emperor.
Enraged the emperor had his guards hitch a hundred ropes and a hundred horses to the man, In order to pull him out of the processions way and then quarter him outside the city.
The ropes came And were lashed to the Grand ancestor until naught could be seen of the Meditating man. The horses pulled.
And the man stayed. The ropes frayed and snapped, Whipping out and striking the Royal guards as the man proved just as Impossible to move as the cliff faces.
Enraged, the emperor ordered a Bonfire built, The size of the throughway. Stack upon stacks of wood was built around the man, Pitch Splashed upon the wood to ensure proper ignition and still that GRand ancestor meditated, not a care in the world. The Massive Bonfire raged for seven nights and seven days, Turning the Brokens swords to slag and the frayed ropes to ash.
And yet at the end of that grand bonfire. The man remained. Body covered in ash, yet not even a burn upon him.
AS the man stood up and Wiped the ash from his skin it revealed itself to be a deep, vibrant purple, Similar to the cliff from which he learned.
The man bowed, Thanked the emperor for aiding in his Training, and began to leave.
Thoroughly cowed by who he believed to be a member of the divine court, the emperor begged forgiveness and to be taken as his student. As the man had done the grand ancestor a favor, He agreed to the request.
Soon the emperor would find himself supplanted in his own court, as many of the nobles and Guard also begged to learn from the grand ancestor.
The City soon found itself to be a dominant power of the surrounding Plains and Tundras. Using the earthen elemental energies of the style, The army of What would be Beu bu found themselves capable of marching for incredibly long times as the earth boiled their own energy and endurance, Far past where any other army would be forced to use horses to traverse the empty tundras or camp for the night. In battle, the enemy would find their weaponry useless, as Arrows bounces off of unprotected skin and spears splintered against bare flesh.
Beyond battle, Practitioners would wade into the Tempermental river, Hunting fish by hand in a way they could not by delicate boat and using their own bodies to finally tame it, Slowing the rivers flow by carving a series of dams, ponds, and lakes, making life upon the river bank infinitely easier as canals were carved by hand as a form of training. By taming the Tempermental river, The number of people the city could feed and the number of crops that could be planted in controlled flood plains ballooned in size, with the number of those swept away decreased every year until it was considered rare
The unweathered cliff face style used the earthen energy it was formed in accordance with in order to fortify the natural body into an unmanageable edifice. This ability to take devastating blows with little to no damage means that the style quickly came to rely on devastating counterblows, Ignoring light blows that had no hopes to pierce their skin, Thus forcing the Foe into a series of powerful blows that could be deflected and dodged before a powerful counterblow is delivered. While the natural strength of a member of the unweathered Cliff style is relatively unaugmented, A barehanded blow was still devastating as the sheer hardness was as though the practitioner was wearing a metallic glove.
For those foes who refused to be drawn into the inevitable counterblow, The Unweathered Cliffs augmented sTamina would ensure that that they would see exhaust themselves long before the Practitioner would.
Many Practitioners are defined by a Calm and collected demeanor, With panic, a rare thing to them as the very earth energy that Enhances their bodies promotes a more placid and long-standing view.
The most basic techniques of the unweathered cliff face were built off of the Body of stone Flooding the body with earthen energy long the same patterns and flood lines within the body as those initially discovered by the Grand ancestor. The body of stone would then harden the body Providing the foundation for the rest of the style, Many students of the style find moving with the Body of stone difficult, thus the early days are spent in meditation to as learn the movement of the earthen energy by instinct. The more learned in the style, The stronger the style's Body of stone becomes. The number of people who have managed to scratch the surface of the Grand acestors own body is capable on a single hand in the course of all of Bei bu's history.
The Royal Breath technique is the second technique taught to students of the style, Requiring a proper flow of Earthen energy, similar to that of the body of stone. By augmenting their organs with earthen energy and incredibly controlled breathing, the stamina of a practioner grows by leaps and bounds. This is the technique that allows a Member of the Unwhethered Cliffface to survive lack of air, incredibly long journeys, and even lack of food, and is typically used as a stepping stone to the more complicated technique do the amount of time spent in meditation it can require.
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