DC: I am Bruce Wayne

Chapter 55: Balance of Chi

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"I must study lots of things or I won't become a great person."

- KOTOMI ICHINOSE, (CLANNAD)

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<(Bruce Wayne POV)>

"Continue to stay in that stance as long as possible without moving or dropping the buckets in your hands. Now, focus on creating ripples in the water inside your buckets with the help of only your chi." Ducra, the old short female monk said as she stood with a stick in her hands and a strict expression on her face.

"Goddamn it. How the hell did I even reach this current situation? I thought I was here to read a few manuscripts or something and then fight off some immortal siblings. I never even in my worst dreams thought that I would be forced to be a part of '36th chamber of Shaolin' here." I muttered sarcastically as I did my best not to fall into the dark ominous pit below me.

Yes, you heard right, there was a bottomless pit below me. I was currently balancing myself on a string-thin rope using just one leg with two extremely heavy buckets filled with water in both of my hands. The weight normally would have been quite light for me due to my current superhuman characteristics but strangely the buckets were as heavy as dozens of tons of metal making this entire thing needlessly more difficult for me than it should have been. Also, I had been continuously standing like this for the last six hours.

"At least you are part of some supposed prophecy concerning the All-caste and the Untitled. But, what about me? Why the hell am I training like this? I don't think I can feel anything in my hands any longer." Nyssa Al Ghul mournfully said as she did her best to manipulate her chi to create ripples in her bucket, something which she was surprisingly really good at.

She was doing the same balancing exercise as me, only the weight of her buckets although the same size as me was nowhere near as heavy as mine. They were very heavy and enough to make her sweat severely to hold them up when compared to her physiology but they didn't weigh tons like mine which was probably somehow done with some sort of bullshit magic or mystic art.

"You shouldn't complain too much. Your elder sister never did. What both of you are doing right now is laying the groundwork for your future progress in the mystic martial arts. You yourself said that you were sent here by Ra's AL Ghul to kill all the Untitled, right?

So, this should be something trivia for you. Once you comprehend how to manipulate the chi inside your body expertly as well as affect other objects with it, then you will be ready to start learning the true power of chi, a small display of the true might of the mystic arts." Ducra said, her voice slightly shaking due to her progressing age.

"Wait, what do you mean by my sister? Is she here? Did you train her as well?" Nyssa got excited at the mention of the fact that her sibling might be here as well.

"I did train her long ago when she came to me with the same request as yours, yes. She was quite a talented assassin but at the time that was all she was, a talented and brainwashed killer to serve her father." Ducra answered.

"Maybe, you could just show some of the techniques to me. I tend to learn things pretty quickly if I see them." I tried to trick her into showing me some of the mystic martial arts she wanted to teach me but unfortunately, she remained as unmoving as a piece of rock as she just shook her head in a brutal rejection.

"Copying everything is not the best solution to learn everything. Sometimes, you have to use your own comprehensive abilities to figure things out." Ducra said with a knowing look on her face signifying that she had some sort of knowledge about my photographic reflexes cheat.