# Tales of Wudan - The 9998 Butterflies

> Andrew Tate, 5 Aug 2023, 4 min. Full automatic transcript below: 31 lines, about 507 words, each with its timestamp.

- Speaker: Andrew Tate
- Uploaded: 5 Aug 2023
- Length: 4 min
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- [0:00](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=0) Master Po and the 9,998 Butterflies.
- [0:06](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=6) In the year 606, I removed my top and walked into the tall grass of Wudan.
- [0:12](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=12) It was amongst this grass, on these meadows, that Master Poe learnt to fight many thousands of years before.
- [0:21](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=21) This grass was blessed by 9,999 butterflies of varying colors. Master Po would pluck them from the sky before releasing them unharmed at lightning speed. Grabbing and hurting a butterfly is doable.
- [0:38](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=38) To snatch one from the sky without damaging it was the art.
- [0:43](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=43) Their irreplicable flight patterns are what built Poe's irreplicable style.
- [0:49](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=49) He could pluck a butterfly from the sky, and with the exact same movement, he could pluck your throat from your neck.
- [0:58](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=58) Every few hundred years, you would see him once again descend into the meadow and dance through the grass,
- [1:04](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=64) snatching and releasing many butterflies per second in a dizzying
- [1:08](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=68) display. The butterflies were not only unharmed, but invigorated by their momentary capture, often fluttering particularly fast and high upon release.
- [1:19](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=79) as if into the heavens above.
- [1:22](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=82) As Adept #1, I understood I would one day succeed Po himself. I had to learn what he knew to do what he could do. So I decided to attempt the same. I stood amongst the grass and began to move.
- [1:40](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=100) Tiger's claw failed, along with my snake fist. I spent 23 days moving, quickly and slowly, grasping at nothing but air. The butterflies would land on me as if to taunt me.
- [1:53](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=113) But my hands touched nothing.
- [1:57](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=117) By my 24th day, my technique had begun to fail. My footwork was sloppy and my stances irregular. Instead of correcting myself, I let it happen.
- [2:08](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=128) I didn't know it then, but these irregular movements of traditional style were the beginning of Te Chinkai. And three hours later, I caught my first butterfly.
- [2:20](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=140) Excited, I held it in my hands as gently as I could, and ran back to the temple to show Master Po.
- [2:28](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=148) I ran up to him as he was drinking tea.
- [2:32](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=152) "Master, master, I have caught a butterfly !"
- [2:35](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=155) I exclaimed.
- [2:37](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=157) He slowly placed his teacup on the ground and a tear began to run down his face.
- [2:44](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=164) Perplexed, I continued, "What's the matter? I've been very gentle. She's alive."
- [2:51](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=171) It was at this moment that I opened my hands.
- [2:55](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=175) Thank you.
- [2:55](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=175) And although I had been gentle, the many minutes in capture had saturated her wings with the natural oils found on the human hand.
- [3:05](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=185) I now understood why Poe's captures were so short. Catch with instant release. This was the consequence of prolonged content.
- [3:18](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=198) Her cage was open. She attempted to fly, but couldn't. She laid on my hand and died.
- [3:27](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=207) I sat next to Poe, and we cried together.
- [3:32](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=212) I never understood why there were exactly 9,099 butterflies in this meadow. And although Po never confirmed it, I fear there was once 10,000 before he made this very same mistake.
- [3:48](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=228) There are still 9,998 butterflies at Takwudan. I never returned to the meadow.
- [3:57](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/91a657cb-6c6b-436e-8512-5f26341103b0?t=237) Such is the way of Wudan.

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