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Of the known corporeal realms, there are few finer martial artists than Congbaishan. That’s why pilgrims from all over the world travel far & wide to seek the wise yeti’s ultra strict tutelage. Sometimes, pilgrims are said to even come from as far as other worlds entirely.
Born Xian Jingzhi, very little is known of the master before he first appeared before the temple gates of the Qiang Jijan Hui Monastery, intent on enrollment. The yeti child, already the size of an adult human, was initially rejected several times by the monks, believing he & his kind were too wild & unrefined to practice kung fu. Then, noting his calm persistence, the chief abbot intervened on the ninth day, accepting the yeti child into the monastery.
From there, things only got harder as the yeti began his training, later accepting the name Congbaishan. To his teachers, it became almost immediately apparent that the yeti student was something of a prodigy. With a serenity many believed uncharacteristic of his species, Congbaishan progressed through the rigors of his training through discipline & hard work, exceeding expectation & the best efforts of his fellow students, even a few of his elders.
By the time he had reached adulthood, Congbaishan stood at two & a half meters tall & mostly alone, after inadvertently stacking most of the school against him. It didn’t help matters when the chief abbot, old & feeble, expressed interest in having the yeti taking his place. Before that could happen, four senior monks conspired with one another & exiled Congbaishan from the temple before that could happen. Looking to avoid conflict, the serene Yeti began a pilgrimage deep into the remote wilderness of the high country, where he hoped to obtain enlightenment on his own.
It was nearly a full decade before he reemerged. A bit shy of his goal of becoming a bodhisattva, the prodigious martial artist had instead developed several chi based techniques that he combined into a brand new fighting style he referred to as Zhongliquan, or Gravity Boxing. The style, when utilized properly, exploits disparities in both chi & air flow, creating vacuums & micro gravity wells, basically causing the opponent to be drawn in to the user’s strike at its peak, thereby exponentially maximizing the force of the blow.
It wasn’t long before the monk turned master decided to start a school of his own. But this angered some of his former rivals who decided to pay him a visit. Specifically, the ten most accomplished boxers Qiang Jijan Hui had to offer. The fight didn’t last very long, & when it was over, none of the vindictive, now crumpled monks had managed to lay a finger on Congbaishan, who had used his Gravity Boxing to turn their strikes against one another. Further enraged, the beaten monks challenged the yeti to a monastery wide kumite. It drew a crowd. But instead of stopping the yeti, word of the “fight” began to spread far & wide after Congbaishan decimated his foes. His school only grew more popular. The problem, it turned out was that a style as complex as Zhongliquan is so difficult, it’s practically unteachable.
It’s often approximated that it would take a student three consecutive lifetimes of strict training to master Zhongliquan, eight to come anywhere near the level of skill possessed by Congbaishan. While the popularity of the school seemed to continue, the sifu became very selective about the students he took on, basing his decision mostly upon persistence & willpower. Many come from nearby, including some of the defeated monks from Qiang Jijan Hui. Some are from outside the region, others, from outside the country. And yet there always seems to be others, stranger still, who don’t necessarily seem to even be from this plane of reality. Out of hundreds of students, there was said to have been only one other who came close to the level of Congbaishan. A mysterious unnamed female from parts unknown, & only after she devoted her entire life to the strictest level of training, five times over it’s rumored.

This guy will show up as a minor character in something I’m currently working on. He won’t pop up in the story for quite a while but I liked the idea & wanted to roll with it & get started. Of course he might change drastically between now & then. More will be revealed when he actually shows up.
The thought process behind him was this: in a story with a decent deal of dimension hopping, I need a crazy heightened kung fu master character to teach the bad ass character how to fight. While I wanted to make it seem abstract & crazy, I like traditional kung fu stories too & thought it might be a good opportunity to maybe go the old fashioned route, but wanted to still give it that random interdimensional quality. So I thought about how gigantopithecus was found China, what if in that dimension they ended up coexisting with mankind & were apart of the civilization as it progressed. So, yeah. Changed a little from that whereas I might make the temple a little less Shaolin woodsy & more Himalayan & make him more Yeti-esque. Because there’s kind of a weird succinctness to Yeti Sifu.
Was kinda going for that Gordon Liu as Pai Mei sort of vibe. Debated on giving him a really long, narrow beard to keep whipping around him, but I think the wispy mustache & mutton chop combo makes him look a little like a gnarly end boss sort of kung fu master instead. In the past, I did a sasquatch character for Entervoid.com & gave him more of an orangutan palette on a whim sort of just to make him stand out. So for a Yeti, I was thinking a Japanese macaque thing might work better (though now, on a different monitor I might’ve boosted the saturation too far). I kind of fell into the old habit of giving him a skull like face like I did with the other guy, whereas macaques eyes seem to fall really close together. I think doing that would’ve heightened it a little more. Then again, If I made him too ape like, everyone might just think it was some wacky version of Sun Wukong or something. I both kind of dig & regret the pose. I pulled reference & thought it’d be a pretty cool switch up, but it’s a little hard to kind of make out his proportions, which I don’t think I ultimately tweaked enough to vary him from a typical human. I think the arm bend behind his head probably reads a little awkward too.

Description

Of the known corporeal realms, there are few finer martial artists than Congbaishan. That’s why pilgrims from all over the world travel far & wide to seek the wise yeti’s ultra strict tutelage. Sometimes, pilgrims are said to even come from as far as other worlds entirely.
Born Xian Jingzhi, very little is known of the master before he first appeared before the temple gates of the Qiang Jijan Hui Monastery, intent on enrollment. The yeti child, already the size of an adult human, was initially rejected several times by the monks, believing he & his kind were too wild & unrefined to practice kung fu. Then, noting his calm persistence, the chief abbot intervened on the ninth day, accepting the yeti child into the monastery.
From there, things only got harder as the yeti began his training, later accepting the name Congbaishan. To his teachers, it became almost immediately apparent that the yeti student was something of a prodigy. With a serenity many believed uncharacteristic of his species, Congbaishan progressed through the rigors of his training through discipline & hard work, exceeding expectation & the best efforts of his fellow students, even a few of his elders.
By the time he had reached adulthood, Congbaishan stood at two & a half meters tall & mostly alone, after inadvertently stacking most of the school against him. It didn’t help matters when the chief abbot, old & feeble, expressed interest in having the yeti taking his place. Before that could happen, four senior monks conspired with one another & exiled Congbaishan from the temple before that could happen. Looking to avoid conflict, the serene Yeti began a pilgrimage deep into the remote wilderness of the high country, where he hoped to obtain enlightenment on his own.
It was nearly a full decade before he reemerged. A bit shy of his goal of becoming a bodhisattva, the prodigious martial artist had instead developed several chi based techniques that he combined into a brand new fighting style he referred to as Zhongliquan, or Gravity Boxing. The style, when utilized properly, exploits disparities in both chi & air flow, creating vacuums & micro gravity wells, basically causing the opponent to be drawn in to the user’s strike at its peak, thereby exponentially maximizing the force of the blow.
It wasn’t long before the monk turned master decided to start a school of his own. But this angered some of his former rivals who decided to pay him a visit. Specifically, the ten most accomplished boxers Qiang Jijan Hui had to offer. The fight didn’t last very long, & when it was over, none of the vindictive, now crumpled monks had managed to lay a finger on Congbaishan, who had used his Gravity Boxing to turn their strikes against one another. Further enraged, the beaten monks challenged the yeti to a monastery wide kumite. It drew a crowd. But instead of stopping the yeti, word of the “fight” began to spread far & wide after Congbaishan decimated his foes. His school only grew more popular. The problem, it turned out was that a style as complex as Zhongliquan is so difficult, it’s practically unteachable.
It’s often approximated that it would take a student three consecutive lifetimes of strict training to master Zhongliquan, eight to come anywhere near the level of skill possessed by Congbaishan. While the popularity of the school seemed to continue, the sifu became very selective about the students he took on, basing his decision mostly upon persistence & willpower. Many come from nearby, including some of the defeated monks from Qiang Jijan Hui. Some are from outside the region, others, from outside the country. And yet there always seems to be others, stranger still, who don’t necessarily seem to even be from this plane of reality. Out of hundreds of students, there was said to have been only one other who came close to the level of Congbaishan. A mysterious unnamed female from parts unknown, & only after she devoted her entire life to the strictest level of training, five times over it’s rumored.

This guy will show up as a minor character in something I’m currently working on. He won’t pop up in the story for quite a while but I liked the idea & wanted to roll with it & get started. Of course he might change drastically between now & then. More will be revealed when he actually shows up.
The thought process behind him was this: in a story with a decent deal of dimension hopping, I need a crazy heightened kung fu master character to teach the bad ass character how to fight. While I wanted to make it seem abstract & crazy, I like traditional kung fu stories too & thought it might be a good opportunity to maybe go the old fashioned route, but wanted to still give it that random interdimensional quality. So I thought about how gigantopithecus was found China, what if in that dimension they ended up coexisting with mankind & were apart of the civilization as it progressed. So, yeah. Changed a little from that whereas I might make the temple a little less Shaolin woodsy & more Himalayan & make him more Yeti-esque. Because there’s kind of a weird succinctness to Yeti Sifu.
Was kinda going for that Gordon Liu as Pai Mei sort of vibe. Debated on giving him a really long, narrow beard to keep whipping around him, but I think the wispy mustache & mutton chop combo makes him look a little like a gnarly end boss sort of kung fu master instead. In the past, I did a sasquatch character for Entervoid.com & gave him more of an orangutan palette on a whim sort of just to make him stand out. So for a Yeti, I was thinking a Japanese macaque thing might work better (though now, on a different monitor I might’ve boosted the saturation too far). I kind of fell into the old habit of giving him a skull like face like I did with the other guy, whereas macaques eyes seem to fall really close together. I think doing that would’ve heightened it a little more. Then again, If I made him too ape like, everyone might just think it was some wacky version of Sun Wukong or something. I both kind of dig & regret the pose. I pulled reference & thought it’d be a pretty cool switch up, but it’s a little hard to kind of make out his proportions, which I don’t think I ultimately tweaked enough to vary him from a typical human. I think the arm bend behind his head probably reads a little awkward too.