A pupil is being taught ot master the art of chi by his master and. You must help him destroy a trio of large stone blocks to gain your reward.
The Solution[]
You must buy hand-forcing in the tribute menu before you can complete this mission.
Wear down each of the rocks with your forcing power before the pupil punches them. If you don't, then the pupil will hurt his hand on the rock and have to try again.
As soon as you've clicked the scroll and have control of your hand again, hold the action button to start hand forcing. Then, immediately begin "scrubbing" the first rock with a repetitive motion.
Scrubbing: While holding the action button (you should hear a chorus humming), make fast repetitive motions on the rock. This works best if your hand is still visually in front of the stone. Your hand does not have to stay entirely in front of the stone as you scrub, but take care not to move it too far off. Both circular motions and back-and-forth motions work. Pink and purple smoke will rise from the stone as you scrub, if you're doing it correctly. When you see a white concentric circle effect, the rock is ready to be broken.
Immediately after the student breaks the rock, move to the next one. Do not wait for the camera to reposition- you'll need all the time you can get! Modern computers with higher framerates may find this more difficult than intended; it may take several tries. 2-3 complete back-and-forth cycles per second seems to be sufficient, but you'll need to minimize any lost progress from moving the hand too far off the rock.
Warning: You have two chances to destroy the rocks, except on the last one where you have to achieve your goal on the first try.
Reward[]
- 40,000 tribute
Trivia[]
The dialogue for this in-engine cutscene appears to be bugged. The player does not assist the pupil on the first rock, he will hurt his hand, and teacher says "You need to work harder, to harness the awesome power of chi. You may try again when you feel ready, student.", to which the student replies "Yes, Grandmaster Kai". The student the proceeds to immediately try again, and if the player again does not intervene to help him break the rock, the teacher will say "No, no, no... focus your chi, student!" before fading to black and ending the objective.
It feels like the teacher's two lines of dialogue should be played in the opposite situations, since he would probably only say "You may try again when you feel ready" if the student were very far from achieving their goal, and thus should not immediately try again.
Failure to assist the student on rocks 2 or 3 will lead to the teacher saying "You must worker harder, student..." before immediately fading to black and requiring a restart of the objective. This supports the idea that the teacher's dialogue was flipped sometime during development, since it can only occur when the student hurts themselves on the first rock it probably went unnoticed during testing.