Stoop So Low (1)

He continued explaining, "From now on Wu Tao shall be your instructor. You will find no better man to teach you," Kan Sifu hesitated, "He is after all the one who has been teaching you all this time." 

Yufei was dumbfounded. Guardian animal? Become one? A man could become a crane? Was that why he had seen himself flying? 

But he was just a mere student, it couldn't have been… 

"It appears you are quite talented, my boy. I was right to take you in, you will make a fine Master of Martial Arts. I look forward to seeing you succeed," with those last words Kan Sifu left his disciple with his own thoughts and new master. 

A few years had passed. Yufei was now a full-fledged man. The White Crane sect, founded by the young man was already the focus of rumors worthy of legends. Some recount having seen flocks of white cranes fly away from the sect grounds, yet none had ever seen said animals in the nearby regions.