• Tokon: Fighting Spirit - Martial arts History

    Two Tengu Masters

    This is the origins of the rivaling martial arts they are founded by two brothers who are masters of the Sage Arts a martial art only the gifted could use these difficult martial arts.



    Shin Ten no Rei: Kikou Jutsu
    (True Celestials of the Spirit: Spirit Manipulation Method)

    An ancient martial art learned by Hiro’s ancestor Sakurai Shinden a Nobleman of the Kanzuki Clan and the one of oldest many martial art styles.

    The techniques are extremely difficult to perform by any person it’s is usually used by mainly monks but I mainly by luck that they learned such a rare fighting style.

    Many people may confused it to Ansatsuken or Assassination arts which focus on mainly killing but this fighting style is a Senken Kikou Jutsu: Ancient Sage Spirit Controlling Way or for short The Mystic Sage Arts was learned up under a man who is demon that is believed to be a Tengu named Renzou Sōjōbō of Mount Kurama at Kyoto.

    This martial art utilizes the practitioner’s life force or energy from the world this is called Spiritual energy in terms to the Japanese it is recognized as Ki.

    Naturally anyone that has blood in their veins can manipulate these techniques but not everyone is lucky enough to learn the techniques because there is a requirement the warrior must be at its peak to learn the ancient martial arts making the least wanted fighting style to be learned Sakurai has suddenly died and didn’t really taught any real details of the fighting art so the techniques are clearly limited to one skill.

    The techniques are comprised from energy blasts but the relatives didn’t detail the other abilities form learning this skill and found it uninspired eventually discerning the fighting style.

    Eventually someone came up better variations of the techniques and that is his latest descendant Hiro Kanzuki which learned more than his Hoshimaru his father and Renzoumaru his grandfather, because of this Hiro is considered a genius martial artist.

    Their students also chastises any superhuman that misused their abilities because of the origins of learning the Sage Art, originally it’s to honor the benevolent Renzou because he is a protector against evil.

    There was a family of twenty-six siblings Renzou is the third eldest in the massive clan and the most reasonable of them.

    Each of them learned a different form of martial art profession.

    Renzou learns an open hand form contrasting from his other relatives; they trained each other and learned about each other’s weaknesses and learned about their own advantages toward each other.

    The warriors eventually descend into earth to teach the skilled warrior their secrets and made warnings to the flaws in their marital arts before disappearing forever.

    While Renzou is still in training he sometimes walked inside the Kyoto streets to find out what is happening to the people.

    In the Sengoku era everything was out of control so the Tengu aided people in need and slain fiends that is causing danger around the people.

    Years passed and Renzou starts to feel that his time has come so he took a guise of an old man and begun to wait for any traveling warriors who seek strength.

    Time and time again there were warriors who claim that they could master his Sage art but failed miserably proving that his martial art could be mastered by a man that has a strong spirit and could use such power in order to excel the sorcerers themselves.

    That is until Sakurai came around the man was young slightly juvenile But is very wise for his young appearance.

    At first Renzou didn’t take him seriously until he was out witted by him in a simple trick by asking him to look into his fist, told him that there is something special inside of it and punched him in the left eye pointing out in his way to never underestimate him.

    Renzou were flustered and gave him a challenge if he could defend his magic spells he will teach him his martial secrets.

    And so he did as he was challenged and starts calling him old man instead of Shisho since he foiled him twice, so Renzou asked if he could draw power from his body, put it into his hands and simply shoot it out.

    Sakurai did what the other students failed at but Renzou causelessly haven’t given his Sage Art a name and before leaving him he noticed that the Tengu were hiding his true form and called the martial art ‘Shin’ which mean true ‘Ten’ which means heaven or celestial and ‘No Rei’ Which means of the soul and choose to move on to perfect the techniques of the martial art.



    Tenkuu wo Tsuranuki Kirisaku Taifuu: Kukou Jutsu
    (Typhoon that tears through the sky: Void Manipulation Method)

    The opposing spirit art against Shin Ten no Rei, This Sage Art is created by Renzou’s younger brother Genjo who has fallen to the lower Tengu or exiled from his clan for his heinous act, the man acted hatefully and destructive that his other brother has beaten him for his selfish acts.

    Thus this results him in leaving the clan.

    He vowed to make his own martial art in order to destroy his entire clan for abusing him.

    The only one who didn’t mistreat him was Renzou, eventually in the Sengoku period of Japan he returned and defeated his fellow brothers in battle and sought to defeat hid elder brother as he was the last to been beaten.

    The elder brother was reluctant to fight but without any choice the Fiend still attacks him, after an incredible hour of arts and counters the demon was beaten.

    Renzou became victorious but was saddened by the destruction they caused around the Kurama Mountain lifeless bodies were around the area and villages were destroyed.

    He chooses to spare his younger brother and intends to never fight in any personal case.

    But Genjo loved the battle and took it the wrong way he swore that since he retires that he will keep coming for him until he continues to fight.

    He keeps failing and failing until Renzou vanished only to discover that he passed his martial arts skill on to the Kanzuki clan’s noble Sakurai he eventually confronts him but he was still defeated, humiliated he intends to give Sakurai’s rival clan Kozuka the clan that supports Hideyoshi some additional strength that’s when he met Mugen Kozuka a man that only fights for the enjoyment of crushing his opponents.

    The dark sage taught him in only to use it to destroy his brother’s successor but along the way he used it to kill many other people until he found Sakurai.

    He challenged him to a duel to find out who is stronger but was still subdued by Sakurai spiritual might this is where the cycle continues until he was finally killed by Sakurai.

    In his dying breath he swore revenge against his descendants and thus the rivalry continues.

    This martial art is used to create vacuums in striking fashion which it is difficult for any mere person to avoid.

    There are other techniques but unlike Sakurai only some of a strong hatred can achieve such dark form.

    Mostly all of the Kozuka clan members have moved on but a few is still active intending to create a vessel for the slain fiend to reincarnate.

    The person is named Subaru Kozuka, this person is known to society as the most heartless of the clan, but this person has is kept incognito so they wouldn’t become tracked.

    In rare cases there are other students who learned the martial art like Zed Belth himself who learned the martial art by stealing a scroll from a clan member before gladly returning it.