The Plot of The Lessons of the Master

*Slight Spoiler*

*Thoughtful child, wealthy parents
*Wise student, smart Alec enemies
*Judged to be a rich twit
*Government takes away parents' money
*Grows up
* "If you become a garrisoner, you can find your parents"
* Invention of a martial art
* Escapes to city
* People teach him differently
* Spreads the story that he is a master
* Invents dual universe
* Meets inventor of Yin-Yang
* Kuo's inspiration for the Yin-Yang
* Yin-Yang becomes very popular
* Kuo is extradited to Japan
* Kuo makes designs for ships
* Kuo invents tea-leaf reading
* Kuo names it 'the place of the rising sun'
* Kuo invents Bu-shi-do
* Kuo learns the mandarin is emperor, and then gets married
* Kuo has a vision that he is emperor over the whole world
* Kuo dies
* Kuo crosses the water to China
* Kuo has friends, and learns he is not dead
* Kuo is called Guo
* Guo poisons some of his friends when experimenting with herbs
* Some of his friends live
* He feels impelled to travel away from them
* Guo withers flowers with his mind
* Guo jumps forty lee
* Guo becomes invisible
* Guo visits a prostitute to cure his invisibility
* Guo looks like a beggar in the street, and become testy
* The emperor hires Guo to train his army
* Guo disguises himself as Master Wu
* Guo trains the army in 'mortal combat'
* Guo instructs the remaining soldiers to be the emperor's bodyguards
* Guo is instructed to raise another army
* Guo feels a sense of despair. He decides to prove that he is immortal
* Guo has the soldiers jab at him with spears
* He survives, but the emperor wants him dead.
* Guo says he will 'play dead'.
* The emperor arranges to have him buried deep in a cave.
* Guo decides to eat his own body with his soul
* Guo doesn't find a way out, instead he burrows deeper into the earth
* Guo fights with Magma
* Guo dies again
* Guo burrows out slowly, meanwhile influencing the earth
* Guo finds himself in the same cave, where workers are digging
* Guo gives his final message as his spirit escapes the cave.