Playing Waterbending (Avatar: Last Aibender SI)

"Well, you could help yourself," Wang said. "Just make sure you don't have an extra schedule before immersing yourself in the wonders of knowledge."

I laughed. "Sure thing, Mister Wa Shi Tong."

The owl turned and walked away. I let out a sigh of relief internally. I had risked offending this spirit to get what I wanted, and I was quite happy with the results.

I looked at my hands, holding the two scrolls. One contained a spiritual breathing technique to project the soul into the spirit world, and the other was a method to increase my Chi—which would require me to travel to the North Pole.

But on the other hand, with a cloud under me, I didn't think I would have to waste much time.

All I needed now was to find two more pieces of information.

One: the date of the comet, through the old-school method—geometry and history.

Two: the date of the eclipse.

I could invade the Fire Lord's palace at that time, and I could make an assumption about the comet's date based on that.

And if the method for increasing spiritual energy worked too well for me, I might even be able to take on the entire Fire Palace alone with bloodbending.

Well, steam bending and waterbending would be enough for me. After all, I could freeze humans or dehydrate them completely in a matter of seconds.

I opened the scroll for the method to visit the spirit world.

[Skill has been learned.]

[Spiritual Meditation.]

[Meditate to enter the spirit realm.]

[Using accumulated experience.]

[Spiritual Meditation up to level 6.]

[Can now enter the spirit world.]

[Spiritual Meditation up to level 10.]

[Can now enter the spirit world in a matter of 3 seconds.]

I guess three seconds was plenty of time. I wouldn't need to use more experience points.

On the other hand, I was glad to have the extra experience points. What would take others talent and practice came easily to me in just a few seconds.

Then, I opened the second scroll.

[+2000 accumulated experience points.]

I understood the scroll.

So, in short, I had to get one of the fish to like me.

The scroll didn't mention the location of the fish, which happened to be the Moon and Ocean spirits who had given up their immortal forms.

But I had a very good idea of where they were.

The library is burned… I thought. That means General Zao has been here. Yet, the fish aren't dead. This makes sense because the only reason he went to the North Pole was to chase the Avatar. But at the same time, I believe he's waiting for a good reason to go to the North Pole and kill the spirits. So… I need to give him that reason.

I guess this was where the Order of the White Lotus could come in handy.

I then arrived at another section with a calendar showing the movements of the moon and the sun. I guessed it calculated the positions of the moon and sun based on the date. I fiddled with it for a bit and realized that we had about one month until the eclipse.

I didn't know exactly how far that was from Sozin's comet, but I knew it was close enough.

That meant there was no use in freeing the Avatar now.

I stretched my arms up, left the library section, and went to where Toph and Katara were waiting. Both of them were asleep, so I waited a few hours before waking them up. I asked them to get ready to leave, and they did. In no time, I summoned a cloud from a bottle of water and flew us out of the library, finding ourselves in the desert.

I flew us to a nearby town.

At the same time, I held a book titled The Order of the White Lotus for Dummies.

I gave it a quick read and memorized everything at once.

There was a nearby spot to exchange information.

All I had to do was say the code, and I'd be good to enter.

"So, where are we heading?" Katara asked.

"To find your brother a wife," I said.

I mean, if things went the same as in canon and his canonical girlfriend didn't turn into the moon, he would be fine.

"What a funny joke. It's killing me," Katara rolled her eyes and deadpanned, not seeming to take my words seriously.

Toph chuckled.

"Anyways, let's go to the motel, pack our stuff, and leave," I said. "Meanwhile, I'll go gather some info."

"Do you know anyone around here?" Toph asked.

"No. But I know how to find out," I replied.

After reaching the desert town, the girls went to the motel to gather their things. I went to a nearby flower shop. I gave the shopkeeper the code, and he replied with another code, indicating that we were from the same organization. I gave him my White Lotus token, and he got me in.

We chatted for a bit, and he was kind enough to make me some tea—bless him. I drank the tea while asking for information about Zao from the Fire Nation. At this point in the timeline, he had made it to General before the Avatar had even appeared. He wasn't overseeing just a few bases; he was living with his family at one.

My plan had been simple: make General Zao attack the spirits, save the spirits, and have the spirits owe me, giving me spiritual power.

But to make the first part happen, I needed to provoke him.

"He's living with his family. Interesting. He's not afraid for their safety despite the crimes he's committing?" I asked.

The older man replied, "He's quite confident in the defenses of his fort. Besides, we haven't been able to establish a branch in his base. He's very careful and very cruel at the same time. We haven't found any weaknesses in him yet."

"Oh, boy," I smirked widely, forming a plan.

So, Zao was quite confident in his defenses. But did he know that the full moon would arrive in three days? And for the next three days, it would shine brightly in the sky.