Monastery of Spinjitzu

The **Monastery of Spinjitzu** is a temple-like structure built atop the tallest of the Mountains of Impossible Height in the south of Ninjago. It originally served as the home of the First Spinjitzu Master, who raised his sons Yin Garmadon and Yang Wu within its protective walls. While here, a young Garmadon was corrupted by the venom of the young Great Devourer. After their father passed away, Wu and Garmadon inherited the Monastery, with Wu using it to train the Ghost King while Garmadon trained under Master Chen. When Garmadon's corruption consumed him, he tried stealing the Golden Weapons; after a fight with Wu, he was banished to the Underworld.

Many years later, Wu assembled a team of ninja that comprised of Brian, Lyonna, Himari, and Jake.

## History

Some time after Aspheera was buried in the pyramid, the First Spinjitzu Master climbed up a mountain and built the monastery, calling it the Monastery of Spinjitzu.

One day, when Wu and Garmadon were young, they were sparring using their father's katanas in the courtyard. During the fight, Garmadon disarmed his brother and sent the katana flying over the wall.

Fearing what lay outside, the younger brother refused to retrieve it, so Garmadon went himself. It was there that he was bitten by the Great Devourer and infected with evil. The First Spinjitzu Master eventually found him, though was unable to cure his son who slowly fell under the Devourer's evil influence.

During Wu's training in the monastery, he discovered what damage effects Spinjitzu could do if it is not used properly. As he tried a movement called "mantis kick", he turned his pelvis more than he had and kicked Garmadon so that it flew over the supporting beam and almost the entire roof fell on him. Garmadon then attacked Wu with such anger as Wu had never seen before. In anger he did not use Spinjitzu properly and almost destroyed the whole monastery. However, his father managed to stop him.

The First Spinjitzu Master eventually died and the monastery was left in the care of his sons. Around a millenium later, Garmadon left to train under Master Chen, and Wu encountered a young child, the Ghost Kinf, who was looking through the monastery's trash cans in search of food. Wu took pity on him and trained him in the ways of the ninja. He soon discovered that the Ghost King was a descendant of the Elemental Master of Wind and believed him to be the Green Ninja. This ended up being his greatest regret as the thought of the power that came with the title made the Ghost King incredibly arrogant and he flew into a fit of rage when the Golden Weapons did not choose him. Wu left the monastery's gates open for the Ghost King to return from his journey to find the First Spinjitzu Master's tomb, but he never did.

After Garmadon returned and after the Elemental Alliance's victory over the Serpentine War, the Masters went back to the monastery. When the Time Twins betrayed the other Masters, Wu and Garmadon used four blades forged from Chronosteel to defeat the twins at the monastery and strip them of their powers, and the twins fled into the temporal vortex and were presumed lost in time along with the blades.

Years later, Garmadon and Wu fought over the Golden Weapons in the monastery before Wu's kimono saved him and trapped Garmadon in the Underworld.

## Inhabitants

* First Spinjitzu Master (formerly; deceased)
* Yin Garmadon (formerly)
* Yang Wu
* The Ghost King (formerly; deceased)
* Wu's students (formerly)
* Lyonna Yin Garmadon
* Brian Yang
* Himari Maya Fukami
* Jake Saphire

## Visitors

* Elemental Alliance
* Jack Alloy

## Areas

### Courtyard

Between the walls of the monastery there is a courtyard, which consists of stone paving with the shape of two connected dragons. In the middle is a golden statue of a dragon, which is the same as the one on the roof of the First Spinjitzu Master's house. The wind also often brings a lot of orange leaves to the courtyard, which must be washed away.

At the door to the monastery there is a small sitting area with a teapot and cups.

### Tower

Located at the pinnacle of the Monastery, a tower once bore resemblance to the tower roof of the First Spinjitzu Master's house.

### Trash bins

Near the doors of the Monastery are trash bins where trash is put in.

### Blacksmith workshop

A blacksmith workshop is somewhere within the Monastery.

## Appearances

* Prelude
* Quest of the Golden Weapons

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