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ORIGIN OF BLACK SALT

 Samuel was about 18 years old and one day after an intensive training session, Master Yu sat Samuel down and told him a story.  He explained when he was 10 years old as a young monk at the temple, he and his master were in the village picking up some herbs.  Master Chan was telling young Yu that it was forbidden and he should never teach his Shaolin training to anyone outside the Chinese Klan.  As Master Chan continued to explain why, to the left of them, they saw a couple of merchants packing fresh fish in a lot of salt.  Curiously, young Yu asked his master, “Why are the men packing the fish in all that salt?”  Master Chan told young Yu that salt is a very powerful mineral from the ground and is used to preserve goods and cleanse/cure terrible wounds. But the strongest salt is found in the burned ashes of rare herbs.

Samuel now that I am an old man with great wisdom and have walked many journeys through life, I now disagree with my Master Chan, about the curse of Shaolin.  A man should be judged in life by the pureness of his heart and his deeds and not by his origin or what Klan he was born into.  Samuel you have trained very hard and have been an honorable man in my eyes, you are my cure and maybe these Shaolin teachings can be a start in changing man’s ignorance.  Young Samuel as of today you will be known as “Black Salt”

BLACK SALT

Synopsis

In this epic trilogy Samuel Tharpe a top CIA agent accidentally kills the  son of a powerful Chinese crime boss in an undercover sting operation to retrieve a deadly Nanotech weapon know as the " Cloud of Death ". The crime boss Kali Zhang is a rogue Shaolin Monk that is extremely skilled in martial arts.  Kali built his criminal empire after being exiled from the temple for murder and other atrocities.

Kali Zhang vows vengeance on the one “responsible,” and sets out to recover his “stolen” property. In a simultaneous strike, carried out on Sam’s personal residence, and the CIA substation with the assistance of the corrupt CIA  director, Jack Foster, and his crooked company henchmen, the weapon is reacquired by Kali, and one of Sam’s sons, killed by Kali’s assassins.

Unaware of the identity of the assassins, Sam realizes he has to quickly hide his surviving children in a safe place. Samuel takes his children to Denfeng China, the place of his upbringing, also home to the Shaolin Temple and one-time residence of Master Yu Bai Shek, Sam's childhood mentor.

Master Yu risked all by teaching Sam the ancient Shaolin ways of fighting, as it was forbidden to pass such knowledge to "outsiders". Upon completion of these teachings, Sam was to pay Yu back by perform a task of great importance. However, the nature of this debt was never divulged, as upon completion of his student’s training, Master Yu left Samuel/the temple without any explanation as to why, and without any mention as to what the task was Sam was to perform in return.

Now on the brink of death, Sam struggles to recover, while Huan Li, an operative in which Sam shares a long complex history and the only surviving member of his stike force team, sets out to find Yu, Sam's only hope.

A recovered Sam, Huan Li, and Master Yu return to Denfeng, await Kali and his deadliest enforcers in final battle. Past and present collide in a classic Western showdown set in the Far East, as the very temple which once rejected Samuel as an outsider, forcing Yu to train his student in secrecy, now acts as the staging ground for what could be Samuel’s last mission.