Base spiritual sense works by sensing the differences between Qi levels in The environment and its attunement, allowing you to sense attacks by the rising level of Qi around your opponent's body and to identify its type by the Qi attunement.
A technique that would forcibly teleport somebody, should have left a huge amount of Qi in both points of the teleportation –the entrance and the emergence- emanating from the tear in space such a technique produces.
As you can't sense any such Qi around you –and in an environment as devoided of Qi, it should have been easier to see then a lighthouse- means it was hidden, either by some technique or by treasure.
You could use a technique to try and reveal it but depending on how the Qi signature was hidden, some techniques won't be at all effective, requiring that you cycle through many techniques –possibly hundreds- until you find one that will reveal what you wish to find.
But doing so would waste precious time and power.
Fortunately, you know a trick that could help.
While compared to a single technique its horrendously more expensive. but against the cost of casting of -possibly- hundreds of different techniques its far cheaper.
To understand your trick, one needs to know that ambient Qi can be converted to a different attunement faster than refined Qi, a relevant and useful fact when considers that all techniques use refined Qi, even ones that hide other techniques.
And knowing both facts, if one was to discharge a big amount of Qi attuned to one of the attunements that convert other Qi to their nature -in this particular case, fire Qi- one can watch the rate at which the Qi around them is converted and if they found a patch of Qi that converts slower than is surroundings, then they fund where something was hidden.
Of course, by changing the attunement of the Qi used for the technique, you destroy the possibility of using the attunement as a source of information.
But if you only need to find something that is shrouded by a technique, then you can find no better way to do so.
And as you only need to find the tear in space that brought you here, that is what you do.
You release fire Qi to your surroundings and watch intently as the fire Qi spreads –and raises the temperature as a side effect- and you don't stop until your surrounding is completely filled with fire Qi.
fortunately, while you haven't fund the tea, you now know that either a powerful treasure was used –as unlike techniques some treasures do use ambient Qi instead of refined- or that you were somehow poisoned with something that hindered your spiritual senses when you were brought here.
Seeing as flushing your system changed nothing, it seems likely that a treasure was used.
And to find something hidden by ambient Qi, you would need a technique that is far more sensitive to it.
Fortunately, you have just the one.
About seven thousand years ago, in your travels, you came about a cave, the cave itself was full of various deadly hazards and –surprisingly- was also home for a special breed of shadow bats.
You spent a decade studying them, and fund that while they were even blinder then normal bats, their ears evolved to hear the fluctuations of Qi around them, in a far more precise way then normal spiritual senses.
Using a minor transformation technique, you transform your ears into shadow bat ears and with a click of your tongue you sand a Qi infused sound into your surrounding.
It doesn't take you long to find the tear in space and its position –in your chest just above your heart- explains much.
It wasn't hidden with technique nor treasure, its position meant that it was shrouded by your own aura, hiding it from your spiritual senses.
You haven't thought to peer more closely into your own aura because of the drift that usually comes with long rang teleportation.
And now that you fund the tear, you see that its far too perfect to have been created by any treasure or technique.
No, what brought you here was completely natural, which explains why there wasn't any drift nor any Qi signature to detect.
Oh, that didn't mean that nobody influenced events to your detriment –you even know of someone with the knowhow and the reason to do so- but it did reduce the chance that you were targeted by someone.
In the end, you couldn't say with confidence one way or the other, you would need more information. Of which your only source is rapidly closing.
You drift back a little, infuse your fingers with space Qi and use them to slow the tear closing, as you peer inside with you're
all seeing eyes of haven technique.
You catch only a glimpse before the tear closes.
But that was enough to memorize the entire grand tapestry woven by space ripples, that crated the rift that brought you here.
You couldn't understand much but you felt that with further study, you just might find a way to open a rift back home.
And What you did manage to understand, changed things.
The first thing you fund is that the underlying shape of the rift was similar to that of natural secret realms, just bigger.
Which pointed to the fact that You were either in a secret realm or in a different realm all together, the difference being that you were confident in your ability to burst out of the fold in space that a secret realm was but weren't confidant in your ability to cross between different realms.
Unfortunately, you probably weren't in a secret realm, you remember from when you crated one, that if your cultivation level was to high compared to the ambient Qi around you, you would be slowly pressured until you were pushed out of it and you were felling no such pressure.
The second thing you fund, was that the rift connected between two points that equaled in relative Qi levels.
Meaning that in this realm the Qi wasteland before is comparable to the great sky in terms of Qi.
That… dos not bode well for you.
It would take you time to understand the fragment you have of the rift, anywhere between a year and a decade.
You would need to rise the ambient Qi level in this realm or find a way to survive until you fully comprehend the fragment.
And that would require taking on students.
Sigh…when was the last time you even took a student?
Ten, elven thousand years ago? Somewhere along line that.
You should probably find the local sect, it will give you a better base to start from.
You gaze at the mortal city as you begin descending, intending to find a mortal to question for directions.
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As you descended down into the city, more details came into view.
The city itself was made from brick, glass and metal instead of wood and cut stone as is more common for mortal cities. Between the buildings, great roads were built and on them a great number of metal carriages were driven by mortals to here and there attending various tasks.
Beyond the make of the city, you couldn't have missed the mass of rotten ships on part of the shore or the glowing field surrounding a structure out in the water. It was either the seat of the local sect or… a prison where someone sealed a great evil.
You could sense nothing from it.
…It was better not to risk it, least you would to deal with what you could potentially release.
You spotted many mortals down below, most of them concentrated around on a street by the coast, one filled with stores and mortal attractions.
It didn't take you long to descend into the street full of mortals, though you were still several feet off the ground, it would do well to remind the mortals to whom they speak.
As you haven't made any attempt to hide your presence, many mortals spot your decent -drawing small metal objects and pointing them in your direction- you quickly pass your eyes over the mortals until you find one you suspect will have your answers.
The man himself is wearing a high quality suit, one that points to great wealth –for a mortal anyways- and as you move toward him, he and his friends begin to display signs of unease. A not surprising reaction considering the difference between you.
"excuse me" you begin, no reason not to be polite "would you care to answer a few questions for me?"
"aaah…" he starts, shooting a glance to his friends and seeing no help offered, he hesitantly continues "s-sure."
"great, could you point me to the local sect or one of its branches? I got a little lost."
"emmm, a s-sect?" he asks shooting questioning looks to his friends and when once again no help was offered he continues "do you mean the Protectorate?" he points to the glowing field in the water "t-that's their base."
"good, I figured it was but it's always better to check, thank you" you state "I'll be on my way" but before you could go, you were interrupted by a question from the man.
"a-are you with lung?"
The question gives you pause, lung? They have a dragon here?
That could be very useful, dragons are known for their Qi rich body's and should you kill it you will gain many materials that would be usual in alchemy. And considering the general level of ambient Qi, it shouldn't be too powerful, in fact you are honestly surprised that a dragon can even survive in this place and not bring ruin to it.
You turned back to the man and answered his question "no, I can't say that I am" at your words the man visually relaxed. "but can you be so kind as to point me in its direction?"
"W-why?" the men askes with retuned unease.
"well, in return for answering my questions" never remain in the debt of another, if you can benefit while paying it off "I, the great Wang Fu, would rid you of the beast, I would skin and consume its flash, I will water my herbs with its blood and grind its bone to dust" with every word you said, the man and his friends paled.
…you might have misjudged the resolve of the mortal but it has proven effective as with a mutter of "the docks" and a pointed finger you got your directions.
You started to rise, intending to go and slay the dragon –returning with the corpse of a dragon that vexed the local sect, would greatly help with first impressions- but was interrupted –again- by a shout.
"HEY"
You turned to the direction the voice came from, to see… a flying mortal?
The first thing you notice about her was her youngness, she was probably before the age of adulthood, her blond hair was flowing freely down her back and her blue eyes were intently focused on you.
You brushed your spiritual senses against her and could feel no Qi from the technique that kept her afloat, nor could you feel any treasure. Could it be that the local cultivators developed a way to not have Qi leak into the environment? preposterous, even you can't do such nor do you know of anybody that can.
But it is the only reasonable explanation, unless mortals learned to fly… hah, what a joke.
While you were internally laughing at your own joke, the young cultivator was waiting for an answer and was getting angrier the longer she had to wait.
"HEY, ASSHOLE, answer me"
"yes?" you answer as you raise an eye brow at her erupting anger.
"you can't just say you'll kill people like that, are you a villain? and why don't you wear a mask?" she asks as she fly's closer and stopes a few feet from you.
"a villain? Can't say such a title suits me and why would I need to wear a mask, I have nothing to be ashamed off"
At your words some of the anger disappears from her body "so your new, well if you don't want to be labeled a villain, you shouldn't say you're going to kill someone."
New? you? How blind can someone be?
"I'm not new, in fact, I'm very old and I didn't get to be that old from listening to wants of children"
"well if you don't listen this child is going to arrest you, before you hurt someone" she raises her hands into a sloppy fighting stance.
Clearer fighting words could not have been uttered and you have the perfect response –response number three hundred seventy-four to be more precise, of the ninety-nine hundred and nine devastating counters, by the saint Cai Meng- you raise one eyebrow, change your smile into a cocky grin, raise your head a bit so you can look down your nose at her and utter four simple words.
"you and what army?"
Her forgotten anger erupts and she chargers you, you start to drift back, lazily dodging all of her attacks. All the while shaking your head, youngsters this days, so easy to rile them up.
You are interrupted in your lazy dodging by a moment of pure fear, you -of course- throw off the technique a moment later and deflect the fist aiming for your face.
How surprising, the child has a powerful technique and she thinks it let her play with the adults, how unfortunate that her martial mastery is so lacking. but excellency must be rewarded all the same.
On her next attack instead of dodging you counter.
You send one fist past her weak guard and strike her in the stomach.
For a moment your fist was held back by some defensive technique and before it broke, it spent the physical force of your strike but not the enhanced vibrations from your domain.
The young cultivator was thrown back into the road with two broken ribs and that was that.
Or is it?
She showed great potential, to affect you with an emotional attack for even a moment is impressive and while her offensive capabilities were lacking her defensive were no less impressive.
And you were going to look for students in the future, so why not heal her, exchange a few more pointers and see what happens, you're sure that she will see the benefits of studying under you and forget her first humiliating session.
On the other hand, you can go kill the dragon, you will gain Qi rich meat for consumption and blood for your herbs. And various other crafting materials.
Also, the local sect would surely be ecstatic at your vanquishing of the dragon, giving you a great first impression.
But the dragon isn't going anywhere, you could kill him later and if the seeds of humiliation are allowed to mature into hatred you may never have another chance to tech this promising student.
What do you do? (choose 1).
[] Heal the cultivator, exchange pointers, strike conversation and attempt to recruit her as a disciple.
[] Go and hunt that dragon, and from its body harvest many useful materials.
A.N: dialog, the bane of my existence both in fiction and in life, if you spot mistakes or typos point them out, if you have suggestions offer them, I'll close the vote in two or three days.
