She really felt like slapping her self,How could she have sent a first level qi sensing realm rookie to hunt in this forest that even her still can't fully uncover it mystery's.
And not only did she send him to hunt,she sent him to hunt a qi condensation realm magical beast. She felt really stupid,What if he had died to some beast .
But she immediately denied that thought as she knew she would have gotten a signal from the mark if he was in danger or was dead,But in this case the said mark seemed to have gone dormant.
She could neither sense jian ling or monitor his action. She couldn't even sense whether he was still alive or dead. She never thought being a teacher would be so frustrating and even though she didn't have much emotions towards jian ling as she just took him in,but still, he was still her student and the worst of it all was that she was the one who sent him on this journey of no return.
She stood where she was for quite sometime as different thought and emotions washed through her being. But soon a thought flashed through her mind about whether he had encountered some sought of opportunity which isolated him and where he was from the outside world. She had realised by now that he probably wasn't dead or she would have gotten a signal no matter what. The mark she placed on him contained a speck of her essence. Essence was a part of a persons being which could be detached from that person to perform arts. While arts where basically skills performed with essence.
Essence and qi were similar but they were separated by earlier cultivators to make it easier for the younger generation to differentiate them.
Essence were similar to qi as they both could be considered part of a person and be used to perform moves. But the main different was that qi was absorbed from the world so it could only be considered as a foreign part of the human energy.
But essence on the other was formulated by the meridians in the body themselves. Essence are thicker and purer qi which is why they were basically used for more powerful moves.
But the letdown of essence was it's little quantity which made it impossible to overuse.
Qi is thinner and less purer than essence but they are more useful in prolonged battle due to thier large quantity.
The dantian was made up of two circles, The Large circle and the small circle. The Large circle is used for storing qi while the small circle is used for storing Essence.
The qi was absorbed mostly through the mouth with qi harnessing techniques, But there are techniques that allowed absorption through other means,Such as breathing through the nose, Absorption of the skin or eyes and various other special method.
But essence on the other could only be accessed by essence condensation stage cultivators who had already gone through the Meridians strengthening realm or those that are in it final stage and had strengthened thier meridian and above.
This was because essence wasn't something one could absorb but was actually being liberated by one's meridians and so if one's meridians wasn't strong enough before they attempt essence generating, The meridians will will simply explode due to it inability to maintain essence.
With this, The reason for essence usage requirements could be easily identified, Though there were some special cases of some juniors who could tap into essence before reaching the meridians strengthening realm, Thus set of people were extremely rare and not at all easy to find.
It must be known that there was not even one of such persons in the Lin family generational line.
Cultivation was divided into many stages by the early cultivators and each stage has a corresponding action that is to be carried out with it.
The qi sensing realm is the realm were one begin to sense qi, The qi condensation realm which is the realm after the qi sensing realm is the realm where one begin to condense qi into the larger circle in the dantian, This is then followed by the qi control realm which is the realm where one begin to use qi to performs skills or just inset it into attacks.
The meridians strengthening stage which comes after this is the stage where one begins to strengthen thier meridians in preparation of the essence condensation stage which is the stage one begin to condense essence in thier dantian smaller circle, The essence control stage is the stage where one learns how to control essence and channel it through the veins to perform various arts.
The known stages after this were the path finding stage, path mending stage, and then the Dao condensation stage. All stages were divided into ten realms by early cultivators.
There were other stages after this but this stages were the one known by jian ling. Jian ling father, Lin Di , was a first level Dao condensation stage cultivator and he could be considered one of the strongest in the entirety of the TU kingdom.
He is ranked 7th among the Tu kingdom expert ranking and second in the Lin family ranking. The Lin family basically has three pillars which enable them to stand among the top 4 families in the kingdom. One was Lin di, jian ling's father, The other was Lin meng, jian ling's mother, and the third was Lin ji, Lin di's father and jian ling's grandfather.
There are four great family's in the TU kingdom, namely the lin family, The jun family and the royal family, The TU family.
Each of them has at least two Dao condensation stage expert and an imposing private army of thier own.
The Lin family has the scorpion corps which served as thier private army.
The four family's were considered the strongest family in the kingdom but not the strongest power.
There were other sects and guilds stronger and more resourceful than them so they still had to tread with caution.