In the east of the Western Lands, Yae Sakura stood atop a mountain, using her super-senses to scan the surrounding area... but she found no trace of Kikyo.
It was rather strange. She could privately chat with Tanihara Natsu and Kaede, but when she tried to contact Kikyo through the system's private chat, while it no longer said "not in this channel," Kikyo never responded.
She asked Lu Ming, but she did not know either.
As a novice system, she clearly still had many shortcomings. But the likely reason was that Kikyo had been split in two. She was not a complete entity, possessing only one-sided yang.
Since private chat would not work, Yae Sakura could only search for her the hard way.
"Not here. Let's go to the next place!"
After confirming there was nothing here, Yae Sakura looked at Sirin beside her again.
"Okay."
Sirin casually opened another portal, continuing to serve as a mere tool. She no longer cared...
Stepping through the portal, Yae Sakura and Sirin arrived somewhere else and searched again using the same method. After repeating this roughly seven or eight times, Yae Sakura finally seemed to sense Kikyo's presence.
"She should be ahead. Sirin, lock onto the location and teleport us directly there."
Yae Sakura described the approximate location to Sirin. For Sirin... as long as she had a general location or coordinates, she could open a portal there.
Without that, she could also randomly open a portal some number of kilometers away.
As long as the Herrscher energy within her was "sufficient," she could even open a portal to the other side of the world. Of course... without detailed coordinates, she could not determine the exact location.
However, once a portal was open, she did not need to cross it to learn