Guru Pathik was the strongest-and only-Spiritbending grandmaster in the world today. Iroh had studied under him for a time in his youth and could be considered something of a disciple.
According to Iroh, the grandmaster was witty and humorous, peaceful and open-minded. If Kahn wanted to pursue further studies in Spiritbending, he could go learn from him.
After the Fire Nation wiped out the Air Nomads, the air temples everywhere soon became forbidden grounds that people shunned. By now, nearly all of them had become deserted ruins.
Because Guru Pathik had had some ties to the Air Nomads in his youth, and because he wanted to escape the conflicts of the world, he had stayed at the Eastern Air Temple ever since without venturing out. Kahn could find him there.
Hearing this, Kahn was a little shocked and instinctively began to wonder just how old the grandmaster was.
He'd known the Air Nomads in his youth? Wouldn't that make him over a hundred now?
Good grief, talk about longevity!
"Of course, that's assuming he's willing to see you. If he doesn't want to show himself, you could spend your whole life looking and never find so much as his shadow."
Iroh chuckled as he teased him.
At that level, he could "see" every corner of the world without even leaving his home, sense all things, and commune with all things. If he wished, no secret in the world could escape his "eyes."
A psychic? Professor X?
Kahn's hair stood on end as he listened. The thought of an invisible, omnipresent gaze that could see right through him anytime, anywhere suddenly made him feel as though he had been running around naked all along. He felt very unsafe.
And he was, after all, carrying a colossal secret-
His identity as a