Chapter 177 Sword Sect 1 (1/2)
Even though Elder Du was so powerful he did not know that Zhang Yi cultivated body refinement and mental energy on the ninth level and cultivated qi in the soul birth realm, so the elder thought that Zhang Yi was a genius who was at the beginning of the soul birth realm only.
At the soul birth realm the warriors cultivated divided by levels, it was nine levels until they reached the soul refinement realm and on each level, there were three layers which were the initial, intermediate and advanced layers, it was similar to the realm of mortal tribulation only then with two more levels.
This is why it was so much harder for higher-realm cultivators to advance and fight higher-level or even higher-tier warriors, from the third to the fourth level was the initial to intermediate realm difference and from level 6 to level 7. it was from intermediate to advanced level.
These were the most difficult bottlenecks in this realm and what set warriors apart on the same level, so Elder Du would give Zhang Yi a harder mission with two soul-birth realm warriors at level 5, so he would be the weakest of the group and would be safer.
The mission he would have was to investigate the death of two soul-birth realm warriors at level 3, it was in the sect territory and this mission should be for soul-birth realm warriors at level 5 at least, knowing this Zhang Yi At least Elder Du did not underestimate him very much.
”To go on this mission with you, I will send one of my descendants who is at level 5 of the soul birth realm named Du Chen and another peer named Li Tang.”
Elder Du did not send a relative of his to approach Zhang Yi but because his relative was very talented and had learned some things from himself, so he had confidence that he could protect Zhang Yi if necessary.
The other disciple was also talented and always did missions like this to get more cultivation resources and get more merit to go to the best territories of the sect, which would be two good people to accompany Zhang Yi.
Even though the two strongest leaders of this group and mission would be Zhang Yi, after all, Elder Du was just doing it because Zhang Yi had asked, the other two would not be happy about it, but would have to accept orders from the sect.
Zhang Yi was happy to be the leader of the group because he was the strongest of the group and with his mental energy such investigative missions were easy for him, Du Chen was repeatedly reminded by the elder to help as much as he could Zhang Yi on this mission.
Elder Du knew that Du Chen was jealous of Zhang Yi, after all before Zhang Yi arrived Du Chen who was the sect's greatest genius, he reached the realm of soul birth at a very young age in the lower territories and so when reaching the realm of soul refinement would probably go to the stronger territories of the sect.
On the other hand, Li Tang wanted to help Zhang Yi as much as possible to be friends with him and perhaps be recommended to go to the stronger cult territory when Zhang Yi got there, after all, they knew that Zhang Yi would reach the realm of soul refinement faster than all of them.
Zhang Yi took the spirit rank sword he had not used for a long time and saw that his weapon was the same as everyone in the soul birth realm used, king rank weapons were not so common for disciples to use.