Chapter 279 Sword Sect Again 3 (1/2)

The sect's elders were surprised because they did this mission that was supposed to be difficult very quickly when Lu Bi told what happened they were even more impressed and had even forgotten that Zhang Yi had also cultivated mental energy when he arrived so quickly to the Soul Refinement realm.

Still, that had been a good thing for the sect that had to clear their territory from members of the soul-eater organization and now they thought it could do a great job.

Another thing they realized was that they had to give more difficult missions so that Lu Bi could teach Zhang Yi some things, so despite being risky, they gave a mission to chase and kill a group of Sword Sect deacons who had fled after being discovered.

They had betrayed the sect and committed many crimes in one of the sect's territories, this mission would normally be given to the sect's elders to do, but they thought Lu Bi would have the strength to kill these deacons and Zhang Yi could find out where they fled.

After a few days Lu Bi was ordered to do another mission and was surprised that not expecting another mission too quickly, naturally, she understood that the last mission had been a failure thinking about what the elders wanted.

The problem was that they could not simply send Zhang Yi to do the missions because he had a special status in the sect, so she had suggested that the missions were only after a while so that Zhang Yi had no reason to refuse.

Contrary to her expectations, Zhang Yi calmly agreed to do another mission, and even though he didn't understand the sect's motives for doing so, he really wanted more time to help Lu Bi get stronger.

Lu Bi used teleportation again to take them to the other territory of the sect and soon began to investigate where the traitor deacons had fled, this mission was more complicated because deacons could have fled far away, but it was easier because Zhang Yi had more information about the investigated ones.

It took Zhang Yi only a few hours to find out some information about the deacons and find out which direction they had fled, after a few days having to ask the surrounding villages about information about these deacons. Zhang Yi had finally found a trail for him to continue using his mental energy.

They were 5 deacons and they just wanted to flee as far as possible from Sword Sect territory, they were confident that the Realm of Emptiness elders couldn't reach them before they crossed the border.

Moreover, they thought that Sword Sect would not send elders from the emperor's realm nor warriors who had an advanced understanding of the laws of space nor warriors who cultivated mental energy.

So they just fled straight to the border as soon as possible, after discovering that Zhang Yi asked Lu Bi to go a long way using teleportation and then he would track them again.

With this tactic, the great distance the deacons had advanced before was useless because of the laws of space, after a few days of persecution Zhang Yi can see that the deacons were close to where they were.

The problem was that the 5 deacons had split into two groups, one had 3 deacons and the other had 2 deacons, the weakest two in one direction and the strongest three in the other direction.

Normally Zhang Yi would suggest that they split up, but he feared that Lu Bi would not be able to fight one of the groups and so would end up dying, but it seemed that the two groups were almost crossing the border and the other territory they were going to was enemies from Sword Sect.

As a righteous sect, the Sword Sect could not simply invade a sect and kill someone without permission and an enemy sect would never approve of such a thing just to further irritate the Sword Sect.

”The deacons have split into two groups, one has the 3 strongest deacons and the other has the weakest 2 deacons, the two groups are close to escaping across the border, so we have to separate too.”

”No Zhang Yi, this is very dangerous for you, all these deacons are at least on the second level of the Realm of Emptiness and you are only on the first level of the Soul Refinement realm.”