85 The mass elimination battles 3 (1/2)
Tie Nse's eyes grazed past Jia Lin and moved to another stage. There, someone was lounged at the edge of the stage, completely bothered. Many understood why. This was Di Wong. He completely looked down on the mass elimination stage of the meet.
”Why would he bother with the small fries? He is waiting till the strong remain.” someone said.
”True.”
”But standing around like this, isn't this just showing arrogance?” another asked.
”When you are as strong as him, you too can show yours.”
”Someone who had done his spirit picking at the age of seven and entered spirit awakening at fifteen and spirit merging before he struck eighteen. Entered spirit awareness at twenty-five and I hear he just broke through to the mid soul seeking before the meet, making him the strongest person participating in the meet. And he is only fifty five. He is the youngest person at soul seeking at the moment.” someone said.
”So what? If I had a father that was a council elder in the alliance, I too would have gotten that far.” someone said.
”He is not even the strongest person in the meet. There is still Eh Nam. He just struck hundred. He entered soul seeking five years ago. His cultivation at that stage will be much more stable than Di Wong.” another concurred.
Many people hearing this argument thought the same. It was said that Elder Di spared no effort to make his son another Tie Nse. Sure he could level up fast, but it was harder to cultivate the higher one went. And it showed. So what he was the youngest soul seeker in the continent? Tie Nse reached that stage at twenty, becoming patriarch at mid soul awakening at the age of forty. Even though it was because he the old patriarch was dying and the alliance needed a leader fast, it did not go unnoticed that Tie Nse could fight far above his level. He reached soul realization at sixty, shaking the entire cultivation world. It is speculated that he would enter the legendary Heaven seeking stage at hundred and thirty. How could a small Di Wong be compared to him?
Di Wong did not like how fast the conversation turned. First he was too great to fight, then he could not be compared to the patriarch. Many knew that the patriarch was just a wild child from the mountain. The old patriarch met him when coming back from the mountain one day and picked up an orphan boy chewing sugar canes of twelve who was at late soul merging at the time.
The patriarch forced the boy to come back and cultivate but the boy kept running away from the alliance to go relax. When caught, one would notice his cultivation had grown. His wild behaviour of wanting to relax instead of study made the then sick former patriarch so angry, he would resort to tricks to get Tie Nse to do something. It was even said that the patriarch tricked Tie Nse to come for his coronation.