Chapter 194: Going to the Stronger Territories of the Sword Sect 8
Chapter 194: Going to the Stronger Territories of the Sword Sect 8
So the days went by and who would go to the tournament was chosen, because of the promises of Zhang Yi and the sect the disciples of the soul-birth realm were the most vying to participate in the tournament.
After all, it was much easier to become the second of the sect than the first of the tournament, they just had to be better than the other disciples of the same sect, Du Chen and Li Tang didn't even want to participate in the tournament because they knew they couldn't.
They still did some missions with Zhang Yi when they needed it, but now that they knew of Zhang Yi's royal strength they were even ashamed to be proud to help him during sectional missions when they were in the weaker territories.
Also, because they were friends of Zhang Yi who was a recognized genius they had the respect of the other disciples who didn't want problems with Zhang Yi who were almost all in the sect.
On the day of the tournament elder Lu and Elder Shen Zhi who went to the fetching sect, Zhang Yi were part of the group of elders who would go to the tournament, besides them the 8 strongest elders in the void realm would go to that tournament.
Normally the tournament had no problem and it was not necessary to send the strongest elders from the sect, but these elders were only going because the sect cared about Zhang Yi, so it was best to prevent sending the strongest elders from the void realm.
With these elders going to be 20 disciples, 10 of the soul-refinement realm and 9 of the soul-birth realm in addition to Zhang Yi, the elders hoped to easily win the discourse of the soul-birth realm and perhaps also win the disciple tournament of the realm of soul refinement.
Zhang Yi was perhaps the calmest in the group that would go to this tournament, he did not care about the prize nor expected much difficulty in the fights, he was just going because he wanted to help the sect.
With elder Lu in the group, they moved quickly to where the tournament would be held, it would be on an island that was near the territory of the largest sects in that territory, of the 10 strongest sects of the divine plane only Sword Sect was in that territory.
The divine plane had a very large total territory and so beyond the central territories of the divine plane where the spiritual energy was stronger, the sects were usually separated to have more control over the territories.
Yet in this territory there were two other sects that were only slightly weaker than the 10 strongest sects, so even if Sword Sect was the strongest in that territory, it still could not do what it wanted.
However, one of those two sects that were slightly weaker than the 10 major sects was a Sword Sect ally, so the elders could guarantee that Zhang Yi would be safer in this sect territory.
Sword Sect was one of the first to arrive and soon set up camp on the island, and soon after the weaker sects that usually arrived earlier were surprised to see that Sword Sect had already arrived.
Even so, they came to greet the Sword Sect elders because they had respect for one of the divine plane's strongest and fairest sects, they spoke only to two of the sect's elders and thought that those elders were the only ones who came or at least the group leaders.
Because everyone recognized that these two elders were two of the strongest elders of all Sword Sect in the void realm, this was not true because these two elders had the lowest status of all elders that came.
The disciples took advantage of their early arrival and were cultivating and preparing for the tournament that would take place in the coming days. The elders were also calm but were vigilant about who was approaching their camp because of Zhang Yi.
In the next two days, all the other sects participating in the tournament had arrived, the weaker sects came only to show respect for the tournament and only 6 sects had a chance to win this tournament among the disciples.
Peaches Sect which was one of Sword Sect's rival sects and one of the strongest divisions of the divine plane appeared earlier than usual to show respect for Sword Sect and let the strongest sect arrive last, so they were surprised to see that Sword Sect had already arrived.
Peaches Sect didn't really care about showing respect for Sword Sect, but they were always afraid of being attacked by Sword Sect and the other sect that had the same strength as them.
They went to greet the Sword Sect elders and found that Sword Sect had been the first sect to arrive and was relieved and curious as to why that might be, even though the two Sword Sect elders who came had the same more than half of the Peaches Sect elders.
They suspected that there was a reason for Sword Sect to bring such strong elders, Mount Fei Sect which was a sect of the same rank as Peaches Sect and the allied sect of Sword Sect was the last to arrive and were also surprised at seeing that Sword Sect had been the first to arrive.
After a while, the sects talked about this year's tournament rules and then confirmed what the prizes would be, first place would be given a pill that would help strengthen the meridians or cure the meridians.
Normally warriors could have a problem in the early cultivation realms or suffer meridian damage in the cultivation years, this pill could improve someone's talent or cure some minor problem, it could help someone reach the larger cultivation realms.
It was a very expensive and difficult pill to make and almost everyone had some cultivation problems, Zhang Yi didn't care about this award because neither he nor his wives had any problems with the meridians.
But the other Sword Sect disciples were excited because even if they didn't need the pill they could sell to the sect and get high-level spiritual stones or valuable cultivation resources in return.
This was the prize for first place in the disciples 'tournament in the soul-birth realm, the prize for the soul-refinement realm disciples' tournament was a pill that could improve soul formation within the dantian.
It was certainly a much more valuable prize and something all the disciples wanted, Zhang Yi was not interested in it because he had not reached the realm of soul refinement and also had the mental energy that could do the same as this pill.
Zhang Yi was only interested in the award of 1 million high-level spirit stones for first place in the Soul Refinement Disciples tournament and 250,000 high-level spirit stones for the Soulbirth realm tournament.