After Zhang Yu had more or less dealt with the matters awaiting him after the new year at Kaiyang Academy, he began to consider the path of cultivation that lay ahead.
Mystic cultivators of the first and second chapters were known as lower-rank cultivators, while those who reached the third and fourth chapters were considered middle-rank cultivators.
From a cultivator's perspective, this was a distinction in cultivation, attainment, and even the level of one's life.
The first and second chapters progressed from the awakening of the Heartlight Seal to its cultivation and use, setting one apart from ordinary people. By the third and fourth chapters, heart force could already interfere with external objects and give rise to all manner of inconceivable divine abilities and transformations.
From an ordinary person's point of view, however, the division was purely based on the upper and lower limits of a cultivator's destructive power in war. It was a rather crude classification.
The reason for this was that cultivators differed from one another. The gap between them could at times be even greater than the gap between ordinary people and cultivators.
Although Zhang Yu's divine abilities and methods far surpassed those of his peers, no matter how he was judged, he should still be classified as a middle-rank cultivator. By his own understanding, this was entirely reasonable.
After reaching the fourth chapter, though his cultivation and attainment were incomparably greater than in the third chapter, there was in truth no essential difference.
Like those in the third chapter, fourth-chapter cultivators still needed to cultivate visualization diagrams.
It was only that from the third chapter to the fourth, a cultivator's visualization diagram followed the method of "turning the false into the real," while the path beyond the fourth chapter was the path of "turning death into