"E-eight levels!?" Yun Yun's breathing quickened, her beautiful eyes widening as she stared at Chu Zhou. "Sir, are you certain?"
"Are you questioning me?" Chu Zhou raised an eyebrow.
"N-no." Yun Yun immediately shook her head, excitement rising on her lovely face. "I am the ninth Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect. My teacher was the eighth, and my grandmaster was the seventh. I was only ten when he passed away. He told me that there might be a Seventh Layer inside the Gate of Life and Death."
"But to enter it, one must possess the talent to become a Dou Zong and pass its trial, or advance our sect's Extreme Wind sword intent to the stage of manifesting it outside the body. That requires one's soul to reach the legendary spirit realm."
"I never imagined you would discover an Eighth Layer as soon as you entered the Gate of Life and Death."
Understanding dawned on Chu Zhou. It seemed the Misty Cloud Sect truly had lost its legacy. Even the existence of the Seventh Layer of the Gate of Life and Death remained nothing more than a theory.
But after hearing the conditions Yun Yun mentioned, he could fully understand why. Possessing the talent to reach the Dou Zong level, carrying the sect's token, and cultivating the Misty Cloud Sect's signature cultivation method—those three conditions were not easy to meet.
As for a spirit realm soul, without extraordinary talent and a string of fortunate encounters, attaining one was normally far more difficult than breaking through to Dou Zun.
The Misty Cloud Sect's legacy did have its own unique merits. He could sense that both Yun Shan's and Yun Yun's soul realms stood at the peak of the middle mortal realm.
If they could reach the late mortal realm,