Chapter 11: Steady Entry into the Outer Sect

Su Wuji really was just like a straight-talking iron-mouthed oracle.

On their side, it wasn't until the fifth day that a fourth companion was born.

Su Yunhu came running over, delighted.

"I've finally broken through to the first layer of Qi Refining!" Su Yunhu, as soon as he arrived, spread his arms wide and struck a "Hugging the Sky" pose.

The three who were cultivating were all woken up by the noise.

One by one, they looked at him speechlessly.

Su Yunhu finally realized he had done something foolish and looked at the three with embarrassment. "Sorry, I was just too happy. I disturbed everyone's cultivation."

"This is a school; it is a place for everyone to cultivate. In the future, if you come in and see someone cultivating, do not shout." Su Cheng reminded him.

It was only because the three of them were already familiar with circulating their Cultivation Technique that they were fine; otherwise, if suddenly startled, there might have been a mishap with the magic power within their bodies.

"I understand, I understand. I will definitely be careful and pay attention in the future." Su Yunhu quickly apologized.

Su Wuji directly beckoned to the other person.

He let him sit at the small table beside him.

On the small table in front of Su Wuji, five or six plates of various foods were already arranged.

"Come, eat a bit. Master Liu hasn't come over these past few days, so we don't know the cultivation situation over there. Since you're here, tell us about it." Su Wuji said.

Su Yunhu happened to feel hungry, so he didn't stand on ceremony and sat down at the table to eat immediately.

While eating, he began to speak.

"Over on our side, during the afternoon cultivation classes every day, everyone is so nervous. They wish they could split a single minute into eight parts to use. Everyone is working hard to cultivate, wanting to break through to the first layer of Qi Refining and catch up to you." Su Yunhu looked at Su Wuji and the other three with envy.

"But catching up to you is really very difficult." Su Yunhu simply recounted his cultivation experiences over this period to the three of them.

Five days! He spent a full five days just to catch up to them and break through to the first layer of Qi Refining.

Originally, on the very first day, he had condensed five strands of magic power; he had even thought he would definitely break through a layer on the second day.

But he didn't expect that when he woke up early on the second day, the five strands of magic power had become three.

He was terrified and immediately ran to ask his father, only to learn that the magic power he condensed would be constantly eaten by his companions; it wouldn't stop eating companions until the magic power of the first layer of Qi Refining grew into the magic power of the second layer of Qi Refining.

On the third day, his seven strands of magic power became four. On the fourth day, his nine strands of magic power became five. Well, on the fifth day, he finally condensed ten strands of magic power and advanced to the first layer of Qi Refining.

"Your cultivation speed seems quite fast, but your foundation is far too unstable." Su Wuji said without any hesitation.

"Where is my foundation unstable?" Su Yunhu heard this, simply put down the pastry in his hand, and looked at Su Wuji with a puzzled expression.

"You lose too much magic power every day; this is the sign that your foundation is unstable." Su Wuji said.

"Hmm?" Su Yunhu didn't understand.

"Take me as an example. Every day I can cultivate four strands of magic power. Although the magic power I cultivate is also absorbed a bit by the older magic power, at most I lose only one strand every day.

Su Jin is the same.

Su Cheng, although at the very beginning he lost two strands every day, has learned to be clever recently. Every time he condenses magic power, he constantly refines and refines it again, so now he also loses only one strand of magic power per day.

You lose so many strands of magic power every day.

It is absolutely because when you were refining the magic power, you were too hasty, trying to be too fast.

This caused your magic power to be floating and impure, not refined. That is why you lose so much."

"Is that so?" Su Yunhu was suspicious.

"Think about it. If your magic power were pure and refined, then the one strand of magic power you lose daily would actually be absorbed by your other magic power. That wouldn't really count as a loss. It would be considered normal consumption. After all, our first-layer Qi Refining magic power must be fed and refined into second-layer Qi Refining magic power anyway, right?" Su Wuji said.

Su Yunhu nodded.

"But if your magic power is floating, not pure, and not refined, then once it is absorbed by other magic power, it might collapse on its own halfway through the absorption. Collapsed magic power will turn into spiritual energy that spills out of your body.

In that case, wouldn't you have lost a portion of the magic power you refined for nothing?

You worked for nothing, and your cultivation speed is also slowed down." Su Wuji pointed out.

"Is it really like that?" Su Yunhu was obviously hearing someone say this for the first time.

"If you don't believe me, you can observe it yourself." Su Wuji said. "I have a cousin who was just like you, blindly trying to be fast, and as a result, the magic power he had just cultivated was absorbed and collapsed by the surrounding thick magic power.

Then he refined it again, only to have it absorbed and collapsed again.

He didn't understand why his cultivation had stagnated for so long, so he ran to my house to ask my grandfather.

My grandfather asked him to sit in meditation in front of him and cultivate for a bit, and he found the cause right then.

When he refined magic power, he blindly tried to be fast and was too perfunctory.

This caused his magic power to condense loosely and floatingly; with just a slight absorption, it would easily collapse. If the magic power collapses, how can his cultivation level grow?"

Upon hearing this, Su Yunhu immediately understood where his problem lay.

His heart tightened. "I understand now. Thank you. In the future, I will refine my magic power carefully."

"It's nothing; we are all classmates. Seeing that you have entered a wrong path, we should remind you. In the future, when you refine magic power, just polish and circulate it one more time within your body." Su Wuji started showing off again.

Su Cheng: "..." Actually, you just love to play the teacher; you've already instructed me, and now you want to continue instructing other classmates.

Su Jin: "..." Actually, you just want to show off that you know your stuff.

"Then how many strands of magic power can you refine every day?" Su Yunhu asked.

"Just three." Su Jin said.

"Me too; only Su Wuji can refine four strands." Su Cheng said.

"Then isn't Su Wuji the strongest among you?" Su Yunhu was shocked.

"You just realized that? That's right, I am indeed the strongest." Su Wuji laughed.

Su Jin and Su Cheng both nodded perfunctorily.

Definitely, that's right.

It is him.

Su Wuji smiled proudly.

"Su Wuji, you're amazing." Su Yunhu said sincerely, full of admiration. In his heart he thought, this is the strongest in the whole class.

"Besides you, who else might break through to the first layer of Qi Refining soon?" Su Wuji asked again.

"There are two more. They might break through tomorrow — they're just a little bit behind me." Su Yunhu said. "One is called Su Linyuan, the other is called Yang Guan."

"Yang Guan? Is he a child from an in-law family?" Su Wuji inquired.

"They say his older sister married into the Su family, so they recommended him into the clan school as well." Su Yunhu said.

"The top six in the class can steadily enter the sect and become outer disciples." Su Wuji said.

"What do you mean, enter the sect and become outer disciples?" Su Yunhu was very startled upon hearing this. "Didn't they say that when the sect takes in disciples, they all start as menial laborers?"