[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho":3,"chapter-starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-135":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting Immortal Cultivation from the Clan School",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2314029,4525,"Chapter 135: Desolate Little Valley","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-135",135,"\u003Cp>The next morning, Su Jin heard crying and commotion outside the cultivation chamber door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin dressed quickly, yawning, and had barely stepped out when Su Cheng pulled her away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was dragged to Su Cheng’s room, where both Su Cheng and Su Wuji were crouching by the door, peering through the crack at a small group outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi had arrived and was surrounded by a crowd of students; both sides seemed locked in fierce argument.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s going on?” Su Jin leaned in curiously to watch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The herb field is full of thorns, and the fruit is thorny too—hard to pick.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yesterday, we all used our own methods to pick the fruit and completed our quotas.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But some students could only sit helplessly by the edge of the herb field—they had no way to pick the fruit without injury.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They were too afraid of pain, so they just watched from outside. Then someone suggested Liu Shi lend them old herbal worker gear. Liu Shi agreed—but said they must pick thirty extra jin daily as rental fee.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The students agreed, desperate to finish their quota.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But picking isn’t easy—I and Su Cheng picked until dark, and we only gathered three hundred jin.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They need to pick three hundred and thirty jin.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They also entered the herb field later than us, so several of them worked straight through the night until the small hours to finish their quota plus the extra.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard someone burst into tears after finishing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So today, these students refused to work, demanding Liu Shi remove the extra rental fee.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If he insists on charging, they’re willing to pay in spirit stones instead—but they won’t tolerate another thirty jin extra.” Su Wuji explained to Su Jin; he and Su Cheng had been listening for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Will Liu Shi agree?” Su Jin asked, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know,” Su Cheng shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, shortly after, Liu Shi left first. Then the students dispersed, looking disgruntled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they broke up, a thin, small boy slipped quietly into Su Cheng’s room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is Su Qingniao—she’s my neighbor; we grew up playing together. Don’t let her boyish clothes fool you—she’s a girl,” Su Cheng introduced her to Su Wuji and Su Jin. “She’s nineteenth in our class.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hello, Su Qingniao,” Su Wuji and Su Jin greeted her together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Qingniao’s eyes sparkled as she stared at them. “I finally get to meet the top two in our class up close! You’re incredible—my grandfather says such results haven’t appeared in the clan school in ages.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not in the last twenty years of his teaching, at least.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, my grandfather was a senior instructor here—he retired three years ago.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Wuji and Su Jin had no clear sense of their own achievements, so no matter how extravagantly Su Qingniao praised them, they paid it little mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re just slightly ahead in cultivation for now,” Su Wuji said calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did you hear all that? Did they succeed? Did Liu Shi agree?” Su Jin asked eagerly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Qingniao chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I sat there listening the whole time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, Liu Shi flatly refused. No matter how pitiful they made themselves sound, he gave them two choices: either keep picking thirty extra jin daily as rent, or give up the gear and pick the fruit themselves.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And what did they say? Are they giving up the gear?” Su Jin asked, intrigued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard them discuss it—they agreed that without the gear, they couldn’t possibly finish the quota. If they fail, they get no merit points. Then what’s the point of coming at all?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I bet they’ll still compromise.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thirty extra jin is better than picking nothing at all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, it’s just a little extra hardship for two more days.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hardship?” Su Jin felt utterly baffled. “Yesterday morning I realized my picking method was bad, so I changed it in the afternoon—and picked way more. Why don’t they think of better ways instead of just suffering?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is staying up all night picking fruit really something to admire?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The simplest solution? Team up. Have one or two people carry the fruit back while the rest focus solely on picking. That way, you gather more daily. Divide the total by the number of people, and everyone finishes earlier,” Su Cheng said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew not all students had storage gear, nor could all their gear hold so many baskets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d seen many students pick three or four baskets, then scurry back to the herb field supervisor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All that time spent running, recording, and returning could’ve been used to pick more fruit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Su Cheng, that’s a great idea—I’ll try it today with some classmates,” Su Qingniao said cheerfully. “Hey, someone’s heading to the herb field already? No time to waste—I’ll go call them!” With that, she waved goodbye and left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After she left, Su Jin and the others returned home to eat and head to work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, most students arrived earlier than yesterday—they’d wasted time in the morning yesterday, so today they came straight after breakfast, entering the herb field nearly an hour earlier than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin again sought out the herb fields no one wanted—those farthest from the supervisor, where returning fruit was more troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Su Jin had a storage ring—uh, actually, it was Xiao Wu Tian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this time, she took fifty baskets at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The family’s cultivation area for Crimson Fruit was enormous—several surrounding spirit mountains were planted with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin climbed another spirit mountain covered in Crimson Fruit—no one was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could pick however she liked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before lunch, she finished picking fifty baskets, earning 165 jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after lunch, instead of returning to the herb field, she was called away by Xue Chiluo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since discovering Xue Chiluo could enter even places protected by defensive arrays, Su Jin no longer restrained it—letting it roam freely. After all, no matter where she went, Xue Chiluo could tunnel through earth to catch up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Xue Chiluo said it had found something and wanted Su Jin to come see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fine, she thought—this was all herb mountain terrain; nothing dangerous likely. She gathered herself and followed Xue Chiluo out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wound through twists and turns until they reached a desolate little valley.\u003C\u002Fp>",1037,"2026-06-20T13:23:54.434Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","bf1566e997387f423d2f4734713662ec44091b0dc7e3782c6f61387eb14e0a7a","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-136","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-134",156,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-cover.jpg"]