[{"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-140":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},2314034,4525,"Chapter 140","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-140",140,"\u003Cp>Su Jin met Qi Yi on the way to pick up the fruit. Qi Yi’s expression was grim, her eyes red as if she had been crying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin handed her the thirty jin of fruit and turned to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You… do you have some special trick to pick more fruit?” Qi Yi asked plaintively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course. Cheating.” Su Jin said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What? How do you cheat?” Qi Yi asked eagerly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just hire someone to help you pick, like you do.” Su Jin walked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Yi finally realized Su Jin was teasing her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This girl is too cruel.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin handed all three hundred jin of fruit to the herb field supervisor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How did you finish picking three hundred jin so fast today?” the supervisor asked, astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m leaving today, so I figured I’d get it done early—I’ll have time to pack and cultivate to finish today’s cultivation task.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You could also take a hot spring bath. You won’t get such a good one at home,” the supervisor suggested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin immediately became interested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s acceptable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Master Liu arrived at the herb worker dormitory gate in the afternoon, he found Su Jin already squatting there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Su Jin, you’re still three and a half ke away from the scheduled time—why are you here so early?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve got nothing to do, so I came early,” Su Jin sighed slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then wait with me for a bit,” Master Liu said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then, Master Liu, may I ask you a few questions? I’m idle anyway.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Liu sighed. “Fine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin seized the chance and asked Master Liu about the difficulties she’d encountered while cultivating to the third layer of Spirit Refining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Su Jin asked only three questions, other students began arriving one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Su Jin could no longer keep pressing Master Liu for answers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the end of the Shen hour, two students from the Wood class still hadn’t arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Liu didn’t wait longer—he led the other students off with the first-year group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faintly, Su Jin thought she heard sobbing behind her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Qingniao sauntered over to Su Jin as if they were old friends. “Want to know who got left behind?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know what our next task is?” Su Jin asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How would I possibly know?” Su Qingniao rolled her eyes in exasperation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin: “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their third task wasn’t in the inner city—it was in the outer city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They arrived at the edge of a spiritual rice field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the family’s outer-city spiritual rice field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This crop is nearly ripe and especially attracts insects and birds and beasts that come to steal it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last night, the entire outer city of Xiancheng was cleared out. But conditions beyond the city walls are said to be dire—saving lives is like saving fire, and now all the family’s able-bodied men have gone to rescue clan members and eradicate parasitic humans. There aren’t enough hands left to guard these ripening rice fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your third task is to each take charge of three mu of spiritual rice field—to catch insects, scare off birds, and drive away any wild beasts that come to steal the spiritual rice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’ll guard these rice fields for three days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And no more than fifty stalks of spiritual rice may be lost per mu.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If your rice field loses more than fifty stalks per mu, the task fails—no merit points awarded.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Liu, can we get the early-warning array?” Su Cheng suddenly raised his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. Ten spirit stones per day usage fee. Whoever needs one, come to me for a set,” Master Liu said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Cheng stared at him in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought: Master Liu, you’re charging us usage fees?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Liu saw the expression on his face and smiled faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You haven’t been to the sect yet, but once you enter, you’ll understand. In the sect, if you don’t spend spirit stones, you can’t do any task—everything costs money. To avoid wasting too many spirit stones, you’d better stockpile several sets of early-warning, confinement, and illusion arrays in advance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Cheng: This sect sounds so exploitative.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aren’t sect benefits supposed to be great, and aren’t disciples supposed to have money? Why can’t you just lend us a few arrays?” Su Cheng retorted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Liu burst out laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The sect is powerful, but it has many disciples. Limited resources can’t be evenly distributed to everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So unless you prove sufficient value, scarce and precious resources will never reach you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What do you do then? Get them yourself. That’s why for ordinary sect disciples, everything costs money.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Liu continued: “The fee for the early-warning arrays isn’t my idea—it was the principal’s sudden announcement. You’re just unlucky—last time, students from other grades got to use them for free.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Cheng was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Wuji was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin thought: What’s the principal up to?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you need an early-warning array, contact me privately. Now, let’s draw lots for your assigned rice fields. This time you won’t live together—you’ll be split into four locations. Those who draw adjacent fields will be housed together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Girls draw first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin drew a field near the mountainside—likely the most frequented by birds, beasts, insects, and snakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Su Jin thought: I have Blood Crimson Silk—wherever I draw, it’s the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the girls from the Wood class drew fields in this area. Su Qingniao drew one right next to hers—also an edge plot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She scanned the map and groaned. “Oh no, my luck is terrible—why did I draw this plot? Edge plots get constant visits from birds, beasts, and snakes. Even if I stared nonstop for twelve hours a day, I couldn’t guard it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our plots are next to each other—how about you guard during the day and I guard at night?” Su Jin couldn’t help smiling at her dramatic wail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But at night, even more birds and beasts come. How can you guard two plots alone? That’s six mu!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Borrow an early-warning array,” Su Jin said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fine, I’ll go with you to borrow one—we’ll install them on both plots,” Su Qingniao said, gritting her teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time everyone had been assigned housing, located their plots, and set up the arrays, the morning had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After eating the meals delivered by someone specially assigned, Su Qingniao prepared to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You stay and cultivate. I’ll go guard the rice field.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright. I’ll come at night to relieve you—and bring your dinner,” Su Jin said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it!” Su Qingniao cheerfully headed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as she left, Qi Yi walked over. “I didn’t expect you’d team up with Su Qingniao.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s strange about that? Our plots are right next to each other. If I don’t team up with her, who else? 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