Chapter 15: Selling Father Without Hesitation

The five-element spiritual roots were mastered by the Nascent Soul elders of the sect, yet they could not master her.

"Good, we will definitely satisfy Xiaohe's request to eat meat. Sister-in-law, how about we have some meat tonight?" Su Jin asked.

Liu Yunniang was directly amused by this aunt and niece pair.

"Alright."

Just as dinner was about to be ready, Su Hua finally dragged her exhausted body back home.

"Why did you come back so late today?" Su Jian anxiously took the small basket held in his eldest daughter's hand and the small schoolbag hanging on her body.

"Sigh, Father, I am so bitter. Before the end of this year, I must break through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining.

Cai Shi said that otherwise, I will have to consider dropping out of school early.

Now, after finishing all my academic classes every day, I have to seize every second to cultivate. Even eating is just a quick scoop, swallowed rapidly. While eating, I have to occasionally ponder the various difficulties that arise during cultivation; it is simply like chewing wax.

Even so, Cai Shi still won't let me go; she said to ask you to come.

She wants to talk to you."

Su Jian looked at his father awkwardly, hoping he would say something to defend her.

Su Jian nodded slowly, the light in his eyes seeming to dim bit by bit. After a long while, he said, "Is it that Cai Shi feels you have no potential to be mined, so she can only ask me to consider early dropout? She actually doesn't want to persuade you; she actually wants to persuade me.

I remember she told me last year that you could be asked to drop out early."

Su Hua's mood suddenly became very depressed.

She actually didn't want to disappoint her father. Especially she didn't want to hear her father speak to her in that tone of "don't worry, it's no big deal." She is eight years old; she understands that deep in her father's heart, he actually has high expectations for her. "It shouldn't be about asking me to drop out, right? I have been working very hard recently and have already ranked twelfth in the class."

Hearing this, Su Jian's spirits lifted. "Already twelfth place. Then Cai Shi calling me over is likely to add more support for you. The clan school cannot give you more resources, but the family can. Rest assured, Father will sell the pot and melt the iron to let you charge forward."

"Okay, Father. Even if it is bitter and tiring in the future, I won't complain. I will definitely work hard. I will strive to enter the top ten in the class." Su Hua said solemnly.

"Good daughter."

"Is breaking through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining that difficult?" Su Jin looked at her eldest niece in shock.

"I am so bitter, Little Aunt. It is truly too difficult."

"Didn't you just say you wouldn't complain about bitterness in the future?" Su Jin reminded her.

Su Hua immediately pouted; she felt so aggrieved.

Little Aunt has become bad too.

"Alright, alright, if you want to complain, then complain. However, is breaking through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining really that difficult?" Su Jin asked again.

"Extremely difficult." Su Hua complained, "I took a full twenty days to break through to the first layer of Qi Refining. Breaking through to the second layer took four and a half months. Breaking through to the third layer took a full year and a half. Only after the final exams last year did I break through to the third layer.

As a result, asking me to break through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining before the end of this year, I myself feel the possibility is not great."

"Your time to break through to the third layer of Qi Refining seems too long?" Upon hearing this, Su Jin immediately realized Su Hua's problem. "Unstable foundation?"

Su Hua wore a bitter smile. Indeed.

"When I first started cultivating, to seek speed, I did not refine the magic power into a solid form; it was a bit soft. I thought it didn't matter because the magic power I refined, although a bit soft and easily deformed, did not fall apart. It was fine when breaking through to the second layer of Qi Refining, but when I wanted to break through to the third layer, the frequently dispersing magic power seriously delayed my breakthrough speed. Later, it forced me to have no choice but to directly scatter my cultivation and start over.

That is why it took a year and a half to break through to the third layer of Qi Refining."

Su Jin suddenly understood.

It seems one must smash every strand of magic power into a solid form.

"Did no one remind you? Our Master Liu reminded us that we must hammer the magic power into a solid form."

"I didn't pay much attention. Cai Shi actually reminded us more than once, but the pressure was too great at the time. Classmates were chasing and competing in breakthrough speed. My brain got hot, and I chose to break through as quickly as possible." Su Hua looked full of regret.

"In the future, try to complete the instructors' requirements when cultivating." Su Jin reminded her like a little adult.

Su Hua nodded with tears in her eyes but no tears falling. "I have already suffered such a big loss; I won't make such a stupid mistake again."

"Then since you have caught up and made up for it, one year, according to common sense, should be enough for you to break through to the fourth stage." Su Jin calculated; there was still a bit of time to spare.

"It is very difficult, Little Aunt. Breaking through from the first to the second layer requires one hundred strands. Breaking through from the second to the third layer requires one thousand strands. Breaking through from the third to the fourth layer requires ten thousand strands of magic power.

After I broke through to the third layer, I need to refine one hundred thousand strands of third-layer magic power to break through to the fourth stage.

Do you think I can finish this in one year?"

"You need to refine three hundred strands of third-layer magic power a day. Ahem, that is indeed a bit difficult. How about asking Big Brother to buy you a Spirit Gathering Array and install it in your room?" Su Jin thought this trick would work well.

Ahem, Su Jian immediately nodded too.

"I will get you a mid-grade first-stage Spirit Gathering Array. As long as you cultivate for one night, you will be able to refine three hundred strands of magic power."

Su Hua heard this and shook her head directly. "But Father, a mid-grade first-stage Spirit Gathering Array consumes too many spirit stones. Running it for one day costs three spirit stones. Even if I only use it at night, that is three spirit stones for two nights. Where does our family have so many spirit stones for me to use?"

"Rest assured, Father will earn the spirit stones for you. You just focus on cultivating." Su Jian comforted his eldest daughter.

Back then, due to his aptitude issues, he was not selected for the clan school, but his daughter was selected.

No matter what, his daughter had fulfilled his dream for him.

He must support his daughter continuing her studies no matter what.

Besides, if one endures to graduate in the top ten at the clan school, entering the sect as an outer sect disciple is guaranteed. This way, at least ten years of grinding can be saved for his daughter.

Just like himself, from a mere menial disciple to passing the exam to become an outer sect disciple, he took a full nineteen years.

How many losses he suffered and how much bitterness he endured, he simply did not want to look back on.

"If it really doesn't work, we will ask your Little Uncle to lend us some spirit stones first." Su Jian said.

Liu Yunniang directly stepped down, stepping on Su Jian's shoulder and back.

In front of Su Jin, talking about borrowing money from her father.

This brainless stinky husband!!

"Yes, my father definitely has spirit stones. Even if my father doesn't have them, he can get spirit stones. I heard my father say that before Little Grandfather died in battle, he left a sum of spirit stones with Big Grandfather. He said it was for the children and grandchildren to study." Su Jin nodded vigorously, selling her father without any hesitation.