[{"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-17":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},2313911,4525,"Chapter 17: Golden Paulownia Wood and Green Paulownia Wood","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-17",17,"\u003Cp>And this breathing seemed somewhat off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin touched the ancient tree’s trunk and silently sensed it. A strange feeling rose in her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breath… inhale… breath… exhale…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why does this ancient tree’s breathing rhythm so resemble… the cultivation rhythm of the Great Expansion Divine Art?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin immediately activated the Great Expansion Divine Art. At first she couldn’t match the tree’s rhythm, but when she silently replaced her visualization object with this ancient tree, she soon felt a special connection form between herself and the tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They seemed as one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breath… breath… her breathing synced with the tree’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cool, water-like soul force flowed from the tree into her body, sweeping over her entire frame, then flowing back into the tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then flowing back again…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin suddenly felt as if she had broken through some fog—past doubts and vague cultivation obstacles were now being resolved at lightning speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mind was exceptionally clear; every memory since birth streamed before her eyes at incredible speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She now understood what this ancient tree truly was—because the tree had told her everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This ancient tree was her birthbound split soul. When her soul was born, it split in two: one half human soul, one half tree soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The human soul was primary; the tree soul was auxiliary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the tree soul was also a split soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a descendant of the Wood Witches, born with a Little Witch Heaven naturally bound to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Little Witch Heaven did not exist independently. Its core origin came from her birthbound split soul. As a Wood Witch descendant, only those who birthed a Little Witch Heaven would give rise to a birthbound split soul—or rather, only those who birthed a birthbound split soul would give rise to a Little Witch Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The birthbound split soul could be any kind of plant: flower, grass, or tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could even be from an ancient plant long thought extinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin’s birthbound ancient tree soul was an ancient, extinct spiritual wood: Golden Paulownia Wood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the black earth shrouded in golden light here was the true body of her Little Witch Heaven, born within her spiritual sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The small dome she could normally release was merely a projection of this Little Witch Heaven’s power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden Paulownia Wood was said to have been born at the dawn of the world, but for reasons unknown, it became utterly extinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in Wood Witch clan records, only a few scattered references remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin remembered her mother mentioning Golden Paulownia Wood while introducing her to Green Paulownia Wood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why introduce Su Jin to Green Paulownia Wood? Because the Wood Witch clan had once produced an Ancestral Holy Witch born with an ancient Green Paulownia Wood—recorded in clan texts as Green Paulownia Ancestor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ancestral Holy Witches were the supreme progenitors of the Witch race, each said to have stood at the pinnacle of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her mother said, sadly, the Witch era had passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She still remembered her mother joking to her father when she was four: “Nowadays, most of the cultivation methods cultivators use for refining the soul are derived from ancient Witch birthbound witch-soul techniques, dismantled and modified.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The “birthbound witch-soul” her mother mentioned was, in fact, her own birthbound split soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mother had also told her that people often claimed the Witches had no souls, which was why they didn’t cultivate soul-refining arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, this was a misunderstanding—the Witches’ strongest witch-souls were cultivated outside the body, within the manifest Little Witch Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her mother had never told her that the core of the Little Witch Heaven was the birthbound split soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when she cultivated the Great Expansion Divine Art, she didn’t need to search for any visualization object—she only needed to cultivate her own birthbound entity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the ancient tree stubbornly interfered with her visualization of the willow tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One mountain cannot hold two tigers—her soul sea allowed no second core birthbound entity, or visualization object.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could only cultivate the Great Expansion Divine Art rooted in this ancient tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why hadn’t her birthbound split soul revealed itself earlier? Why wait until she began cultivating soul-refining arts to stir up trouble?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t her Little Witch Heaven reveal itself long ago?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a child, she even played with her Little Witch Heaven like a toy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, if only Mother were here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She understood more about the Witches than Su Jin did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiao Jin, breakfast is ready.” Her sister-in-law’s voice came from the main hall. Su Jin immediately snapped back to reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She quickly tidied herself up. After breakfast, she had to hurry off to school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the birthbound split soul—she’d deal with it when she got home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Su Jin stepped into the classroom, she sensed something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She walked over and sat at her desk, glancing at Su Yunhu beside her. “What’s going on?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The clan school is giving a first-rank superior spirit array to every student who’s broken through to Qi Refining Level One. Only our first-year class gets it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When the news spread, some kids in our class started crying.” Su Yunhu nodded toward a few students hunched over their desks, sobbing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why are they crying?” Su Jin asked, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With a first-rank superior spirit array, our speed to break through to Qi Refining Level Two will more than double. Those who haven’t broken through Level One yet will be left far behind.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Naturally, they cry.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I even heard someone say it’s unfair.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why does the clan school only give first-rank superior spirit arrays to first-year students who’ve broken through Qi Refining Level One?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Yunhu sighed helplessly. “The elders decided to give them. What can we do about it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But they’re still giving them out. I really like spirit arrays, especially first-rank superior ones.” Su Jin said cheerfully. “Who came up with this? Thank you so much.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know. I’ll ask my dad to find out later.” Su Yunhu’s lips curled slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a first-rank superior spirit array, he might break through to Qi Refining Level Three before the semester ends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three levels broken in one year? Even upperclassmen rarely achieve that speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahaha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Su Wuji arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all students who had broken through Qi Refining Level One.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Liu had already rearranged their seats together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Wuji sat in front of Su Yunhu; Su Cheng sat in front of Su Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Su Wuji sat down and put down his bag, he said, “Have you heard? The clan school is giving each of us a first-rank superior spirit array to accelerate our cultivation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We heard,” both replied in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know why?” Su Wuji asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knew?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin and the others shook their heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard the Hongtong Secret Realm will open in another year. To help us catch up to the Hongtong Secret Realm, which opens only once every twenty years, they’re giving us these spirit arrays—and straight-up first-rank superior ones.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1172,"2026-06-20T13:23:54.434Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","36e39d8563348555bab8181a7b7610eb22e8a0e16dc43f96606e19ed921fe4f2","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-18","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-16",156,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-cover.jpg"]