Chapter 20: Counterfeit

"Also, starting today, I will speed up the morning cultivation common-sense class, and try to save you all some time. To give you more time for cultivation.

If you feel you can't keep up with the course, feel free to speak up. I will invite your parents over and help you withdraw from the school."

Su Jin and the other students were dumbfounded.

Liu Shi, since you've already said that, who would dare admit they can't keep up?

"Also, our first year has six classes in total. Among them, the martial class focuses on building foundations for the first three years and does not test Qi Refining cultivation. In the other five classes, we have the fewest number of people who have broken through to the first layer of Qi Refining. The others have either already broken through seven or eight, or five or six.

Our class only has four.

I believe a good drum needs no heavy mallet; I don't need to say more.

You won't always need me to nag you every day to push yourselves to break through, right?

Isn't that right, Su Linyuan and Yang Guan? How many more days are you going to dawdle before you break through?"

Liu Shi said, dissatisfied.

In her view, Su Linyuan and Yang Guan's talents should be about the same as Su Yunhu's. But Su Yunhu had already broken through, while they were still squatting in place without breaking through.

What are you thinking?

Hiding your abilities?

What abilities are you hiding in the clan school?

Can't the elders in the clan school protect you from being suppressed?

Su Linyuan and Yang Guan both lowered their heads.

"In the clan school, don't conceal your cultivation speed, don't conceal your talents. Those who are capable should show it. If you don't show your potential and abilities, how will the clan school value you more and give you various good treatments and support?

Just like the four Su Wujis—if they hadn't broken through to the first layer of Qi Refining, would the clan school have given them the expensive first-grade superior Spirit Gathering Formation to use?"

After Liu Shi finished speaking, she announced the continuation of class, studying cultivation common sense.

In their first year, they only had one cultural class, which was cultivation common sense.

The person in charge of teaching was Liu Shi herself.

If she wanted to teach fast, she could teach fast. If she wanted to teach slow, so that every student in the class could understand and grasp it, she could also teach slow.

However, at this time, pressured by the imminent opening of the Hongtong Secret Realm, she could only silently give up on those two students with particularly poor comprehension in her heart.

Not caring whether they could keep up, Liu Shi naturally sped up her teaching. At ten in the morning, she announced the end of class, an hour and a half earlier than usual.

After lunch, Su Jin and the other three went straight to the spare classroom.

Now only the four of them were using it.

As soon as Su Cheng came in, he asked everyone, "Did you all bring spirit stones?"

"Didn't bring any," Su Yunhu said.

"Didn't even know we needed to bring any," Su Jin also spoke up.

"I only found out this morning that the clan school was going to distribute the Spirit Gathering Formation. Why would I bring spirit stones?" Su Wuji rolled his eyes directly.

"I brought some, and I even deliberately brought extra. I can lend them to you, but you have to remember to bring spirit stones tomorrow to pay me back," Su Cheng said with a smile.

"Impressive." Su Yunhu made an 'I'm impressed' gesture toward Su Cheng.

"Thanks for thinking of us in advance. We'll definitely bring spirit stones to pay you back tomorrow." Su Jin smiled slightly.

"Don't worry, we'll definitely pay back tomorrow." Su Wuji also laughed. "I didn't expect we'd be able to enjoy the power of the Spirit Gathering Formation today, hahaha."

"By the way, how many spirit stones are you planning to borrow?" Su Cheng hurriedly asked with a smile.

"I need one," Su Jin said immediately.

"Are you planning to activate the first-grade low-quality Spirit Gathering effect?" Su Wuji asked in astonishment. "I think you could at least use the first-grade mid-quality Spirit Gathering effect, right? First-grade low-quality Spirit Gathering effect—don't you think the gathered spiritual energy is too little? Besides, activating the first-grade mid-quality Spirit Gathering effect can let us cultivate faster."

"Have you ever used a Spirit Gathering Formation before?" Su Jin retorted.

"No. But the first-grade low-quality Spirit Gathering effect is the worst tier, right? With our talents, we should at least be able to activate the first-grade mid-quality Spirit Gathering effect, right?" Su Wuji said in a tsundere manner.

"You'll know once you try. My eldest niece only activated the first-grade mid-quality Spirit Gathering at the third layer of Qi Refining. I'm only at the first layer of Qi Refining, so I think the first-grade low-quality Spirit Gathering is enough.

If too much spiritual energy gathers but I can't absorb it, I can only watch it run off. That would be such a waste of spirit stones." Su Jin said with a pained expression.

Su Wuji: "..."

"Then I'll borrow one spirit stone too." Su Yunhu immediately followed.

Su Cheng lent two spirit stones to the two of them, and also took out one himself, clearly planning to keep pace with Su Jin and the others.

Su Wuji: "Then I'll borrow one spirit stone too. If it's not enough, I'll borrow more."

Su Cheng nodded.

The Spirit Gathering Formation disks everyone received were ten in total. One main formation disk, used for control. One secondary main formation disk, used for adding spirit stones.

The other eight auxiliary formation disks, assembled according to the instructions, just happened to form a small transparent cover.

The shape of this cover, in Su Jin's eyes, looked a bit like Little Wu Tian.

Could this be another kind of counterfeit?

As people walked into the small cover, Su Jin immediately felt that the concentration of spiritual energy inside the small cover was slightly higher. Mm, the effect was decent; it had just been set up and automatically started absorbing and gathering the surrounding spiritual energy.

Su Jin grabbed a meditation cushion placed nearby and sat cross-legged on it. She closed her eyes and began cultivating.

Inside the cover, her cultivation of the Evergreen Eternal Spring Art was indeed a bit faster.

The time it used to take to condense one wisp of magic power, she could now condense about one and a half wisps. Her cultivation speed had increased, but she felt the small cover absorbed and gathered spiritual energy even faster.

If she cultivated at her current speed, the spiritual energy consumed would definitely have a surplus, and the surplus spiritual energy would probably just run off and be wasted.

Su Jin thought, if only I could cultivate two Cultivation Techniques at the same time.

Then she felt her mind split into two.

One controlled her body to cultivate the Evergreen Eternal Spring Art, the other controlled her soul power, cultivating the Great Expansion Soul Refining Art in the Sea of Consciousness.

Cultivating the Great Expansion Soul Refining Art also required consuming spiritual energy.

So the speed at which she consumed spiritual energy doubled again. Gradually, the speed at which she consumed spiritual energy faintly caught up to eighty percent of the speed at which the small cover absorbed spiritual energy.

At least it wasn't wasted so much this time.

Su Jin cultivated with peace of mind.

After cultivating until her meridians reached their limit, Su Jin immediately stopped and disassembled the spirit-gathering array disk as well. Only about one-tenth of the spirit stones had been consumed, so they could still be used eight or nine more times.

Her magic power condensed into a full five wisps; at this pace, she would very likely be able to break through to the second layer of Qi Refining by the end of this month.

Her Great Expansion Spirit Refining Art also faintly gave her the feeling of breaking through to the first layer of Spirit Refining. Because Jin Tong Mu had been a solid body from the start, she felt she should be much faster than the normal cultivation speed written in the Great Expansion Spirit Refining Art.