Chapter 22: Betting on the Reputation of One's Own Uncle

"Some skilled servants can easily earn over a hundred Spirit Stones a month just doing odd jobs."

Su Wuji saw Su Yunhu's eyes widen in surprise and burst into laughter.

"So, do you think the sect's treatment is good?"

"It's great," Su Yunhu said involuntarily.

Su Jin and Su Cheng saw this and couldn't help but twitch the corners of their mouths.

They deeply felt that Su Yunhu had been fooled.

"Su Wuji, what other good treatments does the sect have? Tell me about them," Su Yunhu said, pulling Su Wuji with some impatience.

Su Wuji, having his hand pulled, actually didn't want to talk anymore: "Anyway, you are going to enter the sect later, so why talk about it now?"

"Hey, hey, hey, tell me, just tell me a little bit."

"I don't know."

"Brother Wuji, I beg you."

"I really don't know. Wait until you enter the sect and ask for yourself."

"Brother~" Su Yunhu wailed.

The corner of Su Wuji's mouth secretly curled up.

Just before school was about to end, Su Linyuan and Yang Guan each brought a bag of formation plates to the Backup Academy.

Su Jin thought that Teacher Liu's roll-call effect was surprisingly good.

These two only came to their side of the academy, but they seemed unwilling to speak or communicate with the four of them, silently hiding in a corner and talking in low voices.

Su Jin and the others looked at each other: "..."

What is going on?

Do they have an issue with us or what?

Soon it was time to finish school, everyone packed up their things and went home.

Just as they were about to leave the clan academy gate, Su Jin saw Su Lan seemed to be waiting for someone.

However, she probably wasn't waiting for her, so Su Jin walked right past her.

Su Jin didn't see that after she passed Su Lan, Su Lan seemed to open her mouth, but in the end, not a single word came out.

As soon as Su Jin got home, she saw her eldest niece holding a bag of formation plates with a look of surprise.

Obviously, her eldest niece had returned a step before her.

"Dad, is this really for me? Did you really get a Spirit Gathering Array?"

"Happy?" Su Jian asked.

"Hahaha, I'm so happy. Dad, you don't know how sad I was today in class when Cai Shi handed out the formation plates of the Spirit Gathering Array issued by the clan academy to the top ten students in our class."

Actually, it wasn't just me.

As long as we weren't in the top ten of our class, we were all sad together.

It felt like from now on, we became people from two different worlds compared to the top ten in the class."

Su Hua smiled, tears about to flow out.

Su Jian gently patted his daughter's head, then sat majestically in the main hall, smiling as he held his daughter's hand to encourage her. "Cai Shi said that with your talent, if you try hard, there is still hope to enter the top ten of the class."

But your luck isn't very good.

It just happens that the Hongtong Secret Realm, which opens once every twenty years, is about to begin.

This time, the clan academy, thinking of the personal safety of the children participating in the Hongtong Secret Realm trial next year, issued Spirit Gathering Arrays for them to use.

With the Spirit Gathering Array, they will cultivate faster.

Their cultivation will become higher.

This can improve the survival rate of the children in the Hongtong Secret Realm.

But for those ranked outside the top ten in your class, it's miserable.

If you don't use the Spirit Gathering Array and just cultivate purely through hard work, you fear you will fall further and further behind them. So I suggested helping you prepare a set of Spirit Gathering Arrays.

This way, you not only don't have to worry about your cultivation falling behind, but you also have a chance to surpass them.

So Dad found this set of Grade One Mid-Grade Spirit Gathering Arrays for you. Dad could get better Spirit Gathering Arrays, but the old senior who rents out Spirit Gathering Arrays told me that a Grade One Mid-Grade Spirit Gathering Array is enough for you to use.

Using a Spirit Gathering Array with better effects, although the spirit-gathering effect is good, you cannot absorb that much Qi, so it can only be wasted in vain.

Furthermore, a Grade One Mid-Grade Spirit Gathering Array uses fewer Spirit Stones; it only needs three Spirit Stones inserted to activate.

This way, you can cultivate whenever you want, whenever you want. You don't have to worry about not having enough Spirit Stones.

And as long as the Spirit Stone supply is sufficient, you don't need to deliberately reduce your cultivation time."

"Thank you, Dad. Thank you, Mom and Dad, for everything you've done for me." Su Hua was both happy and wanted to cry. "I will definitely work hard to cultivate and leave no regrets for myself."

Liu Yunniang looked at her eldest daughter with tears flowing from the corners of her eyes, and her heart was also extremely bitter.

Actually, when her husband went to find Cai Shi, Cai Shi didn't say it like this.

Cai Shi's exact words were, "Why don't you withdraw your daughter from school? Your daughter's potential is limited, and it is very likely she won't enter the top ten of the class in the future."

Rather than suffering in the clan academy, it's better to go home and cultivate on your own.

Besides, now the clan academy has issued Spirit Gathering Arrays to assist the cultivation of the children ranked in the top ten of the class; their cultivation speed will get faster and faster. Your daughter can't catch up even if she runs her horse to death.

It's better to make other plans early.

And Cai Shi didn't just find Su Jian alone.

She called several at once, all children ranked in the teens in the class.

But Su Jian couldn't accept Cai Shi's suggestion. He even struggled to get Cai Shi's agreement to encourage his own daughter, saying that she said she hoped the child would stay in the clan academy and continue to fight.

Cai Shi was speechless after hearing this.

But under Su Jian's earnest and persistent persuasion, she finally reluctantly agreed.

Mainly, a parent knows their own child best.

Su Hua truly strives on her own.

This child is too diligent.

Although she always says in her mouth that she does not wish to disappoint her parents' expectations.

But if she herself did not want to continue schooling, could her parents' expectations alone make her demand such strictness of herself, cultivate so crazily?

Absolutely not.

This child truly likes cultivation. She truly wants to stay in the Clan Academy. She is just stubborn and never willing to say it out loud.

So whether it is Su Jian or she, neither could bear to let the child give up.

After Su Jian returned, the couple discussed it together and decided to use their savings to rent a Spirit-Gathering Array for Su Hua.

There was no way they could let the child lose out on the Spirit-Gathering Array.

Anyway, they just used their paternal grandfather's reputation as collateral; ahem, they shouldn't get beaten, right?

Mainly because their own couple's reputation was useless anyway. It wouldn't work over at the Shang family either.

Although their paternal grandfather's reputation was quite good, the young couple still dared not casually rent a Spirit-Gathering Array. So the shop they rented from was actually opened by an elder senior of the clan.

Upon hearing they were descendants of the paternal grandfather, the elder immediately agreed on the spot to bring out a first-grade, mid-tier Spirit-Gathering Array that looked at least eighty percent new, and even waived the deposit for them.

What a truly great senior!

This young couple did not know that the great senior they were so grateful and moved by immediately used a Thousand-Mile Sound-Transmission Talisman after they left to inform someone, in a teasing tone, that they had come to his shop to rent a Spirit-Gathering Array and he had even waived the deposit.

Thus, Su Jian had no idea at all that his paternal grandfather already knew of the good deed they had done, and was just planning to grab a stick and rush over to teach him what "prior notification" meant!