[{"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-22":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},2313916,4525,"Chapter 22","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-22",22,"\u003Cp>“Some skilled laborers can easily earn over a hundred spirit stones a month just doing odd jobs.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Wuji watched Su Yunhu’s wide-eyed astonishment and burst out laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So, do you think the sect’s benefits are good?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Excellent,” Su Yunhu said without thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin and Su Cheng couldn’t help but smile faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They both deeply felt Su Yunhu had been fooled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Su Wuji, what other good benefits does the sect offer? Tell me about them,” Su Yunhu eagerly pulled at Su Wuji’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Wuji, having his hand pulled, suddenly didn’t want to talk anymore: “You’re going to join the sect anyway—why tell you now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey hey hey, just tell me a little bit, please.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I really don’t know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big Brother Wuji, please, I beg you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I truly don’t know. Ask for yourself once you enter the sect.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big brother~” Su Yunhu wailed dramatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Wuji’s lips secretly curled upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just before dismissal, Su Linyuan and Yang Guan arrived at the auxiliary classroom carrying bags of array plates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin thought to herself: Liu Shi’s roll call was astonishingly effective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these two only came to their classroom and seemed unwilling to speak or interact with the four of them—quietly hiding in the corner, whispering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin and the others exchanged bewildered glances: “...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s going on here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do they have a grudge against us?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, dismissal time arrived. Everyone packed their belongings and went home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as they were about to leave the clan school gate, Su Jin noticed Su Lan seemed to be waiting for someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t her, so Su Jin walked right past her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin didn’t see that after she passed Su Lan, Su Lan opened her mouth slightly—but ultimately uttered not a single word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin had just returned home when she saw her eldest niece hugging a bag of array plates, her face beaming with delight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, her eldest niece had gotten home before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Father, is this really for me? Did you really get a Spirit Gathering Array?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Happy?” Su Jian asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hahaha, I’m so happy. Father, you don’t know how heartbroken I was today in class when Master Cai handed out the clan school’s Spirit Gathering Array plates to the top ten students.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It wasn’t just me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All of us who weren’t in the top ten felt the same way.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It felt like we’d been split into two different worlds from the top ten.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Hua smiled, tears nearly streaming down her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jian gently stroked his daughter’s head, then sat down grandly in the main hall, smiling as he held her hand to encourage her. “Master Cai said that with your talent, if you push yourself, you still have a chance to make the top ten.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But your luck isn’t good.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Hongtong Secret Realm, which opens only once every twenty years, is about to open.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To ensure the safety of the students who will participate in next year’s Hongtong Secret Realm trial, the clan school has issued Spirit Gathering Arrays to them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With the arrays, they’ll cultivate faster.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Their cultivation base will rise higher.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This improves their survival rate in the Hongtong Secret Realm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But for students ranked below tenth—it’s terrible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you don’t use a Spirit Gathering Array and rely only on hard work, you’ll fall farther and farther behind them. So I suggested getting you a Spirit Gathering Array.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That way, you won’t have to worry about falling behind—and you might even surpass them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I found you a Rank One Mid-Grade Spirit Gathering Array. I could’ve gotten a better one, but the elder who rents out arrays told me: a Rank One Mid-Grade is enough for you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A higher-grade array has better spirit gathering, but you can’t absorb that much spiritual energy—you’d just waste it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, a Rank One Mid-Grade Array uses fewer spirit stones—only three to activate.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That way, you can cultivate whenever you want, without worrying about running out of spirit stones.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And as long as you have enough spirit stones, you don’t need to cut your cultivation time short.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, Father. Thank you, Mother and Father, for everything you’ve done for me,” Su Hua said, both joyful and on the verge of tears. “I’ll work hard and never regret it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Yunniang watched the tears streaming down her eldest daughter’s face and felt a deep ache in her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, when her husband went to see Master Cai, Master Cai hadn’t said that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Cai’s exact words were: “Why not withdraw your daughter from the clan school? Her potential is limited; she likely won’t make the top ten.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s better for her to cultivate at home than suffer here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, the clan school has already issued Spirit Gathering Arrays to the top ten students—they’ll cultivate faster and faster. Your daughter can’t catch up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s better to make other plans early.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And Master Cai didn’t just talk to Su Jian.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He called in several others—all students ranked around tenth to fifteenth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But Su Jian couldn’t accept Master Cai’s advice. He pressed hard until Master Cai reluctantly agreed to encourage her, saying it was her own suggestion—that she hoped the child would stay and keep striving.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Cai was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But under Su Jian’s persistent pleading, he finally agreed, albeit reluctantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainly because you know your own child best.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Hua truly worked hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This child was incredibly diligent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though she always said she didn’t want to disappoint her parents,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>if she didn’t truly want to continue studying, could her parents’ expectations alone make her push herself so strictly, train so furiously?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Absolutely not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This child genuinely loved cultivation. She truly wanted to stay in the clan school—she just stubbornly never said it out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So neither Su Jian nor Liu Yunniang could bear to let her give up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Su Jian returned, the couple discussed it and decided to use their savings to rent a Spirit Gathering Array for Su Hua.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They couldn’t let her lose because of a Spirit Gathering Array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, they were using their own cousin-grandfather’s reputation as collateral—uh, hopefully they wouldn’t get beaten?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainly because their own reputation was useless—it meant nothing to the merchants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their cousin-grandfather’s reputation was decent, but the young couple still dared not rent a Spirit Gathering Array casually—so the shop they rented from was actually owned by an elder of the clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the elder heard they were the cousin-grandfather’s descendants, he immediately agreed to hand over a Rank One Mid-Grade Spirit Gathering Array that looked at least eighty percent new—and waived the deposit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a wonderful elder!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young couple didn’t know that the elder who moved them so deeply had, right after they left, used a Long-Distance Transmission Talisman to inform someone in a teasing tone about how they’d come to rent an array—and how he’d waived the deposit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Su Jian had no idea his cousin-grandfather already knew what they’d done—and was preparing to come over with a stick to teach him what “prior notification” meant.\u003C\u002Fp>",1169,"2026-06-20T13:23:54.434Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","e26986ea01dbd84301538acc7796dad58b7ccc6a7a2b46bc29aa471be6d81551","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-23","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-21",156,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-cover.jpg"]