Chapter 39: Forbidden Drugs

The other students immediately looked toward the group of students at the window who had reached at least the first layer of Qi Refining. Their eyes held a hidden envy and jealousy.

However, not a single one of those students moved, not even their expressions changed.

It was not that they were all particularly good at pretending.

Rather, by now they had realized the vast gap between themselves and those students who had not yet broken through to the first layer of Qi Refining.

They had the qualification to be proud.

After the students who had not broken through to the first layer of Qi Refining had all left, Liu Shi continued with a cold face, saying: "Do not buy, and do not use, the various black-market medicines and forbidden drugs said to enhance your spiritual roots and your soul power.

Those pills and powders of unknown origin might drain your potential and your lifespan, and they can easily contaminate your soul.

You must know that the Demon Clan loves to use such despicable means to prune our human race's outstanding younger generation.

Pang Xingchen took a pill secretly purchased from the black market, said to enhance soul power, but his soul power was contaminated by the mental power of the Red-Toothed Ants and can never be fully eradicated.

That is why the Clan Academy expelled him.

Such a fine child, with no future ahead of him.

You must take this as a warning.

If you wish to cultivate, then cultivate; the Clan Academy has already provided you with the best resources.

Do not resort to any crooked paths, only to end up ruining yourself."

Liu Shi spoke with an extremely stern tone.

The key point is that taking forbidden drugs is truly a trap for people.

Although cultivators have always used any means necessary to increase their cultivation, they had no other choice; with no resources, no background, and no opportunities, what else could they do but fight desperately?

If they do not increase their cultivation, are they to wait until they die of old age?

But here in the Su Clan Academy, the academy has already provided the students with the best resources available at this stage.

Even within the sects, aside from the direct descendants of Nascent Soul Grand Cultivators, no one can obtain more resources than they have.

They have already received so much support; why are they still messing around blindly?

Therefore, she hoped that the Wood Class she was in charge of would not contain any fools who would trap themselves.

The ten students each nodded solemnly. This Pang Xingchen was the first case of someone taking forbidden drugs they had heard of.

Moreover, the final result was the contamination of his own soul.

The mental power of demonic beasts is wild and bloodthirsty. If their mental power contaminates a human cultivator,

that contaminated human cultivator will never be able to reach Foundation Establishment.

Because once you begin to form your Foundation, that wild, uncontrollable mental power will completely tear your soul apart and turn you into an idiot.

Even if you do not form your Foundation, your contaminated soul will gradually make you become manic, perverted, and turn you into a madman.

Su Lan's face was especially pale. She had been just one step away, just one step away, from taking that medicine.

In fact, a few days ago, the matter of secret medicines (forbidden drugs) had spread secretly within the Clan Academy. No one had said that secret medicines were forbidden drugs, so Su Lan had always thought they were quite good secret medicines.

Many students with talents not as outstanding as hers had learned of this.

Pang Xingchen took that soul-power-enhancing secret medicine yesterday, and today he broke through to the first layer of Qi Refining.

The effect was too obvious.

She could not help but feel tempted. In fact, she had made up her mind at noon, planning to ask her father to buy her a dose as soon as school let out.

Who knew that before school let out, Pang Xingchen would have an accident.

And the consequences were so terrible; his soul had been contaminated.

By the time everyone returned home, the major incident of a child in the Clan Academy eating forbidden drugs and contaminating his soul immediately swept through the entire Su Clan settlement.

Regardless of grade level, parents called their children close and scolded and warned them thoroughly.

After dinner, Su Jian also called Su Jin and Su Hua to his side.

"Do you know why I called you over?"

Su Jin and Su Hua nodded in unison.

Was there anyone who did not yet know about the fool in the Clan Academy who ate forbidden drugs?

"Forbidden drugs cannot be eaten; do not end up contaminating your soul like that foolish child. Additionally, aside from pills or medicine packs given to you by family elders or instructors, do not casually eat or use pills or medicine packs given to you by others.

You must bring them back for me to see. Only after I confirm there is no problem may you use them.

When I was about your age, I heard that a fool in the clan ate pills brought to him by a classmate, said to enhance cultivation, but that classmate's entire family were Demon Clan spies.

The medicine given to him directly demonized him. A fine child, a prodigy who once ranked in the top three of his grade, ended up being executed by the family."

Su Jin and Su Hua listened and both drew in a sharp breath of cold air.

"So I hope you will not be that kind of fool again. Do not harbor the intention to harm others, but never be without the intention to guard against them. Do you understand?" Su Jian said with an extremely sharp gaze.

Su Jin and Su Hua quickly nodded.

"Xiao Hua, you cannot blindly eat pills and such. If you lack anything to enhance your cultivation, wait for me. I have already begun learning the spell of extracting Wood Spirit Qi. Once I master this spell, I will collect several bottles of Wood Spirit Qi for you; you can simply use the Wood Spirit Qi. You will not need to eat any pills at all." Su Jin instructed her.

"Little Aunt, I will not casually eat pills given to me by others. You must also be careful. Your talent for cultivation is so good; what if there are a few Demon Clan spies lurking around you? If they also plan to harm you, that would be troublesome." Su Hua said with a worried expression.

Su Jian's mouth twitched directly.

He thought to himself: Where are there that many Demon Clan spies?

After that incident occurred back then, the Su Clan settlement conducted net-like screenings more than thirty times.

Not a single spy was left behind.

"In any case, you must both keep your wits about you. Do not think that no one in the Clan Academy will harm you." Su Jian reminded them.

The two nodded in unison.

"Also, Su Jin, what have you been raising in the ginseng field? I squatted in the backyard all day today, watching that little thing turn into a beam of green light, whoosh whoosh whoosh, constantly drilling out of the soil, leaping and bouncing over the various spiritual plants in the backyard, eating dozens of different kinds of pests scattered in the spiritual fields. It left me with nothing to do." Su Jian asked again.

The appearance of such a powerful thing in the house had initially terrified Su Jian.

He almost called the patrol team outside to come into the house.

Later, he remembered what his own Tang Grandfather had said: if anything happened, he must seek him out.

That was why he had sent a message directly to Tang Grandfather.

After receiving the message, Tang Grandfather replied very quickly.

"You can ask Su Jin if she raised it. If she did, tell me later what she raised."

Did Su Jin raise it?

For this message, Su Jian sat alone at home pondering it for a long while.