Chapter 4: Beginning to Learn Cultivation Techniques

The next morning, Su Jin woke up.

However, she was rather dazed.

Because she saw a dark, hazy space.

At the very center of that space, there was a patch of pale golden light.

Little Su Jin quietly approached — it was a small space whose shape looked very much like her Little Wu Tian.

A hemispherical pale-golden dome!

Only this space seemed much larger than her Little Wu Tian; this was a small space of a full three or four mu in size.

The moment she had just entered this place, she felt as if she had a physical body.

Earlier, when she had been wandering outside, she had felt she had no physical body, like a wisp of wind.

Now she had become the physical Su Jin again.

The ground beneath her feet also seemed to be solid earth.

She stamped her foot, not feeling the slightest bit of unsteadiness.

On this patch of dark, black soil, a single small seedling had grown.

Probably because it had just sprouted, this seedling had grown only one tiny, curled-up leaf.

Don't be fooled by how small the seedling is — it can glow!!

And it was the kind of bluish-green treasure-light.

This strangely reminded her of the little red-ginseng seed she had planted in some flowerpot and then covered with the Little Wu Tian dome.

Little Su Jin walked over and gently touched the little seedling that had grown just one tiny leaf.

"Great-great-grandmother, my name is Xuechiluo." The little seedling immediately sent her back a message.

Great-great-grandmother?

Xuechiluo?

What on earth are these things?

"Little Jin, time to get up. If you don't get up now, you'll be late for school."

"Oh oh, I'm up, I'm up." Her sister-in-law's call pulled Su Jin back to reality. She hurriedly got out of bed and washed up.

While eating breakfast, little Su Jin casually asked her big brother, "Big Brother, this morning I suddenly saw a dark, hazy space."

Su Jian immediately set down the rice bowl in his hand in surprise.

"Did it look dark and hazy, with nothing in it, and seemed to have no boundary up, down, left, or right?" Su Jian said, his expression slightly serious.

Su Jin hurriedly nodded. "Exactly like that. The moment I opened my eyes early this morning, I was dumbfounded. Because I saw a strange, dark, hazy space."

"That's your Sea of Consciousness. You've been born with divine sense." Su Jian laughed. "Ordinary cultivators are only born with divine sense after breaking through to the seventh layer of Qi Refining. Your big brother here hasn't even been born with divine sense yet!

Who would have thought, at such a young age, you've already been born with divine sense.

Still, our sect has many geniuses, and there are also those who are extraordinarily gifted and born with divine sense at a very young age.

You may simply have been born with a naturally strong soul, so your divine sense awakened extremely early.

This isn't some major matter, but today when you go to school and finish learning the Cultivation Technique, you can privately tell your Liu Shi that you've been born with divine sense, and ask for a Cultivation Technique for training divine sense.

She'll prepare one for you."

The moment Su Jin heard she had to cultivate yet another Technique, her expression immediately turned a bit glum.

She couldn't even feel happy about it.

"Jin, do you know how many spirit stones a single Soul-Refining Technique costs outside?" Su Jian asked.

"A few hundred spirit stones?" little Su Jin guessed. Her father had once told her that back then, to buy the complete Qi Refining-stage Cultivation Technique, the Armwood Heaven-Piercing Art's Qi Refining chapter, her father had spent a full five hundred spirit stones — and that was only because he shared the Su surname and was a clan cultivator affiliated with the sect.

"At least three thousand spirit stones. And that's only because we share the Su surname and are clan cultivators affiliated with the sect. If you put it out there at those large auction houses, this one Soul-Refining Technique — even if it only has the Qi Refining chapter — would fetch at least over ten thousand spirit stones."

Su Jin's eyes immediately went wide.

That many spirit stones?

This Soul-Refining Technique is actually that expensive?

"And since you were born with divine sense early, you can also pick the most expensive and best Soul-Refining Technique from the clan school's collection. What a windfall, kid — you've earned tens of thousands of spirit stones for free."

Su Jin heard this and thought, that's right, that makes sense.

This reward really had to be earned.

"Big Brother, I understand. Just watch me."

Su Jian was satisfied. After encouraging her with many more words, he reluctantly sent Su Jin off. Finally, once the little figure brimming with vitality was out of sight, Su Jian turned around and saw his wife looking at him with a complicated expression.

"Back when you were courting me, you didn't put in this much effort, did you?" Liu Yunniang said in a cool tone.

"Ahem, isn't that because my little brother solemnly entrusted me with this? I couldn't very well botch the job. You know how much our little brother dotes on his own daughter." Su Jian said awkwardly. "Wife, do you really think I wasn't sincere when I courted you back then?

Then how about I court you all over again?"

"Nonsense — I'm already married to you, how could you still court me?" Liu Yunniang said shyly.

"I have an idea. Listen to me." Su Jian hurriedly explained the plan he had thought of… and a happy smile gradually spread across Liu Yunniang's face.

In the clan school classroom, early morning.

Liu Shi had arrived early.

She stood on the podium, very imposing.

"Starting today, I'm going to teach you all to cultivate.

Because we're the Wood Class, the Cultivation Techniques we practice are mainly Wood-element.

The Wood-element Technique our clan uses to build foundations is called the Green Wood Eternal Spring Art.

The Qi Refining chapter of this Set of Techniques, after being simplified by the clan's elders, is very easy to learn, very balanced and gentle, and unlikely to go wrong.

So everyone can practice it with confidence.

Moreover, the Green Wood Eternal Spring Cultivation Technique also has the effects of beautifying the complexion, extending lifespan, and repairing internal injuries.

Once you all achieve success in your cultivation in the future, during your practice you can save a great deal on healing medicines, life-extending pills, and beautifying pills; truly speaking, the benefits of cultivating the Green Wood Eternal Spring Cultivation Technique are simply too many.

In short, this is a set of Cultivation Technique extremely suitable for you all to practice.

Come, now Liu Shi will explain to you how to cultivate the first layer of the Qi Refining chapter.

You must listen well; this explanation of mine is actually meant to let you learn to find the sensation of Qi, and thoroughly enter the first layer of Qi Refining…"

Liu Shi then continued his explanation at length, talking nonstop.

Actually, when it comes to cultivating Cultivation Techniques, it is best to wait until one has grown to around ten years old before beginning; at that time the meridians are sufficiently thick and resilient, and are more suitable for the inhaled spiritual energy to circulate and be refined within the body.

But the vast majority of clan cultivators are unwilling to let their children lose at the starting line.

So from the moment the child is born, they begin giving their own children all sorts of medicinal baths.

After waiting until the age of three when the spiritual root is tested, those various medicinal baths are immediately upgraded.

After using medicinal baths to nurture the body for three years, a six-year-old child can enter the clan school and begin learning basic Cultivation Techniques.

Compared with those children outside who only begin cultivating in their teens, this saves nearly ten years of time.

Ten years is very important; for children of ordinary talent, ten years is enough for them to lead by two or three layers of cultivation.

For children of outstanding talent, ten years may even allow them to lead by four or five layers.

By the time everyone is seventeen or eighteen, others are at least at the late stage of Qi Refining, while you have only just begun cultivating.

Which one the sect values more — need I even say?