[{"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-49":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},2313943,4525,"Chapter 49","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-49",49,"\u003Cp>“If I were her, I’d switch to another clan school outright,” Su Cheng remarked. “Or just enroll in one of the sect’s Dao academies. Better than staying here with no hope of becoming an outer disciple.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Cheng thought to himself: the main point of studying at the clan school wasn’t just to scramble for an outer disciple slot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you thinking? Do you really believe any other clan school would take her in?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If she’s expelled from the Su Clan School, no other clan school will accept her,” Su Wuji said coldly. “Being expelled means she committed a grave offense—she couldn’t stay in the Su Clan School.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Or her talent is too poor, and the Su Clan School can’t tolerate her anymore.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which clan school would want someone like her?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Su Cheng and Su Jin were stunned upon hearing this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, do you think she’ll have it easy if she goes to a Dao academy? How naive,” Su Wuji sneered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dao academies were established by the sect to rival the various powerful clans’ schools, selected and cultivated the next generation of outstanding young cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listen: selected and cultivated the next generation of outstanding young cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clan schools merely aim to train a few future elite family members, the leaders, to ensure the family’s survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when the sect founded Dao academies, they instantly raised the stakes. Their mission: we cultivate the future pillars of the sect—outstanding young cultivators—so we must be a tier above your so-called elite disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why the competition inside Dao academies is truly brutal!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Dao academies admit far more students each year, and their talent requirements are far stricter. To even apply, you need at least upper-tier talent—otherwise, don’t bother. We won’t accept you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, they also provide far more and far better resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So don’t be fooled by how many Dao academies the sect runs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in our own Xiancheng, there are four of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each academy occupies at least one or two city blocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Comparable in size to some small towns outside, capable of housing thousands of students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far, far more than the Su Clan School can ever accommodate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every year, over a hundred thousand applicants flood in: wandering cultivators’ children, commoners’ children, and young scions from major and minor mortal kingdoms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the surrounding mortal kingdoms have massive populations—otherwise, where would so many high-talent applicants come from?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But admitting so many students also means disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guarantees that competition within Dao academies is ten times more brutal than in clan schools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Dao academies, even underhanded tactics are common.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as they aren’t caught, the academies turn a blind eye to all kinds of dirty tricks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All they care about is ensuring that the tiny handful of top-tier talented students make it into the sect. Whether Zhang San or Li Si enters doesn’t matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do whatever you want—just don’t let anyone die inside the academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So the Dao academy students would dare bully her openly?” Su Cheng gasped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard the students there form tight-knit cliques—they’re incredibly bold.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some cliques force students without backing to kneel, slap their own faces, hand over all elixirs and spirit items issued by the academy, strip them of rare benefits they’ve earned, and force them to deliberately score low on academy exams.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those students will do absolutely anything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If Qi Yi goes to a Dao academy, how long do you think she’ll survive?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Cheng sucked in a sharp breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought: I had no idea Dao academies were this dark!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he felt a surge of relief: Thank heaven I didn’t go to a Dao academy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Won’t this prevent many talented students from entering the sect?” Su Cheng asked, drenched in sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But anyone who survives this hell and claws their way into the sect will achieve great things. I’ve heard many Nascent Soul elders in the sect originally fought their way in from Dao academies,” Su Wuji said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To fight your way into the sect from a Dao academy, you need talent, strength, opportunity, and connections—all indispensable. Such people are naturally predisposed to rise swiftly and break through to Nascent Soul,” Su Jin added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I used to think our clan school was brutal, forcing us to struggle endlessly. Now I see—it’s been generous to us. The outside Dao academies are truly unbearable,” Su Cheng said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not entirely unbearable. At least Dao academies are more humane than the demonic sects’ talent selection. Students aren’t thrown into talent pits after failing, nor are their corpses forced to serve the sect after death.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Su Wuji, stop talking—I’m going to cultivate right now. I’ll never betray the clan school’s training—I’ll cultivate hard,” Su Cheng cried out, sprinting off to train.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Wuji: Coward. Can’t even handle a little scare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin: “...” She went to train too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep within the clan school, the principal’s office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The principal and two vice-principals sat at a long table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The principal spoke solemnly: “Let’s reconsider Qi Yi’s punishment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“First: fine her three thousand spirit stones. Any objections?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“None,” Vice-Principal Su Guangting said immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vice-Principal Su Jinniang also shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Second: expel Qi Yi. Any objections?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“None,” Vice-Principal Su Guangting agreed just as decisively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Su Jinniang hesitated, recalling Su Zhang’s desperate pleas before her. “Qi Yi is just a child. She swore the black-market prohibited drug wasn’t hers—that she didn’t know how it ended up in her locker.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perhaps she was framed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“She says it isn’t hers—where’s the proof?” Vice-Principal Su Guangting shot back. She was a female cultivator, even younger and more beautiful than Su Jinniang, but her aura was icy—like a glacier that never melted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No proof? She claims she’s innocent, and you believe her?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Has your brain been swapped for a pig’s?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You—” Su Jinniang shot to her feet, furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Su Guangting, apologize,” the principal ordered sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sorry,” Su Guangting’s apology sounded utterly insincere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Su Jinniang, sit down. I’m not a fool. Since you raised this, I’ll grant you this favor—let her stay—for now,” the principal said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmph. Su Guangting let out a dismissive snort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Third: since Qi Yi remains, our clan school must show some stance. After all, this involves prohibited drugs—others were expelled or punished and then expelled. Only she stays. Is a three-thousand-spirit-stone fine all she gets?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Therefore, she forfeits all eligibility for future recommendation as an outer disciple.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1060,"2026-06-20T13:23:54.434Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","f0d0c48fe82c0b02f0035f9d3ed2fdbb976bd64000c003df72dbfd0038b5bdb1","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-50","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-48",156,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-cover.jpg"]