Chapter 55: Soul Force Testing-Method Ball

Xue Chuluo gave Su Jin a detailed account of how he had managed to win Su Jian over and made him willingly serve as a watering tool.

Su Jin praised Xue Chuluo again.

She felt that Xue Chuluo had been learning and improving very quickly lately.

"If you don't want a sprout cooped up in the courtyard every day, I can get you a token to enter the house. When you want to go out and play, you can use the token yourself. What do you think?" Su Jin asked Xue Chuluo.

Xue Chuluo immediately shook his leaves to show disagreement.

He felt things were just fine as they were now.

He felt that although the Su family's array bound the sky and the four sides of the courtyard, the underground was not bound much — it was merely connected to that enormous array beneath the earth.

If he wanted to go out, he only needed to follow where the array connected and burrow further underground, and he could leave the courtyard, even leave the city.

"Don't you want to go out and play?" Su Jin hurriedly asked.

"I still have to take care of the little red ginsengs. They can't do without me," Xue Chuluo said.

Su Jin felt very sorry for him upon hearing this: "You've worked hard."

"Xue Chuluo is willing to work for Ancestor Ancestor; Xue Chuluo is very happy right now." He was a companion Wu Spirit — only when Ancestor Ancestor needed him was he happy.

After comforting Xue Chuluo properly, Su Jin ran back to the front courtyard again.

It happened that her eldest brother Su Jian came out to wash up.

Su Jin hurried over, fawningly saying: "Big Brother, thank you for helping me water yesterday. Otherwise my little red ginsengs would surely have died of thirst."

The moment Su Jian heard Su Jin mention red ginseng, he immediately felt his scalp go numb.

"Little Jin, your grandfather is coming over today, did you know?" Su Jian hurriedly asked.

"What is my grandfather coming for?" Su Jin looked at her big brother in puzzlement.

"He told me to draw a portrait of Xue Chuluo and bring it back for study — how does an ordinary little red ginseng mutate into Xue Chuluo?" Su Jian said. Su Jian wasn't wrong to say this; Su Changying had indeed rushed over to see what Xue Chuluo actually looked like, and also planned to question Su Jian in detail about how Xue Chuluo had actually mutated out from among the red ginseng seedlings.

"Then let my grandfather study it properly." In any case, Su Jin felt she couldn't figure it out herself. After all, she had only hatched Xue Chuluo by accident.

Let her study how red ginseng seeds mutate?

Could she handle it?

Absolutely not.

"Oh, right, in seven more days it's my day off. Big Brother, could you spare the time to accompany me outside the city? I plan to practice the spell of extracting wood essence qi," Su Jin asked.

"Sure. No problem." Su Jian agreed immediately.

He hadn't forgotten that he had been kept at home precisely to be Su Jin's study companion.

His granduncle, to put his mind at ease about the study-companion duty, gave him five thousand spirit stones a year as benefit money.

Besides, he only needed to do his best for the full three years; after three years his little uncle would surely rush back like flying to take over.

Besides, during these three years at home, while looking after Su Jin, he could also take care of his own daughter Su Hua on the side.

After eating breakfast and bidding farewell to her big brother and the others, Su Jin went off to school.

This morning Liu Shi was lecturing on common cultivation knowledge up on the platform; every time a question was asked, Qi Yi would inevitably scramble to answer, in a thoroughly desperate-and-fierce state.

Everyone couldn't help glancing at her several times.

Everyone thought to themselves: how did this fellow go from one extreme to another?

From a standout with outstanding cultivation talent to another standout who was now first in classroom performance?

Wasn't her intention to take back the outer disciple recommendation qualification just way too obvious?

Su Jin sensed that the hostility certain people directed at Qi Yi had grown even thicker.

Su Jin: "……"

Su Jin briefly recalled — when she was small, she had after all lived together with Su Zhang for a period of time.

The Su Zhang in her memory was a man of steady temperament, considerate of others, and mature in mind.

He didn't seem like a fool!

Then how did he raise Qi Yi to be like this?

So was Qi Yi's personality more like her real father, or her real mother?

Liu Shi's performance was even more surprising.

At first she seemed very surprised at Qi Yi's working so hard to perform.

Later she actually began deliberately singling Qi Yi out with questions, making her answer all kinds of knowledge she taught.

Su Jin felt that the better Qi Yi performed, the more schoolchildren around her were stimulated.

So an unusually bizarre answering race got whipped up.

Qi Yi grabbed, and the other schoolchildren grabbed too.

Every time Liu Shi asked a question, many little hands shot up to snatch the answer.

Liu Shi's mouth bloomed into a smile.

It had to be said, with such an interesting class, time flew by.

In almost the blink of an eye, the morning lessons were over.

Liu Shi suddenly called Su Jin's name. "Su Jin, come out here with me for a moment."

Su Jin thought: what does she want me for?

Liu Shi called Su Jin into a small empty room.

The two sat down facing each other.

"Your grandfather said you've broken through to the first layer of Spirit Refining in the Great Expansion Spirit Refining Art?" Liu Shi went straight to the core as soon as she opened her mouth.

Although Su Jin was inwardly surprised, on the surface she remained fairly calm.

After all, it was her grandfather who had exposed her — what could she do?

"Here, place this little ball in the palm of your hand and activate it with your divine sense," Liu Shi said. "This little ball is a special testing-method ball, used specifically to detect a cultivator's progress in a Spirit Refining Cultivation Technique."

Su Jin quickly pinched the silver-white, transparent little ball about the size of a chicken egg that Liu Shi had given her, then sent her divine sense into it.

She sent in one thread of divine sense — no reaction.

She sent in two threads of divine sense — still no reaction.

Su Jin looked at Liu Shi.

"Keep sending. As long as the quantity and quality of the divine sense you send in meets the threshold requirement for the first layer of Spirit Refining, this little ball will light up. That means you've broken through to the first layer of Spirit Refining," Liu Shi explained to Su Jin.

Students who have cultivated a Spirit Refining Cultivation Technique cannot directly reach in to test someone's Sea of Consciousness.

So senior cultivators invented all sorts of testing devices.

The testing law-ball in Liu Shi's hand came about in exactly this way.

Su Jin: Alright then, I'll just keep sending.

Ten threads, twenty threads, forty threads — Su Jin noticed that when she sent in the fortieth thread of divine sense, the little ball had already faintly lit up.

"Su Jin, can you still hold on? Send in a few more threads of divine sense and this little ball will be completely lit up," Liu Shi said, looking at the little silver ball with a delighted face.

Su Jin glanced at the testing ball twice in surprise, thinking to herself: When I broke through to the first layer of Spirit Refining, I had accumulated a full sixty threads of soul power before breaking through.

How come this little ball only needs forty threads of soul power (divine sense) to light up? Is the baseline of this silver-white little ball really that low? Can this silver-white little law-ball for testing soul power accurately measure her soul power? Seeing Liu Shi's happy face, Su Jin ultimately did not voice the doubts in her heart.