Chapter 58: Ice Shaman Bloodline

How about asking Su Cheng and Su Wuji?

With a plan in mind, while cultivating at the Third Academy, Su Jin deliberately observed Su Wuji and Su Cheng for a bit.

She discovered that these two fellows had actually both chosen a Spirit Refining Cultivation Technique to begin dual-cultivating.

And both were the Great Expansion Spirit Refining Art!

Su Wuji had clearly already entered the door. Ever since she had explained her insights on cultivating the Great Expansion Spirit Refining Art to him last time, causing the fellow to have a sudden enlightenment by the way, his cultivation speed for the Great Expansion Spirit Refining Art had accelerated considerably.

She figured it wouldn't take ten days before he should be able to break through to the first layer of Spirit Refining.

Su Cheng's Spirit Refining Cultivation Technique clearly hadn't been cultivated to entry yet. He was still painstakingly trying to figure it out.

When everyone was resting, Su Jin summoned them to drink Bing Chen Lu together, then opened her mouth to ask Su Cheng: "Your Body Tempering Cultivation Technique — does this count as completely giving up on it?"

"No, just temporarily giving up. After all, I still want to stick with tri-cultivation." Su Cheng said with a bitter smile. "Cultivating a Body Tempering Cultivation Technique is really troublesome for me. Although I've already barely managed to cultivate it to entry, my daily cultivation speed is comparable to a snail. I've even been wondering if I just didn't pick the right Body Tempering Cultivation Technique. If it really won't work, I'm planning to choose the Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art, just like Su Wuji."

"Countless old predecessors in our clan have cultivated the Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art. It's absolutely stable and easy to cultivate. Problems like qi deviation don't easily occur, and neither do problems with auxiliary cultivation resources being hard to find.

It can be called the most suitable Body Tempering treasure tome for our Su family members." As soon as Su Wuji heard Su Cheng's words, he immediately recommended the Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art.

The Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art had been praised to the skies by his grandfather. Naturally, he himself held this Body Tempering Cultivation Technique in very high esteem as well.

"Then what's the name of the Body Tempering Cultivation Technique you're cultivating?" Su Jin asked curiously.

"The Body Tempering Cultivation Technique I'm cultivating is called the Thunder Rhinoceros Body Tempering Art. It's a Body Tempering Cultivation Technique created by specifically imitating the Body Tempering method of the ancient thunder beast, the Thunder Rhinoceros.

This Cultivation Technique was specially retrieved for me by my father.

He also said that if I could cultivate this Technique to completion, then when I later leave the sect to carry out various missions, my survival rate would greatly increase.

The key point is that when cultivating this Cultivation Technique, while executing various martial techniques, it will also come with its own lightning strikes, making your opponent feel like they're dying and coming back to life."

"So it's a Body Tempering Cultivation Technique with its own special attribute. This kind of Cultivation Technique is extremely rare and hard to come by. Once cultivated to completion, its might is tremendous. If you really cultivate it to completion, then among Body Tempering cultivators of the same generation, you'd count as a notable figure. Most importantly, the sect likes juniors like you the most.

If you really cultivate this Cultivation Technique to completion, when you enter the sect, the sect will definitely arrange a prestigious and resource-rich master for you." Su Wuji said.

It's just that Cultivation Techniques with their own special attributes are hard to cultivate.

So anyone who successfully cultivates one will receive the sect's favoritism.

A master, resources, the best cultivation grounds — those are all standard.

What others beg苦苦 for and cannot obtain, you can easily harvest on the very first day you enter the sect. This treatment can be called that of a chosen one.

"The key is that this Body Tempering Cultivation Technique is too hard to cultivate. Don't even talk about cultivating it to Minor Completion — right now I don't even know when I'll be able to break through the first layer of Body Tempering." Su Cheng said with a bitter smile.

"A Cultivation Technique with its own attribute, and you're cultivating it extremely slowly! So tell me, isn't there a possibility that this Cultivation Technique is simply incompatible with your constitution?" Su Jin said.

"Huh?" Su Cheng looked at her in astonishment.

"I remember you said you have the Ice Shaman Bloodline. Ice Shaman Bloodline and a lightning-type Cultivation Technique — do you think they're compatible?" Su Jin countered.

Cough cough cough, Su Wuji coughed several times in succession, using it to mask his astonishment.

Right, if Su Cheng wasn't lying, then his Ice Shaman Bloodline and a lightning-type Cultivation Technique — weren't those a case of pin against wheat awn?

"I think you'd best find Instructor Liu to have him take a look at you. If your bloodline really is hard to be compatible with your Cultivation Technique, then you'll either have to change your blood, or change your Cultivation Technique. There's no other move." Su Jin said, spreading her small hands.

"You mean the reason my cultivation of the Thunder Rhinoceros Body Tempering Art is progressing slowly isn't because my aptitude is lacking, but because my bloodline has become an obstacle to my cultivation?" Su Cheng immediately understood. "Don't say it, there really is that possibility.

I always used to feel that when I was pondering lightning-type Body Tempering Techniques, I clearly grasped the Cultivation Technique quite easily, but as soon as I actually started cultivating, something went wrong. No matter how I comprehended it, my Body Tempering Cultivation Technique's cultivation speed was as slow as a snail.

If it really is a bloodline problem, then I can't exactly go and swap out my entire bloodline."

After speaking, Su Cheng also laughed bitterly at himself.

"So in the end, you can only change your Body Tempering Cultivation Technique." Su Wuji said sympathetically.

Su Cheng fell silent.

After quite a while, he suddenly stood up. "I'm going to find Instructor Liu."

Saying that, he went straight out the door.

Leaving Su Jin and Su Wuji dumbfounded. They thought to themselves, wasn't that decision made a bit too fast?

When school was almost over, Su Cheng returned. He had been sent back by Instructor Liu.

As soon as he came back, he announced with a smile, "I've donated the Thunder Rhinoceros Body Tempering Art to the clan academy. In exchange, I got the top-tier special-attribute Body Tempering Cultivation Technique from the clan academy — the Ice Jiao Body Tempering Art."

Instructor Liu also smiled and said: "Our class's Su Cheng here possesses a very powerful Ice Shaman Bloodline. Moreover, the Shaman Blood has already begun to awaken.

After the Shaman Blood awakens, his body will involuntarily attract ice-type spiritual energy.

The Thunder Rhinoceros Body Tempering Art he previously cultivated conflicted with his Ice Shaman Bloodline.

So his progress has always been slow.

This time I took him to get his bloodline issue examined. It confirmed our guess — there really is a strong conflict between his bloodline and his Cultivation Technique.

If Su Cheng continued cultivating the Thunder Rhinoceros Body Tempering Art, it would only waste his time and effort, squandering his talent.

Afterwards, the principal directly contacted Su Cheng's parents.

Su Cheng was permitted to turn in his family's Thunder Rhinoceros Body Tempering Art to the clan academy, in exchange for the special-attribute Body Tempering Cultivation Technique from the clan academy — the Ice Jiao Body Tempering Art.

You two usually cultivate together with Su Cheng, so the instructor is telling you. But don't casually tell others. After all, what Cultivation Technique Su Cheng cultivates is his own business."

Su Wuji and Su Jin understood Instructor Liu's meaning as soon as they heard it.

Telling you two is because we can't hide it from your eyes.

But don't go spreading it around. It wouldn't be great if every student in the class knew.

Su Jin and the others nodded repeatedly in agreement.

"Instructor Liu, Su Cheng has awakened the Ice Shaman Bloodline — does he need to transfer to the Water Class?" Su Jin asked. Su Jin thought to herself: with the Ice Shaman Bloodline, shouldn't he transfer to the Water Class?

Su Cheng immediately shook his head. He wasn't going.

He'd heard that the instructor of the Water Class made the students in his class chant embarrassing slogans every day, and every ten days, they'd pick the ten students with the slowest cultivation progress to stand in punishment for an entire class period of basic cultivation knowledge.

Compared to that instructor, his own Wood Class instructor, Instructor Liu, was like the gentlest little aunt.