Chapter 63

“You mean Master Liu went to the First and Second Classrooms again to ask who wants to test for Witch bloodline? And fourteen students from those two classrooms signed up? That’s terrifying!” Su Jin immediately gave Su Yunhu a thumbs-up.

Awesome, super awesome.

“Our whole class only has twenty-five students, and sixteen of them are descendants of Witch bloodline?” Su Jin thought to herself—was this ratio too high?

“But three of them were later found not to have Witch bloodline,” Su Yunhu said.

“So out of twenty-five students, thirteen are descendants of Witch bloodline. That’s still half the class!” Su Jin added.

“Wait, you said thirteen? But from what I know, only eleven Witch bloodline descendants were detected in total,” Su Yunhu said.

“What about me and Su Cheng?” Su Jin smiled.

“Wait, so the one Master Liu mentioned…” Su Yunhu blinked, then hurriedly asked.

“Don’t ask. Even if you ask, I won’t tell you,” Su Cheng said with a grin.

Su Yunhu was speechless.

“If our class has so many Witch bloodline descendants, do other classes have the same? Will all future generations of our Su clan have Witch bloodline?” Su Wuji speculated.

“Hard to say,” Su Yunhu replied. “But our Su clan has been marrying into Witch tribes more frequently. Last year, one of my cousins married a new bride from the Wood Witch tribe. This year, one of my female cousins is getting married into them.”

“My father says that before, the Wood Witch tribe would only marry into our clan once every three or five years. Now they do it almost every year.”

Su Wuji, Su Jin, and Su Cheng all stared in shock.

“My mother is from the Wood Witch tribe—I never expected they’d be marrying into our Su family so often and so closely,” Su Jin quickly said.

“Our Su clan also marries tightly with other Witch tribes. From what I recall, in the past ten years alone, nine brides from the Ice Witch tribe have come into our neighborhood, and eight Su clan daughters have been married out,” Su Cheng recalled, offering a new figure.

“I think in the future, every child in our Su clan will be a Witch bloodline descendant,” Su Wuji muttered bitterly.

He himself had decent talent, but no Witch bloodline. Cough, cough—if he had Witch bloodline too… actually, it wouldn’t be that big a deal?!!

Su Wuji thought: Even without Witch bloodline, I can still dominate the whole class.

But he glanced back at Su Jin and Su Cheng.

His sense of crisis surged again. No—he had to train harder. Otherwise, if those two surpassed him, how could he possibly dominate the whole class?

While they discussed Witch bloodline, other students in the class were also whispering in small groups.

Soon, Master Liu walked in.

She stood on the podium, her expression cold: “Yesterday, I took some of our students to test for Witch bloodline. Some were confirmed to have it; others were not.”

“If any of you still have doubts about whether you possess Witch bloodline, after class, you may privately request me to retest you.”

“Students with Witch bloodline—you have tremendous potential.”

“In the future, your Witch bloodline will help you walk farther and more steadily on the path to immortality.”

“But students without Witch bloodline need not overly dwell on whether you have it or not.”

“Our Su Clan Academy offers many special resources open to you.”

“For example—the Beast Blood Purification Pool.”

“This is a special facility in the academy, designed specifically for students without Witch bloodline to accelerate their body refinement.”

“This Beast Blood Purification Pool is precisely what students with Witch bloodline cannot enjoy.”

“Because while it aids cultivation, it also washes away their Witch bloodline.”

“That wouldn’t be cultivation—it would be a tragedy.”

As soon as she finished, a dozen quiet snickers broke out across the classroom.

Well, although everyone said Witch bloodline descendants were powerful, they couldn’t access certain special cultivation facilities.

Indeed, the path to immortality must be judged by long-term gains, not short-term advantages.

Thus, students without Witch bloodline felt their balance restored.

“However, next month’s Beast Blood Purification Pool will open with only twenty slots for first-year students—extremely limited. Who gets in and who doesn’t will be decided holistically. I can only say: if you want to enter and cleanse yourself, the key is to train your body refinement technique diligently.”

“Students whose body refinement technique is nearing breakthrough to Level One, or who have already broken through Level One, will be prioritized.”

Master Liu didn’t want to bring this up now.

But the principal said that if the Witch bloodline detection rumors spread too wildly among first-year students, it would be extremely detrimental to Su Cheng in her class.

Because if students grew too curious, they’d eventually dig him out.

The awakening of a Su clan student’s Witch bloodline was something the Su clan’s enemies absolutely could not accept.

Then Su Cheng would face wave after wave of assassinations.

So it was better to reveal the Beast Blood Purification Pool early and divert the students’ attention.

Let all students believe that even without Witch bloodline, they still have other support from the academy.

In truth, most of the Beast Blood Purification Pool’s slots had already been reserved for the Martial Class’s young geniuses—it was the key to rapidly reversing their innate nature.

Whether they could break through from Postnatal Martial Path to Primordial Martial Path depended entirely on the Beast Blood Purification Pool.

So the number of slots truly available for other classes would certainly not exceed five.

But Master Liu noticed the entire class had suddenly become unusually lively.

Whether they had Witch bloodline or not, all students were different from when she first entered the classroom.

When she first walked in, she’d noticed students with Witch bloodline clustering together, and those without doing the same—though not openly hostile.

But the division was clearly visible.

Now, their glances toward each other had grown calm.

After all, you have Witch bloodline—we have the academy’s special cultivation facilities.

So now, everyone was even.

“Alright, you may continue discussing the Beast Blood Purification Pool after class. Now, let’s begin,” Master Liu opened her book and started teaching new cultivation knowledge.

Since this was the only subject in the first year, you had to learn it—even if you didn’t want to. Fail the exam, and you’d be expelled.

So all students studied with intense focus, none daring to slack off.