Chapter 7: A Thousand Wisps of Magic Power Await You

"Xue Chiluo, are you still a Red Ginseng Seed?" Su Jin asked.

"What is a Red Ginseng Seed?" Xue Chiluo asked back.

"Then can you follow me and leave this place together?"

"Last time when Great-Great-Grandma left, I wanted to go out with you too. But it didn't work. The moment I tried to leave with you, I'd be blocked back, as if there was a layer of something on top of my head, not letting me out."

Su Jin felt depressed hearing this.

She thought it over, couldn't come up with anything, and decided to stop thinking about it.

Mother said, children shouldn't get too hung up on things they can't figure out; once they grow up, they'll naturally understand.

Leaving that little space, Su Jin suddenly noticed the difference between the two bodies.

When she was inside that little space, her body also felt solid to the touch.

But it was only solid.

After she came back, she felt that her body seemed to be able to clearly sense her internal organs and the flow of blood.

The two kinds of reality were utterly different.

Su Jin sighed inwardly, then began reviewing her lessons. After she finished reviewing, she opened the bottommost shelf of the bookcase, pulled out a small box from inside, took out a small key and opened the box, which was piled with a little less than half a box of spirit stones of various colors.

Su Jin put in the forty spirit stones she had earned today. When Father and Mother came back for the New Year, the spirit stones she had saved up could be handed over for them to use.

After putting away the spirit stones, before going to sleep, she began cultivating again.

Near the end of school, she barely managed to condense ten wisps of magic power, reaching Qi Refining Layer One. Su Wuji and Su Cheng both reached it earlier than her.

Su Wuji reached Qi Refining Layer One a full hour ahead of her.

Then he simply stopped cultivating and pulled out a copy of "Reflections on Early-Stage Qi Refining Cultivation" borrowed from the clan school's library to read.

Su Cheng followed suit. Breaking through to Qi Refining Layer One half an hour ahead of her, he too began flipping through a book. The one he was reading was "Comprehensive Guide to Basic Talismans."

Only she barely stepped into Qi Refining Layer One a quarter of an hour before Instructor Liu came over to call them.

The timing was really too tight.

She almost didn't get the reward.

She couldn't do it like this next time. Being too anxious about cultivating could easily lead to problems.

After cultivating one more wisp of magic power, Su Jin decided to go to sleep.

In her dream, her big grassland and big planet all came again.

Oh, and her Little Wu Tian was there too.

The next morning, she revived full of vitality again.

Su Jin got up briskly, folded her own quilt, then went to wash up.

Breakfast wasn't ready yet; she had woken early today, but this was intentional—she planned to cultivate for a while every early morning from now on.

Striving to save up one more wisp of magic power.

But the moment she restarted cultivating, she immediately panicked.

She ran straight to the outside of her big brother's room.

"Big Brother, Big Brother."

Su Jian came out wrapped in his clothes, yawning.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

"Big Brother, last night before bed, I cultivated out one more wisp of magic power. My dantian originally had a total of eleven wisps of magic power. But this morning when I planned to cultivate, I found that only ten and a half wisps of magic power were left in my dantian. How can magic power decrease like this?

What on earth is going on?" Su Jin asked in a panic-stricken, uneasy voice.

"If you wait until noon to cultivate, there might only be ten wisps left." Su Jian burst out laughing upon hearing this.

"Big Brother, I'm not joking with you." Su Jin grew anxious.

"Big Brother isn't joking with you either." Su Jian rubbed the little one's head. "This magic power is just like the spirit plants we grow. At first, when it just breaks through the soil, it's only a small seedling, but it will grow. Usually, as long as you water and fertilize it more, it grows.

Magic power is the same way.

You only need to condense ten wisps of magic power to break through Qi Refining Layer One.

But to break through Qi Refining Layer Two, you need a hundred wisps of magic power.

You might think that as long as you diligently cultivate every day, you can quickly cultivate out a hundred wisps of magic power."

"Shouldn't it be like that?" Su Jin asked, frowning.

"Then adults and children are both people, but can they be the same?" Su Jian asked back.

Su Jin: "..." thought to herself: This question is too profound, don't ask me.

"So can one wisp of magic power at Qi Refining Layer One be the same as one wisp at Qi Refining Layer Two?" Su Jian continued asking.

"Then they probably aren't the same, right?" Su Jin said doubtfully.

"Of course they're not the same. It's just like ten jujube tree seedlings and ten jujube trees—both called jujube trees, but they're different. The most obvious difference is that one can't bear jujubes, and the other can." Su Jian continued finding her an analogy.

Su Jin understood once she heard this.

"Big Brother, you mean that one wisp of my Qi Refining Layer One magic power needs to grow into one wisp of Qi Refining Layer Two magic power to be useful. In the future, I need to accumulate enough of this kind of magic power—a hundred wisps—to break through Layer Two.

The key to making one wisp of Qi Refining Layer One magic power grow into one wisp of Qi Refining Layer Two magic power is to feed it other magic power?"

Su Jian immediately smiled. "Exactly. For Qi Refining Layer One magic power, if you want to help it grow into Qi Refining Layer Two magic power, you have to keep feeding it. So Qi Refining Layer Two isn't that easy to break through—take your time refining."

The little one was probably still fantasizing about cultivating for ten-odd days and reaching Qi Refining Layer Two?!

Hahaha.

Su Jin was stunned.

"Then how many wisps of Qi Refining Layer One magic power does it take to feed out one wisp of Qi Refining Layer Two magic power?"

"At least ten wisps." Su Jian said.

Su Jin: "..."

"In other words, if you want to break through to the second layer of Qi Refining, you need at least a thousand wisps of magic power from the first layer of Qi Refining. So at this stage, you must arrange your cultivation time well. Don't be restless and impatient—if you accidentally stab and rupture your meridians, you'll be done for. Just recuperating your meridians would take ten-odd days, and during that recovery period, not only can you not cultivate, you'll also have to spend money to buy expensive pills to repair your meridians.

Most importantly, your cultivation progress will also fall far behind the other companion students.

It would simply be more loss than gain."

The moment Su Jin heard about spending spirit stones to buy expensive pills, she immediately gave a start.

This kind of thing where she hurt herself was absolutely not to be done.

"Big Brother, don't worry, I definitely won't let myself get hurt."

"Mm, Big Brother believes you. Alright, since it's still early, go cultivate. A thousand wisps of magic power are waiting for you."

Su Jin: I want to cry.

That morning, Su Jian sent Su Jin to school, and took the opportunity to pick up her medicinal bath packet for her.

The moment they arrived at the clan school, Liu Shi assigned Su Jian to another medicine-dispensing instructor in charge of distributing the packets. The medicine-dispensing instructor's office was arranged not far from the clan school's main gate.

This also made it convenient for the parents to pick up the medicine.

After Su Jian went over with the person and brought back the packet, he called Liu Shi out again.

They were out for quite a while before coming back.

However, only Liu Shi came back.

By this time, at the schoolhouse entrance, several parents who had only rushed over with their children after Liu Shi left were already getting anxious from waiting.