[{"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-7":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},2313901,4525,"Chapter 7","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-7",7,"\u003Cp>“Xue Chiluo, are you still a red ginseng seed?” Su Jin asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s a red ginseng seed?” Xue Chiluo replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can you come with me and leave this place?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When Grandmother left last time, I wanted to go out with you. But I couldn’t—I felt blocked every time I tried, like something above my head stopped me from leaving.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin felt frustrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought about it, but couldn’t figure anything out, so she decided not to think about it anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mother said, children shouldn’t obsess over things they can’t understand—they’ll naturally figure them out when they grow up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving that small space, Su Jin suddenly noticed the difference between her two bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she was inside that small space, her body felt solid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was only solid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning, she could clearly feel her internal organs and the flow of her blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two kinds of reality were utterly different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin sighed inwardly, then began reviewing her lessons. After finishing, she opened the bottom shelf of the bookcase, pulled out a small box, unlocked it with a small key, and found half a box of spirit stones of various colors inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin put her forty spirit stones earned today into the box. When her parents returned for the New Year, she could give them the spirit stones she had saved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After putting away the spirit stones, just before sleeping, she began cultivating again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just before dismissal, she barely managed to condense ten strands of magic power, reaching Qi Refining First Layer. Su Wuji and Su Cheng had both reached it earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Wuji had reached Qi Refining First Layer a full hour before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he stopped cultivating and pulled out a book borrowed from the clan’s library: “Notes on Early Qi Refining.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Cheng did the same—after breaking through half an hour before her, he too began reading, a book titled “Complete Guide to Basic Talismans.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She only broke through Qi Refining First Layer a moment before Teacher Liu arrived to call them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The timing was so tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She almost missed the reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next time, don’t do this. Rushing cultivation is dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After cultivating one more strand of magic power, Su Jin decided to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her dream, her vast grassland and giant planet returned again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, her little Wu Tian was there too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next morning, she revived, full of energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin got up quickly, folded her quilt herself, then went to wash up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breakfast wasn’t ready yet—she had woken up early on purpose, planning to cultivate every morning from now on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She aimed to gather one more strand of magic power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as soon as she restarted cultivation, she panicked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She ran straight to her older brother’s room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big brother, big brother.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jian came out, still in his robe, yawning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s wrong? What happened?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big brother, last night before sleeping, I cultivated another strand of magic power. My dantian originally had eleven strands. But this morning, when I tried to cultivate again, I found only ten and a half strands left—how can magic power decrease?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s going on?” Su Jin asked, anxious and uneasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you’d waited until noon to cultivate, you’d probably have only ten left,” Su Jian laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big brother, I’m not joking,” Su Jin snapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m not joking either,” Su Jian ruffled her head. “Magic power is like the spirit plants we grow—it starts as a tiny sprout right after breaking the soil, but it grows. If you water and fertilize it often, it grows bigger.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Magic power works the same way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You only need to condense ten strands to reach Qi Refining First Layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to reach Qi Refining Second Layer, you need a hundred strands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You might think that if you cultivate diligently every day, you can quickly gather a hundred strands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isn’t that how it should be?” Su Jin frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Adults and children are both human—but are they the same?” Su Jian countered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin: “...” Thought: This question is too deep—don’t ask me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So, can one strand of your Qi Refining First Layer magic power be the same as one strand of Qi Refining Second Layer magic power?” Su Jian continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It probably isn’t?” Su Jin hesitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course not. It’s like ten young jujube saplings and ten full-grown jujube trees—they’re both called jujube trees, but they’re different. The clearest difference? One can’t bear fruit, the other can.” Su Jian kept giving her analogies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You mean, my Qi Refining First Layer strand must grow into a Qi Refining Second Layer strand to be useful. To reach Second Layer, I need to accumulate enough of these grown strands—hundred in total.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And the key to growing a Qi Refining First Layer strand into a Qi Refining Second Layer strand is feeding it other strands of magic power?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jian immediately smiled. “Exactly. To help your Qi Refining First Layer magic power grow, you must keep feeding it. That’s why Qi Refining Second Layer is hard to break through—take it slow.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl probably still imagined she’d reach Qi Refining Second Layer in ten or so days?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahaha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then how many Qi Refining First Layer strands does it take to feed one Qi Refining Second Layer strand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At least ten,” Su Jian said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin: “...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That means, to break through Qi Refining Second Layer, you need at least a thousand strands of Qi Refining First Layer magic power. So you must manage your cultivation time carefully. Don’t be impatient—if you rupture or tear your meridians, you’re done. Just healing them takes ten days or more, and during that time, you can’t cultivate at all—you’ll have to spend spirit stones on expensive elixirs to repair your meridians.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, your progress will fall far behind the other students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s simply not worth it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing she’d have to spend spirit stones on expensive elixirs, Su Jin shuddered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She absolutely would not do anything to hurt herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big brother, don’t worry—I won’t let myself get injured.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm, I believe you. Good. Since it’s still early, go cultivate. A thousand strands of magic power are waiting for you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin: wanted to cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That morning, Su Jian took Su Jin to school and helped her collect her medicinal bath packets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they arrived at the clan school, Teacher Liu assigned Su Jian to another instructor who distributed the packets. The instructor’s office was near the school gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made it convenient for parents to collect the packets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jian went with the instructor, collected the packets, then called Teacher Liu outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were outside for a long time before returning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But only Teacher Liu came back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, several parents who had arrived after Teacher Liu left, each with their children, were already impatiently waiting at the school gate.\u003C\u002Fp>",1137,"2026-06-20T13:23:54.434Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","6e076713460fca0fe41f91780a9f36500360ad05a58bf67b34d4f0db1a1f4793","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-8","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-6",156,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-cover.jpg"]