[{"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-73":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},2313967,4525,"Chapter 73","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-73",73,"\u003Cp>“I’ll go back and take a look later—if buying cultivation techniques from the clan’s library is cheaper, I won’t buy them from those shops outside anymore,” Su Jian said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, yes, yes! When that time comes, Su Jian, call me to go with you,” Su Yu immediately beamed. He wanted to go see for himself, but felt a bit afraid going alone. If he went with Su Jian as a group, he’d have more courage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big brother, where are we going? When can we stop so I can practice extracting wood essence?” Su Jin asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Almost there, almost there. Once we reach that little stream ahead, we can stop. There’s a grass pavilion there—perfect for a picnic,” Su Jian said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin: So we’re out for a picnic?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The grass shrimp and river clams in that stream are delicious. Really,” Su Jian told Su Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, let’s go there then.” Su Jin, swayed by her brother’s strong recommendation, grew interested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hadn’t walked long—only about five or six li—when they spotted a small stream, calf-deep and more than a zhang wide, gently flowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They walked another five or six hundred meters upstream and saw a small grass pavilion. The base was built of stone, but the roof was thatched with straw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pavilion looked humble, but inside it was spacious and clean, ideal for resting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiao Jin, today we’ll extract wood essence near here. No need to go far,” Su Jian said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright. I’ll go practice my spell by the ancient tree outside the pavilion.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiao Jin, don’t wander off,” Su Jian added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Relax, relax,” Su Jin left the pavilion, while Su Jian and the others took their tools—but instead of extracting wood essence, they went into the stream to catch shrimp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the three adults act like children, wading into the stream to catch shrimp, Su Jin sighed helplessly. She found an ancient tree and prepared to practice her spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had just raised her hands, the spell not yet begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Chiluo shot off instantly, vanishing into the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t go too far,” Su Jin sent a mental message to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Ancestress,” Xue Chiluo darted swiftly through the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was it planning to do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin never intended to constantly control Xue Chiluo, forbidding it everything. Since she’d brought it out, she let it play freely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Xue Chiluo gone, Su Jin steadied herself and began focusing intently on extracting wood essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For her first attempt, she failed. Halfway through the spell, her mind suddenly flustered and the flow broke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s fine, Su Jin comforted herself, and began the second attempt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, as she pushed to eighty percent, a strange rustling sound suddenly came from deep in the woods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin… broke again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin glared angrily at the direction of the sound. She saw nothing, so she could only start over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, she finally extracted her first strand of wood essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A half-foot-long strand, as thick as a baby’s finger, was drawn out and pulled by her spiritual sense into a large-bellied porcelain jar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that rustling sound came again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sounded like something crawling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Su Jin was truly angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sent a direct mental command to Xue Chiluo: “Clear away whatever’s making noise around me and disturbing my cultivation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t really expect Xue Chiluo to do anything substantial—just scare off the annoying things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Chiluo had already tunneled ten li away underground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But because of its special bond with Su Jin, no matter how far it went, it could clearly hear her mental call.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it instantly stopped its earth-digging, turned around, and tunneled back toward Su Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had already spotted something interesting—it wanted to go have a snack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now Ancestress needed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sigh. No choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could only finish Ancestress’s task first, then return for its snack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Chiluo turned back, returning in less than a dozen breaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It circled Su Jin, patrolling, and quickly spotted its target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a creature with a flat triangular head and a body like an unhatched tadpole, about half a palm’s length—similar in size to itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Chiluo crept closer quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thing smelled delicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It curled up beneath the leaves, seemingly watching Ancestress from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What audacity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How dare it covet its own Ancestress?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, Xue Chiluo tunneled into the soil near the creature’s tiny black tail, then sucked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The once-vibrant black tail instantly withered into a dried tadpole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its mother lost a offspring in that instant, unaware of who had done this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Chiluo shot out of the soil, leapt onto the dried tadpole, plunged its roots into it, and slurped—soon the entire dried husk was reduced to powder and fully absorbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a single speck remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After devouring one black tail, Xue Chiluo found the taste delightful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It began searching around Su Jin for more black tails.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two, four, six, eight…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more it ate, the more addicted it became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So delicious!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin sensed Xue Chiluo’s return. Ever since it came back, the rustling noises around her vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could finally focus fully on her spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One strand, two strands… within less than ten, the ancient tree began to wither, its leaves turning yellow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin quickly stopped drawing from it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She switched to the neighboring ancient tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In over an hour, she collected over a hundred strands of wood essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bountiful harvest indeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xiao Jin, come eat!” Su Jian called out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin hurried over, clutching the porcelain jar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Big brother, I collected a hundred strands of wood essence.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well done,” Su Jian praised himself. “Come on, let’s have a nice, pretty lunch first, then keep collecting wood essence this afternoon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin stared at him blankly. “You and the two uncles spent the whole morning catching shrimp and clams—you didn’t collect a single strand of wood essence.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You little girl, always worrying. Your uncles and I can collect wood essence far faster than you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You think we came here for nothing? Of course not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After lunch, we’ll just do a little work—we’ll gather enough for the next ten days,” Su Jian explained with a smile. In truth, they hadn’t gathered in a long time; they’d been too excited and spent half the morning catching grass shrimp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next time, they wouldn’t do that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wood essence is far more useful than elixirs, and Su Jian still uses it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since wood essence is easy to collect, it’s cheap, so Su Jian normally buys his from outside. He hadn’t personally collected wood essence in years.\u003C\u002Fp>",1091,"2026-06-20T13:23:54.434Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","13a71c0be5f8ffb1839ee9fdfdb1b7e0ec9c217e6a6ad59519d602e8f4d68414","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-74","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-72",156,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-cover.jpg"]