[{"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-9":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},2313903,4525,"Chapter 9","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-9",9,"\u003Cp>The little girl burst into tears, her sobs coming in steady drips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What good does crying do? Will crying make you immortal?” Liu Shi’s tone was unusually sharp. “Remember this lesson: never force your cultivation. If you feel your meridians swelling and aching, that means they’re already at their limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stop cultivating immediately. Wait until your meridians heal naturally before you resume. Do you understand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl nodded seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, go to class,” Liu Shi dismissed her, then turned to her parent. “Here’s this wooden token. Take it and collect her medicinal bath packet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But didn’t she force her cultivation?” the female cultivator said timidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what if she forced it? She still completed her cultivation task within the allotted time. Completion earns reward. That’s the clan school’s rule. Go get her packet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The parent nodded quickly. “Yes, yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi quickly dispatched all the parents who had been blocking the classroom entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although more parents arrived later with their children, they came individually, so Liu Shi swiftly handled them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as class was about to begin, one parent rushed in, whispering something to Liu Shi, whose expression darkened. The parent whispered at length, and finally Liu Shi reluctantly agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Liu Shi agree, the parent sighed in relief and headed straight into the depths of the classroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the parent left, Liu Shi returned to the classroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Among our students, there is a girl named Su Xuan who must take a year’s leave due to illness. She will rejoin next year’s Wood Class.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Liu, what illness does she have?” Su Wuji suddenly asked. “Is she not showing up today because she failed to cultivate her first strand of magic power yesterday and is too ashamed? Is faking illness and taking a year off because she can’t face us?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi stared at him in silence: You’re barely a child, yet your tongue is this sharp—do your parents know?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Her parent says she’s ill.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh oh, I get it,” Su Wuji said at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi: You get a hammer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough about Su Xuan. Her parent has already handled her leave. If you want to see her, you’ll have to wait a year. Besides, she’ll be a year behind you, and the school’s far away—you won’t run into her normally.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi’s words were clearly meant for Su Wuji alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Starting today, the Basics of Cultivation class will be held every morning. In the afternoon, it’s your personal cultivation time, and I’ll provide guidance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll remain here to instruct those students who haven’t yet cultivated their first strand of magic power, and those who have but haven’t broken through to Qi Refining Level One. Students who’ve broken through to Qi Refining Level One may go to the adjacent spare classroom to cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You may also go to the clan school’s scripture library and pick books that interest you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for selecting books, attending class, or cultivating inside the school, you are not permitted to leave the premises at will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do you all understand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We understand,” everyone chorused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Basics of Cultivation textbook contained vast knowledge—its thickness alone was at least a finger’s width.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For children like Su Jin and the others, mastering its contents and surviving the assessments would be a daunting task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The morning passed swiftly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the afternoon, Su Jin went to the clan school’s scripture library and selected two books on cultivation cultivation, then returned to the spare classroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She planned to read more during her breaks from cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Su Jin, how many strands of magic power have you cultivated?” Su Wuji asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ten.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t you cultivate after going home last night?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I did, but the one strand I painstakingly cultivated yesterday got consumed by the other ten. So I’ll have to start over again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Consumed? Why would it be consumed?” Su Wuji asked urgently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You don’t know?” Su Jin glanced at him in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s so strange about that? I really don’t know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t you ask your family?” Su Jin asked curiously. “Ask them—they’d tell you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We have instructors at school. I can just ask them about cultivation.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then go ask your instructor.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey hey hey, we’re all from the same clan. Since you know, why not just tell me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin stared at him in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she repeated what her older brother Su Jian had explained to her that morning, relaying it to Su Wuji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only Su Wuji, but even Su Cheng had been quietly listening, ears perked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And both of them understood after hearing it just once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So that’s how it is—we must first nurture the Qi Refining Level One magic power until it matures into Level Two before we can break through?” Su Wuji said, surprised. He thought no wonder his grandfather told him not to rush, to cultivate slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d originally thought his grandfather simply didn’t recognize his exceptional talent. Now he realized breaking from Qi Refining Level One to Level Two wasn’t easy at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I said last night before sleeping I’d cultivated my thirteenth strand, but this morning I checked and it was down to eleven,” Su Cheng said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So you were listening too? Didn’t you ask your family?” Su Jin asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My parents and grandparents are all on sect missions. Only a distant aunt is left to look after me,” Su Cheng said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My parents are on missions too. Only my older brother is left to care for me,” Su Jin said, instantly feeling a kinship with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My parents died in battle. I’ve lived with my grandfather since childhood, but recently he’s left on a mission too. Now only servants look after me. Asking them about cultivation is useless—I’d rather ask Master Liu at school,” Su Wuji added his own situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well then, they were all left-behind children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Man, we’re all so miserable,” Su Jin sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My grandfather says, unless a sect cultivator is dead or mortally wounded, most of their time is spent either on missions or traveling to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only by completing missions can they acquire more resources to advance further on the Dao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with children, they simply don’t have the energy to care for them. So we must learn to adapt to this life from childhood,” Su Wuji said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t want to adapt at all,” Su Jin said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Me neither,” Su Cheng complained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Wuji smiled at them. “I feel the same.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, how many more days do you think until our fourth companion arrives?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With only the three of them in the entire school, it was awfully quiet and dull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I think today. After all, three of us reached Qi Refining Level One yesterday. How could today not bring more?” Su Jin said.\u003C\u002Fp>",1119,"2026-06-20T13:23:54.434Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","41fa3568ac684ff1598f3d400eaa77fb8b71ae6497fbd370055a710eef9cb680","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-10","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-8",156,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-cover.jpg"]