Chapter 94: Borrowed Blood Xue Chiluo

Soon, Liu Shi walked in.

"Today, all the students from our class who went to the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool have returned safely. This is a great thing.

After the tempering of the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool, some students' Body Tempering cultivation will improve greatly, but you must guard against pride and impatience, cultivate steadily and properly, and strive to break through to the third layer of Qi Refining as soon as possible.

The other students who haven't been to the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool must also work hard.

The clan school lasts six years in total.

If you didn't get in this year, you still have five chances in the future.

As long as you meet the conditions, everyone can strive for it."

Hearing this, many students were stunned.

Someone immediately raised a hand. At Liu Shi's signal, they stood up and asked: "Liu Shi, doesn't the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool select people based on Body Tempering talent and cultivation? Those students who have already been to the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool, their Body Tempering cultivation will keep getting higher and higher.

What will we use to compete with them in the future?

If we can't win every time, what's the point of striving?"

Liu Shi laughed upon hearing his words: "The Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool selects the top twenty Body Tempering students every year. But the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool is only useful for students below the seventh layer of Body Tempering. Originally, our entire first-year cohort doesn't have as many students with Wu Clan bloodlines as the other grades.

There are probably only eighty or ninety of them.

Among these people, thirty are from the Martial Class.

Judging from the performance of those little fellows in the Martial Class this year. They'll need at most three or four years, and the entire Martial Class won't need to enter the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool anymore.

So as long as you work hard and train diligently, Liu Shi estimates that most of you will likely have a chance to enter the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool for tempering."

Liu Shi then said slowly: "But those who don't work hard shouldn't even think about it. Even if our clan school is short on people, we can still gather twenty hardworking Body Tempering students."

Her words, as expected, invigorated the other students.

So there really is a chance.

The difference lies in whether you enter the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool earlier or later. This gave hope to the students who were determined to work hard on Body Tempering. Everyone was very excited.

Yang Guan looked coldly at the excited students around him, calculating silently in his heart. After one trip to the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool, his Body Tempering cultivation had risen to the third layer. Going once or twice more, supplemented by some small tricks, he felt that breaking through to the seventh layer of Body Tempering was only a matter of time.

Calculated this way, in the last three years of clan school, this Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool would be useless.

He remembered his father saying that the Su clan school had several kinds of resources, and once they were opened up, they would greatly benefit many students.

So besides the Beast Blood Vein-Washing Pool, what else is there?

"Alright, stop discussing, all of you quiet down now, let's continue the lesson."

Liu Shi stopped the students' heated discussion and began the lesson.

After class, Su Jin and the others moved on to the Third Academy.

This time, when Su Jin was cultivating the Entangling Technique, it was as if aided by the gods, and she directly manipulated the third gourd vine whip.

Three vine whips like green snakes—when controlling them to lash out, she could absolutely achieve the effect of one against three.

Su Wuji, Su Cheng, and the others watched, and their expressions immediately changed.

Su Jin's progress in spells was too fast. One more vine, and she would cultivate the Entangling Technique to Minor Accomplishment.

During the afternoon's cultivation, Su Jin herself could feel that her Spirit Refining progress was almost skyrocketing, which in turn made the cultivation of her other two Cultivation Techniques faster and faster.

Especially regarding her weak Body Tempering cultivation, Su Jin was paying more and more attention to Body Tempering cultivation. After all, only Body Tempering was still stuck at the first layer. So Su Jin could also clearly feel that the speed at which her Body Tempering Cultivation Technique was improving was not slow at all.

At the latest by tomorrow or the day after, she might break through to the second layer of Body Tempering.

Just as Su Jin was cultivating hard, Su Huchen blocked Su Jian again.

Su Jian had been assigned to the Su clan family's Miscellaneous Affairs Hall Storehouse to help out.

In plain terms, he was a new storekeeper.

Responsible for recording and inventorying the resources coming in and out of a large miscellaneous goods warehouse.

Although many people came to pick up and deliver resources at this large warehouse every day, the various resources were rather messy and not worth much.

But the resources entering and leaving this large warehouse were basically concentrated in certain time periods. At other times, Su Jian was quite leisurely.

It was just that during his shift, he couldn't leave or wander around at will.

However, when he was alone in the small room at the warehouse gate with no one around, he was quite at ease.

But why did Su Huchen come looking for him?

"Why are you here?"

"Naturally to find you."

Su Jian looked at him in confusion.

Su Huchen directly set up a soundproofing barrier in the room. "Does your family keep a Blood Xue Chiluo?"

Su Jian said in shock: "How did you know?"

"Back then at the forest farm outside the city, it was your family's Blood Xue Chiluo that ate those ten-plus little monsters, right?" Su Huchen's tone was extremely resentful.

Cough cough cough, Su Jian was caught red-handed, so embarrassed he wished he could dig out a one-bedroom one-living-room apartment with his toes on the ground.

"You deceived me!"

"I didn't."

"You did. You clearly knew it was your family's Blood Xue Chiluo that ate them, yet you let me guess this and guess that." Su Huchen's tone was comparable to a resentful wife.

Su Jian was speechless. "That Blood Xue Chiluo wasn't raised by me either, so it wasn't easy for me to tell you."

"Then you still deceived my feelings. I don't care, if you don't treat me to three big meals, this matter won't be let go."

Su Jian: So you were putting on an act for me. You just had to extort a few meals out of me?

He immediately rolled his eyes.

"Just say it. You snuck away from people to come find me, what exactly do you want?"

"Cough cough, you caught me." Su Huchen laughed awkwardly.

"Spit it out. We grew up together, who doesn't know who." Su Jian complained irritably.

"I'd like to borrow that Blood-Xue Chiluo at your place to look for something," Su Huchen said.

"A worm nest?" Su Jian reacted immediately.

"You also think your family's little Blood-Xue Chiluo can find a worm nest?" Su Huchen asked in pleasant surprise.

"It likes eating worms more than anything in its life — how could it possibly not find a worm nest?" Su Jian said. "But this matter, I can't give you an answer right away. I have to go back and discuss it with my great-granduncle and Su Jin. And you have to promise to take it away safely and bring it back safely."

"That goes without saying. Even if we can't find the worm nest, I'll still protect the Blood-Xue Chiluo and bring it back safe and sound.

I heard from Xu Chengzhu that Blood-Xue Chiluo and worms are natural enemies. A grown Blood-Xue Chiluo can take on a starry-sky worm nest all on its own.

But when it's too small, it can also easily be killed by the mother worm and the worm nest.

If a mother worm has ever devoured a Blood-Xue Chiluo, then once it grows up, it will become a great enemy of the human race."

Su Huchen looked at him with an expression that said, "You think I'm an idiot?"

"Oh right, your family keeps a Blood-Xue Chiluo at home — any thoughts on that?"

"None. If I had to say something, it's that from now on I won't have to catch bugs myself for the spirit fields in the back courtyard."

"What does a Blood-Xue Chiluo look like?" Su Huchen asked curiously again.

Su Jian simply took out an extra portrait he had drawn of the Blood-Xue Chiluo and opened it for his good friend to see.

"This is the portrait of the Blood-Xue Chiluo I drew for my great-granduncle. I made an extra copy at the time and kept it with me."