Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Entering Clan School

The spirit-testing plate didn’t react as dramatically this time. After a moment, the areas marked for water, wood, and fire lit up in blue, green, and red-normal brightness.

Wei Yun Xi’s mouth fell open in surprise, and she was shaken as well. She hadn’t expected such a small silver ring to have this kind of effect. For someone who had spent over twenty years raised on strict materialism, it felt truly magical.

The Feng Family Head, however, was very pleased. Smiling, he explained, “Yun Xi, your top-grade spirit roots have been successfully concealed. Next time you test, you’ll be water, wood, and fire-three spirit roots, and each of the three will have a value of sixty. That’s around average to below average aptitude.”

Wei Yun Xi nodded blankly to show she remembered.

The Feng Family Head continued, “In a few days, you’ll turn five. After your birthday, the Wei Family will test spirit roots for all the children in the clan who have reached five. Before that, you still can’t cultivate. We can’t let your father know the Feng Family already tested your spirit roots.”

Wei Yun Xi nodded to show she understood. If she was going to act, she had to act all the way through, or it would be easy to slip up.

The Feng Family Head was satisfied with how obedient she was. Then he changed the subject. “Even though you can’t cultivate yet, while you’re living in the Feng Family, you can study with Feng Family children. You can practice some useful martial techniques, and you can also adjust your body and lay a foundation for cultivation later.”

Wei Yun Xi’s eyes lit up. “Uncle, can I really study with Cousin Brothers and Cousin Sisters?”

The Feng Family Head nodded. “Of course. Didn’t you attend clan school in the Wei Family?”

Wei Yun Xi thought for a moment, then shook her head. “Mother said the Wei Family’s clan school can’t teach anything. She only let me attend the beginner class. Everything else was taught by Mother.”

The novel had mentioned this. The supporting character’s mother looked down on the Wei Family’s style. She thought the Wei Family were cultivators driven only by profit, people who would never amount to much. She didn’t want her only daughter to be poisoned by them. After Wei Yun Xi picked up a few bad habits, Feng Jia Yun decisively kept her daughter in Zhuo Hua Courtyard and taught her personally.

Wei Yun Xi agreed with Feng Jia Yun’s approach. People were shaped by their surroundings, and children were especially easy to influence. Feng Jia Yun despised Wei Ling Yue, so of course she didn’t want her daughter raised into someone like him.

And Feng Jia Yun’s decision also saved Wei Yun Xi a lot of trouble. With less contact with the Wei Family’s cousins, they weren’t close. On top of losing her mother so suddenly, even if her personality changed drastically, it wouldn’t look too strange.

After all, she wasn’t a real five-year-old. And she never underestimated the sharpness of native cultivators. Many transmigrator heroines ended up failing because of their own arrogance, falling into a pit they never saw.

After hearing Wei Yun Xi’s explanation, the Feng Family Head pressed his lips together. He could understand why his sister had done that. He rubbed Yun Xi’s little bun hairstyle and said, “Your mother did it for your sake. But the Feng Family’s clan school hires excellent teachers. You’ll learn many new things, and you’ll meet many new friends. I think you’ll like it.”

Wei Yun Xi clapped happily. “That’s great! I can make new friends!”

The Feng Family Head smiled. He felt Yun Xi finally looked like a child again, full of innocent delight.

That afternoon, the Feng Family Head had a steward deliver Wei Yun Xi a set of training clothes and a bottle of “Body-Tempering Pills.” The Feng Family’s alchemist refined them personally, and they were only supplied to Feng Family descendants. In other words, they were internal pills. Their purpose was to build a foundation for children before they began cultivating.

Speaking of this pill, it was impossible not to mention the Feng Family. The reason the Feng Family could hold a place in Kun Yu City was their alchemy. They had forced their way into producing a Golden Core cultivator, Feng Feng, by piling up pills. He became the family’s backbone. At the same time, the family also supported several Rank 1 to Rank 3 alchemists. That was the Feng Family’s true capital.

In the Cultivation World, no cultivator dared to claim they never needed pills. So the Feng Family’s existence was necessary for Kun Yu City’s development. And the reason the Wei Family was willing to marry into the Feng Family was because they wanted the Feng Family’s alchemy.

But Feng Jia Yun was smart enough. She knew there was no love between her and Wei Ling Yue, only a transaction. After becoming Wei Ling Yue’s cultivation partner, she was willing to refine pills for the Wei Family, and she wasn’t stingy about guiding the Wei Family’s juniors in alchemy. But she never taught the Wei Family the truly core methods.

That was also why Wei Ling Yue gradually neglected Feng Jia Yun after Yun Xi was born and the two families gained a bond to maintain their relationship.

Because the Wei Family hadn’t achieved its intended goal, yet they couldn’t do anything to Feng Jia Yun. They still had to support her well as a mid-tier Rank 2 alchemist. Wei Ling Yue felt stifled, so he brought in Du Ruo Lan to disgust Feng Jia Yun.

Unfortunately for him, Feng Jia Yun didn’t care about Wei Ling Yue at all. It was like punching cotton. The only thing he could do was vent his resentment onto Yun Xi, a five-year-old child. He deliberately favored his older daughter and ignored the younger one, turning the father-daughter relationship awkward and twisted.

And once Feng Jia Yun’s soul lamp in the Wei Family went out, Wei Ling Yue felt relieved instead. He could finally stand his beloved woman at his side in the open, so he couldn’t wait to make Du Ruo Lan Madam Wei.

Once Du Ruo Lan became Madam Wei, Wei Yun Qing would become the legitimate daughter. It was a recognition of status, a way to elevate the female lead’s standing.

Wei Yun Xi only inferred all these twists and turns later, after returning to the Wei Family, by watching how the Wei Family treated Du Ruo Lan, Wei Yun Qing, and herself. For now, she was still a cultivation newbie, preparing what she needed for the next day’s clan school.

The Feng Family’s clan school had children from five to ten. Any child with spirit roots came to study there. It was divided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced classes based on study and cultivation progress. Wei Yun Xi was placed in the beginner class.

On her first day at clan school, Wei Yun Xi stared up at the sky at a sorrowful forty-five-degree angle, lamenting that she had spent twenty years in school as a graduate student, only to fall back to the starting line in one swoop. Now it was kindergarten baby class all over again, a bright kind of sadness.

But once she actually sat down in the beginner classroom, she realized the things taught here were nothing like what she learned in a normal preschool class. As the teacher spoke, she gained a rough understanding of the Vast Cosmos Realm.

The the Vast Cosmos Realm was divided into the East, South, West, North, and Central Five Domains. Kun Yu City was a small city in the western region. Cultivation resources here were limited, so the strongest cultivators rarely exceeded the Nascent Soul Stage. Anyone who reached the Nascent Soul Stage could practically walk sideways across the western region.

The opposite was the central region. Cultivation resources there were the richest. Sects and great families stood everywhere. The highest cultivation could reach the Divine Transformation Stage. After that, one had to go through a Minor Ascension to enter the Lofty Spirit Realm.

That was the Upper Realm of the Vast Cosmos Realm. The spiritual energy there allowed cultivators to train from the Out-of-Body Stage all the way to Tribulation Transcendence and ascend to the Immortal Realm.

But Minor Ascension was not easy. Besides talent, a cultivator needed resources to support them. Otherwise, it was nothing but empty talk. That was why small clans chose to rely on great clans, and why cultivation families and sects were tied together in countless ways.

As Wei Yun Xi listened, she drew a rough map of the Vast Cosmos Realm’s regions inside her mind.