Entering the Clan School

This time, the Spirit Testing Plate's reaction was not nearly as dramatic. A moment later, blue, green, and red light lit up in the areas marked water, wood, and fire—at an ordinary brightness.

Wei Yunxi's little mouth fell open in surprise, and she was deeply shaken. She had never expected a tiny Silver Ring to have such an effect. For someone who had received over twenty years of materialist education, it was truly miraculous.

Patriarch Feng, however, was very satisfied with the result. Smiling, he explained,

"Yunxi, your supreme-grade Spiritual Root has been successfully concealed. The next time your Spiritual Roots are tested, you will have water, wood, and fire Spiritual Roots. The Root Values of all three will be sixty, which counts as slightly below average aptitude."

Wei Yunxi nodded blankly, indicating that she remembered.

Patriarch Feng continued,

"In a few days, you will turn five. After your birthday, the Wei Family will test the Spiritual Roots of all children in the family who have reached the age of five. Before then, you must not cultivate for the time being, nor can you let your father know that the Feng Family has tested your Spiritual Roots."

Wei Yunxi nodded to show that she understood. Since she was putting on an act, she had to see it through to the end; otherwise, it would be all too easy to give herself away.

Patriarch Feng was pleased with Yunxi's obedience. Changing the subject, he said,

"Although you cannot cultivate for now, during your stay with the Feng Family, you can study alongside the Feng children, practice some useful martial techniques, and condition your body. That will lay a solid foundation for your future cultivation."

Wei Yunxi's eyes lit up. "Uncle, can I really study with my cousins?"

Patriarch Feng nodded. "Of course. Didn't you attend the Clan School in the Wei Family?"

Wei Yunxi thought for a moment, then shook her head. "Mother said the Wei Family's Clan School could not teach me anything worthwhile. She only let me attend the Enlightenment Class, and she taught me everything else herself."

This had been mentioned in the novel. The main reason was that the female supporting character's mother despised the Wei Family's household values. She believed the Wei Family members were cultivators who chased profit above all else and would never achieve anything great. Not wanting her only daughter to be corrupted, she decisively kept her daughter in Zhuohua Courtyard and taught her herself after Wei Yunxi had picked up a few bad habits.

Wei Yunxi actually agreed with Feng Jiayun's approach. Those who lived near vermilion turned red, while those who lived near ink turned black. Children in particular were easily influenced by their surroundings. Since Feng Jiayun looked down on Wei Lingyue, she naturally did not want to raise her daughter into someone like him.

Moreover, Feng Jiayun's decision saved Wei Yunxi a great deal of trouble. She had little contact with the Wei Family's cousins and was not particularly familiar with them. Coupled with the sudden loss of her mother, even if her personality changed drastically, it would not seem overly abrupt.

After all, she was not truly a five-year-old child. Nor would she ever underestimate the perceptiveness of native cultivators. Many transmigrated women had capsized in a gutter because of their own arrogance.

After hearing Wei Yunxi's explanation, Patriarch Feng pursed his lips. He could understand why his younger sister had done this. Stroking Yunxi's twin hair buns, he said,

"Your mother did it for your own good as well. But the Feng family academy has hired very capable teachers. You can learn many new things there and meet many new companions. I'm sure you'll like it."

Wei Yunxi clapped happily. "That's wonderful! I can make new friends!"

Patriarch Feng smiled, feeling that Yunxi had finally shown the innocence a child should have.

That afternoon, Patriarch Feng arranged for the Steward to deliver Wei Yunxi a set of training clothes and a bottle of Body Tempering Pills. These were personally refined by the Feng Family's alchemists and were supplied exclusively to Feng descendants. To put it plainly, they were internal-use pills meant to lay a foundation for children's cultivation.

Speaking of these pills, the Feng Family had to be mentioned. The reason the Feng Family held a place in Kunyu City was their Alchemy. The Feng Family had forcefully piled pills upon pills to produce a Golden Core cultivator, Feng Feng, who became the family's pillar. At the same time, the family supported several first- to third-grade alchemists. They were the Feng Family's capital.

In the Cultivation Realm, no cultivator could shamelessly claim that they did not need pills. Therefore, the Feng Family's presence was essential to Kunyu City's development. The reason the Wei Family had been willing to form a marriage alliance with the Feng Family was also because they had set their sights on the Feng Family's Alchemy.

Feng Jiayun, however, was clever enough to understand that there was no affection between herself and Wei Lingyue, only a transaction. After becoming Dao Companions with Wei Lingyue, she had been willing to refine pills for the Wei Family and had not been stingy in teaching the Wei Family's younger generation Alchemy. But she had never taught the Wei family members the truly core knowledge.

This was also why Wei Lingyue gradually neglected Feng Jiayun after she gave birth to Yunxi, creating a bond that tied the two families together.

The Wei Family had failed to achieve its intended goal, yet it could not do anything to Feng Jiayun. It still had to properly support her, a mid-level second-grade alchemist. Wei Lingyue felt stifled, which was why he brought in Du Ruolan to disgust Feng Jiayun.

Unfortunately, Feng Jiayun did not care about Wei Lingyue in the slightest. It was like punching cotton—he could only vent his resentment on Yunxi, a five-year-old child. He deliberately favored his elder daughter while neglecting his younger daughter, making the father-daughter relationship extremely awkward.

When Feng Jiayun's soul lamp in the Wei Family went out, Wei Lingyue was instead relieved. He could finally openly place the woman he liked at his side, which was why he could not wait to make Du Ruolan Madam Wei.

And once Du Ruolan became Madam Wei, Wei Yunqing would become the legitimate daughter. It was an acknowledgment of status, and it also raised the female lead's standing.

Wei Yunxi had inferred all these twists and turns after returning to the Wei Family, based on how the Wei family members treated Du Ruolan, Wei Yunqing, and herself. At present, she was still a novice cultivator, preparing the things she would need for her first day at the Feng family academy the next day.

The Feng family academy was filled with children between the ages of five and ten. As long as they possessed Spiritual Roots, they would attend classes here. There were Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Classes, with students assigned according to their learning and cultivation progress. Wei Yunxi was placed in the Beginner Class.

On her first day at the Clan School, Wei Yunxi sadly gazed at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, lamenting how she, a graduate student who had spent twenty years in school, had returned to the days before liberation overnight. Off she went to the kindergarten junior class—what a bright and beautiful sorrow.

But once she actually sat in the Clan School's junior class, she realized that what was taught here was entirely different from what she had learned in kindergarten. As the teacher lectured, she gained a general understanding of the entire Weiyu Realm.

The Weiyu Realm was divided into the Five Regions: east, south, west, north, and central. Kunyu City was a small city in the Western Region. Cultivation resources here were limited, so the highest cultivation level did not exceed the Nascent Soul Realm. Anyone whose strength reached the Nascent Soul Realm could practically swagger sideways through the Western Region.

The opposite was true of the Central Region. Its cultivation resources were the most abundant, with sects and Cultivation Families standing thick as forest trees. The highest cultivation level could reach the Spirit Transformation Realm. After that, one had to undergo a Minor Ascension before traveling to the Weiling Realm, the upper realm of the Weiyu Realm. The spiritual energy there could support cultivators from the Void-Traversal Realm all the way to undergoing tribulation and Ascending to the Immortal Realm.

However, Minor Ascension was not an easy matter. Beyond one's own aptitude, it also required the support of resources; otherwise, it was nothing but empty words. This was why small families chose to depend on great families, and why Cultivation Families had countless tangled connections with sects.

As she listened, Wei Yunxi drew a regional map of the Weiyu Realm in her mind.

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