The first few general subjects required quite a bit of mental effort from Su Hao. After all, with a perfect score of 150, he was only at the 140+ level. "Why can't we bring our spirits to the exam?" After finishing the test paper, Su Hao rested his chin on his hand, pondering. In the spirit subject, spirit users and their spirits were considered a single entity. So, bringing a spirit along for the exam should be reasonable, right? That way, he could bring the Dream Butterfly into the exam hall and have it help him with the test. "Not to mention anything else, the Dream Butterfly has a pretty good memory. If I could bring it into the exam hall, I wouldn't have to study so miserably for all those rote-memorization knowledge points." Su Hao felt that the current rules for the spirit exam needed improvement. Once he became a天王-level spirit user in the future, he could propose reforms to the spirit exam. "Wait, if I'm already at the天王 level, why would I need reforms?" Su Hao fell into deep thought. A great goal was snuffed out. That wouldn't do. He spent three seconds coming up with a new goal. "I could make the spirit exam even harder—that's for the future flowers of our motherland." With his goal set, Su Hao earnestly completed the college entrance exam. Over three days, his routine was just taking exams, going home, taking exams, and going home again. The first few subjects still drained his mental energy. But when it came to the later subjects related to spirits, Su Hao found it easy. As soon as he saw the questions, the answers naturally surfaced in his mind. "If I were setting this question, I'd definitely swap out two spirits to make the difficulty just right." "A comprehensive essay question? Sigh... there's only room for five or six lines—too little. I feel like I could write a whole paper on this." Su Hao looked at the next question. "The spirit Thorn Turtle takes 0.8 seconds to condense an energy ball, which flies at 50 m/s. A Six-Winged Silk Moth is 110 meters away from it. After 0.5 seconds, it starts to unleash its ultimate move, 'Rice Grain Machine Gun.' Its execution time is... the rice grains' flight speed is... Question: Under this ultimate move, which spirit gets hurt first, and how severe is the injury?" He shook his head. Though it was a bit imprecise, he could only write: "Based on the two spirits in the picture, answer..." During the exam, Su Hao used half the time to fill the entire test paper. It was still his handwriting speed that wasn't fast enough. After finishing the test, he was very dissatisfied. Dissatisfied with the question setters. "How can such simple questions highlight my excellence?" "Why is the perfect score only 100 instead of 1000?" The three days passed quickly. A group of students who had finished the written exam were like huskies off their leashes. In Liu Ren's words: "The written exam is the most mentally draining and stressful test. The rest is all about the spirits' performance, right?" Liu Ren made a good point, and Su Hao had nothing to say in response. During Su Hao's written exam period, the Dream Butterfly was locked in its room every day, with the sound of keyboard clattering coming from inside. "Playing games?" Su Hao wondered if, after the college entrance exam was over, he should use electrotherapy to cure the little one's internet addiction. Unfortunately, he didn't have a lightning-type spirit. Inside the room, the Dream Butterfly was marking future plans on a calendar. "Two days later, Su Hao has the second stage exam; thirteen days later, the third stage exam..." "No time to waste, gu nuo~!" "Gotta stock up on drafts, gu nuo~!" Its little short hands couldn't press multiple keys at once, but the two antennae on its head moved up and down. Working together with its hands, it tapped the keys rapidly, clattering away. The input method it used was even Shuangpin. ... Two days later, before the written exam scores were even out, the second stage of the spirit user college entrance exam began. Still at the entrance of No.1 High School. This time, over a dozen transport vehicles resembling trucks were parked in front of the school. "For the second stage assessment, we're heading to the Yunhua City exam venue," Old Gu said, looking at the other teachers—some from No.1 High School, others from different schools. "Check all students' IDs, admission tickets, and contracted spirits, then board the buses and set off." No one forgot their ID. But there was someone who forgot their spirit. A student whose spirit was a Prairie Wolf turned around to find his spirit missing, panicking and running in circles. He kept calling its name, but there was no response. "Use the summon," said a nearby teacher. The examinee finally snapped out of it and clumsily performed "Spirit Summoning." After failing once, he finally summoned his Prairie Wolf. "Awoo, awoo?" The fluffy Prairie Wolf was still puzzled about being suddenly yanked away when it saw its feeder and pounced on him. Thump— The well-developed Prairie Wolf directly knocked its spirit user to the ground, licking his face, thinking it would get a reward like at home, only to see its spirit user's face as dark as a pot bottom. "Awooo—!!" "Hmph, hmph~" The Dream Butterfly shook its head. All foolish spirits, gu nuo~ It was different, gu nuo~! A finger poked its soft belly. "Behave well, and I might consider reducing 10% of the interest, okay?" "Gu? Gu nuo (????)??" It nodded repeatedly. Dignified and obedient. ... For the second stage exam, the entire Tiannan Province had five exam venues, and Yunhua City's venue was one of them. The Southeast Spirit Plaza was the most advanced spirit plaza in Yunhua City. It had been requisitioned two days ago and set up as the college entrance exam venue. The Ancheng convoy stopped outside the plaza. When they arrived, the plaza was already filled with school teams, clearly separated. He recognized the uniforms of Yunhua Affiliated High School and Yunhua No.1 High School... as well as uniforms from schools he didn't know. Most were "miscellaneous troops" like the Ancheng team—several schools mixed together, uniforms clashing, looking quite chaotic. As the exam time approached, all school teams had arrived. Following the instructions of the lead teachers and exam invigilators, they lined up and waited. "Those whose spirits haven't reached the入门 level, go to the spiritual power testing area on the left." "Those whose spirits have reached the入门 level, please go to the power testing area on the right." This was because after a spirit reached入门, its spiritual power was compressed, making it hard for existing instruments to measure accurately, so it was switched to power testing. Both spiritual power testing and power testing were available in Ancheng. But Yunhua City had more complete and advanced facilities, yielding more accurate results. The spiritual power testing area on the left was already lined up from the hall to the plaza. The power testing area on the right had far fewer people. In all of Ancheng, there were only 29 people—18 from this year's No.1 High School class, 1 from No.3 High School, and the rest were repeat students. But adding students from various cities, especially the top talents from Yunhua Affiliated High School and Yunhua No.1 High School, the total number was very large. Several hundred. Several hundred official spirit users! Even Su Hao found it a bit exaggerated. But indeed, in recent years, the number of spirit users had grown rapidly, and quite a few new天王-level ones had emerged. As he was thinking, the time came. The door to the power testing area opened. The second stage assessment had begun!