Boom! Boom! Su Hao stood outside the Thunder Prison, watching the bolts of lightning, thick as water buckets, crash down. And that little chubby Roller Beast, looking utterly tiny within the Thunder Prison. A few minutes later. "Alright, stop right there." The Roller Beast could no longer hear his shouts, so Su Hao used their contract link to call out. As his soul power grew, the contract call was no longer hit-or-miss. At least... within a few hundred meters, it maintained a 5G signal! Even expanding the range to two or three kilometers, it still had a 3G or 4G signal. The Spirit Master base station was taking shape. Only then could the team battle system form. Inside the Thunder Prison. One day, two days—time flew by. The Roller Beast occasionally came out to rest, then went back in, came out again, and was driven back in... During this time, the chefs from Bear King Mountain delivered plenty of food. There was also food for humans. Foodie Su Hao found it quite good. The key was its high nutritional value. What he ate was already the most ordinary ingredients, but he still felt waves of warmth in his body. Full of energy, strength surged from within, as if he could kill an ox with one punch. The food provided to the four spirits was even more advanced. Especially the Roller Beast's rations. Su Hao felt the pressure just looking at it. One meal like that was worth at least 50 credits! Su Hao strongly suspected that if the Roller Beast weren't still in its weak stage, Bear King Mountain would have fed it even better. "Somehow feels a bit hollow." He had clearly promised the Elder Panda Monk to raise the cub into a bear that could stand tall between heaven and earth. But what if he couldn't afford it? "Raising four spirits, even the cost of ordinary jade powder is already high." Su Hao had thought that after entering a spirit university, especially a prestigious one, he could escape the vulgarity of money. Unexpectedly, he was short again. He did a quick calculation. The Improved Charge technique barely brought in any money now, and the other techniques still gave him about 200,000 to 300,000 a month. But it wasn't enough. Just the high-grade jade powder for the four spirits alone cost more than that. His identity as a Spirit Cultivator at school wasn't profitable either; he couldn't make money from it. "Right, I'm in the Spirit Master Academy. The intermediate Spirit Cultivator certification should get me 300 credits. I need to claim that. "If I can pass the advanced Spirit Cultivator exam... I think the school rewards 3,000 credits?" He pondered. "One condition for advancing to advanced Spirit Cultivator is publishing a paper of sufficient value... I should meet that. "But..." The other assessments might not be so easy. After starting university, aside from time spent in the library, he rarely delved into the path of Spirit Cultivator. His research and insights into spirits weren't comprehensive enough. Now, trying for advanced, he felt uncertain. "Could it be that I have to earn extra money during the short time I'm out on missions? But that wouldn't bring in much either." ... Day three. The Roller Beast in the Thunder Prison began to change. "It can evolve!" With a special environment like the Thunder Prison, evolution required almost no materials. The essence of the lightning attribute was absorbed along with the power of the thunder as the Roller Beast absorbed it. Now, The Roller Beast bathed in the lightning glow, arcs of electricity dancing around its chubby body. It walked forward step by step, braving the thunder. Without Su Hao even needing to instruct, instinct told it to go further, absorb more energy, and it could touch that final step of evolution. "Crackle—" "Crackle—" Suddenly, the Roller Beast acted like a lightning rod, drawing the falling bolts toward it, all striking its body. Yet it showed no discomfort. Instead, it stood upright and let out a fierce, baby-like roar. "Ooooh—" "Oooh roar!!!" Countless arcs of electricity wove into a massive cocoon, enveloping the Roller Beast. The cocoon glowed with blue and purple light, magnificent and beautiful. Yet it stood amidst the apocalyptic scene of the Thunder Prison. As if it would be shattered by the violent lightning at any moment. But it wasn't. It continued absorbing the power of the thunder. For a moment, the outer area of the Thunder Prison seemed empty, with only that massive glowing cocoon, wrapped in lightning, slowly growing. Ten minutes, Twenty minutes, Thirty minutes, Finally... "Oooh roar!!!" A roar came from within the cocoon. No longer baby-like and fierce, but filled with authority and ferocity. As if a forest overlord was declaring its dominance. The massive cocoon shattered with a bang. A great bear with white, blue, and purple fur stood on two feet, its meaty paws raised. The few lightning bolts crashing down before it suddenly slowed, gathered in its palm into a massive thunderball, and was hurled outward. Boom! The thunderball exploded not far away, a web of blue and purple arcs leaping and weaving into a huge lightning net. Even Su Hao was startled. He glanced at the data for the Roller Beast... no, the Electric Light Bear. "Just at the entry-level advanced stage, and its destructive power is this strong? "No wonder it's a cub that's mastered lightning control." Compared to Butterfly and the others, the Electric Light Bear was already at the entry level when contracted. It hadn't compressed its spirit power at the pre-entry stage. But its spirit power quality was no worse, even stronger than the little ones at the entry level. "After all, it's a monarch-level offspring, and it must have eaten plenty of treasures, rarer than attribute cores." Su Hao had also considered contracting a pre-entry cub and then having it compress its spirit power further. But the spirit power compression method was originally extracted from the "Spirit Power Enhancement Cultivation" plan, a basic technique. Monarch-level offspring already had high-quality spirit power; further compression wouldn't improve it much. He also couldn't find a pre-entry monarch-level offspring spirit. "I guess they naturally break through to the entry level shortly after birth." ... After venting, the Electric Light Bear walked out of the Thunder Prison. Su Hao looked at it. The Electric Light Bear was now taller than him, about two meters or so. The most striking feature was the tufts of purple fur on its chest and the outer sides of its arms, forming lightning symbols. It no longer had the silly, cute look of the Roller Beast era, but instead exuded a sense of pressure. Arcs of electricity danced on its hands, feet, forehead, and all over its body, making it hard to approach. Even Su Hao couldn't help but step back a couple of paces. To avoid being accidentally hurt by the Electric Light Bear, which had just evolved and hadn't fully mastered its power. But the Electric Light Bear quickly walked over, its big bear face leaning close to him, and called out. "Ehehe?" All its majestic and fierce demeanor vanished. Su Hao: "..." You only care about those dozens of games?!?! ... The next day. "Gu no~" "Ya~" "Xi lu~" "Oooh oooh~!" At the farewell, many bears tearfully saw them off. Butterfly was also reluctant to leave its fanboys and fangirls. The same went for the plump Fire Crow and Water Scale Beast. Only the Electric Light Bear was overjoyed. Finally leaving, ooh! Finally done with the Thunder Prison, ooh! Finally getting its own computer and new games, ooh! The Electric Light Bear pretended to wave goodbye reluctantly. Su Hao also waved farewell to the Elder Panda Monk and the other bears. "Let's go." King Wu said. The psychic power of the puppet controller enveloped them, and in no time, they were back at the fortress. Checked. Departed from Ningshan City base. The puppet controller continued its role as driver. After five days, Su Hao returned to Whale Island University.