Thunder Pool

The days flew by. In less than two days, Hu Haoran received another notice from Shrek Academy to undergo an assessment. He knew that Shen Mengyan and the others had only just finished the sixth trial and were preparing for the seventh, while he had already reached the eighth trial.

"Dean Shi, where are you taking me?" Hu Haoran followed Shi Yanxu for some time before asking curiously.

"To a place that will benefit you. Rather than calling the eighth trial an assessment, it would be more accurate to call it a benefit provided to students like you who are taking the trials. Your senior brothers and sisters, myself included, all loved the eighth trial. It was the only trial that felt both the most comfortable and the most painful!" Thinking back to when he and the others had taken the trials, Shi Yanxu was filled with memories.

Hu Haoran was immediately puzzled. The most comfortable and most painful trial? His senior brothers and sisters' favorite trial? What kind of nonsense was that? A test was a test—who would actually like taking one? Back on Earth, he had never heard of anyone who genuinely enjoyed exams, even if he himself had been quite good at them.

"Could you tell me, Dean Shi?" Hu Haoran asked, his face full of confusion.

"There's nothing I can't tell you. The eighth trial tests the students' endurance when absorbing energy. In a moment, I'll take you to a place filled with lightning called the Thunder Pool. There, you can absorb lightning elements as much as you like to increase your Soul Power and temper your body. In any case, what you do is up to you. What we assess is a Soul Master's control over energy and their capacity to withstand it. Of course,