At this time, in the Star Lord Class of Xiūshé City Second High School,
Teacher Du, the head teacher, was watching the thirty-four starlight screens manifested in front of him. They displayed the exact situation of the thirty-four Star Lord students' vassals in the class participating in the assessment.
Beside him, the principal had also condensed a figure with starlight, watching the performance of the students' vassals in the screens together.
"Little Du, looking at the performance of these vassals of yours, your Natal Star should be close to advancing to the fifth tier as well, right?"
The principal's figure, condensed from starlight, looked at the assessments in the screens one by one. Instead of speaking of the students' performance first, he first paid attention to the first-tier Spotted Serpentfolk vassals Teacher Du had sent out for the assessment.
Teacher Du nodded at the side and said, "I have already refined one hundred fourth-tier demon cores, and the spirit vein has also reached the fourth tier (100%). Now, I am just lacking the refinement of a fifth-tier demon core to advance to a fifth-tier star."
"I am planning to go to the demon grotto to hunt a fifth-tier serpent demon, acquire a fifth-tier demon core, and advance to a fifth-tier star after this batch of students finishes the college entrance examination."
"Not bad!" The principal nodded in praise from the side. "Once your Natal Star advances to the fifth tier, your own cultivation will also be able to quickly advance to the Fifth-Rank Nascent Soul realm."
"At that time, I will apply to the City Education Bureau to pass this position of principal on to you."
"Principal." Hearing this, Teacher Du couldn't help turning his gaze to look at the principal's starlight-condensed figure beside him, frowning as he asked, "Are you going to leave your post?"
The principal's starlight-condensed figure nodded and then shook his head. "You don't need to try to persuade me, either."
"When I came here to serve as principal back then, my goal was to accumulate merits in exchange for the 'Nine-tailed Serpent Inheritance'. Over these years, the merits have long since been enough."
"What's more, I am also close to the bottleneck for advancing. Next, I plan to go to the Black Hole Battlefield in the Penglai Star Domain to temper myself and seek the opportunity for a breakthrough."
Hearing this, Teacher Du's brow immediately unfurled, and he offered congratulations: "Principal, then let me first congratulate you on advancing further!"
The principal smiled and shook his head, reaching out to point at the various assessment screens manifesting ahead, changing the subject as he said, "Have your vassals hold back a bit. If too many students fail, the school won't have that many grants to give them."
Every year, the school received a certain amount of educational funds and resources allocated from the City Education Bureau. A large portion of these were specifically provided for the distribution and use of the Star Lord classes in the school.
Among them, a portion was specifically used to subsidize students: one was as scholarships to reward top students, and the second was as grants to subsidize students whose Natal Star and vassal development were too poor.
Hearing this, Teacher Du's gaze shifted slightly instead. He also looked at those assessment screens and said with a chuckle, "Principal, you have also served as principal in Second High School for almost twenty years. Now that you are preparing to advance, this batch of theirs is probably the last batch you will lead."
"Before you leave, aren't you going to leave them some gifts?"
"Haha..." Hearing this, the principal immediately smiled and shook his head, pointing at Teacher Du as he said, "Little Du, oh Little Du, you were waiting right here for me."
"Very well." As he spoke, he looked once more at the individual Star Lord students participating in the assessment in the class, and said, "Then I will put out one hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones. I hope these little fellows can put up a decent fight in this college entrance examination and provide a brilliant ending for my tenure as principal this time."
"On their behalf, I thank you very much, Principal." Head teacher Teacher Du immediately said with a smile, "Rest assured, I will definitely keep my eye on them, let them grow sturdily, and achieve outstanding results in the college entrance examination as a parting gift for you."
The principal smiled cheerfully, nodded, and looked at the assessment screens, suddenly saying, "Someone has been eliminated. It has only been twenty minutes, hasn't it?"
Teacher Du also looked toward one of the assessment screens. Inside it was similarly a flat expanse of land, with many pits, deep trenches, and the like on the ground, along with a patch of dilapidated earthen walls.
Clearly, the student participating in the assessment's vassals had also made as thorough preparations as possible.
Yet the result was that the battlefield was strewn with the corpses of the student's vassals, while the one hundred vassals responsible for the teacher's assessment had fewer than ten injured, and not even a single death.
The student's vassals were likewise Spotted Serpentfolk, but they were only about one meter four in height with skinny builds. Compared to the teacher's Spotted Serpentfolk, they simply looked like juveniles, coupled with the fact that they had not mastered any powerful methods, and they were directly crushed.
"It's student Zhou Qiao." Teacher Du clearly had a good understanding of the students in his class, and at this moment he also frowned and said, "His star cultivation and vassal cultivation can be considered among the weakest in the class. Coupled with the fact that the bloodline inheritance chosen for the vassals previously was the 'Myriad Poison Scripture', which also follows the path of poison, he can be considered to have been completely restrained by me."
"However, the little fellow is still quite hardworking and obedient. Later on, we can subsidize him with a grant to let him buy a cultivation ground of the 'Myriad Poison Grotto' and refine it into his Natal Star. That should greatly enhance his vassals' toxicity and combat power, allowing him to achieve decent results in the subsequent mock exams and even the college entrance examination."
Teacher Du was both explaining to the principal and comforting Zhou Qiao below.
As the vassals he had sent to participate in the assessment were slaughtered to the last, with only twenty minutes having passed—far from enough for a passing grade—coupled with being the first to be eliminated, Zhou Qiao had already clearly displayed a thoroughly ashamed, inferior, and mortified appearance.
At this moment, upon hearing the words of head teacher Teacher Du, the head that had been about to sink to his chest abruptly lifted, a flashing light in his eyes as he looked toward Teacher Du.
Teacher Du also nodded toward him.
And then, less than five minutes later, yet another classmate suffered elimination.
Teacher Du looked toward that person and commented, "Student Cai Mang, your vassals are cultivated very well, extremely bellicose, and their combat power is also not bad. However, your tactical arrangement went wrong; you shouldn't have fought the teacher's vassals head-on."
"Remember to visit the school's official website later to take a good look at the course 'Tactics Research'."
Upon hearing this, Cai Mang seemed somewhat unwilling to accept it, yet facing the failing grade at this moment, he could only lower his head in assent.
Seeing this, Teacher Du also shook his head slightly, saying no more.
He was clear that Cai Mang's situation differed from Zhou Qiao's. Although both came from ordinary family backgrounds, Cai Mang had previously chosen a large company directly when signing the investment contract, signing an employment contract—commonly known as a 'soul-selling contract'—and obtained quite a bit of investment from that large company.
Relying on this, Cai Mang's usual grades in the class were considered middle-of-the-pack, and his personality and behavior were relatively flamboyant.
Although head teacher Teacher Du would not intentionally suppress him, there was also no need to deliberately cater to him.
Afterward, as time steadily approached the thirty-minute passing mark, students in the class were eliminated one after another in succession.
Within a short span of five minutes, five students were eliminated consecutively, basically amounting to one person eliminated per minute.
Adding Zhou Qiao and Cai Mang, who had been eliminated earlier, out of the thirty-four Star Lord students in the class, seven failed to reach the passing mark in this first mock exam, reaching almost one-fifth of the total class size.
Of course, these students being eliminated and failing each had their own reasons, and Teacher Du pointed out the problems where they lay right on the spot for each of them, while explaining the direction for subsequent improvement and enhancement.
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