My tamed beasts can't be demons.

Chapter 23 Exam Difficulty (Please add to your favorites! Please read on!)

"Squad leader." After Liang Quan left, Li Yi saw that Xu Wuhu's face was ugly, so he quickly went up to him.

Xu Wuhu waved his hand at Li Yi: "It's nothing. Just focus on the exam. He wouldn't dare to cheat too much during the exam."

The preliminary exam, as the most important exam in university, is a turning point in many people's lives. Precisely because of this, although it is an academic exam, it often attracts the attention of many prominent figures.

In particular, Xin'an Beast Taming Academy is one of the earliest beast taming academies.

Although Liang Quan was the eldest son of the Liang family of Xinyue, he did not dare to make any overly obvious targeted moves during the initial test of combat.

However, Zhou Lu was already prepared for the first round of exams to be very difficult.

The firework in her arms was seeing so many people for the first time, and it was excitedly swaying its branches and looking around.

Looking at the square packed with students, Li Yi smiled and said, "This is probably the time I've seen the most students since our freshman orientation ceremony."

All the students were preparing for the initial battle exam, and Zhou Lu didn't live in the student dormitory, so he hadn't seen many of his classmates.

After the initial test, a group of students will inevitably be ruthlessly eliminated.

To be honest, although the preliminary battle exam is the most anticipated, it is actually the easiest of the six beast-taming exams in the university. After all, it is the only exam that allows teams to team up, giving the possibility of passing the exam by relying on a stronger player.

Xu Wuhu had told Zhou Lu that because there were scoring standards for the initial combat test, geniuses would often deliberately team up with students who didn't do well in order to get high scores, so that they could stand out more and get good scores.

The class monitor was straightforward. Although he teamed up with Zhou Lu and Li Yi to help them pass the exam, he also genuinely intended to stand out and achieve high scores in the exam.

"My older brother will be coming to watch the competition because of this exam," Xu Wuhu said, looking up at the VIP seats.

Li Yi listened and gave a thumbs up: "Don't worry, class monitor, we'll definitely make you the coolest guy there!"

Before they could even finish speaking, the initial battle test had already begun.

Zhou Lu and his group were the third group to go on stage. Although they were in the early stages, they could at least get a feel for Liang Quan's fighting style through the first two matches.

The exam venue was set up as a swamp, which was definitely the home ground of the mud monsters.

This is the most standard practice for this type of exam. Often, the more open-book the exam, the more advantageous the exam venue becomes for the examiners.

Actually, the initial combat test wasn't the most exaggerated.

The Explorer's Certificate exam is the real test. The Explorer's Association has clearly stated that the Explorer's Certificate exam requires Beastmasters to engage in combat against their elemental attributes.

If you can't even defeat wild spirit beasts with the opposite attribute while exploring secret realms, you're not qualified.

Before we could even finish speaking, the first exam had already begun.

In the center of the vast swamp is a cement-cast grandstand, with a red bead placed in the center of the grandstand. This is the "passing item" that the test takers must try every means to seize.

Liang Quan sat on the stands with a cold expression, with the red bead behind him.

According to the exam rules, candidates pass the exam by either grabbing the treasure or defeating the examiner. If the examiner uses a second spirit beast during the exam, they are also considered to have been defeated by the candidates.

The three candidates had just landed when the ground beneath their feet, which had been solid, suddenly turned into a swamp.

Except for one candidate who reacted quickly and boarded his flying spirit pet, the Hunting Eagle, the other two were swallowed by the swamp before they even had a chance to summon their spirit pets.

"Knowing this is a battlefield and still being careless, you're unqualified." Liang Quan's icy voice came from the center. "You don't think this is a cricket fight, do you? Once you step into this examination hall, whether you're a spirit pet or a beast tamer, you could become a target of attack."

"Cricket fighting" is a derogatory term used by explorers of secret realms, such as the Pioneers and Exploration Teams, to refer to beast-taming competitions.

The last remaining candidate, despite his narrow escape, couldn't help but show fear upon witnessing this scene.

The moment Liang Quan finished speaking, a huge, hideous giant suddenly sprang up from the mud.

Its body was covered in sticky mud, and the falling mud formed holes on its body, like huge, greedy mouths.

Ugly and terrifying.

With the added advantage of the swampy terrain, the three-meter-tall mud monster exudes an immense sense of oppression.

The examinee tried to escape, but the mud monster suddenly opened its mouth and transformed into a vast expanse of mud, swallowing the examinee and his spirit pet together.

All the candidates present, and even the freshmen who came to observe, were stunned.

Is this initial battle test really that terrifying?!

"By doing this, Liang Quan is going to increase the difficulty of this exam."

It wasn't just the students who felt the same way; even Principal Wu Sicheng couldn't stand it anymore. He frowned and looked at the Dean of Students standing to the side.

Dean Meng Daoxuan chuckled and said, "Being a Beast Tamer is a very dangerous profession. In the future, when they enter secret realms to explore, a slight mistake could cost them their lives. By increasing the difficulty of the exam and eliminating students without talent, we are also ensuring their future safety, aren't we?"

Wu Sicheng gave Meng Daoxuan a deep look: "I remember you also came from a mountain village through the Beast Taming Examination, right, Teacher Meng?"

"Ah, yes," Meng Daoxuan replied.

Wu Sicheng pointed at the examination hall, his face instantly turning cold: "Do you really think that a student from an ordinary family, after contracting a spirit beast, can raise their spirit pet to a level sufficient to pass this kind of exam in just three months?"

"This...now..."

"Don't talk about now, Teacher Meng," Wu Sicheng interrupted Meng Daoxuan. "I'm only asking you, if you had just become a Beast Tamer, could you have passed an exam of Liang Quan's difficulty?"

Wu Sicheng had some things he couldn't say outright. Meng Daoxuan's setup was clearly intended to eliminate students who didn't have family resources to support them.

This trend is now intensifying.

But there are some things you can see through, but you can't say them out loud.

"Lower the difficulty of the remaining two rounds of exams." Wu Sicheng stopped questioning Meng Daoxuan and instead spoke to him in a commanding tone.

Meng Daoxuan looked up abruptly, surprised, "But there has never been such a precedent before!"

In the initial combat test, the first round of information disclosure is usually the easiest, while the latter two rounds of random combat are more difficult.

This arrangement is intended to rationalize the distribution of difficulty and better select truly outstanding beast tamer students.

Clearly, the latter two rounds of testing set by Meng Daoxuan were even more difficult than Liang Quan's test.

Wu Sicheng stared coldly at Meng Daoxuan: "There's no precedent for the difficulty of this first round of exams. Meng Daoxuan, there are other people watching this exam."

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