Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Hearing this, the three Pet Beasts finally let go of their apprehension and looked at each other.

Gu Ming’s gaze swept over the three Pet Beasts, finally landing on Ah Ji.

The little guy longed for the Ghost Kitten’s Possession Skills, but those required Spiritual Power.

Furthermore, since it was a Light and Dark Dual Attribute Pet Beast, taking this Pill would likely boost its Spiritual Power.

Once the choice was made,

the teacher from Dan Temple came forward to check its weight and drug tolerance.

Ah Ji’s body was relatively small, making it the ideal subject for determining the minimum effective dose. This would make it easier and safer to analyze the medicinal properties and adjust the dosage for Cyan Treasure and Ah Kun later.

"Ah Ji, don’t be afraid. You’re just going to sleep for a bit," Gu Ming said. "While you’re asleep, listen for my voice. If you can hear me, do as I say."

According to the system’s description, the Dreamless Pill was a core ingredient for cultivating a certain type of Spiritual Skill.

The method it was used for was the future Dreamless Cultivation, which specialized in training skills with very particular requirements.

’What kind of skill requires cultivation without dreams?’

Gu Ming was very curious.

After finishing the examination, the Dan Temple teacher helped Gu Ming divide the Elixir on the spot.

The purple Ice Demon Flame Pill Pet produced a gentle flame of Spiritual Power, shaping it into a precise scalpel of flame.

It carefully cut off about one-fifth of the Elixir and placed it in a special Jade Bottle to preserve its medicinal properties.

Ah Ji was to take the rest of the Elixir.

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Ah Ji extended its barbed tongue and carefully curled the small piece of the Elixir into its mouth.

The Elixir melted the moment it entered its mouth. Within seconds, its once-lively eyes began to lose focus.

Its body swayed, and it slumped softly to the ground, falling into a deep, dreamless sleep.

"Ah Ji?" Gu Ming tried calling its name in its ear.

A few seconds later,

Ah Ji’s eyelids twitched, as if responding.

An unusual Spiritual Fluctuation suddenly erupted from Ah Ji’s sleeping body, surging like a deep underwater current.

Circles of invisible Spiritual Waves rippled out from its body, visible only from a Divine Sense Perspective.

「The Chaos Creature Ah Ji has fallen into a dreamless slumber, entering its first Dreamless Cultivation state.」

Gu Ming watched a little longer. When he saw the rhythm of the Spiritual Ripples on Ah Ji’s body begin to slow, he knew its cultivation had stalled.

"Teachers, what do you think? The effects of this Dreamless Pill are quite good, wouldn’t you say?" Gu Ming said vaguely, hinting at something without getting to the point.

The three teachers exchanged glances.

They had, of course, sensed a powerful Spiritual Fluctuation, extremely similar to the cultivation state of a Spiritual Pet Beast during a moment of Enlightenment.

They just hadn’t expected a mere Dreamless Pill to achieve the same effect.

Moreover, Ah Ji was only at the Two-star level.

If it could cultivate in this state every day during its Two-star phase, its future potential would be absolutely incredible.

"The value of the Dreamless Pill is many times greater than I imagined,"

the Dan Temple teacher mused.

He was an Alchemy Beastmaster, the person at this school who understood Alchemy best.

You could say that from the moment the Dreamless Pill was successfully refined, he’d had a premonition that its medicinal effects would be extraordinary, allowing a Pet Beast’s Spiritual Power to soar painlessly.

He just hadn’t expected it to have an effect akin to experiencing Enlightenment.

In that case, its value would have to increase by at least five or six times.

And mind you, the Dan Temple teacher was only estimating based on the starting price.

If a High-star Pet Beast took the Dreamless Pill and experienced the same effect, its value could multiply by another ten, or even dozens of times—it was hard to say for sure.

At this thought, the Dan Temple teacher’s gaze toward Gu Ming and Ah Ji became fervent.

Daoist He, wearing his Crane Hat, fixed his gaze intently on Ah Ji.

"Taking the Dreamless Pill causes one to fall into a dreamless sleep, which is equivalent to losing consciousness. How is one supposed to perform Dreamless Cultivation like this? Student Gu Ming, when you deduced this Pill Formula, you must have also mastered some special Secret Technique, right?"

Daoist He saw through Gu Ming’s little trick in a single glance.

The Elixir’s purpose was so specific, yet it left a huge drawback for cultivation.

Without consciousness, how could one cultivate while asleep?

Even a Breathing Technique mastered to the level of Great Success, which allowed a Pet Beast to be constantly using its Cultivating Technique with every breath, could not make the Pet Beast train while unconscious.

Either there was a special Secret Technique to guide it, awakening half of the Pet Beast’s consciousness in its muddled, dreamless state and allowing its body to enter a state of cultivation,

or there was some method he couldn’t imagine that compensated for this drawback in the Elixir.

Gu Ming spread his hands. "Teachers, I didn’t think that far ahead.

"Initially, I only planned on using two methods to wake it: my Divine Sense and the Pet Beast Contract.

"I’ve tried both methods now, and neither worked, so..."

Gu Ming paused, looking at the pensive Elder Huo.

Elder Huo was a grandmaster of Arrays.

He was accustomed to analyzing problems and devising solutions from the perspective of the Array Dao.

"These rhythmic Spiritual Ripples could act as a switch for a Brain Array," he said abruptly, stunning everyone present.

Gu Ming was the first to react.

"A Brain Array to activate Ah Ji’s consciousness?"

Since Dreamless Cultivation was a form of cultivation, the Pet Beast’s consciousness certainly needed to be awakened to some degree.

It didn’t need to be fully awake. A half-awakened state, just enough for the body to start its Cultivating Technique, was more important than anything.

Elder Huo’s words were perfectly clear.

Even without looking at the system prompts, Gu Ming would have realized it was a good method.

"However, transcribing these Spiritual Ripples won’t be easy. Even with a Memorization Array, it would require deep customization."

Based on his Array Dao Understanding, Elder Huo estimated the modifications would take over a week.

He was an Eight-star Beastmaster. The fact that even he would need a week showed how difficult it was.

The main difficulty lay in the fact that these Spiritual Ripples were fluctuations emitted by Ah Ji in an unconscious state, one that was also similar to a state of Enlightenment.

This type of Spiritual Ripple was the hardest to analyze and the hardest to memorize.

If they could be easily transcribed, the world would have long since entered an age where everyone could achieve Enlightenment.

But this difficulty, coupled with its high potential value, was enough to stir a rare research interest in Elder Huo.

As Gu Ming chatted with the three teachers, the system prompts updated one after another.

「You humbly consulted the three teachers and learned that Dreamless Cultivation needs to be paired with an Enlightenment Array.」

「By enlightening the mind, one can cultivate Spiritual Awakening Techniques in a dreamless, awakened state.」

「Spiritual Awakening Techniques are signature Spiritual Skills where a Pet Beast’s Spiritual Power erupts, allowing it to perform beyond its normal limits.」

「These skills appeared over twenty years ago and quickly took the world by storm.」

「It was not easy for you to obtain the Dreamless Water Bud from the Yichuan Ruins.」

「Because the Awakening Techniques became so popular, the wild Dreamless Water Bud in the Yichuan Ruins has long been extinct. Now, only a few top pharmaceutical companies possess cultivated seedlings.」

’Spiritual Awakening Techniques?’

’Excellent, excellent. So the Dreamless Pill is the key Elixir used to cultivate this type of skill.’

’The Dreamless Water Bud of the future has been completely harvested, but things are different now.’

’Almost no one recognizes the Dreamless Water Bud, and its future value hasn’t been revealed yet.’

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