Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Gu Ming strode slowly out of the grand and silent doors of the library.

Outside, the sky was already bright. It was the morning of the third day since he had entered.

Even though it was early morning, a few persistent figures were still scattered around the library’s perimeter.

There were about thirty or forty of them—a much smaller crowd than the one from three days ago, which had been packed shoulder to shoulder.

Gu Ming had learned this information through brief exchanges of Divine Sense with other students who were quietly reading inside the library.

These students meant no harm; they were just kindly warning him about the situation outside.

Apparently, the group outside had even organized themselves into shifts.

They took turns standing guard, with each shift lasting about an hour or two before the next group took over.

This was no longer a matter of tech-worshippers seeking guidance. It had the distinct feel of a professional team setting a trap.

However, in Gu Ming’s eyes, this "persistence" had already lost its meaning.

The moment he appeared, the eyes of the loiterers—who had been leaning against walls or chatting in low voices—instantly lit up.

Like hounds catching the scent of prey, they immediately swarmed him, holding out all sorts of Pet Beasts and trying every method they could think of to trade for a single word of his guidance.

"Gu Ming, please, just take a look!"

"I’m begging you!

"I’ll do anything!"

Faced with these cringe-worthy pleas,

Gu Ming’s expression remained unchanged as he looked intently into the female student’s eyes.

Someone nearby flashed a thick, shining stack of Great Zhou Currency, while another eagerly took out a precious Spirit Medicine brimming with Spiritual Qi.

It was a Spirit Grass, jade-green all over. As its leaves and branches unfurled, it seemed to shimmer with a flowing, iridescent light.

The moment it was brought out, a rich medicinal fragrance filled the air.

Even Ah Ji, who was following at Gu Ming’s heels, couldn’t help but sniff the air, a glint of drool appearing at the corner of its mouth.

At this moment, Gu Ming’s aura was unnervingly steady, just like his Teacher Tang’s.

His gaze swept over the crowd. Before they could all start talking at once, he announced publicly, in a voice loud enough for everyone to hear:

"From this day forward.

"I will no longer offer any public guidance regarding Talent assessment for a Pet Beast’s Qi Refining Evolution or Foundation Establishment Evolution."

Upon hearing this, the crowd didn’t look particularly surprised; they had clearly expected it.

The person holding the Spirit Medicine rushed forward, trying to tempt him with the valuable resource.

But Gu Ming gave them no chance.

The moment the words left his mouth, he shouted, "Shadow Cloak!"

The name of the Skill was spoken, and their minds connected as one!

Ah Ji, who had been drooling, heard its master’s command, and its eyes sharpened in an instant.

The faint, almost imperceptible shadow around its body instantly "came alive"!

It crouched slightly as dense Shadow Energy poured from its every pore like a boiling black fog.

It didn’t expand explosively. Instead, it flowed and intertwined as if it were alive, tracing graceful arcs through the air.

Finally, it settled precisely over Gu Ming, forming a sleek "coat" that seemed woven from liquid shadow.

The entire process was as fast as a flash of lightning, completed in less than half a second!

The next second, under everyone’s astonished gaze,

Gu Ming, along with the Shadow Coat he wore and his shadow on the ground, vanished on the spot in broad daylight, like a drop of ink dissolving in water, leaving no trace behind!

"Where’d he go?"

"He vanished?!"

The person closest to him instinctively reached out to grab him but only caught a handful of air.

The crowd reacted instantly. They all activated their Divine Sense, casting it out like a net to repeatedly scan and probe the area for dozens of meters around.

However, the feedback from their Divine Sense was completely "empty," as if Gu Ming had never been standing there at all.

"Did he... Did he go back into the library?"

"No! It was that Skill!

"Shadow Cloak!

"He used Shadow Transformation Escape to get away!" someone exclaimed.

"Quick! Does anyone have a Light Pet Beast?"

"Use Flash Technique! Shadow Skills are weakest against bright light!"

Someone in the crowd immediately suggested it, their tone urgent, as if they had a contingency plan for this exact scenario.

Coincidentally, one person among this group of loiterers immediately stepped forward.

"I’ll do it!"

He waved his hand and summoned a peculiar Pet Beast—an intricately structured "lightbulb" about the size of two fists.

At the top of the palm-sized creation’s hemispherical glass dome were two eyes, each the size of a pigeon’s egg.

They weren’t made of any ordinary material but were two clusters of floating, luminous flame.

The left eye was a warm, amber glow with a pupil like a flickering candle flame.

The right eye was a cold, ice-blue flame with a pupil like a frozen lightning bolt, surrounded by a halo of tiny electric arcs.

The two eyeballs swiveled around, curiously surveying their surroundings.

Beneath the glass casing, a tungsten-like filament emitted a soft, golden light.

"Radiance, area flash!" the student commanded.

The lightbulb Pet Beast named "Radiance" hovered in mid-air. Of its two eyes on the filament, the left eye’s flame suddenly erupted with a blinding light comparable to a miniature sun!

This light didn’t shine in a straight beam but spread rapidly outward in all directions like a shockwave.

It instantly enveloped a hundred-meter radius, its intensity so strong that many people who couldn’t close or cover their eyes in time were left seeing nothing but white, their eyes streaming with tears.

This was clearly an area-of-effect flash skill at the Great Success Skill Level, a specialized counter to all sorts of Concealment and stealth-based shadow techniques.

Under the coverage of such intense light, in theory, any being relying on shadows for concealment should have been unable to hide and forcibly revealed.

However, a second later, even before the effects of the bright light had fully faded, the crowd lowered their hands from their eyes and looked around frantically, their faces etched with disbelief.

Gu Ming was still nowhere to be seen!

"How is that possible?!"

"Even a Great Success Level flash can’t reveal him?"

How could they have known that what Gu Ming’s Ah Ji had mastered was no simple "Shadow Cloak"?

Three days in the library had been months of hard work and sweat in his dreams.

Through Cultivation in the Dream Space and Gu Ming’s precise guidance based on his Future Perspective,

Ah Ji had not only cultivated "Shadow Cloak" to the Great Success Realm.

It had also pushed the more profound "Shadow Mimicry" Skill to the same level.

A Great Success Level "Shadow Cloak" was no longer just simple optical invisibility.

It briefly performed a shallow-level Synchronization between the user’s presence and the shadow plane, drastically reducing the probability of being discovered by conventional detection methods.

But more critically, the moment Ah Ji cast "Shadow Cloak," it simultaneously layered "Shadow Mimicry"—which had also reached the Great Success Realm—on top of it!

"Shadow Mimicry" was not a simple Transformation Technique. Its profundity lay in its ability to fundamentally "deceive" light and Perception.

It didn’t brute-force its way against the flash. Instead, the instant the flash hit, it used incredibly exquisite control of Shadow Energy to instantly mimic countless microscopic "mirrors" and "light-absorbing structures" on the surface of the "shadow" that was Gu Ming.

These structures were not physical. They were special arrangements of Shadow Energy that either cleverly deflected and refracted most of the intense light or efficiently absorbed and converted it, drastically weakening and dispersing the effect of the Flash Technique.

This wasn’t brute-force resistance but a more advanced "optical camouflage" based on an understanding of the laws of light and dark.

This was the special resistance that only a Great Success Level "Shadow Mimicry" could possess.

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