Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

In the Dream Cultivation Space, time itself seemed to become elastic.

Lu You cradled the pupa, which had just finished sealing itself and now pulsed with a faint, tri-colored halo. Her heart was filled with anticipation and a hint of nervousness.

She looked up at Gu Ming, who met her gaze with an encouraging nod.

She took a deep breath, calmed her racing heart, and began.

She wasn’t creating them from nothing. Instead, drawing upon her knowledge, she focused her will intensely within the dream, "fantasizing" several medicinal ingredients that were extremely precious and on a special restricted list in the real world.

For example, the "Soul Calming Glaze Dew," which could nourish the very source of one’s soul.

The "Hundred Refinements Golden Cicada Robe," which could enhance the Resilience of energy channels.

And the "All Things Harmony Ointment," which could promote a stable metamorphosis.

She had actually managed to buy all of these in reality, but she hadn’t used them on Mianmian yet, afraid she might get the dosage wrong.

Hiring a professional breeder for help would cost even more money.

While she could afford it, wouldn’t a simulated test in a dream be much better than a breeder’s standardized plan?

Under Lu You’s control, these illusory herbs, constructed from pure will, transformed into colorful droplets of liquid. As if alive, they gently coated the surface of the slumbering Tri-color Pupa.

The fragrant, herbal liquid touched the pupa’s shell and quickly seeped in as if into a sponge, where it was slowly absorbed.

The advantages of the dream became perfectly clear at this moment.

A process that would require complex Refinement and slow absorption in reality could be observed here by simply waiting, watching as the medicinal properties acted upon the core consciousness and the restructuring body within the pupa.

Meanwhile, Gu Ming guided the Spiritual Qi Environment within the Space, transforming it to replicate the school’s specialized Evolution Dao Field.

After the Tri-color Pupa absorbed these medicinal ingredients, a flowing environment for the "Tri-color Siphon" naturally appeared.

Three energy vortexes materialized in the sky of the Dream Space, each corresponding to one of the colors on the pupa’s patterned rings.

An azure Spiritual Streamlight, a verdant Life Breath, and a deep purple Dream Dust.

Like three small, rainbow-colored streams, they gently poured into the pupa’s Tri-Colored Pattern Rings.

The Tri-Colored Pattern Rings on the pupa’s body brightened and solidified at a visible rate, as if it were frantically accumulating the resources for its Evolution.

All that remained was a matter of patient effort.

Gu Ming communicated with his three Pet Beasts, taking stock of their Combat Skills and retraining those that had long been unused.

Mouse Treasure also joined in the military-style training drills.

Within this stretched-out dream time,

Mianmian, inside the pupa, underwent a long and profound transformation.

Normally, it should have remained in a half-dreaming, half-awake state of Chaos during its pupal stage, slowly adapting to the changes.

But now, nourished by ample energy and the fantasized medicinal ingredients, its consciousness was far clearer than normal, allowing it to "observe" and "guide" the restructuring of its own form with greater clarity:

how its muscles fibrously broke down and re-formed, how its bones dissolved and reconstructed, how its future butterfly wings slowly unfurled from their initial state, developing veins and gaining color...

It was like an architect not only seeing the final blueprint but also personally participating in the laying of every brick and tile. The depth of understanding was on a completely different level.

The simulated time in the dream passed day by day, until finally, the critical moment of breaking out of the pupa arrived.

In reality, this might have taken weeks or even months of natural development.

But in the dream, time flowed naturally, and everyone’s consciousness was in a state of intangible acceleration.

Before they knew it, enough experience and energy had been accumulated.

The time for its Form Evolution had ripened as well.

"CRACK—"

A crisp, faint sound, symbolizing a breakthrough of life, echoed through the Dream Space.

A crack appeared on the surface of the Tri-color Pupa, and then more cracks spread out like a spiderweb.

Immediately after, a tri-colored radiance—far more intense and splendid than under normal circumstances—erupted from the cracks!

This radiance didn’t just contain the three primary colors of blue, green, and purple.

Because of Mianmian’s ultimate control and experience with energy in the dream, it even refracted more fantastical, intermediate colors.

The light swirled about as if a small piece of a rainbow, once sealed away, had been instantly released, rendering the entire Dream Space magnificent beyond compare!

At the center of the dazzling light, a figure struggled, fighting its way out of the pupal shell.

It was a Rainbow Wing Butterfly, its wings freshly unfurled and brilliantly colored!

Although its body was still small and its wings not yet fully stretched and hardened, the vibrant grace and radiance of its sublimated life were already breathtaking.

It tremulously flapped its wings in the dream’s streams of light, sensing its new body and surging Power, and emitted a joyous Spiritual Fluctuation.

Lu You was so excited that her eyes filled with tears, having witnessed her own Pet Beast’s successful Evolution in the dream.

Gu Ming’s eyes reflected the beautiful form of the Rainbow Wing Butterfly. Seeing the rainbow light dancing behind its wings, he felt a little envious.

...

When her consciousness returned to reality, Lu You’s eyes snapped open. She found herself still in her room.

Cradled in her arms was still the same Insect Baby with three colored rings, blinking its drowsy eyes, ready to seal its pupa.

At this moment, the Insect Baby’s consciousness was clearer than ever before. Having experienced what it was like to be a Rainbow Wing Butterfly, it could no longer stand having such a weak body.

It wanted to evolve!

It wanted to become... the form it had in the dream!

To prevent its Great Dao Insights from fading away, it decided to seal its pupa immediately and begin its Form Evolution.

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

—Master, I’m going to seal my pupa now.

It conveyed this by wiggling its two front teeth.

"Okay. You can do it. I’ll be waiting for you to wake up."

Lu You had no time to be moved, quickly wiping the corner of her eye as she spoke.

After she spoke, a delicate white thread was swiftly spat out, spinning around its head and sealing it shut.

In a short while, the plump, white Insect Baby had transformed into a quiet, slumbering Tri-color Pupa, its light now drawn inward.

It was as if that splendid Evolution had just been an illusion.

But was it really just an illusion?

Both Lu You and Gu Ming keenly sensed a difference.

Although the form of this real-world Tri-color Pupa hadn’t changed, the Energy Fluctuation it emitted was deeper and more harmonious, and the color of its shell seemed a shade more profound.

Most importantly, the consciousness they could sense from within the pupa was no longer in a deep sleep, but rather a state of... conscious hibernation?

It was as if the little one inside had only closed its eyes and was actively perceiving the outside world, accelerating the digestion of the precious experience it had gained in the dream.

"The medicinal ingredients you used in the dream—you should apply them now," Gu Ming reminded her.

Jolted back to her senses, Lu You immediately took out the three pails of precious medicinal liquid she had prepared and began applying it to the Tri-color Pupa.

Similar to the experience in the dream, as the liquid touched the shell, it was absorbed at the speed of light.

Lu You vaguely recalled that in the dream, her Mianmian had seemed to absorb the entire amount she had prepared.

’Could it be too much?’

The amount she had prepared was already double the standard dosage for a normal Tri-color Pupa.

She had researched it and found many cases of Tri-color Pupas being given more than the standard amount of Evolution Liquid, leading to an overabundance of nutrients and causing their muscle tissue to mutate abnormally inside.

This thought circled in her mind, making her a little worried.

Seeing her hesitate, Gu Ming sent over his Divine Sense and said:

"If you’re scared, communicate with your Pet Beast."

"Don’t forget, based on the Evolution experience from the dream, there isn’t a complete conscious disconnect between you two."

Gu Ming didn’t know how other people’s Tri-color Pupas evolved.

In any case, during the dream just now, the two of them weren’t completely cut off from each other and were able to communicate.

Since they could communicate, she could control the dosage.

"If Mianmian feels like it can’t take any more, just stop."

Hearing this, Lu You also tried to probe inside with her Divine Sense.

Lu You found it a bit counterintuitive.

As far as she knew, under normal circumstances, after an Insect Baby formed a pupa, its consciousness would fall into a deep sleep, relying on instinct to slowly complete its metamorphosis.

This process could last for a month or even several months, during which the Beastmaster could only wait patiently.

Probing it with her Divine Sense shouldn’t have elicited any reaction.

But perhaps because of the dream experience, or perhaps because Mianmian itself was simply lucky, thanks to that ultra-realistic simulated Evolution, its consciousness was already familiar with and had rehearsed the entire evolutionary process.

In reality, it didn’t need to start exploring from scratch. Instead, it could efficiently advance by directly following the optimal path verified in the dream.

Its consciousness was even more active than it had been in the dream; its slumber wasn’t as deep.

When faced with its master’s probing Divine Sense, it didn’t fully awaken to reply, but it was able to give a vague response.

For example, simple replies like an "Mmm" for good and a "No" for bad.

Lu You was also pleasantly surprised to discover that its absorption rate for the Evolution Liquid’s energy far exceeded the norm.

The Insect Baby’s body inside was already submerged in the Evolution Liquid. Its form had become a blurry ball of light, no longer just three colors, but a dazzling radiance of many hues.

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