Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Mu Lan stood perfectly still, the corners of her lips curling into a faint, knowing smile.

"A futile effort."

The words had barely left her lips when the jade-like Crystal Core on the Chimera’s forehead suddenly flared with brilliant light!

The shifting crystal scales covering its body instantly reassembled, forming countless sharp, angular facets. They created a perfect Crystal Core Prism that wrapped around its torso.

Cyan Treasure’s Storm Ball struck it but didn’t explode.

Instead, as if it had skidded, the ball was bizarrely refracted upward at an angle, stirring a ripple across the Sports Arena’s protective shield.

Even more alarming was that the fearful Spiritual Fluctuation Ah Kun had tried to infuse into the water vapor, delivered via Cyan Treasure’s Storm Ball, seemed to have no effect on it.

Almost simultaneously, the translucent Void Jellyfish waved its tentacles gently. Smooth as water, it slowly melted into the void, its body and aura vanishing without a trace.

Gu Ming’s Divine Sense immediately spread across the entire field. He could feel the immediate impact of the opponent’s move.

The moment the jellyfish disappeared, the entire platform’s space rippled like the surface of water after a stone is tossed in, sending out invisible Space Ripples.

The streams of water Ah Kun spat out suddenly slowed, becoming viscous and sluggish.

Cyan Treasure’s pride and joy, its Z-shaped Shaking Body Technique, had clearly reached the Perfection Level of skill, yet it now seemed to be mired in a thick, heavy swamp. Its movements became stiff and slow.

’This is bad!’ Gu Ming’s heart sank.

Mu Lan shot him a cold look and commanded, "Crush their delusions!"

CRACK!

CRACK!

A cringe-inducing cracking sound came from beneath the water.

It came from the very area where Cyan Treasure had just planted its Grass Seeds.

Countless sharp Crystal Earth Spikes, gleaming with a cold light, broke through the viscous water’s surface and proliferated wildly!

The "Crystal Proliferation: Earth Spike" not only pierced and destroyed most of the Grass Seeds in an instant...

...but it also turned the aquatic home field Ah Kun had painstakingly created into a death trap bristling with thorns.

Under normal circumstances, Cyan Treasure would no longer be able to move on the platform.

But its Perfection Level Body Technique still allowed it to react in time to the various Crystal Spike assaults, twisting its body into an S-shape to narrowly avoid the crystal clusters erupting from beneath it.

However, the opponent’s killing moves came one after another, a relentless combination.

As Cyan Treasure dodged the Earth Spikes, its body froze for half a second.

In that brief moment, its old momentum spent and new momentum yet to be generated...

...the void beside it silently tore open. Several translucent, spatial tentacles—the Three-star Skill "Void Shackles"—shot out like vipers, coiling toward its serpentine tail!

"Cyan Treasure!" Gu Ming cried out in alarm.

Cyan Treasure’s golden serpentine pupils contracted abruptly as an intense sense of crisis seized it.

Almost by instinct, a Talent that Cyan Treasure had inexplicably awakened due to the system activated.

This was the passive Talent that often triggered in its dreams due to the immense pressure of death, and had thus become easier to activate: "Time Reversal"!

A three-second-long glimpse of the future flashed through its consciousness like lightning.

The jellyfish’s shackles tighten, impossible to break free.

Then, a destructive energy from above engulfs it...

"HISS!"

In the real world.

Just as the shackles were about to close, Cyan Treasure had already experienced that inescapable lockdown.

The Time Reversal experience, akin to a Sixth Sense, flared to life in that instant.

Now, acting on pure instinct, the Power of the Earth Shifting Technique erupted from within its body.

It ignored the Earth Spikes beside it. Its thick, serpentine tail, imbued with immense force, executed a Flood Dragon Tail Swing and slammed viciously into the largest crystal cluster nearby!

BOOM!

The crystal cluster shattered. Using the recoil, Cyan Treasure’s body was forcefully shifted half a foot to the side!

That half a foot saved its life!

Almost at the same instant it moved, the Chimera’s figure teleported via Void Synchronization into the space above its original position.

An unstable, miniature Energy Singularity had already formed at its Crystal Core. Radiating an aura that could tear space itself, the singularity’s crystal explosion came crashing down!

BOOM—!

A violent explosion erupted next to Cyan Treasure, shaking space itself and sending water and crystal fragments flying everywhere.

Although Cyan Treasure had dodged the core of the blast...

...it was still sent flying by the powerful shockwave. It tumbled several times in midair before crashing heavily onto the water’s surface. Its scales were broken and bleeding; it was clearly badly injured.

Less than half a minute into the match.

Gu Ming’s side had its Water Element home field advantage broken, its Spiritual Tactics rendered useless, and its main Pet Beast, Cyan Treasure, severely wounded.

Gasps echoed throughout the arena. Some people were already covering their mouths in disbelief.

Everyone was stunned by Mu Lan’s fluid, precise, and ruthless chain of attacks.

In the commentator’s box.

The two professors were speechless for a long moment. Finally, Professor Shen spoke with explosive passion:

"An absolute display of superior power!

"Contestant Mu Lan’s tactics are like a pre-woven net. Gu Ming and his Pet Beasts were caught in it from the very beginning."

A suffocating pressure, a tempo even fiercer than that of Zhao Qing from North Netherworld University, descended upon the field.

The hearts of Gu Ming’s supporters in the stands leaped into their throats. Their earlier fervent cheers were replaced by a stifling silence.

Mu Lan’s strategy was like a precision machine, coldly and efficiently crushing all resistance.

Gu Ming could feel the pain and anxiety coming from Cyan Treasure, as well as the sense of powerlessness Ah Kun was conveying through their Spiritual Link.

Their conventional tactics had been completely countered. Continuing to defend passively would only lead to defeat.

’I have to break this stalemate! Whatever it takes!’

Gu Ming’s eyes sharpened. His powerful Spiritual Power formed into clear commands that were instantly transmitted through their contract:

"Cyan Treasure, use your Origin Power! Force an opening!

"Ah Kun, cease all attacks! Focus everything on support and buy us some time!"

The commands were given, and the two Pet Beasts acted without a shred of hesitation.

Ah Kun’s Sacrifice and Stand:

The giant kun-fish let out a low hum. It stopped all futile High-pressure Water Gun shots and Fear Heart Anchor Spiritual Interference.

Its massive body trembled once, and a dense Fog Concealment water vapor emanated from it, spreading rapidly to envelop the injured Cyan Treasure and a small area around it.

This fog was not for offense, but for concealment—to interfere with the line of sight and targeting of the Chimera and the Void Jellyfish hidden in the void.

Its Fog Concealment Talent activated, making its own and Cyan Treasure’s auras unpredictable. The opponents lost their target.

At the same time, Ah Kun began to operate the Kunpeng Breathing Technique at full power.

Its giant mouth seemed to transform into an invisible vortex, beginning a frantic struggle against the Chimera and the Void Jellyfish for the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within the arena—a resource already flowing poorly due to the Space Ripples.

It was a silent tug-of-war.

The opponents also had a Breathing Technique and were competing for the Spiritual Qi as well.

Ah Kun was at a disadvantage, one against two.

But it gave its all. Like a stake driven into a raging current, it briefly slowed and disrupted the smooth flow of the opponents’ energy, creating a precious, almost frozen instant for Cyan Treasure.

Cyan Treasure’s Outburst—The Roar of Life Force:

In that hard-won moment, a vibrant green light shot up from the center of the water mist!

Cyan Treasure ignored its injuries. Coiled on the water’s surface, it pushed the Cyan Treasure Breathing Technique to its absolute limit.

Its body became like a bottomless pit, madly Devouring not only the Spiritual Qi Ah Kun had fought for, but also the faint energy contained within the surrounding Space Ripples, and even the Life Force from the water beneath it!

The abundant life origin from the Foundation Establishment Evolution Method surged within its body, merging with the countless strands of Innate Qi refined by the Qi Refining Evolution Method.

Furthermore, the Ancient Dragon Illusion within the Dragon Pattern Tripod awakened.

With all these powers stacked together...

VMMMM—!

A strange hum spread out from Cyan Treasure. The viscous Space Ripples were forcefully pushed aside and smoothed out by this majestic Life Power!

Immediately after, the Grass Seeds, which had been all but destroyed by the Crystal Earth Spikes, erupted with astonishing vitality under the infusion of this Life Energy.

CRACK! RUMBLE—!

Incredibly tenacious, emerald-green tree roots burst through the hard Crystal Earth Spikes with unstoppable force. They shot out of the water and began to grow wildly, sprouting branches and leaves at a speed visible to the naked eye!

In the blink of an eye, a small but vibrant forest had sprung up around Cyan Treasure.

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