Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

After that, Gu Ming’s life fell into a highly disciplined and fulfilling routine, as if he were living like clockwork.

During the day, the training grounds at Wenquxing University became their most frequented spot.

While meticulously refining "Rootless Wood," Cyan Treasure also followed the advice of Gu Ming and Elder Huo, calming itself to focus on consolidating its foundation.

It reforged its Green Treasure Breathing Technique, making the flow of its Life Energy smoother and more fluid.

It had previously been on the verge of reaching the Quasi-Path Level. Now, however, the breathing technique had officially advanced to the Quasi-Path Level, allowing it to drain all the Spiritual Qi within a several-hundred-meter radius in a single breath, creating a temporary suffocating effect.

On the training grounds, it repeatedly practiced its Mastery of Wood Escape, not focusing on the scale of instantly creating a sea of trees, but rather on the exquisite control of every twining vine and every spinning Leaf Blade.

This was an advanced concept Gu Ming had learned in his specialization courses for Grass Element Pet Beasts.

For skills that summoned a sea of trees, once the quality of the trees reached a certain level, the next step in evolution was a more granular refinement of technique.

Fine-tuning every individual leaf, even with the smallest of changes and refinements, would result in an immeasurable boost in power when amplified across the entire sea of trees.

Ah Ji, meanwhile, moved like a creature of the night, darting through the shadowy corners of the training grounds.

It continuously honed its Shadow Assault, Shadow Mimicry, and Shadow Cloak abilities until their Skill Levels reached the absurd stage of Daoist Skill Perfection.

This allowed it to move without creating the slightest ripple of energy.

At the same time, Gu Ming also taught it a Defense Technique that primarily used its Light Spiritual Root, serving as a new trump card for unconventional battles.

None of this would have been possible without the Dream Cultivation Space.

Therefore, every night, Gu Ming would bring the consciousnesses of his three Pet Beasts into that miraculous dream training ground.

This was the cradle where their true metamorphosis took place.

On the vast, boundless sea of consciousness within the dream, Ah Kun had a stage to unleash its full potential.

After consuming the "Ten Thousand Miles Undersea Deep Stone Milk," its understanding of "Abyssal Stop" had fundamentally changed.

Creating a small, still pool of water was easy, but making an entire sea stand still was incredibly difficult.

Ah Kun attempted to simulate the conditions of a ten-thousand-fathom abyss, gathering an immeasurable weight of water into a formless, heavy field of "potential"—a power that was drawn tight but not yet released.

At first, the vortexes it created were either too small or extremely unstable. The "stillness" would often collapse in less than a breath, to say nothing of transitioning into a "Whale Leap."

Each failure was accompanied by a severe drain on its Spiritual Power.

But Ah Kun possessed a Resilience far exceeding that of ordinary Pet Beasts, especially in the dream where time seemed to stretch on.

It tried again and again, tirelessly, sensing the water shift from turbulent to calm, then attempting to ignite that impulse to "leap" from within the absolute stillness.

Failure. Failure. And still more failure.

Sometimes, it would force the leap before building enough still potential, resulting in nothing more than a harmless splash.

Other times, it would accumulate too much potential, becoming as inert as a boulder sinking to the bottom, losing the dynamic spark required for the "Leap."

In the real world, whenever Gu Ming was scheduled for a match, he would go and fight.

Just as Elder Huo had advised, Gu Ming didn’t stubbornly fight losing battles.

When he encountered monstrous opponents he truly couldn’t defeat—those with off-the-charts damage or with Talent Abilities that completely suppressed his—Gu Ming would strategically have Cyan Treasure conserve its strength rather than forcing it to fight to the bitter end.

After all, fighting to the end would mean spending a lot of money on healing his Pet Beast.

It was worth noting...

After Cyan Treasure was injured in a match on the first day of the competition, the healing fees alone had cost him three million.

And that was just for one match. Every fight was just as intense; the ferocity never waned.

Everyone who fought Gu Ming was giving it their all, desperate to make a name for themselves.

The tournament organizers didn’t provide free healing services; they merely intervened to prevent deaths.

During this time, Gu Ming got the sense that the organizers weren’t making most of their money from ticket sales.

Rather, it was from the large Pet Beast medical service providers stationed at the arena.

Incidentally, the first time Gu Ming lost to someone, it sent shockwaves through the internet.

However, after he occasionally lost a few more matches, people’s initial shock gave way to acceptance.

Gu Ming was academically brilliant and capable of publishing papers in top-tier journals; that alone was enough for people to admire him.

It seemed only natural that his combat ability might be slightly weaker than some others. After all, nobody’s perfect.

As a result, his popularity online didn’t drop. In fact, now that he had a flaw, he seemed to become even more famous.

In any case, all Gu Ming could do was shrug and have Ah Kun accelerate its practice of the Wave-Swallowing Technique.

Thanks to the Spiritual Pill Liquid from Elder Huo, the progress bar for Ah Kun’s study of the Wave-Swallowing Technique had slowly crept up to 90%.

Although only a month had passed in reality, it had spent what amounted to more than a year cultivating in the dream.

Only a high-end Combat Technique like the Wave-Swallowing Technique, one that touched upon the very Evolution of a Pet Beast, required such a painstaking learning process.

Besides consolidating their foundations, Cyan Treasure and Ah Ji had also successfully learned several new Combat Skills.

「February, just after the Spring Festival.」

「The Dream Cultivation Space.」

After accumulating power through "Abyssal Stop" for a long time, Ah Kun didn’t deliberately try to "Leap." Instead, it submerged its consciousness into the very center of the waters—a region that, while seemingly calm, was forcefully suppressed by its will and contained terrifying kinetic energy.

It was as if it had become that ancient Giant Whale it had once seen in its consciousness, awakening in the silence of the deep sea.

From the depths of its soul, a yearning for the world above the waves, for the vast open sky, began to emanate.

This single thread of pure, unadulterated desire—an impulse free of any technique—became the very Fuse for its breakthrough!

"VMMMM..."

In the center of the silent waters shrouded by the power of "Abyssal Stop," an invisible force erupted from below.

The entire body of water grew taut to its absolute limit, like a giant bow drawn to its fullest. The surface dipped slightly, forming a concave depression.

A "potential" that seemed ready to shatter the very air began to build!

Although this "potential" only lasted for an instant before dissipating and the water returned to normal...

...this time, Ah Kun had truly grasped it: the critical point between "stillness" and "motion," the threshold of a leap about to happen!

Gu Ming, watching clearly from the shore, had a flicker of joyful surprise in his eyes.

With this successful experience to build upon, its subsequent training now had a clear direction.

Ah Kun began to repeatedly replay and simulate that feeling. It went from succeeding once every ten attempts to gradually stabilizing its success rate at once every three or four attempts.

The field of "potential" it simulated grew larger in scope and its duration increased.

Although it was still a long way from truly unleashing "Whale Soaring and Heaven-Devouring-star Transformation"...

...but simply this preliminary fusion with "potential" had already multiplied the power of its "Wave-Swallowing Technique: Abyssal Stop," causing it to evolve from a simple control skill into a composite technique that possessed both powerful area control and terrifying burst potential.

’Ah Kun’s progress toward the Entry Level for the second step of the Wave-Swallowing Technique: 98%.’

Gu Ming saw the progress update and nodded.

When the dream ended and they returned to reality...

Ah Kun took a long, deep breath.

With its new experience and understanding, it could feel that its body still had a great deal of untapped potential waiting to be developed.

’What part is that?’

Its eyes darted, and its Divine Sense swept over the fins on its body.

In the dream, when it had leaped into the sky, its huge fins had spread open like the wings of a giant bird, allowing it to soar through the air.

At this very moment, Ah Kun felt it not only in its body and mind, but its two fins also began to feel strangely itchy, as if they could truly expand and grow into wings for flight.

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