Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

"What is the Cyan Pine?

"It stands proudly on cliffs, rooted in stone, ignoring the wind and rain, fearing neither heat nor cold!

"It possesses none of humanity’s hesitation, desire, fear, or indecisiveness!

"It has only absolute silence, absolute resilience, absolute synchronicity with heaven and earth!"

"Our instruction will guide you to temporarily set aside the joys and sorrows of your ’lesser self,’ to completely immerse your minds in the imagery of the Cyan Pine, and to feel that pure and natural state of being!

"Only then can you build the most solid spiritual foundation, allowing you to better resonate with your natural partners in the future!"

As his words fell.

A dozen or so members of the Friends of Nature began to spread out to the various "Contract Guidance Zones," directing the students who had received Pet Beasts to sit cross-legged and begin their unified instruction.

Seeing this, Gu Ming no longer hid in the crowd. Instead, he walked directly into a Contract Guidance Zone to observe the lesson seriously.

The event organizers recognized Gu Ming from the day before and rushed over to greet him with handshakes.

No one on site tried to stop him; they all assumed he was there to supervise.

Because of this, they put forth one hundred percent effort in serving the students, apparently not wanting to lose face in front of the top-tier journal scholar.

Gu Ming didn’t just listen with his ears; he also used his Divine Sense to perceive the Spiritual Fluctuations.

Without a doubt, the Cultivation Technique’s operational path they were teaching was indeed the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique.

The guidance on its "Divine Charm" was also quite remarkable, provided by Beastmasters who had all cultivated the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique to the Perfection Realm.

For a few of the older ones, Gu Ming could even sense that their Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique had already broken through its limits, and they had cultivated a unique, shared Daoist Skill of their own.

Gu Ming stood at the edge of the crowd, his pupils constricting slightly as a chill crept up his spine.

He was too familiar with the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique!

He himself had relied on dream Cultivation to push his revised version of the "Cyan Pine" to the Daoist Skill Perfection Realm.

Therefore, he was extremely familiar with what the old version of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique cultivated, and he could clearly capture every change in their Spiritual Fluctuations.

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The nationally distributed version of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique required Cultivators to imitate the resilient nature of the Cyan Pine, fearing neither wind nor rain.

Cultivating this technique didn’t require profound understanding. High school seniors just had to endure "storm-like" attacks in a spiritual training room, growing stronger through repeated failures.

The original intent of this method was not wrong, and its purpose was good.

However, during the cultivation process, it was easy to overly identify with the Cyan Pine over the long term, leading to a weakening of one’s humanity.

This was the main reason why the technique was easily broken when facing a Demon Fiend’s Spiritual Domain attack.

But could you say the experts and professors were wrong? Not entirely.

After all, who could have predicted that the subsequent Demon War would begin with a backlash from this Spiritual Technique?

Gu Ming had entertained the fantasy that perhaps the system’s prediction, born of a temporal displacement, that the "Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique will lead to the Demonization of Beastmasters" was false.

’How could a Cultivation Technique practiced by the entire nation be wrong?’

But... those were merely the fantasies of the weak.

When true disaster strikes, there is no time for regrets about not being better prepared. The wheels of the era will roll forward, crushing everything in their path without mercy.

’The right thing to do is to abandon fantasy and prepare early.’

"Mr. Gu Ming, are you satisfied with the way I’ve taught the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique?"

After teaching ten students, an old man in a light green uniform noticed Gu Ming staring at them so intensely that the students were starting to look scared.

The old man took the initiative to stand before Gu Ming. The Spiritual Fluctuation from his Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique—which had reached Daoist Skill Perfection and was even faintly breaking its limits—naturally emanated, striking the tendrils of Gu Ming’s extended Divine Sense and knocking them back.

Gu Ming immediately snapped back to his senses and retracted his focus, shaking his head. "My ’Cyan Pine’ and the original Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique are no longer Cultivation Techniques of the same path."

"What do you mean by that? Even if you’ve developed your own unique understanding and reached a new height beyond the limits of Daoist Skill Perfection, you shouldn’t deny your own foundation."

Hearing Gu Ming’s claim that their "paths were different," the unnamed old man put on a defiant expression.

To put it bluntly, if it weren’t for Gu Ming’s celebrity status as a scholar from a top-tier journal, he would have had him thrown out of the event on the spot.

"The core of my cultivation is ’using the pine to temper the will and refine the self.’

"The ultimate goal is to strengthen the Beastmaster’s own spiritual essence. The Cyan Pine is merely a symbol and a reference; the person is the true subject," Gu Ming said faintly.

Gu Ming’s meaning was clear. What the other party was teaching wasn’t as simple as slipping in their own ideas; it was a move toward another extreme—eradicating humanity and amplifying inhuman traits!

This subtle difference was completely imperceptible to an outsider.

They might even feel that the Friends of Nature’s primitive, pure version was more "advanced" and had greater potential for growth.

On the contrary, the more one cultivated this way, the more likely they were to become the very thing described in the system’s data—Demonized Beastmasters who hated humans for destroying nature and sought to return the world to a "pure" natural state!

"Mr. Gu Ming, isn’t that exactly what we are teaching? Where does this talk of ’different paths’ come from?"

The old man looked perplexed for a moment, then continued:

"I hope you will refrain from expressing such advanced and profound opinions.

"The children are still young and just starting out. They can’t fully comprehend a Spiritual Technique in one go.

"Everyone has their own Cultivation Technique. You cannot impose your understanding of a Daoist Skill onto others. That would limit their potential."

After speaking, the old man shot a look at the professional security personnel nearby.

Two hired Five-star Beastmasters stepped up to Gu Ming’s side and made a gesture for him to leave.

Gu Ming nodded and left on the spot without further argument.

He knew the other party was getting anxious and didn’t want him promoting the latest version of the "Cyan Pine" technique here.

Their conspiracy wasn’t focused on the Pet Beasts, but was hidden within this seemingly charitable "Cultivation Technique instruction"!

They were exploiting the widespread popularity of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique to do something.

From the very beginning of these young Beastmasters’ Cultivation, they were planting the seeds of "rejecting humanity and revering the inhuman"!

This seed would take root and sprout as their Cultivation deepened, ultimately leading them to embrace the extremist ideology of the Friends of Nature.

Admittedly, the nationally distributed version also had this flaw.

But after being developed and modified by experts from the Ministry of Education, it definitely didn’t have such a strong inhuman flavor—at least not as extreme as the version taught by the Friends of Nature.

He wanted to speak up and warn them, but he couldn’t say anything.

’What could he say?’

’That the officially promoted Cultivation Technique was being taught incorrectly?’

Their teaching was entirely within the normal framework of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique; only the emphasis was different.

’Was he supposed to debate whether "humanity" should be preserved right then and there?’

Such a profound discussion was not suitable for beginners. He could even be counter-accused by the Friends of Nature of hindering the young people from building their foundation.

Gu Ming could only watch helplessly as hundreds of young faces, guided by the members of the Friends of Nature, closed their eyes to focus and cultivate the most primitive version of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique.

Sunlight bathed them, and the scene was still peaceful, but in his eyes, it was as if he could see the seeds of the future Demon War silently spreading.

The conflict of ideals between the new and old eras had just begun its silent prelude in this seemingly ordinary Cultivation Technique lesson.

Perhaps, among everyone present, Gu Ming was the only one who realized it.

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