Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

"The content they’re teaching is too primitive. Schools stopped using that version for instruction long ago."

Teacher Ling gently shook her head, her tone clearly disapproving.

"Did you see this in the city center plaza?"

"It’s not just there. This organization is running activities simultaneously across the entire country."

"Look at these livestreams. There are still quite a few events going on right now."

As he spoke, Gu Ming took out his phone and showed his homeroom teacher the livestreams of the Friends of Nature charity events happening all over the country.

The content was almost identical: giving away free Pet Beasts to students of the right age and simultaneously teaching them the original version of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique.

His homeroom teacher, Teacher Ling, had just experienced that prophetic vision through the Star Spirit. She could clearly sense that the grand, ancient ceremony in the vision seemed to be orchestrated by some kind of ancient "Ancient Divine Deer Ancestor Spirit" at its core.

Of course, this was merely the Perception conveyed on the surface of the ceremony.

She knew full well that the manpower, resources, and organizational capacity required to support such a massive, nationwide "General Knowledge Ceremony" were far more complex than the Star Spirit could perceive.

There had to be an astonishingly large group of Pet Beasts working in concert behind the scenes.

And this deeper network of Power was something the Star Spirit couldn’t yet reach. Its strength was too weak; having only been born recently, it didn’t have the ability to see the full picture behind this matter.

As a frontline educator, Teacher Ling was keenly aware of just how difficult it was to hold a ceremony of this scale and how much astounding energy it represented.

This was precisely why she had intuitively judged that "Ancient Divine Deer" as having ill intentions.

She explained to Gu Ming that the core philosophy of the current, nationally promoted standard version was for a person to comprehend the essence of the "Cyan Pine" from a human-centric perspective.

Although it retained the shortcut of letting a Beastmaster "become a Cyan Pine" to aid their understanding, it was nothing like the method Gu Ming had researched, which completely pivoted to a "path of the self" using the Cyan Pine merely as a reference.

You could say that the current nationwide version was a "compromise solution" that took many factors into account.

On one hand, it could be supplemented by students relying on pills from their parents to accelerate their cultivation. On the other, it allowed students to take a slower path, cultivating for a lifetime after high school graduation.

But this didn’t mean the compromise solution was the most efficient.

Gu Ming’s newly developed Cyan Pine Skill, supplemented with the "Brain Array," already had a comprehensive learning efficiency several times greater than the old version.

The reason it hadn’t been rolled out on a large scale was mainly due to insufficient practical case studies and data accumulation at this stage.

It would only see its explosive growth period after students from schools across the country used this Cultivation Technique to achieve consistently brilliant results in their college entrance exams, building up enough of a reputation and influence nationwide.

After all, the nationwide promotion of a Spiritual Technique involved an extremely complex review process and a balancing of various interests. It couldn’t be fully implemented immediately just because it was "more efficient and safer."

It was true that some parents had learned about the power of the new Cyan Pine Skill through various channels, but on a national scale, cultivating the old Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique was still the mainstream choice.

The version taught by the Friends of Nature, however, was a complete regression to its most primitive state.

In terms of direct harm to the students, it might not be immediately apparent.

Judging from the ceremonial impression given by the Star Spirit, the immense resources it consumed seemed utterly at odds with their proclaimed "charitable" nature.

Teacher Ling frowned, thinking:

’Charity... doesn’t seem to require piling up operational costs to such a staggering degree, does it? What’s the real motive behind this?’

When an organization’s operational costs clearly exceed the reasonable budget for its stated purpose, its true motives become worthy of investigation.

His homeroom teacher, Teacher Ling, began to seriously doubt their intentions.

Of course, Gu Ming had also been a factor, deliberately guiding the conversation, but the suspicious points he raised were indeed objective facts.

Teacher Ling also realized that Gu Ming’s sudden visit on the first day of the new year had been unannounced.

Although he had called to offer holiday greetings before the new year, their relationship wasn’t so close as to warrant a personal New Year’s visit. Clearly, he hadn’t come without a purpose.

She put down her phone, looked directly at Gu Ming, and asked:

"Just say it. What do you need my help with?"

"It’s like this, Teacher."

"I’m preparing to make an educational comparison video. The plan is to have students from our school who cultivate the new Cyan Pine Skill compete against students who cultivate the old Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique in a public, fair contest within a specific Spiritual Domain."

"I’ll record the whole process and the results and release it as a video online."

"Heh, I think I understand what you’re trying to do."

Teacher Ling smiled and said, "I support you."

Gu Ming was a little surprised. He had thought he would need more arguments to convince her, and was even planning to propose giving a special lecture at the school to win her support. He never expected his teacher to agree so readily.

"Are you curious why I agreed so readily?"

His homeroom teacher saw through his thoughts and explained, "It’s actually very simple."

"Your goal this time is clearly to ’crash their party.’ A comparison like this is bound to attract huge public attention, which in itself is enough to significantly boost our school’s reputation and visibility. That’s reason enough."

For a school, high visibility is an excellent opportunity to increase its popularity and influence.

Besides, Gu Ming’s party-crashing this time wasn’t just a simple provocation. It was also to promote a proven, more efficient Cultivation Technique, which would be beneficial to the wider student population.

While the Friends of Nature were holding their high-profile events across the country, it was the perfect time to ride their momentum and draw the public’s attention to a comparison of the merits of the cultivation techniques themselves.

With the plan set, Teacher Ling immediately sprang into action, starting to call the third-year high school students from their school.

As a recent graduate of the school, an academic rising star admitted to the top-tier Wenquxing University, and an author of multiple papers in Peak Journals, Gu Ming’s name alone had immense appeal.

As soon as the news was out, the third-year students in the group chat eagerly signed up, hoping to participate in this highly buzzworthy comparison event.

Afterwards, Teacher Ling contacted a "diehard" class from a neighboring school that still insisted on teaching the old Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique, inviting them to participate as the control group.

The reason she gave was also using Gu Ming as bait to attract their students, claiming that the winning group would receive guidance from Gu Ming himself.

Most of the time, as long as someone had the halo of a Peak Journal author, they would automatically attract a following of Beastmasters.

And just like that, even the class taught by the old stick-in-the-mud was drawn in by Gu Ming’s fame. They peppered her with questions to see if the offer was real.

After a few grumbles, the old stick-in-the-mud reluctantly agreed to hold the competition during the New Year holiday.

It had to be during the New Year.

Gu Ming was only home because it was the holiday.

After the New Year, he had to go back to compete in the national league. There was no guarantee they’d get another chance to meet Gu Ming in the future.

’It still feels like something is missing...’

Teacher Ling murmured, feeling it wasn’t enough.

She thought they also needed to contact the students who had received Pet Beasts at the Friends of Nature charity event.

Luckily, Gu Ming had filmed a video at the scene.

Teacher Ling recognized some familiar faces in the video. Using the enhanced memory from her Beastmaster’s Spiritual Technique, she recalled some of their names and immediately called teachers from other classes to coordinate contacting them.

To push this matter forward efficiently, Teacher Ling bustled about, making one phone call after another to coordinate with all parties, and ended up busy all the way into the evening.

Keep in mind, this was the very first day of the New Year.

For her to pour so much energy into this "engineered academic showdown" was truly something else.

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