Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Inside the training hall of Lanqi City High School.

Although it was the New Year holiday, the atmosphere was even more tense than usual.

Several senior students were calming their minds and centering themselves, adjusting their condition.

One of them, a boy in a blue tracksuit, was talking to his companion, his tone filled with unconcealed pride:

"I put a ton of hard work into this version of the Cyan Pine Visualization Method. My Divine Sense’s condensation has finally reached the Mastery Level!

"I feel like I’m not that far from the Master Level threshold of ’Mind Transformation,’ right?"

As he spoke, his eyes were exceptionally clear and sharp.

The air around him seemed to ripple faintly due to his highly concentrated mental focus.

His words drew envious glances from several other students nearby who were also practicing the new version of the Cyan Pine Visualization Method.

Compared to the previous year, many university professors had now developed several auxiliary Arrays based on the Cyan Pine Cultivation Technique to aid in learning.

Although the mainstream view in the Beast Taming Realm was to avoid engraving Arrays in the brain, there were still quite a few innovative instructors who dared to experiment and develop such auxiliary Arrays.

As a result, the students who were the first to use these new Arrays could actually take their Cyan Pine Cultivation Technique to the next level, even exhibiting states that Gu Ming himself had not shown at the time.

This "Mind Transformation" was the new Master Level standard that had emerged from this year’s iteration of the Cyan Pine Cultivation Technique.

「On the other side of the training hall.」

A few students who had just received their Pet Beasts from the "Friends of Nature" event and started practicing the original version of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique remained silent.

One of them, a boy named Li Ming, kept his head down, but a storm was brewing in his heart:

’Mastery Level? And already getting a glimpse of Mind Transformation?’

’We all just became adults when we started tempering our spirits. With this old version of the technique, I haven’t even stabilized my Cyan Pine’s roots yet. How can the gap be this huge...’

He couldn’t help but wonder about the other guy’s age. Maybe he’d turned eighteen right at the start of his senior year, or perhaps he’d started school late and was already an adult as a junior.

Just then, the indicator light on the temporary live-streaming equipment at the front of the training hall lit up.

Gu Ming walked in front of the camera. He was dressed simply today, exuding a natural air of calm composure.

He didn’t waste time with pleasantries and cut straight to the chase:

"Hello, everyone. Happy New Year.

"Today is a friendly exchange of skills. The focus isn’t on winning or losing, but on observation and verification.

"The path of spiritual cultivation is about understanding your heart and seeing your true nature, perceiving the subtle ripples in your Sea of Consciousness. This is far more important than the outcome of a single match."

His voice carried clearly throughout the hall via the equipment and flowed into the newly started live stream.

Gu Ming’s powerful Divine Sense naturally emanated a palpable field. The so-called "new concept" of "Mind Transformation" paled in comparison before him. Every student present felt as if Gu Ming was a towering, ancient pine, his Spiritual Power capable of holding up the sky.

So strong!

This isn’t a Three-star Beastmaster anymore, is it?

Many of the underclassmen from his school already made the connection to Ah Kun’s Four-star Evolution.

It was a known fact that a Pet Beast’s Star Level and power generally could not exceed its master’s Spiritual Power limit.

Otherwise, the overflowing Spiritual Power would put pressure on the Beastmaster’s own Sea of Consciousness, affecting their performance.

Although the Beastmaster themselves don’t physically fight in a Pet Beast battle,

Beastmasters practice Spiritual Techniques, allowing them to launch Spiritual Attacks from the sidelines or help establish Spiritual Protection. In fact, this was one of the criteria for university students to graduate successfully.

Gu Ming’s display of Spiritual Power had clearly reached the level of a Four-star Beastmaster.

But he was only halfway through his freshman year of university.

Thinking of this, everyone was filled with a sense of solemn respect.

As expected of Gu Xueshen, someone who could publish papers in top journals!

A short while later, the competition began. The live stream camera first focused on the boy in the blue tracksuit.

Gu Ming observed his external Spiritual Fluctuation for a dozen seconds before speaking calmly:

"Zhang, you’re pursuing the steady state of ’Cyan Pine Rooting,’ but your Spiritual Power is anchored too deeply downward. You’ve lost some of the ’Moving with the Wind’ Resilience.

"Try retracting thirty percent of the force from your externalized thoughts. Stop trying to control it so forcefully. Replace ’control’ with ’Perception’ and feel the natural spiritual flow in the environment. Your technique will immediately become thirty percent more harmonious."

Hearing this, Zhang, who was on the field, hastily made the adjustment.

A moment later, his Sea of Consciousness trembled, and a look of pure shock spread across his face.

"How is this possible..." he murmured.

He had only subconsciously adjusted his use of Spiritual Power as Gu Ming instructed, but he immediately felt his perpetually tense focus suddenly relax. His perception of the outside world, in turn, became clearer and sharper!

Even the operation of the Brain Array became smoother.

He looked at Gu Ming with an expression full of incredible admiration.

Gu Ming’s gaze shifted to another student, a girl:

"Wang, focus on gathering your scattered Perception and condensing it into a single line. Try again."

Wang did as she was told. Her originally diffuse and gentle Spiritual Fluctuation suddenly became condensed and piercing!

Next, Gu Ming even turned his attention to Li Ming and the others who were practicing the old version of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique. Although he didn’t practice the old version himself, he could see right through them thanks to his Perfection Skill Level and immediately offered a piece of advice:

"’Unmoving’ doesn’t just mean your body is still. Your minds aren’t calm, so you haven’t truly achieved stillness. Center your minds. Don’t let stray thoughts interfere with you Cultivating your Technique."

Li Ming’s expression changed slightly. Gu Ming’s words to them were harsh, but they were true.

With just a few casual words, Gu Ming had actually improved the Cultivation Technique Skill Level of the students from the opposing school.

Meanwhile, those of them practicing the original version couldn’t help but feel their hearts waver when they saw the others improving, which in turn made the circulation of their own technique less pure.

Seeing the Cultivators on site all entering a state of practice according to his words, Gu Ming nodded.

「Meanwhile, on Lanqi City’s local Beast Taming forum.」

A post titled "[LIVE] [Top Journal’s Gu Xueshen Teaches Online! Second Day of the New Year, a Direct Comparison of the New and Old Versions of the Cyan Pine Visualization Method!]" was quickly bumped to the top.

1F (OP): Go watch! God Gu is live-streaming! He’s critiquing the underclassmen’s spiritual cultivation on site, and every piece of advice is spot-on!

2F: Is that really Gu Ming?!

3F: I just tuned in and heard him guiding an underclassman on adjusting his technique. Did he have an epiphany or something?

4F: Now *this* is how a master teaches! No fluff, just practical details!

5F: Shared! My kid’s been stuck with their Spiritual Power Cultivation!

As the live stream continued, the post slowly gained traction.

By noon, the number of people viewing the post had reached six or seven thousand!

Don’t be fooled by the number; six or seven thousand might not seem like much compared to a typical popular live stream.

These were people from the local Beast Taming circle—either parents, the city’s elite, or industry insiders who specialized in the ways of Beast Taming.

As the post gained popularity, more and more people realized that the cultivators of the old version of the technique were indeed getting completely demolished by those using the new one.

Back on the short-video platform’s live stream, the viewer count had unknowingly climbed to tens of thousands. The scrolling comments flashed by like a flowing river, too fast to read.

Many local viewers who had initially clicked on the stream out of curiosity, including a good number of parents, were quickly captivated by Gu Ming’s masterful analysis of spiritual cultivation.

An exchange that was originally confined to the campus was now seeing its influence spread to a much wider audience through the invisible ripples of the internet.

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