Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

After the new semester began, Gu Ming spent several consecutive weeks immersed in the intense league tournament.

He fought in nearly forty battles, maintaining a win rate of around ninety percent.

After this month’s baptism by fire in high-intensity combat, Gu Ming had some new ideas about cultivating his Pet Beasts’ core combat power.

Currently, Ah Kun, as a Four-star Pet Beast, was the undisputed pillar of the team, thanks to its profound Spiritual Power reserves and powerful crowd-control abilities.

Cyan Treasure had originally been the strongest on the team, but with Ah Kun’s Evolution to Four-star, its combat power was starting to lag.

Although it had yet to break through to Four-star, Cyan Treasure’s unique "Rootless Wood" Grass Seed, with its ability to create life from nothingness, could often create unexpected battle opportunities.

So, Cyan Treasure barely managed to save face as the team’s ’big brother’.

Recently, however, Cyan Treasure had started to feel its combat power no longer matched its top-dog status, and it had developed some power-level anxiety.

Gu Ming had often picked up on Cyan Treasure’s thoughts of wanting to evolve.

As for Ah Ji, the possessor of the Light and Dark Dual Spiritual Roots...

Its true strength lay in its highly awakened Spiritual Power, which allowed it to perceive weaknesses and intimidate opponents in battle.

Furthermore, its extremely high Skill Level with Blazing Light Fist allowed it to switch from a support role to a main attacker, making it one of the trump cards in Gu Ming’s tactical playbook.

Ah Ji was also what the system considered a Chaos Creature, possessing immense cultivation potential, so Gu Ming planned to put Ah Ji’s Four-star cultivation plan on the agenda as well.

However, Evolution was not a smooth journey.

Ah Kun’s successful advancement had a certain element of serendipity to it.

He knew well that for the vast majority of Beastmasters, Four-star was a significant watershed.

Many students still remained at Three-star by the time they graduated, just like Ruan Jing and Ruan Taibai, whom he had met while working in the community.

As for Ruan Jing’s Star Level having since advanced, that was a story for another time.

Gu Ming just thought that since his two Pet Beasts had bloodlines that weren’t overtly high-potential, he couldn’t afford to slack off.

However, in the eyes of outsiders, Gu Ming was only a first-year, yet he already possessed one Four-star Pet Beast and two stable Three-star battle pets.

Such a growth rate was rare even at Wenquxing University, a place teeming with geniuses.

Among the freshmen, the majority were still Two-star Beastmasters, with only about ten percent having cultivated their main pet to Three-star.

For them to have raised a Pet Beast to Three-star at this point, they either came from wealthy families or had maxed out every possible loan. Gu Ming couldn’t compete with that.

Including Gu Ming, there were only two first-year students in the entire university who possessed a Four-star Pet Beast.

The other was a student from the Alchemy Element who had shot to prominence after the New Year holiday—Jiang Chen.

Gu Ming had no impression of this student who had so suddenly made a name for himself.

After asking around, he only gathered a few scraps of information: this person had contracts with four Pill Pets and possessed exceptional Talent.

Before, he had been nothing more than a high-achieving student in the Alchemy Element, good enough to earn scholarships but not particularly outstanding.

His Pet Beasts’ Evolution path had seemed stable; when others were cultivating their main pets to Three-star, his Pill Pets reached Three-star at the same time.

And when everyone began the arduous push toward Four-star, he had somehow been lucky enough to receive the "Dragon’s Blessing."

At just the right moment, his Dragon Race Pill Pet, as if blessed by fortune, experienced a sudden surge in its Cultivation progress.

After returning to school, with a university professor overseeing the process, it broke through to Four-star in one go.

His sudden appearance was a surprise to the entire university.

No one had expected that, aside from Gu Ming, someone else could possess such "luck."

Coincidentally, Gu Ming’s Ah Kun had also evolved thanks to a Dragon Race-related opportunity, "Fish Leaping the Dragon Gate."

There seemed to be a vaguely similar trajectory between the two of them.

This couldn’t help but raise doubts in Gu Ming’s mind:

’Was Jiang Chen’s path closely tied to the power of Elixirs, or... was it more deeply connected to the Dragon Race?’

And the "Sound of the Nian Beast" had appeared on the very same night the "Dragon’s Blessing" descended.

Normally, Gu Ming might not have made the connection.

But now, having glimpsed a few secrets through the system’s future bullet comments, a seed of suspicion had been quietly planted in his mind.

...

As the league entered the end of March, the tournament schedule was nearing its conclusion.

Gu Ming wasn’t fixated on his final ranking. The past month of duels against various styles and types of Pet Beasts had greatly broadened his horizons and allowed him to accumulate valuable combat experience.

He clearly understood that compared to fighting for a temporary ranking, the real priority now was to solidify his foundation and pave the way for his two core Pet Beasts’ Evolution.

Competing for rankings was the last thing he needed to worry about.

Considering that Ah Kun’s Four-star Evolution was unplanned, Gu Ming reviewed the event in hindsight.

It was the bonus from its Form Evolution that gave Ah Kun the threshold to further advance its Wave-Swallowing Technique Battle Technique.

Therefore, if Cyan Treasure and Ah Ji wanted to break through their bloodline limitations and evolve to Four-star, the best method was to start with Form Evolution, allowing both of them to evolve on a full-body-form level.

Based on this, he would need to conduct tailor-made physical tests for both pets, as well as an investigation into their bloodline Power, to see what adjustments could be made to their future cultivation plans.

However, this was just the cultivation on the surface.

From the system’s perspective, the cultivation plans Gu Ming created for his two pets were under the grand, impressive titles of "Time Dragon" and "Chaos Creature."

During this time of simultaneously competing and cultivating, Gu Ming naturally made his way into the national top one hundred.

This was an achievement that even Gu Ming hadn’t expected.

When he looked again, he found that his next opponent on the match list was another first-year student from his own university.

The Four-star freshman himself, Jiang Chen.

As for Lu You, they had already fallen from the rankings a few days ago, failing to advance to the national finals.

Star Spirit had been sad about it for a little while, but Gu Ming thought it was for the best. ’Star Spirit hasn’t fully matured yet. Forcing it to compete in the arena is detrimental to its growth.’

"Gu Ming, wait after class. Jiang Chen is looking for you."

After Professor Zhang’s specialized course on the Balance Dao ended, Gu Ming was surprised to suddenly hear the professor’s voice transmitted to him from the podium.

Jiang Chen was the student he was supposed to fight tomorrow.

’What could he want, looking for me at a time like this?’

Gu Ming looked up at Professor Zhang. The Balance Dao he taught was exactly what Ah Ji needed to hear about.

It was currently struggling to balance the Light and Dark Dual Spiritual Roots within its body; otherwise, its physical development would be restricted.

Gu Ming did as he was told and waited for a minute. After the students in the lecture hall had mostly cleared out, a man in the stereotypical white-robed uniform of an Alchemist appeared from behind the door.

The man wore a pair of flat-framed glasses, had a buzz cut and a square face, and looked to be in a hurry. It seemed he had business with Gu Ming.

As soon as Jiang Chen appeared, his eyes met Gu Ming’s, and he said, "Gu Ming, I have some news that I’m sure you’re very interested in..."

Gu Ming wasn’t in a hurry. He simply nodded, waiting to see what the other wanted to say.

Seeing that Gu Ming wasn’t taking the bait, Jiang Chen had no choice but to drop another bombshell:

"I know where Zhang Yunpeng is. But I have a condition. In tomorrow’s match, can you intentionally lose to me?"

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