Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

With their direction clear, Gu Ming and Ah Ji immediately began the tedious yet crucial period of skill refinement.

The essence of "Shadow-Lock Cage" lay in "restriction" and "unpredictability."

It required transforming the Power of Shadow into formless yet tangible chains. These chains wouldn't just trap an enemy, but could also interfere with and corrode the opponent's energy flow.

Meanwhile, the Blazing Light Mountain-Breaking Fist pursued the ultimate "penetration" and "burst power."

It demanded that scorching light energy be highly compressed into a single point and released in an instant, powerful enough to shatter mountains, split stones, and destroy anything in its path.

One yin, one yang; one for control, one for attack. The two Skills perfectly corresponded to the nascent fusion of light and dark attributes within the Blazing Shadow Pill.

Inside the Cultivation Chamber, Ah Ji could be seen sometimes standing still in deep concentration, the shadows around its body writhing like living things as it tried to form the first "shadow lock" with tangible binding force;

and at other times, it would lunge with a low roar, a blazing white light flaring between its claws as it struck a special alloy target post, creating a deep THUD and leaving behind scorch marks of varying depths.

The core of every attempt and release of a Skill was the mobilization and refinement of the new Blazing Shadow Pill within its Dantian.

Following Professor Weng's guidance, Gu Ming required Ah Ji to consciously guide the fused light and dark energy from the Pill along specific meridian pathways when using its Skills, completing the energy transfer and transformation from "Pill" to "Skill."

This process was exceptionally difficult at first. The energy transfer was sluggish, and the Skills' effects were inconsistent.

But Gu Ming was extremely patient, using his Divine Sense to help Ah Ji perceive the flow of energy with greater subtlety.

"No rush. A little bit of change each day."

Gu Ming often said this to Ah Ji.

He recorded the data from every practice session, comparing it to the descriptions in the Daoist Scripture and another set of "innovative" key points in his mind, constantly fine-tuning Ah Ji's power exertion and energy ratio.

He could feel that as the number of practice sessions increased, Ah Ji's control over the Blazing Shadow Pill was improving at a visible rate.

The Pill itself was also becoming more inwardly lustrous, its patterns clearer and more stable through this repeated cycle of use and recovery.

Meanwhile.

Gu Ming also began to scout for suitable opponents for Cyan Treasure's evolution plan.

Initially, he subconsciously looked toward Sub-Dragons or Pet Beasts with Dragon Blood that had obvious draconic features.

But he soon found that his options were limited, and the price for sparring partners was very high.

Just as he was feeling troubled, a thought flashed through his mind like lightning:

'Wait, am I getting tunnel vision here?'

'The system's criteria for judging 'Dragon Race bloodline' is very simple.'

'In reality, creatures like snakes and pythons are considered Pet Beasts containing the bloodline of a Flood Dragon or even a purer Dragon Race bloodline in the system's eyes.'

'Going out of my way to find a Pet Beast with pure Dragon Blood for Cyan Treasure in the real world is inconvenient for scheduling, and it's hard to max out its daily training schedule.'

With this shift in thinking, everything suddenly became clear.

Just like that, the pool of potential training opponents expanded instantly.

From common Iron-Thread Pythons and Jade-Scale Snakes to the rarer Shadow Serpents and Single-Horned Rock Boas...

These Snake Species Pet Beasts were not Dragon Pets themselves.

But their hidden bloodlines could very well be the perfect crucible for Cyan Treasure, who needed to hone its Dragon Might!

Gu Ming stroked his chin as a new plan gradually took shape.

He would leverage the massive advantage of the Credit Points he'd earned from his top-tier publication to post a large number of sparring requests online.

Thanks to his gains from the Yichuan Ruins, Gu Ming was still filthy rich and could spend his fortune as he pleased.

And so, in addition to Credit Points, the rewards he offered also included large sums of money.

As he threw out a crazy number of sparring offers, the students of the entire school went wild.

Soon, Gu Ming was inundated with sparring applications.

In the days that followed, Ah Ji polished its Skills and Inner Core day after day.

Meanwhile, Cyan Treasure battled its sparring partners. The two training regimens proceeded in parallel.

...

「In the blink of an eye, several months had passed.」

To help Cyan Treasure complete its unique and difficult Evolution,

Gu Ming had invested far more time and energy than he had originally anticipated.

For almost the entire semester, his schedule revolved around two things:

Supervising Ah Ji's refinement of the Blazing Shadow Pill and its dual-attribute Skills;

and arranging, observing, and reviewing one targeted battle after another for Cyan Treasure against various types of snake-like Pet Beasts.

By the time summer vacation arrived, Ah Ji had already completed the training and refinement of its Blazing Shadow Pill, fully consolidating its Cultivation.

Cyan Treasure, on the other hand, had only just touched the edge and still hadn't evolved.

It was clear that for the Little Cyan Snake, Evolution was truly difficult.

But Gu Ming didn't give up, nor did he fear the difficulty.

He pored over materials, contacted owners, negotiated battles, prepared venues, and analyzed data—attending to every last detail.

If it could give Cyan Treasure even the slightest boost, he would strive to do it.

After all, Evolution itself was about breaking the body's physical limits, allowing it to evolve.

If you don't push the Little Cyan Snake to its species' limits, how can you even talk about Evolution?

「In the Cultivation Chamber.」

Cyan Treasure's figure intertwined with the shadows of various snakes:

It battled Shadow Serpents in dim environments, silent and soundless, with only the rustle of leaves and the faint scrape of scales testing its Perception of Space;

Facing the crushing constriction Power of the Single-Horned Rock Boa, Cyan Treasure used its flexible vines and Sixth Sense to contend with it, experiencing the pressure of pure Power and the way to break free;

In the wetlands room, it pursued the slippery Azurewater Mystic Snake, comprehending the fluid agility and Concealment of flowing water...

Fighting these Snake Pets of various forms and Attributes in reality gave Cyan Treasure a personal and profound understanding of the attack patterns, energy circulation, and even that faint, almost imperceptible coercive aura from the inherited bloodlines of Snake Pets.

And under the influence of the system's mismatch bug,

as Cyan Treasure summarized its battle experience each day, it felt a strange sense of disconnect.

It was as if it wasn't fighting Snake Pets, but rather illusory True Dragons or Sub-Dragons with far more majestic forms and entirely different levels of Power!

Even in the most minimal battles, the terrifying pressure originating from a higher level of life and authority over rules was far beyond what ordinary snakes could compare to.

The Dragon Might was like a landslide or a tsunami, bringing with it scorching breath, claws that tore through Space, or the indifferent posture of one who commanded thunderstorms.

The subtle experiences and techniques for coiling and deflecting force, gained from fighting Snake Pets in reality, conflicted with these inexplicable memories. Before a dragon's claws, these techniques seemed fragile and laughable.

This self-contradiction between "real-world experience" and "dream-like insights" initially left Cyan Treasure deeply confused.

Gu Ming, of course, helped it adjust all along, telling it that this was a special effect of its daily Dream Training.

"Conflicting experiences aren't scary. As long as you strive to comprehend the lessons within and absorb them into your own versatile arsenal, it's a gain."

Under this continuous, high-intensity clash of contradictions, Cyan Treasure struggled to adapt, and its progress in the first few months was minimal.

However, as time went on, it gradually adapted to these contradictory and conflicting experiences. Slowly, it stopped clinging to the lessons from either side.

It began to rely on a vague yet firm instinctive "feeling" to separate the wheat from the chaff.

It took the "form" learned from fighting snakes in reality—such as angles of attack, methods of power exertion, and techniques for Concealment and movement.

And it tried to fuse it with the "spirit" it perceived from facing Dragon Pets—such as the essence of that majestic pressure, the grand trajectory of energy circulation, and the faint sense of control over spatial elements.

It no longer simply imitated the prestige of a Snake King, nor was it bound by snake techniques.

It was as if, upon the ruins of contradiction, it was clumsily but resolutely building something all its own—a completely new path that lay somewhere between "dragon," "snake," "plant," and "rootless."

This path was blurry and unprecedented for any beast, yet with every breath-regulating cycle, the aura circulating around Cyan Treasure grew more profound, distant, and unfathomable.

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