Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

The Star Spirit was a Prophetic Element Pet Beast, while the other was a Spiritual Element Pet Beast.

As expected, their perceptions were different.

In the Star Spirit's Perception, the plant wasn't actually growing there, but rather seemed like a fresh sprig of green sprouting from a much more distant timeline.

The form it took was more like an illusory bubble, akin to a refracted rainbow, condensed from the collision between one Dao and another.

But in the eyes of the Rainbow Wing Butterfly, the plant was a manifestation of life given form by Cyan Treasure's highly condensed Spiritual Power.

This meant that the level of Cyan Treasure's Spiritual Power had reached an exceptionally high standard for a Four-star Pet Beast, perhaps even approaching the Peak Four-star level.

The perceptions of the two Pet Beasts flashed through Lu You's mind.

She quickly realized that the aura Cyan Treasure was now emitting was that of a true Four-star Pet Beast, no longer that of its previous Three-star state.

It had successfully broken through the Star Level barrier.

After all, Cyan Treasure's original path of Evolution was defined as achieving growth through "Super Evolution" during the Enlightenment stage, a process that could involve a fundamental change in its form.

As for things like breaking through to a new Star Level or Splitting its Inner Core, Gu Ming hadn't made any specific plans beforehand.

In other words, Cyan Treasure had just achieved "Super Evolution."

'Perhaps Gu Ming's judgment was correct after all.'

...

On the third day, Cyan Treasure's body began to change again.

Flecks of green light seeped from Cyan Treasure's eyelids. Stardust-like motes of light began to stream down its scales, glittering brilliantly like the sands of time.

The dark-green scales covering its body grew deeper and richer in color. The occasional violet halo that flickered at their edges began to leave behind a faint yet permanent trace, like the nascent form of some kind of Dao imprint.

The color of the Evolution Liquid began to fade as vast amounts of its essence were absorbed.

Along the center of Cyan Treasure's back, starting from behind its neck, ring-like, silver-gray patterns began to emerge on each scale.

One ring encircled another, resembling the growth rings of an ancient tree, or perhaps the solidified imprints of ripples in time.

Its entire aura grew more profound and restrained, but the faint pressure it exuded was no longer that of a mere snake. It carried the nascent signs of a higher life form.

During this time, Gu Ming and Lu You added more fresh concentrate to maintain the potency of the Evolution Liquid.

On the fourth day, the crucial change arrived.

The long-gestating bumps on Cyan Treasure's forehead finally pierced through its old skin. Two small, sharp, bony protrusions, curving slightly backward and with the texture of black jade, were revealed.

Lu You gasped, covering her mouth. When she woke up that morning and saw Cyan Treasure, she almost mistook it for a young dragon.

Up close, however, she could see they weren't a young dragon's horns; the shape was wrong.

When Gu Ming arrived, they both confirmed it. Though they weren't yet the majestic horns of a true dragon, the unmistakable silhouette of a Flood Dragon's horns was already there.

Meanwhile, the scales at the tip of its tail grew finer and harder, its shape subtly shifting into a flatter, narrower, more streamlined form, better suited for manipulating currents of water and energy.

On the seventh day, several more people had gathered in Gu Ming's villa.

Elder Huo, Elder Chen, and a teacher from the Dan Temple were among them.

However, this time was different from the last.

Several higher-ups had joined the crowd of observers.

Their counselor, Teacher Luo; the Dean of Academics; and the supervising Vice Dean had all come.

But the biggest surprise for the teachers in the room was the arrival of Teacher Tang Tianyi, who had just recently broken through to the Seven-star Realm and had also come to observe.

"Esteemed teachers and elders, I've come to see my student's Pet Beast," the composed Teacher Tang stated. After saying his piece, he fell silent.

That was just Teacher Tang's personality—he never spoke more than was necessary.

The Vice Dean gave a knowing smile. Without exchanging further pleasantries, he turned to converse in a low voice with the Dean beside him.

Gu Ming was starting to feel a bit uncomfortable in the room.

The perpetually socially anxious Lu You didn't show up today. Instead, she was holed up in her bedroom, focused on her Cultivation.

「An hour later.」

Cyan Treasure's aura suddenly changed.

The Evolution Liquid in the pool was now completely clear.

Coiled within the pool, the silver-gray, ring-like patterns on Cyan Treasure's body suddenly began to glow, and the black jade bases of its horns took on a deep luster.

It resonated perfectly with the thread of guiding consciousness Gu Ming was maintaining in his spiritual sea.

The "Annual Ring Time Core" operating within its body refined the Spiritual Power, fusing it with its flesh and soul.

There was no violent storm of energy, only a profound aura—as deep as the sea and as ancient as time itself—that rose steadily before achieving a state of perfect, restrained containment.

SPLASH—

The light of its Evolution shot skyward, seemingly drawing the attention of a Celestial Tribulation.

However, the campus's Celestial Secret Concealing Array had long since been activated. The Celestial Tribulation couldn't lock on to its target; it could only hang in the sky, unleashing a terrifying thunderous might.

Cyan Treasure burst from the water.

Its body was now over four meters long, its entire form a deep and majestic blackish-cyan. Each scale was as thick as armor, its edges gleaming with the cold, hard luster of metal.

The silver-gray, ring-like patterns on its back stretched from behind the base of its horns to the tip of its now flat, narrow, and powerful tail—it was a Dao inscribed upon its very body.

The pair of black-jade Flood Dragon horns on its forehead were not yet fully grown, but their nascent majesty was already apparent as they pointed proudly forward.

Most captivating of all were its eyes.

Its deep green eyes overflowed with tremendous vitality, making one instinctively think of it as a Cultivation Element Pet Beast.

If it were tasked with raising plants, it would surely be a master in that field!

The High-star Beastmasters present, however, had a different interpretation.

"Am I sensing Space Power?"

"This new Grass Element Power is so potent. Cyan Treasure must have completely digested the Seed of Rootless Wood Grass and made that Power its own, right?"

The Seed of Rootless Wood Grass is a nationally rare Grass Seed, one that has only ever appeared in Cyan Treasure.

The Vice Dean and Teacher Tang were here for a reason: Cyan Treasure's body contained too many things that sparked the imagination.

Things like the Foundation Establishment Dragon Pattern Tripod, the Qi Refining Vortex, and the Seed of Rootless Wood Grass... if all of them were integrated into the Dao that Cyan Treasure was comprehending on its own, it would represent another major national breakthrough.

Even though the breakthrough wouldn't be theirs, as front-line researchers, observing the emergence of a "Dao"-level result would be immensely beneficial to their own paths of Cultivation and research.

Cyan Treasure gently swayed its body, exuding a natural majesty and sense of Power far beyond what it had before—the true bearing of a Flood Dragon.

It was no longer a snake.

Nor was it an ordinary Flood Snake.

But... a Flood Dragon possessing the majesty of the Dragon Race!

As for what species it had now evolved into...

Even the Vice Dean and the others couldn't tell just by looking.

Gu Ming stared at Cyan Treasure, his gaze fixed solely upon it. It was as if the figures of the teachers around him had faded away, leaving only the transformed Pet Beast in his sight.

"Cyan Treasure, let me touch your Flood Dragon horns."

Hearing his voice, Cyan Treasure gently lowered its head.

Although it had just acquired the majesty of a Flood Dragon...

...with this bow of its head, that imposing aura immediately softened.

It was as if it had returned to its days as a Little Cyan Snake, affectionately nuzzling Gu Ming's palm with absolute trust in its master.

Gu Ming reached out and caressed the unique pair of young Flood Dragon horns on its forehead. The sensation was very special—

The outer layer was supple and springy, like the skin of a gummy candy, yet beneath it was a hardness like steel.

'So, this is what the horns of a young Flood Dragon feel like.'

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