Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

The moment Tang Tianyi appeared, the immense aura of a Seven-star Beastmaster swept out like a tidal wave.

The Power of the Profound Celestial Ghost Soul, synchronized with him, followed like a shadow, instantly filling every corner of the tea pavilion.

This spectral aura silently collided with the mountainous Earth Element Dragon Mighty surrounding Zhou Duyu. It was as if two invisible walls had materialized in the air, pressing and grinding against one another.

The water in the teacups on the table rippled, sending out a series of faint, concentric circles.

Gu Ming and his Pet Beasts sat quietly at the edge of the tea pavilion’s platform. Despite being several meters away, the pressure, which far surpassed their own Realm, felt tangible. It made their scalps tingle and their breath catch in their throats.

"Zhou Duyu."

Tang Tianyi spoke, his tone as placid as ever, yet it made Gu Ming’s heart skip a beat.

’This was the first time he had ever heard his teacher address the other man by his full name.’

"Tang Tianyi."

Zhou Duyu’s smile didn’t falter, his gaze still fixed on the Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster in Lu You’s arms.

"So young, yet it has already cultivated nascent Dragon Qi within its core. It hasn’t even completed its Form Evolution.

"I am offering it a path to become a dragon. What is so improper about that?"

"One should choose their own path." Tang Tianyi took half a step forward, the spectral shadow behind him rippling like water.

"When others point the way too often, their guidance becomes a shackle."

As Tang Tianyi stepped forward, Gu Ming suddenly sensed something was off.

Faintly pulsing in the air beside Zhou Duyu was another, incredibly well-concealed Spiritual Fluctuation.

’That’s clearly a High Tier Spiritual Pet Beast that excels at Concealment and detection!’

’If Teacher Tang’s aura hadn’t forced it to reveal a faint trace of its presence, I never would have been able to perceive it with my level of Cultivation. Zhou Duyu would have already finished his secret inspection of Mouse Treasure’s Dantian.’

’This also confirmed one thing:

’The Third Prince before me is also unfathomably powerful, at least at the Seven-star level.’

Zhou Duyu’s gaze sharpened for an instant, then he let out a booming laugh.

"So be it. It seems I’ve overstepped."

He said no more, turning to leave with a flick of his sleeve.

The Earth Dragon beside him gave a low snort. As it raised its rocky claws, a faint yellow light flickered, as if in protest.

But in that very instant.

The Profound Celestial shadow behind Tang Tianyi’s shoulder suddenly spun around. A bolt of netherworldly lightning seemed to flash through its empty eye sockets, startling the Earth Dragon so badly that the light from its claws instantly vanished. The dragon shrank back, flattened its ears, and hurried down the stairs after its master.

THUMP, THUMP.

The heavy thud of claws faded into the distance.

As Zhou Duyu and his Dragon Pet departed, the air inside the tea pavilion resumed its flow.

The invisible pressure dissipated. Lu You let out a soft sigh and instinctively hugged the restless little Mouse Treasure a bit tighter.

At that moment, she began to ponder the new evolutionary path the old man, a complete stranger, had proposed.

"Teacher... is Dragon Transformation a new evolutionary method?"

"It is, yes. However, it’s currently only in the theoretical research stage."

Tang Tianyi slowly walked over to Gu Ming and Lu You’s table and sat down. Sure enough, he was holding a brand-new issue of the journal *Peak*, its cover identical to the one Zhou Duyu had left behind.

He pushed the journal in front of his two students.

"You should take a look. Especially this article."

Tang Tianyi tapped the title on the cover with his finger.

Lu You was a little confused. ’Didn’t Teacher say he brought two copies? Why did he only take out one?’

Before she could ponder it further, Tang Tianyi’s words reached her ears like the Sound of the Great Dao.

"The ’Dragon Transformation Pool’ is the most sensational discovery of this summer vacation. It was found by a joint exploration team in a fissure within a newly pioneered section of the Inner World.

"Zhou Duyu’s research team—that is, the team belonging to His Highness the Third Prince—is one of the lead groups on this project. They’ve been flying all over the country for the past week, searching for prime test subjects.

"And Mouse Treasure is the perfect test subject he has his eye on."

Hearing this, Gu Ming and Lu You finally understood the importance of the nascent Dragon Qi the old man had mentioned.

At the same time, based on the Prince’s earlier words, the two of them also deduced a prerequisite—

the Pet Beast had to be in its native form, meaning it couldn’t have undergone any metamorphosis of its external appearance or internal life form.

Gu Ming picked up the journal from Teacher Tang and quickly flipped to the corresponding article.

Without a second thought, Lu You leaned in to read along with him.

The article was detailed, accompanied by numerous diagrams of the Great Dao that resembled Visualization charts. Just by looking at the words and images, both of them felt their heads buzz as if they were listening to a sage preach.

Within a special fold in Space, Spiritual Qi had liquefied. An exotic energy flowed in abundance, and ancient life fluctuations intertwined with an unrecorded, unknown aura.

What exactly was this existence?

Was it pure energy, or some kind of substance beyond all comprehension?

The two of them had no way of knowing for sure, but just from the diagrams and descriptions, they could feel an intense, almost tangible "draconic flavor" washing over them.

It was as if simply soaking in it for three days and three nights would allow a Pet Beast to be completely reborn, ready to transform into a dragon the moment it met the right opportunity.

Gu Ming couldn’t help but feel a sense of yearning. A wave of irrepressible excitement surged through his chest, making him want to set off on a pilgrimage to that legendary secret realm at once.

However, when they turned the page, the tone of the writing and its arguments shifted abruptly. It was as if a sage who had been offering earnest teachings suddenly began to scold them harshly, startling the two out of their illusion-induced stupor.

"Remember: the Dragon Transformation Pool is located in the ’Inner World,’ the reverse of our own world. Its existence will only cause the Demonization of Pet Beasts!"

The paper cited hundreds of experimental cases. The probability of Demonization was a full one hundred percent; not a single Pet Beast that soaked in the Dragon Transformation Pool could maintain its sanity afterward.

In milder cases, their personalities would become demonic, and they would go on killing sprees.

In severe cases, their bodies would mutate—they would sprout draconic features, their flesh and bones twisting until they were completely demonized.

It was this shocking and terrifying phenomenon that rapidly drew the attention of the nation’s top research institutions. In an extremely short period, it became the most cutting-edge and controversial hot topic in academia.

The reason was simple.

It could indeed, through a method akin to "pollution," allow an ordinary Pet Beast that had not undergone Form Evolution to gain some of the traits and Power of the Dragon Race.

This point alone was enough to shake the very foundations of existing evolutionary theory, casting a dark and tempting cloud over the once-clear skies of academia.

As Gu Ming read this, he remained clear-headed, yet a desire to research this phenomenon burned within him.

’I have to admit,’ he thought, ’the Dao Charm one gets from visualizing the Dragon Transformation Pool is truly unique.’

Even with the sage’s words of warning to steady the mind, the primitive, wild, and rule-subverting "Dao Charm" of the Dragon Transformation Pool still exuded an irresistible pull, sparking an urge to research it.

The latter half of the paper analyzed various substances extracted from the Dragon Transformation Pool, confirming that a substance labeled 019 was the evolution factor.

Injecting a large dose of evolution factor 019 into a common Pet Beast in its native form would trigger a directed mutation of its appearance and skeletal structure, steering it toward the draconic lineage.

As Gu Ming read this, he heard Lu You’s heavy breathing beside him.

He turned his head to look at her. Her face was flushed, and she was clearly overcome with delirious joy.

"Snap out of it, Lu You."

"This is cutting-edge research. It’ll be a long time before it’s stable," Gu Ming said.

’Most of the topics in *Peak* are in the realm of High-star Beastmasters.’

’Research this cutting-edge is extremely dangerous and fraught with all sorts of accidents.’

’It usually takes more than a decade of repeated testing and maturation for a technology to go from the lab to the market.’

At his words, Lu You sobered up. She nodded slowly, her face etched with disappointment.

Just then, at the edge of Gu Ming’s vision, a line of small, glowing white text from the system quietly scrolled by:

[You have read the latest issue of *Peak* and discovered that the three-decades-old research project on the Dragon Transformation Pool’s evolution factor is finally nearing its end. This is also why the Third Prince has taken an interest in Mouse Treasure.]

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