Beast Taming: My System is Bugged-Chapter 100 - 99: Humanoid Martial Arts, but Cyan Treasure Can Learn
While the old man, Mouse Treasure, and Cyan Treasure were training like crazy, Gu Ming went over to Lu You to comfort her.
Lu You had gotten quite a scare earlier, but fortunately, it was all over. Seeing Mouse Treasure back to its lively, energetic self also put her mind at ease.
When Gu Ming saw that Lu You’s condition had improved and that she wasn’t as fragile as he had imagined, he also felt relieved.
Then, he looked at the system.
The battle just now had been quite intense, yet the system didn’t have much of a reaction.
The system’s only response was to notify him that Cyan Treasure had undergone some combat training.
Endurance +1
Cyan Treasure finished its medicinal bath. Mana +1
Endurance +1, Spiritual Power +1
Military Boxing Experience +1
These sorts of piddling notifications popped up slowly.
Although the notifications didn’t appear very frequently, they did show that Cyan Treasure’s various abilities were indeed growing.
As Gu Ming watched, he suddenly felt that something was off.
’Aren’t Snake Pets supposed to be incapable of learning military martial arts?’
’What’s with this Military Boxing experience that just appeared for Cyan Treasure?’
Not learning it wouldn’t have been a big deal, but once the experience points started appearing, Gu Ming became extremely invested. He started listening attentively to the old man’s lesson, studying for two full hours until it was time to eat.
The Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster, on the other hand, looked quite impressive as it practiced Military Boxing.
Especially when combined with the two Cultivation Techniques, the Breathing Technique and the Earth Shifting Technique, its Military Boxing seemed to exude a strange, magnificent power—heavy and forceful, as if its fists could shatter mountains and rivers. It was a thrilling sight to behold.
As for Cyan Treasure, being a Little Cyan Snake, its learning process was quite comical.
It wriggled its body around in place, and when Mouse Treasure threw a punch, it would use its head like a human fist to strike back.
It didn’t have much impact, and its fighting stance was rather awkward. This actually prevented it from properly using its Mastery Level Head Hammer, significantly reducing its Power.
In truth, the old man never expected it to learn a human-style martial art. He only hoped it would inherit the fearless, dare-to-fight spirit of one who does not fear death.
Cyan Treasure: Military Boxing Learning Progress: 25/100
Current Progress: Uninitiated
’Well, what do you know? It seems Cyan Treasure really might be able to learn the old man’s military martial art.’
’It gained 25 experience points in just two hours. Even without the Dream Cultivation Space, it could learn it by tonight at the earliest, or tomorrow at the latest.’
As for Ah Kun in the Fish Tank, there wasn’t much to say. It had no combat ability whatsoever.
Teacher Zhang was there, but it wasn’t convenient for him to interrupt the old man’s training session.
He took the initiative to come over to Gu Ming and see how the Grouper Fish’s training was progressing.
This was also the first time Teacher Zhang had paid any attention to Gu Ming’s Grouper Fish.
After all, Cyan Treasure had displayed such outstanding abilities under Gu Ming’s care.
Perhaps Ah Kun would have a surprising performance as well.
"Your Ah Kun looks so old. Did you adopt it from a shop?" Teacher Zhang asked.
He had seen Ah Kun before when he entered Gu Ming’s room, but he hadn’t taken a close look.
Now, after observing it carefully for two minutes, he found it truly impossible to consider it Gu Ming’s second Pet Beast.
First of all, its teeth were almost all gone, it had lost most of its scales, and its fins were yellowed. It was clearly an old fish entering its twilight years, with very little life left.
Seeing this, Teacher Zhang didn’t have anything in particular he wanted to teach it.
Gu Ming, however, seized the opportunity to ask the teacher about the "Big Fish Stomach" and "Devouring" Skills, both of which were standard Skills for a Fish Pet.
Teacher Zhang had nothing better to do. Besides teaching the Ice Heart Fox its routine training, teaching Ah Kun was also fine. In any case, these two skills were as simple as could be.
In reality, Ah Kun had already trained both of these skills in the dream realm.
But he had no idea how to achieve Mastery.
After all, much of his knowledge was only superficial.
Deeper techniques like those weren’t even mentioned in research papers, even the ones you had to pay for.
Those papers only taught you how to reach the Entry Level; they wouldn’t guide you further to Mastery, let alone the Master or Perfection realms.
If you wanted to learn more, you naturally had to find the corresponding author of the skill’s research paper and become their disciple.
If they ran a dojo, you would go there, pay the tuition, and learn slowly.
This was the money-making path for most Beastmasters after they gained fame through publications. Many talent-scouting companies specifically targeted promising new stars, offering them a comprehensive service package that included promoting their papers and helping them recruit disciples for their dojos.
And well-known authors of research papers were often welcomed by dojos in big cities.
To return to the matter at hand.
Ah Kun had learned Devouring and Big Fish Stomach. Simple action-based Skills like Devouring didn’t require any advanced techniques; it just had to keep eating and devouring.
Big Fish Stomach, however, was different. It wasn’t a skill that could be advanced to the Mastery Level simply by nourishing the stomach with Mana.
It involved more secretive cultivation formulas.
The cultivation formulas for Big Fish Stomach that Gu Ming could find online could only train it to the Entry Level.
He couldn’t find any formulas for the Mastery Level of Big Fish Stomach; in other words, they were protected by copyright.
Newcomers had to either join a dojo or get a job at a fishing company to receive cultivation guidance from them. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
Gu Ming asked Teacher Zhang, naturally hoping that the teacher’s knowledge was deep enough.
The cultivation formula for Big Fish Stomach was simple in a way, yet it was precisely the copyright protection that prevented this knowledge from circulating freely. You had to have the author’s permission.
Anyone caught illegally sharing it online after being reported would be forced to pay compensation.
As for teaching it privately in person, that depended on whether the skill had phased Visualization Image Dao Locks. If not, it was generally difficult to grant permission.
The above applied to relatively High-star Level Skills. For a simple skill like Big Fish Stomach, there would be no evidence to press charges for private, offline teaching. Therefore, Teacher Zhang had no reservations. He nodded and revealed the cultivation formula for the Mastery Level of Big Fish Stomach.
These formulas were usually the secrets that dojos or research paper authors used to make money.
As a bonus, he also told Gu Ming the cultivation formula for the Master Level of Big Fish Stomach, even though the elderly Grouper Fish would most likely not live long enough to reach it.
His goal was to teach his student. Whether Ah Kun would live that long was not part of his consideration.
Gu Ming, however, was thinking of more. ’With the system, I have to see if I can find a bug to exploit.’
"Teacher, is it possible for Big Fish Stomach to reach the Great Success or even Perfection Realm?" Gu Ming asked.
"This is a common skill for Fish Pets. A Grouper Fish definitely can’t, but other Fish Pets have reached Perfection. However, I don’t have the cultivation formulas for Great Success or Perfection," the teacher said, shaking his head.
Seeing no reaction from the system, Gu Ming pressed on, "What about the Quasi-Path Realm?"
"Heh, if it could be trained to the Quasi-Path Realm, it wouldn’t be called Big Fish Stomach anymore. It would be a New Technique developed from the Big Fish Stomach skill, called Space Stomach."
"That’s a skill only four or five-star Pet Beasts can learn. The Talent threshold for a Fish Pet is very high; it must have at least a Spatial Attribute Talent," Teacher Zhang said, shaking his head.
Gu Ming and Lu You both nodded in agreement, feeling they had learned quite a bit of obscure trivia.
Teacher Zhang nodded. The Big Fish Stomach skill does indeed have a Quasi-Path Realm, but the required Talent is simply absurd.
He glanced at your Juvenile Kunpeng and thought that it might not be impossible. After all, it belongs to the Kunpeng Race, has immense potential, and acquires all its Talents through eating.
Just when Gu Ming thought the bug wouldn’t trigger...
...it arrived, fashionably late, bringing him a delightful surprise.
’Yes, yes, yes! This is exactly what I was waiting for, System.’
Unfortunately, just as Gu Ming wanted to press for more information from the system, the Teacher Zhang from the fifty-year-old Old Deng’s timeline also shook his head; he did not know the cultivation formulas for the Great Success Realm and above.
He could only bury this matter in his heart and wait until he met someone who knew more to dig into it again.
「During the break after lunch.」
Gu Ming set his sights on the forest on the back mountain, wanting to take Cyan Treasure there to play.
However, because the Black and White Long-Armed Ape had appeared that morning, the old couple stopped Gu Ming, not letting him go too far.
"There are wild beasts in the woods. Your Little Cyan Snake doesn’t even have One-star strength. Don’t go."
Gu Ming really wanted to say, ’That’s Grandfather’s Pet Beast; it won’t attack anyone.’
But his family hadn’t dropped the pretense yet; they were still acting. So, it wasn’t convenient for Gu Ming to expose them directly.
Unless he brought it all out into the open and they had a frank discussion.
’We’re all family. What’s there to hide, Grandfather?’
Gu Ming paced back and forth in the courtyard, glancing at the system from time to time as he weighed the pros and cons.
’Going by the system’s usual antics, if it says there’s treasure there, there most likely is.’
’As for the risks of exploring the back mountain, there might be some, but it’s highly probable that there’s no real danger.’
’Because this is his hometown. He ran all over the back mountain countless times as a child, and in his memory, there were no powerful wild beasts.’
