Beast Taming: My System is Bugged-Chapter 103 - 102: This Is Bad, a Direct Clinical Trial on Evolution
Although the adults present could sense the White Celestial Horse’s immense power and danger, they couldn’t warn Gu Ming to his face not to touch it.
Just one glance from the White Celestial Horse was enough to silence them.
Gu Ming, however, was bold. He stepped forward to speak with the White Celestial Horse, asking if there was anything nearby it didn’t need, explaining that they had come in search of treasure.
The White Celestial Horse hadn’t encountered such a bold human in a long time. Seeing that Gu Ming wasn’t afraid of it at all, it showed an expression of interest and snorted.
’Treasure?’
’Not a chance.’
’However, his Pet Beast is interesting. If he can explain the secret behind it, I might feel generous and reward him.’
The White Celestial Horse didn’t speak human words; with just a single snort, it conveyed its thoughts to Gu Ming through a Spiritual Fluctuation.
Gu Ming didn’t understand what the Celestial Horse meant.
’Cyan Treasure is interesting?’
Gu Ming looked back at Cyan Treasure, and Cyan Treasure raised its serpentine body to look at the White Celestial Horse.
’It’s the Evolution!’
The White Celestial Horse was surprised from the very first glance. It discovered the Little Cyan Snake was in the middle of evolving, yet there was a peculiar sense that its Evolution had been paused.
Moreover, the Little Cyan Snake was clearly not an Ice Attribute Pet Beast, so why did it possess Ice Attribute Cold Qi?
A beam of Holy Light, summoned by the Celestial Horse, shone down upon Cyan Treasure.
The White Celestial Horse immediately discovered that the Little Cyan Snake’s Magic Power Inner Core was in a frozen state, obstructing the Evolution process and leaving it in a state of semi-evolution.
This piqued its curiosity.
It was this curiosity that made the White Celestial Horse settle down and listen to Gu Ming talk about Evolution.
The three adults behind them had initially been on high alert, as if facing a great enemy, but then they saw that the White Celestial Horse had a friendly attitude and wasn’t attacking them.
The old man immediately raised a hand, stopping Mr. Gu’s movement and signaling for him not to act rashly.
After all, it was a High-star Level Spirit Beast, and the Black and White Long-Armed Ape couldn’t defeat it. They couldn’t afford to act recklessly.
Besides, they could all tell that this Celestial Horse Beast, with the halo above its head, possessed near-human intelligence and wasn’t a Fierce Beast that would eat people at the slightest disagreement.
The fact that they could communicate meant they had a chance to escape unharmed.
Furthermore, watching Gu Ming discuss Evolution with the White Celestial Horse Beast, they thought this might be an opportunity for him.
Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu exchanged a glance and both fell silent.
Behind them, Teacher Zhang and Lu You stared intently at the White Celestial Horse Beast.
This kind of Pet Beast was rare. Teacher Zhang recognized it at a glance as an uncommon Angel Race Celestial Horse Beast. Its Star Level potential was unknown, but it was said that a Seven-star Celestial Horse had been seen active in the world.
’To think that such a powerful Celestial Horse Beast was hidden in the deep, old forests near Gu Ming’s hometown.’
From what the Celestial Horse Beast was conveying, Teacher Zhang gathered that it had taken a fancy to the evolutionary concept of freezing the Magic Power Inner Core.
’As expected of a Spirit Beast from the Angel Race. Its intelligence and insight are clearly extraordinary.’
As Gu Ming talked about Mana Evolution—mentioning how after multiple turns of the Magic Power Inner Core, a quantitative change would lead to a qualitative one and trigger Evolution—the White Celestial Horse’s eyes lit up, and it snorted again.
It tossed its head, and a white apple enveloped in Holy Light flew into Gu Ming’s hand as a reward.
SNORT—
It continued to snort, its glowing white eyes fixed on Gu Ming, urging him to continue.
He felt the white apple in his hand. It was perfectly round and refracted layers of a milky-white, holy halo.
’I don’t know what this thing is, but the system probably does.’
He multitasked, continuing to talk about Evolution while his eyes scanned the system’s plot commentary section, which had indeed updated with a lot of new content:
「Through your conversation, you learn that the forest overlord’s name is Ma Tianba. Before it evolved, it was saved by the Gu Family and owes them a debt of gratitude.」
「Now, with your arrival, the Gu Family’s legacy is formally handed over to you.」
「You have obtained the "Holy Apple." After consumption, it can be attached to the Spiritual Root to alter a Pet Beast’s aptitude, causing its Spiritual Root to grow a Light Attribute branch.」
「You have obtained "Holy Spirit Root Soil" for cultivating a Light Spiritual Root, which can be used to facilitate its growth.」
「This is the capital the Gu Family left for you to make a comeback.」
「Your discussion of Mana Evolution has greatly astonished it. It has been cultivating in this forbidden zone for a long time and has had little contact with human knowledge of Evolution. It never expected the outside world to have developed to this extent.」
「Seeing that Cyan Treasure does not have much of its lifespan left and clearly won’t last until the Nine Turns of Mana Evolution, it has decided to lend you a hand. It will provide a powerful healing Skill to help you mitigate the agonizing ordeal of metamorphosis during the Evolution.」
Gu Ming saw the system prompt end there.
Gu Ming was stunned for a moment. ’Spirit Root Soil?’
’Where is it? I don’t see it.’
Gu Ming thought the horse would give him the soil after they talked a bit more.
But as it turned out, once the White Celestial Horse finished hearing the evolution process, it immediately began a "clinical trial" to help Gu Ming.
SNORT—
It snorted, summoning a torrent of Holy Light and pouring it into Cyan Treasure’s body.
Cyan Treasure immediately felt a warmth spread through its entire body. Its Magic Power Inner Core also became as warm as a spring day, and the Cold Qi dissipated.
At this moment, Cyan Treasure was in the Mana Evolution stage. Its Mana had already been forged through Three Turns, and it still needed six more to complete the tempering of its Mana Evolution.
The White Celestial Horse used its Divine Sense to perceive the unsealing of the Magic Power Inner Core. Feeling the Power of Evolution flowing from Cyan Treasure’s body, its eyes lit up.
In this era, it wasn’t just Beastmasters who researched Evolution; powerful, native wild Spirit Beasts like this one were also studying it.
However, compared to humans, their research environment was more isolated, and they relied more on insights from nature.
Under these circumstances, their Evolution was guided by pure, instinctual Cultivation.
Having cultivated to its current level, the Celestial Horse Beast also felt the limitations of its own body. It urgently needed a new concept or method to break through, and the topic Gu Ming was discussing was exactly what it required.
It learned that Cyan Treasure had already started down the path of Mana Evolution, completing one-third of the process, with the remaining two-thirds left to go.
It now understood the specific process: during the Frozen Pill period, use the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi as a hammer and the Dantian as an anvil to temper the Magic Power Inner Core, continuously rotating it to incorporate new Mana into it.
Each new Elixir Pattern on the surface of the Magic Power Inner Core represented the completion of one turn.
Gu Ming hadn’t said what the limit for the number of Elixir Patterns was.
The Celestial Horse Beast decided to help on the spot, controlling the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to hammer Cyan Treasure’s Magic Power Inner Core and accelerate its Evolution.
As for Cyan Treasure’s Dantian being too fragile to withstand the high-intensity hammering of Spiritual Qi during the Evolution process, that didn’t really matter.
After all, it had healing Skills.
The White Celestial Horse was a rare Light Attribute Pet Beast. It possessed a natural Talent for Holy Light and also cultivated Holy Light and Angel-type Skills, most of which had healing effects.
’Healing a mere Zero-star Little Cyan Snake will be effortless.’
’It’s decided!’
And so, the situation spiraled beyond everyone’s control.
The powerful Holy Light poured into Cyan Treasure’s body, flowing through its meridians and gathering in its Dantian. It formed a thin, white, glowing membrane that protected the Dantian and its fragile meridians.
Using its ridiculously unfair abilities, it controlled all the Spiritual Qi in the forest, channeled it into the snake’s Dantian, twisted the Qi into a hammer, and began the hammering process.
SNORT—
’Hurry up and circulate your Cultivation Technique to cultivate Mana!’
The White Celestial Horse snorted from the side, jolting the dumbfounded Gu Ming from his stupor.
