Beast Taming: My System is Bugged-Chapter 92 - 91: Rumor

While Gu Ming was still focused on his Cultivation.

The Beastmasters of Lanqi City were in an uproar.

People were glued to their phones, frantically searching for the creator of the Tri-Colored Technique and the Monochromatic Technique. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

The previous Dual-Colored Technique was in a middling position, but a Tri-Colored Technique was different. It was guaranteed a spot in a Three-Star Journal, with a high chance of being accepted by a Four-Star Journal.

It even had a chance with a Five-Star Journal, though it could still be rejected if it lacked significant innovation.

In any case, speculation about the Tri-Colored Technique completely dominated the charts tonight. Half of the top ten videos on the local short-video platform were discussing Cultivation Techniques.

Qing Lake High School, being directly under the light of the Hall of the Great Dao, was naturally under intense scrutiny.

The principal’s phone had been ringing nonstop from morning till night.

The principal himself was alternating between agony and ecstasy.

He was ecstatic that the creator of the Tri-Colored Technique came from his school.

The agony came from not knowing which teacher had created it.

The principal had even paid a personal visit to Teacher Zhang.

The man had repeatedly waved his hands, denying that the technique was his.

After all, he had already exhausted his inspiration creating the Green Treasure Breathing Technique. It was impossible for him to create another, even more advanced, Tri-Colored Technique.

So, he advised the principal to check on the progress of the other teachers.

After all, besides himself, there were many teachers at the school who were more skilled than he was.

Teacher Zhang wasn’t lying.

There were indeed many teachers at the school whose true strength surpassed his.

However, whether any of them were researching Cultivation Techniques was anyone’s guess.

Frustrated, the principal had no choice but to post in the group chat, tagging every single teacher to ask who had developed the new Cultivation Technique.

However, not a single person admitted to it.

The principal couldn’t sleep a wink.

As for the creator of the Monochromatic Technique, while the teachers at the school were curious and wanted to gossip about their identity...

...the range of the Hall of the Great Dao’s light was simply too vast. It covered an entire major region, so the creator could be anyone.

If the person didn’t want to reveal themselves, it was practically impossible to find out who they were.

The old couple, lying in bed at the Gu Family home, were also scrolling through videos.

Every time they came across a short video discussing the Cultivation Techniques, they were too delighted to sleep.

They would excitedly poke their spouse, showing them the latest video they’d found about their son. They couldn’t get enough of it.

Almost every few minutes, the two of them had to forcefully suppress the urge to brag.

They didn’t boast online. On the contrary, they were extremely cautious, not letting a single word slip.

Even when relatives who had heard the news from the city asked if they knew who the two new Cultivation Technique masters were...

...the two of them could only repeat the same lines like a broken record: "I have no idea, do you?", "I haven’t heard anything about that," and "What news is this? Send it to me, let me see."

While saying this, they would actively encourage people in the family group chat to share the videos, then secretly like them and pretend to join the gossip, all while gloating internally.

For the next two days, this hot topic continued to dominate the online charts.

When Gu Ming arrived at school, even the principal personally came to ask if he knew which teacher had developed the new Cultivation Technique.

Even standing right in front of Gu Ming, the principal had no idea that he had learned a new Spiritual Technique.

The principal only sensed the faint scent of Cyan Pine on Gu Ming—the scent of the Cyan Pine Unmoving Technique.

There was a slight difference, but he didn’t think much of it. After all, everyone’s Cultivation of a technique would be slightly different.

Gu Ming, of course, played dumb and didn’t say anything directly.

He knew that if he revealed he had created the two new Cultivation Techniques, the benefits of his genius contract from the principal would jump two or three levels.

But he didn’t need it, nor did he care for it.

At this stage, relying on the Little Cyan Snake and the future Ah Kun was enough to handle the college entrance exams.

He was confident that his performance in the international competition would earn him a satisfactory genius contract from a university.

Of course, whether he would even sign a genius contract at that point was another matter entirely.

After all, no one could be sure if his third Pet Beast would be an extremely resource-intensive one.

’That’s still a long way off. Better not to think about it for now.’

In the classroom, the students were all talking about the creator of the new Cultivation Techniques.

As someone who had participated in optimizing the Green Treasure Breathing Technique, Gu Ming naturally found himself surrounded and pulled into the discussions.

Even during lunch, Lu You couldn’t help but glance at him frequently.

When he asked, he learned that in her class, people were also discussing the Tri-Colored Technique and the Monochromatic Technique both during and after class. Gu Ming’s name had even been mentioned dozens of times.

She didn’t know if Gu Ming had announced it in his own class, so she kept quiet about it.

"Good that you didn’t. Don’t mention this to anyone for now... Oh, right. These are reference books for writing papers. You should study them. You’ll be the first author for the Earth Shifting Technique."

In a dim corner, Gu Ming took out the paper-writing guides Teacher Zhang had given him and handed them to Lu You.

Lu You froze for a moment. She dumbly accepted the two reference books on paper writing and stared at their titles in a daze.

It wasn’t until Gu Ming finished his meal, stood up, and glanced back to see her still motionless that he cleared his throat.

Her hamster poked her cheek, and Lu You finally snapped out of it, clutching the books to her chest and nodding.

"Thank you."

’The debt of gratitude I owe him has grown again.’

Lu You wanted to refuse, but she was too socially anxious to even say the words. She thought about it all the way there, arriving at the Pet Beast Store for her work and training in a muddle.

Her Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster, however, was happy to see it happen and didn’t think there was any problem.

...

Amidst the commotion, Gu Ming got through Thursday and Friday.

When school let out on Friday evening, Gu Ming deliberately didn’t head straight home but wandered around the campus instead.

His family had decided to leave for their hometown that very Friday night for a training camp.

And he had already requested time off from the store.

Manager Ruan was very understanding. After all, it was a work-study program. He wasn’t strict about the hours for volunteer staff, prioritized their studies, and allowed students to take leave for training.

The main point was that he would still get paid.

These were bright, shiny Spirit Stones. It wasn’t much, but it was one of Gu Ming’s sources of income, and he couldn’t let it go to waste.

He had stayed behind at school because he was waiting for someone.

He wandered around the campus nonchalantly, watching the school gate as one shimmering mount-type Pet Beast after another picked up his wealthy classmates and departed.

That was the world of the upper class, a world that had nothing to do with him. Gu Ming had once been envious, but now that envy had transformed into a goal to strive for.

It was at this moment that Wang Zidong passed by Gu Ming.

The two hadn’t seen each other for two weeks. Gu Ming usually left school early, so they rarely ran into each other.

Wang Zidong suddenly stopped and looked at Cyan Treasure on Gu Ming’s shoulder, a flicker of doubt in his mind.

Previously, Cyan Treasure had been displaying a Mana fluctuation that was close to overflowing. Now, seeing it again, it was still in that overflowing state, but it hadn’t undergone Evolution.

’What’s going on here?’

Their eyes met for a second before they both looked away.

Wang Zidong didn’t ask. He had his own channels within his family to find answers; he didn’t need to ask Gu Ming.

Gu Ming walked a little farther before glancing back at the Pet Beast next to Wang Zidong, lost in thought.

Just a moment ago, a system notification had popped up, telling Gu Ming that the Wang Family member’s Pet Beast had evolved.

However, based on his own Perception, the other party’s Pet Beast hadn’t reached the point of Evolution yet.

’Get a grip. Why am I thinking so much about it?’

Gu Ming continued to wander around until most of the students had left by car. Only then did Lu You’s figure slowly appear.