Beast Taming: My System is Bugged-Chapter 61 - 60: The Rat Pet Practices the Green Treasure Breathing Technique

Chapter 61: Chapter 60: The Rat Pet Practices the Green Treasure Breathing Technique

"You have keenly discovered that for Cyan Treasure to perform cross-attribute Cultivation, its own Breathing Technique must be completely revamped."

"Having Mouse Treasure cultivate the same Breathing Technique to act as a reference is a good choice."

"Although the other party is a mouse Pet, its meridians are vastly different from a Snake Pet’s, but the Breathing Technique created by Teacher Zhang is different from the old methods.

"He has already absorbed the characteristics of new-era Cultivation Techniques, placing the focus of the breathing on blood-oxygen transport.

"As long as the breathing rhythm is in harmony with the Great Dao and blood flows within the body, it can be cultivated adaptively."

Gu Ming looked at these lines of system notifications and discovered the characteristic of new-era Cultivation Techniques—adaptive cultivation.

The future version of "Cyan Pine" that Gu Ming was learning had yet to be mastered. Every Cultivation session drained his Spiritual Power, and each time, the Cultivation Technique would adaptively adjust, shattering his understanding.

Now, seeing that the New Technique created by Teacher Zhang also incorporated the characteristics of new-era Cultivation Techniques, Gu Ming was secretly astonished.

’Adaptive Cultivation... this trait is absurdly powerful in my view. I never expected Cyan Treasure’s New Technique to have such a feature.’

’No wonder its creation prompted the Hall of the Great Dao to archive it.’

Gu Ming strongly suspected that the Hall of the Great Dao had taken a fancy to the innovative aspect of adaptive cultivation, and that the trinity-style cultivation method was just a bonus.

After all, in the High-star Level domain, trinity-style Cultivation Techniques were a dime a dozen.

Many Beastmasters had tried to apply the cultivation advantages of High-star Techniques to Low-star Techniques, but they had all failed.

Pet Beasts in their Juvenile Stage do not have a large Spiritual Power capacity, making it very difficult to split their focus three ways. Only a few top-tier species could manage it.

Therefore, extremely few Pet Beasts in their Juvenile Stage could perform trinity-style joint cultivation, and the techniques they used were almost always non-public, master-disciple inherited Cultivation Techniques.

Prodigies like these generally wouldn’t take the college entrance exam; instead, they would participate in an even more difficult test—competitions.

On the path from the third year of high school to university, the exceptionally talented prodigies took the route of guaranteed admission through competitions. The tryhards and ordinary people battled it out in the grand arena of the entrance exams, while those at the bottom gave up on the Beast Taming entrance exam and silently became the Keystones.

Three distinct tiers, each a massive step up from the last and extremely difficult to cross.

The Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster looked at Cyan Treasure, unaware that the opportunity of a lifetime to leap across these tiers was right before its eyes.

After finishing reading the system’s notifications, Gu Ming said:

"During the self-study period this afternoon, I’ll bring the Visualization Image for the Green Treasure Breathing Technique for your hamster to look at. For now, let’s have it memorize the Cultivation Mantra."

Lu You nodded awkwardly. She could hardly believe her luck. ’But what if it really works?’

Cyan Treasure looked back at its master, its expression filled with confusion. ’How come I don’t know that my own Cultivation Technique has a Cultivation Mantra?’

In truth, Gu Ming had only just learned this from the system himself.

"You nodded and taught the other party the fourteen-word Cultivation Mantra."

"This mantra is a short verse from the Visualization Image, condensing the entire essence of the Green Treasure Breathing Technique..."

...

"Green clouds roll and swallow the vast waves; a spiritual breath exhales to moisten a thousand boughs."

Lu You murmured, gazing at the Visualization Image before her.

「In the blink of an eye, it was the afternoon self-study period.」

Ever since they parted ways after lunch, Lu You had been interacting with her hamster, perceiving the progress of its Earth Element Technique while also thinking ahead to the Green Treasure Breathing Technique that afternoon.

Now that the time had come, when she saw the Visualization Image Gu Ming had brought, she felt a jolt run through her mind.

She saw a Cyan Snake slither onto a windowsill, coiling its body like an incense spiral. It raised its head to gaze at the green mountains and opened its mouth, inhaling the clouds and mist.

As the snake’s mouth inhaled the clouds, the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end, and she faintly heard a hum as the soughing pines on the distant mountains resonated with her Dantian.

Boundless Spiritual Qi billowed out from the scroll. The Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster was also dumbfounded. ’Is this still the Little Cyan Snake I know?’

One second in the painting was equivalent to the time it took for one full Circulation of Cultivation.

The Little Cyan Snake’s body squirmed rapidly. The next second, the Cyan Snake exhaled. An ocean of clouds rolled back toward the green mountains, remoistening every one of the thousands of trees and their leaves.

Each new leaf unfurled with a series of crisp sounds, as if the mountain in the background of the painting had come to life.

The Visualization ended.

But Lu You and the Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster had yet to come back to their senses, still slowly savoring the Visualization they had just experienced.

Cyan Treasure and Gu Ming were also watching the Visualization Image from the side.

The image had been entrusted to Gu Ming by Teacher Zhang for safekeeping. Gu Ming hadn’t opened it to look at it after receiving it.

Now, watching it together with Lu, Gu Ming felt that the Cyan Treasure in the Visualization Image was more in harmony with the Great Dao.

Considering Cyan Treasure had been in a state of temporary enlightenment at the time, it was normal for its condition to have leaped to its Peak.

Now that it wasn’t in a state of enlightenment, it naturally wasn’t as miraculous.

"Mouse Treasure, try to cultivate," Lu You said softly.

After speaking, she felt a knot of anxiety in her stomach, worried that if the hamster failed to cultivate, she would disappoint Gu Ming.

Gu Ming had helped her to this extent entirely because he had delivered and raised Mouse Treasure himself.

Even though he had only raised it for a month, it was still a debt of gratitude for its upbringing.

She didn’t even know how to help Mouse Treasure repay this debt.

But she knew that as long as Mouse Treasure succeeded in its Cultivation, Gu Ming’s Little Cyan Snake would also benefit.

Because during lunch, Gu Ming had explained why he agreed to guide Mouse Treasure.

He was using an Earth Attribute Pet Beast’s Cultivation of the Breathing Technique to help him cultivate his Ultimate Skill: Mastery of Wood Escape.

She didn’t understand what Mastery of Wood Escape was.

But she understood the word "Wood." ’Isn’t Wood just a characteristic of Grass Attribute Cultivation Techniques?’

This Cultivation Technique was closely linked to the earth, which was why he had sought out her little Earth Attribute hamster.

’I have to be helpful.’

A short while later, the hamster began to practice earnestly, mentally reciting the fourteen-word mantra and breathing according to the rhythm in the image.

Cyan Treasure cultivated its Master Level Breathing Technique in front of it, deliberately amplifying the sound of its breathing to guide Mouse Treasure in cultivating alongside it.

Lu You also used her own insights to perceive Mouse Treasure’s state in real-time, secretly guiding it to make adjustments. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

After several minutes of standing still, the results were minimal.

Fine beads of sweat gradually appeared on Lu You’s forehead as panic crept back into her heart.

Fortunately, Gu Ming spoke up at that moment.

"You have to get it to move. This Cultivation Technique combines the Breathing Technique, Refinement, and exercise. If the muscles aren’t moving, the technique won’t work."

Gu Ming’s words were a wake-up call for Lu You.

The Breathing Technique was all about rhythm. Simply standing still couldn’t engage the body’s muscles for exercise; it was just a waste of energy.

"Get moving, Mouse Treasure."

Lu You guided the hamster to move and breathe at the same time.

The adjustment process was very slow.

The Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster repeatedly failed to keep up with the breathing rhythm. After all, this was a Cultivation Technique from a Snake Pet; it was indeed difficult for a Pet Beast of a completely different species to cultivate it.

However, with the two of them working together, half a class period of Cultivation Time passed, and the Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster slowly began to get the hang of it.

The Breathing Technique slowly started to work. As the Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster ran, it gradually felt all the muscles in its body vibrating, as if they were refining the Spiritual Qi inside it into Mana.

At the same time, its nose and mouth breathed continuously, inhaling fresh Spiritual Qi and expelling non-Earth Attribute Spiritual Qi.

The cycle was established!

Lu You sensed it too, covering her mouth lightly. "Could it be... it really worked?"