Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Chapter 343 - 330: Dream Cultivation

Lu You blinked, looking around. ’This is very different from the dream I imagined,’ she thought. ’Have I really left reality?’

Just as she had that thought, Gu Ming waved his hand. The walls of the building instantly transformed, and in the blink of an eye, the scene changed to the national competition arena where they had encountered the Night Demon Duck.

With the training ground’s transformation, the entire world became incredibly vast.

This was one of the functions of Dream Training: the ability to transform the area into any place Gu Ming had visited.

The system would scan the local geographical information, allowing him to use top-tier training grounds for free.

However, the Cultivation benefits provided by the Eight-star Dao Field were useless for Pet Beasts in here.

In the dream, they could only increase their Skill Level, not their Cultivation. All Cultivation growth was illusory.

Upon returning to reality, they would discover a disparity between their body in the dream and their physical one. The only genuine growth was the Cultivation experience that remained in their minds.

Gu Ming briefly explained the important points about cultivating here. He warned her not to mistake the power gained from this Cultivation for her true strength.

While cultivating here, she only needed to focus on her insights.

These insights were the key things that could be brought out of the dream and used as a driving force for growth in reality.

Lu You, only half-understanding, nodded dazedly.

She was utterly shocked, staring at the incredibly realistic Eight-star Dao Field around her.

When Gu Ming had previously said he would bring her into a dream for Cultivation, she had just assumed it was a Pet Beast’s ability that had reached an extremely high level.

Or perhaps Gu Ming himself had awakened some kind of special power; that was also a possibility.

But she had never imagined he could simulate such a massive Dao Field.

The realism was just too high.

She pinched her own cheek and felt a real sting of pain.

Meanwhile, Lu You’s Insect Baby was also moving about. This was its first time inside an Eight-star Dao Field.

It greedily breathed in the dense Spiritual Qi in the air. This was simply a paradise for Cultivation.

If Gu Ming hadn’t warned it that the increase in strength from cultivating here was illusory, it might have completely immersed itself, fantasizing about how far its Talent Ability could develop.

After explaining the precautions, Gu Ming had his own three Pet Beasts begin their Cultivation.

Mouse Treasure, after a while of excitement, finally got on track and slowly began its Cultivation.

Insect Baby also took deep breaths, practicing its breathing alongside Ah Ji.

The two of them constantly pondered the principles of their own Breathing Techniques.

With so much time available, the two Pet Beasts could explore many different conceptual directions for their Breathing Techniques.

Lu You practiced Cyan Pine, cultivating in one go until her Spiritual Power was completely depleted.

Her mind was exhausted, but her body wasn’t tired at all. Cultivating in the dream had a strange feeling, as if her body could return to its peak condition at any moment.

Since only her Spiritual Power was affected, she stood up and walked around when it ran out, observing details within the Eight-star Dao Field she hadn’t noticed before.

For instance, the enormous mountain and the dense forest in the distance were all brimming with Spiritual Qi and vibrant with life.

However, after wandering for about half an hour, she returned to find that Insect Baby seemed to have found a new direction for its Cultivation and made a request to her.

Lu You’s expression flickered at its words. After a moment’s hesitation, she explained Insect Baby’s cultivation idea to Gu Ming.

"It wants to learn from my Dream Breathing Method?" Gu Ming asked in surprise.

Insect Baby’s parents were Illusory Color Butterflies, a species of Pet Beast specializing in the Domain of Illusion Techniques.

Gu Ming’s dream world was the ultimate hallowed ability that many illusion-type Pet Beasts yearned for, capable of creating illusory scenes that could completely immerse someone.

Cultivating within it was the ultimate dream for all illusion-type Pet Beasts. As an Alien Race Illusory Color Butterfly, Insect Baby naturally shared this goal and wanted to learn from Gu Ming’s dream.

Lu You nodded, holding out Insect Baby in her cupped hands.

Insect Baby stretched out its head, nuzzled Gu Ming’s hand affectionately, and made a wheedling sound.

Gu Ming said helplessly, "I really can’t say no to you. Alright, feel free to experience it as much as you want."

As he spoke, Gu Ming took advantage of the break while his Spiritual Power was depleted to set aside some time. He specifically transformed things in front of Insect Baby, creating all sorts of trees and other magical objects.

The most important part of cultivating an Illusion Technique is to display the ability to transform, allowing the other party to perceive the principles within.

However, Gu Ming’s dream originated from the system’s power. The system itself was an enigma of an incredibly high order.

Gu Ming couldn’t extract any principles of the Illusion Technique for it. He could only let Insect Baby watch and try to comprehend on its own using its Talent Ability.

How much it could comprehend would depend entirely on its own ability.

Insect Baby watched for a long time but couldn’t comprehend anything. To it, a mountain was just a mountain, and water was just water.

It knew that the things Gu Ming simulated were fake, but they looked so incredibly real that it couldn’t perceive any hint of falsehood.

Insect Baby couldn’t help but recall what its parents had taught it before it even hatched—the four Realms of Illusion Technique: seeming false but not false, seeming real but not real, difficulty in distinguishing real from false, and the interchangeability of real and false.

In its eyes, Gu Ming’s current ability was at the Realm of interchangeability. Before him, the concepts of real and false had lost all meaning.

The abilities he manifested were approaching those of a creator—a creator in the sense of Illusion Techniques, not one who could truly bring new species into existence.

Insect Baby’s current perception wasn’t sharp enough to understand how to reach such a level.

But not understanding was one thing; its Talent Ability was still there.

It spent nearly a month observing the constantly changing things in the dream, including, but not limited to, the sparring partners summoned by Mouse Treasure, Cyan Treasure, and Ah Kun.

These sparring partners were Same-star Level Pet Beasts that Gu Ming had encountered in the examination hall. He directly summoned them to fight his own Pet Beasts.

Ah Kun and Cyan Treasure had already been losing for a long time against the super-AI opponents simulated by the system. For Mouse Treasure, however, it was the first time fighting these managed Pet Beasts that went all out.

It fought a hundred rounds and didn’t win a single one. Every match ended in its death.

However, because it teetered on the brink of death time and time again, Mouse Treasure’s progress was far greater than ever before.

Within a month, its Skills like Earth Dragon Stomp rapidly reached the Master Level, approaching the Great Success Realm. This was all bought with one death after another.

This made the later additions, Ah Ji and Insect Baby, incredibly anxious. They wished they could immediately raise their own Star Level and dive into these intense and thrilling death matches to deepen their own understanding.

But no matter how impatient they were, there was nothing they could do.

They had entered the dream precisely to find the unique characteristics of their own Breathing Techniques.

While Insect Baby was still struggling, Ah Ji, after more than a month of contemplation and Cultivation, finally found its own path.

On this day, the sky above the Eight-star Dao Field roiled as the clouds churned and shifted.

When Ah Ji opened its mouth to breathe, vast Spiritual Clouds swirled toward it and entered its belly.

Gu Ming turned his head to look. He saw energies of light and darkness flickering alternately as they flowed into its belly.

The rest of the chaotic Spiritual Qi also converged and entered its belly.

It didn’t have any other Attributes. That miscellaneous Spiritual Qi, upon entering its belly, should have been treated as impurities and completely expelled.

However, after entering its belly, the Qi rumbled as it was refined into a single mass.

After the components of light and dark were added, this chaotic mass actually began to slowly transform within its body into a miscellaneous-type Mana of extremely high energy density.

Gu Ming probed it with his Divine Sense and could feel the newly generated Mana. It contained a mix of various Attributes, with a little bit of everything, making it quite chaotic.

But this discovery was a pleasant surprise for Gu Ming.

This was because Mana with such an Attribute was unheard-of; at least, he had never encountered it in all his experience.

Meanwhile, the system displayed a message: "Chaos Creatures Cultivation: Great Success."

’Could this be Chaos Mana?’