Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Chapter 312 - 301: Red Carp King

’Should I ask Ruan Jing for help?’

Gu Ming stared at the system’s plot summary, lost in thought.

To be honest, this Time Reversal Talent made him green with envy.

Whether it would work or not, he had to give it a try.

But when Gu Ming picked up his phone, he didn’t know what to ask.

She had already done him a huge favor by arranging a high-paying job for him.

Gu Ming didn’t want to be shameless and ask her to help adjust his work schedule too.

Besides, it was debatable whether the real-life Ruan Jing even had that kind of authority.

As far as Gu Ming knew, Ruan Jing had been transferred back to the Capital for work, not at his company, but at a Royal Family Business next door.

The two companies were strategic partners with close business ties.

Sixty percent of the massive amount of consumables and custom Cultivation Techniques used by the neighboring Royal Family Business came from the Ruan Family’s Cultivation Technique design company, where Gu Ming worked.

Gu Ming thought for a moment, then asked her how she’d been and shared his recent insights from cultivating the Cyan Pine Skill.

Currently, Gu Ming was the fastest at cultivating the Spiritual Technique, the Cyan Pine Skill. Ruan Jing had also switched to this technique, and with her recent bottleneck loosening, she had been asking him for a lot of advice about it.

Gu Ming was just having a normal chat, but in the system’s eyes, it was a humble request for guidance.

"Faced with Schrodinger’s Time Talent, your fifty-year-old self simply cannot grasp the knack."

"After consulting your severely socially anxious colleague to no avail, you have no choice but to bite the bullet and ask Elder Ruan how to further increase the frequency of the Time Talent’s appearance."

"Elder Ruan shows you a clear path: use an Array to lower the activation threshold!"

"She is on the verge of a breakthrough recently. In her spare time, she created a Water and Earth Retrospection Array specifically for civil engineering projects, which can briefly revert mountains and land to their recent topography.

"This is extremely similar to the Time Reversal Talent, making it perfect for teaching Cyan Treasure."

"However, this Array requires at least a Four-star Pet Beast to use, and Elder Ruan is too busy with her Cultivation to teach it step-by-step."

"’Take this and study it. Don’t apply it directly. Rely on inspiration to enhance the Talent. If you can find a clue, that’s a success,’ Elder Ruan said."

"You have obtained the knowledge of the Water and Earth Retrospection Array..."

Gu Ming had a moment of realization.

At that very moment, he was teaching Ruan Jing how to lower the threshold for using the technique.

The Cyan Pine Skill uses pine bones as talismans and mountains as an array; with one’s will, one treads the mountains to seek the stars, commanding and suppressing the Celestial Spirits.

Lately, Gu Ming had been thinking that the Cyan Pine Skill itself had strong, self-adapting compatibility with the human body.

The short poem included in the Visualization Image mentioned mountains forming an array.

Gu Ming had recently been entertaining this very idea, wanting to carve a mountain array in his Sea of Consciousness.

And now, as he was chatting about this on his phone, the Elder Ruan from another timeline was, in turn, teaching him the Water and Earth Retrospection Array.

’Is this a one-for-one exchange?’

If so, Gu Ming had definitely gotten the better end of the deal.

There were many mountain-type Arrays on the market. Even just for reference, there were plenty of Two-star and Three-star ones.

But the Water and Earth Retrospection Array required at least a Four-star Pet Beast to start. At higher levels, it would be an Array used by Five-star or even Six-star Pet Beasts.

Gu Ming put his phone away and, while following Lu You to look at Pet Beasts, split his focus to read the new Array knowledge he had just obtained.

The Water and Earth Retrospection Array was a large-scale, comprehensive Array combining Water, Earth, and Grass Element Power.

It was generally directed by an Earth Element Pet Beast, with Water and Grass Element Pets providing support.

If a Pet Beast possessed all three Attributes, it could operate the Array on its own, but the cost would be immense.

This type of Array was often used in restoration projects. For example, if a river valley in the wild was devastated by a battle between Six-star Pet Beasts, leaving mountains displaced, the ground cracked, and the land barren.

Setting up a Water and Earth Retrospection Array here could repair the damaged river valley, causing the water and soil to flow back and the cracks to close.

Torn-apart vegetation would also return to its original position, reassembling itself. Under the Array’s powerful effect, it would once again nurture the miracle of life, reviving from the silence of death.

As for to what extent already-dead life could be restored, that depended on how well the Pet Beast directing the Array had mastered the Life System.

You could say the lower limit of this Array was determined by the Earth Element Pet Beast.

Its upper limit, however, was determined by the Pet Beast that had mastered the energy of the Life System.

The Life System was generally a specialty of Grass Element Pet Beasts, although Earth and Water Element ones could learn it too.

Gu Ming came back to his senses after a quick read-through of the Array’s concept.

’This Array doesn’t seem very useful for Cyan Treasure. It can’t learn much of it at its current stage, and it’s not really related to Time Reversal.’

But that wasn’t important.

What was important was that Cyan Treasure went through the process of learning.

As long as it had the right attitude and worked hard, the system would register it as diligently developing its Talent.

Gu Ming planned to have Cyan Treasure study this Array in the Dream Cultivation Space after he finished all his work for the day.

Just as the thought crossed his mind, Lu You, who was beside him, finally picked out an artificially bred Three-star Pet Beast from the plantation.

He heard her say weakly, "How about this one?"

After speaking, she stopped. Afraid Gu Ming hadn’t heard her, she gently nudged Mouse Treasure, her Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster, to get his attention.

Of course, Gu Ming had heard her. He looked in the direction she was pointing.

It was a Water Element Red Carp King of Three-star strength. It had a red body, large eyes, and was covered entirely in fine scales.

The edges of its scales had a carmine-red luster, like fine red-glazed porcelain, and its body was slightly rounder than an ordinary carp’s.

Gu Ming had only been at the company for a day, so he didn’t know much about the artificially bred Pet Beasts in the first-floor plantation.

He immediately waved his hand and asked a nearby breeder from the plantation, "Does it know any Sonar Skills?"

Last night, he had studied a Cultivation Technique that involved an imprinting and sound-transmitting array. A Water Element Pet was best for it, and if it knew Sonar Skills, carving the Mother Array would be very easy.

That was why he asked about this skill.

Suddenly, footsteps sounded behind Gu Ming. A voice arrived before the person did.

"Teacher Gu, this is our company’s Three-star Red Carp King. They don’t learn most skills; at most, we just develop their natural racial Talents and specialties."

"For example, the Red Carp King’s body has extremely strong adaptability. It wouldn’t have any major problems even if it lived in a heavily polluted industrial river."

"If you want it to learn Sonar Skills, our team can get it to the Entry Level within a day. However, when it comes to applying the Array Carving Technique within the mind, we’re not very skilled..."

Gu Ming turned to look at the few unfamiliar faces that had suddenly appeared.

"A pleasure to meet you. We’re members of the Blue Fire Technique workgroup. I’m the team leader, Lan Ze."

"Team Leader Da Fei has already mentioned to us that you’ve completed the conceptual development."

"Starting today, our workgroup will begin development of the new Cultivation Technique. You’ll be taking the lead, planning the Cultivation Technique Study route, and we’ll be responsible for implementing it."

"Of course, if you have any suggestions during the subsequent optimization process for the Cultivation Technique, you can bring them to us in the workgroup at any time.

"All of our team members will do their best to push the development of the new Cultivation Technique forward."

The man with blue hair and casual clothes gave Gu Ming a nod, a smile playing on his lips.