Beast Taming: My System is Bugged-Chapter 140 - 139: Scale Effect

"Why isn’t anyone from the class next door out for the break?"

"The hallway is so quiet."

After the first period ended, the students of Class 2, Year 3, noticed that the hallway outside the adjacent Class 1 was completely empty.

Someone approached the back door of Class 1 and saw Gu Ming on the podium, explaining something.

Meanwhile, the Little Cyan Snake was circulating a Breathing Technique under everyone’s watchful eyes, inhaling and exhaling vast streams of Spiritual Qi.

Below the stage, every single Pet Beast was synchronously learning Cyan Treasure’s breathing rhythm.

The first thing the Class 2 students saw was all the Pet Beasts breathing in unison, practicing this same Breathing Technique.

A massive amount of Spiritual Qi gathered above the classroom, forming visible, Five-Colored streams of Spiritual Qi.

Spiritual Qi is normally invisible to the naked eye. Only when its concentration reaches a certain level does it form a visible mist, floating in the air like a small stream.

The students from Class 2 were all dumbfounded. How was this even possible?

’Are they teaching how to advance the Green Treasure Breathing Technique?’

Seeing this, they couldn’t help but feel anxious.

Just last night, they had held a meeting and discussed for hours, studying the grade’s dark horse, Lu You, and the wildly popular number one student, Gu Ming.

Who would have thought that Gu Ming would be in the classroom, openly teaching his own classmates some exclusive knowledge? This was a benefit the students of Class 2 couldn’t enjoy.

Someone went back to their classroom and told some of the more studious students.

Upon hearing the news, they also hurried out of their classroom and went to the back door of Class 1, Year 3.

Before long, the space by the back door was completely packed with students. Those who arrived later could only go to the front, middle, and back windows, pressing against the glass to listen in.

By this time, Gu Ming had finished explaining the groundbreaking "self-adaptive" feature. The students were immersed in shock, speechless for a moment.

The students outside didn’t know what Gu Ming had said. Seeing him standing there with his mouth closed, they really wanted to pry it open and make him start over from the beginning.

Just then, Gu Ming looked at the teacher and said:

"I’m finished. I don’t have anything else to say."

The homeroom teacher was a bit reluctant to let him stop, wanting to hear more of Gu Ming’s lecture.

However, the break had already started, so she couldn’t let Gu Ming continue. The teacher for the second period would complain about her otherwise.

She took the lead and started applauding, saying:

"That was very well said. I never expected there would be so many intricacies to this Green Treasure Breathing Technique."

In an instant, thunderous applause erupted in the classroom.

The students were, of course, genuinely excited and delighted.

In the span of a single class period, their Pet Beasts had roughly grasped the overall approach to the Green Treasure Breathing Technique’s cultivation.

This didn’t mean they had reached the Entry Level with the Breathing Technique; they were still a long way from truly mastering the basics. They had simply gained a lot, had their minds opened, and would now find it easier to tackle that research paper.

Only those who had started practicing the Green Treasure Breathing Technique earlier could gain a deeper understanding and more quickly find the trick to reaching the Entry Level.

Amid the applause, Gu Ming returned to his seat without leaving the classroom.

Looking at the rows of students from the next class who had gathered outside to watch, he knew that the resonance phenomenon produced by this group of Pet Beasts breathing together had already attracted attention, even startling their neighbors in Class 2.

The homeroom teacher was still craving more. The students might not have fully understood, just feeling it was impressive without knowing why.

Ling Jun, however, could clearly sense that the entire classroom had become a Spiritual Energy Pump, drawing in massive amounts of Spiritual Qi from the school and funneling it into the room for the Pet Beasts to breathe.

This was already equivalent to a small-scale Spirit Gathering Array.

That was the most basic piece of equipment in a Dao Field.

The classroom also had a Spirit Gathering Array like this, but it wasn’t active all the time.

It was only activated during Cultivation Technique practice classes and other occasions that required everyone to cultivate together.

Normally, there was no need to activate this kind of Array when teaching theory courses.

And yet, just now, during the forty minutes that Gu Ming was teaching the Green Treasure Breathing Technique, the dozens of students’ Pet Beasts breathing in unison had nearly doubled their usual cultivation efficiency.

And most of these Pet Beasts hadn’t even officially reached the Entry Level. If they did, and their Breathing Technique reached a certain Skill Level, the synchronous effect produced by the Green Treasure Breathing Technique would be truly terrifying.

Thinking of this, the homeroom teacher grew secretly excited and quickly left the classroom, heading for the principal’s office.

The reason she was so eager to see the principal was, naturally, because the principal’s surname was Ling, and so was hers. They were from the same family.

Many people had already recognized the importance of the Green Treasure Breathing Technique.

But this time, Ling Jun felt that their level of appreciation was still not deep enough; they were greatly underestimating the Breathing Technique her student had created.

’Oh, that’s not right,’ she thought. ’It was jointly created by a student and a teacher. But that doesn’t make much difference. The biggest beneficiary right now is clearly Gu Ming’s Cyan Treasure. Its Cultivation Technique Skill Level is miles ahead of everyone else’s. Just by opening its mouth to breathe, it can draw in a trickling stream of energy.’

That was a cultivation phenomenon that the entire class could only produce by breathing together, yet his Pet Beast achieved it all on its own. This showed its Skill Level was extraordinary—a conservative estimate would place it at Master Level.

If everyone in the class had such a Skill Level, the Spiritual Qi phenomenon produced when they cultivated together would be so massive it would envelop the entire school, visible even to people outside.

Wouldn’t the passing parents and pedestrians who saw this scene be completely blown away?

You have to understand, most parents lack discernment. They just follow the crowd, believing that bigger is better and that something trendy must be powerful—a shallow way of thinking.

When it came time for school admissions, they wouldn’t have to worry about attracting students anymore.

Now, the homeroom teacher had seen a corner of the Green Treasure Breathing Technique’s future unveiled.

She had a premonition that this Cultivation Technique would definitely shine brilliantly, that it was far more than what had been displayed so far.

With continuous improvement, it had the potential to be adapted for even higher-Star Level Pet Beasts.

...

In the classroom, Gu Ming contentedly checked the plot bullet comments provided by the system.

He had been talking for dozens of minutes, repeating the same points over and over until he had nothing left to say.

’Sometimes, I wonder if harping on a few details over and over like this will affect everyone’s listening efficiency.’

Fortunately, everyone was listening with great interest, and the plot bullet comments were also refreshing quickly on Gu Ming’s side.

It was important to know that the bullet comments displayed by the system were different from real-time conversation. Gu Ming said his piece, and the system displayed its own content; the two weren’t on the same timeline.

Right now, Gu Ming was enjoying the future plot points from 32 years later, seeing what the already Five-star Elder Ling had to say.

"Through the live demonstration and the homeroom teacher’s breakdown, you learned a lot."

"So this Breathing Technique isn’t just for a single Pet Beast to cultivate; it also has the potential for a large-scale effect."

"When the number of Cultivators reaches a certain critical mass, they will absorb the surrounding Spiritual Qi at a multiplied rate, accelerating their Breathing Technique’s efficiency."

"If the number reaches fifty, it will initially achieve the scale of a small Spirit Gathering Array, saving the cost of various Array Materials. This is the Array Art of a new era."

"However, the amount of knowledge required to fully utilize this large-scale effect isn’t something an ordinary high school student can master. It would require at least a first-year student from an Array academy..."