Beast Taming: My System is Bugged-Chapter 51 - 50: Dual Cultivation Technique Breakthrough

Chapter 51: Chapter 50: Dual Cultivation Technique Breakthrough

In the dead of night, Gu Ming brought his two pets into the system’s Dream Cultivation Space.

Ah Kun continued cultivating in the Fish Tank. Gu Ming had specifically taken a frozen mitten crab from the refrigerator—a crab his grandfather had supposedly found while foraging by the sea.

Gu Ming had scanned it with his phone. It was a caotou crab, with a market price of over three thousand, possessing both Grass and Water Attributes—a rare, dual-Attribute ingredient.

Gu Ming didn’t actually feed it to Ah Kun. Instead, he brought the frozen mitten crab into his room to use for cultivation in the Dream Space.

There was one major benefit to cultivating in the dream: damaged items could be infinitely reset.

And because the frozen mitten crab wasn’t being smashed to bits in reality, it would be restored to its perfect, original state every time it was reset. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Cyan Treasure not only had to cultivate, but it also had to take time out every so often to smash the caotou crab with its Master Level Head Hammer.

Gu Ming was worried Cyan Treasure might object, so he framed it as an extra task to train its Headbutt Skills.

This way, Cyan Treasure wouldn’t have any second thoughts and would just treat it as part of its training regimen.

CRUNCH!

The mitten crab was smashed to smithereens by Cyan Treasure, and its meat and shell fragments were tossed into the Fish Tank.

Ah Kun opened its mouth and swallowed the pieces, slowly beginning the Refinement process with its Seven-Word Mantra.

[Ah Kun’s Devouring Secret Technique experience +1]

The Refinement wasn’t fast. This Spiritual Food was of very high quality, especially the shell. Just refining that part alone would take five minutes.

The entire crab’s meat and shell weighed eight liang, and it would probably take Ah Kun half an hour to digest it completely.

Gu Ming observed for a short while before turning his attention back to Cyan Treasure, instructing it on how to practice the Green Treasure Breathing Technique and the Elephant-Swallowing Demon Technique simultaneously.

Cyan Treasure’s Breathing Technique was a full-body exercise, refining its entire body while constantly breathing in Spiritual Qi.

The Elephant-Swallowing Demon Technique only trained the snake’s stomach and its digestive capabilities; digesting Mana was just one of the technique’s functions.

Therefore, the only part of the body where the two techniques overlapped was the stomach. To cultivate both techniques at once, Cyan Treasure had to swallow the fruit pit it held in its mouth. This would put its stomach under high stress, forcing it to digest the pit that its gastric juices couldn’t dissolve, while simultaneously refining Spiritual Qi into Mana.

Obviously, this required Cyan Treasure to be able to multitask, which was extremely difficult.

A normal Little Cyan Snake would definitely not have the time to waste on such a thing.

But things were different here.

In the Dream Cultivation Space, humans and Pet Beasts never grew tired. Both he and the Little Cyan Snake could train 24 hours a day.

As long as it wasn’t a Cultivation Technique that consumed Spiritual Power, he could keep cultivating until the dream time ended.

’Mastering multitasking is just a matter of grinding it out.’

With so much time and energy, even a Pet Beast with the most ordinary Talent could grind an iron rod into a needle.

Gu Ming laid out the training plan in full. Upon hearing it, Cyan Treasure took a deep breath, sensing the difficulty.

But it nodded. A poor man’s Pet Beast had no other choice but to give its all and cultivate with everything it had.

Without hesitation, it swallowed the fruit pit in its mouth and began to circulate both Cultivation Techniques simultaneously.

Gu Ming closely monitored Cyan Treasure’s physical condition through the Pet Beast Contract. At first, it was fine, barely managing to run both Cultivation Techniques together.

After two minutes, the Cyan Snake’s stomach muscles began to show signs of fatigue. The peristaltic movements nearly ceased, and the Mana Refinement effect dropped to zero.

Gu Ming had originally been a complete novice, but after half a day of insights, it was as if he had genuinely assimilated over thirty years of understanding.

The moment he saw the difficulty the Cyan Snake was having with its Cultivating Technique, a vague, corresponding case flashed through his mind.

It was a problem his future self had discovered after renting a Pet Beast at some point in time.

Gu Ming couldn’t recall the specific solution; all he had was an intuition born from the profound and mysterious Great Dao Insights.

He pondered for a few seconds before saying, "Your stomach can’t run both Cultivation Techniques at once. We’ll do this in two steps. First, divide the labor. Let your stomach focus only on the Elephant-Swallowing Demon Technique, while the rest of your body uses the Breathing Technique."

"Second, gradually feel out how each technique operates within the stomach and find a point of resonance."

’I understand the first step, but not the second,’ Cyan Treasure thought. ’Oh well, no point in overthinking it. I’ll just start by cultivating them separately.’

Cyan Treasure tried to divide the labor, having its stomach run the Snake Swallowing Elephant Technique—what its master had mistakenly called the Elephant-Swallowing Demon Technique—on its own.

It didn’t possess a strong ability to multitask. The Breathing Technique involved the entire body; every inhale and exhale was specific and deliberate.

With all its other muscles cultivating via breathing while its stomach didn’t "breathe," it was like a disconnected component inside a large, precision instrument.

Cyan Treasure’s cultivation progress quickly ground to a halt. Its muscles were poorly coordinated, and the practice felt awkward and twisted.

Cyan Treasure looked at its master again.

This time, Gu Ming was truly out of ideas.

He had the system to help convert knowledge, turning the Earth Escape Technique into Mastery of Wood Escape, but that didn’t mean he could just conjure up memories he had never experienced.

Cultivation wasn’t just about Talent; it also relied on a bit of luck.

So, where did that luck come from?

You just had to grind for it.

Trying little by little. If the Meridian Spiritual Qi couldn’t flow through one meridian to be refined into Mana, then you switched to another.

Every time you switched meridians, the body’s breathing rhythm changed.

"We’ll just have to brute-force it," Gu Ming encouraged. "Don’t be afraid. This is a dream, not real cultivation. Even if you practice it wrong, it won’t affect your real body."

Training in the dream only increased Skill Level, not one’s Cultivation base. Conversely, any side effects from practicing incorrectly wouldn’t affect the body either.

Practicing through trial and error was also a way to increase Skill Level.

Cyan Treasure had an epiphany. It stopped restricting its cultivation path and went all out, trying every possibility one by one using the brute-force method.

Soon, Cyan Treasure learned its lesson the hard way. Its body became a complete mess, its breathing chaotic, and the Spiritual Qi in its meridians became blocked and swollen.

But when it discovered it could reset its body’s condition and start over from scratch, all the discomfort from the training was swept away.

With its master’s convenient ability, Cyan Treasure no longer had to worry about practicing incorrectly.

All it had to do was force a miracle!

This grind lasted for a whole day.

After 24 hours without sleep or rest, the cultivation-obsessed Cyan Treasure gradually found the right pathways to run both techniques simultaneously.

On the third day of cultivation, it switched from dividing the labor to running both Cultivation Techniques in sync, taking its stomach’s Refinement and digestive abilities to the next level.

「The fourth day.」

Gu Ming saw text constantly appearing over Cyan Treasure.

[Elephant-Swallowing Demon Technique experience +1]

[Green Treasure Breathing Technique experience +1]

[Ding!]

[Elephant-Swallowing Demon Technique Skill Level has broken through!]

[Next Level requirement: 1/10,000]

The next level was Master Level, requiring ten thousand skill points. ’Seems manageable, not too hard to train,’ Gu Ming thought.

But to Gu Ming’s surprise, the cultivation efficiency of the Breathing Technique was so high that it had also broken through.

[Green Treasure Breathing Technique has broken through!]

[Current Skill Level: Master Level!]

[Skill Points required for next level: 1/1,000,000]

This time the skill point requirement was on a whole other level, jumping straight to a million.

It was normal for breathing to progress faster than eating, since Cyan Treasure was breathing every single moment.

Although it couldn’t be cultivating every single moment, it was true that it spent the better part of the day cultivating with its breathing.

Gu Ming glanced at the remaining time and decided to have Cyan Treasure practice the Z-shaped Shaking Body Technique.

As for Gu Ming himself, he was still more than two hundred points away from a breakthrough in the *Cyan Pine* Cultivation Technique. This technique was truly on another level of difficulty.

Even with the insights he’d gained during the day, and no matter how fast he cultivated, he still had to wait for his Spiritual Power to recover. There was no choice but to wait.