Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Chapter 151 - 149: Finally Detected

The Hidden Mist Butterfly felt a wave, like a Divine Sense, sweep past it, startling it.

Luckily, its normal state was one of concealment, using a High-Level Space Concealment Technique to keep half its body in a Different Space.

Its entire body was hidden by spatial ripples, so Gu Ming’s Divine Sense only paused for a split second before moving on.

If Gu Ming’s perception were sharp enough, he might have noticed something was amiss.

The Hidden Mist Butterfly perched on Mrs. Gu’s shoulder, watching Gu Ming quietly.

Gu Ming frowned to himself, a frustrated look on his face. He hadn’t been able to scan its location.

Even so, the Hidden Mist Butterfly was greatly astonished.

That wave that had just swept by was a Divine Sense projected outside the body.

After all, even when Teacher Zhang Yunpeng used the Divine Sense from his Spiritual Technique, he had to physically touch a Pet Beast. Only then could he transmit his Divine Sense through bone conduction to perceive its internal details.

But Gu Ming’s Divine Sense could actually travel outside his body. This meant his Divine Sense cultivation had reached a considerable level, perhaps even surpassing Teacher Zhang’s.

’How is this possible?’

From the fundamental principles of Spiritual Power, this seemed completely unrealistic—unless Gu Ming’s cultivation method had broken through the foundational methods of Spiritual Techniques and started from scratch.

The Hidden Mist Butterfly was extremely curious about the structure of Gu Ming’s Sea of Consciousness. It desperately wanted to fly over to his head and use its Divine Sense to investigate his Sea of Consciousness up close.

To probe the inside of a human body, the Hidden Mist Butterfly’s Divine Sense just needed to leave its own body.

But inspecting a Sea of Consciousness required getting much closer. It didn’t dare to act rashly.

After all, Gu Ming could project his Divine Sense to scan his surroundings. If it got any closer, he would definitely notice something was wrong.

"Strange, where is the Pet Beast? Could it be far away?"

Gu Ming looked around, hesitated for a moment, then closed his eyes again and continued his Cultivation of the Cyan Pine Skill next to the medicinal pot.

His Skill Level with the technique was already extremely close to the Master Level. Under the Spiritual Interference, Gu Ming discovered that his Spiritual Power growth seemed to have accelerated.

’Is it because I’m in a state of Spiritual Interference?’

A thought struck Gu Ming. Back at school, he often went to the Spiritual Interference Training Chamber for Cultivation, but he could only use it once a day since resources were limited.

This current Spiritual Interference, however, was like a gentle breeze over a hill, completely different from the sharp, needle-like stimulus in the training chamber.

It was a subtle Mental Suggestion, one that made a person feel as pleasant as being in a spring breeze, lulling them into a comfort zone where it was hard to detect. A truly brilliant technique.

But Gu Ming’s Old Deng’s Health Array Pattern was no pushover. While it was smooth and well-rounded, it also had high resistance to external interference and a 360-degree range of perception.

’The Array is too large right now. If I could shrink it, I might be able to sense the other party’s location.’

Gu Ming knew that the next stage of cultivating the Cyan Pine Skill involved creating a Microscopic Array.

He couldn’t create a Microscopic Array yet, only compress the Array’s formation by ten or twenty percent. But that would be enough.

Gu Ming immediately changed his cultivation approach. Instead of expanding the Array to calm the ripples in his Sea of Consciousness, he began shrinking it, simulating the way a Cyan Pine branch would create the ripples of Old Deng’s Health Array on the water’s surface, trying his best to make it smaller.

As he did this, Gu Ming felt the direction of the Spiritual Interference’s waves become clearer. It seemed to be to his front-left, where the abnormal waves were more concentrated. The wind was also blowing from that direction.

Using the Old Deng’s Health Array Pattern, Gu Ming constantly corrected his positioning, calming the Mental Suggestion again and again.

At that moment, Gu Ming opened his eyes, looked at Mrs. Gu, and tried to bluff her.

"Mom, can you have your Pet Beast increase the intensity a bit?

"This is like being tickled. I want stronger Spiritual Interference."

"Son, what are you talking about? Mom doesn’t understand."

Mrs. Gu froze for two seconds, then put on a heartbroken expression, clutching her chest as if she suspected Gu Ming had gone mad.

However, Gu Ming clearly felt more abnormal waves appear in his mind, and they were more concentrated, coming directly from his mother’s direction.

"Aha, so it’s you two!"

Gu Ming hadn’t been one hundred percent certain before, but now he knew he had guessed right.

Although many questions remained unanswered, the seemingly absurd and inexplicable sentences in the various historical messages from the system now seemed to have an explanation.

No wonder that in the future timeline, after the debt collectors came to their door, his parents had actually "blown up" at them.

They had literally blown up, engaging in an incredibly fierce battle. As a result, the old couple had fallen gravely ill, and after several years without a cure, they passed away in pain, not living to see the end.

After recalling the historical plot from the system, Gu Ming didn’t say anything else. He planned to use his own strength to expose Mrs. Gu’s deception.

’Since she won’t talk, I’ll use my Spiritual Technique to reveal the truth.’

Right now, Gu Ming could already feel his Cyan Pine Skill touching the edge of a bottleneck. Especially with the active, low-intensity interference from a High-star Pet Beast, he was gaining more insight.

He calmed his mind and, from an observer’s perspective, watched how his mom’s Pet Beast was influencing his Sea of Consciousness to create the Mental Suggestion.

He once again saw the wind stirred up by the Cyan Pine branch and its swaying motion.

His Spiritual Waves were, after all, a simulation of the ripples a Cyan Pine tree would create on the surface of his Sea of Consciousness, so naturally, a branch was needed to create them.

This external wind was Mrs. Gu’s profoundly simple method of control—incredibly subtle and worth learning from.

’So, how do I "stir up a wind" myself?’

As Gu Ming breathed and circulated the Cyan Pine Skill, he soon thought of the Green Treasure Breathing Technique.

Although he couldn’t practice a Pet Beast’s Breathing Technique, he had committed its essence to heart.

So, he focused on imagining a gentle breeze blowing in his mind—not too strong, not too weak—using the wind to move the branch and, in turn, create the ripples.

This was because controlling the branch to create ripples directly consumed a huge amount of effort, whereas "stirring up a wind" was a light concept that could save considerable energy.

But putting this into practice wasn’t easy.

Gu Ming mulled it over for a full hour before he successfully stirred up a gust of wind.

As Gu Ming conjured the first wisp of wind, his Skill Level rose, and the wind grew stronger and more abundant.

As ripples spread out in circles, Gu Ming’s Old Deng’s Health Array Pattern shrank smaller and smaller, and at the same time, he could form even more of them.

The once strenuous Cultivation Technique suddenly became smooth and effortless. This shift had an uncanny resonance with the homophonic link between "Cyan Pine" and "easy." He wondered if this was how it was meant to be cultivated all along.

In any case, the pressure Gu Ming felt from shrinking the Array lessened.

Originally, he had only planned to create three Microscopic Arrays and place them in different parts of his Sea of Consciousness to locate the source of the interference.

But now, he could shrink even more Arrays, increasing the number available for pinpointing the source.

Five miniaturized Old Deng’s Health Arrays immediately appeared in Gu Ming’s Sea of Consciousness, placed in various locations.

Now, when he sensed the interference source within his Sea of Consciousness, he could instantly detect its position with far more specific and precise detail, even discerning differences in elevation.

Gu Ming swept the Mental Suggestion from his mind, instantly calming his thoughts.

The moment he calmed himself, Gu Ming’s eyes snapped open as a surging Spiritual Fluctuation erupted from within him.

Setting aside the matter of his Cultivation Technique breakthrough for the moment, Gu Ming pointed to a precise location.

"So, there you are."

Gu Ming’s eyes were fixed directly on it.

The Hidden Mist Butterfly jumped in fright. Its gaze had met Gu Ming’s.