Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Chapter 158 - 156: Visualization Image Negotiation

「The next morning.」

Teacher Zhang arrived at the school’s training room and asked Gu Ming, "Did you bring the medicinal ingredients from last night?"

Gu Ming scratched his head and said,

"I’ve already refined those medicinal ingredients.

"When they arrived at my house, Cyan Treasure accidentally spilled water on them, and all the ingredients got wet.

"To prevent their potency from declining, I went ahead and refined them myself that same night."

Hearing this, Teacher Zhang didn’t blame Gu Ming for not reporting it sooner. He simply said,

"How did the refinement go? Let me see."

Gu Ming knew he probably couldn’t hide the medicine, so he brought a bit of the ointment he had made last night.

After Cyan Treasure ate it last night, its stomach felt fiery hot the entire night, as if a Holy Fire was burning wildly inside its body.

When Gu Ming took out a small package and revealed the white ointment, Teacher Zhang smelled a milky fragrance.

He sniffed it and immediately felt refreshed, even feeling a slight urge to take a bite.

"This ointment of yours..."

Teacher Zhang hesitated. He hadn’t expected Gu Ming to succeed in refining it. Its appearance was beyond his expectations—it looked quite good.

He smelled the rich, milky aroma and looked at Cyan Treasure. "How was its digestion last night?"

The formula required a set of exercises to aid digestion.

However, Cyan Treasure’s original Digestion Technique was already at a high Skill Level, so it didn’t need to use the specific exercises from the research paper to digest it.

Cyan Treasure nodded, flashing its two big white teeth.

Teacher Zhang noticed that its Poison Fangs were very white.

’Is this the new medicine’s effect? It works this fast?’

Little did he know, that was the effect of the medicinal powder’s external application.

Previously, Cyan Treasure’s teeth had been soaked in a paralyzing toxin solution, which had stained its Poison Fangs yellow. Now, they were significantly whiter.

Teacher Zhang checked Cyan Treasure’s teeth but didn’t find anything amiss.

As he spoke, he reached out and touched the white ointment. A searing pain immediately shot through the surface of his skin.

He immediately pulled his hand back and had his Spirit-Seeking Flower Fairy heal him.

After confirming the ointment did indeed have a burning toxicity, Teacher Zhang didn’t ask any more questions.

After all, the raw materials were the same, and Gu Ming had successfully refined them into an ointment. That was enough.

Even if there were some deviations during the refinement, like adding too much or too little of certain ingredients, it wouldn’t be a major problem.

Teacher Zhang had found this Light Attribute poison formula while reading related research papers online; he had never actually tried making it himself.

Because of this, he didn’t suspect Gu Ming and mistakenly assumed this was how the medicine was supposed to be.

"Let’s feed it to Cyan Treasure for a while. If it doesn’t have any effect, we’ll switch to a different batch,"

Teacher Zhang said.

When Gu Ming returned to the store for work at noon, the matter of a partnership for the Visualization Image was brought to the table.

Mr. Gu had called several merchants from the city who were involved in the Visualization Image industry to the shop to negotiate.

Manager Ruan stood with her arms crossed. Although slightly displeased, she didn’t say anything, instead throwing out the Ruan Family’s sincere offer for partnership—a seventy-thirty split.

The Gu Family would take seventy percent, and the Ruan Family thirty.

The other merchants who produced Visualization Images looked at each other in dismay when they heard this proposed split.

Perhaps wanting to gauge the Ruan Family’s true intentions, the merchants had a closed-door discussion with Manager Ruan Jing for a while before opening the door again.

"Ahem, Mr. Gu Daguo, the most we can offer is a fifty-fifty split. If you’re not willing, then just go with the Ruan Family."

The handful of Four-star Beastmasters were all local merchants. Each of their companies employed, on average, over a hundred Beastmasters who made Visualization Images, and they often took on orders to produce Visualization Images for two or three-star Beastmasters.

An extravagant offer like the one from the Ruan Family was so much higher than their own bids that they simply couldn’t compete.

To secure this partnership, the old master had also come from his hometown to participate in the negotiations personally.

Seeing the Beastmasters about to leave, the old master intercepted them and pulled them aside to chat for a bit longer.

Gu Ming watched the entire process without saying a word. Besides, he didn’t understand business strategy, so he could only stare blankly.

Beyond that, the biggest contribution he could make was to see what the system had to say.

「The result of the Visualization Image negotiation is in. Once the Hidden Sect makes a move, the other powers can only make way, unable to compete.」

’This...’

Gu Ming was slightly surprised. ’The system has already made its judgment?’

’It’s so absolute.’

’What if, in reality, I decided to choose those other merchants?’

Just then, the old master returned from his chat. The other merchants were not behind him. It seemed they had all left, having no intention of competing for the production of the *Cyan Pine* Cultivation Visualization Image.

Manager Ruan smiled. "Now that you’ve heard their offers, you should know that our Ruan Family has come with sincerity, not to take petty advantages."

During the negotiations, the copyright for Lu You’s Earth Shifting Technique Visualization Image was also brought up.

In addition to the Cyan Pine Skill, the Green Treasure Breathing Technique was also included in the discussion.

However, the profit split for the latter two couldn’t be the same seventy-thirty as the Tri-Colored Technique.

After all, the latter two were at the bottom in the Hall of the Great Dao, so their splits were pushed down to forty-sixty and thirty-seventy, with the thirty-seventy split being for the Earth Shifting Technique.

The Earth Shifting Technique only had a single-colored Dao light. A Cultivation Technique like that was a dime a dozen in the Great Zhou and even around the world; it simply couldn’t sell for a high price.

Negotiating a thirty-seventy split was already a sign of the Ruan Family looking out for the Lu Family.

After the deals for all three Cultivation Techniques were finalized, Gu Ming’s side sent out Pet Beasts to coordinate with the Ruan Family’s Painters.

All these miscellaneous, trivial matters were handled by his family. Gu Ming only listened in for a while during his training.

Gu Ming wondered if the Ruan Family was making a huge profit somewhere he couldn’t see, but in the end, he came to terms with it. He was in no position to refuse.

In Lanqi City, there were only a few companies capable of mass-producing Visualization Images.

It was better to release them and make money than to hoard them.

With the system’s ability, there would be many more Cultivation Techniques for Gu Ming to acquire in the future.

He could consider this first Cultivation Technique as a way to test the waters. Making money was, of course, the best outcome, but even if he didn’t earn much, he could treat it as experience. The key was to get his foot in the door of this industry.

When Lu You learned that her Earth Shifting Technique would also be produced, and that the funds would be in a separate account instead of going directly to her parents, a mix of hesitation and joy appeared on her face.

She was conflicted about whether to tell her family about this venture, but joyful that she would now have money for university.

"Given your family’s situation, I suggest you use the money for your studies. Listen to your big sis: first, get into a Beast Taming University and change your own life. Then you can come back and improve your family’s circumstances.

"By then, your earning potential won’t be on the same level as it is now."

Later, as she was leaving work, Manager Ruan Jing pulled aside Lu You, who was the last to leave, and chatted with her for a bit.

Lu You nodded awkwardly, unable to say anything other than "thank you."

In less than three days, the Visualization Images for the three Cultivation Techniques were listed for sale online.

Among them, Gu Ming’s *Cyan Pine* Spiritual Technique sold the best, selling out in less than half an hour after being listed.

The Green Treasure Breathing Technique was next. It didn’t sell out, but it still sold quite a few—over two hundred copies in a single day.

It was only when Gu Ming returned to the store to train that he learned from Manager Ruan why they were selling so fast: many parents from his own high school were desperate to get their hands on these two Visualization Images.

They knew the parents’ demand, so they naturally had no worries about sales. You could say that for the first half of the year, however many copies they produced, that’s how many they would sell, and they wouldn’t stop until all the parents of third-year high school students in the city had bought one.

Furthermore, Gu Ming’s performance in the midterm exams would serve as another live advertisement. If he did well, he could potentially spread the Cultivation Technique’s fame throughout the entire province.

Hearing this, Gu Ming faintly understood why they had been willing to accept a seventy-thirty split.