Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Chapter 174 - 172: A Future Overlord Has Moved Into Our Home?

When the Hall of the Great Dao appeared, it didn’t prompt any of the High-star Beastmasters in the vicinity to go and take a look.

After all, the Hall of the Great Dao would sometimes release something as common as a Monochromatic Holy Light.

But in the eyes of High-star Beastmasters, Monochromatic and two-colored Holy Lights were nothing special. Only a Tri-Colored Holy Light was worth seeing.

However, considering the brief time the Hall of the Great Dao remained open, they would only be eating dust if they rushed over now.

They might not even get to eat the dust.

For this reason, there was little value in going to watch.

As for Four-Colored, Five-Colored, or even greater Holy Lights, their appearances were completely random. It wasn’t as if you could just decide to go and happen to catch one.

Thus, even when many Beastmasters sensed the appearance of the Hall of the Great Dao, they wouldn’t necessarily set out immediately.

Only if the Hall of the Great Dao lingered in the sky for an unusually long time would it arouse the curiosity of some Beastmasters.

As for Beastmasters who were farther away, they couldn’t sense the appearance of the Hall of the Great Dao at all.

It was because the Hall of the Great Dao had remained for too long this time that some people finally decided to head over.

But this was a decision they only made after waiting for two or three minutes.

After all, they were a great distance away, and even with High-star Pet Beasts possessing reconnaissance abilities, they couldn’t sense the state of the Hall of the Great Dao with perfect accuracy. They didn’t even know that a One-star Celestial Tribulation had appeared.

It wasn’t until the first wave of Beastmasters leisurely arrived at the scene that they sensed the lingering resonance of the Great Dao was incredibly rich—so rich that it could nearly send a Low Tier Pet Beast directly into an Enlightenment State.

One must understand that the Enlightenment State was a state of heightened comprehension that one could only stumble upon by chance, never seek out.

Once in this state, as long as one comprehended a related Daoist Skill, their Cultivation speed would increase rapidly.

But what was even more surprising wasn’t the extent of the destruction at the scene.

It was the simultaneous presence of another residual power of the Celestial Dao in the sky—a Celestial Tribulation.

The Hall of the Great Dao appeared multiple times a year, especially when summoning a One-star Holy Light; it happened so often people had grown numb to it.

Beastmasters who rushed over from afar were either simply bored or their Pet Beasts’ Cultivation had hit a bottleneck, so they came to freeload off some Celestial Dao enlightenment.

A Celestial Tribulation, on the other hand, was much rarer.

Throughout the entire year, you wouldn’t necessarily see a Celestial Tribulation every day, and most people rarely encountered one.

Outside of the top university districts where geniuses gathered, the probability of a Celestial Tribulation appearing in other regions was incredibly low.

This piqued the curiosity and attention of the Beastmasters.

Because of this, someone on the scene immediately called some High Tier Beastmasters, telling them to come over and have a look as well.

And the lingering resonance of the Celestial Tribulation was slowly sensed by those who arrived later.

As images were transmitted back, the situation gradually escalated, proving to be not as simple as everyone had thought.

However, the latecomers were ultimately a bit too slow to arrive.

This was, after all, deep in the mountains and old forests. No matter how fast a Pet Beast’s flight Speed was, the slightest deviation in direction would lead them to a completely different location.

Thus, it took the second group over ten minutes to reach the scene.

The Wang Family arrived riding a Two-winged Thunder Shadow Bird. It had a large body and a wide wingspan, its black and gold feathers interspersed with thunder patterns.

Its beak was like an iron hook, and its purple eyes crackled like lightning, accompanied by dancing arcs of electricity. It was the Wang Family’s extremely formidable Five-star Thunder Element Flying Pet.

It was a naturally powerful Thunder Element Pet. From a young age, it had been fed eggs filled with Thunder Energy Quanta, drank Purple Thunder Water, and bathed in lightning for Body Forging.

Among all the resources it consumed, a Celestial Tribulation was the highest Level, top-grade resource. If it could soar through the Celestial Tribulation Clouds to train, it could at the very least increase its combat power a little.

If it were a bit younger, receiving the baptism of a Celestial Tribulation could have even triggered its potential for Evolution to the Six-star Level.

For this reason, the Wang Family’s desire for a Celestial Tribulation was by no means small; it was even stronger than that of any other Beastmaster present.

However, a Celestial Tribulation wasn’t something you could just find every month. You might not even encounter one in an entire year.

If one wanted to bathe in a Celestial Tribulation consistently, they had to go struggle in the places where the most talented geniuses gathered.

There, Celestial Tribulations were not a rare occurrence, and it was also the favorite place for many Thunder Element Pets.

At this moment, Patriarch Wang was surveying the overturned soil and uprooted trees, trying to trace the source of the destructive Power, but he found nothing.

The Life Energy exposed at the scene was extremely faint. It seemed to be present, yet it felt as if it had been completely sucked dry, with very little remaining.

The local vegetation, however, was still alive, and the damage to it was limited. It was as if a powerful force had destroyed the ground while simultaneously preserving the plants.

"This... this is not simple. The Pet Beast that bathed in the Celestial Tribulation here had a powerful guardian," Patriarch Wang’s gaze sharpened.

Everything within a radius of several miles had been devastated. Destruction was easy, but controlling the force to prevent the plant life in this area from being seriously injured was an extremely difficult feat of skill.

This point alone was enough to determine that the other party’s strength was not to be underestimated. It was likely not a Five-star Level expert, but perhaps a Six-star Level existence.

In their city, even a Six-star Level Pet Beast was a family’s hidden trump card, not something that could be deployed easily.

"Are there any prominent families in this area? Look into it."

"Within a ten-mile radius, it’s all rural houses. Most of the residents are surnamed Gu. They don’t know anything and can’t even be considered a major family."

The leaders of several families spread their informant networks to investigate but found no powerful individuals nearby—only nobodies.

Because of this, they shifted their suspicions elsewhere.

Perhaps someone was just passing by, randomly picked a spot, and had an on-the-spot breakthrough into Enlightenment, creating a New Technique and attracting a Celestial Tribulation in the process.

It was just that the power of this Celestial Tribulation was unbelievably weak.

The Thunder Shadow Bird beneath him indicated that the residual power of this Celestial Tribulation would probably just tickle it, not providing any training effect at all.

Across the entire country, this was a first. Once a Celestial Tribulation appeared, its power could not possibly be small.

He had never seen a Celestial Tribulation this weak before, so weak that he couldn’t tell what Star Level of junior Pet Beast was undergoing it.

But a Celestial Tribulation was still a Celestial Tribulation.

If his Five-star Thunder Shadow Bird had intervened, the tribulation’s power would have scaled up in sync with the interferer’s strength, which would have still achieved the desired training effect.

It was just a pity they found out too late. The Celestial Tribulation was long over.

...

"That stomp of yours... won’t it make people suspicious?"

「Elsewhere.」

Gu Ming had already ridden Ma Tianba back to the city.

Their return to the city didn’t alarm the citizens. Ma Tianba’s Speed could be fast or slow. If it wanted to enter the city discreetly, it could slow down to the speed of a car, conceal its Realm internally, and look no different from an ordinary four- or five-star Pet Beast.

In any case, they returned to the city, and Gu Ming began intensely searching short-video news feeds, but he didn’t find any clips related to the Celestial Tribulation.

He didn’t know if the local authorities had suppressed the news or if people simply didn’t care about what happened in a small, rural area.

Gu Ming hadn’t seen the power of Ma Tianba’s stomp, but judging by the sound, it had been incredibly immense—the most explosive sound he had ever heard in his life.

His intuition told him that the power of that stomp was no simple matter, and he was also worried that the residual Holy Light in the forest would be exposed.

Ma Tianba snorted, indicating there was no need to be nervous.

Although it had stomped with its full power, it had also destroyed all traces of their presence at the scene.

It had even shaken the Life Energy Factors in the forest into the plants, using them to repair the damage they had sustained from the shockwave.

It looked like a single stomp, but it was actually the effect of several stomps condensed into one, accomplishing many things.

And what Ma Tianba planned to do next took the Gu Family completely by surprise.

"I’m moving into the Gu Family home," Ma Tianba said, blinking its huge eyes as it looked at Cyan Treasure.

It was no longer interested in the Mana Evolution based on the Frozen Pill Method.

The legendary Nine-Colored Holy Light, a Cultivation Technique that only Divine Beasts could afford to practice, had completely captured its heart.

It wanted to practice the Foundation Establishment Method and build up the Great Dao Foundation within its body.

It wasn’t going anywhere until its Great Dao Foundation was built.

However, it was only willing to stay in Grandpa Gu’s room; it refused to sleep in anyone else’s.