whonovel Chapter 310 - 299: Ramping Up the Intensity
Chapter 310 - 299: Ramping Up the Intensity
With guidance from the system’s bullet-screen comments, plus the ready-made Array provided by the company, Gu Ming found the design process quite easy.
During his dream Cultivation that night, Ah Kun completed the preliminary design and ran a prototype of the Cultivation Technique.
After observing Cyan Treasure’s Z-shaped Shaking Body Technique, Ah Kun infused Mana into its throat, causing the Array to resonate. It then produced an infrasonic call similar to a whale’s, transmitting the insights from its mind to Gu Ming.
Although Gu Ming couldn’t learn the Snake Pet Body Technique himself, he was able to perceive these Great Dao Insights through his Divine Sense Sword Body.
He closed his eyes, savoring the feeling for five minutes.
He estimated that it was about sixty percent of Cyan Treasure’s own level of insight.
According to the company’s design specifications, this had already perfectly exceeded the original fifty percent standard.
Gu Ming crossed his arms and looked at Ah Kun. "It’s done already?"
It had only taken one day of practice in the dream to get the Cultivation Technique running. That said, it still had quite a few problems. For instance, it consumed a huge amount of energy in the throat area, which could be easily damaged.
Ah Kun was a Water Element Pet and could use a Breathing Technique to moisten its throat, so the short-term impact wasn’t significant.
However, long-term use would surely lead to hidden dangers and required further optimization.
When Gu Ming woke up in the real world, only a few seconds had passed.
With the Cultivation Technique design at this stage, his work was basically finished. The subsequent optimization and more detailed development belonged to the next phase of the process.
When the company designed a Cultivation Technique, multiple internal teams worked on it. Gu Ming’s job was in creative development, responsible for taking an idea and turning it into a working concept to see if it was feasible.
If it was, the company would invest more manpower and resources, assigning a dedicated team to the project.
As the creative developer, Gu Ming could also be transferred to that team to participate in optimizing the Cultivation Technique. At that point, a large number of volunteers would come to learn it, and he would adjust the technique’s operational pathways for each Pet Beast.
These volunteers were mostly students from Beast Taming University, and it was considered a high-paying, short-term job. Gu Ming’s position, however, was several tiers above these temporary workers—an advantage of being the top scholar, he supposed.
If he hadn’t become the top scholar, his summer job might have been as one of these Cultivation Technique volunteers. They weren’t allowed to take the techniques they learned with them; they had to have the technique erased on-site before leaving. The company didn’t do charity work.
For highly confidential Cultivation Techniques, they might even dispatch a Pet Beast with memory-altering abilities to erase the Cultivation memories of the volunteer’s Pet Beast, ensuring the development secrets were not leaked.
The insight-transferring Cultivation Technique Gu Ming was currently researching wasn’t proprietary, so it hadn’t risen to that level of high security.
There were already High-star Level insight-transferring Cultivation Techniques on the market. His job was to lower the Cultivation threshold of the technique to a point where even Low-star Beastmasters could use it.
This involved the core technology of the Array Carving Technique in the Brain Domain. Currently, not many Beastmasters dared to research Arrays in the Brain Domain.
Even though Gu Ming had successfully developed one Array-type Cultivation Technique after another in the national competition, the top-tier Cultivation Method Companies were still maintaining a wait-and-see attitude.
There was a reason Cultivation Technique Study enterprises were so cautious. History was filled with countless bloody failures, and Gu Ming’s success wasn’t seen as universally applicable.
A single failure from Gu Ming that resulted in an incident with risks similar to a medical malpractice dispute would be a huge headache for him.
Gu Ming knew what everyone was afraid of. He also knew that he was cheating with the system, which had completely smoothed over all the difficulties of Cultivation Technique development.
"Tomorrow, I should still take it easy. Can’t push the progress too fast," Gu Ming murmured as he lay in bed.
When Team Leader Da Fei came to check on the two interns’ learning and work progress, he was not only satisfied but also a little surprised, which showed that they had exceeded his expectations.
After all, they were new interns. Understanding the Array on the first day was already beyond the company’s expectations for new employees.
’If I push the progress tomorrow, the system’s plot will probably skyrocket.’
From the system’s perspective, his mission was to have Cyan Treasure learn to use its Time Talent for Time Reversal and to find clues about the corruption within Elder Ruan’s lineage at the company.
In reality, as he looked at the system’s mission, he had already completed the initial intelligence-gathering work.
As Ah Kun cultivated the prototype Cultivation Technique, the system indicated that Cyan Treasure, by training with Ah Kun to resist the pressure, was gradually grasping the roots of its Time Reversal Talent.
The next step was a long-term training process to unearth the Talent, turning uncontrollable flashes of inspiration into a controllable Talent Ability that could be used at will.
In other words, if he wanted to, he could complete the Cultivation Technique’s development at light speed in the next day or two. The anti-corruption task assigned by the system would also be finished, directly rewarding him with 20,000 Spirit Stones.
The problem was, Cyan Treasure hadn’t actually awakened any Time Reversal ability.
He wasn’t sure if the system was just bluffing or if the ability was real.
In any case, Gu Ming was quite interested.
During work tomorrow, he would observe Cyan Treasure again and see if he could unearth the Time Talent the system saw in it.
"Cyan Treasure, you should also learn the sound-transmitting Array carving for the throat and the Sub-array carving for the Brain Domain from Ah Kun. I’ll check your progress tomorrow," Gu Ming said.
Cyan Treasure froze for a moment. ’Why do I have to learn this?’
"It’ll be very useful. Let’s see if we can unearth your potential," Gu Ming said.
Cyan Treasure’s doubt swirled in its mind for two seconds before vanishing.
’Developing my potential is great! Since it’s an order from my master, I’ll learn it!’
That night, Cyan Treasure, flicking its tongue, pestered Ah Kun to teach it the Array.
Gu Ming sat up in bed and cultivated *Cyan Pine*, tempering his Spiritual Sword Body.
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「The next day.」
Gu Ming arrived at the company for work.
Team Leader Da Fei was already waiting at his workstation. Seeing their arrival time, he frowned without hesitation and said:
"If you can get here earlier, then get here earlier. Remember to come in two hours early tomorrow."
It was already seven o’clock when Gu Ming arrived at the company.
HR had told him the start time was 7:30, so he was already half an hour early.
Beside him, Lu You was intimidated by Team Leader Da Fei’s unquestionable tone. She didn’t dare to retort at all, only lowering her head slightly, frozen in place like a wooden stake.
Gu Ming frowned slightly at the sight but didn’t object directly.
He knew that even if he changed jobs, his work environment wouldn’t necessarily be any better.
Besides, a monthly salary of 20,000 Spirit Stones was extremely rare for an internship.
The team leader had seemed reasonably friendly on the first day, but ramping up the intensity on the second was within his expectations.
He knew that domestic Cultivation Method Companies had always operated at high intensity.
The infamous "007" work schedule was considered normal. How could interns expect to have a leisurely time right from the start? The veteran employees were all working insane overtime. When they left last night, the company’s lights were still blazing, and almost no one had gone home.
Team Leader Da Fei was probably annoyed about this and had specifically waited for Gu Ming’s arrival time this morning to reprimand him.
"Yes!"
Gu Ming didn’t waste words, crisply agreeing to Team Leader Da Fei’s demand.
Then, Gu Ming walked over to Team Leader Da Fei’s side to listen to his lecture and receive today’s design tasks.
"I’ve brought the volunteer and his Pet Beast. In a bit, you can use your own Pet Beasts or go to the first-floor plantation area and get a Three-star Spirit Beast to teach the new Cultivation Technique to.
"Then, have it observe the volunteer’s Pet Beast’s Three-star Combat Techniques. I’ll be back later to check on your development progress. I’ve sent the minimum requirements for the Cultivation Technique to your phone. If you can’t meet them, I’ll dock your pay."