Beast Taming: My System is Bugged

Chapter 319 - 308: The Breathing Technique Became Popular

Gu Ming returned to the villa and immediately video-called his family, sending them the digital version of the contract to review.

Signing an employment contract with a company required caution.

An ordinary person in this situation would be thrilled, eager to plant their roots in a promising major company for life.

But Gu Ming was different. He was ambitious and had his own plans; he didn’t want to be tied down by the company.

He not only reviewed the terms in detail but also asked his parents to help find someone to carefully check for any predatory loopholes.

"You have meticulously studied the Inner Sect rules sent by the Sect and found no exploitable loopholes."

’That makes sense. A Hidden Sect that has developed for so many years must have dealt with plenty of trouble. Any that survived to this day would surely have well-established rules.’

Gu Ming’s eyes narrowed with suspicion.

’The more the system insisted there was nothing, the more carefully he had to look.’

In the system’s timeline, that was thirty-two years in the future.

He had investigated the Ruan Family Company. It wasn’t a well-established brand with decades of history; it was a company that had only emerged in recent years.

That was why the company even had Three-star Level Beastmasters working as interns.

To say nothing of a Two-star Level Beastmaster like Gu Ming, who had also joined the company as a temp.

A truly large company would be fully staffed with Mid-to-High-star Level Beastmasters, boasting rich human resources.

After reading it over and over, Gu Ming finally found a few clauses that seemed fine on the surface but would cause problems if he were to resign.

First was the company’s internal Cultivation Technique benefits. If an employee learned one of the company’s techniques, they would have to perform a Dissipating Technique upon resignation, erasing the internal Cultivation Technique.

As a Cultivation Method Designer, Gu Ming would naturally have his own Pet Beast learn the techniques he designed.

When the time came for him to resign, these techniques—which he himself had created—could become a stumbling block.

For example, the company could require him to dissipate its Cultivation Techniques before he could leave.

The second clause to watch out for was the non-compete agreement.

Since Gu Ming worked in the field of Cultivation Techniques, he would be barred from working or conducting research in the same design field for ten years after his resignation.

It didn’t seem like a big deal, as this was a standard clause in most companies.

However, the scope of Gu Ming’s non-compete agreement was far too broad, almost completely blocking his path to innovating Cultivation Techniques after leaving.

Fortunately, Gu Ming hadn’t signed the contract yet, so there was still room for negotiation.

Even if there were to be restrictions, the scope couldn’t be set so broadly.

Gu Ming told his parents about the clauses he had found, and the family spent the whole night studying them.

「The next day.」

Gu Ming arrived at the company and presented his family’s concerns.

Team Leader Da Fei took it very seriously.

The members of the Blue Flame Task Force looked on with envy. They didn’t have the qualifications to negotiate terms with the company; a non-compete agreement wasn’t something you could just change at will.

But Gu Ming was different.

He was the national competition champion, with a limitless future.

Especially this year’s high school competition.

Because the Cloud Country, the host of the international tournament, had been shrouded by an unknown Power, the national competition rankings were the highest possible rankings for high school students this year.

In previous years, the world’s number one high school student was someone major companies would fight tooth and nail to recruit.

If Gu Ming hadn’t made contact with a branch of the Ruan Family early on, allowing them to make arrangements in advance, other companies would have undoubtedly tried to get involved by now.

A short while later, Gu Ming’s contract with the Ruan Family Company was revised. The scope of the non-compete agreement was narrowed, limited only to the Cultivation Techniques Gu Ming developed within the company’s geographical Domain.

Of course, if Gu Ming made demands, the company would make its own.

First, the required number of completed Cultivation Technique designs was increased. They were no longer treating him like a newcomer, setting a minimum quota for Gu Ming to complete this year—starting at five!

Second, the quality requirement for the techniques was also raised to the level of a veteran employee with over five years of service.

This meant the quality of the Cultivation Techniques couldn’t be too low; they had to be able to receive certification from the Hall of the Great Dao.

A single-color certification didn’t count. The minimum was two-colored, and bonuses would only be awarded for reaching Tri-Colored Holy Light.

Creating a Four-Colored Technique, or achieving an even higher certification, would result in a company-wide commendation plus extraordinary rewards.

These could include high commissions, rare Evolution resources, special-access quotas, or even Dragon Blood hatchlings.

No matter the request, as long as one’s contribution was great enough, anything was possible.

Gu Ming reviewed the contract one last time, and after confirming there were no issues, he signed the employment contract.

As he signed the contract, the system expressed that it was deeply moved.

"You have become an Inner Sect Disciple of the Hidden Sect, taking a firm and powerful step forward on Old Deng’s comeback journey. +30 Achievement Points!"

This was what Gu Ming had been waiting for.

He knew that signing the employment contract would constrain his life plans for the next few years.

However, he was attending university in the Capital, which would already take over four years.

If he decided to pursue a master’s or a doctorate, that timeframe would be even longer.

To keep a foot in both the university and the company—and make it easier to fleece the system—Gu Ming chose the "Hidden Sect" with which he shared a bond of fate, planning to climb the ranks from there.

He had no idea where the "hidden" part of this so-called Hidden Sect was.

In his eyes, the company was extremely high-profile.

It was located in the Capital’s high-tech district, and the neighboring buildings were all home to the nation’s foremost corporations, all of them famous.

The employees coming and going were all Mid and High-star Beastmasters.

Even at the very bottom, the people Gu Ming interacted with were at least Three-star.

Most of the employees he had seen over the past three days were Four-star and Five-star Beastmasters.

Back in Lanqi City, he would never have seen so many Five-star Beastmasters walking around everywhere.

During the day, Gu Ming and Lu You practiced their Spiritual Technique at the company.