High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late-Chapter 161 - 145: Dominance, Overwhelming Ten with Sheer Strength

Chapter 161: Chapter 145: Dominance, Overwhelming Ten with Sheer Strength

Whoo.

Having just entered the Qi Blood Secret Realm and made such a breakthrough, Su Mu was overjoyed. He took a few deep breaths to calm his excitement.

"I’ve wasted some time, it’s time to set off."

Su Mu took out the War Order, but it showed no response. Perhaps there were no other humans nearby, or it had just failed. Putting the War Order away, he strode forward.

A huge blood moon cast a somber crimson glow, while the shadows of the forest trees loomed like ghostly claws.

Soon enough, a giant serpent, as thick as a barrel and over ten meters long, attacked. The front of its body rose high, exuding an overwhelming presence from afar.

Most striking was the solid layer of blood light over its body, clearly indicating a Qi Blood Emission. This meant it was at least a Fifth Level Fierce Beast. On closer inspection, there were two fist-sized bulges on its head.

The serpent’s body writhed quickly closer, and as its tail whipped like a steel lash, the rocks and trees along its path were demolished.

Su Mu’s hand fell on the sword hilt, and he stepped forward with his left foot.

clang.

The cold blade emerged from the scabbard. After drawing it with the Sword Drawing Secret Technique, Su Mu executed the First Form of the Surging Waves Saber Technique, Riding the Wind. As he struck, he felt something was off, unsettling.

The blade in his hand hadn’t accumulated Blade Qi, and the Sword Momentum was being heavily suppressed by the Secret Realm, imparting a sense of frustration.

Yet, even so, Su Mu’s Qi and Blood, and its purity, far surpassed those at the same level. Coupled with his Power Talent’s boost.

Although this strike lacked the unstoppable sharpness of sword momentum, it carried a greater sense of sheer force, overwhelming the opponent with pure strength, rendering other skills unnecessary!

In the next second, a burst of blood light erupted, and a huge section of the serpent’s tail was cut off, spraying dark blue blood as the serpent hissed and turned to flee.

"Escape? Leave it to me!"

Su Mu’s body flickered, and as if wind rose from the flat terrain, he covered dozens of meters in an instant, catching up with the serpent to strike it head-on.

hiss.

The giant serpent was cleaved into two halves from head to tail, blood splattering everywhere. Su Mu flicked the long saber in his hand to shake off the blood, his eyes glinting slightly.

"Sword Momentum is the foundation of a Martial Artist, and likewise, Qi and Blood is one of the foundations."

"Strength and speed are powers based on the foundation of Qi and Blood. I inherently have a Power Talent and have mastered the Secret of Power. Perhaps my strength can rival Sword Momentum; strength might indeed be my strongest point, just the right occasion to hone my own strength using the Secret Realm."

With this change in mindset, Su Mu no longer felt constrained all over, feeling liberated. He had once felt the thrill of pure strength during the Training Camp.

However, the Training Camp’s dummies were somewhat fragile, preventing him from continuing to use the Real Combat Cultivation Room afterward. Now he could fully indulge.

With this thought, Su Mu’s mood improved significantly. He then used the tip of his saber to pick out a blood core the size of a baby’s fist from the serpent’s head.

"Blood cores are good stuff, collecting more can’t be wrong."

Storing the blood core in his Space Ring, Su Mu strode away. Shortly, two giant lizards several meters long attacked, appearing like small dinosaurs from a distance of several dozen meters.

"Sure enough, the Fierce Beasts in the Qi Blood Secret Realm are much stronger than those outside."

Su Mu simply sheathed his long saber, instantly enveloping his body in a solid layer of blood light. He took a deep breath, then his feet slammed into the ground, creating a sudden depression.

In the next second, Su Mu shot out like an arrow off the string.

He clenched his right fist tightly and fiercely punched, this time without any burden.

The giant lizard was covered in thick scales, clearly a resilient creature, but when Su Mu’s punch landed, the scales couldn’t withstand it and shattered amid a burst of blood light.

One punch pierced through the scales, penetrating straight into the flesh like a steel blade.

crack.

The giant lizard’s tendons and bones snapped, sent flying several meters, crashing into a cluster of trees. Feeling all this through his fist, Su Mu’s blood became increasingly hot and boiling. He once again experienced the most primal and extreme exhilaration brought by pure power.

"Again!"

Su Mu’s body flickered again, sending the other giant lizard flying with a punch. He then delivered several more blows, killing the two giant lizards, transforming them into two blood cores in his hand.

With the battle over, Su Mu looked at his fist, the hardness of his fist with Qi Blood Emission far surpassed that of steel.

"Exhilarating, let’s continue."

Su Mu gradually entered a better state; by the time he fought his way out of the forest, the ring was filled with no fewer than a hundred blood cores.

Beyond the forest, the ground underfoot became moist, leading to a dark green swampy area filled with lurking fierce beasts.

Just then, Su Mu felt a disturbance from his lungs.

To be precise, it was the Golden Essence Qi nurtured within his lungs.

Surprised, Su Mu unleashed the Golden Essence Qi, as the hair-like fine threads in his hand pointed in a certain direction immediately.

"Let’s have a look."

A giant wolf with a gray-green body lunged at him. Su Mu didn’t dodge, and the Qi Blood membrane instantly covered his whole body, the giant wolf’s expression changed dramatically the next second.

Because the human before it had directly grabbed its charging forelimbs.

In an instant, Su Mu’s hands exerted tremendous force.

crack.

The sound of bones cracking echoed, and Su Mu directly shattered the pair of forelimb bones of the giant wolf.

The giant wolf let out a harrowing wail.

Su Mu loosened his right hand, clenched his fist, and ferociously punched out, striking directly at the wolf’s belly. After a few punches, the giant wolf’s body trembled all over and was left only with exhalation but no inhalation.

With a thought, the Golden Essence Qi in Su Mu’s hand transformed into a small blood-colored blade. He turned his palm into a blade and broke open the wolf’s head, directly extracting a Blood Core from within.

Seeing such a ferocious scene and feeling the murderous aura from Su Mu, many of the Fierce Beasts in the swamp area immediately withdrew their covetous gazes.

After slaying a few more Fierce Beasts along the way, Su Mu arrived at a spot by a stone, with the Golden Essence Qi pointing to this location.

Su Mu punched the stone apart and quickly dug out a muddied, irregularly shaped metal block the size of a baby’s fist from beneath it.

"It’s a bit light, probably not any valuable metal."

This piece of metal gave Su Mu the impression of being less than twenty pounds. He wiped away the mud to reveal a dull silver gleam beneath, and at that moment, a faint spiritual fluctuation emanated from the metal.

"Silver, spiritual power fluctuation... Could it be Mithril?"

Su Mu was stunned. Mithril is a precious metal on the same level as Secret Copper Essence, and its value vaguely surpasses Copper Essence. Such a piece is worth at least over four million lower-grade Spirit Stones.

"What a pleasant surprise."

Continuing forward, Su Mu’s direction had diverged from the swamp as he pursued the metal, but he didn’t mind. He had left marks along the way, and after emerging from the swamp, ruins soon appeared before him.

In the ruins, some broken ancient structures still remained, the most attractive to Su Mu being a Ruined Tower, weathered by the passage of time.

Su Mu knew he had found the right place.

But he only glanced at it before retracting his gaze and spoke heavily, "Come out now."

The ruins were deathly silent.

...

In the ruins, a group of aliens wore cruel expressions. Earlier, they had ambushed and killed several human martial artists here. Only one with Speed Talent had fled in disgrace.

Now, another human had voluntarily come to die, and this time it was a lone individual. How could they not be excited?

"Alas, it would have been better if a few more came. Why just one?"

As the figure approached, all the aliens in the ruins held their breath. For a moment, they all panicked—this was the human monster capable of overwhelming Master Nanu!

"Come out now."

Su Mu’s deep voice echoed. One alien looked at Su Mu’s approach and steeled his heart.

"This person can only fight Master Nanu thanks to a War Intent Prototype. Currently, this is the Qi Blood Secret Realm, and he definitely can’t use the War Intent Prototype."

"Right, no matter how strong he is, he’s still just one person, and like us, he’s only a Fifth Level. Let’s all go at him together and kill him!"

"Kill him!"

Before the words were finished, a figure instantly filled the pupils of the first alien who spoke. Without another word, Su Mu, confirming that the ruins were hiding aliens, unleashed a punch.

This punch was delivered with only half of Su Mu’s strength but used the Secret of Power, resulting in a fourfold explosion.

Boom!

A fine head exploded like a watermelon, with brain and flesh flying everywhere.

Seeing Su Mu instantly kill a companion with one punch, all the aliens were filled with disbelief.

"Hiss, did he just get killed instantly? Why didn’t Cui Ke run? His punch didn’t even seem that fast?!"

"This, how can it be possible? Isn’t he just a Fifth Level Martial Artist?"

"Aren’t humans more adept at Martial Arts and Battle Intent?"

"How can his flesh be so strong, possessing such powerful strength and Qi and Blood!"

Terror and confusion filled the hearts of the surrounding aliens. They, as warriors of the alien side, paid great attention to the cultivation of Qi and Blood, but just now, from this human, they felt an overwhelming Qi and Blood aura that left them breathless.

They had felt this sensation from Lord Nanu before, but this time, it was even more suffocating.

This indicated that this person’s Qi and Blood far exceeded theirs.

"Five percent strength seems a bit too much; three percent would be enough."

Su Mu adjusted his breathing and stepped forward again. Seeing Su Mu move once more, all the aliens showed fear. At this moment, their hearts no longer intended to kill Su Mu but to flee.

But can they escape?

Su Mu stepped forward, instantly crossing dozens of meters, and punched out. Even before the punch landed, a fierce wind howled, like the roar of a tiger and a dragon.

Faced with this punch after activating the Secret of Power, the alien suddenly felt the surrounding air solidify as if forming an invisible prison, leaving him with no choice but to resist it head-on.

"No, don’t kill me..."

Before dying, he suddenly realized why his fallen companion didn’t dodge. It wasn’t that they didn’t dodge, but there was no escape, and Su Mu’s punch was too domineering.

Splutter.

Another head exploded, and suddenly the remaining aliens had no more will to fight, only thoughts of escape.

After a few flickers, before the aliens on the field could let out even a few cries, they were reduced to twelve alien corpses, sprawled haphazardly. Su Mu’s eyes grew more insightful, even making him marvel.

"What a domineering Secret of Power; this is truly overwhelming strength!"

Quickly collecting the aliens’ Space Rings, Su Mu soon let out a light sound of surprise because he discovered that the aliens were also collecting Blood Cores.

Blood Cores likely have special uses in the Qi Blood Secret Realm!