High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late-Chapter 166 - 150: One Man Alone, Stepping into the Alien Race Stronghold

Chapter 166: Chapter 150: One Man Alone, Stepping into the Alien Race Stronghold

On the other side.

After obtaining the map of the Secret Realm, Su Mu quickly discerned his position. He recalled that someone had already activated the Relic Tower earlier. If he was not mistaken, both sides should now be in a stalemate at the Land of Ruins.

"I should go to the Land of Ruins first to check it out."

Su Mu’s gaze fell on the most prominent spot on the map.

At this moment, Su Mu had no idea that the human side in the Qi Blood Secret Realm couldn’t hold off the Alien Race at all, and even slight resistance was impossible.

If not for his intervention, the power balance within the Secret Realm would have already tipped completely. It was a cat-and-mouse game, except the big cat, the Alien Race, was not focused on capturing the mouse yet, still unable to free up from the Land of Ruins.

Now, humans were hiding in secret caves to survive, with the Land of Ruins already becoming the Alien Race’s base.

This journey would be a lone one.

...

"The Rig Squad is truly useless. What’s so hard about dealing with Fierce Beasts? That’s all there is to it!"

A team of the Alien Race had just hunted a Fierce Beast Overlord, obtaining a Blood Core. The leader of the team held the Blood Core with a look of delight, thinking about how Rig had to ask for reinforcements.

Since his team succeeded in the hunt, he began to imagine how Lord Nanu would reward him later.

"Lord Nanu comes from the Ray Race Royal Family, so the reward will surely be generous!"

From the shadows, Su Mu’s gaze fell on the Blood Core in the Alien Race member’s hand, nodding secretly. His luck was good; he had obtained some gains. According to his guess, the Blood Core of these powerful Fierce Beasts could likely be of great use in the Land of Ruins.

There was still some distance to the Land of Ruins. Without hesitation, Su Mu launched a fierce attack.

The Alien Race team, elated from their success in hunting the Fierce Beast, chatted and laughed on their way back.

A member at the back of the team looked puzzled. How come the companion he was talking to just now suddenly stopped responding? He turned his head and witnessed a horrifying scene, but it was too late.

With a swoosh.

A gust of fist wind roared, and a head exploded in an instant.

"Enemy..."

Before the words were finished, the speaker’s expression turned incredulous, and his chest was directly punched through.

Su Mu nodded secretly. This team was stronger than the previous two, but still limited in strength. Even if they realized, what could they do? It was a slaughter.

At that moment, in the eyes of the Alien Race team, Su Mu became the embodiment of death. As he flickered through them, blood spurted wildly.

In just a moment, the forest fell into silence. The joyful voices of the Alien Race were gone, and only blood quietly flowed, slowly seeping into the earth.

"This Blood Core is slightly smaller than that of the huge snake."

"But I’ll take it," Su Mu said.

Su Mu unceremoniously took the Blood Core, skillfully rifling through the Space Ring and the Alien Race members’ belongings, taking all their weapons. He could extract Golden Essence Qi from these later.

"Killing and looting brings riches."

Su Mu’s face showed his satisfaction with the haul. He glanced over the Space Ring, this Alien Race team alone carried nearly three million Upper Grade Spirit Stones. Once, he had to struggle just to extract ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones for superpower use.

"If I were weak, I would be the one dead here."

"In the High Martial World, strength is everything!"

Continuing onward, Su Mu encountered no more lone Alien Race teams as he headed north without stopping.

...

"Damn, could it be that Su Mu went directly toward the Land of Ruins?"

Following closely behind, Lin Ying searched the surroundings and finally tracked Su Mu’s footsteps. He found that Su Mu had deliberately left confusing tracks in a circle nearby, then headed straight north.

The north was where the Land of Ruins was located, now the Alien Race’s main base.

"No, I must catch up to Su Mu. Su Mu must not be lost!"

Lin Ying looked anxious as he hurried north, but he did not dare to use his full strength, fearing it might attract Nanu.

Soon enough, he smelled a waft of bloody Qi and blood.

Shortly thereafter, Lin Ying saw the third Alien Race team brutally massacred. Their remains were extremely gruesome, with the faces of those who still had intact heads frozen in disbelief and terror.

"Is Su Mu hunting the Alien Race teams along the way to avenge the deceased?"

"No, I can’t let Su Mu go any further."

Admiration filled Lin Ying’s heart, as Su Mu’s figure grew grand and awe-inspiring in his mind. To single-handedly hunt the Alien Race teams and even plan to infiltrate the Alien Race’s base to rescue the captive Tantai Yan—such courage was truly admirable.

However, what loomed in his mind was more urgency; Su Mu couldn’t have any accidents, and definitely not die.

Lin Ying no longer held back his speed. Despite the risks, he needed to catch up with Su Mu before he set foot in the Alien Race’s base.

...

Unbeknownst to Su Mu, there was a pursuer behind him.

He felt the robust flow of Qi and Blood within him, the circulation steady and smooth. As he traversed mountains, swamps, and streams as if they were level ground, his vigorous strides took him over rugged lands until a grand mountain came into view.

Su Mu leapt onto a stone, climbing high to gaze into the distance. In the mountain, he saw a grand array of ancient buildings and a wide long stairway leading up the mountain.

"No doubt, this is the most central area of the Secret Realm."

Su Mu put away the map, with anticipation on his face. At a ruin site on the outskirts, he had acquired the precious Fixed Star Body Refining Technique.

What kind of Ancient Martial Arts would the ruins in this central area have?

"Let’s move out!"

...

"Lin Ying has been out for so long; why hasn’t he returned?"

"Did something happen to him? That signal flare was probably a trap!"

"Trust Lin Ying, his speed is very fast. Even Nanu would have a hard time capturing him easily."

"We’ll just have to trust Lin Ying."

The people in the cave fell silent once more. To be honest, they couldn’t see much hope. Many also couldn’t understand why Lin Ying would willingly take such a huge risk to rendezvous with Su Mu.

Yet no one knew that Lin Ying had already regarded Su Mu as a lifeline and was going all out. It was just that he couldn’t keep up with Su Mu’s pace.

...

At the foot of the mountain, there was a hundred-level bluestone staircase, each level extraordinarily high, taller than an average person. Such tall steps seemed unlikely to be built by humans but rather by the Giant Race.

Su Mu slightly raised his head, his eyes flashing with an unusual brightness. He could see the figures of the Alien Race moving at the entrance of the Land of Ruins above the stairs.

"Could there be two entrances to the Land of Ruins?"

He took out the map and looked again. The map only indicated this one path leading into the mountain.

"There aren’t many Alien Race members, just a few scattered individuals likely scavenging the outskirts. The rest must have headed to the center of the Land of Ruins."

"I’m indeed late."

This was naturally what Su Mu believed. He didn’t know that most of the Alien Race had been sent by Nanu to hunt powerful Fierce Beasts, leaving the Land of Ruins defenseless now.

Even if the humans knew, they wouldn’t dare launch an attack because as long as Nanu remained, this place was the Alien Race’s stronghold.

Su Mu withdrew his gaze, a flash of Spiritual Light in his hand as he equipped the Long Saber at his waist, preparing for a fierce battle.

He took bold strides up the stairs.