High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late-Chapter 177 - 161: The Truth of the Secret Realm, the Way Out of the Stone Cave

Chapter 177: Chapter 161: The Truth of the Secret Realm, the Way Out of the Stone Cave

The Blood Core is only one piece left.

Hearing this, and seeing Tantai Yan’s nervous little palm open, Su Mu suddenly felt that this little girl Tantai Yan was actually just a child.

"Actually, I have a bit more Blood Cores."

With a flash of spiritual light, a pile of over two thousand Blood Cores appeared.

"I actually spent a bit of time hunting some Fierce Beasts after entering the Secret Realm."

"Is this... just a few?"

Tantai Yan blinked her big eyes several times, her little face full of disbelief.

"There’s always a way, let’s continue cultivating."

Su Mu’s tone was calm, his expression determined, bringing reassurance to Tantai Yan. She quickly calmed down too, although there was still a problem ahead of them, she believed in Su Mu by her side.

Days later, the two of them were already well-versed in the process of diluting the blood. Before long, another bowl of diluted blood was ready.

Then Tantai Yan saw Su Mu drink a large mouthful in one go, one gulp surpassing hers by more than ten times!

"Su Mu, you... be careful."

Before she finished speaking, Tantai Yan saw Su Mu calmly enter into cultivation.

Just before, Su Mu had started grasping the basics of the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique, and after exiting from cultivation, he immediately felt an intense hunger.

Every inch of his flesh and blood, every cell, was craving food!

"I still underestimated the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique. This cultivation technique is far more than ten times what Qi Blood Cultivation Technique is; this refining technique definitely surpasses the current Martial Arts of humanity!"

In Su Mu’s mind, the two were not even on the same level.

Even during the previous ten years of accumulation, Su Mu had never experienced such hunger.

A large swallow of Giant’s Blood entered his body, and this time Su Mu’s feeling was especially clear.

Previously, Su Mu needed to operate his Five Viscera and five Qi Blood Bridges at high load, and the terrifying Qi Blood that had nowhere to vent was used for condensing blood.

But this time it was completely different. It was as if he had opened the gate to a new world.

After the Giant’s Blood entered his body, it transformed into surging pure Qi Blood Power, which was greedily partitioned by Su Mu’s entire body, each cell voraciously devouring it all.

Throughout this process, every inch of Su Mu’s flesh, every cell, transformed into black holes after feeding, and the electrifying sensation continued unabated.

Su Mu naturally assumed the posture for practicing the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique. Instantly, the electricity within his body multiplied, and under the stimulation of electric currents, every inch of flesh and each cell conveyed intense pleasure, accelerating the process of absorbing Qi Blood.

The unprecedented satisfaction almost made Su Mu unable to hold back, and he couldn’t help but let out a muffled sound.

"The cultivation moves have changed again, such strange movements..."

"Su Mu’s cultivation is so diligent... I can’t lag behind either!"

This scene fell into Tantai Yan’s eyes, giving her a start, so she also took a gulp of Giant’s Blood to enter into cultivation, without paying much attention to Su Mu’s strange cultivation movements.

Tantai Yan paid little attention because Qi Blood Cultivation Technique was just the most basic form of cultivation. The Tantai Family had more advanced Qi Blood Cultivation techniques, an important foundation of a Martial Arts Family.

It’s just that ordinary martial artists must at least advance to the Martial Arts Grandmaster to have the qualification to access them. These advanced Qi Blood Cultivation techniques, a high-tier Martial Arts at the Grandmaster level, are not known to the general public.

Tantai Yan simply assumed Su Mu was practicing ordinary advanced Qi Blood Cultivation techniques, without thinking over to Relic Giant’s cultivation method.

The memory of the Giant’s Blood once again pulled Su Mu into that desolate land.

Su Mu had once tried to control the Giant’s body to explore the enemies it faced, only to find himself unable to do so, with immense restraints within this memory space, limiting his range of activity.

Every time he tried to go further, to approach the battlefield filled with corpses he saw at first, he felt a strong fear, and the memory space disintegrated, as if this Giant was unwilling to recall the great battle of the past, avoiding it from the depths of his heart.

This filled Su Mu with awe; such an incredible battle that even a mighty Giant was unwilling to recall must have been extremely tragic. It made Su Mu even more curious.

What were the Giants antagonizing, and how terrifying were their enemies?

Su Mu desperately wanted to know the truth behind all this, but he knew his current strength was far too weak to touch it at all.

Thus, he suppressed his overwhelming curiosity and became an isolated giant, focusing solely on cultivating the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique.

A day later, the Qi and Blood within Tantai Yan’s body became restless and a Qi Blood surge uncontrolledly spread out.

"Tantai Yan is about to breakthrough!"

Soon after, Tantai Yan lightly exhaled, a look of joy on her face. When she entered the Secret Realm, she had only completed the refinement of one of the Six Viscera, and during the days of swallowing the Giant’s Blood, she quickly completed the refinement of all the Six Viscera, directly advancing to the middle level of the Fifth Stage.

"Congratulations!"

"Su Mu... I discovered that the viscera refined with Giant’s Blood are much stronger than those refined with ordinary blood, and I feel the realm has stabilized directly without needing extra time."

"You can give it a try too."

"Alright."

Su Mu nodded in agreement. These days, he had poured all the qi and blood he had consumed into cultivating the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique, resulting in his cultivation staying stagnant. At this moment, Tantai Yan’s words gave him an inspiration.

But he didn’t want to refine the subsequent meridians and flesh too early.

Su Mu could feel that after entering the basics of the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique, his body was slowly undergoing a transformation. This process was a comprehensive enhancement, and he planned to wait until this process was completed before proceeding with the refining.

Only then could he lay a stronger foundation; walking steadily would allow him to go further!

Teacher Wang Shuheng had said that what suits oneself is most important, and Su Mu believed that this was what suited him best, his own martial arts path!

Time passed, and blood cores turned to powder, merging into the Giant’s Blood, continuously becoming nourishment that strengthened both of them.

Among them, Su Mu consumed at least eighty percent.

This puzzled Tantai Yan; why hadn’t Su Mu broken through despite consuming so much Giant’s Blood?

Three days later, the blood cores were once again exhausted.

"Su Mu... the blood cores are gone again."

The next moment, another pile of blood cores appeared. Tantai Yan was both shocked and no longer so shocked; she even had the illusion that Su Mu had a never-ending supply of blood cores in his hands.

As Tantai Yan entered into cultivation, Su Mu frowned slightly. These were the last batch of blood cores on him; even the blood cores from the Alien Race’s Spatial Ring had been taken out.

"Once they’re gone this time, they’re really gone."

Su Mu stood up and moved his body around. His body was well-defined, with muscles exuding a strong sense of power, and every inch of his flesh contained terrifying strength.

Exhale!

As Su Mu took a deep breath, his skin flashed with a faint golden glow. He tried to activate the Secret of Power, but even without performing Qi Blood Emission, Su Mu didn’t feel too much burden.

The Fixed Star Body Refining Technique was just at the beginner stage, yet his body had become far stronger than before.

Thump.

At this moment, above the Blood Pool, the giant heart in the Bronze Basin throbbed. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Su Mu looked surprised; at this moment, he faintly felt as if he resonated with the giant heart, and the qi and blood within him spontaneously started circulating the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique.

Huh.

Soon after, he also felt a tremor from the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique within the Spatial Ring, and in the next second, Su Mu took out the half part of the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique.

The Fixed Star Body Refining Technique became incredibly hot, and the words on it floated up and all drifted into Su Mu’s brow, then turned into a ball of fire, self-igniting without fire.

"My previous guess was right, the ’Fixed Star Body Refining Technique’ is indeed the cultivation technique of the Relic Giant."

"And the reason why I wasn’t attacked by the giant’s spiritual power is that I practiced the ’Fixed Star Body Refining Technique,’ which made the giant consider me a kin. This is also why I could see the giant’s memory."

Su Mu’s eyes suddenly brightened, and enlightenment filled his heart.

Then Su Mu strode out of the depths of the cave, passed through the darkness, and once again arrived in front of the massive giant’s corpse. This time, Su Mu was shocked to find.

The immense pressure emitted from the giant’s corpse no longer had any effect on him, which also confirmed Su Mu’s previous guess.

Su Mu walked carefully around the cave but could not find a way to leave the cave. Returning to the Blood Pool, Su Mu’s gaze fell on the Blood Pool, and his pupils shrank.

He noticed that the blood in the pool had decreased, so he waited quietly.

Thump.

Blood flowed out from the heart, but the amount of fresh blood overflowing from the blood basin was clearly less than before; the heart’s speed of producing fresh blood had slowed down!

For a moment, Su Mu’s mind raced.

This Secret Realm was a Qi Blood Secret Realm, and he occasionally obtained the ’Fixed Star Body Refining Technique’ at the periphery, and the Qi Blood Secret Realm was also filled with Fierce Beasts that produced blood cores.

At the core of the Land of Ruins, after opening the Bronze Gate, there was a pool cave with a giant’s corpse and a giant heart.

Everything seemed pre-arranged.

Su Mu’s eyes gleamed with bright light.

"Although the method is cruel, this Secret Realm is actually a place set up as a legacy by the Relic Giant itself, perhaps used as a training ground for nurturing descendants before the giant’s extinction. The scale and danger in its prime must have far exceeded the present."

"There might have been many powerful King Beasts of the Grandmaster Realm within, clearing the Relic Tower at the periphery and killing King Beasts to obtain blood cores was part of the training, and I inadvertently completed these trainings."

"The Blood Pool is the ultimate reward for those who completed the training. To leave this cave... it requires absorbing a certain amount of blood, or even draining the Blood Pool completely!"

For a giant born with the power comparable to a Grandmaster, this was merely a reward.

But for Su Mu and Tantai Yan, it was the Ghost Gate, or rather a cage, because the blood cores were running low.