High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late-Chapter 180 - 164: Fame Spreads Across South China, the Southern General Star!

Chapter 180: Chapter 164: Fame Spreads Across South China, the Southern General Star!

Su Mu made his choice without hesitation; he gave up his sense of taste.

The other three gains were easy to understand, and Su Mu’s gaze fell on pain endurance.

[Pain Endurance: After experiencing inhuman pain, you have developed a certain resistance to pain, and can slightly reduce the pain when suffering it again.]

"I can transform into a giant, the cultivation progress of the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique is not slow, the difficulty of cultivating the Blood Soldier Secret Technique is not high, it just requires time and resources to accumulate."

"This time, I choose pain endurance!"

A cool glow drifted into Su Mu’s body.

...

Tantai Yan noticed with surprise and suspicion that Su Mu’s actions had become somewhat strange. Besides absorbing blood, Su Mu also took out a pile of weapons, seeming to be cultivating some secret technique.

She saw Su Mu pressing his hands on a spear, and in the next second, blood oozed from his palms, interwoven into a blood net that completely enveloped the spear.

Seeing this scene, Tantai Yan was very puzzled; she had never seen such a secret technique. What was he doing? 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"Su Mu... what are you doing?" Finally, she couldn’t hold back her curiosity,

"I’m cultivating a secret technique that can enhance my mastery of weapons."

"There’s actually... such a marvelous secret technique?!"

Tantai Yan knew very well that probing into Su Mu’s cultivation of secret techniques was inappropriate, but she couldn’t help herself. After getting a rough explanation from Su Mu, she forced herself to look away and stop paying attention.

She speculated that Su Mu’s sudden start of cultivating this secret technique must be related to the Giant’s Blood, but she couldn’t decipher the connection at all.

After a day of cultivation, Tantai Yan began to look forward again, because it was time to eat meat. The two had agreed that, like with diluted blood, they would take turns choosing ingredients.

This time, Su Mu chose a pig-shaped fierce beast, and before long, the roast was golden and crispy. After Tantai Yan had tasted it once before, just looking at it this time made her mouth water a bit.

"Come, try the saltiness."

"Delicious, really delicious!" Tantai Yan’s face was full of delight, "This piece is for you."

Su Mu took the offered roast meat, tore into it with big bites, but it felt like chewing wax with no taste at all after losing his sense of taste.

Three days later, the blood core was completely exhausted, and the two had to stop consuming the Giant’s Blood.

The heart on the bronze basin had stopped beating half a day ago, no longer producing fresh blood, confirming all of Su Mu’s previous speculations.

The two of them were completely trapped.

"It’s okay, we will get out."

"Mm, I believe in you, Su Mu."

...

"In the Qi Blood Secret Realm, alone entered the alien race’s headquarters."

"Single-handedly killed a hundred and nineteen Fifth Level alien elites."

"Captured fifty-eight Fifth Level aliens."

"Killed an alien royal with just one strike?!"

When the news reached the Southern War Zone’s top level, even they were shocked, and they immediately wanted to meet Su Mu personally. Unfortunately, Su Mu was still in the Secret Realm.

"The day of the war zone conference is coming soon, the annual personnel promotion list will be formally announced at the conference, and this time Su Mu is sure to be on it."

"It’s just unknown whether it’s Su Mu the Captain, or Su Mu the Quasi-Major, if only Su Mu had come to the war zone half a year earlier, a Quasi-Major would be a sure thing, what a pity."

Honestly, if it were up to Hong Lie, he would definitely give Su Mu a Quasi-Major rank.

But the war zone’s top level had many considerations, Su Mu had only been in the war zone for less than a month.

To rise from Sergeant to Quasi-Major in one step, there had almost never been such a precedent before, as this was not just a special promotion; it was practically shooting to the skies in one leap.

The rank levels of the war zone’s Major positions are equivalent to the top positions in municipal levels, not easily given special promotions over. Thus, a secret meeting was held within the war zone.

Hong Lie was the one who brought Su Mu into the war zone, so it was naturally inappropriate for him to express any opinions at the meeting. In Hong Lie’s view, Su Mu would most likely have to remain as a Captain for a while after emerging from the Secret Realm and could only be promoted after at least half a year.

After the Land of the Secret Realm closed, the alien race repeatedly sent people to the battlefield to negotiate, aiming to exchange significant cultivation resources for the fifty-eight alien captives and Ray Nanu’s body.

During negotiations, an alien was full of confidence because they had made huge concessions this time and were about to pay a large sum of cultivation resources. Meanwhile, the alien took the opportunity to demand that the human side hand over the human martial artist who killed Nanu.

Upon hearing this, Hong Lie snorted coldly and immediately issued an order.

"Humph, do you want us to hand over Su Mu?"

"Tell those aliens they are dreaming. Since they don’t want to negotiate sincerely, they might as well leave."

Hong Lie actually had another sentence he didn’t say. In his heart, Su Mu was an untouchable bottom line, and no matter how much cultivation resource the alien race promised, it wouldn’t change.

...

At noon that day, everyone across the provinces and regions of South China received a text message.

[The Southern War Zone awards Sergeant Su Mu the titles of "Star of Battle" and "Southern New Generation General Star," commending Sergeant Su Mu’s spirit as a new era martial artist who fears no strong enemies, dares to battle, never abandons or gives up, urging Huaxia Martial Artists to learn from Sergeant Su Mu.]

Star of Battle?!

Southern New Generation General Star?!

Within a day, Su Mu’s name spread across the South China land.

"What is this Su Mu’s background exactly?"

"To receive such high-level accolades from the Southern War Zone, and to be awarded the titles of ’Star of Battle’ and ’Southern New Generation General Star,’ Su Mu must have accomplished some major achievement!"

"But no major events seem to have occurred lately; from the message’s content, I guess this Su Mu must have killed some alien?"

People outside Guangshen Province were in heated discussions, and quickly it surged onto major platform hot searches, with the media scrambling to report, and each forum buzzed with the topic.

Shenjiang City, inside the central library meeting room at Linjiang Base, the conference room door was being knocked urgently.

Miaomiao, who was presiding over an internal library meeting, looked displeased.

When the door opened, numerous "long guns and short cannons" were aimed at Miaomiao, with flashing lights continuously going off. Just as Miaomiao was feeling a bit at a loss, a voice filled with excitement came from a distance, belonging to Luo Mei.

"Sister Miaomiao, Sister Miaomiao, something big has happened."

"Brother Mu’s text message is out, take a look quickly. He has been awarded the titles of ’Star of Battle’ and ’Southern New Generation General Star’..."

"Huh, why are there so many people?"

The great joy suddenly barged in, causing Miaomiao’s pupils to shrink hard. Her breathing quickened, showing immense surprise and pride. Su Mu was her man, but she could barely believe it at that moment.

She knew Su Mu had gone on a mission before, but how much time had passed? Less than a month, right?

At this moment, the crowd parted, and the City Lord of Linjiang Base, Luo Cheng, and the Martial Arts Association President, Gong Wu, arrived together.

"City Lord Luo, what Luo Mei just said, is all true, Su Mu he really..."

"That’s right, it’s all true, Miaomiao, you can check your phone."

Miaomiao took a deep breath, disabled the flight mode on her phone, and a text message immediately appeared. Upon seeing its content, her knees weakened, and Luo Mei, who had squeezed into the crowd, quickly reached out to support her.

"Sister Miaomiao, are you alright?"

"I’m fine, I’m just too happy."

"Hall Master Jiang, I’m from Shenjiang Daily, and I would like to interview you about your husband Su Mu receiving this honor today..."

"Hall Master Jiang, I’m from Yangcheng Daily..."

For a moment, Miaomiao’s face was full of excitement, and she genuinely felt proud of her husband, Su Mu.

In East Village, the old man swayed on the grandmaster chair, reaching out for the enamel mug to take a sip of water.

Outside the courtyard, the urgent voice of his eldest son could be heard.

"Mom and Dad, come out quickly, something big has happened."

The old man’s frown deepened. Such a fuss, how inappropriate.

"What’s happened? Why so frantic? Can’t you learn from Su Mu..."

The words stopped abruptly as the old man saw the phone held out by Jiang Dashu, with a message on it. After reading the message, the old man stood up abruptly from the grandmaster chair, reacting even more dramatically than Jiang Dashu had earlier.

"Is this Su Mu?"

"Yes, this is Su Mu!"

"For such a big deal, why didn’t you say so earlier, you brat."

"Dad, I just got the message, and I came right back to tell you both first."

"Hahaha, our Jiang family truly has an extraordinary person now, Su Mu really is my good son-in-law!"

The news spread like wildfire, naturally reaching Shenjiang Martial Arts University.

Zhao Meng, taking the phone to the forging room, startled teachers Wang Shuheng and Li Yue for a moment when they saw it. Then Wang Shuheng’s face broke into a joyous smile.

"Star of Battle, Southern New Generation General Star? Su Mu, that brat, hasn’t kept still for even a moment."

Despite the words, everyone could hear the pride and joy in Wang Shuheng’s tone, as Li Yue took a deep breath and once again expressed his amazement.

"Good for Su Mu, I knew I didn’t misjudge him."

"Elder Wang, Su Mu has stirred up such a commotion, I, as the President of the Shenjiang City Martial Arts Association, need to head back first."

"Hahaha, this kid is truly a troublemaker. Then Li Yue, you better head back first."

Little One, upon receiving the message, showed disbelief as well as admiration.

"Uncle Wolf, you truly are getting more and more amazing."

For a moment, Little One felt a bit of loss in her heart. The gap between her and Uncle Wolf was widening; she once thought that as long as she worked hard enough, she could barely keep up with Uncle Wolf’s pace.

But now she couldn’t even see Uncle Wolf’s back. It seemed like they weren’t people from the same world.

"No, I can’t be discouraged. Shen Xiaoxiao, you better lift your spirits. You have to work harder, double the effort!"

Shenjiang Martial Arts University was instantly boiling with excitement.

"Su Mu, Sergeant? Isn’t that Su Professor from our university’s Forging Academy?"

"If it’s not Professor Su, who else could it be?!"

"That’s right, it must be Professor Su. I watched as he progressed steadily, he had already received triple commendations before, with his rank as Sergeant. I’ve been a fan of Professor Su for ten years now, there’s no mistake."

"This is insane, truly fitting for Professor Su. Does this mean he’ll become Dean Su now?"

"You fake fan, Professor Su has been a dean for a while now!"

"What? Then won’t this promote him to the Honorary Vice President of Shenjiang Martial Arts University?"

...

Right when Su Mu’s fame was spreading across South China.

Inside the Secret Realm.

Su Mu had completely absorbed yet another weapon, accruing a few more streaks of Golden Essence Qi in his body. His eyes became brighter, and after exhaling lightly, he felt a bit of anticipation.

"It’s time to face the next near-death experience."

"And then begin... the ninth simulation."