High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late

Chapter 628: Chapter 428: Immortal Bone, Day 10, Awakening!

That was a towering volcano reaching into the clouds, with a massive red sphere nearly sixty to seventy meters in size coiled at its base, looking like a small mountain of flesh from afar.

Upon closer inspection, one could see it was a Fierce Beast resembling a pangolin.

Initially, the Fierce Beast Chi Jia harbored some thoughts. It could be said without reservation that it was the absolute overlord of this volcanic region on the Ancient Battlefield because its power had already broken through to the Titled level.

How could a regional overlord remain subdued beneath others for long!

Thus, while Su Mu was cultivating for several days, the clever Chi Jia was always pondering how to remove the Blade Qi and a Desolate Thought Will left by Su Mu within its body.

But it found it impossible to do so. Just a touch of the Blade Qi could cause Chi Jia excruciating pain if it was considered a shackled limit on its flesh.

That bizarre Desolate Thought Will was even more terrifying and mysterious, affecting the spirit. If it dared to touch it recklessly, its Sea of Consciousness would suffer tearing pain in an instant.

Such a terrifying dual seal on both flesh and spirit made Chi Jia fear Su Mu.

After futile attempts, Chi Jia decided to flee. It knew full well it was no match for this human who had suddenly intruded into its territory, but at least it could escape, right?

However, upon hearing the first resounding heartbeat from within the volcano, Chi Jia was scared, and all thoughts of resistance were wiped out. Just one heartbeat left it feeling irresistibly subdued. Could it really escape in such daunting disparity of strength?

Chi Jia recalled Su Mu saying that once he finished his seclusion, Chi Jia would be granted freedom. Chi Jia was naturally skeptical, for humans were deceitful and untrustworthy.

Yet this seemed to be its only way out, so Chi Jia could only hope that this human, Su Mu, would keep his word.

Chi Jia’s innate race wasn’t strong, it just had higher intelligence than ordinary Fierce Beasts. With this intelligence, it had slowly survived and witnessed several openings of the Ancient Battlefield and seen other Fierce Beast Overlords being hunted by humans or Alien Races.

Precisely because of these experiences, even though it cultivated for hundreds of years to take a step beyond the Titled level, becoming an overlord of its own, it never flaunted its power excessively.

Not even to compete with other Fierce Beast Overlords for prime positions at the center of the Ancient Battlefield, instead choosing a peaceful corner in this volcano. In any case, its journey in cultivation hadn’t been easy.

Chi Jia didn’t want to perish just like this.

Thud!

Another resounding heartbeat echoed out.

Chi Jia was startled and shivered all over. Even though it had experienced several openings of the Ancient Battlefield, it had never encountered a human as powerful as Su Mu.

Su Mu was definitely the strongest human Chi Jia had encountered in hundreds of years, without a doubt!

"Such a terrifying human, could this human be breaking through to... the King Realm?"

The King Realm was to become the King of Ferocious Beasts!

When Chi Jia took a step beyond the Titled level, suddenly some fragmented inheritative information appeared in its mind, including records about the King of Ferocious Beasts.

While Chi Jia outside the volcano was cautiously guessing wildly, inside the volcano...

Thud, thud, thud----------

The air inside the volcano was heavily distorted, and the ground in the volcanic cave became increasingly red and scorching. These rocks, several times stronger than refined iron from the outside world, showed signs of melting into liquid.

Once martial artists advanced to the Grandmaster level, it could be said they were no longer the same species as ordinary humans. Martial Arts are infinite, and the human body is an endless treasure, with Martial Arts being the path of human evolution.

Grandmaster’s Blood is solid and doesn’t disperse, falling to the ground like mercury, boiling and scorching, reaching hundreds of degrees in heat.

Great Grandmaster’s Blood is vigorous, with qi and blood transforming into a flood dragon, endlessly alive. When a Great Grandmaster fights with all their might, the rampant circulation and surging blood in their body can instantly break a thousand degrees, capable of melting gold and refining iron.

Yet now, even just in the outer area of the volcanic cave, temperatures had reached a terrifying several thousand degrees, and this was merely the outer area.

In the deeper parts of that volcanic cave, the temperature was even more frighteningly high. Within days, a massive magma pool had quietly appeared, and in the bubbling, deep red magma, there was a person sitting right in the middle, allowing the molten lava to completely submerge them and flow over their body.

Magma bathing!

This silhouette was Su Mu. With twenty-four Immortal Powers fully feeding back his Qi and Blood, once the Qi and Blood cleansing began, the cave’s temperature rose sharply, naturally caused by the aura spilling out from Su Mu’s Qi and Blood cleansing.

Magma bathing seemed frightening, but actually...

Su Mu was the true culprit in creating this pool of magma; he was the molten core of this magma pool!

The true high temperature did not reside in this vast pool of magma that could easily refine hundred-ton refined iron, but in Su Mu himself. Below the magma, every inch of his flesh was vibrating at high speed, generating terrifying high temperatures tenfold, dozens of times greater than the magma. Just the magma surrounding Su Mu reached temperatures as high as ten thousand degrees.

In introspective state, at this moment, every inch of flesh and blood was flowing with the brilliant golden light belonging to the "Fixed Star Body Refining Technique," then completely penetrating into Su Mu’s bone marrow under the influence of Immortal Power.

Gradually--------

Each bone, as if cast from pure gold, began to show pale golden patterns.

"Eh? Golden patterns?"

Su Mu couldn’t help but exclaim softly, because there was no such description in the half of the "Fixed Star Body Refining Technique" he mastered, and the martial arts outline at the beginning had no manifestation of golden patterns at all.

"It’s due to the Immortal Power; other cultivators, even giants, cannot utilize Immortal Power to assist in cultivating the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique. This unique power of mine makes the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique I practice somewhat different."