High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late

Chapter 675: Chapter 449: Duke Gull, Bone-Chilling Killing Intent, The End of the Loris City Lord’s Lineage

Such a spiritual secret technique is worthless in the eyes of the Alien Race.

Because among the entire audience, no one except Su Mu could recognize it!

The incomplete crystal in the box was a treasure to Su Mu, making his heart burn intensely, because the moment the incomplete crystal appeared, Su Mu suddenly guessed its origin.

Almost at the same time, in the Sea of Consciousness, the Diamond Human Form sealed by the Divine Soul of the Overlord Blade Martial Saint through the Desolate Thought showed activity, instinctively conveying a sense of yearning.

Also, the Golden Giant Seed that had been dormant since it was brought from Junlin Pavilion showed activity, emitting a golden light from the seed rooted beneath the Sea of Consciousness, pointing directly at the incomplete crystal on the stage.

At this moment, Su Mu was very clear and absolutely certain that the thing on the stage was part of the "Crystal Visualization Technique", although he wasn’t sure if it directly connected with what he mastered.

Currently, he had only one thought.

"I must get this incomplete crystal!"

Frey on the stage saw that none of the guests in the VIP booths made an offer, and even the ordinary guests outside the booths were sneering, making him feel somewhat irritable. In fact, this item was not obtained from some ancient ruins.

Rather, a mysterious guest had asked his father to sell it at this auction. Frey estimated his father must have some friendship with that person, which is why he agreed to auction it, even fabricating a story for this junk just to make the sale easier.

Unfortunately, no one would be so foolish.

In short, after obtaining this secret technique, Frey’s father and the powerful figures of Loris attempted to cultivate it, but everyone was confused, as the cultivation methods were incredibly fanciful and unheard of by them.

In sum, they came to a unanimous conclusion that no one could possibly master this secret technique!

"The starting bid for this secret technique is one thousand pounds of Red Marrow." Frey announced the starting bid once again.

The whole venue was dead silent, with even the Alien Race participants stopping their sneers, knowing it was meaningless.

No one made an offer!

"It seems the first unsold item of this auction is about to appear."

"Indeed, even if they gave this to me for free, I wouldn’t want it..."

No one made an offer; Frey felt a bit embarrassed and awkward within.

However, just then, a voice echoed.

"I offer one thousand pounds of Red Marrow."

Just as Frey was about to announce the item unsold, a voice resounded. Listening carefully, many could even detect a hint of astonishment in the voice.

The person making the offer was surprised himself!

Indeed, in the booth, Pier looked stunned, for he had just received Su Mu’s instruction to acquire the incomplete crystal.

"Esteemed guest in Booth Thirty has offered one thousand pounds of Red Marrow. Does anyone else want to bid?" Frey displayed surprise on his face, yet secretly thought the guest in Booth Thirty was indeed a fool.

The audience still did not offer any bids, and soon Frey concluded with a final word.

"Congratulations to the esteemed guest in Booth Thirty for obtaining this spiritual secret technique."

With Frey’s announcement, an auction item with a starting price of one thousand Red Marrow was clinched at the starting price!

This was rare in the history of Loris City’s auctions, for good items naturally have competitors. To be frank, anything useful would also have competitors.

As for useless items, they mostly remained unsold or were immediately taken at the starting price, which hadn’t happened in over a decade.

Soon, Pier paid the Red Marrow, and the Aliens at the auction delivered the box to the booth.

Su Mu opened the box, touching the incomplete crystal. The moment he touched it, the incomplete crystal hummed, and after confirming that the incomplete crystal in his hand was indeed part of the "Crystal Visualization Technique", Su Mu’s heart was intensely excited.

No one among the Alien Race could recognize the potential of this "Crystal Visualization Technique"; it was not just any secret technique but an ultimate spiritual power cultivation technique.

The complete "Crystal Visualization Technique" was not only essential for solving the Diamond Human Form eroded by the Master of Black Fog, but also key to unlocking Miaomiao’s Sea of Consciousness!

No matter what, Su Mu must compile this supreme martial art in its entirety.

"The Forgotten Realm, hmm, perhaps it exists within the Alien Race Interface. No wonder the Dream Shadow couldn’t directly find the entrance to the realm..."

"Indeed a blessing in disguise, and even without this unexpected event, I would eventually make a trip to the Alien Race Interface. Now, it just happened a bit earlier..."

"But the path I, Su Mu, am taking cannot be obstructed by anyone!"

Su Mu’s face remained expressionless; silver radiance flashed in his eyes. Then, in a moment of Pier’s mental distraction, he directly swallowed the incomplete crystal.

After the separation of the Divine Soul and the flesh this time, Su Mu realized that if precious items were placed in the Space Ring, a similar accident could result in their loss.

Directly swallowing it to preserve it was more reliable unless the enemy could outright kill him.

After the incomplete crystal, the auction continued.

"Next on the auction block will be one of the highlights of this auction. Hundreds of years ago, a duke from the Roy Kingdom was exiled by the Roy Royal Family..."

Frey’s words on stage invigorated the Aliens in the booths. They knew the Blood Soldier was about to appear.

Soon, Alien strongmen carried five black boxes forward, and Frey first opened one of them. Instantly, blood light burst forth, and just the emanating aura made many in the audience of Aliens awestruck.

This was a blood-colored long spear with a domineering appearance, the spearhead resembling a fierce flood dragon’s head. In a half-activated state, infused with Qi and Blood, the dragon’s eyes on the flood dragon’s head slowly opened, erupting with two horrifying beams of blood light.

"This is a Blood Soldier from that duke’s family, named the Red Blood Flood Dragon Spear. Originally it was the top-tier Eighth Level Weapon, but as you can see, this Red Blood Flood Dragon Spear is not complete and is damaged, but its power can still be comparable to some common Eighth Level Weapons, or even Eighth Level Blood Soldiers."

"Moreover, if a Forging Master can repair it, or if it’s nurtured with Essence Blood, there might be a possibility of restoring it, and it may still harbor the aura of the ancient Gull Clan’s Demon God..."

Frey introduced this Blood Soldier with excitement and enthusiasm.

"A Grand Duke of the Roy Kingdom, could it be Duke Gull, the one from whose family Demon Gods have been born? It’s said that more than one Demon God has emerged from the Gull family, but over the centuries, they’ve declined. Ultimately, they were slaughtered by the Roy Royal Family due to treason, with their powerful members and direct descendants killed, and the collateral branches exiled."

A grand duke’s family that had given birth to multiple Demon Gods!

The whole place was instantly abuzz with excitement as the aliens discussed, many of whom evidently knew about the Gull family, and their hearts burned fervently.

The allure of a Demon God was lethal to everyone!

Inside the box, Su Mu scrutinized the Red Blood Flood Dragon Spear on the stage, his eyes squinting slightly. The patterns and forging style of this Blood Soldier felt somewhat familiar to him.

Su Mu, being half a blacksmith himself, sharply noticed these details. Every blacksmith, or rather, every lineage of blacksmiths, had their own style, which is especially evident among high-tier blacksmiths.

If it felt familiar, he must have seen it before, and soon Su Mu remembered.

"Among the batch of Blood Soldiers Yuri guided me to acquire from the Ancient Battlefield, several had patterns and forging styles similar to those before me..."

"However, the quality of this Blood Soldier is inferior to that batch from the Ancient Battlefield."

"A Grand Duke of the Roy Kingdom... it seems Yuri is from the Roy Kingdom, from the Roy Clan?"

Su Mu suddenly had a guess. Having come to the Otherworld, he had gleaned memories from numerous aliens and perused many ancient texts, giving him a much deeper understanding of the alien races than before.

Yuri must be from one of the royal families, but previously, Su Mu wasn’t sure which of the Eight Great Royal Families she belonged to. Now it seemed the truth had surfaced.

"It seems there are some oddities regarding Duke Gull, but that has nothing to do with me; I just want the Blood Soldier."

However, Su Mu quickly realized he had overestimated the wealth of the Nine Cities’ aliens and underestimated the wealth of the Loris City’s aliens by far.

"The starting price for this Blood Soldier is fifty thousand jin of Red Marrow."

As soon as Frey finished speaking, an alien from one of the boxes immediately raised the price to one hundred thousand.

"I offer one hundred thousand!"

"One hundred and fifty thousand!"

"Two hundred thousand!"

"Three hundred thousand!"

From the first bid, the competition for the Blood Soldier was out of reach for those outside the boxes. The aliens outside the boxes burned with desire but were helpless one by one.

"Master, should we bid too?" Pier inquired.

"Do your best."

Su Mu transmitted a faint message, his lips curling slightly, "They really are overflowing with wealth; this auction wasn’t a waste of time after all."

The first Blood Soldier was finally sold for four hundred and fifty thousand jin of Red Marrow, and the competition over the remaining Blood Soldiers was equally fierce. In the end, Su Mu directly instructed Pier to stop bidding.

After the Blood Soldiers, several more finale items sparked fierce bidding among the aliens, but Su Mu showed no interest.

...

Thud.

Backstage at the auction, an iron cage was roughly thrown to the ground by several burly aliens.

It was a massive, blood-stained iron cage filled with living creatures, yet despite the rough handling, the creatures inside made little sound, their eyes hollow, bodies curled.

By the dim light, peeking through the gaps in the covering black cloth.

The creatures inside the iron cage were not some barbaric beasts but were, in fact, a group of humans.

In the corner of the iron cage, a little girl about seven or eight years old buried her terrified, pale cheeks into her body, curling into a ball, her body trembling violently in the darkness.

"Save me..."

"Can anyone save me..."

A weak, mosquito-like voice kept escaping from the little girl’s mouth, but no one could hear her call.

Soon after, the iron cage shook a distance, crudely lifted out of the darkness.

At a certain moment, the noise reached their ears, and the black cloth covering the cage was yanked away.

All of a sudden, blinding light and gaze after gaze, hot as if from a barbaric beast, fell upon them.

The creatures in the cage reacted drastically, desperately retreating, but the cage was only so big, leaving them no room to retreat, and at last, they could only use all their strength to curl up.

In the box, Pier suddenly trembled all over, as if thrown into an ice cellar.

He swallowed hard, looking toward his master, Su Mu, who had just been resting with eyes shut.

Soon, Pier felt the intense murderous intent from Su Mu’s otherwise calm face for the first time—a cold, bone-chilling murderous intent he’d never felt before.

Pier slowly withdrew his gaze, not daring to look again, his mouth murmuring uncontrollably.

"The Loris auction is doomed... even the line of the Loris City Lord is doomed..."

"They will follow in the footsteps of Duke Gull back then..."

"Because they have provoked someone they should never have provoked..."

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