High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late

Chapter 684: Chapter 454: The Underestimated Secret Technique, the Replicated Secret Technique!

"The sooner, the better, but before I leave, I still have something to do."

"Recently, I’ve vaguely noticed that something strange has been happening in several cities around here. Initially, I was puzzled about who was secretly planning these..." Yuri abruptly changed the topic.

"Now I guess I know. Do you need some time to settle things?"

Su Mu glanced at Yuri. This guy was indeed very smart.

"I don’t care about these things."

"If that’s the case, how about you leave these to me?"

Upon hearing this, Su Mu thought to himself that indeed, he was waiting for this moment, "If you want them, take them. Just have your people contact Pier directly. So you’re the one behind the Alien Race Alliance?"

Yuri didn’t hide anything and nodded directly, "I’m not taking them for nothing. Once you retrieve your body and need to return to your world, I will help you return to the human world as much as possible."

"Alright, then let’s leave the day after tomorrow. Happy cooperation."

"Happy cooperation. Speaking of which, your Saint Race language is quite good, with a bit of the Ray Kingdom accent."

Yuri smiled and extended his hand, and the two shook hands.

The two, with different races, stances, and motives, reached an agreement at this moment.

...

Gently patting Xiaoluo on the back, Su Mu quietly left the room after Xiaoluo fell asleep.

Over the past few days, Su Mu had already explained some matters to Pier. Indeed, he didn’t care about the forces he controlled in the alien race; ultimately, he was human and wouldn’t stay in the otherworld for long.

Once he retrieved his body and searched for the Forgotten Realm to complete the "Crystal Visualization Technique," he would leave. The alien race’s chaos had nothing to do with him.

Before departing, Su Mu planned to inspect the soul fragments obtained from destroying the alien race in the Celestial Cross Province.

In the Sea of Consciousness, Desolate Thought swallowed the soul fragments one by one, and immediately, fragmented memories of the alien race unfolded before Su Mu’s eyes.

The broken memory fragments didn’t yield much, only confirming for Su Mu that these were indeed people from the Celestial Cross Province.

"Huh?"

Shortly afterward, Su Mu’s deep eyes flickered, emitting a soft "huh," and an unexpected expression appeared on his face.

This belonged to the memory scene of the titled grandmaster alien from the Celestial Cross Province convoy; before joining a group outside the city, the titled alien casually killed several aliens coming out of an auction.

Among them was that unfortunate alien who spent one hundred thousand catties of Red Marrow to bid on the Qi Blood Secret Technique. After obtaining the secret technique, the titled alien from the Celestial Cross Province immediately read it with spiritual power.

Although Su Mu couldn’t directly obtain that secret technique by probing the memory, he could glean nine-tenths of it from the memory.

Soon, Su Mu’s powerful spiritual power replicated the secret technique. Maybe it was because his spiritual power was too strong, Su Mu quickly mastered the secret technique.

Immediately, he attempted to operate it and instantly felt something odd about the secret technique. However, for the moment, Su Mu couldn’t pinpoint where the oddity lay.

After several operations, the feeling in Su Mu’s heart intensified. He entered an introspective state, carefully observing the entire process of the secret technique’s operation.

However, this process soon got interrupted.

"This flesh is indeed too fragile."

In about a dozen days, Su Mu had enhanced the Qi Blood Power of this flesh, which now equated to a Second Level Peak martial artist; however, after running the secret technique a few times, the Qi and blood inside was utterly depleted.

With a flash of spiritual light in his hand, Su Mu took out a Barbaric Beast Blood Core to replenish himself before continuing the secret technique’s operation.

This time, a gleam appeared faintly in Su Mu’s eyes.

A dozen days ago, he had discovered that the Barbaric Beast Blood Core contained a unique Qi Blood Power. After supplementing with the blood core and running the secret technique again, Su Mu immediately noticed the peculiarity of this secret technique.

"Interesting, so that’s how it is... This secret technique actually purifies not ordinary Qi and blood, but that unique Qi Blood Power contained in the Barbaric Beast Blood Core."

With another flash of spiritual light, Su Mu produced several Barbaric Beast Blood Cores, which then turned into powder, condensing into a drop of fresh blood.

This was the unique Qi Blood Power contained within several Blood Cores, from several grandmaster-level Barbaric Beast Blood Cores, yielding only this drop.

As the secret technique operated, this drop of fresh blood trembled at high speed, causing the surrounding air to distort violently.

This drop of special blood was scalding hot, and in a short time, its temperature exceeded a thousand degrees, emitting a golden glow.

The Grandmaster’s Blood exhibited a golden color!

Su Mu himself was an exception; under normal circumstances, for an ordinary martial artist to achieve this, even to create a golden prototype, let alone a complete transformation, it would at least require the Golden Body Third Forging to achieve Great Grandmaster to be possible.

But through the operation of the secret technique, it could make the unique Qi Blood Power in the blood core achieve this, far exceeding a mere onefold increase!

It had doubled, or even trebled, to achieve this!

"Everyone misjudged it... including myself."

"As long as enough Barbaric Beast Blood Cores could be collected, the value of this secret technique would be immensely high!"

Su Mu gazed intently at this drop of golden blood, with the transformation process from bright red to golden replaying in his mind. Finally, he swallowed it in one mouthful.

The powerful spiritual power keenly observed every change as the golden blood entered his body.

As the golden blood entered his body, it quickly merged into his limbs and hundreds of veins, and the blood inside started to slightly boil, enhancing the activity of all his blood at this moment.

Boom!

A breath exploded from Su Mu’s body, surprising him as his Qi and blood not only broke through but more.

Soon after, Su Mu exhaled gently, expressing delight.

Just a drop of this fresh blood directly advanced his martial realm by one tier; his inner Qi and blood broke through from Second Level Peak to Third Level High Stage, nearing the Fourth Level.

"I guess I underestimated this secret technique. However, if it were on an ordinary martial artist, the rapidly advancing Qi Blood Power would easily mismatch with their martial arts realm, doing more harm than good."

"But that’s only for others; this secret technique in my hands is all benefits and no harm, truly showcasing its real effect!"

Su Mu’s heart was burning with passion. His journey in martial arts had been incredibly solid at every step, built upon the foundations of the world’s top martial arts like the Third-Turned Refining Technique, Essence Blood Secret Technique, Fixed Star Body Refining Technique, Crystal Visualization Technique, and the Three Great Three Flowers Technique.

What may be considered secret techniques that rapidly advance others were just ordinary techniques for Su Mu, without any of the adverse effects of advancing too quickly.

This was because Su Mu’s foundation was tenfold, dozens of times, even a hundred times that of martial artists at the same level.

On this body, the effects could be so miraculous, but if it were Su Mu’s original body, there might only be gentle ripples, or perhaps even no ripples at all.

"It’s a pity it’s another incomplete secret technique... and the cost of this breakthrough isn’t small. Just one drop of blood is equivalent to several Grandmaster-level Blood Cores, something ordinary people can’t afford to squander."

"But if there’s enough Blood Cores to spare, this secret technique could even allow the Fixed Star Immortal Body to advance further."

"It seems I’ll need to gather more Barbaric Beast Blood Cores before leaving."

Su Mu thought to himself secretly.

...

"Found it."

The majestic red figure’s face showed wild joy as he was flipping through an ancient tome.

"Even among the Relic Giants, some have studied the art of puppet crafting. This secret technique can even process a giant’s flesh, so why not a mere human’s body?"

But as he continued to flip through it, the red figure’s brow furrowed quickly, "Blood Cores, this secret technique also requires the consumption of a large amount of Blood Cores."

Several tens of thousands of Blood Cores have already been invested into the Myriad Beasts Blood Pool.

"Fortunately, this secret technique doesn’t have high quality requirements for Blood Cores, but if the quality is too low it will likely affect the technique’s effectiveness. Better to try with some low-tier ones first..."

Having reached this point, he was naturally unwilling to give up. He gritted his teeth and made a decision. He didn’t have many high-quality Blood Cores left, but others did.

"If the effect is satisfactory, I’ll go to those old guys and exchange for some Blood Cores."

...

At dawn, Su Mu slowly opened his eyes. He had spent the night cultivating, while Yuri had not rested all night, seemingly very focused on taking over the cities of the Celestial Snow Province.

A doubt flashed in Su Mu’s mind. He didn’t understand why Yuri was so concerned, but he didn’t mind.

Everyone has their own path they want to walk, just like his own dedication to martial arts; perhaps Yuri is pursuing power.

"Alien Race Alliance, indeed an alliance..."

Many aliens had quietly arrived in Bandar City overnight, and Su Mu discovered that there were many alien commoners and even mixed bloods in Yuri’s organization.

Su Mu was somewhat surprised by this discovery.

In such a hierarchically strict alien world, Yuri, who belonged to the top of the pyramid’s Eight Great Royal Families, surprisingly did not discriminate against mixed bloods viewed by aliens as the lowest caste.

Just like the alien named Andy whom Su Mu encountered, his skin color was only bluish, nearly the lowest tier besides mixed bloods among the alien races.

Yet that alien knew Yuri personally, even had access to her, using a low-tier alien in such a crucial role showed Yuri’s disregard for these differences.

Yuri, this alien, is very special, and not simple, just like her organization.

Su Mu didn’t care what Yuri planned to do. After discovering this, he was at ease entrusting Xiaomo to Yuri, as he always acted with a clear conscience.

That day, a carriage left Bandar City, racing toward Loris City.

That night, Loris City was ablaze, with the auction house and the City Lord’s Mansion bathed in blood.

Inside the carriage, Xiaoluo knelt in front of Su Mu, wanting to kowtow to him, but an invisible force gently held her head.

"Uncle Lin, thank you for avenging me, thank you..."

Su Mu rubbed Xiaoluo’s head, "Xiaoluo, you forget, without you I might have died outside Bandar City. Stand up."

"Uncle Lin, I, I don’t want revenge anymore... Many people died in the city tonight..."

"Alright, since Xiaoluo has spoken, Uncle Lin will stop here."

The carriage fell silent, and after a long time Xiaoluo spoke again.

"Uncle Lin, Xiaoluo knows you’ve helped me a lot, but I have one more request. Could you take me to Black Stone City?

Father once told me that he and mother’s home was there, and I was born there. I want to go to Black Stone City and live there."

Su Mu’s eyes fell on Xiaoluo; the child spoke earnestly. Compared to when they first met, Xiaoluo had grown more mature in just these ten or so days.

But the cost of this growth was too great.

"Alright, I’ll take Xiaoluo back to Black Stone City."

"Thank you, Uncle Lin, thank you so much..."

Afterward, silence filled the carriage once more.

...

Amidst the wind and snow, the convoy crossed the border and reached the Ray Kingdom.

Three days later within Black Stone City, before leaving the convoy, Xiaoluo threw herself into Su Mu’s embrace, along with two members of the Alien Race Alliance, who would protect Xiaoluo.

"Uncle Lin, you must live well... strive to live on."

Hearing this phrase after half a month and seeing the worry in Xiaoluo’s eyes, Su Mu was touched. He finally reached out, ruffled her hair into a mess.

"Alright, I will."

After leaving Black Stone City, in the carriage, Yuri informed Su Mu.

"Lin Peng, there is both good news and bad news now..."

"Which one would you like to hear first?"