High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late-Chapter 165 - 149: Brutal Ways to Die, the Monster Among Humans
Su Mu?
Lin Ying’s mind conjured the image of Su Mu. Although he was reluctant to admit that Su Mu was stronger than himself, this might just be the truth since this person could suppress Nanu in the outside world.
But rationality told him that Su Mu in the Qi Blood Secret Realm was very unlikely to be a match for Nanu, as per Captain Chai Wu’s description, Su Mu relied entirely on sword momentum and sword technique to suppress.
However, Lin Ying knew even more that by relying on himself alone, it was impossible to defeat Nanu, or even pose a threat. Once the attention of the alien tribe shifted from the Relic Tower and they turned their hands to deal with them, they might not be able to leave the Secret Realm alive.
To break this deadlock, a variable was needed, a powerful ally. Su Mu would be Lin Ying’s strongest ally, and he must take the risk to try. After pondering for a while, Lin Ying spoke in a deep voice.
"I’ll go check it out."
"Lin Ying, isn’t this too risky?"
"If it’s really Su Mu, it’s worth taking this risk. We need him."
...
Currently, Su Mu wanted to quickly regroup with the main force and avoid unnecessary trouble, but since he had just entered the core area of the Secret Realm, he was unfamiliar with the complex environment here.
With no particular direction, soon dense footsteps approached again.
"They’re fast. Did they come tracking the space ring?"
Since entering the Secret Realm, including the team from earlier, twenty-two members of the alien tribe had died at Su Mu’s hands, meaning he had twenty-two space rings, plus a few more obtained from humans who died at the hands of the alien tribe.
Space rings cannot be placed inside another space ring, so Su Mu directly stored them in a small leather pouch at his waist, filling it completely.
Instantly he took off the small pouch and placed it under a large rock, and his figure quickly disappeared from the spot.
...
"It seems they’re not tracking the space rings, they’re heading towards the signal flare for support."
Hidden in the dark, Su Mu observed everything, and doubts arose in his mind. Initially, he thought the alien team that died at his hands was coming for him.
Because Su Mu could feel the alien tribe heading straight for the cave, the purpose was clear.
But now it seemed, perhaps it wasn’t so. They were indeed heading for the cave, but their target wasn’t him, Su Mu, but the Fierce Beast inside the cave?
"Previously there were signs of the Relic Tower opening, and now the alien tribes are deliberately hunting Fierce Beasts... for the Relic Tower?"
"Perhaps the method to open the Relic Tower is different, can a Blood Core fully open the core part of the Relic Tower?"
"But that doesn’t make sense either. If it was simply using a Blood Core to open, why wait until now?"
For a moment, Su Mu recalled that after killing the Fierce Beast inside the cave, the Blood Core he obtained was larger compared to the ones he acquired from hunting Secret Realm Fierce Beasts before, which often meant the Fierce Beast’s strength was greater.
Suddenly, another conjecture flashed through Su Mu’s mind.
At the same time, he also noticed that in this alien squad, the leading alien was holding something resembling a map. He hadn’t checked the space rings of the previous squad to see if there was a map.
But since he encountered them and needed a map of the Secret Realm himself, he might as well eliminate another squad.
After confirming that there were no other alien reinforcements behind the squad, Su Mu directly used the Extreme Shadow Body Technique, stepping dozens of meters forward to launch an attack.
A gust of wind followed behind him; the aliens who entered the Secret Realm were among the best of the Fifth Level. An alien at the back of the squad sensed something, and just as he turned his head, he saw a figure.
At that moment, his life was like a candle in the wind, extinguished in an instant.
Su Mu’s fist directly penetrated his chest, crushing his heart entirely. Without hesitation, Su Mu withdrew his fist and launched another punch at another alien, instantly shattering the head.
The expression of the alien with a pierced chest was shocked, but he couldn’t emit any sound, only witnessing in horror as his companion was instantly killed with a punch.
As death descended, he looked down at his chest, where blood streamed like a fountain from a huge cavity.
When he raised his head again, several companions had followed his footsteps.
A monster, the person before him was a monster, not a human martial artist, but the embodiment of death!
This was the alien’s last thought before his pupils completely dispersed, and his body fell heavily to the ground, where several corpses already lay silently.
"Not good, we’re under attack..."
Su Mu’s strength was already enough to crush an alien squad head-on, and coupled with the fact that this was an ambush from Su Mu lurking in the dark, by the time the squad reacted, more than half of them were already dead.
"No, how is this possible."
"Run, split up and run!"
Su Mu launched another punch, the wind from his fist freezing the surrounding air, severing the aliens’ route to escape on all sides.
Quickly resolving this alien squad, Su Mu adeptly grabbed the space rings, and then searched the body of the alien leader, retrieving the map-like object.
"It is indeed a map of the Secret Realm. The ink looks fresh. How did these aliens get their hands on it?"
"Indeed, the aliens were coming for the Fierce Beasts."
Su Mu’s eyes brightened. He discovered several Fierce Beast territories marked on the map, among them the previous cave. Afterward, Su Mu didn’t linger at the spot, quickly took the bag of space rings under the boulder, and left.
...
Soon after, as Lin Ying was about to approach the yellow signal flare, he instantly became alert, detecting a strong scent of blood in the air.
Quickly, Lin Ying’s pupils contracted slightly. He saw the corpses of a ten-member alien squad on the ground.
The manner of death was extremely brutal; several had their heads shattered, some had their hearts gouged out, and some had their heads split in two.
The faces of the aliens with intact heads were filled with terror; it could be inferred they encountered an opponent beyond their ability to resist.
"Could it be that Nanu has gone mad, killing his own?"
For a moment, Lin Ying couldn’t help but entertain this bizarre notion, as such brutal killing methods were more akin to the alien tribe that revered brute force, and the overwhelming strength instantly reminded Lin Ying of the monster Nanu.
After taking a deep breath, Lin Ying dismissed this absurd conjecture.
"Unless Nanu truly went mad, it’s impossible for him to kill his own kind like this."
For a moment, Lin Ying hesitated. In his understanding, Su Mu was undoubtedly a master of the blade, or a genius in the Sword Dao, yet these aliens were clearly not slain by a blade. He squatted down to inspect the body with the chest cavity.
"These seem to be from a punch?"
"Could this really be Su Mu’s doing?"
With disbelief on his face, Lin Ying doubted his own thoughts, but who else had this kind of strength besides Su Mu?
"Could Su Mu’s greatest strength not be the sword momentum? Is that possible?"
Tracing the tracks, Lin Ying soon discovered another alien squad’s corpses outside the cave, dying in the same brutal manner, clearly the work of the same person.
Upon entering the cave, Lin Ying saw a giant snake corpse, and his pupils contracted hard again. The deceased body exuded a faint pressure even in its lifeless state.
Even if it wasn’t a Sixth Level Fierce Beast, it was a Fifth Level Peak, just a step away from Sixth Level. The Fierce Beasts in the Qi Blood Secret Realm were inherently stronger than those outside, and the fact that it occupied such a large cave meant it was a dominant force among the Fierce Beasts in the Qi Blood Secret Realm.
However, this overlord died a tragic death as well, with its snake head’s flesh mangled, and its body separated, as if it had been pummeled apart by force. Lin Ying’s mind flashed with the brutal scene of the serpent being smashed by a punch.
If it were the outside world, Lin Ying was confident he could slaughter this Fierce Beast, but it would require him to use Martial Momentum.
Sss.
Lin Ying was shocked, involuntarily inhaling a breath of cold air. Such ferocious killing methods left him with some hesitance again.
Afterward, Lin Ying found several pits inside the cave and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Someone had meticulously uprooted the spirit plants in the cave. Such meticulous actions reassured Lin Ying, convincing him that it was Su Mu doing this.
In his view, a person as volatile as Nanu couldn’t possibly do something like this.
In an instant, Lin Ying’s breathing became extremely rapid.
"If all this is truly Su Mu’s doing, then not only do the aliens have a monster, we human martial artists also have a monster of our own."
"Su Mu is another monster; he might truly be able to fight Nanu. Even if slightly inferior, as long as I assist from the side, after rescuing Tantai Yan, the three of us together will undoubtedly be able to confront Nanu head-on."
"I must find Su Mu as quickly as possible!"
