High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late-Chapter 175 - 159: Secret Realm Closed, Alien Race Goes Berserk
Cough cough cough.
A violent cough suddenly erupted from Tantai Yan’s mouth, followed by a splatter of fresh blood as her face turned pale.
"Are you alright?"
"I’m okay, it should be... I drank a bit too much earlier." Tantai Yan saw Su Mu downing gulps of blood larger than hers, spurring her competitive spirit; she couldn’t fall too far behind.
After taking a few deep breaths, Tantai Yan showed puzzlement once more and asked the question again.
"Su Mu... Did you really not feel the impact of the Giant’s Spiritual Power?"
Su Mu shook his head, indicating that after Tantai Yan ingested the Giant’s Blood, she not only had to exert full effort to digest the sudden surge of Qi and Blood but also had to combat the lingering Spiritual Power in the blood.
Despite both drinking the blood, they experienced two starkly different encounters, leaving Tantai Yan feeling confused.
Confusion aside.
Tantai Yan still found joy in clashing with the lingering Spiritual Power of the Giant, and upon dispersing it, she could absorb a portion of that Spiritual Power.
Though this portion of Spiritual Power was minimal, it was extremely pure. After integrating with the Giant’s Spiritual Power, Tantai Yan felt that her purity of Spiritual Power had been enhanced!
Discovering this, Tantai Yan was quite overjoyed. Spiritual Talents highly value the purity of Spiritual Power, with quantity being secondary, but improving Spiritual Power purity is notoriously difficult, several times harder than enhancing Qi Blood Purity.
Now that there was a stable method of improvement, Tantai Yan immersed herself in it, and with Su Mu by her side, making them both stronger, she felt secure.
"We’ve run out of blood, let me do the dilution."
"I’ll handle it."
"No way... This time it’s my turn. We agreed on it." Tantai Yan was somewhat stubborn, cradling the shield in her arms, leaving Su Mu with no choice but to relent.
Soon, another basin of blood was diluted, and Tantai Yan took the first sip, entering her cultivation.
"I forgot to ask how much time has passed."
"Never mind, I’ll ask later."
In his memory, becoming the Giant made Su Mu lose track of the passage of external time; he only remembered Tantai Yan saying the Secret Realm would automatically transport them out when it ended, so he didn’t worry too much.
"Let’s continue with the cultivation then."
...
"The Secret Realm is ending; how is it so soon?"
"It’s only been half a month, right? Isn’t the shortest duration of a Secret Realm supposed to be a month?"
Over Moonlight Valley, silver spatial energy spread like rippling water. Both camps immediately felt outside Moonlight Valley and began to confront each other.
The opening of the Space Gate requires time. As expected, the north quickly sounded the horn, with long and short notes intertwined, full of provocation.
A Sixth Level Alien stepped into the valley.
"Let me handle it."
From the human camp, a Sixth Level Martial Artist also stepped into the valley, with a Qi Blood Flower hovering above. The Alien wasn’t willing to be outdone, activating a Qi Blood Flower as well, and the two went all out right from the start.
Subsequently, there were multiple collisions between the two sides.
"Huh, the Space Gate has been open for so long, why hasn’t anyone come out?"
"Could it be..."
The expressions of the human Martial Artists immediately turned grim, as did Lu Ming, the leader. Noticing the expressions of the human Martial Artists, the Alien side blew the provocative horn again.
"Hahaha, they are panicking, how ridiculous. It seems those human Martial Artists know well they’re no match for our warriors."
"Come on, blow louder, continue, continue!"
The Alien side remained calm and numerous Aliens began to taunt again.
As time passed, the human Martial Artists endured a torturous period until finally, the Space Gate above Moonlight Valley began to show signs of activity.
A figure appeared.
...
"Lin Ying, it’s Lin Ying! The first one out is one of ours!"
Seeing Lin Ying emerge, someone couldn’t help but clench their fists and cheer loudly. Upon seeing Lin Ying, Lu Ming breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to meet him with others.
The Aliens remained indifferent, acting as if they were in control.
"Look at those humans getting all excited; being the first out doesn’t signify anything."
"That’s right; deserters are often the first ones to leave the battlefield."
A burst of unrestrained laughter erupted from the Alien camp, but it soon died down.
"Lin Ying, where are the others? What about Su Mu?"
"What’s the casualty status? How many of us are still alive?"
Before Lin Ying could respond, the Space Gate showed activity again, this time much more pronounced, as five or six human Martial Artists streamed out in succession.
"Huh? Seems like those human Martial Artists got lucky this time, managing to survive..."
The voice abruptly stopped, following the five people, several human Martial Artists carrying iron chains appeared, all holding their heads high as if dragging something out of the Secret Realm.
Immediately, they captured everyone’s attention.
"It seems to be... an iron cage?"
Soon, the iron cage was pulled out, and once both sides saw what was within, the scene fell into a brief silence, as everyone was too shocked, and when they came back to their senses, their expressions changed dramatically.
However, the human Martial Artists were ecstatic and thrilled, while the Alien side was livid, their eyes wide with rage.
The Aliens in the iron cage hung their heads, despondent.
"Wow, are all those in the cage Aliens?"
"Jeez, we captured this many Aliens, almost fifty, right?"
"No, there’s even more, this is surpassing fifty."
...
Lu Ming, the leading major of the human side, wore an expression of wild joy mingled with astonishment. In this era of peace, capturing this many Fifth Level Aliens at once was a first even for him; he could foresee the Aliens going frantic soon.
After taking a deep breath, he suppressed his inner shock and joy, immediately making arrangements.
"You, take the captives back to the base immediately."
"Everyone else, stay vigilant; if the Aliens dare to attempt a rescue, kill without mercy."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Aliens went berserk. The leading Sixth Level Alien’s eyes turned bloodshot. If he did nothing, merely watched dozens of Fifth Level Warriors fall into human hands, he’d be dead for sure upon return, dragging down family and friends with him.
Facing the aggressive, nearly delirious Aliens, no human Martial Artist retreated. The human side was high in morale, many eager to take action.
This past half-month, they had endured enough of these bastards’ provocations; they had longed to strike back hard.
"Little bastards, I’m not afraid of you! How can I let you snatch away the big fat meat we have? Brothers, attack!"
"Kill!"
The human Sixth Level Martial Artists were brimming with Battle Intent, plunging toward the oncoming Aliens, igniting an all-out brawl.
As the clash ensued, the Aliens immediately suffered setbacks, realizing that the human Martial Artists were even wilder than they were, as if they were on stimulants.
"Damn, these humans have gone mad!"
"Withdraw, retreat for now."
"Hahaha, come again, why retreat? Little bastards, stay if you dare!"
If not for Lu Ming overseeing and restraining his men, many would have wanted to charge directly to the northern side of Moonlight Valley.
After the brawl ended, both sides returned to their bases, the dynamics of offense and defense reversed. This time, the Aliens approached negotiation with sincerity, even some humility, with none of their earlier arrogance.
Lu Ming snorted dismissively, firmly rejecting, "Ignore them, leave them be."
"Exactly, that’s how it should be, humiliate them well, let off steam."
Now, though Lu Ming was pleased, Su Mu’s absence weighed on his mind, like a stone unlifted.
"Tell me, what happened in the Secret Realm? Where are Su Mu and Tantai Yan?" Lu Ming gripped Lin Ying’s shoulders tightly.
"They’re both fine; they just entered the Secret Realm’s core, the Relic Tower."
Hearing Su Mu was unharmed, Lu Ming exhaled a long breath, the heavy stone in his heart finally set down, prompting another urgent question.
"And the Alien Royal Family member... did he also enter the Relic Tower?"
"Nanu? He didn’t get the chance; he was slain by Su Mu, a few days ago he was already a corpse."
The Alien Royal Family member capable of overpowering Sixth Level Martial Artists, the boastful face of the Alien side, had once pressed all human Martial Artists outside the Secret Realm down, was slain by Su Mu in the Qi Blood Secret Realm?!
Such news was earth-shattering.
Instantly, there was dead silence!
The human base fell into a prolonged quiet; it was the calm before the storm.
