High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late-Chapter 178 - 162: One Million Upper Grade Spirit Stones, Orange Superpower
Previously, they used the blood core to dilute the giant’s blood as a shortcut, but once the blood core is exhausted, they must directly ’enjoy’ this final trial reward.
Images of giants directly dunking their heads into the blood pool, or even bathing in it, flashed through Su Mu’s mind.
Despair and insignificance surged in his heart.
Sometimes, the more you know, the smaller you feel.
But after a moment, Su Mu took a few deep breaths, his eyes flashing with determination and madness, as he murmured to himself.
"Miaomiao, Xiaoyue, and the teacher, they are all still waiting for me outside... I cannot, and will not, be trapped here."
"If the relic giants, long extinct, could do it... then I, Su Mu, can do it too."
"Isn’t it just a pool of giant’s blood? I will drain it all, turning every drop into the foundation of my martial arts. I, Su Mu, will not stop here!"
Turning pressure into motivation, Su Mu calmly tilted his head and gulped down a large mouthful of fresh blood, entering into cultivation. He still infused all the pure qi and blood into the cultivation of the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique.
Su Mu believed the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique was crucial, and would be one of the trump cards determining if he could leave the cave.
When Tantai Yan awakened from her cultivation, Su Mu explained his conjecture.
"The blood core is about to... run dry?!"
"Must drain... the whole blood pool of giant’s blood to leave?!"
After listening, Tantai Yan’s face turned pale. With dozens of blood cores diluted, the amount of giant’s blood, diluted dozens of times or more, was already reaching her limit.
If, after the blood core exhausts, she had to directly consume the giant’s blood, she could only think of one outcome, which would certainly be bursting to death.
"Maybe things... aren’t that bad."
"Right, there should be other ways to leave."
"Su Mu... aren’t you afraid?"
Seeing Su Mu’s calm face, Tantai Yan couldn’t help but ask.
"Fear is useless; I won’t be trapped here, and I will walk out." His calm tone exuded determination and confidence.
Su Mu spoke as if stating a settled fact, but for some reason, Tantai Yan felt her uneasy heart calming after hearing Su Mu’s response.
"Why not try pouring out the blood in the pool?"
Tantai Yan suggested a method, catching Su Mu off guard; the onlooker sees more than the player, and he hadn’t thought of such a simple way.
"We can try."
But as Tantai Yan enthusiastically scooped up the blood and poured it aside, the whole ground of the stone cave gleamed with a blood light, and then the blood seeped into the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The blood in the pool gurgled, returning to its previous levels, unchanged.
"This time... I’ll pour it further away."
Yet, even when Tantai Yan poured the blood next to a giant’s corpse, it still returned to the blood pool. Despite trying many methods, they proved futile.
"It’s okay, let’s continue cultivating, everything will pass."
After speaking, Su Mu poured another large mouthful of diluted giant’s blood into his mouth and entered cultivation.
Tantai Yan shivered, as if recalling what Su Mu had once said; the Su Mu of that day and the one before her now overlapped in her mind.
Even in a desperate situation, this person never changed, as firm as a rock, providing reassurance.
Watching Su Mu calmly enter cultivation, admiration grew in Tantai Yan’s heart.
"Su Mu... he’s really incredible!" 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
"Believe in Su Mu, we will definitely walk out of here, at most we’ll be stuck for a while!"
Some time the next day.
Su Mu emerged from cultivation, his eyes filled with anticipation, and the Insightful Eyes disappeared, signaling it was time to draw a new superpower.
This was also one of Su Mu’s trump cards.
Without disturbing Tantai Yan, Su Mu quietly got up and left the depths of the cave, heading to the entrance where the giant’s corpse lay.
Without hesitation, he took out all the Spirit Stones he had, temporarily piling up the cave entrance with lower, middle, and upper-grade spirit stones.
Included were rewards for solving the beast tide, accolades as the city’s top, and recognition from the school for his promotion to a professor at the Forging Academy. Looking at the spirit stones, corresponding memories flashed quickly before Su Mu’s eyes.
His eyes shone with even more determination.
A large part of these rewards Su Mu left for Miaomiao and Xiaoyue, keeping only a small portion for himself, but the rewards constituted only a small fraction of all these spirit stones.
The bulk of the spirit stones were spoils from the alien races he killed after entering the Secret Realm.
Only the elite of the alien races entered the Secret Realm; each carrying at least seventy to eighty thousand upper-grade spirit stones, with over a hundred aliens falling to Su Mu. Space rings of captured aliens were his, with only the spatial ring of Nanu being lost to space rifts.
With almost all cultivation resources of the aliens in the Secret Realm devoured by Su Mu alone.
He didn’t waste time counting the spirit stones; he roughly split them into twelve parts, each containing over a million upper grade spirit stones. Leaving one part for himself, he placed the other eleven parts into separate space rings.
"Spirit stones are just external things, in a year, it’s the Blue Star Alliance’s main event!"
Spending a million Spirit Stones did not cause a blink; he set a goal for himself to walk out within a year, as for the preliminaries and qualifiers, those were no longer his concern.
Thinking more was pointless.
"Let’s begin."
With the infusion of over a million upper-grade Spirit Stones, a white light gleamed on the wheel in the void, followed by green, blue, and cyan lights, with a faint hint of purple within the blinding cyan light.
"A million upper-grade Spirit Stones locked in cyan and purple quality, not bad."
With a thought, the wheel in the void spun faster, all other colors disappearing, with cyan light growing more dazzling, an orange hue emerging, revealing a flash of fleeting golden light.
In the next instant, the orange burst forth, consuming the cyan light, radiant orange illuminating the stone cave, more brilliant than Future Sight before!
[Quality: Orange]
[Superpower: Basic Future Simulation (Special class), the ability can simulate future timelines by concentrating mental power, allowing the user to bring back one harvest to the original self at an appropriate cost from the simulated timeline. The length of simulative timelines is related to the user’s spiritual power strength.]
[PS: This can only be used once per day, and the superpower can be accumulated before it disappears.]
[PS: Death in the simulated timeline will forcibly end the simulation.]
[PS: Everything in the world is an equivalent exchange. Do you have enough chips?]
Future Simulation?!
Simulate the future timeline and exchange equivalently to bring back one harvest!
This ability is more powerful than Future Sight, but Future Sight only suffers backlash, whereas the cost of this Future Simulation is unknown.
The unknown is often the most terrifying, and humans naturally fear the unknown.
"Let’s simulate once first."
Su Mu took a deep breath and started the Future Simulation.
[10...]
[9...]
[8...]
The countdown appeared before Su Mu’s eyes, and a giant stopwatch appeared under his feet, yet the pointer on the stopwatch stayed still.
[3...]
[2...]
[1...]
The countdown ended, and the pointer on the stopwatch began to move.
Tick-tock, tick-tock.
Suddenly, the pointer started spinning wildly, and countless intertwined silver and golden hands reached out from the stopwatch to grab Su Mu tightly.
Brilliant light erupted.
Su Mu opened his eyes again, and it seemed as if nothing had happened, but in the void before him appeared a faint golden countdown that only he could see.
[3 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds...]
The moment Su Mu looked at the countdown, time began to flow, and the countdown officially started.
"The simulated timeline is three days."
"In the simulation, there is no real death; dying will only forcibly end this simulation."
Su Mu walked deeper into the cave. Tantai Yan had just awakened from her cultivation and, seeing Su Mu return, had a slightly puzzled look on her face, guessing that Su Mu had gone to find a way out.
"The blood is exhausted... It’s my turn to dilute it this time."
Tantai Yan stood up and walked towards the pile of Blood Cores, picked up a small shield, and was about to smash the Blood Core when she saw from the corner of her eye that Su Mu was staring fixedly at the Blood Pool, his whole demeanor seeming off.
Seeing Su Mu step by step approaching the Blood Pool, Tantai Yan’s expression changed dramatically, suddenly realizing something, and she shouted in panic.
"Su Mu, don’t..."
Plop.
A terrifying scene unfolded; Su Mu actually jumped entirely into the Blood Pool.
"Don’t come over, I want to try!"
Tantai Yan stood stunned in place. Has Su Mu gone mad?
This is just trying?
He’ll die. Doing this will surely kill him!
However, Su Mu’s face remained calm as he leaped into the Blood Pool. The scorching blood seemed about to ignite him entirely, and tearing pain struck him, causing his entire body to convulse uncontrollably.
Yet this was just the beginning; as the golden blood drilled into his body.
Organs, flesh, meridians, every cell seemed completely ignited, like a blazing fire about to burn him to ashes.
At the same time, the true heart-wrenching pain ensued, the wildly ferocious golden blood began to rampage, tearing everything within Su Mu to shreds, and then destroying it.
With a tear, one meridian after another burst instantly, and Su Mu’s entire body swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Indescribable pain instantly blanked Su Mu’s mind, and at this moment, the golden countdown before him began to leap frantically.
[2 days 23 hours 59 minutes 05 seconds...]
[1 day 22 hours 5 minutes 11 seconds...]
[0 days 23 hours 11 minutes 05 seconds...]
Before death came.
Su Mu let out a furious roar from the Blood Pool, finally regaining a moment of clarity. He pushed the Fixed Star Body Refining Technique, Qi Blood Emission, and all other means into overdrive, a faint golden hue rippling across his body surface, allowing him to catch his breath for a moment.
Then quickly entered into Introspection, observing all the changes happening in his body.
But death still arrived quickly.
"Reached the limit... so this is what death feels like?"
Crack.
The world before his eyes began to shatter.
A giant stopwatch appeared beneath Su Mu’s feet, the stopwatch spinning madly backward, everything starting to rewind.
[You died in this simulation, the simulation was forcibly ended]
[This simulation took 1 minute 55 seconds]
[In this simulation, you gained the following harvest: Willpower (Near Death), Fixed Star Body Refining Technique cultivation experience.]
[You can pay...]
