High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late-Chapter 94 - 93: New City Lord of Linjiang, Spirit Cultivation Room at My Disposal
The official personnel appointments for Linjiang Base have been announced.
The former President of Linjiang Base Martial Arts Association, City Lord Luo Cheng, has been promoted to Linjiang Base City Lord. The head of the Armed Department, Gong Wu, has been promoted to President of the Martial Arts Association. Meanwhile, a Fifth Level Martial Artist has been transferred from the South China Governor’s Mansion as the new head of the Armed Department.
Additionally, Gong Wu’s nephew, Gong Yan, was promoted to Personnel Director of the Armed Department. Since the position of the second-in-command is vacant, this Personnel Director is practically the second-in-command of the Armed Department.
During this period, City Lord Luo Cheng has been incredibly busy, as the City Lord’s Mansion, following a thorough purge, urgently needs to select a batch of capable individuals.
Luo Mei has chosen to stay beside Jiang Miaomiao and her daughter, taking responsibility for their safety.
In the past, City Lord Luo would have scolded his daughter for lacking ambition, but this time, unexpectedly, he didn’t oppose her decision. Luo Cheng has simple thoughts: he sees a promising future for Su Mu and believes Su Mu’s future achievements will be significant.
Luo Mei not choosing to take over his position for now might be a good thing, perhaps leaving another path open in advance.
The Linjiang Base City Lord’s Mansion is bustling again after several days.
"Hello, Uncle Luo, hello, Uncle Gong!"
"Xiaoyue, I heard from Director Jiang that your favorite is chicken wings. Today I specially made Cola Chicken Wings for you. Uncle Luo will get you some wings."
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Luo."
Jiang Miaomiao and her daughter were invited to attend the banquet for City Lord Luo Cheng’s inauguration at the City Lord’s Mansion.
At the banquet, many people were curious about the identities of Jiang Miaomiao and her daughter. Although Jiang Miaomiao was only a First Level Martial Artist with not much background, she was able to serve as the director of the central library.
The only information they could find was that Jiang Miaomiao’s husband, Su Mu, was a senior lecturer at Shenjiang Martial Arts University and had been commended by three cities.
But this didn’t quite explain everything.
Because both the newly appointed City Lord Luo Cheng and the newly appointed President of the Martial Arts Association, Gong Wu, valued Jiang Miaomiao and her daughter highly, and the three families shared an excellent relationship.
This caused a library director who was dissatisfied with Jiang Miaomiao in secret to change his expression. He hurriedly approached Jiang Miaomiao with a wine glass in hand.
"Director Jiang, I may have had a somewhat improper attitude in the past. If there’s anything you need, feel free to instruct me. I toast to you, Director."
The two clinked glasses, and the director lowered his glass slightly before drinking it all in one go.
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At Shenjiang Martial Arts University, Little One felt the pressure when she learned that Uncle Wolf had gone to the Three Cities Joint Training Camp and Zhao Meng had been taken as a disciple by Elder Wang.
Little One is inherently a very proud person, also competitive. She doesn’t want to be mentioned only as Uncle Wolf’s or Zhao Meng’s friend in the future.
She’s not someone’s shadow. So, Little One steeled herself quietly, turning the pressure into motivation, working even harder at cultivation and alchemy than before.
In the Alchemy Room, Little One opened the alchemy furnace, releasing a puff of black smoke. A trace of disappointment crossed her face, but she quickly regained her composure.
Little One reached out and picked up an elixir. After a careful examination, she crushed it with her fingers and analyzed the cause of the failure by sniffing it closely.
"The smell is off; I still didn’t get the timing right. This time it was too much."
"The degree of fusion of the ingredients is also insufficient. The contents shouldn’t be powdery, indicating poor extraction during the material blending process."
Outside the Alchemy Room, Director Wen of the Alchemy Academy nodded secretly with a pleased expression upon seeing this scene.
"Finally, the Alchemy Academy has born a promising talent."
Nevertheless, Director Wen had some regrets for Little One’s predicament. He couldn’t help but sigh. Given Little One’s outstanding performance in the First Level Alchemist assessment, there was a high probability she could have been admitted to South China Martial Arts University, but now she could only go to Shenjiang Martial Arts University.
Thus, after much hesitation, Director Wen decided that as a Fourth Level Alchemist, he couldn’t mislead a student and never raised the subject of taking Little One as a disciple. He only helped Little One apply for many academy resources.
Meanwhile, in a casting room at Shenjiang Martial Arts University’s Casting Academy.
Zhao Meng was fully focused on inscribing inscriptions onto a First Level Blade. After a long time, Zhao Meng wiped the sweat from her forehead and tilted her head, holding the blade up for inspection.
"Teacher, take a look."
"Good." Wang Shuheng smiled broadly as he took the blade, then became serious as he carefully examined each inscription, nodding in approval, "Not bad; you’ve mastered the Sharp Inscription for the First Level well. But Mengmeng, your control when inscribing the Solid Inscription on the blade body needs more practice."
"Teacher, I will definitely work harder!" said Zhao Meng.
"Take it slow, no rush. Rest for a bit first," Wang Shuheng said cheerfully.
"By the way, teacher, how are things with my senior brother?"
"Your senior brother should be doing fine, shouldn’t he? And letting him broaden his horizons is a good thing, to witness true talent."
Wang Shuheng hesitated slightly, feeling a sudden pang of guilt. At that moment, he realized he didn’t know much about his disciple, Su Mu.
He only knew that Su Mu had an extraordinary spirit and decent comprehension and had mastered Sword Momentum.
As for combat talent, he wasn’t sure, but it shouldn’t be too bad, right? After all, Li Yue had shown some envy when mentioning Su Mu.
"When Su Mu returns this time, I must pay more attention."
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Gaoshan City, Training Camp.
In the dining hall, Su Mu suddenly sneezed several times in a row, feeling puzzled. Was someone still thinking about him?
"Su Mu, order whatever you like; this meal’s on me," Huangfu Xue gestured.
As expected, Shi Hao, Xu Zhi, and Huangfu Xue asked about the battle with You Ming. Su Mu shifted the focus to the Tower of Power, and the three exchanged glances, realizing that was indeed the case.
After that, they didn’t press further. Any gains from the Tower of Power are personal experiences; Shi Hao and the others were just curious.
With the answers, Huangfu Xue looked pleased; it seemed that she would win this time, banking on Su Mu becoming the runner-up. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Su Mu asked about Spirit Marrow, particularly the channels to obtain it.
"The way to obtain Spirit Marrow, huh."
"Actually, it’s quite simple. There are basically two channels: official and the black market."
"The authorities do have control over cultivation resources like Spirit Marrow."
"However, there are quite a few ways to obtain it. A more difficult way is to get onto the sequence list, which would allow you to receive the country’s resources tilt, including Spirit Marrow."
"Secondly, after advancing to a Sixth Level Martial Artist, the Martial Arts Association includes Spirit Marrow in your monthly martial arts stipend, with the standard being three pounds per person per year for a Sixth Level Martial Artist."
Su Mu was somewhat surprised at hearing this; Spirit Marrow is indeed that precious. The annual stipend for a Sixth Level Martial Artist is only three pounds, yet Huangfu Xue gave him ten pounds, nearly the equivalent of over three years’ martial arts stipend for a Sixth Level Martial Artist.
"Yes, when you advance to the Sixth Level, the officials will also open exchange channels for resources like Spirit Marrow. The most versatile exchange is for battle merit on the battlefield, and there are also exchange channels in some top martial arts universities, Martial Arts Associations, the military, and martial arts halls."
"Currently, the officials have not openly allowed exchanging Spirit Stones for Spirit Marrow, so if you wish to buy it directly with Spirit Stones, you’ll need to go to the black market."
"As for the price, it was roughly over a million low-grade Spirit Stones per pound in past years. As for now, I’m not sure."
Su Mu was somewhat silenced, shocked in his heart. In the past nine days, he had consumed nearly ten pounds of Spirit Marrow, which could actually be converted to having consumed ten million low-grade Spirit Stones.
"Right now, Su Mu, you have another channel to obtain it," Huangfu Xue paused, "and that is the Blue Star Alliance Tournament. Not to mention the distant ones, I can reveal a little to you: just this training camp has Spirit Marrow rewards, with more awarded for higher rankings."
"Thank you for informing me."
Su Mu’s eyes lit up. Shi Hao and Xu Zhi naturally knew that Huangfu Xue did this intentionally to stimulate Su Mu’s fighting spirit, to ultimately win the second seat and thus the bet among the three.
As for the chief position, until now, the three of them had only one candidate in mind: Tantai Yan.
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"The higher the rank, the more Spirit Marrow!"
At this moment, Su Mu had a strong desire for the chief position; he urgently needed Spirit Marrow to become stronger.
"Future Sight won’t last to the third round of the ranking battle."
"Teacher said that Sword Momentum is still passive in the face of Spiritual Talent."
"It’s time to check out other cultivation rooms."
Having made up his mind, Su Mu decisively headed back to the Cultivation Hall.
"What is inside the Spirit Cultivation Room?"
During this period, the Spirit Cultivation Room had almost become Tantai Yan’s exclusive room, and others wouldn’t think of using it, as it seemed meaningless and unnecessary to waste precious points.
But Su Mu was curious, and he had plenty of points, so wasting some didn’t bother him—consider it a generous sponsorship from people like You Ming.
"A thousand points per hour, not too expensive."
At this moment, there was no one inside the Spirit Cultivation Room. Tantai Yan might have returned to her dormitory.
Su Mu pushed the door open and entered. There were three independent cultivation rooms inside, along with a place for cultivation equipped with a silver instrument he had seen at the Shenjiang City Martial Arts Association Headquarters. It was for testing Spiritual Power.
"Let’s try this first."
After deducting a thousand points to activate the room, Su Mu walked into the first cultivation room, and soon multiple holes appeared on the ground, with several metal balls of different colors floating in the air.
A line of text appeared on the display screen on the wall: Spiritual Manipulation.
Su Mu successively raised the training intensity level, and metal balls continuously appeared, while human-shaped targets of different colors appeared in the distance. Su Mu was lost in thought.
"Spiritual Manipulation?"
"Is it about simultaneously controlling more metal balls to attack?"
Next was the second cultivation room: Spiritual Perception.
Su Mu had no reaction in this round and awkwardly exited to enter the third cultivation room.
"Spiritual Strength?"
Upon pressing the activation button, Su Mu let out a muffled grunt, with his head going blank for an instant. As his consciousness returned, his eyes glowed slightly.
"The principle of Spiritual Strength training... should be a confrontation of Spiritual Power?"
"Perhaps this can be used to simulate facing Tantai Yan’s Spiritual Shock!"
Su Mu was delighted and immediately began to experiment.
Soon after, Su Mu, his face pale, stepped out of the cultivation room, but his eyes were even brighter. He had roughly figured out the training regimen for the Spiritual Strength cultivation room.
The Spiritual Strength cultivation room only has three levels.
The first level, the interval for Spiritual Shock is three seconds.
The second level, the interval is one second.
In the third level, Su Mu only lasted a few seconds and temporarily couldn’t discern the pattern.
After recovering in the Meditation World, Su Mu took a deep breath and re-entered the third cultivation room, unleashing his Sword Momentum the instant he activated the button.
After successfully blocking the first time, he counted to three and immediately released his Sword Momentum again.
Su Mu let out a muffled grunt again, the timing of the release was wrong.
"Adjust breathing, once more!"
After several failures, Su Mu got into the groove, timing the use of Sword Momentum to successfully withstand a Spiritual Shock.
"If Tantai Yan can use the Spirit Cultivation Room, so can I, Su Mu!"
"For Tantai Yan, it’s Spiritual Strength training, but for me, it’s the best method to train Spiritual Defense!"
"I need to familiarize myself with this process until I can sense the signs of an incoming Spiritual Shock."
Su Mu had an epiphany and began his unique path to challenge for the chief position.
