novelraw Chapter 448 - 343: The King of Ferocious Beasts’ Pact, the 4th Immortal Cell, Disaster Memory Fragment (5K)
Chapter 448 - 343: The King of Ferocious Beasts’ Pact, the 4th Immortal Cell, Disaster Memory Fragment (5K)
On the road to the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool, Su Mu proceeded neither swiftly nor slowly.
With the enhancement of a martial artist’s prowess, both the flesh and bodily structure undergo continuous transformation. Especially when one’s spiritual power becomes formidable, the brain’s potential is explored and utilized in ways unimaginable to ordinary people; having a photographic memory is merely commonplace.
The brain of a high-tier martial artist is akin to a supercomputer, with boundless computational power and a magnificent thought process.
As for Su Mu, even before his spiritual power reached the grandmaster level, the instant the crystal human form was molded, he had already crossed into the grandmaster tier, almost touching the realm of ordinary great grandmasters or titled grandmasters.
Now, aided by the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool, he stepped onto the path of the grandmaster, achieving the status of a Martial Arts Grandmaster. Even though the boost in spiritual power is the smallest aspect of this enhancement, the power of the crystal human form, transformed by a third, is undeniably potent.
With every step he took, during each breath, Su Mu’s mind replayed the battle he had just fought hundreds, even thousands of times.
"It’s not difficult to slay a grandmaster with one punch... but previously, I needed to resort to the Secret of Power, Fixed Star Body Refinement, Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, Sword Momentum, and Fire Breathing."
"But now, even without employing these techniques, merely by slightly activating the immortal cells and triggering the tide of qi and blood, I can achieve it effortlessly."
Step.
Another step forward.
Su Mu’s mind quickly analyzed his current power. This was his habit: after every battle, regardless of the size, he would reflect within his mind, extracting experiences and lessons.
Though he hadn’t been serious in the recent skirmish, using it only as a warm-up, it still provided room for analysis.
Su Mu soon made a judgment.
"Even if I only activate the immortal cells now, I am much stronger than during my battle against the Overlord Blade Martial Saint."
"If the Martial Arts Gate is fully opened and I unleash my power without reservation, my prowess would increase by at least ten times..."
Right now, Su Mu could only make a rough assessment, as there had been misinformation from Yuri’s side. The alleged alien race titled grandmaster, the so-called intermediate war god, couldn’t withstand a single punch from his Martial Arts Gate once opened.
"Hopefully next time, they’ll send a stronger opponent."
Su Mu thought silently to himself.
Little did he know...
Perhaps it’s not the opponents being weak, but simply that the newly ascended Martial Arts Grandmaster in him is overly powerful. He’s touching the peak of Sword Momentum, mastering the water-fire breathing technique, exceeding the human realm with the Martial Arts Gate, bearing the secret inheritance of the purple shadow of power, immortal cells, along with the robust martial arts foundation he forged earlier.
Any single aspect of these could alone create an unparalleled demon.
Yet now, all these powers converge in one person, and all might resides in Su Mu’s being!
Not to mention that final piece of the puzzle in his near-perfect martial arts foundation—the third bone tempering—which was completed within the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool. Currently, for Su Mu, against any martial artist of the same tier on this planet, it would be a dimensional annihilation.
But Su Mu wasn’t entirely aware of this.
Simply because...
He might have to face an opponent, highly likely to be the unfathomable terror that extinguished the relic giants.
Even now Su Mu has no confidence in achieving victory.
In the Book of Destiny, he failed in previous lives, unable to seize and protect everything.
Even to this moment, he remains unaware of what kind of entity he’ll be confronting.
Gurgle.
Su Mu submerged his body entirely again in the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool, allowing every inch of flesh and every cell to revert into energy black holes, voraciously devouring the cleansing liquid.
...
Outside the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool, within the Beast Cave.
"Was that a space rift just now? Did it swallow the entire Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool?"
"Disappeared... The Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool just disappeared like that?"
Thud.
A Blood Eagle Warrior put down the last special metal barrel containing giant bone marrow, momentarily stunned.
A pool that had existed for nearly a thousand years simply vanished entirely?
When they regained composure, everyone’s gaze turned towards Yue Jun, the Commander-in-Chief of the Southern War Zone.
Yue Jun took several deep breaths, his bright eyes gleaming with brilliance.
Indeed, an unprecedentedly massive space rift appeared just now. Appearing accurately, it took away the entire Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool.
This was quite unusual.
Yue Jun didn’t believe it was a coincidence.
This anomaly likely connects to the giant ruins about to emerge from the depths. The giant ruins are known to appear only within the Beast Cave and never on the surface, as has been the case for millennia.
Thus, he speculated that the space rift likely transported Su Mu and the other three to some other place within the Beast Cave.
If it were within the initial seven layers, that would be manageable.
But if they were taken to deeper regions, it becomes a severe matter.
The ground beneath is not just any ordinary Beast Cave but one of Huaxia’s five giant Beast Caves, even the war zone cannot easily dispatch personnel to its deepest parts.
Deep within the giant Beast Cave, grandmaster-level fierce beasts are among the most bottom-layer of the food chain. It’s no exaggeration to say that grandmasters are quite common there.
Great grandmasters and titled grandmasters, level fierce beasts, are also not uncommon.
Moreover, the war zone has always suspected that a Saint Realm level unparalleled fierce beast is lurking somewhere here, a legend left from a millennium ago, widely circulated yet now seldom known.
A thousand years ago, when a Great Sage emerged, a single sword eliminated the Saint Realm Two-headed Flood Dragon, later entering thirteen Beast Caves successively, reaching some agreement with the thirteen Kings of Ferocious Beasts therein. How this was accomplished remains unknown, perhaps only the Great Sage himself knows.