High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late

Chapter 573 - 402: Breaking Through Seven Floors, Three Imprint Prototypes, Stepping onto the Ninth Floor!

"Last three rounds against me, and you’ll step into the third floor."

The cold woman’s aura surged, becoming even more terrifying. More accurately, it was being unsealed, as Spiritual Power, Qi and Blood, and Martial Momentum circulated together, finally merging into a brilliant golden force.

This golden force swirled around the cold woman’s fingertips. As her words fell, a towering golden body over twenty meters tall appeared.

"The Martial Arts Golden Body often reflects the potential of martial arts. Different Martial Arts Grandmasters can manifest different sizes of golden bodies."

Su Mu’s eyes flashed slightly. The first time he felt the might of a Grandmaster in his life was facing the President of Shenjiang City Martial Arts Association, Uncle Li Yue. But the first time he actually saw a Martial Arts Golden Body was with the Ye Family.

The Ye Family Grandmasters had unleashed their Martial Arts Golden Bodies, and the shock Su Mu felt at that time was still vivid in his mind.

Only now, in retrospect, even if the Ye Family’s Martial Arts Grandmasters multiplied several times, tenfold, or even more, it wouldn’t stir much emotion in Su Mu’s heart today.

Because the level of the Ye Family Grandmasters was too low.

Ordinary Tier One Martial Arts Grandmasters could manifest a golden body reaching five or six meters. Such Grandmasters often found it difficult to progress further; most Ye Family Grandmasters were stuck at this point back then.

Those who could reach seven or eight meters at Tier One were considered ordinary martial arts geniuses and had a chance to advance to Second Forging Grandmasters. Though the chance to become even the weakest Third Forging Great Grandmaster was slim.

Those who could reach nine meters at Tier One were considered Celestial Pride, and these Grandmasters had more than a ten percent chance of achieving Great Grandmaster status.

As for ten meters, that’s the realm of top-tier Celestial Prides since the ordinary limit for Tier One Martial Arts Grandmasters was ten meters, and the limit for Second Forging was twenty meters.

Yet, the Martial Arts Golden Body now appearing before Su Mu had already surpassed the twenty-meter limit.

"I see."

Su Mu felt something click in his mind.

If the first floor of Junlin Pavilion represented the Ye Family ancestor’s initial step into the Martial Arts Grandmaster realm, corresponding to Tier One of the Martial Arts Golden Body,

then this second floor corresponded to the Golden Body Second Forging.

"Could it be that the ninth floor will confront the Golden Body Ninth Forging of the Ye Family ancestor? Yet in the millennium-long development of human martial arts, no one has stepped above Fifth Forging in the Grandmaster Realm..."

"Perhaps the heritage was severed. A thousand years ago, the first batch of Martial Saints may have stepped into this stage. Maybe the information above Fifth Forging is now sealed."

Su Mu immediately thought of the slumbering Master of Endless Black Fog. Back when he acquired the Great Wilderness Four Forms of the Forbidden Giant, the Master of Black Fog attempted to eradicate him directly. Although unsuccessful, it did corrupt and seal the legacy of the Great Wilderness Four Forms.

Perhaps the Master of Endless Black Fog had a hand in this as well.

With thoughts flashing through his mind, Su Mu’s battle intent intensified as the Flame Gate in his Sea of Consciousness shook. A Martial Arts Golden Body grew with the storm, reaching twenty meters in an instant, and then continued to expand.

Thirty meters.

Forty meters.

Fifty meters.

Sixty meters.

After surpassing sixty meters, this Martial Arts Golden Body, perfectly matching Su Mu’s form, finally slowed its rampant growth, halting around sixty-five meters.

Long before Su Mu achieved the unprecedented status of Martial Arts Grandmaster, the Martial Arts Golden Body had directly broken through the norm of thirty meters for Third Forging Great Grandmasters, reaching an astonishing forty-eight meters, just a step away from becoming a Titled Grandmaster.

Later, during the battle with the Thunder God, he first realized the importance of the Martial Arts Golden Body. After completing the Golden Body Second Forging, he broke through the fifty-meter titled limit.

But afterwards, Su Mu more often utilized the Martial Arts Golden Body in Martial God State, where the immense amplification the state provided allowed even a Golden Body at Second Forging to reach a terrifying ninety-one meters.

At that time, Su Mu realized that a hundred-meter Martial Arts Golden Body was a significant barrier and now he seemed to understand it.

"A hundred-meter Martial Arts Golden Body... belongs to the realm of the Martial Saint!"

With his current state at Golden Body Second Forging, he had entered the sixty-meter realm. According to the last deducing from the Book of Destiny, with Golden Body Sixth Forging, he could possess the power to obliterate the Overlord Blade Martial Saint, whereas in previous deductions, at Fifth Forging, he needed to pay a certain price to slay the Overlord Blade Martial Saint.

"I, Su Mu, do not believe in the past nor in the future. I am the strongest of this era. In this lifetime, I do not need Fifth Forging; I only need Fourth Forging to reach such heights..."

Fourth Forging to impact a hundred-meter Martial Arts Golden Body!

At this moment, Su Mu set an astonishing goal for himself, one that, if spread, might lead the Martial Saints of the era to think Su Mu was insane.

Yet so what? Su Mu’s gaze grew increasingly resolute. If he couldn’t blaze an unprecedented path of martial arts, how could he reverse a destiny in the Book of Destiny deemed unchangeable!

"No, you are not him, who exactly are you..."

At this moment, a cold voice reached him, though the last half of the sentence was barely audible, as the Ye Family ancestor launched his assault.

Su Mu was momentarily stunned. In that instant, he wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but he seemed to sense a hint of confusion and puzzlement on the iceberg-like cold woman’s face.

There was even a trace of panic, which ultimately turned into violent, frigid killing intent.

Could it be that the Ye Family ancestor retained consciousness, not just a mere time imprint?

But Su Mu had no time to consider. The Ye Family ancestor, several tens of thousands of meters away, threw a punch, followed instantly by the Martial Arts Golden Body in a perfect mimicry.

This punch traveled amazingly fast, as if it pierced through time and space. The Ye Family ancestor’s twenty-meter Martial Arts Golden Body paled in comparison to Su Mu’s towering over sixty-meter one.