High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late-Chapter 99 - 98: Chief’s Custom Rewards, Rules Changed on the Fly

Chapter 99: Chapter 98: Chief’s Custom Rewards, Rules Changed on the Fly
"The ranking battle is the day after tomorrow."
"What kind of superpower will it be this time?!"
Su Mu is full of anticipation. He leaves ten thousand middle grade Spirit Stones as a backup and takes out the remaining fifty thousand or so middle grade Spirit Stones, piling them up into a small mountain, shining in the dark.
The outer edge of the wheel in the void lights up in a deep green, accelerating for a few seconds before slowing down. Meanwhile, a dazzling cyan light flashes, illuminating the entire dormitory.
This is the second time Su Mu has seen the cyan light, but it’s the first time for this superpower, as the cyan light appeared once before when the Pandora’s Box released the Secret Copper Essence.
[Quality: Cyan]
[Superpower: Coordinate Transmission (Special Type), activated by concentrating spirit, allowing transmission to the corresponding coordinate. The distance transmitted relates to the user’s spiritual power strength.]
[PS: Limited to use once a day, may accumulate until the superpower disappears.]
[PS: The place where the superpower holder leaves footprints is viewed as a coordinate and can be directly transmitted to!]
Coordinate Transmission?
Still only usable once a day, and can accumulate monthly.
Future Sight is a superpower related to time, while this Coordinate Transmission is related to space, and better understood as space transmission.
In an instant, Su Mu’s mind conjures a method of use.
"Let’s test the effect first."
Su Mu activates the ability, thinking of the Cultivation Hall location, and immediately a silver energy envelops him, but the process is not swift.
He counts two seconds in his heart, then a feeling of dizziness hits him.
When he opens his eyes again, he indeed appears inside the Cultivation Hall.
"Seems unfeasible."
"At least two seconds required to activate Coordinate Transmission, Tantai Yan won’t give me this chance."
Su Mu shakes his head, the two-second waiting time is too slow for battle, and he realizes this ability is unusable in the ranking battle.
Some abilities may be strong but not necessarily suitable.
"But in any case, good, relying entirely on strength!"
Throughout the long night Su Mu hasn’t gone to bed but entered the Meditation World, imagining Tantai Yan as a hypothetical enemy and envisioning possible situations in battle.
...
The next day, everyone gathers again in front of the fortress.
"Time waits for no one, after fifty days of training, I believe you’ve all improved your strength."
"Today will be the third round of assessments for you, and also the final round of assessment for this Gaoshan, Qianhai, Shenjiang Three Cities Joint Training Camp, the ranking battle."
"You came here for a common goal, the Blue Star Alliance’s preliminary contest, this time, the top thirty in the ranking will obtain qualification for the preliminary, representing the three cities in the Guangshen Province preliminary."
"In addition, the top one hundred will receive a special badge from the Three Cities Training Camp. Holding this badge not only provides you with a substantial martial arts bonus from your own city but also helps your future, for example, prioritization for official martial artist institutions, like the Martial Arts Association."
"However, compared to the top thirty rewards, these are nothing!"
Shi Hao deliberately pauses here, instantly arousing everyone’s emotions, all eagerly anticipating Shi Hao’s next words.
"This time, people from the three cities, and even Guangshen Province, will provide additional generous rewards for the top thirty in the training camp."
"Eleventh to thirtieth place, everyone gets three million lower grade Spirit Stones, a bottle of Sixth Level Elixir, and a choice of either a custom Sixth Level Weapon or a Sixth Level Martial Arts."
"Ranking tenth to fifth, each person is rewarded with five pounds of Spirit Marrow, two bottles of Sixth Level Elixir, one Sixth Level Martial Arts, and a custom Sixth Level Weapon."
"Third, fourth, fifth place, each person is rewarded with ten pounds of Spirit Marrow, three bottles of Sixth Level Elixir, a choice between a Grandmaster-Level Martial Arts and a Grandmaster-Level Weapon."
Spirit Marrow and the Grandmaster-Level Martial Arts act like bombshells, exploding across the venue.
"This time, even the top ten are rewarded Spirit Marrow, truly a lavish move, the last edition only provided this reward to the top five."
"A pound of Spirit Marrow can exchange for at least a million lower grade Spirit Stones, besides, on the black market, without certain channels, it’s even pricier!"
"Grandmaster-Level Martial Arts have already appeared for the top five, what a treatment, last edition only the top three had this privilege."
"The chief and deputy chief rewards haven’t been disclosed yet, could it be a Grandmaster-Level Weapon?"
Su Mu is also surprised, teacher Wang Shuheng mentioned the whole Shenjiang Martial Arts University has only three Grandmaster-Level Martial Arts, now the top two rewards haven’t been announced yet.
Here there are already three Grandmaster-Level Martial Arts.
A bottle of Sixth Level Elixir, at least worth a million lower grade Spirit Stones, surely the reward’s quality isn’t low, the price of a Sixth Level Weapon also starts at a million lower grade Spirit Stones, the value of Sixth Level Martial Arts is comparable to weapons.
Estimating this, even the top thirty rewards are at least worth six million lower grade Spirit Stones, approaching ten million, higher rankings offer even more."
At this moment Shi Hao coughs a few times, pressing both hands down, the venue instantly quiets, everyone longing to hear the last rewards for the chief and deputy chief."
"As for the deputy chief, the reward includes twenty pounds of Spirit Marrow, five bottles of Sixth Level Elixir, one custom Grandmaster-Level Weapon, one Grandmaster-Level Martial Arts, and a chance for ten days’ one-on-one guidance by a Grandmaster Martial Artist."
"Finally, the chief’s reward includes thirty pounds of Spirit Marrow, ten bottles of Sixth Level Elixir, one custom Grandmaster-Level Weapon, one Grandmaster-Level Martial Arts, Grandmaster ten-day guidance, and one access to the South China Governor’s Mansion to enter the Grandmaster Tower for enlightenment."
"Besides, the top thirty will receive the Martial Arts Association honorary member badge granted by the Three Cities Alliance."
Grandmaster guidance, Grandmaster Tower?!!!
For a moment, the entire venue erupts in chatter, many believe they misheard.
"The deputy chief actually gets individual guidance from a Grandmaster!"
"Did I hear it wrong? Shi Hao the instructor just mentioned the Grandmaster Tower?!"
"They say accessing the Grandmaster Tower increases the chance of advancing to a Grandmaster by at least ten percent."
"Was the last edition’s chief reward this plentiful?"
Someone couldn’t help but ask.
Little did they know, standing before them were Shi Hao, Xu Zhi, and Huangfu Xue, the top three from last edition’s Three Cities Training Camp, and Huangfu Xue, the top-ranked, pursed her lips.
The rewards for the top rank last edition were not as rich; there was not much difference in cultivation resources like Spirit Marrow, but the qualification for insight at the Grandmaster Tower was replaced by direct Grandmaster mentorship.
The reason for this is known to Huangfu Xue.
It’s because this edition produced a monster who could provoke the Martial Saint’s Will, Tantai Yan.
Huangfu Xue guessed that this top rank’s qualification for the Grandmaster Tower’s insight was tailor-made for Tantai Yan, and once made, it elevated the rewards for the runner-up and even others.
The original reward for the top rank became the reward for the runner-up.
"Su Mu’s luck isn’t bad, getting to enjoy the treatment of the former top rank."
...
Thirty pounds of Spirit Marrow, the Grandmaster Tower!
Hearing the discussions, Su Mu couldn’t help but feel excited; thirty pounds of Spirit Marrow was enough for him to complete the rebuilding of the remaining two Qi Blood Bridges and advance to a Fifth Level Martial Artist.
The Grandmaster Tower is even more astonishing; it can increase the probability of breaking through to the Grandmaster.
When the teacher mentioned the Grandmaster Realm back then, Su Mu could hear that even the teacher had aspirations for the Grandmaster Realm, Qi Blood Flower, Spiritual Flower, Martial Arts Flower, only with Three Flowers Gathering at the Top can one achieve Grandmaster.
A Grandmaster is a high tier martial artist within the martial artist realms.
In the vast Shenjiang City, there are only three Grandmasters, which shows how rare they are, a realm many martial artists strive for all their lives yet find hard to reach.
Su Mu knew well that his martial arts talent was not good, which is why he chose to cultivate the Third-Turned Refining Technique, precisely to increase probabilities of breakthroughs in later realms.
Right now, such a great opportunity is laid before him, how could Su Mu not give it his all!
...
Seeing everyone’s fighting spirit fully ignited, Shi Hao swung his arm widely, his voice reverberating through the venue with the infusion of Qi and Blood.
"I hereby announce, the third round of evaluations for the Gaoshan, Qianhai, Shenjiang Three Cities Joint Training Camp officially begins."
"The assessment will be divided into three groups simultaneously, determined through a draw, and the contests within the groups will also be decided by draw, each group will finally select ten people to enter the semi-finals."
"The current top thirty ranked can directly skip into the semi-finals, those thirty selected from the three groups will have one chance to challenge, they can choose anyone from the top thirty to challenge, if successful, they can swap rankings."
After hearing the contest rules, many quietly breathed a sigh of relief because there was a variable on the field.
That variable was Su Mu.
This person is currently ranked 100 but has instantly defeated You Ming, ranked third, becoming the most likely contender for the runner-up as guessed by everyone.
If the top thirty did not get a bye and ended up in the same group as Su Mu, thus encountering him early, they wouldn’t know who to appeal to.
Su Mu was slightly startled upon hearing the rules, vaguely feeling there was a targeting intent within them, realizing he should have exchanged tokens with You Ming back then.
"But it’s fine, I’ll just use it as a warm-up for the final battle."
Soon the contest list for the three major groups appeared, Su Mu was placed in the third group under Xu Zhi’s charge, immediately drawing schadenfreude glances from the other two groups.
"First match, number 100 against number 78."
As soon as Xu Zhi finished speaking.
A fat person emerged from the crowd, "I, I concede!"
Su Mu looked over, it was indeed the information-gathering liking fatty he encountered on the first day at the training camp.
The thirty skipping the round all focused on Su Mu’s side, wanting to see more of his moves, yet unexpectedly the opponent directly conceded.
The ranking battle continued.
"Seems like it won’t be much of a warm-up."
Su Mu sighed, as his opponents were all conceding.
"Last match, number 100 against number 88."
Su Mu looked over, quite coincidentally, it was Ling Xiaoyu whom he’d beaten up once before.
"I concede, Su Mu you go ahead, this time you ought to strive for first, I always said you had the skill for it, though others didn’t believe it!"
"Alright, I will." Su Mu nodded, smiling.
Due to Su Mu’s presence, the third major group became the fastest to decide victory amongst the three.
...
"I announce, the semi-finals officially start!"
At this moment, among the thirty skipping a round, apart from Tantai Yan, the smiles of the remaining twenty-nine froze, as they saw Su Mu approaching them, suddenly realizing a problem.
Su Mu is still that variable!
This person even has the opportunity to contend for the top rank; if he were to challenge others, it would almost be a lop-sided outcome.
A strange scene unfolded, the side skipping a round appearing more nervous and uneasy compared to the challengers, as though they were the ones challenged; a slight misstep and they would lose the qualification to enter the preliminaries entirely.
Shi Hao, Xu Zhi, and Huangfu Xue, the three main examiners quickly noticed the subtle situation, and their hearts skipped a beat, realizing their anticipated rules were still not perfect.
"Ahem, Su Mu, perhaps you should come to this side, you’re technically skipping a round too."
Shi Hao couldn’t care much at that moment, promptly adjusting the rules, fearing Su Mu might directly challenge Cui Jian or You Ming, the elimination of either speed talent would certainly make this edition’s training camp a joke.
With one sentence.
The majority of the top thirty on stage visibly relaxed, Cui Jian and You Ming included.
(The author hasn’t had much time for writing recently, today only two Chapters, will aim to complete ten thousand words tomorrow.)