The Martial Master - 16 What?!

Looking at the starry sky, Su Min kneeled onto the drenched floor with fatigue. Numerous corpses sprang around him, wafting with a nauseous stench that would make anyone gag.

Su Min observed the beast for a while until, without warning, his pupils suddenly constricted with an intense shudder. A trembling glow rumbled on the blurry symbol on his chest as an intense lifeforce revealed itself in the beast.

Gasping, Su Min’s eyes quivered even more as streams of flakey blood rose and began to string together above the beast. The flakes assembled at an extreme rate and swished with viscosity whilst becoming denser and denser.

A surreal and beautiful sphere of blood formed above the beast. It seemed dense enough to form a liquid and wobbled in a strange fashion, emitting a fragrant smell.

Su Min eyes shuddered as a remarkable call welled out from the blurred symbol when the refreshing fragrance hit it, and with no hesitation, he shot forward and grasped at the dense lifeforce.

“GUH!”

An invigorating and strange feeling welled up inside of him as that blood seeped right into his skin and churned into the symbol. It was as if someone had grasped at his veins and had started to tug at them with a gentle but exhilarating clutch.

As this happened a golden light shrouded his chest and enveloped the blurred symbol, humming in roiling waves of a bizarre ancientness across Su Min’s body. Su Min found that all the lifeforce had gathered in his chest, but he wasn’t able to control the lifeforce at all. Instead, it seemed that the symbol had a mind of its own as a mystical sound started to reverberate through every inch of bone and muscle in his body.

A distinct crackling sound echoed from every joint and every muscle as his flesh convulsed in a peculiar fashion, beating in rhythm with his heart. However, a strange scene occurred as those convulsing muscles started to shrink at an alarming rate. They wriggled and churned in a monstrous demeanour that thrashed into Su Min’s mind, waking him from his reverie.

His expression turned to shock as a situation that was unknown to him occurred, yet he could do nothing about it even if he wanted to.

His body continued to squirm for an unknown amount of time until his once oversized and lofty muscles had condensed to a degree that they halved in volume!

Nonetheless, instead of becoming less distinct, a terrifying set of muscles that looked inhuman replaced them. Although they were now averagely sized, they were somehow so clearly defined that anyone would have to rub their eyes in disbelief to comprehend it.

It wasn’t just this, though, as a new ancient vitality started to emanate from them that seemed strangely noble. In fact, although it was faint, the ground beneath Su Min had unknowingly crackled for a split second.

The symbol on his chest flashed as if it had finished and released a burst of this aura in concentration. The aura didn’t seem to conform to reality as the colour around Su Min flashed golden, distorting the air in a peculiar fashion.It was just a flash, but it seemed to cause the world to shiver for just a moment.

“Uh?”

Su Min looked confused as he inspected his body with a strange expression. He found that neither his muscles fibres nor his bones were remotely golden, even with all that lifeforce disappearing. Instead, they seemed to have changed their structure as Su Min discovered that each of his fibres and bones carried a new faint and blurry symbol!

Su Min pondered until he decided to focus on one of the symbols in his right arm. However, when he tried to rouse the symbol it just proceeded to sit there with no response. He didn’t feel anything remotely unique about them, in fact, they seemed to be as plain as daylight.

‘I don’t remember this being in the technique. I guess I really need to get the complete inheritance…’

It seemed that no matter how much he tried he wouldn’t get an answer, so he sighed and rose back up with a swift motion. He patted his jacket to shed some of the blood only to find that it had none. He blinked before checking underneath the jacket, and found that no blood was there as well!

‘It absorbs blood? Pretty convenient.’

Not thinking too deeply, Su Min nodded with praise at the strange jacket, believing that it was right choice to take it.

He clasped his hands and strode towards the house with a steady and slow pace, as now that he finished the wave he might as well take a nap. He felt that he truly needs one.

However, fate didn’t seem to align with his thoughts as the door slammed straight open right in front of him with a metallic bang. A face filled with rage glared at him before staring at the background with eagerness. It seemed that he wanted to get out, so Su Min moved out of the way.

Pausing for a moment, Su Min spoke with the same emotionless tone.

“Congratulations in waking up.”

He was, of course, Qiu Jin, and paying no heed to Su Min he drove past him and into the corpse-ridden yard. Su Min yawned without a care as he walked in and found the same seat. Hunkering down, he placed the book onto the table and shut his eyes.

Yi Zan and the sword youth jumped in surprise when they saw the leaner build on him which gave off an odd feeling.

The sword youth grumbled with confusion as he stared at the muscles that seemed to surpass humanity. He couldn’t quite put his finger on it, but a strange atmosphere enveloped Su Min, almost like something noble, yet not quite…

Su Min didn’t seem dangerous nor threatening, it was just weird. As he was pondering, he heard a gasp outside as Qiu Jin ran back in whilst holding his breath.

He looked with disbelief at Su Min then at a corpse outside, emotions swelling.

“H-how?”

…

“Huff. Huff. Huff.”

A ragged man with a boney body breathed intensely under the piercing sun, shrouded with a dense creepiness. He wore a majestic necklace laced in silver on his neck and held a dagger that would bring uneasiness to any mortal.

A disfigured bite mark scraped down the arm that held the dagger, bleeding enough to drip streams. He bit his lips with pain, but within them shone with confidence.

Two men with even more fearful gazes ran up to him in a hurry and bandaged his arm. The man looked at the table in the sky with expectation as his lips curled into an eery grin.

“Let’s see if you can beat this… Dogshit genius!”

A few seconds only passed when a sudden rumble shook the sky as the whole list was lit ablaze with a black flash. The number one spot revealed itself under the flash and shone an even deeper gold, yet the man’s gaze became distorted as he saw it.

A deep and horrifying growl spewed out of his mouth, spitting at the air around him with saliva.

“What?!”