Immortal Martial Saint, starting with unlimited stat points

The next morning, Zhou Chen lit a fire and cooked the last of the pheasant and rice together, and ate his fill.

He immediately took his bow and arrows and headed towards the mountains.

Along the way, he would occasionally squat down to collect plants from the ground.

Last night, he specifically asked Uncle Sun how to cover up the bloody smell emanating from the dead prey.

Uncle Sun offered several solutions. One was to cover the prey's wounds with powders such as wood ash that could absorb and mask blood, thereby stopping the bleeding.

The second method was to use a tightly sealed animal skin bag to block out the smell. The third method was to collect some plants with pungent smells, rub them to extract juice, and then use the juice to mask the smell of blood.

After some deliberation, Zhou Chen could only choose the third option, since he couldn't find any readily available wood ash or animal hide bags.

Having solved the problem of the prey's bloody smell, Zhou Chen looked at the vast and boundless Cloud Pine Mountain with great confidence.

He followed the route he had taken yesterday to hunt the Cloud Pine Rabbits, remembering the other four rabbits from yesterday.

If he can hunt another one today and skin it, he only needs to wait until the county caravan comes to the village tomorrow to buy the fur and other goods, and then he will have money to exchange for rice and grain.

"Um?"

Zhou Chen frowned slightly as he examined the barely visible footprints on the rarely visited path.

But Yunsong Mountain is not his private property; this road was formed by other old hunters who walked it over the years.

"Perhaps other hunters are trying their luck?"

Zhou Chenshen trudged through the dew-soaked mud, his eyes scanning the surroundings like a hawk's.

He had been in this area yesterday and had a general impression of the scene.

Today, upon returning and verifying the findings with basic tracking skills, I discovered quite a few changes.

After walking for about fifteen minutes, Zhou Chen's nostrils twitched slightly as he caught a faint smell of blood in the fresh morning air.

Has anyone already caught any prey?

Without a second thought, Zhou Chen pinpointed the area from which the bloody scent was coming and chose to venture into the mountains in the opposite direction.

Suddenly, he squatted down, a look of surprise in his eyes, and discovered several more clumps of cloud pine rabbit droppings.

"Some of it has dried up and I don't know where it went."

At this moment, he was like a seasoned hunter, carefully examining every clue in the mountains and forests, without any of the impetuousness of a young hunter.

"Thump...thump...thump..."

Just as Zhou Chen was patiently searching for the Cloud Pine Rabbit's tracks, a strong tremor suddenly came from the ground.

Looking into the distance in the direction of the sound, many slender trees in the distance seemed to have been crushed by a giant object, with dust flying and fallen leaves scattering, making it impossible to see what had happened.

Zhou Chen's heart pounded. The sound grew louder and louder, and the giant thing that had broken trees was rushing towards Zhou Chen.

In an instant, he gasped and fled in a direction perpendicular to the path of the giant object's impact.

The creature that caused such a commotion, capable of snapping a tree as thick as a bowl, was definitely not one he could hunt down at that moment.

If they were to face each other head-on, the roles of hunter and prey would likely be reversed in an instant.

"I wonder who has provoked such a ferocious creature. They're probably in grave danger." He recalled the bloody smell he had just caught, which he suspected was closely related to the creature.

Amidst the smoke, a robust wild boar with brownish-black fur and red eyes ran wildly through the forest.

Even if there were small trees in front of it, it would not dodge or avoid them, but would crash straight into them, as if it had lost its mind.

The thick, mane-covered hooves churned up the mud, and the occasional roars shattered the tranquility of Yunsong Mountain.

But in front of the brown-black wild boar, there was a dark shadow.

The dark figure moved swiftly, occasionally leaping across trees for leverage, keeping pace with the wild boar behind it.

"What a beast! I just borrowed your den to hide from those persistent henchmen of powerful families and to ask for some food, and you're already acting so agitated." The figure in black broke a tree with his footsteps and sped away without even taking a breath.

He weighed the wild boar cub he had knocked unconscious in his hand, his words tinged with displeasure. "If I hadn't been so badly injured by those aristocratic lackeys, I could have killed this stupid beast with a single blow."

Just as he was lamenting that a tiger fallen into the plains was being bullied by dogs, a sharp pain came from his waist.

His clothes were instantly soaked with blood, which dripped onto the ground, further enraging the wild boar behind him.

"Damn it!" The excruciating pain from the reopening of his old wound made Du Chong freeze in mid-air.

In just a moment, the distance between them and the wild boar was reduced by more than half.

He could almost smell the stench of the wild boar.

"Fine, here you go!" Seeing the wild boar relentlessly chasing after him, he knew that if he continued to flee, his injuries, which had been improving, would worsen further.

In this way, the gains would outweigh the losses.

Du Chong tossed the wild boar cub down from his hands, then narrowed his eyes and spotted a figure frantically darting through the distant forest.

"If we can't get wild boar, it's not bad to have a hunter raise it." He licked his lips, a fierce glint in his eyes.

He immediately pushed off with his feet, and his figure instantly sprinted several feet away, rapidly approaching Zhou Chen.

Behind him, the robust wild boar that had found its cub paused briefly, then carried the cub to a tree and ran towards Du Chong again.

Having taken over its nest and stolen its cubs, it can't escape now, so it's trying to settle things peacefully.

If he really succeeds, Zhu Gangqiang's reputation in the outer mountains of Yunsong Mountain will be ruined. At that time, any monkey will dare to come to his territory and cause trouble!

A foul wind blew through the mountains and forests, and the ground trembled, startling all the animals, large and small, within a radius of several miles, who hurriedly fled back to their burrows.

The wild boar stopped for a moment, and Zhou Chen, who thought he had avoided the ferocious beast, noticed that the ground tremors had lessened. However, his heart was still pounding and he felt somewhat uneasy.

He couldn't help but look back, and saw the treetops along the roadside swaying incessantly, with a dark figure leaping and running among them.

Looking at the effortless way he leaped through the forest as if it were just drinking water and eating, his strength was definitely much greater than that of the most powerful martial artist he had ever seen—Uncle Sun.

Suddenly, the tiny footprints I saw when I stepped onto this path flashed back into my mind, and I remembered the farmers I met yesterday when I returned to the village saying that a group of people had chased a wanted criminal into the mountains.

Zhou Chen seemed to know the man's background.

"It's that wanted criminal!"

In this critical moment, Zhou Chen mustered a great deal of strength, taking each step further and faster.

"The person behind me is far more powerful than any hunter who hunts in the mountains. Now that he's following me closely, it's probably not going to be anything good."

Seeing that the figure behind him was still closely following him even after he changed running directions several times, getting closer and closer, Zhou Chen knew that this person was coming for him.

He rolled away and disappeared into the dense bushes beside him, his exposed skin immediately scratched by the rough branches and leaves.

However, with the bushes providing cover, it wouldn't be so easy for someone behind him to find his location.

"The trap that Uncle Sun mentioned the other day is nearby," Zhou Chen thought to himself.

No matter how powerful the prey is, the hunters in the mountains always have their own ways of dealing with it.