Immortal Martial Saint, starting with unlimited stat points

Inside the Crimson Flame Martial Arts Hall, Zhou Chen was entirely crimson, like a boiled shrimp.

A faint, piercing sound of airflow could be heard from two fingers below his navel, in his dantian area.

Zhou Chen focused his mind on his dantian, which was neither flat nor stable. He manipulated the condensed qi and blood in front of the dantian acupoint, repeatedly impacting the acupoint barrier.

Once, twice, three times...

With each impact of Qi and blood, the barrier in front of the acupoints thins out a bit.

At this point, Zhou Chen would usually focus his mind and wait for the scattered and flowing blood and qi to condense again before launching another attack.

Half an hour had passed, and the temperature inside Zhou Chen's house was much higher than outside.

Suddenly, the sound of a babbling brook filled the room, growing clearer and clearer over time.

"Not enough!"

Seeing that he was still unable to break through the last barrier in front of the Qihai acupoint, Zhou Chen had a thought.

A light blue panel appeared before my eyes, and the artifact inventory still contained one intermediate-level breakthrough artifact and eight basic-level breakthrough artifacts.

One intermediate-level breakthrough relic should be equivalent to four initial-level ones. Based on this conversion, even the Crimson Flame Staff Technique, which currently has the highest proficiency, is difficult to improve to perfection.

Zhou Chen scanned the panel from top to bottom, his gaze lingering on the archery skill section, which hadn't improved in a long time.

Archery (Mastery, 12%)

The next moment, he steeled his resolve and said in a deep voice, "Add some archery skills!"

In an instant, the four initial breakthrough artifacts disappeared.

Archery (Minor Success, 6%)

Feeling the fleeting warmth within his body, Zhou Chen was not surprised at all.

Once you reach the Marrow Cleansing Realm, upgrading your rudimentary archery skills from mastery to minor mastery has a negligible impact on Zhou Chen's spirit attribute.

Now, with four primary relics consumed, the spirit attribute, which has exceeded the inner strength realm's value, remains completely unchanged.

Feeling the slight deficiency of blood and energy within his body, Zhou Chen's gaze remained firm.

"Another upgrade!"

As Zhou Chen's thoughts raced, the four low-level breakthrough relics and the mid-level relic he had just acquired vanished.

Instead, archery skills were elevated to a high level.

Archery (Mastery, 0%)

[Precision +0.1]

[Precision: 19.9 (0.2)]

Feeling the surge of qi and blood within his body, Zhou Chen suppressed the overwhelming realization of his archery mastery and focused all his attention on his body, launching another attack on the Qi Hai acupoint.

"Splash splash splash..."

Zhou Chen used up all his breakthrough relics in exchange for a 0.1-point increase in his spirit attribute, and the effect is already visible.

The surge of blood energy was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. The concentrated and refined blood energy rushed forward and finally broke through the barrier of the Qihai acupoint.

At this moment, Zhou Chen's blood and qi were like overflowing water, finally finding an outlet to release, pouring into his Qihai acupoint like a floodgate being opened.

In an instant, it flowed out again from the Qihai acupoint.

Zhou Chen's mind suddenly cleared, and he felt as if he had become an inflated balloon, with a small hole punched in his lower abdomen.

The power of Qi and blood flows through the acupoints, and a mysterious and powerful flow of Qi from the outside world adheres to them and surges into the body.

"Is this the true energy of an awakened martial artist?" Zhou Chen pondered to himself.

The vital energy travels through the body along with the blood and qi, then returns to the lower dantian, giving people an extremely comfortable feeling.

Just then, Zhou Chen suddenly sensed a strange change.

Within his psychic perception, a completely new aura suddenly emerged.

This aura is sometimes surging, sometimes quiet, like a mischievous child wandering through the outside world, omnipresent yet elusive.

At his Qihai acupoint, this energy slowly gathered and was drawn into him.

"Can the psychic ability sense the external energy?" Zhou Chen's eyes lit up.

As all martial artists in the Great Qian Dynasty know, although there is boundless primordial energy in the outside world, it can be detected by martial artists at the Qi Opening Realm and above, but cannot be seen.

Because it is invisible, the only way for a martial artist to sense the vital energy is to immerse themselves in it and practice.

The fact that Zhou Chen can perceive primordial energy through his spiritual tracking ability means that he can easily sense where primordial energy is gathered.

Such treasure lands may contain rare gems or greatly increase cultivation speed, offering countless benefits without a single harm.

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Just as Zhou Chen was carefully comprehending the profound changes brought about by breaking through to the Qi Opening Realm, a series of coughs came from the backyard of the Crimson Flame Martial Arts Hall.

Gao Tian, ​​who was waiting in the outer room, heard Yi Yan cough and quickly pushed open the door to enter the room.

"Tian'er, a martial artist who has awakened their potential has arrived at the academy!" Yi Yan's words were astonishing.

Upon hearing this, Gao Tian trembled. Even though he was not afraid of death, the power represented by the Enlightenment Realm still made him swallow hard.

"It's not that old man." Before Gao Tian could speak, Yi Yan shook his head again. "When I returned, I took great care to conceal my tracks, so I shouldn't be caught up with immediately."

"Who could it be?" Gao Tian asked in confusion, without pushing the door open to investigate.

If the outsider were truly an enlightened martial artist, he wouldn't have been able to detect their presence at all.

Yi Yan coughed a few times, spitting out a mouthful of black blood, and gasped, "It's probably those old fogies from those families. They've wanted the acupoint diagrams for my Crimson Flame True Technique for some time now."

Upon hearing this, Gao Tian remained silent.

The number of acupoints opened by a martial artist greatly affects their cultivation speed and strength.

The more acupoints a person has, the more times the energy can be exchanged with the external environment during each cycle of the practice, making cultivation faster.

When facing an enemy, the more acupoints one has, the more powerful the true energy one can mobilize and expel, and naturally, the stronger one's strength will be.

Therefore, every martial artist who has awakened their acupoints will painstakingly search for acupoint diagrams held by others, hoping to open more acupoints.

"If...those people break in...then you should hand over the acupoint map." Yi Yan leaned against the bed, his face sallow, his eyes filled with desolation.

Yi Yan was once one of the top talents in the county, but now he has fallen to such a state. It is truly a matter of fate.

"Master!" Gao Tiansheng's voice was tinged with sorrow.

At this moment, standing in the shadow of the high walls of the Crimson Flame Martial Arts School was a gaunt old man, none other than Li Mingde, the enlightened patriarch of the Li family who had appeared during the siege of the Wusheng Sect.

He squinted, his ears twitching occasionally, before finally opening his eyes wide after a long while.

"Why is there still an aura of someone at the Opening Acupoint Realm inside? And they're even cultivating the Crimson Flame True Technique?" He stroked his beard, somewhat suspicious.

He pressed himself against the wall and carefully sensed it for a moment, confirming that the aura of enlightenment was indeed there.

Li Mingde's expression changed drastically. He glared at the walls of the Crimson Flame Martial Arts School and said viciously, "Old Yi, you've got a good plan! You pretended to be seriously injured to lure me in, but I won't fall for it!"

He flicked his robes, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed.

As a disciple of the Crimson Flame Sect, a major sect in the county, how could Yi Yan be so careless? Being ambushed by his enemy must be an attempt to lure him into a trap.

Having figured out the key, Li Mingde leaped away swiftly.

In the other two shadowy areas, the enlightened ancestors of the Chen and Zhao families sensed the elusive enlightened aura emanating from the courtyard, their expressions shifting between light and shadow.

While acupoint diagrams are valuable, one should not let them cloud one's judgment, lest one's efforts backfire and result in more harm than good.

The two lingered outside the door for a moment, sensing the increasingly stable aura within the Crimson Flame Martial Arts Hall, before gradually leaving.