Immortal Martial Saint, starting with unlimited stat points

The next day, the sun rose in the east.

The morning light had just swept across the Yunsong Mountains and fallen on Cangsong Village.

Zhou Chen's ears twitched slightly, and his spiritual tracking ability suddenly detected the sound of hurried footsteps and villagers' whispers coming from the village entrance.

At the village entrance, two martial artists with a strong sense of江湖 (jianghu, the martial arts world) style, dressed in official robes, were posting a wanted poster at the village entrance.

The notice was stamped with a vermilion official seal, not the official seal of the Xingde County Magistrate that the villagers had seen before.

Cheng Jue, the prefect of Xijiang, pressed six bright red seals onto the notice, exuding an air of authority.

"I've lived for sixty years, and this is the first time I've ever seen the seal of the Prefect. I wonder which vicious villain has caused such a commotion." The old scholar from another village hunched over, curiously examining the wanted poster.

In a short while, more and more villagers gathered around.

Aunt Sun, Qin Huo, the village head of Cangsong Village...

The villagers who hadn't yet gone out to work all gathered around, jostling and pushing forward, staring at the wanted poster.

"Why does this person on the notice look so familiar? He looks a bit like Xiao Chen." Although Aunt Sun couldn't read, the portrait on the wanted poster looked increasingly familiar.

"Village chief, could you read it to us uneducated folks?" said one of the illiterate people in the crowd.

Qin Huo frowned, took a puff of his pipe, and puffed out smoke, seemingly lost in thought.

Only when someone urged him did he begin to read it aloud, word by word.

The wanted notice essentially stated that Zhou Chen stole the official seal of Xingde County, causing the county town to fall, a heinous crime.

Anyone who provides clues will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver; if the clues lead to the capture of a major criminal, the reward will be 1,000 taels of silver and the person will be awarded the rank of a ninth-grade military officer.

"Just by providing clues, you can get a hundred or a thousand taels of silver?" Someone's eyes lit up as they looked at Aunt Sun with great interest.

He was not a native of Cangsong Village, but was rescued in Heifeng Village and joined the village later, so he was unaware of Zhou Chen's situation.

But he knew that as long as someone understood, that was enough.

"There's also the ninth-rank military officer. It's said that with this status, one's entire family can be exempted from taxes, and one can sit on equal footing with the lords in the city."

Immediately, lively discussions erupted at the entrance of Cangsong Village.

Only Aunt Sun, Qin Huo, and a few other elderly people from Cangsong Village who were familiar to Zhou Chen remained silent.

After the villagers finished reading, two yamen runners in official uniforms cleared their throats, and the scene immediately quieted down.

"This week, Chen came from your village; it's a great opportunity."

"A hundred taels of silver, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

"I...I have information to provide!" A thin man rubbed his hands together and looked at the two officers.

"A stranger came to the village yesterday, saying he was a distant relative of Zhou Chen. If we can catch him and torture him, we might get something out of him."

Upon hearing this, the two officers felt a surge of heat in their eyes, and their nonchalant attitude vanished.

"Quickly, lead the way."

After saying that, one man pushed through the crowd, while another lifted the skinny man like a chick and followed behind.

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"Big Bull, Big Bull!"

"Open the door quickly."

At the Zhou family mansion, Aunt Sun, panting heavily, knocked on the door and shouted, her words filled with anxiety.

Zhou Chen sat by the bed and remained silent for a while.

I thought that returning to Cangsong Village would allow me to enjoy a few days of peace.

Unexpectedly, the county government offices in Xingde County resumed normal operations overnight.

Judging from the江湖 (jianghu, a term referring to the martial arts world) habits of these two officials who came to post the wanted posters, they must have been selected from among the surviving martial artists.

Even at the speed of an ordinary martial artist, it would take many hours to get here, so these two must have been on their way last night.

All of these factors demonstrate the importance of the lost official seal of Xingde County.

Or rather, what's important is the Great Qian Dynasty's fortune within Xingde County that inexplicably merged into Zhou Chen's body.

"Creak..."

Aunt Sun knocked a few times, and the door opened, but the courtyard was empty.

"Da Niu, Da Niu, someone's here to kidnap Xiao Chen! You'd better hide in the back mountain!" Aunt Sun assumed Zhou Chen hadn't locked the door this time and went straight into the inner room.

She only realized that Zhou Daniu had already gone far away when she pushed open the inner room and saw no one there.

She patted her chest and hurriedly walked out of the house.

At this moment, the thin man led two constables to the door.

Where are they?

"Are you trying to trick us, kid?"

The two officers kicked open the gate, but there was no movement at all, and their mood plummeted.

Xingde County is currently in dire need of reconstruction, and many positions in the government office are vacant. If we can find this wanted criminal who was personally ordered to be arrested by the prefect, we can at least get a minor official position.

As for the person on the wanted poster who had saved their lives, that was none of their concern.

"This...this..."

The room was empty. The thin man trembled like a leaf when the two officers glared at him with murderous intent, and he fainted from fright.

"Damn it, coward!" The officer spat and cursed as he saw the man collapse.

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Meanwhile, Aunt Sun left Zhou Chen's house and went straight home.

She paced back and forth in the yard like an ant on a hot plate.

"Bang……"

A dark shadow fell from the sky with a dull thud.

"Mom, something is falling from the sky!" Sun Xiaohua shouted.

"What is this?" Aunt Sun walked closer and saw a bulging cloth bag.

The cloth bag fell from the sky, the knots binding it loosened, revealing ingots of gleaming gold.

"This..." Aunt Sun's hand trembled, and she subconsciously picked up the cloth bag.

She looked around, but couldn't find any trace of them.

"Is that Xiao Chen?"

No one responded.

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Zhou Chen moved as lightly as a swallow through the Cloud Pine Mountain.

Following the map of Xijiang County, one can cross the Yunsong Mountains to find the territory of Xingde County.

However, most ordinary people who want to leave Xingde take the other side of the official road.

Mount Yunsong is high and densely forested, teeming with strange beasts. Only those with exceptional skills and great courage can traverse it.

Now that Zhou Chen has reached the Enlightenment stage of cultivation, and is also equipped with the Spirit Tracking Divine Power and the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, he can compete with any enemy who has not reached the True Qi Realm, so he has nothing to fear.

Along the way, Zhou Chen frequently connected with the earth's veins beneath his feet to sense the movements of the entire Xingde County.

Inside the Xingde County government office, an incredibly powerful aura still lingered, unmoved.

Furthermore, there were a few slightly weaker auras compared to last night, perhaps indicating that powerful individuals had come overnight to reinforce the area after discovering the difficulty in finding the official seal.

"A bountiful year."

Several hours later, Zhou Chen looked at the two powerful characters on the tall stone tablet in front of him.

Xingde is located at the northernmost point of the Xijiang River; a little further south lies Fengnian.

After passing this monument, you will enter the territory of Fengnian.

On the back of this stone tablet, the words "Xingde" are also engraved.

The two counties are separated by this monument.

Zhou Chen stood in front of the monument and looked back at the vast, dense forest.

Tread!

In a few steps, Zhou Chen crossed the county boundary, and immediately felt that something was missing.

Previously in Xingde County, as long as he focused on connecting with the earth's veins, he could always sense the surrounding movements, even more clearly than with spiritual tracking abilities.

It was as if the ground beneath his feet had become his body.

But the moment you cross the county boundary, that feeling of being one with the land beneath your feet disappears.