Immortal Martial Saint, starting with unlimited stat points

"The advisor?"

"County city?"

Upon hearing Yi Yan's explanation, the surrounding disciples' doubts vanished instantly.

Xingde County is located on the northern border of Xijiang County, and is at a lower-middle level among the many counties under the jurisdiction of Xijiang County.

Every martial artist who grows up here, as long as they are a true genius, will be sent by their family to the county city to learn more advanced techniques and meet more peer geniuses.

Now that Yi Yan has connections to introduce Zhou Chen to the sect in the county city, no one will question whether Zhou Chen has offended him.

They would only think that Zhou Chen was incredibly lucky to have such an extraordinary opportunity.

Shen Tian, ​​who was standing to the side, was taken aback upon hearing this, and a sense of regret arose in his heart.

But recalling that Yi Yan had only given Zhou Chen a little guidance earlier, and Zhou Chen's Crimson Flame Staff Technique had already broken through to the minor completion stage, he smiled with relief.

If he were to win the competition, at most he would be taken in as a personal disciple by the headmaster.

Although the Shen family is known as the fourth most prominent family in Xingde County, they only have a reputation because of their family business.

Compared to the Zhao, Li, and Chen families, they are still like rootless duckweed, which could capsize at any moment.

This "root" is the martial artist at the Enlightenment Realm!

Once one enters the state of enlightenment, the bridge between heaven and earth is opened, allowing one to draw upon the primordial energy of heaven and earth. From then on, one transcends the mundane and one's lifespan can be extended to one hundred and fifty years.

This means that in a small town like Xingde County, the Qi Opening Realm has provided shelter for their families for nearly a century.

For martial artists who haven't yet reached the stage of enlightenment, a hundred years is already their lifespan limit.

The three great families of Xingde are able to sit back and watch the rise and fall of the nation precisely because they have experts at the Enlightenment Realm.

His Shen family, no.

They didn't even have a cultivation method to break through to the Enlightenment Realm.

Therefore, he, the eldest son of the Shen family in this era, entered the Chiyan Martial Arts School at an early age, which was said to have a complete set of techniques for breaking through to the Qi Opening Realm.

Shen Tian pondered for a long time, then suddenly thought of Li Wuji, who had been seriously injured earlier that day.

He had heard about the conflicts between Li Wuji and Shi Feng and Zhou Chen, but he never expected that Zhou Chen would take the opportunity of the competition to stand up for Shi Feng, which clearly showed that he was a very loyal and righteous person.

He walked against the flow of people out of the martial arts school and rode his horse back to the Shen family home.

He knew that his aptitude was limited, and that without the right opportunity, he would never be able to reach the threshold of the Enlightenment Realm in this lifetime.

However, if a benefactor comes to their aid, everything is still uncertain.

Among the crowd, many eyes turned to Zhou Chen, filled with envy.

Hearing the discussions among the surrounding disciples, Zhou Chen understood how precious this opportunity was.

If we compare the Crimson Flame Martial Arts School to a county-level high school, then the prefecture-level martial arts school that Yi Yan mentioned is at least a provincial-level high school, and maybe even a key one.

The difference is significant.

"Disciple understands, and will certainly live up to the Master's high expectations." Zhou Chen bowed respectfully.

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Iron Stone Martial Arts School, west of the city.

In a bedroom filled with a faint smell of blood, a tall man with skin that gleamed like metal rose naked from the bed, his face showing a look of lingering satisfaction.

On the bed, the body of a young man with a broken neck lay in terror, as if he had suffered inhuman torture before his death.

"Has the cause of Li Xiong's death been thoroughly investigated?" Xiang Feng's voice was hoarse, tinged with displeasure.

Outside the door, a disciple who was attending him trembled and bowed to the inside of the house: "Instructor Xiang, the disciple who went to Cangsong Village has replied. Senior Brother Li... has not returned for many days. His house has also been ransacked. He is probably dead."

"boom……"

A massive, golden hand smashed through the door, grabbed the disciple by the neck, and lifted him into the air.

The attendant disciple, his feet dangling in the air, managed to squeeze out a few words, "Instructor Xiang, we have a guess about who killed Li Xiong, and I was just about to present you with his portrait."

"If he's dead, he's useless. Do you expect me to seek revenge for him?!" He raised the disciple to his side, and seeing that the disciple had a good appearance, his anger flared.

"Instructor Xiang..." The attendant disciple, seeing Xiang Feng's fierce eyes, was terrified and reached into his clothes to take out a portrait.

The portrait unfolded, revealing a handsome and robust man with striking features and sharp eyebrows—it was Zhou Chen.

"Hmm?" Xiang Feng stared at the portrait, then glanced at the disciple he was holding, and immediately looked down on him.

"Li Xiong was an inner and outer disciple of our martial arts school, but he was killed by evil people. As the head instructor of the school, I must seek justice for him."

"Where is this person now? What is their cultivation level? Has anything been investigated?"

The attendant disciple was thrown to the ground and knelt down in front of Xiang Feng, replying, "It has been found out that this person's surname is Zhou, given name Chen, and he is at the Bone Forging Realm. He recently joined the Crimson Flame Martial Arts Academy as an outer disciple."

"Crimson Flame Martial Arts School?" Xiang Feng frowned, sensing that this was somewhat troublesome.

If he had been to another martial arts school, he would have come to demand the person without hesitation.

However, the Crimson Flame Martial Arts School is notoriously protective of its own, and even an outer disciple is not easy to persuade.

Moreover, based on his understanding of his own martial arts school's disciples, Zhou Chen might not be the one who killed Li Xiong.

Most likely, they stumbled upon this person while investigating Li Xiong's whereabouts, and used him to please themselves, lest they be blamed if they couldn't find any results.

It must be said that although most of these disciples were good-for-nothings, they were extremely accurate in understanding his thoughts and nature.

Just as his thoughts were in turmoil, Zhou Chen's portrait came into view again.

"My breakthrough in Longyang Gong is imminent. As long as I obtain this person as my furnace and advance to the Refining Realm, the Crimson Flame Martial Arts School might not be able to do anything to me!" His eyes flashed, and he kicked the disciple.

"Go, I need to know his usual whereabouts."

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The inner disciples' quarters of the Crimson Flame Martial Arts School.

After the competition, Senior Brother Gao Tian led Zhou Chen into the inner courtyard of the martial arts school and issued him an inner gate badge.

Correspondingly, the house was moved, and a maid was assigned to handle daily chores.

At this moment, Zhou Chen sat in a grand chair, with a cultivation manual and several porcelain bottles on the table in front of him.

"Crimson Flame Scripture." He read the three large characters on the cover of the manual and slowly turned the first page.

The Crimson Flame Martial Arts School is named after Crimson Flame, not only because of its most famous Crimson Flame Staff Technique, but also because of this Crimson Flame Scripture.

"The Crimson Flame Scripture, when cultivated to perfection, allows one to use the flames of qi and blood to open the bridge between heaven and earth, achieving enlightenment!"

This single sentence is enough to demonstrate the value of the Crimson Flame Scripture.

Of course, the copy in front of Zhou Chen was just a rubbing, containing only the cultivation methods for the two realms of bone forging and internal strengthening.

With the lamplight dim, Zhou Chen calmed himself and carefully read through the contents of the chewing exercise.

Half an hour passed before Zhou Chen rubbed his eyes, closed them, and the meaning of the Crimson Flame Scripture surged into his mind.

【Red Flame Sutra: Beginner (0%)】

Looking at the Crimson Flame Scripture that had been added to the panel, Zhou Chen did not rush to start cultivating it.

Today's competition yielded results: in addition to being promoted to an inner disciple with the same treatment as a personal disciple, there were also four bottles of pills on the table.

Two of the bottles contained Bone Forging Pills; one was a reward for the champion of the competition, and the other was the monthly stipend of a disciple personally trained in the Bone Forging Realm.

The effects of this Bone Forging Pill are similar to those of the Qi and Blood Pill that Chen Yunpeng gave me last night; both have the effect of replenishing Qi and blood and accelerating the bone forging process.

Of course, the Bone Forging Pill is much more expensive, but its effects are also stronger.

As for the other two bottles, Shen Tian brought them to us that afternoon while we were practicing martial arts at the training ground, saying it was as an apology.

In addition, he was given a long red copper staff meticulously crafted by a master craftsman, far superior in quality to the crimson staff he was currently using.

Even so, the one he used most readily was the one he had pulled from the city wall in the old world.