I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 571: Officials Blocking the Road
Turning around and running away at this time would not be a wise choice. It would be tantamount to confessing one's guilt. How could Zhang Chen do such a stupid thing?
Besides, even if he wanted to escape, he had to see if he had a chance to fool the enemy. If he couldn't, he could then use thundering means to kill the enemy, and it would not be too late to break out of the encirclement.

"Passage permit!" The officer waved at Zhang Chen and his group.

Zhang Chen took out the pass and said to the officials, "Greetings, sirs. This is the pass for my family."

The officer was stunned when he heard Zhang Chen's accent: "An accent from the north?"

He then lowered his head to check Zhang Chen's pass and immediately confirmed that the pass in his hand was exactly the same as the information sent down from above. He could not help but be overjoyed: "It is my honor to have achieved the credit today. Someone, come and capture them for me! They are the traitors who left the Northland without permission. The master has sent down an order, and the pass they hold is exactly the same as the information sent down by the master!"

"Boy! You've been caught! You actually dared to disobey the order of the Dasheng court and leave the place of service without permission. You are finished! I advise you to surrender obediently, otherwise our swords are blind. If we chop off your heads, the higher-ups can't blame us."

Following the officer's order, the other officers took out their weapons and surrounded Zhang Chen and his group. However, before the officers could make any move, the ground suddenly collapsed and all the officers fell into the ground. Then the ground closed up, pinning several people's waists into the mud.

"God! You are God!"

The officers were buried in the ground from the waist down. They looked at Zhang Chen and his group in panic and roared in fear.

To mortals, gods mean the unfathomable and cannot be offended.

Hearing what the other party said, Zhang Chen tilted his head and looked at the frightened soldier: "Are you here specifically to arrest me?"

The leading officer said, "Please spare my life, sir. I am only following your orders."

Zhang Chen ignored the official and stopped the carriage. He walked towards a table not far away and saw several documents on the table. The documents actually contained information about Zhang Chen and his group's fake passes.

"How strange! How did the court know our information? We, mother and I, came out of the chaos and hid our identities. No one checked our passes all the way south. How did we suddenly get exposed?" Zhang Chen showed confusion in his eyes. He turned his head to look at the constables, waiting for their explanation.

The leading detective was so scared that his face turned pale: "Sir, I heard from someone that someone sent a message a few days ago, so the master had to give the order."

"Who delivered the message?" Zhang Chen's eyes flashed with a cold light.

The yamen runner said with a sad face: "I am only responsible for doing the work, how can I know the ins and outs of it?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen folded the document in his hand and put it into his sleeve, then drove the carriage away without killing the official.

Is the officer guilty?
Of course not guilty!
They had obtained a decree issued by the government, and they themselves were criminals, and it was the duty of the other party to search for them.

It is only natural for officials to arrest criminals. The guilty ones are the court and the person who issued the decree.

"You are kind-hearted. I thought you would take their lives." Cheng Yu said in surprise as he looked at the scenery going away.

"Every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt has its creditor. They are just innocent police officers." Zhang Chen said.

Now that he has seen his true nature, he certainly won't be so reckless and kill people indiscriminately.

The previous killing spree at Hupo Pass was purely out of necessity. If I didn't kill, I wouldn't be able to pass the pass.

"I'm afraid we're going to be in trouble. Our pass has been leaked. I'm afraid there will be countless officials blocking us ahead. Even the Dasheng court will be alerted!" Zhang Chen felt it was very troublesome.

"What should we do then?" Cheng Yu, who was standing aside, looked worried.

"What should we do? We just need to find a way to get a few more passes." Zhang Chen turned his head and looked into the distance: "What I want to know most now is who leaked the secret of our pass. If we don't figure this out, it will be useless even if we buy more passes."

Zhang Chen thought back to everything that had happened along the way and confirmed that the only flaw he had was the little boy who processed the pass. If the other party passed on his pass, he would be in trouble.

But after thinking about it, Zhang Chen felt that it was impossible. He had no hatred against the little boy, so there was no reason for the other party to smash his sign.
The family stopped in a dense forest and simply hid to cook. Then Zhang Chen told Zhang Fei to guard the carriage, and the next moment he disappeared from the spot.

When it appeared again, it had already arrived at the original Guangji Prefecture.

At this time, the sky had darkened. Zhang Chen stood outside Guangji Mansion. He took out the Mirror of Heaven and Earth and shone it towards Guangji Mansion. The next moment, the little boy appeared in the mirror. Then Zhang Chen locked onto the other party's position and used the earth escape technique to disappear on the spot.

Guangji Prefecture City

In a dilapidated courtyard, a young man was chopping firewood with great effort. After chopping a pile of firewood, the young man wiped the sweat off his body and walked into the house. He saw a blind woman with white hair sitting in the dark. The young man cooked rice porridge, blew it cool carefully, and put it into the woman's mouth. The mother and son talked and laughed in low voices, which was quite harmonious.

After serving the woman, the young man helped her onto the bed and into the water, then walked back to his own room. After he opened the door, he was stunned and almost dropped the oil lamp in his hand.

"It's you? The guest from that day?" The young man was stunned after seeing Zhang Chen's face clearly with the help of the flame of the oil lamp. "It's me!" Zhang Chen said with a smile, "Are you surprised to see me?"

"Of course I'm surprised! Didn't you leave on the big ship at that time? Why did you appear in my house?" The young man looked at Zhang Chen, his eyes full of vigilance.

"I'm wanted by the government, and the government knows my travel pass information accurately." Zhang Chen looked at the young man with his eyes.

"So you suspect that I leaked your information?" The young man frowned.

"If you colluded with the government when applying for the pass, you would not be without suspicion." Zhang Chen said.

The young man shook his head upon hearing this, but he did not lose his mind. Instead, he said carefully, "It's definitely not me. If I did something that would destroy my reputation, I would have starved to death long ago."

"Do you have any evidence?" Zhang Chen asked.

The young man said bitterly: "I didn't!"

Zhang Chen stepped out slowly and came in front of the young man. The young man's body seemed to be hit by a spell, fixed in the air without moving.

Zhang Chen glanced at the young man, then walked past him and headed to the next room.

The young man was furious: "What are you going to do?"

At this time, the young man regained control of his body and chased after Zhang Chen, but his speed was not as fast as Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen had already arrived in front of the woman. The woman was lying quietly on the bed and had fallen asleep under the influence of Zhang Chen's power.

Zhang Chen stood in front of the woman's bed. The young man was afraid that Zhang Chen would do something radical, so he stopped in his tracks and cried, "Please, don't hurt my mother! This matter really has nothing to do with me."

"I'll count to three. If you tell me everything, that's fine. But if you still don't tell me the truth after the three counts, don't blame me for killing you."

"One!" Zhang Chen counted and raised his left hand.

"No, I really don't know! I beg you!" The young man fell to his knees.

"two!"

Zhang Chen pressed his palm downward, his voice still as cold as frost.

"I beg you, I am willing to use my life to extinguish your anger. But I really don't know who leaked your pass information!" The young man's eyes turned red, veins bulged on his forehead, and snot and tears flowed down his face.

"three!"

Zhang Chen turned his head and gave the young man a cold look. The young man looked angry and said, "I don't know! I really don't know! Please!"

Zhang Chen slapped the woman's head without hesitation. The young man looked up to the sky with despair and roared angrily: "I don't know anything. What do you want me to say? What do you want me to say? Mother!!! I'm going to fight you!!!"

The young man stood up and suddenly pounced towards Zhang Chen, but at this time Zhang Chen's body disappeared out of thin air, and there was no trace of Zhang Chen anywhere.

"Mother!!!" the young man roared helplessly at the air.

"Xuan'er, why are you shouting so late at night?" At this moment, the woman on the bed suddenly opened her eyes and said in surprise: "Hey, I actually saw it? I really saw it?"

Outside the house

Zhang Chen frowned, "If it's not this young man, then what went wrong? Could it be that my mother and sister made a mistake during the few days I was unconscious?"

Zhang Chen was thoughtful. This was probably the only way. As for the Prince of Pingbian issuing a wanted order? That was impossible. The Prince of Pingbian was already in chaos. The Prince of Pingbian had no idea where his family was. He even thought that they had died in the catastrophe. Why would he do that?
"So we have to go back and carefully consider the actions of my mother and others in the past few days." Zhang Chen disappeared in a flash. As for the young man's mother's eye disease, Zhang Chen only gave her a ray of innate spiritual energy and used the blood control technique to control the other party's blood to open up the other party's meridians. It was just a small trick.

Although that ray of innate energy could not make her immortal, it had all kinds of incredible abilities. It could even allow the old lady to directly obtain the power of blood, and it was still unknown whether she could change her destiny.

As long as the opponent can absorb the innate energy before it dissipates, he will definitely master the power of blood.

The key is to see whether the innate power dissipates quickly or the other party absorbs it quickly.

"I am a great good man." Zhang Chen muttered to himself. He frightened the other party, but also cured his eye disease, and even prolonged his life, and even gave him blood power. Wasn't he a great good man?

(End of this chapter)