Cultivating for Immorality: I Evolved Martial Arts into the Immortal Path – Chapter 124

Chapter 124: The Unopenable Stone Door

Those who are capable get the opportunity.

If you can’t keep it, then it’s not called an opportunity, but a disaster that will take your life.

Hu Luózi was unwilling. If he could completely obtain that opportunity, let alone the Skin Tempering Realm, he could even hope to break through to the Tendon Tempering Realm or even the Bone Tempering Realm.

But Chu Liang appeared out of nowhere and directly intercepted his opportunity.

Perhaps it was karma. Hu Luózi had been a bandit for so many years, intercepting countless people, and in the end, he became the one who was intercepted.

“If I tell you, can you spare my life?” Hu Luózi held onto a glimmer of hope. Life was the most important thing. As long as he was alive, there was hope for everything.

“I can.” Chu Liang nodded.

“You have to swear an oath!”

“Alright.”

Chu Liang followed his request and made a simple oath.

Only then did Hu Luózi feel relieved and began to explain the origin of this opportunity.

Originally, he was a guard at a medicinal herb shop in the prefectural city. His life was fairly stable. If no accident had occurred, he would have lived his life in this ordinary way.

Until one day, a herb-gathering villager suddenly came to the medicinal herb shop, saying that he had found a stone door in the mountains. The stone door was very heavy, and no matter how much force he used, he couldn’t push it open.

Hearing this news, the people in the medicinal herb shop were immediately interested.

This villager must have encountered a fortuitous encounter!

They went one after another. Following the villager’s directions, they found the stone door in a very hidden valley.

There was a token-shaped indentation on the stone door, obviously requiring a specific token to open it.

The others tried one by one, but none of them could budge it.

Finally, Hu Luózi stepped forward to try.

“I also failed, but I found a corner of yellow paper in the gap of the stone door. I pulled it out with great effort, and it was this scroll of the Blood Burning Technique,” Hu Luózi said.

At that time, Hu Luózi only had the strength of Three Strands of Qi and Blood, but after practicing the Blood Burning Technique, he could actually match martial artists with Four Strands of Qi and Blood.

The Blood Burning Technique could actually help martial artists fight above their realm!

This discovery made everyone in the medicinal herb shop ecstatic.

If a secret technique found at the entrance had such power, what kind of treasures would be behind the door?

In their excitement, everyone made an agreement and signed a secret pact, promising not to reveal this matter. They would find a way to open the stone door in the future and share the treasures equally.

As for that villager…

They killed him and threw him into the depths of the mountain forest, leaving his remains to be devoured by wild beasts.

“He gave you an opportunity, but you killed him?” Chu Liang asked.

“Yes, although he didn’t know anything, only the dead can keep secrets, so…”

Speaking of this, there was no trace of remorse on Hu Luózi’s face.

The path of martial arts is fraught with difficulties and dangers. The resources of low-level martial artists are all obtained through fighting and competition. If one is compassionate, it is difficult to go far on this path.

With the villager dead, only the people from the medicinal herb shop knew the secret.

But after all, too many people knew.

Within a few days, driven by greed, Hu Luózi ambushed and killed the strongest Four Strands of Qi and Blood expert in the medicinal herb shop, and then killed the other members one by one.

“Even if I didn’t kill them, they would have killed me one day, so I struck first,” Hu Luózi said of the past.

Later, he became a wanted criminal in the prefectural city, escaped from the prefectural city, and became a mountain bandit.

Relying on the Blood Burning Technique, he erupted many times, fought for several years, and gradually made a name for himself, becoming the feared “Scarface.”

Every time he became stronger, he would try to open the stone door, but each time ended in failure.

After so many years, the stone door remained unmoved.

It seemed that only by finding that token could it be opened.

“Where is that stone door?” Chu Liang asked him.

“It’s right here,” Hu Luózi replied.

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“Oh?”

“Look over there, where those vines are hanging down…”

Hu Luózi pointed to a patch of withered vines on one side of the valley.

The vines hung down from the mountainside, twisted and winding, hundreds and thousands of them, like burnt fingers, forming a patch that covered a large area of the cliff.

Chu Liang walked over and used his saber to push aside a large patch of vines.

The cliff behind was seamless and dark, and there was no sign of a stone door at all.

Hu Luózi explained, “After I killed those people, I came here specifically, carried a huge rock, blocked the entrance, carefully carved it, and made it blend in with the surrounding cliff. There are not many traces on the surface.”

“I see.”

Chu Liang’s eyes moved slightly, and he observed carefully.

Many bandits knew that Hu Luózi had a secret. The two vice-leaders had repeatedly tried to pry this secret from him, but they never imagined that this secret was hidden in this valley where they often rested.

Right under their noses!

After looking for a while, Chu Liang finally found an almost invisible gap.

“It’s quite hidden. If you don’t look carefully, you really can’t see it.”

Chu Liang spent some effort and took out the boulder.

A deep and quiet passage appeared before him. At the end of the passage was the stone door. The stone door was grayish-blue overall, with a token-shaped indentation on the surface, exactly as Hu Luózi described.

He let Hu Luózi walk in front, carefully probing, and did not trigger any mechanisms or hidden weapons. They walked all the way to the stone door.

“You are so young and need to use poison smoke to deal with me. It seems that you have not broken through to the Skin Tempering Realm,” Hu Luózi said. “At most, you have Five Strands of Qi and Blood, the same as me. You can’t push this stone door.”

“Is that so?”

Chu Liang carefully examined the stone door. After a moment, he let the two little rats try.

These two little rats were close to Five Strands of Qi and Blood. They were not weak. Although they looked small, they were quite strong.

The two of them rubbed their little paws and went up together, using all their strength. They were even squeaking, but the stone door didn’t budge at all.

“Sure enough.”

Chu Liang was not surprised. Even Hu Luózi, who used the Blood Burning Technique, couldn’t push it. The performance of the two little rats was normal.

You know, after Hu Luózi used the Blood Burning Technique, his strength was almost no weaker than that of an Early Skin Tempering Realm martial artist.

“Master, this door is too heavy!” Rat One shook his little paw.

“Let’s wait until we evolve again and become Ranked Great Demons before we try again,” Rat Two also said.

They were not far from the peak of their current realm. As long as they reached the peak, they could use the Evolutionary Appraisal Mirror to break through smoothly, unlike other demon beasts that would get stuck.

Chu Liang nodded slightly. “Yes, opportunities come to those who are fated. Perhaps now is not the right time.”

He had a good attitude. Being able to obtain a secret technique like the Blood Burning Technique tonight was already a pretty good opportunity.

He couldn’t ask for too much.

After saying that, he suddenly turned around, instantly drew his saber, and a flash of saber light appeared.

Crack!

Hu Luózi’s eyes widened, his face pale, and a thin line of blood appeared on his neck.

“You… you swore you wouldn’t kill me!”

“Yes, but I never believe in oaths.”

Chu Liang’s expression was calm as he wiped his cold blade.

“You also said that only the dead can keep secrets.”