Cultivating for Immorality: I Evolved Martial Arts into the Immortal Path – Chapter 4

Chapter 4: One Palm to Kill a Bear!

“Can I enhance myself?”

This thought suddenly occurred to Chu Liang.

He didn’t hesitate and immediately walked to the bronze mirror in his bedroom. By the dim light, he looked at his reflection.

In this life, his appearance was unremarkable, ordinary, just a bit more robust, with a bronze complexion, somewhat resembling a darker-skinned Louis Koo.

After looking for a long time, Chu Liang still didn’t get any information.

“It seems I can’t enhance myself.”

He shook his head gently, having anticipated this.

After all, even meat couldn’t be enhanced, and his body was made of flesh and blood.

Could it be that only non-flesh and blood things could be enhanced?

Chu Liang secretly guessed. He hadn’t fully understood the limitations of the Evolutionary Appraisal Mirror yet.

“I won’t think about this for now. I should deal with Third Uncle first.”

He first went to lock the courtyard gate, then returned to the main room. Carefully, he picked up the bottle of Corpse Melting Liquid and went to Third Uncle’s body.

Pop!

Chu Liang opened the stopper of the Corpse Melting Liquid.

Instantly, an extremely pungent smell wafted out of the bottle.

Chu Liang frowned. The smell was indescribable, so much so that he had to cover his mouth and nose with a piece of cloth.

“Gurgle…”

The murky solution flowed out of the bottle and slowly poured onto Third Uncle’s body.

Upon contact, the surface of the corpse began to sizzle and emit yellow smoke.

The melting process was quite slow.

After a long time, the entire body completely disappeared, turning into a pool of foul-smelling pus.

Chu Liang brought over a lot of ash from under the stove, covered the pool of pus with it, then shoveled it away, and finally dumped it into the outhouse.

Having done all this, he began to methodically clean up the bloodstains.

This night was very long.

It wasn’t until the sky began to lighten that Chu Liang finished cleaning up, restoring the entire house to its previous state.

“Whew…”

He let out a long sigh and lay down on the bed, waves of exhaustion washing over him.

He hadn’t rested all night, and coupled with the pain all over his body, he was nearing his physical limit.

Chu Liang closed his eyes, intending to rest for a while.

However, not long after, a knock came from outside the courtyard.

A visitor had arrived.

“Haha, A-Liang, I heard you chased away a bear yesterday?”

A rough laugh sounded from outside the courtyard.

This voice was not unfamiliar to Chu Liang.

Zhao Hu, also a hunter, a little older than Chu Liang.

He had also learned his hunting skills from the same old hunter.

In a way, Chu Liang and he were considered martial brothers, and their relationship should have been good, but… before the old hunter died, he left the hunting bow and several hunting dogs to Chu Liang, while Zhao Hu only received a few words of advice.

Zhao Hu had always held a grudge about this, and his relationship with Chu Liang wasn’t exactly great.

“A-Liang, open the door, it’s your Brother Hu!”

Outside the courtyard, Zhao Hu’s voice sounded again.

“I heard you got injured while chasing the bear, so I brought an old hen to help you recover!”

“Zhao Hu…”

Chu Liang frowned, got up from the bed, walked out of the room, and headed towards the courtyard gate.

He knew Zhao Hu had always wanted his hunting bow and those hunting dogs.

“What does this guy want? Does he want to see how badly I’m injured?”

He didn’t believe Zhao Hu had any good intentions.

Click!

Chu Liang opened the latch and pushed open the courtyard gate.

Standing at the gate was the tall and sturdy Zhao Hu.

Behind Zhao Hu were a few young men from the village, all learning hunting skills from him.

“A-Liang, are you alright?” Zhao Hu smiled, showing concern, as if he had genuinely come to visit Chu Liang.

“I’m fine, just a minor injury. I’ll be fine in a couple of days.” Chu Liang shook his head.

“Oh? A minor injury?” Zhao Hu looked him over. “Ha, I heard you were hit by that bear several times. I thought you were seriously injured!”

“The hunting dogs blocked the blows for me,” Chu Liang said calmly.

“Yeah, what a pity about those good dogs…”

Zhao Hu shook his head and sighed.

He changed the subject, holding up the old hen in his hand, and said with a smile, “It’s good that you’re not seriously injured. Take this old hen!”

“Thank you, Brother Hu.” Chu Liang didn’t refuse and took the hen from him.

“No need to thank me.”

Zhao Hu said, “We’re brothers, no need for formalities!”

With that, he laughed loudly and clapped Chu Liang on the shoulder, seemingly trying to appear friendly.

Thump!

The heavy palm landed on Chu Liang’s shoulder, making a dull sound.

Chu Liang’s body didn’t move an inch, and his expression didn’t change much.

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Seeing this, a strange look flashed across Zhao Hu’s face.

But he didn’t show much abnormality and said with a smile, “A-Liang, rest well. I’ll be going now.”

“Alright.”

Chu Liang, holding the hen, watched Zhao Hu and his group leave.

Zhao Hu and the others walked further and further away.

After they were far enough, a young man behind Zhao Hu whispered, “Brother Hu, I clearly saw A-Liang get hit by that bear several times yesterday.”

“Yeah, Brother Hu, I saw it too,” another young man added.

“A-Liang is probably done for, just putting on a brave face!”

“Brother Hu, don’t you want A-Liang’s hunting bow? Why don’t we just find an excuse…”

“Shut up!”

Zhao Hu’s face didn’t look good.

He had indeed come to test Chu Liang’s condition this morning.

He also initially thought Chu Liang was done for, but Chu Liang had taken his palm strike without budging an inch.

“Something’s not right. A-Liang’s face is so pale, he looks sickly, clearly seriously injured.”

Zhao Hu frowned, thought for a while, and said to his followers, “These next few days, all of you try to find ways to get information from the Chu family. I want to know the exact situation!”

“Okay, Brother Hu!”

“No problem, leave it to us!”

“…”

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At the courtyard gate, Chu Liang’s shoulder trembled slightly.

Pain!

He was indeed putting on a brave face.

“That was a heavy blow!”

Chu Liang endured the severe pain and took several deep breaths.

“I’ll just rest well these next few days. Hopefully, nothing goes wrong.”

By now, the sky was completely bright, a touch of rosy dawn lingering on the distant mountaintops.

The villagers were early risers, and many were already heading out with their farming tools.

Early morning was a good time for farm work. Once the sun was high overhead, it would be too hot to work.

Chu Liang turned around, preparing to return to his yard.

But just then, a roar suddenly echoed throughout the mountain village.

“Roar——”

Hearing this sound, Chu Liang’s heart trembled.

A wild bear!

“The bear is coming into the village!”

Someone shouted.

The entire village immediately descended into chaos. There were shouts, screams, and everyone was running around in a panic.

At the village entrance, a massive wild bear charged in.

“Another one?”

Chu Liang’s pupils contracted. Yesterday, he had nearly lost his life, and even several of his loyal hunting dogs had died, just to barely chase away one wild bear.

And the bear today was much larger than the one he had chased away yesterday.

The wild bear roared thunderously, extremely ferocious, standing over three meters tall when it stood on its hind legs!

“Run, the bear is here!”

“Run for your lives!”

The entire village was thrown into a state of panic.

Such a massive monster was impossible for ordinary people to fight. Once it caught up to you, death was the only outcome.

At this critical moment, a figure suddenly leaped out from the Hu Family Mansion in the middle of the village.

Instead of running away, that person charged towards the wild bear.

“Master Hu!”

“It’s Master Hu!”

Many villagers exclaimed.

It was a somewhat portly middle-aged man.

He moved with incredible speed, leaping several zhang in a single bound, arriving in front of the wild bear in an instant.

Then, he struck out with his palm.

Thump!

It landed heavily on the wild bear’s head!

“Awoo——”

The wild bear howled in pain. It couldn’t even withstand a single palm strike and fell heavily to the ground!

After falling, it twitched a few times and then stopped moving, completely still.

“It’s dead?”

This scene left Chu Liang deeply shocked.

One palm to kill a bear!

This is a martial artist!