Tao Ping followed the rules and sent the Life-Death Contract and Chen Kai's corpse back to his family.
Chen Yuan continued practicing martial arts, as if the person he'd beaten to death were someone unimportant.
The man had come knocking to die, so naturally Chen Yuan hadn't gone easy on him.
As for family bonds and all that, Chen Yuan had come from another world in someone else's body. He didn't feel a thing.
No, actually, beating Chen Kai to death had felt pretty good. He could count it as revenge against his birth family.
The next day.
Chen Yuan woke to the sound of a commotion. He stretched, threw off the thick quilt, got dressed, and walked outside.
The autumn frost came with a bitter wind, and the passes and rivers lay cold and desolate.
The chilly wind slipped in through his collar, but it only made him feel refreshed. His vigorous blood and qi made him impervious to the cold.
He quickly spotted the source of the commotion. Li looked like a shrew with her hair hanging loose, shouting herself hoarse as she argued with his aunt. Her voice was piercing.
When Li saw Chen Yuan, he saw her too. In an instant, she turned her fury on him and shrieked, "Chen Yuan, you have no heart! That's your younger brother! How could you be so cruel? You beat your own brother to death. Do you even know that?"
Li's eyes turned red in an instant. This was what it meant for enemies to meet.
The reason she had only come to make a scene now was that, when she'd first learned her son was dead and seen Kai'er's corpse, grief had overwhelmed her and she'd fainted on the spot.
Chen Yuan walked up and said blandly, "I