Gu Sheng carried the bear carcass but did not head toward Gu's Manor. Instead, he found a hidden mountain cave to process the bear carcass, waiting until nightfall to bring it back to the manor without attracting attention.
He had no intention of revealing that he had hunted another black bear.
This didn't align with the typical combat abilities of a Refining Skin Realm martial artist. Encountering an injured ferocious tiger once might be plausible, but repeatedly hunting wounded large beasts would easily arouse suspicion.
With the Great Success Snake Breath Skill, Gu Sheng could easily avoid the patrols of the manor's martial artists.
In actuality, the patrol frequency in the outer manor was extremely low, and many martial artists wouldn't patrol this area at all. Otherwise, during the previous wolf pack attack on the village, they wouldn't have reacted so slowly.
Night deepened.
Gu Sheng returned home and took a deep breath, a lingering unease in his heart.
