Chapter 214: I Will Do My Utmost

"Who is there?"

Just as Lu Feiyan was about to deal a lethal blow to Mo Li, a sword appeared in advance, pinning Mo Li directly to the stone slab.

The sudden appearance of the sword made Lu Feiyan extremely uneasy; today's events, and everything regarding her identity and so on, absolutely could not be leaked.

Before obtaining absolute power, she had to be absolutely low-key.

However, upon seeing who the person appearing before her was, Lu Feiyan fell silent. Not only was the person before her someone she could not afford to provoke, but she feared she would not be able to leave at all.

"I originally thought that once Xue Muchen died, things would end there; I didn't expect there to be a fish that slipped through the net!"

"Shen Yu!" Her red lips parted slightly, and she spat out these two words with difficulty. This name alone seemed to carry a weight of ten thousand jun pressing down on her shoulders, making one feel a sense of oppression from the inside out.

Only when truly facing him did one know how terrifying the person before them was. His aura was like a bottomless abyss, making it so that no matter how one looked, one could not see the end.

"Are you here to kill me?"

"Yes!" He nodded. Facing this woman, Shen Yu did not even have the interest to draw his sword. If such a person were worth him drawing his sword, then his sword would be far too worthless.

"No, Shen Yu, you won't kill me. Grandfather left me many secrets; you must want to know these secrets, so you absolutely will not kill me!"

"Little girl, don't be too confident. The secrets you speak of, I have already seen them completely, just now!"

"You!" Shen Yu's words made Lu Feiyan wake up in a start, her expression becoming uncertain.

"So the reason you didn't appear just now was because you were prying into my memories?"

"Yes. You are just like your grandfather, fond of nonsense. Moreover, your flaw is too great; two personalities constantly switching—this is your greatest flaw!"

"Prying into your memories was easier than I imagined!"

Walking forward slowly, Shen Yu gently raised his hand. A terrifying Sword Intent brought waves of suffocating sensation, making one feel only endless terror.

"Perhaps you once endured countless hardships and are indeed worthy of sympathy, but the you of now absolutely deserves to die. Do you even remember how much blood is stained on your hands?"

"For someone like you, it is better to leave this World early!"

"Heh, if you want to kill, then kill; why bother being so hypocritical on the side!"

Closing her eyes, Lu Feiyan waited quietly; she did not want to show even a hint of cowardice in front of others.

She had once groveled and begged for pity in front of others, but she only received more humiliation. She knew then that others would not spare you because of your begging.

Things like pity do not exist.

Her final dignity, she could not lose.

"I know I have caused many people to die, but I only wanted to live; what is wrong with that? I have experienced so much; I only wanted to live the life I wanted to live; what is wrong with that?"

"Precisely because you have experienced hardships, shouldn't you do your best to help more people avoid the same suffering? Instead of just blindly taking revenge on everyone like you are now."

"Heh, Shen Yu, have you ever encountered everything I have suffered? You only know how to speak a bunch of cool, detached words from on high!"

"Not knowing the suffering of others, why bother standing here and saying a bunch of high-sounding nonsense!"

Even though death had already shrouded her, Lu Feiyan remained stubbornly unwilling to admit defeat, especially when facing Shen Yu, the man who killed her grandfather.

Regarding Shen Yu, she had always held him in contempt. People like him, who had never experienced setbacks, never knew the suffering of people like them.

They did not know that in this World, living itself was a difficult matter. And all she wanted was to live just a little bit better!

"Shen Yu, everyone says you are chivalrous and righteous, that you love the people like your own children, and that you are a sincere and good official, but in my eyes, you are actually nothing more than that!"

"The hardships we have suffered, you have never endured. Even the impoverished life of an ordinary person you have never experienced. Do you know how difficult it is for people like us to want to live!"

"You have always looked at others from the perspective of a bystander. You are noble, you are righteous, and we are lowly, we are evil!"

Her face, with eyes tightly shut, was full of disdain. What chivalry and righteousness, what eliminating harm for the people—it was nothing more than the winner being the king and the loser being the villain.

The winner is the hero, the loser is the villain, nothing more!

"By what right? By what right can you be free from worry about food and clothing, be safe and happy, and be high and mighty?"

"By what right must we suffer such tribulations, wailing and begging every day yet unable to receive a shred of pity?"

"Shen Yu, tell me, by what right? According to your logic, I have been hurt by others, I have been hurt by this World, and I still have to dedicate myself to this World? Am I sick, or are you sick!"

"Everyone is afraid of you, holding you up high; they don't dare to offend you, so naturally, you can say whatever you want."

"But I am not afraid of you. Although I want to live, I am not afraid of death. I just want to tell you, who do you think you are!"

"You are right, I am indeed nothing!" Raising his head again, he did not want to say high-sounding words, but if he didn't shout a few lines, wouldn't it seem like his style wasn't high enough?

All along, Shen Yu had been leading by example, practicing chivalry and righteousness, punishing the treacherous and eliminating the evil. Wherever he passed, those victims would all clap and cheer.

But when it really came down to it, for him, it seemed that 'signing in' was his true love; the so-called chivalry and righteousness were more like an incidental byproduct.

It was truly ironic. He never felt he was a bleeding heart, but thinking back carefully, some of the things he shouted were indeed nauseating.

If he didn't shout a few lines when eliminating evil, he would forget what his original intention was. He couldn't just say, "I am here to eliminate you on behalf of the System," could he!

Perhaps Lu Feiyan was right. When one day these things fell upon himself, he would also be like the other party, completely turning dark and taking revenge on the World.

However, at this very moment, he was still himself, still that person with a bottom line and pursuits. The people he killed were all people who deserved to die, including the Lu Feiyan before him.

Shen Yu himself admitted that he carried a bit of utilitarianism when doing these things. But when he did all this, he had a clear conscience; he killed those people calmly and with righteous indignation!

His hand fell heavily. Throughout the entire process, Lu Feiyan did not offer any resistance, as if it were her final stubbornness. Of course, even if she had resisted, it would have been of no use.

After one palm strike, Shen Yu turned and left directly, never looking back again. Once this palm fell, everything here would inevitably be reduced to dust.

"Bang!"

After Lu Feiyan died, in a distant mountain forest, inside a palace hidden deep in a valley, a jade cup beside a middle-aged man suddenly shattered, causing him, who had originally been closing his eyes, to wake up suddenly.

Along with the several people sitting cross-legged around him, they all opened their eyes one after another, and a bit of panic inevitably appeared in each of their eyes.

"Destroyed?"

The jade cup shattered, proving that yet another layout in Xichuan had been destroyed in one fell swoop.

Previously, He Yuan was captured, and those people behind him who were stirring up trouble were also mostly dead, and even that person in the Hidden World seemed to have been wiped out.

Now, even the grandfather and granddaughter Xue Muchen had died at Shen Yu's hands. How much time had passed, and this game of chess had already been mostly destroyed.

"Years of planning, lost in a single day. Shen Yu, it must be him; he has truly ruined our great cause!"

"Great Hall Master!" At this moment, one of the subordinates suddenly spoke, "Shen Yu is a very clever person. We must immediately erase all our traces. I am not willing to face such an expert head-on."

"However, we should also take some action. If we let him continue like this, I fear he will become a second Mu Zishan, and by then..."

"A second Mu Zishan?" A flash of ruthlessness flickered in his eyes, and the middle-aged man in the lead crushed the armrest of the sandalwood chair beside him.

"No matter what, we cannot let him become a second Mu Zishan."

"Those people will not listen to our grievances; they only care about the results. If the results are unsatisfactory, you should all be clear about what awaits us!"