Chapter 229: Secrets Deep Within the Heart

"My Lord, the commoners in the city have suddenly been poisoned, and the toxicity is extremely difficult to deal with. The physicians in the city are at their wits' end; this must be the Hua Family's poison."

Not long after the news of Hua Wuyi's death at the State Yamen spread, Liang Ruyue hurried over to report the emergency.

Due to the time constraints and the urgency of the situation, he was drenched in sweat from running.

Currently, many commoners in the city have suddenly been poisoned. The toxicity is too violent, and those poisoned are wailing incessantly, in extreme agony.

Although no one has died from it yet, if this continues for long, these poisoned victims will undoubtedly die.

Liang Ruyue has already brought physicians to examine them; although the poison does not act quickly, it is extremely violent and difficult to handle, leaving the city's renowned doctors helpless.

At this rate, I fear it won't be long before people start dying from the poison.

The most critical point is that this poison seems to be contagious; two physicians have already been infected by the toxins while treating the patients.

"Lord Liang, no matter what, the Hua Family would never strike at ordinary people. Someone must be framing us!"

Upon hearing Liang Ruyue's words, Hua Wuyi was once again filled with anxious indignation.

This Black-Clad Guard with thick eyebrows and large eyes before him looks upright, yet he splashes dirty water on their Hua Family every single day. Does he really think he, Hua Wuyi, is made of mud?

As he spoke, Hua Wuyi looked at Shen Yu again, "My Lord, this must be someone trying to sow discord between the Hua Family and you, or perhaps some people are deliberately splashing dirty water on my Hua Family."

"Kid, who are you talking about?"

"Whoever it is knows it in their own heart!"

"Enough, both of you shut up!" Putting the book in his hand aside, Shen Yu immediately asked, "Liang Ruyue, what exactly is the situation?"

"My Lord, just this morning my subordinates reported that commoners in the West City were infected with a foul disease. The most terrifying thing is that the infected commoners rapidly infected everyone around them."

"By the time I learned the news and ordered my men to seal off the West City, no fewer than a thousand people had already been infected."

"I was worried it might be a sudden plague, but after diagnosis by renowned physicians, they are not infected with a plague, but have been poisoned!"

"The renowned physicians in the city say that such a strange and difficult poison can only be found in the Feng Family and the Hua Family in all of Xichuan!"

"My Lord, let me go and see!" Hearing this, Hua Wuyi also looked anxious and said hurriedly, "Whether it is the Hua Family's poison, one look will tell!"

"What are you going to see? You are a dead man right now, do you understand!"

As he spoke, Liang Ruyue hurriedly took a porcelain bottle from his bosom and placed it carefully on the table.

"My Lord, this is the blood taken from the poisoned commoners. The strangeness of this poison is something I have never seen in my life. Even without direct contact, it can poison people."

"While drawing the blood, one physician was contaminated by the toxins in the process and was poisoned by it!"

"What kind of poison is so fierce? Let me see!" Reaching out to take the porcelain bottle directly, Hua Wuyi opened the stopper on the bottle.

He did not care about Liang Ruyue's warning. If any poison could take him down, then he wouldn't be worthy of the surname Hua.

But when Hua Wuyi pulled out the stopper and a strange odor mixed with the scent of blood rushed into his nostrils, his expression changed drastically, and he stiffened as he spat out two words: "Ten Zombies!!"

"Ten Zombies? What is that?"

"It is the forbidden poison of my Hua Family! Although the toxicity of Ten Zombies is slightly inferior to the Three Great Strange Poisons for which my Hua Family is famous, the difficulty of dealing with this poison is far beyond what the Three Great Strange Poisons can compare to!"

"Even in the Hua Family, this is a forbidden poison that must never be used. The Hua Family has no stock of this poison, only the formula, and it is all top secret. How could it..."

Holding the porcelain bottle, Hua Wuyi's face was bloodless. It really was their Hua Family's poison; Liang Ruyue had not framed them.

"The Three Great Strange Poisons of my Hua Family kill upon contact and have no cure. But this Ten Zombies is different. It does not cause rapid death, but once it enters the body, it will rapidly spread and invade the whole body, turning the poisoned person into a Poison Person and a source of poison."

"Moreover, with this poison, one can be poisoned just by getting close. At the same time, after being poisoned, it makes people extremely painful. This pain is unbearable for ordinary people, and they are bound to struggle and wail."

"And when people are in pain and wailing, they will attract the attention of others, who will then come to investigate the situation."

"Then, these people who come over may be poisoned, and in the end, it spreads from ten to a hundred. In the end, it could even cause the entire city's population to die out!"

Speaking of this, not only was Hua Wuyi's expression ugly, but the expressions of Liang Ruyue and Shen Yu were also terrifyingly gloomy.

"That is why this poison is a forbidden poison. Although its reputation and toxicity are below the Three Great Strange Poisons, its danger is truly unique."

"Supposedly, even if the entire Hua Family were gone, we would never let this poison spread. Why would it appear in Anzhou City!"

"Stop babbling so much, just tell me, can you cure this poison?"

"This..." Shaking his head helplessly, Hua Wuyi sighed. That expression caused Liang Ruyue's heart to sink to the bottom.

I knew this eldest young master of the Hua Family was just for show; he really is useless and of no help at the critical moment.

"Lord Shen, Lord Liang, this Ten Zombies is concocted from ten types of strange flowers, ten types of exotic herbs, and ten types of poisonous insects."

"Every different ratio of the strange flowers, exotic herbs, and poisonous insects will result in different toxicity. If one rashly tries to detoxify it, I fear it will be counterproductive, causing the toxins to explode instantly and subsequently cost lives!"

"Then what should we do?" Liang Ruyue was truly anxious now. He could afford to wait, but those commoners could not, not to mention that this poison is damn contagious.

Their Hua Family is also something; why do you keep such poison formulas? Isn't this looking for trouble?

"Actually, this is not the most troublesome part!" After hesitating for a moment, Hua Wuyi spoke again, "The most troublesome thing is that this poison is Ten Zombies—'a centipede dies but never stiffens'!"

"What does that mean?"

"It means that even if the poisoned person dies, the toxins can still spread. If buried in the soil, it will contaminate the land and water. Burning it is even worse; the smoke and fire will make the toxins spread even faster!"

"In other words, even if people die, there is no way to deal with it? What kind of lousy poison does your Hua Family have!" Hua Wuyi's words made Liang Ruyue's heart, which had already sunk to the bottom, turn even colder.

Isn't this poison like a hedgehog, covered in thorns, making it impossible to even take a bite?

"What should we do now? This is your Hua Family's poison, you tell me what to do?"

"There is no better way. We can only try to control the poisoned victims first and must not let them infect others. After that, we must concoct the antidote as quickly as possible."

"Otherwise, the longer it drags on, the more people will be harmed, and my Hua Family will truly be unable to redeem itself even with a hundred deaths!"

"Sigh!" Holding the porcelain bottle, Hua Wuyi's expression was uncertain, his face full of worry.

"It's just that this Ten Zombies is truly difficult to deal with. Even if the Elders of my Hua Family join forces, I fear it will be difficult to concoct an antidote in a short while."

"Even if the top experts of the entire Hua Family come to channel their power to remove the poison, the results will be minimal, and even if successful, the consumption will be immense."

"With the strength of our Hua Family's Elders, even if they forcibly remove the poison with their power, they can at most remove it for one or two people. Any more than that, and they won't be able to hold on."

"Moreover, the Hua Family is thousands of miles away, so we cannot count on them. Now there is only one way."

Holding the porcelain bottle, Hua Wuyi gritted his teeth and drank the blood from the bottle directly.

"Hua Wuyi, what are you doing?"

"To be placed in a position of death and then find life—this is the only way now!" Gritting his teeth, Hua Wuyi forcibly suppressed the excruciating pain brought on by the toxin's invasion, veins bulging on his face.

"The poison of my Hua Family must naturally be borne by a member of the Hua Family. I will concoct the antidote and test the poison on myself; as long as I can succeed, those commoners will be saved!"

"A real man!" This scene moved Liang Ruyue slightly. "I misjudged you before; I never expected that a pretty boy like you would have such guts!"

"It's too late!" Shaking his head, Shen Yu's face showed not a ripple of emotion. Under the shroud of his Super Perception, he had already sensed the situation over there.

These ordinary people had no cultivation power at all to resist the toxin's invasion, so the toxicity took effect especially rapidly; already, some people could no longer hold on.

"These people poisoning them, I fear they are coming for me!"

"Coming for you, my lord?"

"Yes!" Gazing intensely into the distance, Shen Yu's expression was icy; Liang Ruyue could even see obvious killing intent on his face. It was clear that the lord was truly angry.

When the lord gets angry, the consequences are very serious; some people will likely have to shed some blood.

"In the entire Anzhou City, how many have the ability to forcibly extract poison for the commoners? With so many commoners poisoned and about to die from the toxin, tell me, should I save them or not?"

"They want to exhaust your cultivation power?" Instantly understanding everything, Liang Ruyue felt secret hatred in his heart. "Such audacity! My lord, you must not fall for it and give the villains an opportunity to exploit!"

"This is an open conspiracy! With so many people having the toxin take effect, how could I stand by and watch?"

Shaking his head, a flash of killing intent vanished from Shen Yu's eyes. "Besides, they have underestimated me too much. I will let them know what despair is!"