Chapter 230: What Do You Mean?

"Everyone back up, back up!"

When Shen Yu arrived at the cordoned-off area, a series of miserable wails immediately reached his ears, so noisy they made one feel flustered and anxious.

A group of Black-Clad Guards had formed a line, their inner strength swirling and condensing into a wave of Qi that forced back those trying to rush out from within.

"What is going on here?"

"My Lord!" Upon seeing Shen Yu arrive, everyone seemed to have found their backbone and gathered around him one after another.

"My Lord, you may not know, but these commoners saw us seal off this place and assumed we intended to kill them to eliminate future trouble. Driven by the desire to survive, they are trying to break out."

"However, the virulent poison on these people is contagious. We had no choice but to use this method to hold them back!"

"Then did you not explain it clearly to them?"

"My Lord, we have already explained, but these commoners simply won't listen. Perhaps it is the bad impression left by the previous government."

Glancing at the commoners over there who were scrambling to their feet and still trying to rush this way, the Thousand Household in charge was also helpless.

"When the previous government encountered situations like plagues, they would simply kill everyone involved, so they believe we will do the same. No matter how we explain, it is of no use."

"I am afraid this impression cannot be reversed in a short time!"

"Understood, stand down for now!"

"Yes, My Lord!" Leading his subordinates to step back, the lead Thousand Household breathed a slight sigh of relief.

They were ordered to seal this place off; although this job did not involve fighting and killing, it felt even more exhausting than that.

There were screams everywhere, and even though they were Black-Clad Guards, they were still left feeling restless by these cries.

Moreover, those people, in extreme pain and near despair, all assumed that being surrounded here meant they were going to be dealt with.

No matter how much they wore out their tongues explaining, it was useless; these commoners would risk their lives to rush out despite the excruciating pain. In such a situation, even gleaming blades could not scare them.

But the key was that, facing these ordinary commoners, the Black-Clad Guards dared not act rashly. Having followed Shen Yu for a long time, they naturally knew his temper.

If they took action against bandits or villains, Lord Shen would say nothing, and might even reward them. But if you try taking action against ordinary commoners, you can see if your life is tough enough.

Furthermore, the poison on these commoners was truly too violent; even getting close could lead to infection, forcing everyone to be cautious.

Thus, although they had only been sealing this place for a short time, they were mentally exhausted.

Seeing Shen Yu at this moment, in their impression, there was nothing he could not solve. Since the Lord had arrived, the matter would surely be resolved!

"My Lord, be careful!" Seeing Shen Yu walk straight into the crowd of poisoned people, a person nearby could not help but call out a warning.

"It's fine!" Waving his hand at the people behind him, Shen Yu continued walking swaggeringly, not in the least worried that the poison would spread to him.

Underfoot as he passed was an old man who was nearly at his last breath, likely to stop breathing at any moment. It was evident that those who had been poisoned first were already unable to hold on.

Shen Yu placed his hand directly on the man, his powerful strength enveloping all the toxins and expelling them from the body in an instant, while simultaneously using the Sacred Heart Art to continuously nourish the body damaged by the poison.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the old man who had been at his last breath saw his complexion rapidly turn rosy, and he stood up in disbelief, even jumping twice on the spot.

"I'm fine? I'm healed, I'm healed!"

Before he could rejoice for long, Shen Yu threw him out of the crowd. If he kept jumping around here, there was no guarantee he wouldn't need to be saved again later.

The old man, thrown outside the crowd, shouted loudly in high spirits, as if to vent the palpitations of surviving a disaster. After he finished venting, he knelt outside, kowtowing to Shen Yu incessantly with a face full of gratitude.

"Save me, save me!" Seeing such a miraculous scene, everyone crowded around. They truly did not want to endure this pain that felt like it was in their very bones any longer.

"Get lost, save me first, I'm about to die!"

"Save me first, all of you get lost! A bunch of mud-legged peasants dare to block this young master? Do you know who this young master is!"

Pushing aside everyone surrounding him, a young nobleman who clearly possessed some martial prowess squeezed past everyone and rushed to Shen Yu's side.

"Save me first, quickly, there will be a heavy reward after you save me!!"

"Get to the back!"

"Presumptuous! Do you know who I am? Treat me first!"

"What a joke, do you know who I am!"

"Smack!" With a slap, he sent the young nobleman flying. If not for the need to detoxify so many people, Shen Yu would have even wanted to add a couple of kicks.

"Any Tom, Dick, or Harry dares to be presumptuous in front of me!" With a cold snort, Shen Yu said directly to the chaotic crowd, "Those with deep poisoning first, others wait!"

Faced with survival, the ugly side of human nature was displayed before his eyes, but Shen Yu was not annoyed by this. Everyone wanted to live, and such struggles were normal.

Under his control, his powerful strength made everyone quiet down immediately. Then, he slowly pulled the poison out of these people one by one.

First those with deep poisoning, then those with shallow poisoning, but there were too many people here, fully over a thousand, and he did not even have time to rest during this busy work.

Hua Wuyi was right; this poison was indeed extremely difficult to deal with, and completely eradicating it consumed a great deal of energy.

Ordinary experts would find it hard to maintain, and even he was panting after this continuous effort, his inner strength greatly depleted.

"I'm healed, thank you My Lord, thank you My Lord!" After saving another old man, there were now very few poisoned people left; with one more effort, his task would be complete.

Just at this moment, the old man he had just saved knelt before him and began kowtowing with a thudding sound. His forehead hit the floor with a loud noise, and within two knocks, his forehead was stained with blood.

"Old man, get up quickly, I cannot accept this!" Hurriedly helping the old man up, Shen Yu waved his hands at him repeatedly.

"No, My Lord, you deserve it. You are a person of noble status, yet you expend such effort for us common folk. I have nothing to repay you with, I can only kowtow a few more times, I hope you do not mind!"

As he spoke, the old man prepared to kneel again, but was grabbed by Shen Yu, "Don't, don't, old man, this won't do!"

"It will, how could it not! Lord Shen, do you know how long I have been waiting for you!"

At this moment, the old man suddenly looked up with a strange smile, and his chest instantly burst open; five-colored light rushed straight toward Shen Yu, like the color of sunlight shining through colored glaze.

The sudden impact caught Shen Yu off guard; his three-foot World was shattered under this light, and the protective Qi formed by the Golden Bell Shield also shattered a moment later.

Under this five-colored light, everything seemed to be eclipsed, and all of Shen Yu's defenses seemed as fragile as paper.

"Hero Blood!" Holding the antidote he had just prepared, Hua Wuyi, who was running over at high speed, saw this scene, and his expression changed drastically.

Before their eyes, it was as if the Milky Way had crashed into the ground, stirring up ten-thousand-foot waves, only to disappear completely in the blink of an eye.

For an instant, they seemed to see the most beautiful light blooming, mesmerizing yet involuntarily terrifying.

When all of this completely settled, Shen Yu stood there unharmed, save for a slight tear in his sleeve and a bit of skin scraped off his palm, from which a few threads of blood seeped.

"You must be Mu Qingkuang, to think you would gamble with your own life!"

Glancing at his own cuff, although he did not want to put on airs, Shen Yu still had to say one thing. To be able to damage his cuff, Mu Qingkuang was already proud enough.

"If I am not mistaken, you must have lost all your cultivation, otherwise it would be impossible to deceive me."

"Not bad, Lord Shen is indeed clever!" Straightening his back as much as possible, Mu Qingkuang said with a hint of pride, "Facing an expert like Lord Shen, I had no choice but to resort to this desperate measure."

"If I hadn't crippled my own cultivation, poisoned my body, cut open my chest to hide Hero Blood, and mingled among these poisoned commoners, how could I have gotten close to Lord Shen, and how could I have made you completely off your guard!"

"But I never expected that at such a close distance, and with you completely off your guard, even the Hua Family's strongest hidden weapon could not injure you!"

"Lord Shen truly lives up to his reputation; I have lost, and I am convinced of my defeat!"

"However, being able to injure Lord Shen is already my honor; I have no regrets!"

As he spoke, Mu Qingkuang looked at Shen Yu's cuff and saw the palm of Shen Yu's hand, which had only been grazed, and the corners of his eyes could not help but twitch twice.

The Hero Blood, regarded by the Hua Family as their clan-protecting treasure and never to be used unless the family faced the danger of destruction, had only grazed a bit of skin when the other party was completely off guard.

The way the Hua Family bragged about this really made one admire them!

"I forgot to remind Lord Shen, I quenched this hidden weapon with poison, the Hua Family's strongest poison!"

"Lord Shen, what did you think I was draining your cultivation for? It was precisely to leave your cultivation empty and unable to suppress this poison."

"By now, the toxin must have taken root in your body. My meridians are all severed and I will surely die; I have lost, but I have also won!"