Chapter 582: Carrying Firewood to Put Out a Fire

"Betting with his own life, Mu Qingkuang is truly a ruthless man!"

Glaring fiercely at Mu Qingkuang, Liang Ruyue immediately rushed to Shen Yu's side, his face full of concern.

"My Lord, are you alright!"

"I'm fine, what could possibly happen to me!" Although he said this, Shen Yu could clearly feel a strange itch emerging from the abrasion on his hand, as if ten thousand insects and ants were gnawing at it.

Raising his hand to look, the palm had already turned a shade of cyan-purple, and even the blood seeping out had turned a dark purple-black.

"Liang Ruyue, take the men and fall back!"

"My Lord!"

"I said fall back!" Raising his hand to look at it, Shen Yu couldn't help but frown.

A poison that could infect even him without a sound—the toxicity of this poison was definitely not something Liang Ruyue and the others could withstand; it would be no exaggeration to say that to touch it is to die.

"My Lord, this is the antidote I have concocted!" Running over in a hurry from afar, Hua Wuyi gripped the antidote in his hand, his expression toward Shen Yu also full of urgency.

"The Lord has already neutralized most of the poison, and only now have you finished concocting the antidote? You're too slow!"

Rushing to Hua Wuyi's side and snatching the antidote from his hand, Liang Ruyue immediately said to him, "Quick, take a look and see what kind of poison the Lord has been struck with."

His nose twitching slightly, Hua Wuyi's expression changed drastically, "No need to look, this is my Hua Family's poison!"

"It's your Hua Family's poison again!" If it weren't for the fact that Hua Wuyi had previously swallowed poisoned blood to save the commoners and used himself as an experiment to concoct the antidote, which had earned Liang Ruyue's admiration...

... otherwise, at this moment, when Hua Wuyi said the poison was from their Hua Family, Liang Ruyue would have had the urge to slash him with a blade.

What kind of nonsense is this? Back and forth, it's always your Hua Family's poison. Even though few people from your Hua Family are involved, your mess is everywhere.

"Quick, fall back! This poison is violent. The blood seeping from the Lord's wound is dissipating into the air; even smelling it could lead to poisoning, and to be struck by it is certain death!"

"Your Hua Family's poison—is there an antidote?"

"There is no antidote!" Shaking his head, Hua Wuyi also looked tense, "Lord Liang, you should have heard of my Hua Family's Three Great Strange Poisons, right!"

"Nonsense, your Hua Family's Three Great Strange Poisons are known as peerless in the world; of course I've heard of them. Are you saying the Lord has been struck by one of the Three Great Strange Poisons?"

"That's not right!" Seeming to recall something, Liang Ruyue then shook his head: "Previously, one of your Three Great Strange Poisons, the Hansha Fragrance, couldn't hurt the Lord in the slightest!"

"That is because the Hansha Fragrance is only one type, while what the Lord has been struck with now should be a mixture of my Hua Family's Three Great Strange Poisons."

"When the Three Great Strange Poisons are mixed together, their toxicity is rarely seen in the world. According to clan records, once the three poisons combine, no one can survive."

Looking toward Shen Yu's direction, Hua Wuyi also wore a look of admiration, "That the Lord has managed to hold on for so long shows that the Lord's cultivation is already at its peak."

"Stop talking nonsense, just tell me, can this poison be suppressed!"

Glancing at Shen Yu, the cyan-purple color on his palm seemed to be spreading upward; the entire palm had almost turned cyan-purple.

This meant that even Lord Shen could not suppress this poison at all.

Although it appeared that only the palm had been invaded by the virulent poison, Liang Ruyue knew that strands of the toxin might have already spread through the blood to the entire body.

"I don't know!"

"You don't know? Aren't you the eldest young master of the Hua Family?"

"This, this..." Looking at the scene before him, Hua Wuyi was also somewhat anxious, but he seemed to have no good solution.

"The Three Great Strange Poisons are inherently lethal upon contact, and the mixture of the Three Great Strange Poisons is so violent that no one can resist it."

"In the clan's records, such a poison is supposed to cause death immediately upon contact with even a tiny bit. Once a person is dead, any so-called antidote is meaningless."

"Therefore, there is no antidote for this poison, and there is no need to concoct one!"

"You useless lot, you concoct poisons but not antidotes—what are we supposed to do now!"

Grabbing Hua Wuyi by the collar with one hand and lifting him up fiercely, Liang Ruyue's eyes turned blood-red from anxiety.

"Tell me what to do! It's your Hua Family's poison, yet you have no idea how to neutralize it—what use are you!"

"Wait, there is one more way!" Seeming to think of something suddenly, Hua Wuyi pulled open his own clothes and took a short blade, aiming it at his own chest.

"What are you doing? Even if you can't help the Lord, there's no need to self-mutilate, right?"

"Shut up!" Roaring at Liang Ruyue, Hua Wuyi gritted his teeth and plunged the short blade into his own chest; fresh blood flowed out along the blade.

His forehead was covered in sweat from the stimulation of the pain, but Hua Wuyi dared not be careless at this moment; he hurriedly channeled his Qi to force out his Heart Blood Essence, catching it in a jade bottle he carried with him.

"My Hua Family disciples are exposed to hundreds of poisons from a young age; we are trained to have drug resistance, and we have come into contact with many strange poisons, so the blood of the Hua Family can naturally suppress strange poisons."

"My Heart Blood Essence might be able to suppress it for the Lord!"

"Good man, truly a good man!" In his excitement, Liang Ruyue patted Hua Wuyi's shoulder heavily, causing Hua Wuyi to grunt in pain.

Almost forgetting that this fellow was now a wounded man, Liang Ruyue sheepishly withdrew his hand.

"My Lord, this blood!" Taking the Heart Blood Essence from Hua Wuyi's hand, Liang Ruyue hurriedly handed it to Shen Yu, while also glancing at Hua Wuyi.

Seeing that Shen Yu seemed reluctant to accept it, Liang Ruyue immediately stepped forward and knelt on one knee, saying, "My Lord, do not let Hua Wuyi's sacrifice go to waste!"

"I understand!" After taking the jade bottle, Shen Yu drank the blood inside in one gulp.

Soon, his body reacted. After entering his system, Hua Wuyi's Heart Blood Essence seemed to turn into a torrent, surging through his entire body.

The toxins he had trapped in his arm seemed to be stimulated, erupting all at once; in an instant, Shen Yu's entire arm turned cyan-purple, and it showed signs of spreading rapidly.

The sudden change and the pain surging through his body made Shen Yu unable to help but grunt, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"My Lord, how do you feel? My... how can this be!"

After Shen Yu drank the Heart Blood Essence from the jade bottle, Liang Ruyue had been observing him closely, fearing any unknown complications.

But this change came too quickly, and it was not a positive change, but clearly a deterioration.

Just a moment ago, only the palm had turned cyan-purple, but now the color was spreading rapidly; the arm, and even the shoulder and neck, were already showing the cyan-purple hue. It had reached a point where it could no longer be stopped.

Why was it like this? How could the Heart Blood Essence of the Hua Family's eldest young master have no effect at all?

"Hua Wuyi, what is going on?"

"A normal phenomenon. Lord Shen must be feeling it now—the poison in your body is completely unable to resist it anymore, right."

As he spoke, Hua Wuyi retreated, his face wearing a strange expression they had never seen before.

"Because my blood is not an antidote, but a poison even more toxic than the Hua Family's strange poisons!"

"Using my blood to suppress the virulent poison is like holding firewood to put out a fire—no, it's like pouring oil to put out a fire. The flames will only grow until they are completely uncontrollable; how could they possibly be extinguished!"