Chapter 98: Shock

"Where are the people of the Hu Family? Why have they all disappeared!"

Pursuing them all the way through the Hu Family Fort, Shen Yu finally looked up after another Huwe fell under his sword, only to discover that it seemed not a single person remained in the vicinity. The people of the Hu Family had either been killed by him or had scattered like birds and beasts.

It couldn't be helped; his combat record was simply too ferocious. Over a dozen Xiantian Experts, three Xiantian Perfection retainers, plus a hundred Huwe of the Postnatal Realm—that was practically all the combat power the Hu Family could muster.

Such a luxurious lineup would have been easy to handle even for the three great sects attacking Sanshui County. Yet, in his hands, they hadn't even lasted a moment before being slaughtered to the last.

As for the remaining people, let alone trying to stop him, they didn't even have the courage to stand before him. The servants here went without saying; if the highly skilled Huwe couldn't stop him, they certainly couldn't. They were only here to earn a living; it wasn't worth risking their lives.

Therefore, all along the way, what Shen Yu saw were either servants fleeing in all directions or maidservants scared witless; there were almost no resistors at all.

He had entered straight from the medicinal garden and had practically carved his way through the entire Hu Family. Yet, he hadn't seen a single one of the Hu Family's main members. Not to mention the Family Head, even the young masters and mistresses were nowhere to be found.

Don't think he wouldn't notice if they disguised themselves as servants; with Shen Yu's current keenness of sight, as long as they walked past him, it was absolutely impossible for him not to recognize them. This was strange; could this group have flown away?

"Wait!" At this moment, Shen Yu suddenly remembered the topographical map of the Hu Family Fort he had seen in Ye Yu's secret chamber; it seemed there was a secret passage in the Hu Family. Could these people have entered the secret passage, hoping to escape through it?

Thinking of this, a flash of brilliance shone in Shen Yu's eyes, and he immediately began to search for that secret passage. These culprits of the Hu Family were all stained with blood; not one of them would be allowed to run!

Following the description on the topographical map in his memory, Shen Yu arrived at the study of the Hu Family Head and quickly found the entrance to the secret passage.

Perhaps they had left in a hurry, as there were obvious flaws at the entrance outside the secret passage. However, he didn't care about this; in front of a Master of Mechanisms, any such mechanisms were all a joke.

After stepping inside, Shen Yu did not pursue rapidly, but instead carefully investigated along the way. Since this was the Hu Family's most important escape route, no one could be certain if there were extremely formidable mechanism traps inside.

What surprised Shen Yu, however, was that while there were mechanisms along the way, none of them seemed to have been activated. Perhaps they had left in such a rush that there simply hadn't been time.

Continuing along the secret passage for a while, soon, a pile of corpses appeared before Shen Yu's eyes, along with a blood-bathed figure holding a sharp blade, a look of madness on their face.

"Hu Family Head Hu Yingchun?" Shen Yu saw at a glance the middle-aged man lying in a pool of blood; that was the very Hu Family Head he had been hunting. The remaining people were the young masters and mistresses of the Hu Family.

Shen Yu counted; not one of the Hu Family's main members had escaped; it seemed they were all here!

Had the Hu Family been wiped out in one fell swoop?

"You..." Looking at the person before him, Shen Yu was just about to speak, but this person suddenly knelt on the ground.

"Father, Mother, your child has avenged you!" After saying this, the person drew their sword and slit their own throat; the entire process was so fast that Shen Yu hadn't had time to stop it.

Not until the figure fell beside the members of the Hu Family did Shen Yu react and hurry forward to check. On the body, Shen Yu smelled a familiar scent—a scent he had once smelled on Fang Ziyi.

According to Fang Ziyi, the reason he was able to successfully find the location of the Bliss Flower was that someone had helped him in the dark. Although he didn't know who it was and had once thought about pursuing the person, he had failed, but he had snatched a scent sachet from them and had kept it on his person ever since.

In that case, it was this person before him who had deliberately revealed the flaw to Fang Ziyi, allowing him to successfully find Qiancui Mountain where the Bliss Flower was planted.

Listening to the person's final words, they must have held a deep, blood-feud grudge against the Hu Family. The scene before him was clearly a hot-blooded story of someone enduring humiliation to eventually take revenge.

But for some reason, Shen Yu felt a sense of unreality in his heart, as if it were all a performance deliberately put on for him to see.

He shook his head and suppressed the doubts in his heart. Regardless, the Hu Family was considered finished, and the Bliss Flower matter was concluded satisfactorily; it hadn't been a wasted effort.

"System, Sign-in!"

"Sign-in successful, obtained the eleventh level of the Golden Bell Shield!"

"Damn, not a bad harvest!" Shen Yu had long since witnessed the utility of the Golden Bell Shield. If he hadn't had such a hard-body Cultivation Method to protect his body, he might have been hacked into several pieces long ago.

With the Golden Bell Shield reaching the eleventh level, Shen Yu felt he could easily control his entire body's muscles; when hard, they were as firm as steel, and when soft, they were as supple as cotton.

Even the weak point on his body was reduced to only half an inch, and his entire body was impervious to blades, spears, water, and fire. Every movement carried immense power, as if he possessed ten thousand catties of force in every gesture, and the True Qi within his body surged accordingly.

Gathering his strength, Shen Yu emerged from the secret passage and searched the Hu Family Fort inside and out once more to ensure there were no fish that slipped through the net. It was only then that Fang Ziyi arrived in a hurry with his men.

When they reached the Hu Family Fort, everyone was dumbfounded. The gates of the Hu Family Fort were wide open, and the interior seemed devoid of people. The vast Hu Family Fort was already covered in blood; looking around, there was not a single person to be seen.

We were just busy detoxifying, and this County Magistrate has already wiped out the Hu Family?

And when they arrived at the medicinal garden, even Fang Ziyi, a Silver Badge Constable who had seen his fair share of the world, could not help but feel extreme shock at the situation inside.

There were at least a hundred people lying in pools of blood here; even though they were already dead, the lingering aura emanating from their bodies still made one's heart palpitate.

"Are these the experts of the Hu Family?" Looking at the scene before him, Fang Ziyi became somewhat uncertain.

These people looked quite imposing, but judging by the situation here, it seemed they had been killed directly without even resisting. Could such weaklings, killed in a single move, really be called experts?

The Hu Family should have earned massive amounts of gold and silver relying on the Bliss Flower; with the resources bought by so much gold and silver, one would think they could cultivate countless experts. How did it feel like they were so fragile they couldn't withstand a single blow?

"Lord Shen, Lord Shen!" At this moment, Fang Ziyi happened to see Shen Yu passing by and hurriedly walked up to look him over, fearing that he had suffered some serious injury.

But after observing carefully, Fang Ziyi realized his worry was completely unnecessary. Far from being injured, the man's clothes didn't even have a single wrinkle. Are you sure you came here to kill people?

Looking at Shen Yu carefully once more, Fang Ziyi asked somewhat uncertainly, "Lord Shen, did you really kill the people here?"

"That's right!" Shen Yu nodded at Fang Ziyi and then said indifferently, "The medicinal garden here basically contains all the experts of the Hu Family, including three Xiantian Perfection, over a dozen Xiantian Experts, and the rest are all of the Postnatal Realm!"

Speaking of this, Shen Yu was still somewhat dissatisfied. "I thought this Hu Family was how formidable, daring to claim to be the number one noble family in Sanshui County. They were just a bunch of rabble, unable to withstand a single blow; they didn't even manage to let me warm up!"

"What?" Hearing that there were actually Xiantian Perfection experts here, Fang Ziyi was immediately shocked. If their Capture Gate men had gone head-to-head, they probably wouldn't have lasted a quarter of an hour.

What do you mean unable to withstand a single blow? Big brother, those are Xiantian Perfection experts, not cabbages on the street. You call such experts rabble? Then what does that make them, ants?