No matter how they shouted, Ye Yu never stopped walking.
Under those eager gazes, he walked straight to the city gates. The restrictions left behind by those people immediately flared with light, trying to trap Ye Yu and the others within.
Ye Yu casually waved a hand. Endless Sword Qi erupted, instantly slicing those restrictions into tatters.
Seeing the restrictions lifted, the survivors fled desperately. Though their bodies had already begun to rot, even that could not stop their yearning to live.
The citizens who escaped the city looked at Ye Yu, thanking him profusely.
Ye Yu could not be bothered with them. He had destroyed the restrictions only to cause Great Flame some trouble, not because he had wanted to save them.
"Ye Yu, why not see this good deed through to the end and absorb the Nine Nether Blood Qi from our bodies too?"
"Exactly. I heard that when you suppressed the Nine Nether Blood Spring back then, you used your own body to absorb it. Seeing that you are all safe and sound now, that must have been the method, right?"
Quite a few among these people were cultivators. Otherwise, they would never have lasted until now. Naturally, they had also heard of Ye Yu's suppression of the Nine Nether Blood Spring.
Ye Yu could not be bothered to respond, but the people of Great Qin beside him could not hold back any longer. They rebuked, "What are you talking about? Do you not know what happened after Ye Yu absorbed the Nine Nether Blood Qi back then?"
His spiritual roots had been utterly destroyed, and he had become a cripple!
"So what? Isn't he fine now? Maybe it was precisely because he absorbed the Nine Nether Blood Qi that he achieved what he has today."
"That's