Douluo Continent: Starting from Awakening the Vermilion Bird Martial Soul

The next morning.

While Di Hong and Tang Yuehua were having breakfast on the first floor, the people at the next table were talking about what had happened yesterday.

"Have you heard? Yesterday, the city defense troops and the Spirit Hall people searched the entire city."

"I heard that three Soul Masters have gone missing."

"How come they've disappeared again? This happens every year, just for one night, and now they're not even searching anymore."

Listening to their back-and-forth conversation, Di Hong roughly understood what had happened last night.

However, he was very curious about who could make three Soul Masters disappear without a trace. Who had such ability?

The strongest Soul Master in Flower City doesn't have any powerful forces or sects. The strongest one is just the City Lord of Flower City, who is currently only a Soul Emperor-level Soul Master.

After finishing their meal, he and Tang Yuehua continued to stroll around the city. After a night of searching, the city had returned to its former prosperity, and everyone acted as if nothing had happened, going about their business as usual.

Tang Yuehua asked out of curiosity.

"Three Soul Masters went missing yesterday. Aren't you worried?"

The person being asked looked completely indifferent.

"The missing person is a Soul Master, I'm not a Soul Master, what do I have to worry about?"

"Besides, this kind of thing happens every year."

"However, Madam, you should worry about yourself. After all, no one knows if those people will target you."

After saying that, the man left.

Tang Yuehua stood there in deep thought. From the man's words, it was not hard to tell that the other party seemed to only target Soul Masters and would not target the civilians in the city, so they were not worried.

But then she thought of the little flower girl outside the city whose mother had also disappeared. Could there be a connection between the two?

However, the girl's mother was not a Soul Master.

They asked several more people, and they were all basically indifferent. However, the Soul Masters felt a little scared, afraid that they would become the next target. Some Soul Masters even didn't want to stay here anymore.

Although the city defense forces and the Spirit Hall stopped their search, they significantly increased patrols within the city, and even strengthened security at the city gates, conducting rigorous searches on all personnel and carriages entering and leaving.

Just then, Tang Yuehua saw two familiar figures.

"Big brother, second brother."

Seeing the familiar figure not far away, she and Di Hong walked over.

Hearing a familiar voice behind him, Tang Hao turned around and looked over.

"Yuehua, Dihong?"

He was somewhat surprised to run into his sister and brother-in-law here. Huacheng was more than two thousand miles away from Tiandou City.

"What are you doing here?" Tang Xiao asked.

“Yuehua and I are traveling, and Huacheng is our first stop,” Di Hong explained.

"what about you?"

“Let’s talk over there,” Tang Xiao said, pointing to a tea stall not far away.

The four arrived at the tea stall, sat down, and Tang Hao spoke first.

"My elder brother and I were entrusted by the highest administrative official of Andong Province to come to Huacheng for investigation."

"The Soul Master has gone missing?" Tang Yuehua asked.

"Hmm." Tang Xiao nodded.

"That's right, it's about the disappearance of Soul Masters. Since Hua Yang became the city lord of Huacheng, people have gone missing almost every year. At first, everyone thought it was bandits, but even after the bandits were wiped out, people still went missing."

"At first, they were all ordinary people from the surrounding villages, but in the last ten years, Soul Masters started to disappear."

"The Spirit Hall is also investigating this matter."

"But after ten years of investigation, neither side found anything; those people seemed to have vanished into thin air."

If it were just an ordinary person who went missing, the Spirit Hall would definitely not care. But it's different when it involves a Soul Master going missing. They have to investigate, which is why there were Spirit Hall personnel and city defense troops searching last night.

The highest-ranking official of Andong Province knew that such an investigation would not uncover anything. Just then, Tang Hao and Tang Xiao arrived, so he appointed the two to investigate. In fact, he suspected that the person who did this was the City Lord's Mansion.

After all, only the City Lord's Mansion in the entire Flower City has this capability.

However, without evidence, he could not make a hasty decision, after all, the other party had made contributions to the empire, and was also a Soul Emperor.

The importance of Soul Masters is self-evident.

"Vanished into thin air?" Di Hong recalled the words of the city defense general last night. Obviously, the general knew the man's approximate size. If he knew, how could he have failed to find him for so many years?

Could it be a decoy?

It's just released to mislead people.

"Did you find anything when you came yesterday?" Tang Hao asked.

Tang Yuehua shook her head: "We didn't find anything. We just came to admire the flowers. But when we entered the city yesterday, I learned that a girl's mother had gone missing, and three Soul Masters also went missing yesterday."

“We know all of this.” Tang Xiao shook his head; they had no way of investigating now.

He and Tang Hao came in a private capacity, so it was impossible for them to go to the city lord's mansion to investigate.

Chapter 111 Surveillance

Chapter 111 Surveillance

Tang Hao and Tang Xiao had absolutely no leads. As for the City Lord's Mansion, they couldn't get in at all, and even if they did, they wouldn't be able to gather any useful information. They were certain that Hua Yang already knew they were coming.

Perhaps someone is secretly watching them.

After finishing their tea, Tang Hao and Tang Xiao got up and left to continue their covert investigation.

Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, Di Hong fell into thought.

"If I'm not mistaken, this matter is definitely related to the City Lord's Mansion."

"If it was the city lord's mansion that did it, then why did they conduct such a large-scale search last night?" Tang Yuehua asked.

Di Hong chuckled.

"If we don't make a big fuss, how can we clear ourselves of suspicion? After all, no one would think that the City Lord's Mansion would do such a thing."

"If it was probably the City Lord's Mansion that did it, then why would they secretly abduct Soul Masters?" Tang Yuehua wondered again. The City Lord's Mansion's strength didn't seem to have increased at all. There had to be a reason for secretly abducting Soul Masters.

Otherwise, why do this?

We can't just kidnap Soul Masters because we don't like them.

That city lord's mansion is far too petty.

Moreover, through her investigation, she discovered a pattern: Soul Masters only go missing during this period each year. After the Hundred Flowers Festival, no more Soul Masters go missing, and all the missing Soul Masters are from outside Huacheng, not local Soul Masters.

Furthermore, the Soul Masters who were abducted generally did not have high Soul Power; they were mostly Soul Masters to Soul Venerables.

Even if civilians go missing, they are all civilians from outside the city.

This largely reduced the panic among the city's soul masters and the general public.

Di Hong was also puzzled. Why would someone secretly abduct Soul Masters, and for ten years at a time? If they came once a year for ten years, how many Soul Masters must have been abducted?

These abducted Soul Masters never reappeared, not even their bodies; it was as if they had vanished into thin air.

"Could it be that someone in the city lord's mansion is cultivating using evil methods?"

That was all he could think of; there was nothing else he could think of. Although the Black Lotus Martial Soul wasn't a top-tier Martial Soul, it wasn't an evil one either. It was called the Black Lotus because there were black lines on the lotus flower.

If one were to use evil methods to forcibly enhance their strength, it shouldn't be like this. The evil methods he knew of mostly involved burning one's life force to forcibly increase one's strength. Of course, some martial souls are inherently evil.

Isn't Bibi Dong's martial soul an evil martial soul?

Her martial spirit is evil, but she herself is not evil.

The reason she became like that later was purely due to her experiences, having that kind of teacher, and the fact that when she was most helpless, the person she loved most not only didn't appear but also left her. However, this was largely due to Qian Xunji, because Yu Xiaogang had no idea what was happening.

After such an experience, it would be strange if she didn't turn to the dark side.

Moreover, Hua Yang is only a Soul Emperor now. He spent twenty-three years cultivating from Soul Sect to Soul Emperor. This doesn't seem like he has practiced any evil techniques.

"Does the city lord have a son or a daughter?" he suddenly asked.

Tang Yuehua shook her head: "I don't know, we'll find out if we ask."

Suddenly, Di Hong sensed someone watching them from the shadows. Following the direction of the gaze, he saw a vendor looking in their direction. As soon as his eyes met the vendor's, the vendor immediately left in another direction.

Tang Yuehua glanced at it.

"I'm going to find out about the city lord's mansion. You follow that person."

Now that she had encountered this situation, she naturally couldn't just sit idly by. If the real culprit wasn't caught, even more people would suffer in the future.

So the two split up. Since Di Hong was too conspicuous, he naturally couldn't follow him directly. He first locked onto the man's aura, then a Vermilion Bird feather appeared in his hand. With a flick of his finger, the feather flew out and landed precisely on the man.

Only after the person had walked far away did he get up and follow.

The man walked to a secluded spot, where he found himself in an alley. After looking around and confirming that no one was there, he prepared to climb over the wall to leave.