Douluo Continent: Starting from Awakening the Vermilion Bird Martial Soul

Baihua Mountain is not far from Huacheng, just to the south of Huacheng. The two are closely adjacent, and it can even be said that Huacheng is built against the mountain.

"Isn't Baihua Mountain the place where the Hundred Flowers Festival is held?"

Baihua Mountain is famous for its abundant blooms of flowers, making it the best place to appreciate flowers. The entire mountain is covered in flowers, and from the summit, one can see an endless sea of ​​blossoms.

"Do you have a map?" Tang Xiao asked.

"I have it here."

Tang Yuehua took out a map of Huacheng from her soul tool.

With the map unfolded, Tang Xiao immediately located the city lord's mansion.

"Look, the City Lord's Mansion is not far from Hundred Flowers Mountain."

The City Lord's Mansion of Huacheng is located in the south of the city, adjacent to Baihua Mountain. In fact, it can almost be said that the City Lord's Mansion is built at the foot of the mountain.

"Initially, the city lord's mansion was located in the east of the city, but after the new city lord took office, he moved the mansion to the south of the city."

Tang Yuehua pointed to the location in the east of the city on the map.

This makes people even more suspicious. Why would they relocate the city lord's mansion for no reason?

"We'll investigate later. You guys don't need to worry about this. Your job right now is to have fun." After eating and drinking to their hearts' content, Tang Xiao and Tang Hao left.

The arrival of the two aroused Hanayo's vigilance.

Listening to the report from the people he had sent out, Hua Yang's face showed no emotion, but his heart was in turmoil. He had expected that the provincial authorities would send people, after all, people had gone missing every year for so many years, it would be strange if the higher-ups didn't send people to investigate.

But unexpectedly, it turned out that the people who came this time were from the Haotian Sect.

It is common knowledge that the two disciples of Haotian Sect are out there training and doing chivalrous deeds.

Instead of the provincial officials, they waited for the two of them.

He's really unlucky.

Not only those two, but he also found out the identities of Di Hong and Tang Yuehua.

Di Hong is a prince and a confidant of Xue Ye. Tang Yuehua is the daughter of the sect leader of Haotian Sect and Di Hong's wife. At once, four ominous figures have arrived.

All four of them are currently under investigation.

Tomorrow is the Flower Festival, and he doesn't want any problems to arise at this crucial moment. Getting rid of these people as soon as possible is the most important thing.

There were four of them; he couldn't afford to offend any of them.

If they really find out, he'll be finished. Most importantly, they've started investigating his own son.

This is what alarms him the most. Whether his son is dead or not, others may not know, but he certainly does.

It seems we should tone it down; at least we should wait until they leave before making any decisions.

Chapter 113 The Flower Festival

Chapter 113 Flower Festival

On the day of the Flower Festival, the city was packed with people, and the main streets were crowded with people waiting quietly. After a long time, a huge flower float slowly drove in.

The float is about ten meters high and nearly twenty meters long, with three levels, each occupied by dozens of beautiful young women dressed in brightly colored costumes.

Each girl held a flower basket filled with petals, and as the float moved slowly forward, the girls threw the petals out of their baskets.

Beautiful petals fell slowly to the ground like a celestial maiden scattering flowers. At the same time, people on the street also threw out their petals, and in an instant, the street was covered with bright red petals. Di Hong and Tang Yuehua stood in the crowd, watching the huge flower cart slowly move forward.

Behind the floats, hundreds of masked boys and girls walked and danced, accompanied by a shower of flower petals.

Everyone was bathed in the rain of flower petals.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

Fireworks burst across the sky, and even though it was daytime, the dazzling fireworks were still clearly visible. After the fireworks, a rain of petals fell over the entire flower city.

Tang Yuehua watched all this, unable to contain her joy.

Looking at the rain of petals falling from the sky, Di Hong couldn't help but wonder how to clean up the petals all over the city after the Hundred Flowers Festival ended.

"Hong, look over there."

Tang Yuehua excitedly tugged at Di Hong's sleeve, then pointed to Hundred Flowers Mountain in the distance.

At the summit of Baihua Mountain stands an enormous, colorful lotus flower. The lotus flower was not there yesterday, but it suddenly appeared today. However, the giant colorful lotus flower has not bloomed; it is still closed.

Even Di Hong couldn't help but be amazed at how the people of the City Lord's Mansion had managed to create such a huge, colorful lotus flower in just one night.

A handsome young man standing nearby, seeing Tang Yuehua so excited, was immediately struck by her stunning beauty and graceful figure. But he soon felt a pang of regret, for he discovered that Tang Yuehua was already married.

"Madam, you may not know this, but that colorful lotus is not something that was just created; it has been around for many years."

"Oh?" Tang Yuehua was very curious.

"It's been many years, so why wasn't it here yesterday?"

The young man said, "The reason it suddenly appeared on the top of Hundred Flowers Mountain is because there is a mechanism at the top. Normally it is hidden in the mountain, but during the Hundred Flowers Festival, it is raised up and then blooms at night."

"When the lotus flowers bloom at night, they are accompanied by seven-colored light."

"Moreover, as it blooms, all the flowers on Hundred Flowers Mountain will bloom as well."

"Is that a soul tool?" Di Hong asked.

The young man glanced at him.

"That's one way to understand it, except that the lotus flower is made of petals, and a soul tool is placed inside it."

"Who are you, and how do you know so much?" Tang Yuehua asked.

The young man smiled smugly and said, "My name is Sun He. I am not talented, but my father was the designer of that colorful lotus."

Tang Yuehua covered her mouth and chuckled softly.

"I thought you were the designer."

Sun He looked embarrassed and then touched his nose.

"Well, I'll become like my father sooner or later."

"Then keep it up," Tang Yuehua said, offering him a little encouragement.

At this moment, Sun He composed himself and showed a hint of confusion.

"However, I am very puzzled as to why the city lord asked my father to design and supervise the construction of such a large colorful lotus. The number of petals used to maintain such a large colorful lotus is enormous."

"The flower petals scattered throughout the city today will all be collected after the Flower Festival ends. These petals will then be used to maintain the giant lotus, which will take a long time and be very expensive."

"How tall?" Di Hong asked.

Sun He said, "Let's put it this way, nearly half of the revenue from the entire Hundred Flowers Festival is used for maintenance."

Tang Yuehua was somewhat surprised. "That can't be right."

According to her understanding, although the Hundred Flowers Festival only lasts for one day, the income in that one day should be one million gold soul coins. Just maintaining a single lotus flower requires half of that income in gold soul coins? That must be two hundred thousand going into someone's pocket.

"That lotus flower won't cost that many gold soul coins, but the mechanism will."

"Don't be fooled by the fact that Baihua Mountain isn't very high; half of it was hollowed out just to design that mechanism."

"What I don't understand the most is that the city lord's son was buried in that mountain, and then the city lord carved out the mountain to build that thing."

"I see." Tang Yuehua finally understood. No wonder it cost millions of gold soul coins.

Di Hong looked thoughtfully at Baihua Mountain. The city lord's son was 'buried' on Baihua Mountain, but the city lord also spent a huge amount of money to hollow out half of Baihua Mountain to build a mechanism. In his personal opinion, this was a disturbance to the deceased.

Especially since he was her only son.

As a father, he shouldn't have done that.

Unless he's covering something up, the best way to conceal it is not to conceal it at all, but to let everyone know. Just tell everyone what the situation is like at Baihua Mountain, and naturally no one will doubt what's going on there.

When the Spirit Hall and the provincial authorities conducted a joint investigation, no one bothered to investigate that place because there were no secrets there.

There's no need to investigate if there's no secret, and no one will suspect a dead man. After all, the city lord's son has been 'dead' for so many years, his body is probably rotten to the core by now, it's impossible for someone to dig him up.

As for the city lord Hua Yang, no one doubted that.

If he relied on evil methods to cultivate his martial soul, then his current strength could not possibly be limited to just a Soul Emperor.

Moreover, the people from the Spirit Hall examined him and found no signs that he practiced evil arts.

The Spirit Hall, along with the two great empires and major sects, cracks down very severely on such evil cultivation methods. The Spirit Hall, in particular, has become less strict in its supervision of such evil spirit cultivation practices.

After all, you can't just kill someone because of their martial spirit; you have to consider their character.

If you kill them all, Bibi Dong wouldn't be alive today. Of course, if someone is extremely wicked, they should definitely be killed, or they should be banished to the City of Slaughter to prevent them from harming people.

The Spirit Hall keeps records of those who awaken evil spirits and monitors them accordingly.

It's not just the Spirit Hall that has it; the two great empires also have it, it's just that the two great empires don't supervise it as well as the Spirit Hall.

The Spirit Hall's strictest supervision occurred during Qian Daoliu's time.

After Qian Xunji took office, he relaxed the supervision.