Chapter 111 Surveillance
Tang Hao and Tang Xiao had no clue where to start their investigation. As for the City Lord's Mansion, they couldn't get in there at all. Even if they did, they wouldn't be able to gather any useful information. They were sure that Hua Yang must have known they were coming.

Maybe someone is watching them secretly.

After drinking tea, Tang Hao and Tang Xiao got up and left to continue their secret investigation.

Looking at the two people's leaving backs, Di Hong fell into thought.

"If my guess is correct, this matter must be related to the City Lord's Mansion."

"If it was done by the City Lord's Mansion, then why did they conduct such a high-profile search last night?" Tang Yuehua asked.

Di Hong snorted and laughed.

"How can I clear myself of suspicion if I don't make a bigger fuss? After all, no one would think that the City Lord's Mansion would do such a thing."

“Since it might be done by the City Lord’s Mansion, then why did they secretly abduct the soul masters?” Tang Yuehua became confused again. The power of the City Lord’s Mansion did not seem to be strengthened. There must be a reason for secretly abducting the soul masters.

Otherwise, why do this.

You can't just abduct the soul masters because you're unhappy with them.

The City Lord's Mansion is a little too narrow-minded.

And through her understanding, she found a pattern, that is, soul masters only go missing during this time period every year. After the Hundred Flowers Festival, no soul masters go missing, and all the missing soul masters are foreign soul masters, not local soul masters in Huacheng.

Moreover, the soul masters that were abducted generally had low soul power, and were basically soul masters at the level of Great Soul Master to Soul Master.

Even if civilians were missing, they were all civilians outside the city.

This basically minimized the panic of the soul masters and people in the city.

Di Hong was also a little puzzled. Why would someone secretly abduct soul masters, and do it for ten years? In ten years, if they come once a year, how many soul masters would be abducted?

These abducted soul masters never appeared again, and not even their corpses were found, as if they had evaporated from the face of the earth.

"Is there someone in the City Lord's Mansion practicing evil methods?"

This was all he could think of. Apart from that, there was nothing else he could think of. Although the Black-Lined Lotus Martial Soul was not a top-level martial soul, it was not an evil martial soul either. The reason why it was called the Black-Lined Lotus was because there were black lines on the lotus.

If one uses evil methods to forcibly increase one's strength, then this should not be the case. The evil methods he knows about are basically to forcibly increase one's strength at the cost of burning one's life. Of course, some martial spirits are inherently evil.

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

Wuhun is evil, but she herself is not evil.

The reason she became like that in the later period was purely because of her experience and having such a teacher, and the fact that when she was most helpless, the person she loved most not only did not show up, but left her instead. However, this had a lot to do with Qian Xunji, because Yu Xiaogang had no idea what was going on.

With this kind of experience, it would be strange if she didn't turn evil.

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

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

Tang Yuehua shook her head: "I don't know, just ask and you'll know."

Suddenly, Di Hong felt that someone was watching them in secret. Following the direction of the gaze, he saw a vendor looking at them. When his eyes met that person's, the vendor immediately left in another direction.

Tang Yuehua took a look.

"I'm going to find out about the City Lord's Mansion. You follow that person."

Now that she has encountered this, she naturally cannot sit idly by. If the real culprit is not caught, more people will suffer in the future.

So the two of them acted separately. Since Di Hong was too conspicuous, he naturally couldn't follow him directly. He first locked onto the man's breath, and then a Vermillion Bird feather appeared in his hand. He flicked his finger, and the feather flew out and landed accurately on the man.

He waited until the man walked away before he stood up and followed.

The man walked to a deserted place. There was an alley in front of him. He looked around and confirmed that there was no one, so he prepared to climb over the wall and leave.

Just as he was about to climb over the wall, a hot breath hit him in the face, followed by a powerful pressure that pressed down on him, knocking him down.

Di Hong flapped his wings of the Vermillion Bird behind him in mid-air, looking at the man lying on the ground prostrating himself. The man was not a soul master. "Are you from the City Lord's Mansion?"

The man didn't say anything, he just gritted his teeth and said nothing.

Folding its wings, Di Hong landed in front of him.

"Who sent you to spy on us?"

The man still didn't speak.

Di Hong snorted coldly.

"You have a pretty tough mouth."

Then he increased his own pressure.

"Kakaka!"

The man was just an ordinary person, and under the pressure of Emperor Hong Soul Douluo, his bones began to break.

"what!"

The man cried out in pain.

"I said, I said."

Di Hong retracted the pressure he had released.

"Go ahead."

The man knew that Di Hong was not someone to be trifled with, so he told Di Hong in detail why he was monitoring Di Hong. In fact, he was not monitoring Di Hong, but Tang Hao and the others, and there were three people monitoring them.

Because Di Hong and Tang Yuehua were discovered, one person was left behind to monitor them. Of the remaining two, one returned to the City Lord's Mansion, and the other followed Tang Hao and the others.

Tang Hao and Tang Xiao were discovered as soon as they entered the city.

As for why they were following them, the man didn't know. He just said that a soul master had disappeared recently, so those unfamiliar soul masters had to be secretly monitored to ensure that the Hundred Flowers Festival was held smoothly. After the Hundred Flowers Festival was over, the surveillance would be lifted.

Seeing that he couldn't get any information out of him, Di Hong let him go.

After returning to the hotel, Tang Yuehua also came back.

"I asked around, and the city lord did have a son, but that son died at the age of six, right after his martial spirit awakened."

"Died young?" Di Hong was puzzled. How could the martial soul die young after awakening? Could the awakening of the martial soul cause a person to die?

What kind of martial soul is that, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger?

The Black Lotus Martial Soul was of below average quality. It was absolutely impossible for such a Martial Soul to choke a person to death.

"How did his son die?"

"I don't know." Tang Yuehua shook her head.

"Anyway, after his martial soul awakened, he disappeared. It seems that it was because his martial soul mutated, because many nobles in the city were present at the awakening ceremony."

"If you were alive today, you would be twenty-six years old."

Di Hong frowned slightly.

The city lord's son died, and that was after his martial soul awakened. Even if his martial soul mutated, he couldn't have died.

There are many people whose martial souls have mutated. His martial soul has mutated, Tang Yuehua's martial soul has mutated, and Yu Xiaogang's martial soul has mutated. They are all fine and healthy. It's just that the other two people except him cannot practice.

Tang Yuehua can also practice now.

Yu Xiaogang is estimated to remain at the 29th level of Great Soul Master.

(End of this chapter)