Perfume Alchemist

Chapter 431 Spirit Flower Festival and Mask
As soon as Ah Hao walked out of his uncle's house, he saw Yi Liya who was quietly waiting by the side of the road.

Illya's clothes today are also very gorgeous. She wears a plain snow-colored dress embroidered with dark patterns on her upper body. Two gorgeous belts go around her arms and are fastened by exquisite badges on her chest; her lower body wears dark blue dark patterns Long skirt; the waist is decorated with a pink waist and tassels.

"Ilya!" Ah Hao stepped forward and took her hand: "You look very nice in your clothes today. In a blink of an eye, I almost thought you were a lady from somewhere."

"Do as the Romans do." Ilya pulled the corner of her clothes a little nervously, "Besides, everyone is dressed so grandly, if I dress casually, it doesn't fit here."

Today is the first day of the official opening of the Spirit Flower Festival.The streets and alleys of Lukang are full of people in festive costumes.

The clothes on most people are closely related to the two-color theme of "pink" and "blue", and on this basis, thousands of different shades of light and shade are extended.At a glance, Lukang looks like a river full of various blooming spirit flowers.

"Did I wear something wrong?" Ilya's expression was still a little worried, "I followed the Lugang tailor's instructions to match, I hope what he said was right."

"It's all good, you really suit Nia's style of clothes. If you have to say it, there is one thing missing in your outfit."

Ahao took out a smaller Blossoming Spirit Flower from his bosom, and carefully pinned it on Illya's carefully coiled silver hair.

A blush floated on Ilya's face, which made her appearance more attractive by three points.

Ah Hao led Yi Liya, and followed the relatives in front of him, stepped on the bluestone road at a leisurely pace, and headed towards the road leading to the forest.

Grandma was chatting trivial things with grandma and the others in front, while uncle was alone by grandma's side, and occasionally turned his head to look at the two of them.

After Ilya greeted her with a smile, she turned her head and asked softly, "Where's your aunt? Why is Mr. Qiao Jie alone."

"Uncle is an unmarriageist, well, that's what he said. But I think the real reason is that he still has a woman he can't get in his heart."

Ilya's eyes lit up immediately: "What's going on? Tell me about it."

"Actually, it's nothing. It's just that uncle fell in love with a woman from the Nia sect on the Blooming Soul Festival a long time ago. However, believers in the Nia sect never marry for life, so..."

"So your uncle never found another one?" Ilya clenched her hand unconsciously, "It's so infatuated."

"Wrong." Ah Hao grinned at the corner of his mouth, "Every time I go to his house, I meet a woman I've never seen before. It's just that he's not married, and there are always women around him."

"." Ilya was speechless, and could only stroke her hair quietly.

Even at this age, Qiao Jie can still be regarded as a rare handsome man.After all, they are a family, and Qiao Jie's looks are only slightly worse than Yang Ahao's.

Ah Hao knew that during the years that his uncle had been running the business, he had used his advantages in appearance to open up the market.To describe him as infatuated can only be said to be off the charts.

Ilya stroked her hair for a long time, as if she had figured out her train of thought.She frowned, and looked at Ahao angrily: "Then you still say that he doesn't get married because he has a woman in his heart that he can't get. Isn't this just that, prodigal son."

"That's another story. My uncle wasn't like that before. After the Nia incident, he got married to a very beautiful woman. I've already called my aunt, and she's determined to marry My uncle. In the end, they still failed.”

"I used to come to Lukang and stayed at my uncle's house for a while. At that time, I often heard her crying heart-piercingly next door after she was drunk."

"The content is probably 'you still can't forget her!', 'I'm no substitute for anyone!', 'I don't want to live in the shadow of other women forever!' and so on."

"So in the end they separated. From then on, he became like this."

Ilya covered her forehead with the back of her hand, and she refused to open her closed eyes for a long time: "It's all about what. You make me think of your uncle in the future."

"It's what you want to ask yourself." Ahao looked at Ilya's expression with some amusement, "But other than that, my uncle is very nice. He is not only good to me and my grandparents. Sometimes he even Will take care of my grandma. After getting rich, I have not forgotten my family."

"Fast. By the way, what does your uncle do?"

"He used to be in a caravan, but recently he opened a small chamber of commerce. The main thing is to buy goods from Lukang and sell some useful imported products to other places in Niah. After he became prosperous, he not only ran a business by himself, but also In charge of several caravans, the business is booming."

"Oh." Illya nodded quite understandingly, "Then it's a concept with Agadi's Airship Chamber of Commerce."

"Yes, that's about it."

After the two chatted for a while at the back, they walked forward again, and Ah Hao formally introduced Ilya to his grandparents.In a harmonious atmosphere, a group of people walked along the Qingshiban Road and gradually walked to the depths of the forest with the flow of people.

Ah Hao's parents were buried in the Green Forest Cemetery outside Lukang.

Ah Hao placed the Blossoming Spirit Flower in front of the two clean white tombstones that had just been cleaned.

The faint blue stamens of the Blossoming Spirit Flower gradually turned white, but there were no figures of parents in front of my eyes.After Ah Hao got up, he couldn't help feeling a little bit disappointed.

Grandma sprinkled the folded paper flowers evenly in front of the tombstone: "Your parents have no regrets. I guess they have already reincarnated, so they won't come out to talk to us again."

Uncle Qiao Jie handed Ahao a thin cigarette: "It seems that my sister and brother-in-law are having a good time down here. How about a cigarette?"

"No." Ah Hao shook his hand lightly.

"It doesn't matter if you don't smoke, but you shouldn't smoke." After lighting a cigarette, Qiao Jie hung the burning cigarette beside the tombstone on the left.

After presenting the blooming spirit flowers to entrust the mourning and remembrance of the living to the dead, the tomb-sweeping session is considered to be over.The next focus is the Spirit Flower Festival at night.

Amid the kind smiles of his grandparents and grandma, Ahao took Yi Liya by the hand, said hello and left.

After leaving Ahao's family, Ilya breathed a sigh of relief, her stiff body relaxed: "I didn't know where to put my hands just now."

Ah Hao chuckled: "Actually, it's nothing. It's just a process. After all, my parents have been dead for a long time."

The two went against the grave-sweeping crowd, preparing to return to Lukang.

Ahao explained: "The Spirit Flower Festival will be cooler in the morning, but it will turn into a lively carnival at night. After all, the dead have no obsession, and it is a good thing to celebrate."

"The market at night is still worth going to. Now we can find a place to listen to a play."

Ilya twisted her fingers together, hesitated for a long time before asking: "Well, Ah Hao, I've always wanted to ask, how did your parents die?"

Ah Hao looked up at Lukang in the distance: "Actually, it's nothing. I just died when I went out to sea. When I was young, they handed me over to my grandma, and I planned to go to Blue Flame Bay to do business."

"There was a big storm, the boat sank, and people disappeared. They should still be lying somewhere in the blue sea of ​​flames."

Ilya showed some sadness on her face, then she suddenly tilted her head: "Huh?"

She pointed to the back with some doubts: "The one buried in the tomb is"

"The Clothes Tomb." Ahao patiently explained, "The clothes they wore when they got married are buried inside."

"Don't you think about getting them back? What I mean is, Agadi's divination-like arcane method is quite effective in this respect."

Ahao shook his head: "It doesn't take much effort. The Niahs are different from the Agadi people. We don't pay much attention to the bones. As long as there are clothes and graves, the souls of the dead can return to their hometowns."

"When I was young, I even had a few words with my dead parents. They have already 'come back'. This can be regarded as the unique magic power of Blossoming Spirit Flower."

"I see." Illya nodded thoughtfully.

Ah Hao took a deep breath, feeling the bewitching fragrance brought by the blooming spirit flowers that can be seen everywhere.In the Blue Forest, all the well-dressed people walking on the side of the road are holding at least one blooming spirit flower in their hands.

"what!"

Suddenly there was a short exclamation, and there was some commotion in the crowd in front of them.

"What happened?" Illya stretched her neck and looked there curiously.

After a moment of commotion, the chaotic crowd ran towards them noisily.

Ah Hao took a breath of air, and his expression immediately changed.

The sweet and fishy smell is mixed in the fragrance of the blooming spirit flower.This smell is like a drop of ink dripping into clear water, so clear and abrupt.

"It's not right, get ready for battle. There may be an accident ahead."

Ah Hao glanced back worriedly, most of the people behind looked confused.

The problem should be in the front.In any case, Ah Hao had to go and see it.After all, his family is still behind him.

Ahao held Ilya's hand tightly, jumped over the crowd, and rushed against the current to the place where the incident happened.

The stone road in Qingzhi Forest is the only way from Lukang to the cemetery. At this time, a large number of people are gathering here.Once chaos occurs, it will only become bigger and bigger like a chain reaction.

Ah Hao had no choice but to unfold the formation, letting the wind gently push away the people around him.Then he saw the situation where the incident happened.

The tall trees in the Blue Forest were originally decorated with pink and blue banners unique to the Spirit Flower Festival.At this time, these banners were torn into pieces.

A mask-like creature was gnawing on the belly of a corpse in the tree ahead.

The surrounding green trees have also become very strange, and some tumor cells with a strong purple light are growing on the nodules of these trees.

Ah Hao was sure that the trees were not like this when he came.

The moment Illya saw this scene, a thorny flower vine was born under her feet like a stress: "What is this?"

"It's a ghost, Yazakana! He can eat people, run away!" The panicked passersby still reminded the two people who were standing there.

Ahao shook his head: "You run away yourself, we will try to solve it."

The passer-by took a look at the two of them and saw that they were very confident, so they ran behind sullenly.

There were also several innocent passers-by who were trampled and injured on the ground.After Illya sent them to the periphery with surging flower vines, the area was temporarily emptied.

"Be careful." Ahao stretched out his hand, turning the bluestone slabs under his feet into spears, "I don't think it's that simple."

The purple tumors on the distant trees somehow reminded him of the Void.Those who were corrupted by the void had a similar situation.

"Have they all come to Nia?"

A sharp light flashed in Ahao's eyes, and he unfolded the refining formation [Fast Wind Liancut] that had just been transcribed in the past few days.

The invisible wind blade attacked the masked ghost in the air.Under the control of Tucheng Ether, the stone spear floated in the air and was ready to go.

The masked ghost seemed unaware of the wind blade, and still gnawed on the remnant of the tree regardless.

The series of dense wind blades all cut to its body, but only a few fragments of the mask were disintegrated.The aftermath of the blown wind blade cut off the thick trunks of the surrounding trees.

"It's so hard." Ahao frowned slightly.He has tested the power of Gale and Cut, and it can cut through huge bluestones casually.But this seemingly ordinary mask can easily withstand such an attack.

The mask suddenly turned its head, revealing its blue-black face.

A grinning three-eyed ghost was engraved on the front of the mask. At this time, its protruding fangs were dripping with blood.

It looked at Ahao with glaring eyes, as if it had real spirituality and wisdom.

"Go!" Ah Hao covered the bluestone spears with flames, and let them stab the masked monster on the tree with a magnificent gesture.

Illya's attack was one step faster than him.The dense thorny petals rushed towards the masked monster like a whirling spiral storm.

The masked monster, who was aware of it, turned around and picked up the half of the body on the branch.Afterwards, purple mist filled the air behind it, and it soared into the sky, flying into the air, avoiding Illya's petal storm.

The mask monster flicked up the leftover body, then opened its mouth unreasonably, and swallowed it whole in one gulp.

After the remnant body passed through the purple mist under the mask, a purple-black body resembling a human was re-condensed.

The mask monster with a body is more flexible.

He reached out to grab the vines hanging from the tree, and avoided wave after wave of astonishing flint-covered spears while swinging.

"Jie Jie"

The masked monster squatted on a mossy branch, looking at the two people below with a little satisfaction.

"It's too early for you to be happy."

Ah Hao, amused by the laughter, clenched his fists violently.

Behind the masked monster, the flaming stone spear went back and stabbed at its unaware back again!
The earth-forming ether infused by Ahao is hidden in the stone spear, which is still controlled by the Liancheng formation at this time.

It wasn't until the sound of breaking through the air that the masked monster turned around in astonishment.

And his newly condensed purple-black body has already been pierced through.The flame on the tip of the gun ignited all the purple-black mist around it.

(End of this chapter)