I have the best bloodline

"Of course I have some, but I won't show them to you!" The woman glanced at Feng Shiqi, snorted, turned around, and slightly bent over, showing off her perfect curves.

"Heh, with those five reds, I reckon it's red on her cheeks but white on her skin, red lips and white teeth, plum blossoms and peach blossoms, red on her face and green on her cheeks, and a blushing face and ears, right?"

Princess Luanming chuckled and teased Su Yan, "Young Master Su, don't fall for that woman's tricks, or I really won't know how to explain it to your aunt."

Su Yan: "."

Cultured people can be quite elegant when they use vulgar language. If I hadn't studied for a few years, I really wouldn't know what Miss Jun meant by those five idioms.

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After watching the couple leave, the flower and flower office officially closed, and the yamen runners changed their clothes and left.

Su Yan and his group also arrived at the Flower City's Hua Family Residence, located at the entrance of the Flower City, as agreed, in a rented van.

The Hua family mansion is not usually inhabited. The Hua family members live in the former site of the clan. The mansion in Flower City is only used to receive guests, and the daily management is handled by the servants.

Today, the Hua family is hosting a banquet, and the area in front of the gate is bustling with activity. Various carriages and vehicles almost block the way. After reading the names on the invitations, the servants at the gate loudly read out the names of the guests and led them to the banquet hall with smiles on their faces before leaving.

"The new magistrate of Huacheng has arrived!"

Su Yan got off the carriage. Princess Luanming took out an invitation from her sleeve. After reading the name on the invitation, the servants of the Hua family did not treat them differently. They still called out the name loudly and invited everyone to the banquet hall with smiles on their faces.

Although it's called a banquet hall, the Hua family's banquet area is actually in the courtyard of their own residence. Round tables are arranged in the courtyard according to the number of guests, and all the round tables are placed around the giant round table in the center of the courtyard that can accommodate thirty people.

The servants led the way, escorting them into the banquet hall, where the Hua family's maids then led them to their seats at the tables.

Each round table represents a family, and the person in charge sits at the giant central round table.

Five chairs were placed in front of the central round table, and the Hua family maids invited Su Yan and his party to sit down.

The county magistrate should have been in a position, but the original county magistrate of the flower region was nowhere to be found, and a group of five cultivators who had been parachuted in were appointed as the county magistrate.

Therefore, the Hua family arranged five positions for them.

"Hua Yan of the Hua family greets all the county magistrates."

A handsome young man sitting at the head of the round table stood up with a smile, raised a glass of white wine, gestured to the magistrate to drink as he pleased, and then downed it in one gulp as a greeting to the new magistrates of Flower City.

The belated invitation was a warning; those methods were all used covertly and couldn't be brought into the open. On the surface, we had to give the county magistrate face, since the county magistrate represented the Xia Yu Dynasty and the Red King, and had legitimate and reasonable management rights over the flower-growing region.

The belated invitation was meant to tell them that the legitimate administrative power was only a formality; if they wanted to do anything in Flower City, their orders might not even leave the Flower City government offices without the help of the local clans.

You all focus on building your political achievements. Once you've accumulated enough time, you'll be promoted to cities in the Xia Yu region. Don't try to interfere in the affairs between our local clans.

The best thing is for everyone to live in peace.

"Flower Fields - General Bai"

After the Hua family, representing the local clan, offered their toast, they sat down next to Hua Yan. A demon with snow-white hair and an androgynous appearance stood up, picked up her wine bowl, glanced at the five people indifferently, and said, "As you wish."

If the clans of Flower City are led by the Hua family, then the local demon forces are definitely led by a tiger demon named General White, who is the mountain king.

"Su Yan"

"Junxia."

Faced with the two forces showing goodwill, Su Yan and his group of five did not say anything. They also stood up and introduced themselves, but they concealed their backgrounds and did not mention them.

Mentioning one's background is against the rules; otherwise, if Junxia had simply said, "Daughter of the Xuan King, Princess Luanming," then all the difficulties set up by Grand Tutor Jin would have been meaningless.

Of course, I can say it, but whether I'll face retaliation from that cunning old man afterward is another matter entirely.

Old Long isn't necessarily magnanimous.

By the way, I saw some readers asking for the group number. There's a group link after clicking on the book's synopsis.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 174 The Cult of Immortality and the Southern Frontier Tribes (Third Update, Please Vote)

"Little fox?"

After Su Yan revealed his name, the clan leaders and demon kings sitting at the giant round table couldn't help but glance at him more.

Everyone present had been robbed and beaten by the Red King and his army. They all feared the Red King's ironclad rules and dared not transgress them in the slightest.

Even the red fox demons that originally lived in the area were forced to relocate their entire clan due to an order from the Red King. All the foxes that remained in the area were those that had not yet developed intelligence.

In recent decades, Su Yan has been one of the few who dared to ignore the Red King's ironclad rules and play with foxes every day. As a result, he has become famous as the "Fox Boy" because his fearlessness in the face of the death of his entire family has amazed the leaders of various clans.

How dare he?

Raising a single fox is audacious, but raising dozens of foxes means risking their deaths due to neglect, and having your entire family dragged to the city square and beheaded by the Red King's army?

Hua Yan gave Su Yan a deep look. She could tell that Su Yan was a demon cultivator in human form, but no cultivator could guarantee that nothing would go wrong. In the Flower Region, foxes were considered evil creatures that even demons were unwilling to approach.

"Everyone is almost here. Before we begin the meal, as the host, I'll say a few words: Our most important festival, the Spring Festival, is just around the corner."

Hua Yan withdrew her gaze from Su Yan and spoke calmly:

"The barbarians of the southern frontier are about to return, along with the ingenious creations of the Eternal Life Cult."

As soon as Hua Yan finished speaking, General Bai, the demon chieftain sitting beside him, added calmly, "According to our scouts, the Southern Barbarians may number as many as 30,000, unlike the raids they launched during the Autumn Festival."

The Spring Festival and the Autumn Festival, the former is for sowing seeds, and the latter represents the harvest festival in flower-growing regions.

Before the Red King ruled the Flower Region, the Southern Barbarians often raided the Flower Region. However, at that time, the Barbarians would only plunder grain after the Autumn Festival, taking the harvested grain from the Flower Region back to their own tribes to use as winter food or to brew wine.

Unlike now, when it only happens twice a year.

"The barbarians have probably joined forces with the Eternal Life Cult," General Bai dropped a somber bombshell.

Currently, the Red King's army is simultaneously fighting against the Southern Barbarians and the Eternal Life Cult. It is quite reasonable for the two to join forces to attack the Red King's fiefdom, which produces grain. This possibility was anticipated by the Flower People several years ago.

However, the Southern Barbarians can muster 30,000 troops, and it is still unknown how many Eternal Life Sect troops will be involved in this operation. To give a conservative estimate, General Bai believes that the combined forces of the two sides may reach 40,000.

When General Bai revealed the truth as discovered by the scouts, the faces of all the clan leaders present changed.

The allied army of 40,000 men was not 40,000 filthy pigs who did not know how to resist. They were all soldiers who knew how to deploy troops and use weapons. In fact, there were quite a few powerful cultivators mixed in among them.

Moreover, based on past experience, those barbarians from the southern border, though savage, are not stupid. Their purpose is not to kill or loot; the invasions during the Spring Festival are usually aimed at destroying fields and crops.

If the cultivators of the Flower Region fail to repel the combined forces that have amassed such a force, the once fertile land will surely be sprinkled with highly poisonous powder, rendering the Flower Region unable to grow any crops for several years.

"Those barbarians of the Southern Frontier, aren't all their troops currently resisting the Red King's invasion? How could they possibly be..."

“A small clan might draw a few hundred men, a large clan a few thousand, and after merging with some long-time allied clans, it’s not surprising that they can squeeze out ten thousand soldiers to protect their clans,” General Bai said, looking at the person who asked the question.

"They are facing the overwhelming force of the Red King's army. They are already at their last gasp. If they don't fight back now, they may not even have a chance to catch their breath."

The words "Red King's army is pressing in" seemed to have a magical power; after General Bai uttered them, all the leaders present fell silent.

The Crimson King's army was more terrifying than jackals and tigers. They directly invaded and conquered the Flower Region, even subjugating the mountain gods who originally lived in the forests and hid underground. The blood-red behemoths, like primordial demons descending to earth, caused the heavens and earth to tremble.

It is quite unexpected that the Southern Barbarians and the Immortal Cult were able to hold out for so long by moving through the mountains and forests in the face of such a large army.

All the leaders present had been beaten, so they could somewhat understand the choices made by the Southern Barbarians and the Eternal Life Cult.

"Therefore, this year we need to push the front line of the direct confrontation further forward, redeploy our defenses, and stop the invasion of those barbarians from the southern border."

Hua Yan explained the purpose of the mobilization banquet: to redivide the defensive areas and push the original defensive lines, which relied on the city walls, towards the plains to prevent the southern barbarians from breaking through the previous lines.

Once the defensive line is breached, the flower growers will face the terrible predicament of having no harvest for several years on vast tracts of land.

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Su Yan sat at the giant round table, listening to General Bai and Hua Yan's conversation with his friends. They watched as the leaders were intensely discussing the replanning of the defenses, while other members of the Zhuo clan offered their advice, sharing any information they knew or volunteering for positions.

Su Yan and his group seemed like outsiders, but the leaders of the flower region were having a heated discussion in front of them, completely disregarding Su Yan and his group as outsiders.

The leaders of the various clans discussed the matter until the early hours of the morning, and because it was so late, the meal was served late.

As soon as the dishes were served, the clan leaders ate a few bites and then unanimously took their leave.

Within moments, most of the guests had left silently.

Seeing this, Su Yan was also preparing to leave, but the Hua family maid smiled and told him to prepare some sweet soup, and advised the new magistrates to drink the sweet soup before leaving.

After most of the guests had left, Princess Luanming, who was the oldest member of the newly appointed delegation, frowned and asked, "Why did you specifically ask us to stay behind?"

General Bai and Hua Yan exchanged a glance, and then, as if communicating through telepathy, Hua Yan slowly and calmly said with a smile, "Although it may sound a little strange, we want to know if you know anything."

"A major incident has occurred at the front lines of the Red King's army, but we cannot ascertain the specifics, as all our scouts have never returned. As county magistrates, have you received any unusual information?"

“There are quite a few barbarians and immortality cultists in the southern border region. We are worried that something might happen to the Red King Army, allowing those barbarians to mobilize even more troops to launch a surprise attack on the flower area.”

Princess Luanming was silent for a moment, then asked in return, "Isn't your questioning illegal?"

No one knew the Red King's army's intelligence, but even if they did, they couldn't say it. This was Xia Yu's military intelligence, and anyone who leaked it would be punished for treason.

"We are simply loyal to the emperor and patriots," Hua Yan said matter-of-factly. "If the Crimson King's army encounters difficulties, our Flower District will definitely go all out to support the front line. As the saying goes, we share the glory and the loss."

"We just want to know some information that we couldn't possibly know in our current positions. This way, it will be easier for us to show our loyalty to the country, and you can also benefit. Getting promoted and making a fortune is just a matter of a moment."

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Chapter 175 A Flower Queen Descends from the Sky, Unparalleled in the World! (Please Subscribe)

"We are merely loyal to the emperor and patriots, which is why we are asking this question. We hope you will be kind enough to tell us. Perhaps you can also benefit from this and get promoted and make a fortune in the blink of an eye."

Hua Yan greeted the question with a smile and polite manner.

The Red King Army, which was fighting in the southern border and eradicating cults, seems to have encountered some trouble recently, but the spies in the Flower Region have been unable to find out the specifics. As soon as something happened to the Red King Army, the Flower Region's original incompetent magistrate was replaced by a group of energetic young people.

They may not know about the Red King Army, but they certainly know something about the court. So, if you do us a favor, we'll do you a favor in return for your promotions.

"There are no eavesdroppers here, so please rest assured," Hua Yan added when she saw that the person opposite her remained silent.

"Boss Hua"

Su Yan was drinking tea, waiting for Princess Luanming and Hua Yan to start a fight with General Bai, when he suddenly felt someone kick him under the table. He turned his head and saw Zhou You frantically winking at him.

After a slight pause, Su Yan asked, "Do you know what 'gold-wrapped jade' means?"

Hua Yan shifted her gaze from Jun Xia to Su Yan, her brows furrowed: "What do you mean by that?"

Gold-wrapped jade is a jade inlay technique that uses gold to make the jade appear whiter, more translucent, and warmer.