"Mmm, as long as you understand." Zhao Ling nodded, gently caressing her smooth jade-like back. Holding such a beauty in his arms truly made one intoxicated.
As the two of them indulged in their affectionate moment, Zhao Ling's gaze fell on the scenery below, and he suddenly frowned slightly. "Hmm? This place is... Heh, I never thought I'd come back here again."
"Where? Where is it?" Bo Saixi turned her head curiously to look below and saw a small village of a few hundred people.
Zhao Ling then recounted how he had met Ah Yin there, and what those villagers had done back then.
Immediately, Bo Saixi's pretty face turned cold. "Heh, those ants were really courting death, daring to offend my husband. They were given too much face."
As she spoke, Bo Saixi released her Sea God Martial Soul—eight black rings and one red soul ring surrounded her. She then took out her staff and waved it toward the sky.
Zhao Ling didn't know what soul skill she had used, but dense black clouds quickly gathered in the sky, accumulating more and more, until they blanketed the entire sky above the village.
At this point, the scene could be perfectly described as "Black clouds press the village, and it's about to collapse." With a muffled rumble of thunder, rain the size of beans began pouring down in a torrential downpour...
The villagers, who had been working in the fields, scrambled for shelter as the heavy rain suddenly poured.
Madam Shen, who had been sun-drying corn and rice at home, saw her grains get drenched and trembled with heartache.
She felt terribly unlucky that day. First, a wild boar had broken into her chicken coop, causing chaos and killing over half of her chickens and ducks. Then, the daughter-in-law she had set her sights on was abducted by some strangers from who-knows-where. And now, the corn and rice she had dried were being soaked by this downpour. Misfortune upon misfortune!
As she gathered the wet corn and rice, she cursed the heavens under her breath.
Why had the weather turned so suddenly? It had been perfectly fine before. Now it was like the sky wanted her whole family dead.
Her son returned from the fields and rushed to help her tie up and collect the corn and rice.
If they didn't act quickly to gather and dry them, the grains would start sprouting and become inedible.
Meanwhile, aboard the Cloudpiercer Shuttle, Zhao Ling looked down at the torrential rain covering dozens of kilometers around the village and gave Bo Saixi a thumbs-up.
"Xi'er, I didn't know you had this kind of skill."
Bo Saixi beamed at his praise.
"Of course. I'm the High Priestess of the Sea God. Controlling seawater and calling down rain is just my forte.
These rude ants dared to bully you, so I thought I'd give them a few days of rain to teach them a lesson. Husband, you're not mad at me, are you?"
"Silly girl, how could I be mad at you? It's just a bit of rain as a small punishment."
Zhao Ling gently stroked her cheek, feeling warmth in his heart. With Xi'er protecting him like this, how could he not be moved?
As for Bo Saixi's suggestion to rain on the village for a few days to teach them a lesson, Zhao Ling didn't suspect anything. In his eyes, it was just some rain—at most, it would stop the villagers from working in the fields for a few days.
He looked up curiously toward the top of the Cloudpiercer Shuttle, noticing that the raindrops didn't fall on the shuttle at all.
It was as if there were an invisible shield above it, repelling the rain from landing on the deck—a truly magical sight.
Bo Saixi gazed down at the rain-drenched village below with a cruel smile tugging at her lips.
Hmph. These ant-like villagers dared to bully her husband?
If they had done wrong, they must pay the price. There was no need for this village to exist anymore.
But she didn't tell Zhao Ling the whole truth. She knew her husband was kind-hearted. Otherwise, as a mighty Titled Douluo, how could he let ant-like villagers provoke him without retaliation? What—for the holidays?
Since her kind-hearted husband wouldn't deal with these blind fools, she would do it for him—wipe them all out.
And if in their next life they dared to offend her husband again, she wouldn't hesitate to crush them once more.
Soon, the Cloudpiercer Shuttle flew out of the rainstorm's range, and under the sunlight, Bo Saixi put away her staff and continued to enjoy the scenery with Zhao Ling, her arm linked with his.
What Zhao Ling didn't know was that the torrential rain covering the area around the village for dozens of kilometers grew heavier and more violent—as if the heavens had been torn open.
By the end of that day, the river surrounding the village had risen by two meters.
When the villagers realized something was wrong and tried to evacuate, they found that all the roads out of the village were submerged. The entire village had become a lone island.
By nightfall, most of the village houses were already submerged over a meter deep. Villagers had no choice but to climb onto their roofs to avoid the surging water.
Madam Shen and her son clung to the roof of their home, watching the rising water levels with dread in their hearts.
On the second and third days, the rain continued to pour. It wasn't until the evening of the fourth day that it finally stopped. But by then, there was no village to speak of—only raging floodwaters.
After more than two days of long-distance travel, the Cloudpiercer Shuttle finally arrived in the skies above Sea God Island. Zhao Ling carefully guided it to land on an open area.
To his surprise, seven figures shot up from the ground, clearly intending to block the shuttle's descent. Standing at the bow, Bo Saixi shouted coldly:
"Make way for me…"
Upon seeing her standing at the front, the seven figures immediately descended to the ground, not daring to anger the High Priestess.
Once the shuttle landed, the seven figures quickly gathered around and respectfully said, "Greetings, High Priestess..."
Bo Saixi nodded and leapt down from the shuttle, shedding her coquettish demeanor from earlier and restoring the dignified bearing of a High Priestess.
"Has anything happened on Sea God Island while I was away? Did the Deep Sea Demon Whale King come to stir up trouble nearby? Has Lord Sea God descended?"
The oldest among the Seven Sacred Pillars, Sea Dragon Douluo, stepped forward and respectfully replied:
"High Priestess, during your absence, everything on Sea God Island has been normal. Lord Sea God has not descended."