Around three in the afternoon, Zhao Ling, seeing that his wives hadn't returned to the mansion yet, raised his hand, tore open the space before him, and stepped inside.
When he reappeared, he was already on Sea God Island, isolated far out in the ocean.
Bo Saixi was currently meditating, sitting cross-legged on a mat woven from beast hide.
Now, she was just one step away from becoming the true Sea God.
This step was to pass the seven emotions trial and reshape the Heart of the Sea God.
However, she didn't take this step immediately. After all, her sisters hadn't reached this level yet.
Her husband's strength had reached such a mysterious and unfathomable level, yet wasn't he still in the mortal Douluo Continent? There was no way she could ascend to the God Realm first, right?
Beside Bo Saixi, a small girl with long blue hair and an extremely delicate appearance, about nine years old, was also sitting cross-legged, cultivating with her eyes closed.
Just then, a familiar voice reached their ears.
"Xi'er, you're only half a step away from becoming a god, yet you're still cultivating so diligently?"
Immediately, Bo Saixi and the little girl opened their eyes simultaneously.
Upon seeing Zhao Ling, the little girl's eyes lit up with joy. She leaped into the air and flew straight into Zhao Ling's arms, tightly wrapping her arms around his neck.
"Papa..."
Zhao Ling looked at his daughter, gently raising his hand to softly pat her head, and smiled.
"Good girl, you're quite diligent. Innate rank thirty full spirit power.
In just three short years, your spirit power has soared to rank fifty-six, and you're still cultivating so hard."
Zhao Mengyan raised her small head, replying proudly, "Of course, Papa, you also have to consider whose daughter I am."
"Alright, don't get too smug. Let go of Papa." Zhao Ling playfully flicked his daughter's forehead.
He couldn't help it; his daughter was clinging to his neck, looking as if she wanted to stay in his arms and be spoiled.
If she were younger, Zhao Ling naturally wouldn't have any objections.
But this child was nine years old now, and Zhao Ling knew the principle of a daughter avoiding her father as she grew up, and a son avoiding his mother.
After being gently scolded by Zhao Ling, Zhao Mengyan pouted and landed back on the ground. Her father was too stingy.
Her mother could always stay in her father's arms all day whenever he came to Sea God Island.
Why couldn't she? Was she still their biological daughter?
Seeing this, Bo Saixi also said to Zhao Mengyan, "Yan'er, you go out first. Your father and I have something to discuss."
Zhao Mengyan pouted even more discontentedly. It was always like this.
Every time her father came, her mother would tell her to go play. How boring.
Don't think she didn't know what her mother and father were going to talk about; she was super smart.
However, Zhao Mengyan had no choice but to obediently go play with Sea Maiden Titled Douluo.
As the young mistress of the entire Sea God Island, she was an existence second only to one person and above ten thousand others on this Sea God Island.
And that one person was her biological mother, who mostly had to coax her, so Zhao Mengyan's life on Sea God Island was incredibly comfortable.
The only thing she found unsatisfactory was that there were too few people on the entire Sea God Island.
At most, only seven or eight thousand people. She had heard her father say that on the Douluo Continent, any ordinary city had over a hundred thousand people, with some having over a million.
Zhao Mengyan was very curious about how large a city with millions of people would be.
So sometimes, she wanted her father to take her to explore the Douluo Continent.
But her mother wouldn't allow it, insisting that people on the Douluo Continent were unpredictable, and if she accidentally got kidnapped, her mother would still have to count money for the kidnappers.
Zhao Mengyan was quite indignant. Although she was only nine years old, she was a Rank 56 Spirit King powerhouse now, alright.
And she was super smart; how could she be so easily sold?
But her mother still disagreed, insisting that only after she grew older would her father be allowed to take her to the Douluo Continent.
Zhao Mengyan had no choice but to listen to her mother.
She also heard her father say that her mother Dong'er had given birth to a younger brother, who was also super smart and could call out "Mom" and "Dad" right after birth.
Therefore, Zhao Mengyan wanted to know if this younger brother would call her "big sister" right after birth.
If he dared not to, she would let this younger brother know what "bloodline suppression" meant.
Upon seeing his daughter obediently leave, Zhao Ling eagerly walked to Bo Saixi and pulled her into his arms.
Bo Saixi rolled her beautiful eyes at him, feigning annoyance, and playfully chided, "Husband, what's your hurry? Xi'er isn't going to run away, is she?"
"Heh heh..." Zhao Ling chuckled mischievously, then released his domain, isolating the entire Sea God Temple and also preventing the possibility of that old scoundrel, the Sea God, peeking.
Two days later, Zhao Ling gently kissed Bo Saixi's face, and then his mischievous hand began to roam restlessly.
Bo Saixi lazily rested her head on his chest and murmured,
"Husband, what about that matter I discussed with you? Sea Maiden is quite good-looking, isn't she? Are you really not considering taking her in?"
Zhao Ling's hand, which had been gently stroking her smooth back, slapped her butt playfully, and he replied sternly,
"I've already said, I have no feelings for Sea Maiden. You are not to play matchmaker for me again, or else be careful, I might retaliate."
"Alright, fine, if you're unwilling." Bo Saixi could only pout, sighing inwardly.
Her husband indeed seemed to have no feelings for Sea Maiden. Around the entire Sea God Island, the one her husband felt most attracted to was Xiao Bai's daughter.
It seemed her husband had mentioned in his diary that Xiao Bai's daughter was named Bai Xiuxiu, also known as Dong Qianqiu, and that when she transformed into human form at one hundred thousand years, she would definitely be a great beauty comparable to herself.
Bo Saixi felt quite frustrated. That child Bai Xiuxiu was only sixty or seventy thousand years old now, and her husband's damned system wasn't even increasing her age.
How wonderful it would be if they could increase Xiuxiu's age by thirty or forty thousand years to help her transform earlier.
Then she wouldn't have to face her husband's "torment" alone whenever he came to Sea God Island.
Bo Saixi inwardly cursed her husband's damned system's ancestors eighteen generations back.
After waiting for the exhausted Bo Saixi to fall asleep, Zhao Ling tore open space and left Sea God Island.
This time, he went to the Pope's Hall. At this moment, Bibi Dong was handling matters in the Pope's Hall.
The little brat Zhao Ping'an was as restless as ever, flying around the entire Pope's Hall.
After a burst of spatial fluctuation, Zhao Ling strangely appeared in the Pope's Hall, and with a wave of his hand, the infant flew directly into his arms.
He raised his hand and slapped his son's bottom, scolding him.
"You mischievous brat, I told you not to fly around all day, why don't you listen? What if you crash into a pillar?"
The little brat Zhao Ping'an said in a milky voice,
"Papa, Ping'an isn't that silly. Ping'an already knows how big this entire hall is and where all the pillars are. Ping'an will definitely not crash into a pillar."
"Oh, really? You mischievous brat, you dare to talk back? Do you believe I'll spank you?" Zhao Ling's brows furrowed slightly.
"No... no... Ping'an doesn't want to be spanked, Ping'an won't fly anymore."
The little brat immediately stopped talking back and quieted down, then was handed by Zhao Ling to a wet nurse, who took him away.