Chapter 1708: Children of the Sea

The rain was only growing worse, and the three volcanoes were only becoming colder with each passing day.

Naturally, the people of the Fire Worship Tribe were weakening day by day as well.

A couple more days like this, the three volcanoes would cease all activities, and everyone in the Fire Worship Tribe would perish.

Right now, the chieftain, the three elders, and those who still had some strength in them were beating their gongs, performing their mysterious dances, and offering ritual sacrifices to the three volcanoes in hopes of awakening them.

At a place where the tribesmen could not see, a group of people in black outfits were looking at them with scorn and pity in their eyes.

“Divine envoy, the ants have become so weak that they can no longer put up any resistance whatsoever, so why aren’t we dragging this out instead of offering them to the Black Water Heavenly God immediately?”

“Don’t you think it’s more interesting to let them die slowly and painfully?”

“Besides, our heavenly god prefers defiant,despairing, and resentful souls like these. If we successfully please him, I am sure he will reward us handsomely when he returns.”

“Your foresight astounds me as ever, divine envoy.”

“Hahaha... everything is for the sake of the Black Water Heavenly God. I hope you will love the sacrifices we send your way, great Black Water Heavenly God...”

“Dude, your heavenly god can’t hear you from where he is. That makes your praise somewhat insincere, don’t you think?”

It was at this moment a ridiculing voice suddenly came from behind the divine envoy. “Why don’t I send you down so you may speak to him face to face?”

“Who is it?!”

This divine envoy was also a Great Trueman. In fact, he was even stronger than the divine envoy at Guifang.

As soon as the words fell out of his mouth, black water surged up from beneath his feet. It melted even the hardened stones of the volcanoes.

The martial art he practiced was one of the three supreme divine arts of the Black Water Divine Sect, the “Back Water God Eroding Scripture”. The black water was created from the deadly, filthiest, and most yin corrosive water, and a single drop could kill everything within a radius of a few kilometers. It was very powerful.

In fact, he had killed a Half-Sage using the “Black Water God Eroding Sutra”.

Therefore, whoever the person behind was, they would melt into a muddle of corrosive water the instant they made contact with the black water.

However, his smile stiffened the next second.

It was because the person behind him did not perish.

It was also because the person had reached out and grabbed him by his neck.

“Who are you, senior? I am the divine envoy of the Black Water Divine Se—”

“You don’t need to know who I am.”

The voice said scornfully and murderously, “You only need to know that I am here to stop you.”

“You’re a blasphemer? No. No one can stop us!”

The divine envoy knew there was no way he could survive then. A savage, ruthless smile spread across his face as he declared, “The Black Water Heavenly God will return to the human world!”

The divine envoy attempted to detonate his mind as he laughed savagely. He was hoping to take the person behind him to the grave with him.

“Trying to commit suicide? Did you ask for my permission?”

However, the voice taunted him before snuffing out the power inside him. It felt as if a bucket of water had extinguished a blazing fire.

It was as sudden as it was unexpected.

Everything was in place, but he couldn’t die. The divine envoy could not help but lose his focus for a moment.

He did not feel delighted or happy even though he survived, however. On the contrary, he felt horribly scared.

“What are you planning to do?”

“I’m planning to do what you’re most afraid of, of course.”

The indifferent voice replied, and the divine envoy felt a demonic lotus blooming inside his mind. After that, his consciousness sank into eternal darkness.

“The Sea Children, huh?”

Behind the divine envoy, Ye Qing withdrew his palm and muttered to himself. Then, he appeared in front of a volcano and sank his demonic thought into its immeasurable depths.

“Found you.”

A moment later, Ye Qing sensed something and made a grabbing motion.

Crack crack crack!

Deep within the volcano, a hard, solid rock crumbled into pieces, and a child was ripped out of the ground. They landed in front of Ye Qing.

The child was about as big as an infant. They had a human upper torso but a dragon’s lower torso. They were wearing a sea blue colored

dudou

and a lotus leaf on their head. They were fair-skinned, plump, and cute.

However, the child was currently trapped inside a cage. The cage was forged out of some sort of special material that gave off a bluish black glow.

The child clearly looked sad and aggrieved. Tears were welling inside their eyes. They burst into tears as soon as they saw Ye Qing.

The rain in the sky immediately worsened when the child wept.

“Don’t cry. I’m here to save you.”

Ye Qing said gently while repeating the same thing to the other two volcanoes, pulling out another two caged children.

The other two children also had a human’s upper torso and a dragon’s lower torso. However, one of them was wearing a green shirt and a yellow flower on their head, while another was wearing a red shirt and some grass on their head.

“Waaahhhhhh!!!”

He wasn’t done consoling Blue when he rescued Green and Red, and now all three of them were crying at the same time.

The downpour grew even worse. It felt like a heavenly river had breached and was pouring down a waterfall on the Fire Worship Tribe.

“Don’t cry, I hold no ill will toward you...”

I’m not a bad guy. I’m here to save you...”

Ye Qing kept trying to comfort the trio. He did not kill them outright like the Fish Wife or the Sun In Water. It was because the three children weren’t divine children from the Black Water Divine Kingdom. They were innocent Strangers who were kidnapped by the Black Water Divine Sect.

The trio looked incredibly cute, but they were bonafide Disaster-class Strangers. They were called the Sea Children.

The Sea Child was a very special type of Stranger. Legend had it that they were born from the water essences of a sea source. A sea source was the source of the water of the four seas, and it was said that the sea never dried because water endlessly poured out from a sea source.

Born from a sea source, the Sea Children possessed many magical abilities. For starters, they could swallow clouds, exhale fog, summon wind, and create waves.

However, their most incredible ability was their ability to summon rain when they cried. The harder they cried, the stronger the rain.

A Sea Child possessed the heart of a child. They did not harbor any malice toward humans either. Therefore, they would not harm humans unless threatened. However, a Sea Child was naturally timid. A small scare was enough to cause them to cry and cause a downpour. If someone was stupid enough to make a Sea Child cry on the sea, and they failed to pacify them in time, then their ship was doomed to capsize.

This was why the Black Water Divine Sect decided to travel all the way to the sea, capture three Sea Children, and bring them back to the Fire Worship Tribe. It was because the Sea Child’s special ability was the bane of the Fire Worship Tribe’s existence.

The disciples of the Black Water Divine Sect had caged the Sea Children and left them in the Fire Worship Tribe’s volcanoes. Of course, they did not leave them in a place where the lava might hurt them or kill them.

The Sea Children were naturally timid, and they were especially afraid of fire. Naturally, they would cry non-stop when trapped inside a volcano. The longer they wept, the worse the rain they summoned. That was why the Fire Worship Tribe were beset by weeks of non-stop rain.

Besides that, the Sea Children were water essence incarnates. Water and fire did not mix, so their prolonged presence caused the volcanoes to slowly die over time.