Managing the Valley

Besides, Master and his wife were clearly no ordinary couple. Their bond ran deep, and neither of them was exactly a good—ptui—easy person to bully.

That made her task simple.

Cling tightly to Master's and Madam's thighs. Listen to Madam on small matters, and Master on major ones.

She could still read the situation.

With that in mind, Medusa joined in building the houses.

Dou Emperor and Dou Zong experts naturally built houses far faster than ordinary carpenters could. A casual strike could blast a pit more than ten meters deep into the ground.

With a wave of their hands, massive boulders weighing hundreds of pounds flew over and landed precisely in their designated places.

As for iron nails, a light press of a finger was enough to drive them into the planks.

Although Xiao Yi Xian had the least strength among them, she was still a Dou Emperor expert. No matter how weak her physical body was, it far surpassed that of ordinary people.

In just two hours, three three-story buildings had appeared in the valley.

The three buildings were roughly the same size and arranged in an equilateral triangle. They looked ordinary, without any remarkable grandeur.

Indeed, they were only ordinary little buildings—but the people living here were powerful enough.

Building the houses had taken only two hours, but the interior decoration remained unfinished even after half a day.

Xiao Yi Xian was tremendously enthusiastic about decorating their future home, but she seemed to have trouble making choices.

She fussed over the placement of just a few items for a long time, changing their arrangements several times without reaching a decision.

In the end, Wu Yong firmly made the choice for her, and only then did she stop.

Once the rooms were decorated, Xiao Yi Xian turned her attention to the valley.

This valley, which had previously been ignored by everyone, was enormous—nearly the size of a hundred football fields combined.

Since no one lived there, the valley was overgrown with weeds, some of which were taller than a person.

Standing on the third-floor balcony and looking at the distant weeds, Xiao Yi Xian felt they could clear out a Medicine Field here and grow medicinal herbs, poisonous grass, or poisonous flowers.

Letting these weeds continue growing was somewhat wasteful.

"Should we clear all these weeds?"

"Mm, I'll leave it to A Yong. Mua~"

Xiao Yi Xian turned around and lightly kissed the young man beside her on the cheek. The flower-like smile of the young girl, along with the wink she gave him, made her impossible to refuse.

Wu Yong wrapped an arm around Little Fairy, lowered his head slightly, and closed his eyes as he breathed in her faint maidenly fragrance.

One hand slowly rose, and countless wind blades sliced through the ground of the valley, severing the weeds at their roots.

When the wind blades encountered wild flowers, medicinal herbs, and trees, they passed through them as well. Yet they did not cut them apart. It was as if only a breeze had swept past, making the petals and branches sway slightly.

The wind blew the weeds onto a nearby hillside, planting them there and giving them a new place to grow.

As it carried the weeds to the hillside, the wind blades within the valley transformed into plows and turned over the earth.

The wind swept through once more, smoothing the freshly turned ground flat again.

In the blink of an eye, every weed in the valley had been cleared away, while everything other than the weeds remained completely unharmed.

Sitting atop the mountain, Medusa witnessed it all with her own eyes. It looked like a miracle.

Only true experts understood that destruction was sometimes simpler; all it took was enough force.

What was truly difficult was achieving such meticulous control over energy that not even a single flower was accidentally harmed.

To accomplish that, controlling energy alone was not enough. It also required sufficiently powerful perception.

Medusa knew she could not do it.

Having her split mountains or sever rivers would be no problem, but she truly could not handle such delicate work.

"As expected of this queen's Master!"

She watched the wind blades carve through patches of earth as the wind blew all kinds of seeds into the soil and covered them over.

Water from the nearby river was wrapped in the wind and lifted into the sky, then blown down drop by drop throughout the valley like a light rain.

It was just past noon, the hottest part of the day. Beneath the slightly scorching sunlight, as cool droplets fell onto her body, drops of sweet dew seemed to fall upon the barren land in Medusa's heart as well.

Such cool rainwater was a rare sight in the desert even once in several decades. If she could receive his mercy, then...

Her gaze fell upon the young man holding that innocent girl atop the building, her eyes filled with hope for the future.

Zi Yan held out her hand to feel the cool droplets falling. Curious, she poked her head out and looked overhead.

There were no dark clouds, and the sky was clear for thousands of miles. How was it raining?

Blinking, Zi Yan saw an enormous sphere of water. Wind continuously carried droplets from it and blew them down onto the valley's soil, watering the seeds that had just been planted.

"I didn't know Boss could do this too..."

Because they had committed crimes together, Zi Yan had always viewed Wu Yong as the group's strongest fighter—a formidable bandit leader with both speed and strength.

She truly had not expected that even something like farming could be handled by Wu Yong with such effortless ease. It felt as though everything was so simple before him.

Feeling the pleasant sensation on her arms, Zi Yan's eyes lit up. She flew onto the roof and lay there in the rain while basking in the sun.

The moist rainwater neutralized the trace of heat in the sunlight, making it feel especially warm. Zi Yan sprawled across the rooftop without a shred of grace.

A soft, delicate little hand slowly reached out from beneath the eaves. Cool droplets fell into its fair palm, shattering into several smaller drops.

Before long, a faint layer of water covered the palm.

Just as the droplets in that little palm were about to spill, another, larger hand reached out and covered it.

The owners of the two hands smiled at each other. Neither knew what was so meaningful about it, but they simply found it fun.

As the final droplet fell from the enormous sphere of water above the valley, this artificial rainfall came to an end.

Just in time, the huge orb of light in the sky was about to set as well.

On the cliffside, the group sat or stood, watching the sunset over the sea.

The three women—two grown and one young—each felt differently, yet all wore smiles that came from the heart.

At least by this man's side, they had nothing to worry about.

The scene slowly drew closer, settling upon the back of the tallest man standing in the middle.

This man's shoulders were broad enough that even the great sun was completely blocked by him.

The same was true of the surging sea. No matter how fierce the wind and waves, his solid figure blocked them all.

That night, listening to the crashing waves, Xiao Yi Xian and Wu Yong embraced each other and quickly drifted into sleep.

Several thousand meters above the valley, endless winds gathered the energy of heaven and earth from tens of thousands of miles around into the valley.