A few years earlier, Deng Bagu had followed Shi Feiyang's instructions and transported water from the South Sea to the Tarim Basin to bring rain.
The process sounded simple, but the two places were far apart, with countless mountains and Glacier between them and extremely complicated changes in climate along the way. Not only did it consume enormous amounts of magical power, the water vapor being transported could easily evaporate and disperse halfway, or turn prematurely into rain and hail and fall to the ground.
Deng Bagu's cultivation and magical power were inferior to Shi Feiyang's. She could not accomplish it through her own strength alone and had to borrow the power of her magic treasure, the Snow Soul Pearl.
Ji Fan cultivated in Qilian Mountain year-round and occasionally went to Heavenly Mountain to gather thousand-year-old snow lotuses. When he saw the Snow Soul Pearl, refined from essence of ice and snow accumulated over hundreds of millions of years, desire instantly stirred in his heart!
Deng Bagu's Snow Soul Pearl had already been a supreme treasure. After she refined it anew with Ice-Soul Divine Light, it became even more wondrous. Seen from afar, it held a dazzling mass of cold radiance at its center, surrounded by a lustrous rainbow glow that bound a cloud bank of water vapor stretching a Thousand Miles across. As it raced north from the south, its sheer majesty left Ji Fan staring in a daze.
Greed took hold of the scoundrel, and he actually lay in ambush among the clouds, intending to seize it.
Deng Bagu was known as the Female Calamity Deity. How could she be someone easy to provoke? They fought a magical battle on the spot, and within half a day, Deng Bagu had broken Ji Fan's spells and magic treasures one