Eastern sea waters.
In just a few short hours, a typhoon cyclone had formed into a superstorm, its wind rating still climbing. Coastal nations throughout the region issued typhoon disaster warnings. Strangely, the eye of the storm remained fixed in one place without moving...
In low Earth orbit, beyond the space station's window lay the azure planet. An astronaut floated before the window, gazing down at Earth.
Looking down from inside the spacecraft, the white cyclone could be seen clearly.
The astronaut turned to look in another direction. The glow of an unknown energy body grew ever brighter, echoing the storm eye from afar.
The view left the space station and descended, passing through the atmosphere toward a certain place...
The lower it went, the clearer the chaotic flashes of intense light within the black clouds became. The complex weather system followed the great river toward the sea. The view continued downward, drawing ever closer to the black clouds...
It plunged into the black clouds, piercing layer upon layer of raindrops, clouds, and mist as it swept between chaotic bolts of lightning...
The view suddenly opened up. Blinding lightning illuminated the world. Looking down from the clouds at the great river, one could vaguely see a slender white shadow writhing and crawling forward, carrying avalanche-like white waves as it surged eastward. The floodwaters did not destroy the embankments, nor did they inundate fertile fields; they merely scoured the riverbed.
Scattered cultivators waited along both banks of the great river, bearing witness to a miracle.
Some families with deep cultural inheritances had discerned clues from the weather forecasts and the abnormalities in the great river. They brought their entire households to watch in the rain. As the flood dragon passed, lightning flashed, thunder roared, and beastly howls came in waves. Beasts