On a mountain peak isolated by floodwaters.
Bai Yujun gazed at the ocean-like floodwaters, deep in thought.
Do not misunderstand—she was not idly pretending to be profound, pondering snake life, sentimental poetry and distant horizons, ideals, and such nonsense. She was merely considering how to divert the floodwaters more easily. There had to be a way. No matter how skilled her Water Control Technique was, she could not possibly work day and night without rest. The drain was too great; if she encountered someone with ill intentions, she would be in trouble.
After thinking for a long time, she came up with a solution: wait for the rain to stop.
That was all. There was no other way. Bai Yujun's pitiful Wind and Rain Technique could only put on a show within ten or twenty meters around her. It was fine for playing around, but manipulating the weather was out of the question.
She raised her head with a sigh, pitched forward, transformed into a White Snake, and drilled into the surging floodwaters...
The rain never stopped.
Bai Yujun suspected that the Milky Way in the heavens had burst its banks and poured down this torrential rain. A few days ago, she could still see corpses drifting downstream in the water. Recently, there had been far less debris. Even the water had become clear; the days of flooding had scoured the upstream reaches clean.
More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye as she managed the floods.
Bai Yujun's skin had grown even whiter, the result of soaking in water all day without seeing sunlight.
One day.
After finally dragging several giant trees blocking the river channel onto the bank, she suddenly felt exhausted as she watched the floodwaters flow downstream.
The drowsiness came without warning, and