Hearts tightened.
Lips were cracked, pale skin peeling upward.
A full, orange-yellow Great Sun hung high at the center of the sky!
The clouds broke, and the sun emerged!
An invisible pillar of Qi rose. Centered on Moon Gazing Tower, sheets of dark clouds rapidly cracked apart and dispersed, like the ice armor blanketing the earth in early spring shattering, warm snowmelt flowing through the fissures and falling in a fine drizzle.
The sodden earth was exposed to sunlight once more.
Bubbles drifted and burst in the puddles. Soft green grass breathed freely, while grasshoppers in the brush leaped onto the tips of the blades.
Flap, flap, flap! Dark and dense flocks of birds spread their wings and soared high.
"Rainbow!"
The commoners raised their heads.
A seven-colored rainbow bridge stretched from east to west across the entirety of Accumulated Water Pond, like a heavenly staircase.
"Pssh!"
An elephant's cry shook the heavens as its long trunk drew in water.
Water sprayed into the sky a hundred zhang high, and mist drifted down in a hazy veil. Birds darted through it, seven-colored light blending with the rosy clouds as rainbow light reflected against them—an incomparable splendor!
A moment ago, rain had been pouring down in torrents, yet the next moment...
"What's going on?"
"What happened?"
Inside Moon Gazing Tower, it was as expected.
Outside Moon Gazing Tower, everyone was utterly baffled.
"I know! It's Liang Qu, Earl Xingyi! Look at the twenty-fifth floor of Moon Gazing Tower! He's there!"
A young man boating on Accumulated Water Pond shouted.
Moon Gazing Tower? Everyone instinctively looked up, counting floor by floor, but halfway through, their eyes were seized by the phenomenon on the upper levels.
Hoo hoo hoo~ Azure and white light whistled as Gang Wind crisscrossed the air. It seemed as