Laughter and the clink of cups filled the Rain Master Divine Palace.
"Burp~~"
The Rain Master set down his wine cup and belched. "You've spent so many years reincarnated. It's time to come back. You and I are one. Your attachments are my attachments—how could I not know them?"
"But measured against our long lives, those attachments are only memories of a time gone by."
The Rain Master sighed, moved by the thought.
"No matter how deep an emotion is, after the washing of countless years, even it becomes ordinary."
He opened his mouth and inhaled. Yu Yong turned into a wisp of blue smoke and streamed in through his mouth and nose, returning once more to his soul, just as he had when he was born.
Yu Yong passed through layer upon layer of soul-defending spells and defensive treasures. He passed through the laws of heaven and earth bound to the Rain Master's divine office, then through countless webs of incense power, until he reached the very core of the Rain Master's soul and divine path.
It was a sacred space shrouded in mist and rain.
Its most conspicuous feature was not the soul of this generation's Rain Master, but a rule-bound divine decree gleaming with blue light.
"By decree of the Haotian Golden Palace and the Dao Court:
"Heaven and earth have their laws, and the four seasons answer their appointed times. We have examined Yu Zidao, the Swallowing-Heaven Toad of the Luo River. Since the Jiazi Calamity, he has used the Profound Ice Mirror to suppress the drought demon of the northern frontier and drawn the Heavenly River to relieve three thousand six hundred li of parched land in the central provinces... His heart accords with the Dao of the highest good being like water, and his