In this confrontation, Shen Yuan seemed like a bystander, witnessing everything unfold before him.
He had already learned from Yu Changliu, upon entering the Dragon Lord Temple, that the twelve Water Gods and thirty-six Raging Wave Generals had betrayed the Dragon Lord. Shen Yuan wasn't surprised in the least.
From Yunmeng Dragon Lord slaying the Water God Woxuan, to the Void Ship activating the Great Sun Gold-Refining Formation, to the Jidu Grand Heir arriving with the might of the waters behind him, everything had been imposing and dramatic—but none of it had anything to do with Shen Yuan, a visitor from ten thousand years in the future.
It was as though he were merely watching history unfold.
But when raindrops began falling from the sky, Shen Yuan finally sensed that something was unusual about this reappearance of history from ten thousand years ago.
Rain Summoning!
The name sounded like an ordinary spell: making rain fall. It was merely one of the authorities possessed by Water Tribe deities. Even the Pool Dragon King, who had transformed from a carp, could wield a similar ability.
But the rainmaking authority these Water Tribe deities wielded was, in essence, no more than drawing water from the waters under their control up into the heavens, then scattering it over the mortal world as rain.
The only one who truly governed rainfall in this world was the Heavenly Court, ruler of the assembled immortals and gods.
When the rain would fall, when it would stop, and how much would come—all of it was determined by Heavenly Court Edicts, with not the slightest margin for error.
Yet though the Heavenly Court governed rainfall, it could not control everything completely. Some grand divine abilities left behind from ancient times could summon clouds and rain without regard for its