Yu Tames the Floods

Six Ears transformed into a sturdy young man and walked through Mount Yu. Suddenly, he stopped, his gaze drawn to a child wearing a tiny straw raincoat against the rain, squatting on the ground and tracing lines through the muddy earth with his fingers.

Six Ears stepped forward and asked, "Little friend, what are you doing?"

"I'm thinking about how to control the floods!"

The child lifted his head and answered with a solemn expression.

Hearing the seriousness in the child's voice, Six Ears trembled slightly and lowered his head to examine the child's creation.

There was a pool of water, surrounded by walls of piled-up mud. It looked remarkably like Gun's proposed flood-control method of building high walls to keep the water out.

"Child, what is your name? Which family do you belong to?"

Six Ears immediately took an interest in the child and asked curiously.

"My name is Yu! My father, Gun, was punished for failing to control the floods. When I grow up, I will clear my father's name and solve this flood disaster!"

The child spoke with words that struck the ground like iron.

Seeing Yu's ambition, Six Ears immediately felt the urge to nurture such talent. As for his master's instruction to go to the Chong Tribe and seek out the common ruler, he felt that he had found him. There was no need to make that trip to the Chong Tribe. "Yu, are you willing to become my disciple?"

Yu did not agree at once. Instead, he looked at Six Ears with an odd expression and questioned him, "Become your disciple? Who are you? I have already given my name, yet you have not given yours."

"This humble Daoist comes from Carefree Island, the chief disciple under Lu Chen, the chief disciple of the