"No!"
Yet the shifting clouds did not bend to the Muhe Water God's will. Though its expression had frozen stiff, and it wanted to try something, what could it do now that things had come to this?
It could do nothing. The matter had already become a foregone conclusion.
The wind, thunder, lightning, and rain had originally been wild and violent, but now it was as if an invisible pair of hands was slowly smoothing them out, subduing and soothing them.
They gradually began moving in a single rhythm, shifting from the places where rain had already fallen toward the distance. The migration had actually begun to stabilize!
"It succeeded!" one of the water gods murmured. Turning, he smiled. "Muhe, at first I thought you harbored ill intentions. Who would have thought you were truly loyal and devoted? Knowing that the Dragon Lord was born able to command wind and rain, you deliberately added water vapor."
"Yes, you should believe me!"
The Muhe Water God finally came back to its senses. It exchanged looks with several gods, then forced a smile as it watched the scene before it, unable to believe that everything it had done had amounted to nothing.
What made it feel even worse than all its efforts going to waste was that what it had done had very likely truly strengthened the Young Dragon's might and allowed him to grow even faster!
One had to know that water vapor in heaven and earth was constant in quantity. If there was more here, there would be less elsewhere. Taking recklessly might bring water to this land while leaving another stricken by drought.
Therefore, even for a Dragon Lord, water vapor did not come from nowhere.
He drew it from Coiling Dragon Lake, the rains nearby, and a small