"How could it rain? How could it possibly keep raining? This defies Heaven's will, this defies Heaven's will!" King Yu suddenly cried out in utter loss of composure.
This time, it was not just one official who saw his savage expression. Nearly all the officials instinctively took several steps back.
"Never mind whether the court truly hoped the rainfall would fail—even if it did, for a prince, a dignified king, to lose control like this is simply too much."
"Even if His Highness came with a mission, having exposed himself like this, I fear he will have no future left."
The officials present had countless thoughts racing through their minds, but with almost no exceptions, they all felt they had taken a few steps too few.
Dragon Palace
Wind and rain howled. Listening closely, there was a sound of slaughter within it, clangor upon clangor without end, cold enough to pierce the bones.
The Heavenly Secret Monster hidden in the shadows, upon learning of this and discovering that all his schemes had failed, cried out in disbelief, "How could this be? No, this is impossible!"
Having concealed himself, the Heavenly Secret Monster had been watching the Dragon Palace and the riverbank all along. As a Great Demon, and a strange demon such as the Heavenly Secret Monster, he naturally possessed extraordinary abilities.
While fighting a Great Demon head-on might have been somewhat difficult for him, fighting the Dragon Lord directly would have been courting death. But fleeing and hiding were his specialties.
Seeing the Dragon Lord wounded by his strike, then nearly unable to hold on, blood flowing from his seven apertures, the Heavenly Secret Monster had been delightedly waiting for the moment the Dragon Lord would be crushed into bloody water by tens of thousands of tons of cloud