"Goddess Yunxi's First Rain" - Rain over Empty Mountains, Where Might the Goddess Be Found?

"More than half the Dragon Horses at Flowing Cloud Pasture have been stolen?!"

At this ill-fated news, even the normally composed Dragon Lord of Dongting, who oversaw the pasture, instantly darkened in countenance! His father, the Four Rivers Dragon Lord, had recently placed great importance on these war mounts. His instructions to watch over them carefully still rang in his ears, yet something like this had happened so soon.

When the report arrived, Lingyi's stern father, the Xiang Consort's husband, had just returned from Flowing Cloud Pasture to the Four Rivers Water Manor, ready to enjoy the company of his family. He had barely caught his breath before hearing this disastrous news. The Dragon General left in charge had sent word that almost immediately after his departure, trouble had struck the resting grounds of the Dragon Horses. A fierce blaze had suddenly erupted across the marshland lush with aquatic grasses, stretching for several miles like a wall or fence that enclosed every Dragon Horse. According to the messenger, who had witnessed it himself, the fire had been ferocious: the tips of the towering flames had almost scorched the clouds above.

When the flames first began licking upward, the Dragon Soldiers tending the pasture had not panicked. Raising winds and waves was their specialty, after all. What could be easier than putting out a fire? Joining forces, they soon raised tremendous waves across the marshes of Flowing Cloud Pasture, sending them crashing toward the flames in an all-engulfing deluge. Yet, to the astonishment of both soldiers and generals, the ring of fire stretching for miles proved extraordinarily tenacious against waters that seemed capable of swallowing everything. Some mysterious spell appeared to have been laid upon those seemingly ordinary flames. Just as the surging waters were about to strike the fiery wall,