Such dark clouds spreading over the rainforest were hardly uncommon in the South Sea, where the weather changed so often.
Yet these clouds had gathered long ago without shedding a drop of rain. Amid the churning gray gloom, a barely perceptible wisp of mist slowly stretched downward, spreading cautiously as it probed into the rainforest's swaying green leaves. As it spread, the cloud formation and haze blotted out all sunlight above the island, making the dense forest even more stifling.
After a good while, the clouds above the rainforest remained unchanged, but that thread of white mist had vanished entirely into the greenery. Just as its final remnant disappeared among the trees, the steaming ground-hugging haze abruptly transformed into a white-robed man. Once he had landed and taken shape, this strange visitor born of mist looked all around, his expression grave, as though searching for something.
"How strange!"
After bustling about for a while, the handsome, elegant divine man, with his fine brows and bright eyes, exclaimed in surprise:
"Miss Qiong Rong should clearly be here. Why can't I sense her presence at all?"
As he looked this way and that, surveying his surroundings, the beautiful lord of the Hometown of Dark Rain also kept glancing at the exotic flowering bromeliads around him. The pools held within their spiraling green leaves were like bright mirrors, perfect for checking himself from either side to make sure his clothes and hair had not fallen out of place.
He searched like this a little longer. Though he was already being exceedingly careful, almost lowering himself to part the grass in search of her, he still found nothing.
Walking here and there, keeping himself busy, he unknowingly spent nearly half an hour searching. By now, even this South Sea Dragon General, who had ventured