The fine rain of late summer scattered over the mist-shrouded vastness of Dongting Lake.
Legend had it that dragons once lived in Dongting Lake, but they were slaughtered because they so often whipped up wind and waves that they interfered with the Red Emperor's clearing of the wilderness... This was also the only definite record of the Red Emperor exorcising dragons.
In fact, since the Exorcising the Dragon Gang had taken that name, risen to power, and even genuinely exorcised a dragon, it naturally wanted to trace the legitimacy of dragon-exorcising further back. The Four Sovereigns exorcising dragons had thus become a sort of emblem.
Supposedly, State Lord Wei Xuanding had already begun preparations for relief carvings in Yecheng. The first scene would be the Four Sovereigns exorcising dragons; all that remained undecided was whether to carve it on the Three Towers of Linzhang or at the Grand Drill Ground east of the city.
Of course, that had nothing to do with Bai Yousi for the moment. Her present task was to sweep clean these eight hundred li of dragonless Dongting Lake.
"Steward Bai, shouldn't we intercept that?" The half-day's rain had stopped, and sunlight returned toward evening. On a small lakeside hill south of Baling, within the allied positions, Du Pozhen pointed toward a spot on the lake and offered his earnest advice before the assembled allied commanders. "Shall I send the Huai River navy to try?"
There, a small boat was sailing out from behind Baling. Judging by its course, it must have left through the water gate to make contact with those deeper within Dongting Lake.
Bai Yousi frowned slightly, seemingly weighing the suggestion.
Just then, Lin Shiyang, who was also watching from the hill, suddenly rebuked him, giving the coalition's actual leader no face whatsoever. "What