This time, Dragon Cypress brought along two ten-meter-long spider silk ropes gifted by Melde.
Ghost Fan's cave had a bearskin.
Improvised on the spot: punched holes in the bearskin, tied it with spider silk ropes.
Ink Orchid helped, digging silt together with Ghost Fan in the riverbed.
Dragon Cypress controlled the Dominating Throne, hoisting mud through the air to dump on the riverbank.
Busy for two full days and still not done cleaning when a torrential storm hit—flash floods swept in, churning with mud…
After the rain,
another four days of work finally cleared it completely.
Lost a total of six extra days.
Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid worried that all the rain fell to the south—Xianglan Mountain would surely face drought again this year, and they worried whether Round Cypress and Spiked Cypress could handle such natural disasters.
Most of all, they worried about Azure. Was there enough pond water where it rooted? Were its fruits nearly ripe?
They hurried home in haste.
