4: Dragon Qi Gathering Soul Ring! Divine Lord Patrols the Heavens!

The next day.

Led by the village chief, the villagers headed toward the castle of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

After they reported their arrival, they were not granted entry.

A young man came out to meet them.

"The clan is currently holding Spirit Fights. Why have you come to bother us again?"

"Have you thought it through? Decided to sell the land? Five silver coins per mu. You can sign and seal the contract right now." The young man took several contracts out from his robes.

The village chief put on a forced smile and waved his hands, saying:

"No, my lord, we came to ask you something... We heard the Empire is going to issue relief funds. Does the clan have any..."

The young man's expression turned cold. He stared at the villagers and said in a low voice:

"Do you expect the clan to support you for nothing? Do you think the clan is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School? We have no money! Your only option is to sell your land. Decide sooner rather than later, or tomorrow the price will drop to four silver coins!"

"The laws of the Empire don't reach this place! There is a drought for a thousand miles around. Do you really think the Empire can manage to help everyone?"

The young man's blunt words instantly threw the villagers into a panic.

To them, a single silver coin was no small amount.

The villagers looked at each other and then stared expectantly at the village chief.

The village chief's back bent even lower as he hurriedly said, "My lord, please give us a little more time. we rely on the fields for our livelihood. If we lose the land..."

The young man pointed to the sky and sneered, "Lose the land? Look, with such a huge sun in the sky, the drought will continue. Your land won't have any harvest. Without the Family buying the land, you'll just be waiting to die!"

The village chief raised his hand to wipe the beads of sweat from his face, and the wrinkles on his forehead seemed to deepen.

The villagers all lowered their heads, not daring to talk back.

A group of unskilled villagers could do nothing but be fish on someone else's chopping block; they couldn't stir up any waves.

"Please, give us more time. I'll kneel to you..." The village chief trembled as he prepared to kneel.

The young man quickly dodged to the side, his expression changing as he barked angrily:

"What do you mean by this?! Kneeling to me at the clan's entrance—are you trying to ruin my reputation? Stand up immediately! If anyone sees this, don't even think about selling that land of yours!"

The village chief could only stand up quickly, his face flushed red and at a loss, as if everything he did was wrong.

A village woman whispered:

"Maybe, maybe we should just sell it? We can't get any money now, and even survival is a problem. Besides, isn't Mengzhang short of money in the clan?"

Several villagers beside her hurriedly pulled her back, stopping her from saying more.

The young man said irritably, "Wait, wait, wait—you want to wait for the heavens to rain? What wishful thinking! The Directorate of Astronomy in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace has already seen it: for the next three years, the area around Heaven Dou City will suffer a great drought! Waiting for rain is no different from waiting for a Miracle!"

The young man glared at them in annoyance and was about to turn and leave.

Suddenly, a cool breeze blew past.

Everyone couldn't help but feel a faint chill.

They looked up and saw that in the previously cloudless sky, at the far horizon, waves seemed to be surging forward.

The wind came even faster... In the Dragon Valley, within the graveyard.

A gentle whirlwind swirled in front of a small grave.

The wind was clear, and vaguely, an azure light seemed to be spinning with it, or rather, "it" was the one creating the wind.

In the middle of the breeze, Yu Mengzhang knelt before the tombstone, his back straight.

An otherworldly aura that did not belong to the mortal realm emanated from his body.

Contrasted against him, although the nearby Green Lizard's appearance hadn't changed, it also possessed a mysterious divine charm.

The azure light on the Green Lizard's body fluctuated a few times, and it suddenly "spat" out a blue spirit ring upward.

The spirit ring was sky-blue and very faint, with tiny flickers of electricity faintly visible within it.

"Ying...!!!"

The Green Lizard let out a crisp "dragon roar," venting its joyful emotions.

This was Yu Mengzhang's first spirit ring!

A spirit ring formed by the convergence of hundreds and thousands of strands of Dragon Qi!

It did not belong to any living Spirit Beast, yet the Spirit Ability it brought was not inferior to a spirit ring of any level!

"Azure Thunder Cloud Summoning..." Yu Mengzhang kept his eyes closed and spoke the name of the Spirit Ability.

This special spirit ring ability was not affected by the age of the spirit ring.

When used, it could summon a rainstorm Domain based on Soul Power, and it was connected to celestial phenomena, receiving a boost from them.

At the same time, it possessed basic skills to summon wind and rain, which could be condensed into dragon-scale-shaped blades.

It could also directly call down azure lightning.

The effect of this Spirit Ability absolutely surpassed a god-bestowed spirit ring.

Even using only his current Soul Power, Yu Mengzhang could summon a rainstorm Domain over ten meters in diameter.

Because manipulating celestial phenomena was one of the authorities of the Azure Dragon.

Yu Mengzhang looked up at the sky. As his dragon soul condensed, the world itself seemed to be celebrating the manifestation of Divine Lord Mengzhang.

Wind follows the tiger, and clouds follow the dragon; since he had descended, thunderous clouds should manifest.

"Ang...!!!"

At the same time, a faint dragon roar echoed in his ears.

It was the residual Dragon Qi roaring. They had provided the purest "energy," but many "Impurities" still remained.

Although the Spirit Masters and gods of the Douluo Continent could not mobilize them,

Yu Mengzhang could lead them.

"In this year of great drought, you are also unwilling to see the mortal realm suffer, aren't you? Use your remaining power to bring down sweet rain for the world..."

Yu Mengzhang closed his eyes again, and soon, the figure of the Green Lizard beside him quickly faded.

As the Green Lizard returned to its place, an Azure Dragon divine soul flew out from Yu Mengzhang's body—a Divine Soul shaped by Dragon Qi.

Though it was still weak, it already possessed a hint of the Azure Dragon's divine charm!

Yu Mengzhang looked at his "body" below. He was now in a state similar to Primordial Spirit Leaving the Body. His own power wasn't strong, but he carried the authority of the Azure Dragon of the East, capable of manipulating celestial phenomena.

Furthermore, there was still the Dragon Qi of those Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragons around him!

Yu Mengzhang rose into the air.

Hundreds of strands of Dragon Qi followed him, ascending to the heavens together.

The sky seemed to have finally welcomed its master. Clouds gathered from all directions, quickly merging and becoming thicker and thicker.

In this land that had been parched for months, the poisonous sunlight was completely blocked out.

"Ang...!"

Yu Mengzhang let out a dragon roar.

He merged himself into the Thunderclouds, his figure expanding and transforming into a thousand-meter-long phantom of an Azure Dragon, looking down from above.

Each strand of Dragon Qi became a part of him.

They surrendered all their power to him.

Yu Mengzhang shuttled through the clouds, and in an instant, he appeared a hundred miles away.

As he moved, the clouds gathered thicker and thicker, and their color began to darken.

He looked down at the mortal world below—the cracked earth and the withered crops all seemed to be crying out about the hardships of the living beings here.

Villagers in many villages saw the anomaly in the sky and knelt on the ground, bowing incessantly and praying with utmost sincerity.

They longed so much for the arrival of spring rain!

With another flick of his figure, Yu Mengzhang arrived above Heaven Dou City.

In the city, figures ran outside, tilting their heads back and looking up at the sky with full anticipation.

They were calling out, "Rain, O God! Show your power!"

Countless voices, the calls of different people, rose from the ground into the air and entered Yu Mengzhang's body.

"Ang...!!!"

Finally, Yu Mengzhang let out a dragon's howl.

Hundreds of strands of Dragon Qi roared simultaneously in response.

Accompanied by a massive bolt of lightning that tore through the darkness,

"Rumble...!!!"

The rain poured down in torrents.

A dragon shape flowed within the clouds...