After leaving Ohara and traveling far and wide, Mousse felt that his physical fitness had improved noticeably. But when the suddenly overflowing mud swallowed him whole in an instant, before he even had time to turn around, he finally understood that he was still weak.
Fortunately, Li Dayong quickly gained control of his ability and dispelled his temporarily out-of-control elemental state. Aside from being badly startled, Mousse suffered no real harm.
Still, Li Dayong hurriedly apologized to him. Naturally, Mousse waved it off, saying it was fine, but he stopped after only two waves when he noticed that Li Dayong seemed somewhat hesitant.
It turned out that once Li Dayong canceled his elemental state, the ground immediately returned to normal. There was not even a trace of dampness left behind. Where was the altered terrain?
After thinking for a while, Li Dayong used his Devil Fruit ability to create another huge mass of mud. This one did not disappear, but even if he created mud with all his might, he could at most quickly fill a room. It was nothing like the immense power Mousse had described, the power to reshape mountains and landscapes!
Mousse glanced around and immediately understood what was happening. He smiled and reassured Li Dayong, "You might need to awaken your Devil Fruit ability before you can permanently alter large-scale terrain. You need to fully develop your fruit ability first. Uncle, you only just ate it. Aren't you being a little too impatient?"
But Li Dayong sighed with a bitter smile. "I'm not like you, little brother. You haven't even come of age yet, so you have plenty of time. But I'm almost forty, and what I want to do is so enormous. If I keep wasting time, it'll be too late."
"Perhaps I shouldn't have