Li Bufan closed his eyes in the deep sea and pondered, replaying every detail he had felt during his previous two attempts to climb the Heavenly Flame Waterfall.
The immense pressure descending from above, the ancient power of rules contained within the waterfall, and the mountain-crushing heaviness left upon him by the lingering might of the dragon corpse—all of it was repeatedly analyzed within his divine sense. An increasingly clear train of thought gradually took shape in his heart.
Though that pressure was astonishingly immense, it was not fundamentally impossible to withstand.
Whether it was the fact that the ancestors of the demon fish leader had once successfully reached the summit, or the way those demon fish charged at the waterfall day after day, year after year, it all proved that the pressure could be overcome by some means.
The demon fish relied on the advantages of their physiques. The smaller their bodies, the less pressure they endured. Coupled with the natural affinity between the fire-element Demon Essence flowing within them and the residual power of the dragon corpse, the actual pressure they bore while climbing was several times lower than Li Bufan's.
But Li Bufan was not a demon fish. He could neither change the size of his body nor make the blood flowing through him resonate naturally with the dragon corpse.
All he could do was either resist that pressure head-on with his own strength or find some way to dissolve it.
"Dissolve it."
"Dissolve it... Right, the Heaven Severing Seal!"
After being reforged by his master, Li Tianying, the Heaven Severing Seal had undergone a complete transformation, becoming a treasure that aided cultivation with "suppression" as its core.
That suppressive power was, in essence, an imitation of all external oppressive forces. Moreover, as a special weapon remade