Li Su had no idea what had happened in the dueling arena.
Having finally completed his advancement, he set out on the road—ptui, no, his Dao Fruits entered the inner river, setting off toward a new world.
Of course, it did not go smoothly.
Li Su had widened the river greatly—astonishingly so.
As a result, the flow within was beyond imagination. To put it in perspective, hundreds of millions of cubic meters of water surged downward every second.
The moment they entered the nine-foot river—just as they entered—the Dao Fruits were nearly overturned by the oncoming torrent and swept beneath the river's surface.
The water pressure was immense. If his Dao Fruits had not been strong enough, and if the stability of the inner river had not given the cave heavens greater power to expand, he might truly have capsized.
After steadying himself, he naturally began to move forward.
Though his foundation was incomparably robust, once he set out, he discovered that the waters of the World River were truly terrifying. The cascading water was astonishingly violent; it was not merely a matter of sheer volume. There was a mysterious substance within it that could pierce through the Great Dao.
The seven Dao Fruits traveling together were almost instantly pierced through by that substance. Their structures developed enormous problems, as though they were about to be destroyed.
Faced with this result, he had to stop every inch or so to catch his breath, letting the Dao Fruits remain in place and continuously resist, adapting to the attack.
Fortunately, his foundation was far too solid and far too profound. The Dao Fruits themselves were formed from the supreme; every Great Dao ran through the paramount, leading toward the Saint Realm.
If the difficulty of reaching the World River was an insurmountable