If the mother river of rules were likened to a living being,
then the rules it contained would be that being's property.
Anyone
would be unhappy if someone stole from them.
When faced with a thief, they would naturally feel anger.
Although the mother river of rules had no Sentience and was not truly a living being, it still possessed some instinct.
Now that it had detected Qin Shujian's intrusion, its anger was easy to imagine.
Watching the enormous waves surge around him, Qin Shujian casually thrust out a palm and completely suppressed them.
The next instant,
he stepped forward, unleashing an overwhelming aura that suppressed everything across the Eight Wastelands and Four Extremities.
In terms of strength,
Qin Shujian already stood at the pinnacle of ninth-level immortals. Even though he had not reached half-step Dao Fruit, he was not far from it.
If heaven and earth were likened to a mighty Dao Fruit cultivator,
then the mother river of rules, as a part of heaven and earth, possessed strength that could almost reach the Dao Fruit level.
If the Mother River truly possessed Sentience,
then Qin Shujian, with his current strength, would have absolutely no chance of resisting its full-force retaliation.
But the problem was,
the mother river of rules was not a true living being, so its theoretical Dao Fruit strength remained merely theoretical.
Its instinctive counterattacks
posed no significant threat to Qin Shujian, who had already reached the pinnacle of ninth-level immortals.
Every towering wave that approached was struck down by Qin Shujian's palm.
The waters below surged.
With a single step, he suppressed them completely.
At that moment, Qin Shujian strode through the mother river of rules. Rivers of rules swept past him, quickly disappearing from sight.
By now, his inner world had produced over a