Shang Xia pressed himself firmly against the wall beside him. Even with the Water Repulsion Pearl, he felt as though the water was rushing against his skin. He could feel every subtle transformation to the current around him. 

The feeling was pretty similar to what he felt back when he stood in the middle of the Origin Tide when he was still in the Martial Realm.

The only difference between what he was experiencing was that the heaven and earth qi that had fused with the water around him was much less violent than at the core of an Origin Tide. Shang Xia could feel that it was obediently following the flow of the river. 

Heaven and earth qi in the space around him became denser and denser, turning...