The defensive grand array of the Heavenly Court shattered.
More than a hundred quasi-sages gathered in the Lingxiao Palace, and the quasi-sages who were about to rush into it came to a halt.
A woman stood proudly right in front of the gates of the Lingxiao Palace.
The Merit Golden Light behind the back of her head illuminated the world, and her aura was fierce and overbearing.
Her facial features were obscured, covered by dense strands of the power of rules, and she wore a magnificent golden palace dress, radiating two contradictory, divine charms that were both domineering and ethereal.
"Jade Pool! If you know what's good for you, hand over the Dao foundation for sanctification, or don't blame us for being merciless."
Jade Pool Golden Mother let out a cold snort, slowly raising her palm. More rules of heaven and earth gathered within it, and she pressed down toward the speaking quasi-sage. Her palm strike was like a mountain or a sea, carrying an extremely heavy sense of oppression.
In terms of their manifested effects, rules and laws had no difference.
However, their origins were diametrically opposed.
Rules were a force that restricted and protected the living beings between heaven and earth.
Laws were a force that allowed heaven and earth to grow and sustain themselves.
Those who mastered rules were generally gods, while those who cultivated laws were immortals.
Even gods at most mastered only a few of those rules. Yet Jade Pool Golden Mother and Haotian God were different.
Even if the two of them did not follow the Dao of gods, they could still control the rules of heaven and earth.
One person stepped out from among the numerous rogue cultivator quasi-sages.
He was a man with short silver hair and a muscular physique. He let