With a thought, the North Spring Realm completely severed its connection to the Fa Yuan Realm.
Yet this isolation did not sever Gu Yuanqing's connection to the Heaven and Earth Stele.
The Heaven and Earth Stele still appeared within his mind, standing imperiously at its very center.
At that moment, it seemed that the center of his mental world was no longer himself, but this stele.
The stele's power seemed to come not from outside, but from within his own mind.
It was as though a world had been born within his heart, and all his consciousness was sinking into it.
The sensation was somewhat similar to what Gu Yuanqing had experienced when he encountered the power of the Town Abyss Underworld Edict, a Rule Divine Artifact, but far more domineering.
Gu Yuanqing frowned slightly. The Dao of Object Control held his mind steady, preventing him from truly losing control and falling into it.
Now, he understood this long-overlooked karma all too clearly.
After all, he had been born in the Floating World, and the North Spring Realm had originated as an ordinary mountain in the Qian Yuan Realm.
By now, that mountain had indeed become a world, growing to the point where it could leave any other world and exist independently.
But that karma had always remained.
It existed deep within the North Spring Realm's origin, as well as in the deepest reaches of Gu Yuanqing's physical body and divine soul.
Even if Gu Yuanqing were to steer the North Spring Realm beyond the confines of the Rules Great World now, he still could not sever that connection.
It was like the bloodline of the Demon Race. Even if a demon escaped the world of a Rule Divine Artifact and reached the outside, then reproduced for countless generations, a