In the North Spring Realm.
Gu Yuanqing recalled his avatar from the Immortal Realm, though he left marks in certain special places sufficient to cast the Heavenly Angling Technique.
He might not visit the Immortal Realm often, but since he had gone there, he naturally had to leave something behind for future use.
Over those ten years, one of his avatars had accompanied Li Miaoxuan as they comprehended the Way of Nirvana together, while another had traveled throughout the Immortal Realm, experiencing its diverse cultures and customs and all manner of wondrous places.
A Golden Immortal's power did indeed suffer some suppression in the Immortal Realm, preventing him from being as omnipotent as in the lower realms, but his abilities could still be described as vast.
In ten years, Gu Yuanqing had traversed regions that many Celestial Immortals could not cover in hundreds of thousands or even a million years, and witnessed wonders of heaven and earth that other cultivators might never see in their entire lives.
During that time, he had also encountered fellow Golden Immortals, but they merely exchanged nods before passing one another by.
This alone revealed the immense differences that actually existed between cultivators of the Immortal Path and the Divine Path.
Those on the Immortal Path observed heaven and earth to understand themselves, seeking transcendence in freedom and ease.
Cultivators of the Divine Path aimed to control the power of Rule Divine Artifacts. Even the foundation for becoming a God Lord lay in controlling an entire world of rules, seeking to clothe themselves in external might. Thus, Divine Path cultivators valued authority. Although Immortal Path cultivators might also pursue status, it was more a means of obtaining opportunities and making things easier.
For Divine Path cultivators, authority represented power to a certain extent!
Gu Yuanqing