The sword light fell into the diagram, only to pass straight through it. Ripples spread across the image, but nothing else changed.
The diagram seemed to exist between illusion and reality. Even Gu Yuanqing's void immortal power struggled to touch it.
He even felt his will lose its connection to the strand of sword qi that had passed through with the sword light, as though the enormous diagram before him had severed it.
Gu Yuanqing frowned slightly. He knew this was a difference in the level of their powers.
He had drawn upon the power of North Spring Grotto-Heaven for that strike. Though it seemed to exceed the limits of a Void Immortal, he himself was still only a Void Immortal.
Void Immortals were equivalent to the Demigods of the Exquisite World, while the power before him was at the true god level—the level of a genuine Immortal.
Even if its wielder had lost his physical body and existed only as a divine soul, far from his prime, the Immortal Path these people followed was fundamentally different from Gu Yuanqing's. Their power came from Rules Divine Artifacts.
Gu Yuanqing had experienced the power of Rules Divine Artifacts before. They altered and attacked the Rules themselves, making them all but impossible to guard against.
He had also cultivated the power of the Great Void Creation Wheel. Though that power was of little use to his current strength, its methods still left him astonished.
The Immeasurable Heavenly Secrets Diagram before him likewise filled Gu Yuanqing with wariness.
It was said that this Rules Divine Artifact carried karma and the Way of Fate. Those who cultivated its path excelled at divining Heavenly Secrets and manipulating karma.
He did not know how far a True God's command of such power could reach, but there