Within the North Spring Realm.
Gu Yuanqing recalled his avatar into his true body.
Although this battle had not achieved everything he had hoped for, the gains had been considerable!
Li Miaoxuan looked somewhat grave. "That was a heavenly god's body. It was truly formidable—even the Dragon Slaying Guillotine struggled to sever a single hand!"
"This must be Wei Zhao's true reserve of strength." Gu Yuanqing frowned slightly as well.
Li Miaoxuan could at least wound him, yet Gu Yuanqing's Azure Nether Sword could barely scratch his skin.
This meant that even if Wei Zhao entered the North Spring Realm and Gu Yuanqing suppressed him with world force, he still would not be able to harm him in the slightest.
The gulf between their cultivation realms was simply too great, and the offensive methods at his disposal were insufficient.
Li Miaoxuan said, "I never expected his divine body to still exist! In that case, we can no longer treat him as a mere remnant soul."
"Indeed. A gap in cultivation realms is not so easily bridged," Gu Yuanqing said softly. "I can borrow the North Spring Realm's power to contend with him, and even suppress him here, but to truly wound or kill him, I need a means of breaking through that heavenly god's body. Besides, he knows something is strange about my mountain. He certainly won't enter lightly."
Li Miaoxuan nodded. "My strike could wound him because the Dragon Slaying Guillotine has become an immortal artifact. But that physical body had only just awakened, so I doubt it was at its peak. And you had restrained and suppressed him. Otherwise..."
She did not finish, but her meaning was plain.
What she had struck was merely his physical body. If he combined it with divine abilities, she might not even