Less Than...

It wasn't exactly the same, it was more subtly the same. He could feel the laws of the world twisting around the little phoenix's claw, echoing across the planes and breaking their rules one after another. But the main difference was that the Unbalance Mantra passed the laws of the universe through a filter, distorting them as though one was observing them through a puddle of water, the more proficient you were, the thicker you could make that layer of water, and the more you could distort those laws.

These White Phoenix Heavenly Patterns, though…

It didn't feel like it was distorting laws, rather it felt like it was creating new ones, layering them atop of existing ones and twisting reality around its own small region.

This was a subtle difference, but the implication was enormous and almost difficult to put into words.