Gu Qingshan looked up at the Empress of Myriad Gods in the sky.
The world beneath his feet was gradually crumbling.
All Things Crumble.
Every evil ghost had been slaughtered.
"Stop!"
Gu Qingshan said.
The shattered earth abruptly froze.
The clouds above stopped moving.
The evil ghosts' bodies hung like blooming flowers of blood, not yet fully bursting apart.
—This wasn't time stopping.
Gu Qingshan was simply controlling the Time Retracing Technique, halting past events at a particular moment so he could examine them closely.
He walked up to an evil ghost and carefully sensed it.
Then he flew into the sky and circled the entire world.
At last, he returned to where he had started.
"That'll do."
He said.
The world sank into collapse and destruction once more.
Gradually, the entire world turned to sand and began scattering into the Void Turbulence.
Reneedol glanced indifferently at the world.
Her gaze settled on Gu Qingshan.
Gu Qingshan immediately realized that he was now the old evil ghost.
"There's actually one that slipped through the net."
Reneedol raised a slender finger, green as a scallion, and pointed lightly.
Darkness descended.
The scene ended there.
Gu Qingshan emerged from the Time Retracing Technique.
He found himself holding the evil ghost's head. A cold sweat covered his back, and he couldn't stop himself from panting heavily.
Inside the barrier, the great evil ghost had only just turned around and taken its First Step.
Time.
Only an instant had passed.
Gu Qingshan dropped the head and slumped onto the cold stone floor.
He pulled out a gourd of Spiritual Wine and took a long swig. Only then did he gradually steady himself.
It wasn't anything else. The power Reneedol wielded was simply too terrifying. Just watching that scene from the past had caused a