A head flew into the air.
Reneedol's body fell to the ground.
Gu Qingshan had already shifted his gaze to the curtain.
He wanted to see whether the charm affecting the curtain would disappear.
—If it didn't, that would be troublesome.
After all, the curtain had once brought Reneedol back from the dead.
Gu Qingshan tightened his grip on the Six Realms God Mountain Sword, already prepared.
If it came to it, he would strike the curtain with his sword.
The curtain first looked overcome with grief, but his expression gradually turned strange.
Staring at Reneedol's corpse, he muttered to himself, "Why... has my love for her vanished?"
—He realized that someone had tampered with his feelings and emotions.
Gu Qingshan was still playing the part of Red Ghost, so it wouldn't do for him to speak to the curtain. Still, he felt a weight lift from his heart.
Now that the curtain no longer loved Reneedol and had even begun to doubt the whole affair, there was a good chance he would uncover the truth.
As "Rod," Gu Qingshan could give him a hand.
Just as Gu Qingshan was thinking this, he suddenly sensed something was wrong.
—The curtain, Qi Ruo, and Chi Hu stood motionless, as though time had stopped.
The wind had stopped, too.
The whole world was silent, no longer producing the slightest movement.
Gu Qingshan sensed trouble. It felt as though everything had been shrouded in layer upon layer of shadows.
—What kind of person could imprison an entire world?
This was the Ancient World!
Gu Qingshan asked in a low voice, "God of War Interface, have you noticed anything?"
A line of tiny, firefly-like text swiftly appeared in the air:
"Time, space, and fate—the Three Great Laws—are being driven by some kind of power.