"Gu Qingshan, the gate is about to open!"
"Gu Qingshan! Gu Qingshan! Why aren't you saying anything?"
Lola cried out anxiously.
Gu Qingshan stood in the void, his expression wooden.
No matter how Lola called to him, he didn't react at all.
Suddenly, a long sword appeared in the void.
Earth Sword!
"Stop calling him. He isn't here right now." Earth Sword's voice was heavy as a mountain.
"He isn't here?"
Lola froze and looked closely at Gu Qingshan.
—His soul seemed to be absent from his body.
Earth Sword said solemnly, "Heaven Sword is asleep. Tide's Voice and I will stay here to protect you and Gu Qingshan."
Another long sword flew out and hummed at Lola.
It was Tide's Voice.
"Then—where did Gu Qingshan's soul go?" Lola pressed.
Earth Sword replied, "Someone wanted to see him, and it was urgent, so he went straight there."
Lola asked worriedly, "There won't be any danger, will there? After all, he's only a soul...and you're both staying here..."
"Don't worry. It's an old friend. Besides, Gu Qingshan has the Six Realms God Mountain Sword and three Saint Pillar soul artifacts with him."
Gu Qingshan flew through the endless void.
This time, he was moving far faster than before. Even he could feel how urgent and frantic the force pulling him along was.
Everything around him blurred into streaks of light and vanished in an instant.
Then, an Ignorant World appeared before Gu Qingshan.
A Bronze Pillar connected heaven and earth, stretching beyond sight.
It seemed to have stood there since the beginning of time, enduring countless eras without ever budging.
A Giant Corpse clad in Black Armor was pinned to the Bronze Pillar.
No one knew who it was, where it came from, or why it had been pinned to