Chapter 1472
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Chapter 1472 Wall of Space and Time
A deathly silence enveloped the vast expanse as Lin Qiye slowly opened his eyes.
An unprecedented dizziness clouded his mind, and he couldn’t help but bend over and retch. The feeling was like riding hundreds of roller coasters at an amusement park without any rest in between, leaving his consciousness in complete disarray.
A hand gently patted his back, and a soft voice came from beside him:
“Brother Qiye, are you alright?”
Lin Qiye’s consciousness gradually returned. He shook his foggy head and turned to look. Youlilang Bai was crouching beside him, her cross-shaped starry eyes filled with concern.
“I’m fine…”
Lin Qiye took a deep breath and scanned his surroundings. Everything in sight was endless gray, like a cocoon room completely enveloping him, or like a vast, boundless gray universe… Here, the naked eye could not discern the concept of “distance,” only endless silence permeating everything around.
“Where is this place?”
“I don’t know either,” Youlilang Bai shook her head. “Lingbao Tianzun said this is the gap between time and space, also the ruins of history.”
“Lingbao Tianzun…”
Lin Qiye murmured this name as his consciousness fully awakened. “Where are the others?”
“They’ve scattered to look for a way out,” Youlilang Bai said. “But you woke up later, so Tianzun asked me to stay here with you to prevent you from wandering off… In this place, once separated, it’s almost impossible to find each other again.”
“If it’s so dangerous, wouldn’t everyone scattering make it easier to get lost?”
“That won’t happen.”
Youlilang Bai pointed to a black dragon flag behind her. “This is a treasure left by Lingbao Tianzun. The flag is divided into child and mother flags. What we have here is the mother flag, and everyone else has a child flag. As long as they hold the child flag, they can sense the location of the mother flag at any time.”
“I see.” Lin Qiye nodded.
As the two were talking, a figure gradually flew over from the distance.
“Yuding Zhenren,” Lin Qiye said upon seeing the person.
“Young friend Qiye, you’re awake?” Yuding Zhenren, holding a miniature version of the black dragon flag, landed beside him.
“Zhenren, how did we end up here?”
“That Zeus fellow used some method to break through time and space and exiled us all here.” Yuding Zhenren sighed. “If we’re not mistaken, he must have colluded with the K-system gods. This is a trap specifically set for us.”
“Exile? Can we still go back?”
“…I don’t know. I just flew thousands of miles in one direction and still discovered nothing. I guess only Tianzun might have the answer.”
As Yuding Zhenren returned, other Xia gods and human powerhouses also flew back from different directions. They exchanged information with each other, all shaking their heads helplessly.
The primordial qi broke through space, and a figure wearing a Taoist robe stepped out, his expression somewhat solemn.
“Tianzun.” The Xia gods bowed in unison.
“Did any of you find anything?” Lingbao Tianzun’s gaze swept across everyone.
“…No.”
Everyone’s expressions turned bitter.
Lingbao Tianzun seemed to have anticipated this scene, nodding slightly. “This is the desolation at the end of time and space. Besides us, there should be no other material existence… I had everyone search in all directions out of a slim hope. Since there are no findings, you needn’t worry about it.”
“Tianzun, if that’s the case, how do we return?” Queen Mother of the West asked solemnly.
Lingbao Tianzun pondered for a long time before slowly saying:
“In my view, this place is like the extreme of the primordial sea, before heaven and earth took form, floating and drifting, with Xia…”
Halfway through his explanation, Lingbao Tianzun noticed Youlilang Bai, Lu Wuwei, Guan Zai, and others looking completely bewildered. He paused for a moment and spoke again: “I’ll speak in plain language, you should all understand then, right?”
Guan Zai coughed awkwardly a couple of times. “Yes, yes… please continue.”
Lingbao Tianzun paused, then continued, “If I’m not mistaken, this is the chaos before heaven and earth were born, also the end of time and space…”
Lingbao Tianzun extended his finger and pointed in the air, causing two points of light to float in front of everyone.
“If we say this point represents us, and the other point represents Xia, then the distance between us is not simply the visible spatial distance. Between them lies the barrier of countless years, like an insurmountable high wall… If we want to move from this side of the wall to the other, even I would need at least ten thousand years.”
Hearing this, everyone’s expressions froze.
“Ten thousand years? By the time we return, wouldn’t that mean…” Taiyi Zhenren spoke bitterly.
“Is there no other way?” Zuo Qing frowned and asked.
“…There is.” Lingbao Tianzun nodded. “Standing alone without changing, moving in cycles without tiring… Time and space are one. The [Key of the Door] fragment that Zeus used can send us outside the wall of time, but the spatial displacement should not be great. In other words, our current position is still on Earth after countless years.
With my power, I can briefly shake that wall of time and space, but I can only break through one side of time. To leave this place, unless there is a force on the other side of the wall that simultaneously breaks through the other side… The linkage of time and space inside and outside the wall might give us a chance to return.”
Although Lingbao Tianzun’s words were as plain as possible, everyone still seemed confused. Lin Qiye thought for a moment and tentatively asked:
“Similar to quantum entanglement?”
“Quantum entanglement? What’s that?” Lingbao Tianzun asked, puzzled.
Lin Qiye: …
He almost forgot that Lingbao Tianzun’s knowledge of modern concepts largely came from Baili Pangpang, and that chubby kid didn’t understand physics at all… This meant Lingbao Tianzun was completely unfamiliar with this physics term.
“In short, we need someone on Earth to help us open that side of the wall?” Nezha asked, confused. “Couldn’t the other two Tianzun do that?”
“It’s not that simple.” Lingbao Tianzun shook his head. “It’s like drilling through a wall – you must drill at the same position on both sides, otherwise it’s useless.
But they don’t know our spatial position… Unless they search every corner of time and space in Xia, but that would take hundreds of years.”
Hearing this, the last flame of hope in everyone’s hearts extinguished.
“So basically, we have no chance of returning?” Sun Wukong asked with furrowed brows.
“It’s not impossible, it just depends on whether some unexpected variables appear on their side…”
