# 1471
Chapter 1472: The Wall of Time and Space
In a desolate emptiness of deathly silence, Lin Qiye slowly opened his eyes.
An unprecedented dizziness enveloped his mind, and he couldn't help but bend over and retch. That feeling was like riding hundreds of roller coasters in an amusement park without any rest in between, his entire consciousness thrown into chaos.
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 dazed head and turned to look, only to see Yuzuri Takishiro crouching beside him, those cross-shaped star-like eyes filled with worry.
"I'm fine..."
Lin Qiye took a deep breath, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings. Everything he could see was an endless gray, like a cocoon that completely wrapped around him, or like a vast gray universe... Here, the naked eye simply couldn't distinguish the concept of "distance," only endless desolation filling everything around.
"Where are we?"
"I don't know either." Yuzuri Takishiro shook her head. "Lingbao Tianzun said this is the gap of time and space, also the ruins of history."
"Lingbao Tianzun..."
Lin Qiye murmured the name, his consciousness fully restored. "What about the others?"
"They split up to search for a way out." Yuzuri Takishiro said. "But you woke up rather late. The Heavenly Venerable asked me to watch over 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 here, wouldn't everyone splitting up make it easier to get lost?"
"Not really."
Yuzuri Takishiro pointed to a black dragon flag behind her. "This is a treasure left by Lingbao Tianzun. The flags come in parent and child pairs. This one here is the parent flag, and each of the others has a child flag. As long as you hold a child flag, you can sense the location of the parent flag at any time."
"I see." Lin Qiye nodded.
As the two were speaking, a figure gradually flew over from the distance.
"Yu Ding True Lord." Lin Qiye saw the person and took the initiative to speak.
"Little friend Qiye, you're awake?" Yu Ding True Lord held a miniature black dragon flag and landed beside him.
"True Lord, why are we here?"
"That fellow Zeus used some method to break through time and space and banished us all here." Yu Ding True Lord sighed. "If we didn't guess wrong, he must have colluded with the Cthulhu Faction gods. This was a trap specially set up for us."
"Banished? Can we still go back?"
"...I don't know. I just flew over a thousand li in one direction and still found nothing. I estimate only the Heavenly Venerable would have the answer."
As Yu Ding True Lord returned, the other Great Xia gods and Human Apex also flew back from different directions. They exchanged glances with each other and all helplessly shook their heads.
Primordial energy sliced through space, and a figure in Taoist robes stepped out, expression somewhat grave.
"Heavenly Venerable." The gods of Great Xia all saluted.
"Has anyone found anything?" Lingbao Tianzun's gaze swept across the crowd.
"...No."
Bitterness appeared on everyone's faces.
Lingbao Tianzun seemed to have already anticipated this scene, nodding slightly. "This is the wasteland at the end of time and space. Besides our presence, there should be no other material existence... Just now, having everyone search around was merely my own wishful thinking. Since there are no results, no one needs to dwell on it."
"Heavenly Venerable, since that's the case, how can we get back?" The Queen Mother of the West asked solemnly.
Lingbao Tianzun沉思许久，缓缓开口道：
"依贫道所见，此处倘若幽海之极，天地未形，冯冯翼翼，浩浩漫漫，与大夏……"
Lingbao Tianzun said half of it before noticing the blank expressions on Yuzuri Takishiro, Lu Wuwei, Guan Zai and others beside him. He paused for a moment and spoke again: "Let me put it in plain terms then, you should all understand now?"
Guan Zai coughed a couple of times embarrassedly. "Yes, yes... Please continue."
Lingbao Tianzun paused and continued, "If贫道没猜错的话，这里便是天地尚未诞生之前的混沌，也是时间与空间的尽头……"
Lingbao Tianzun extended his finger and pointed through the air. Two points of light suspended before the crowd.
"如果说这个点代表我们，另一个点代表大夏，那我们之间的距离，就不是肉眼可见的空间距离这么简单，它们之间还隔着无数岁月的屏障，像是一面无法逾越的高墙……如果想靠移动，从墙的这边到那边，即便是贫道，也至少需要万年的光阴。"
Hearing these words, everyone grew solemn.
"万年？那等我们回去，岂不是……"太乙真人苦涩的开口。
"就没有别的方法吗？"左青皱眉问道。
"……有。"Lingbao Tianzun点头，"寥兮独立而不改，寂兮周行而不殆……时空本一体，那宙斯所动用的【门之钥】碎片，虽然能将我们送到时间的墙外，但空间的挪移应该并不大，也就是说，我们现在的位置，还在无数岁月后的地球上。
以贫道之力，可以短暂的撼动那面时空之墙，但只能击穿一侧的时间，想离开这里，除非在墙的另一侧，也有一股力量与贫道同时击穿另一侧的墙壁……墙内与墙外的时空联动，或许还有回去的可能。"
Lingbao Tianzun thought for a long moment, then slowly opened his mouth:
"In贫道's view, this place is like the extremity of the primordial sea, before heaven and earth took shape, vast and formless, grand and boundless, comparable to Great Xia..."
Lingbao Tianzun got halfway through before noticing the confused expressions of Yuzuri Takishiro, Lu Wuwei, Guan Zai and others nearby. He paused for a moment and spoke again: "Let me put it plainly then, you should all be able to understand now?"
Guan Zai coughed a couple of times awkwardly. "Yes, yes... Please continue."
Lingbao Tianzun paused and continued, "If I didn't guess wrong, this place is the Chaos before heaven and earth were born, also the end of time and space..."
Lingbao Tianzun extended his finger and pointed through the air. Two points of light suspended before the crowd.
"If this point represents us, and the other point represents Great Xia, then the distance between us is not simply a spatial distance visible to the naked eye. Between them lies a barrier of countless years, like a wall that cannot be crossed... If we tried to move from this side to that side, even I would need at least ten thousand years."
Hearing these words, everyone's expressions grew solemn.
"Ten thousand years? By the time we get back, wouldn't it be..." Nezha spoke苦涩ly.
"Isn't there another method?" Zuo Qing frowned and asked.
"...There is." Lingbao Tianzun nodded. "Solitary stands without change, silent yet moves without ceasing... Time and space are originally one. Although the 【Key to the Gate】 fragment that Zeus used was able to banish us outside the wall of time, the spatial displacement should not be that great. In other words, our current location is still on Earth, countless years later.
With my power, I can briefly shake the wall of time and space, but I can only pierce through one side of time. To leave here, unless there is a force on the other side of the wall that simultaneously pierces through the opposite wall with me... the coordinated timing between inside and outside the wall might still offer a chance to return."
Despite Lingbao Tianzun's attempt to explain as simply as possible, the crowd was still somewhat puzzled. Lin Qiye contemplated for a moment and试探性地问道：
"类似于量子纠缠？"
"量子纠缠？那是什么？"Lingbao Tianzun疑惑问道。
Lin Qiye：……
差点忘了，现在Lingbao Tianzun对现代的认知有很大一部分来自百里胖胖，而那小胖子压根就不懂什么物理……这就导致，Lingbao Tianzun对这个物理名词也一无所知。
"总而言之，我们需要地球上有人出手，替我们打开那一面的墙？"哪吒不解地问道，"那另外两位天尊不就可以吗？"
"没那么简单。"Lingbao Tianzun摇头，"就像是要凿通一面墙壁，必须要在墙面两侧的同一位置凿才行，否则只能是无用功。
但他们并不知道我们所在的空间位置……除非，他们找遍大夏的所有时空，但那需要的时间也是要以百年为单位的。"
Lin Qiye contemplated for a moment and试探性地问道：
"Like quantum entanglement?"
"Quantum entanglement? What is that?" Lingbao Tianzun asked疑惑ly.
Lin Qiye: ...
Almost forgot. Now Lingbao Tianzun's understanding of modern things largely comes from Baili Pangpang, and that chubby kid doesn't understand physics at all... This meant Lingbao Tianzun was also completely ignorant of this physics term.
"In summary, we need someone on Earth to act and open the wall on that side for us?" Nezha asked不解ly. "Couldn't the other two Heavenly Venerables do it?"
"It's not that simple." Lingbao Tianzun shook his head. "It's like凿穿a wall. You must凿at the same location on both sides of the wall simultaneously, otherwise it would be pointless.
But they don't know our spatial coordinates here... Unless they search through all of Great Xia's time and space, but the time required for that would also be measured in centuries."
听到这句话，众人心中最后的希望之火，也随之消失。
"也就是说，我们基本没可能回去了？"孙悟空眉头紧锁的开口。
"不是没可能，只能看他们那边，能否出现一些预料之外的变数了……"
Hearing these words, the last spark of hope in everyone's hearts also extinguished.
"Meaning, it's basically impossible for us to go back?" Sun Wukong spoke with a furrowed brow.
"Not impossible, just that it depends on whether some unexpected variables can appear on their end..."